(n.) The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival.
(n.) The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones.
(n.) The whole diatonic scale itself.
(n.) The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines.
(n.) A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe.
(a.) Consisting of eight; eight.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the postsynaptic layers, frequencies up to three octaves from the neurons' best frequency induced two-tone suppression that was sensitive to BIC.
(2) In V1, 68% of the neurones exhibited low-pass temporal tuning characteristics and 32% were very broadly tuned, with a mean temporal frequency full band width of 2.9 octaves.
(3) The torus also received bilateral input from the nucleus ventromedialis thalami, nucleus of lemniscus lateralis, nucleus medialis, anterior octaval nucleus, descending octaval nucleus, and the reticular formation.
(4) She grew up in St Louis, Missouri, more impressed as a young girl by Mariah Carey's multi-octaves and Lauryn Hill.
(5) Two component tones of each stimulus were approximately an octave apart.
(6) Average half-width (at half-height) of the spatial-frequency tuning curves constructed from the data was 1.4 octaves, and was not dependent upon the level of adaptation or the spatial frequency of the test grating.
(7) The limited data from diplacusis measurements and octave adjustments suggest that the exaggerated negative pitch shifts are the consequence of a large increase in pitch at low stimulus levels which "recruits" at higher levels.
(8) When comparing conventional octave audiometry and Békésy threshold tracing, the latter method is found to be more subtle in finding carriers of genes for recessive deafness.
(9) 4) There is a disproportionately large cortical surface representation of the highest-frequency octaves (basal cochlea) within AI.
(10) Bursts of one-third octave noise with center frequencies of 500, 1000, 2000, and 4000 Hz and durations of 15, 20, 50, 100, 200, and 300 msec were used as stimuli.
(11) The pars lateralis and rostral anterior octaval nucleus may be additional afferent sources.
(12) In Experiment 2, 2-point threshold-duration functions were compared for 4-kHz tones and octave-band noise bursts presented in backgrounds of quiet and continuous noise.
(13) Optimum filter bandwidth was found to be about 1.1 octaves.
(14) It was found that the neurons could respond well to single octaves of the spatial frequencies normally present in faces, that the most effective bands were 4-8, 8-16 and 16-32 cycles per face (cpf), and that the bands 2-4 and 32-64 cpf were partly effective.
(15) In the two experiments reported here, subjects performed repeated octave adjustments for pairs of simultaneous and successive tone bursts.
(16) One-third octave band frequency analysis of the weighted signals indicated that the dominant frequencies were usually 1.6 to 3.15 Hz, except when the vehicles were idling and higher frequencies predominated.
(17) Results varied by no more than one octave in 79 per cent of the cases.
(18) Speech and noise are both spectrally shaped according to the bisector line of the listener's dynamic-range of hearing, but with the noise in a single octave band (0.25-0.5 or 0.5-1 kHz) increased by 20 dB relative to this line.
(19) It is shown that phase-locking begins to decline at about 600 Hz and is no longer detectable above 3.5 kHz which is about 1 octave lower than in the cat, squirrel monkey and some birds.
(20) Chinchillas were exposed to an 86 dB SPL octave band of noise centered at 4.0 kHz for 3.5--5 days.
Seventh
Definition:
(a.) Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others.
(a.) Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the seventh part.
(n.) One next in order after the sixth; one coming after six others.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by seven; one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale.
(n.) A chord which includes the interval of a seventh whether major, minor, or diminished.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the seventh day, when middle ear effusions were absent, the ciliary activity had recovered to normal.
(2) Five subtypic specificities of Bw22 were defined using 38 informative local and Seventh Histocompatibility Workshop sera: Bw54, 22.2, J2, Bw42, and a new Bw22 associated antigen Te90.
(3) The trachea and the bronchial tree (first through seventh order branches) both synthesized alpha1(II) chains.
(4) The ratio of total protein content of DNA content increased 1.46 fold in 10(-5) M dexamethasone-treated cells on the seventh day of cultivation.
(5) The uterine osteosarcoma is the seventh case reported in the world, while it is the second case of synchronous triple primary tumors of the upper female genital tract.
(6) In addition to generating a chemotactic factor, plasmin destroys the complement-associated chemotactic factor that is a trimolecular complex consisting of the fifth (C'5), sixth (C'6), and seventh (C'7) components of complement.
(7) The seventh patient did not have a third look laparotomy and is currently inevaluable for response.
(8) Amid Republican disarray, Democrats on Wednesday marked the seventh anniversary of the Affordable Care Act on the East Steps of the Capitol.
(9) It represents the seventh case to occur in the base of tongue and the second to be associated with pregnancy.
(10) The following examinations were performed before operation, on the first, third, seventh and fourteenth postoperative day: 1) total number of leukocytes and lymphocytes 2) total number of lymphocyte subpopulations (T cells, B cells, Leu2a positive cells, Leu3a positive cells) 3) serum concentration of immunoglobulins (IgG, IgA, IgM).
(11) A limit value of 4.6 per cent has been commonly assumed in literature and proved to be a sound basis for udder health assessment, provided that the given phase of lactation is taken into due consideration (exclusion of cows in the first month post partum as well as of aged milking cows from the seventh month of lactation).
(12) We showed previously that trehalose dimycolate (TDM) in oil administered intraperitoneally into susceptible mice produced interstitial and hemorrhagic pneumonitis by the seventh day after injection and that mature T cells are necessary for the production of these lesions.
(13) "We have rhetorical pressure, which we are using, and we have the Seventh Fleet, which nobody wants to use, and in between our options are more constrained," he said.
(14) Two hundred and thirty-five patients (79 per cent of the cohort) showed impairment in some aspect of cognitive function at the seventh day after operation.
(15) The FTSE 100 advanced for a seventh straight day on Friday, putting it on course for its biggest weekly gain in more than three years.
(16) They currently lie seventh in the Premier League table after David Moyes succeeded Ferguson as the club's manager.
(17) Six bars in Chicago announced they would stop selling Russian products, and a seventh bar said it had withdrawn Stolichnaya, according to Windy City Times, a Chicago LGBT newspaper.
(18) The ages of the patients ranged from forty-two to eighty-three years, with the highest incidence between the fifth and seventh decades.
(19) It is concluded that this association of truncus arteriosus, aortic arch abnormalities and facial anomalies involves first and fourth branchial arch maldevelopment, and indicates embryological insult between the fourth and seventh weeks of gestation.
(20) Surgery of the perforated caecum and ampulla recti was carried out during the first 24 hours, and that of the sigmoid flexure on the seventh day.