(a.) Of or pertaining to an object; contained in, or having the nature or position of, an object; outward; external; extrinsic; -- an epithet applied to whatever ir exterior to the mind, or which is simply an object of thought or feeling, and opposed to subjective.
(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the case which follows a transitive verb or a preposition, being that case in which the direct object of the verb is placed. See Accusative, n.
(n.) The objective case.
(n.) An object glass. See under Object, n.
(n.) Same as Objective point, under Objective, a.
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.
Unemotional
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Fortunately, tables of whatever type are relatively unemotive and a misunderstanding about what belongs in the "table" group is unlikely to put anyone's back up.
(2) I know that I can be perceived as aloof or cold or unemotional,” Clinton said.
(3) The higher rates of unemotional and emotional responding with both CDP and VPA depend on the dipsogenic and disinhibiting effects by both drugs.
(4) I am accustomed to seeing our current situation as a feature of the past 30 years; a post-ideological landscape, in which the great left-right clashes of the 80s gave way to Blair (and Clinton's) third way on one side, and the unemotional, rational free market on the other.
(5) If Golda Meir could notice the similarities,” he said, smiling, “then anybody can recognise Palestinians as human beings who ought to be treated with equal rights.” For someone who holds these views in a society that does not, legally, extend legal rights to all Palestinians under its rule, El-Ad is also strikingly unemotional.
(6) Our results show that CDP and VPA under both the unemotional (variable ratio reinforcement schedule 20%) and the emotional (continuous reinforced schedule associated with electric shock) components significantly increase responding in the Skinner box.
(7) Situations perceived as more stressful for women than for men wer categorized by factor analysis, yielding the following constellation of maladaptive stress responses particularly salient for women: (a) fear of unemotional relationships, (b) fear of being unattractive, (c) fear of victimization, (d) fear of behaving assertively, and (e) fear of not being nurturant.
(8) With the VPA-Nx association the responding rate is lower than that of the control under the unemotional component while under the emotional component the increase in responding is reduced compared to the VPA alone.
(9) The different rate of emotional and unemotional responding with CDP-Nx and VPA-Nx associations indicates a specific influence on GABAergic and other systems by CDP and VPA.
(10) With CDP-Nx association the increase in responding under the unemotional component is less than in the case of the benzodiazepine alone, while under the emotional component the increase in responding is not appreciably affected.
(11) Conversation with Iannucci bumps around; he tends to answer questions fairly briefly and unemotionally, and sometimes a full answer emerges only after returning to a topic a few times.
(12) The general, seemingly unemotional, almost uninvolved.
(13) He appeared to have regained some of his lost composure, closer to the crowd-pleasing orator of the 2008 campaign trail than the cautious, unemotional, stick-to-the-teleprompter persona he has adopted as president.
(14) This usually distant and unemotional women is grinning and cheering all evening.
(15) She looks at me as if from a distance, her expression removed and her words curiously unemotional.
(16) The tragedy is that this epidemic could have been nipped in the bud months ago if governments had paid heed to organisations such as Medecins sans Frontières whose newsletters portrayed the horror of the situation in unemotional terms.