(v. t.) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.
(v. t.) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.
(v. i.) To make opposition in words or argument; -- usually followed by to.
(v. t.) That which is put, or which may be regarded as put, in the way of some of the senses; something visible or tangible; as, he observed an object in the distance; all the objects in sight; he touched a strange object in the dark.
(v. t.) That which is set, or which may be regarded as set, before the mind so as to be apprehended or known; that of which the mind by any of its activities takes cognizance, whether a thing external in space or a conception formed by the mind itself; as, an object of knowledge, wonder, fear, thought, study, etc.
(v. t.) That by which the mind, or any of its activities, is directed; that on which the purpose are fixed as the end of action or effort; that which is sought for; end; aim; motive; final cause.
(v. t.) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
(v. t.) A word, phrase, or clause toward which an action is directed, or is considered to be directed; as, the object of a transitive verb.
(a.) Opposed; presented in opposition; also, exposed.
Example Sentences:
(1) We maximize an objective function that includes both total production rate and product concentration.
(2) Theoretical objections have been raised to the use of He-O2 as treatment regimen.
(3) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
(4) The methodology, in algorithm form, should assist health planners in developing objectives and actions related to the occurrence of selected health status indicators and should be amenable to health care interventions.
(5) Further improvement of results will be possible by early operation, a desirable objective.
(6) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(7) The law would let people find out if partners had a history of domestic violence but is likely to face objections from civil liberties groups.
(8) The objective remission rate was 67%, and a subjective response was observed in 75% of all cases.
(9) The objective of this study was to examine the effects of different culture media used for maturation of bovine oocytes on in vitro embryo development following in vitro fertilization.
(10) Reversible male contraception is another objective that remains beyond our reach at present.
(11) Among the major symptoms were gastrointestinal disorders such as subjective and objective anorexia, nausea and vomiting.
(12) To alleviate these problems we developed an object-oriented user interface for the pipeline programs.
(13) The objective of this work was to determine the efficacy of an endoscopic approach coupled to a Nd:YAG laser fiber in performing arytenoidectomy.
(14) Since the employment of microwave energy for defrosting biological tissues and for microwave-aided diagnosis in cryosurgery is very promising, the problem of ensuring the match between the contact antennas (applicators) and the frozen biological object has become a pressing one.
(15) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
(16) In this way complex interpretations can be made objective, so that they may be adequately tested.
(17) This paper provides an overview of the theory, indicating its contributions--such as a basis for individual psychotherapy of severe disorders and a more effective understanding of countertransference--and its shortcomings--such as lack of an explanation for the effects of physical and cognitive factors on object relatedness.
(18) Somewhat more children of both Head Start and the nursery school showed semantic mastery based on both heard and spoken identification for positions based on body-object relations (in, on, and under) than for those based on object-object relations (in fromt of, between, and in back of).
(19) The visual processes revealed in these experiments are considered in terms of inferred illumination and surface reflectances of objects in natural scenes.
(20) Among 71 evaluable patients 25% showed objective tumor response (three complete, 15 partial), at all three dose levels and irrespective of the major tumor site.
Telescopic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Telescopical
Example Sentences:
(1) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
(2) But towards the end of the decade, Nasa expects to launch the James Webb Space Telescope , which has been designed to look further back into the history of the universe.
(3) However, similarly tested Keplerian telescopes exhibited significantly higher MTF's with vertical gratings.
(4) When the unmagnified peripheral visual field was unobstructed during adaptation, VOR gain increases were significantly less than when the unmagnified peripheral visual field was occluded, and were similar to those observed during adaptation without the wearing of telescopic spectacles at all.
(5) "When you live over here you see the situation from the other end of the telescope and you see things that English people simply don't."
(6) The periodontal and prosthetic treatment were carried out and 16 Konus telescope dentures were applied for 11 patients.
(7) An original apparatus and a new kind of mechanical suture were used in experiment and in clinic for the formation of telescopic anastomosis.
(8) "The E-ELT will have almost as much light collecting area as all the telescopes ever built, put together," said Professor Niranjan Thatte of Oxford University.
(9) 1) In polishing the axial surface of the inner crown of the conic telescope crown system, the milling machine with a polishing disk facilitated specular finishing without causing undercutting in the region from the occlusal surface to the dental cervix.
(10) The isolated site is home to several other facilities, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope , and has excellent atmospheric conditions for stargazing.
(11) "When I was a boy, I was doing both music and science: I belonged to an astronomy club, we built telescopes, we looked at the stars.
(12) Direct blocking by crown blocks, bridge prostheses, connecting bars and telescopes should include, as far as possible, all teeth.
(13) The bronchial anastomosis was made by the telescoping technique.
(14) Patient acceptance of the telescopic systems was 62%, and of the microscopic systems, 96%.
(15) Just a short stroll from the start of this walk, the Norman Lockyer Observatory still holds two of his telescopes.
(16) Telescopic spectacles are used as aids for the visually impaired in order to increase effective visual acuity.
(17) A review of 385 proximal fractures of the femur treated with a telescopic screw system revealed that in nine cases the device had cut out of the head of the femur necessitating its removal.
(18) The 3.5, 4.0, and 5.0 30-cm Storz bronchoscopes with a 3.95-mm (outside diameter) telescope lens were used in 10 mongrel dogs weighing between 8 and 15 kg.
(19) The following therapeutic proposal was adapted: On the maxilla, a three-step procedure: first step: building of metal copings on 13, 16 and 26 and metal-ceramic crowns on 11 and 21, second step: building of telescop crowns on 16 and 26 and clasps on 13, 11 and 21, third step: casting of the removable partial denture framework and soldering to the telescop crowns and clasps.
(20) Astronomer Jose Madiedo, who leads the Midas project at the University of Huelva, saw footage of the strike soon after the telescopes' software had processed the impact on 11 September 2013.