(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.
Tenth
Definition:
(a.) Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.
(a.) Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe.
(n.) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
(n.) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
(n.) The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty.
Example Sentences:
(1) A modified version of the National Adolescent Student Health Survey (NASHS) was administered to 3,803 eighth- and tenth-grade public school students during the fall of 1988.
(2) These patients represent the ninth and tenth successful operations for IAA in this age group and are reported with long-term reevaluation.
(3) A comparison of outcome was made between infants whose birth-weight for gestational age was below the tenth percentile and infants who had a low ponderal index from 37 weeks' gestation.
(4) Antigenicity was maintained up to the tenth passage.
(5) Roughly a tenth of treatment cycles and roughly a fifth of embryo transfers resulted in a clinical pregnancy.
(6) The tertiary base has been found to have papaverine like nonspecific smooth muscle relaxant and spasmolytic activity, but its activity was found to be about one-tenth of that of papaverine.
(7) Etizolam inhibited PAF-induced aggregation in a dose-dependent manner, with an IC50 of 3.8 microM, about one tenth that of triazolam (IC50 = 30 microM).
(8) With a tenth of the normal chloride conductance calculated responses show maintained firing following a constant current if the deactivating rate of the sodium channels (betam) is reduced by 25%.
(9) Bernanke says losses could be thought of in terms of 760,000 "full-time equivalent jobs" or unemployment down "another seven or eight tenths, something like that."
(10) One hundred patients were screened for hypercoagulability preoperatively and on the third, seventh, tenth, fourteenth, and twenty-first days postoperatively.
(11) Denervation of the kidney increased the urinary outputs of sodium and potassium while it decreased the rate of renin secretion to one-tenth of the resting value.
(12) Administration of dihydrotestosterone led to inhibition of xenograft growth at the ninth passage compared with untreated controls (P less than 0.05), but had no effect on xenograft growth at the tenth and twelfth passages when androgen receptors were absent.
(13) The tie-breaker isn't quite the buzzer-beater that Jeff Carter converted with tenths of a second left in the first period of Game 3, but it comes with under 30 ticks left in the second period here and has a similar effect.
(14) The tenth patient died from sepsis four months after the onset of steroid resistance.
(15) There was no detectable plasmid DNA at the tenth cell passages.
(16) PMPC, administered in dosis (200 mg per day) one-tenth those of NA (2,000 mg per day), produced a greater improvement (therapeutic effects) than NA.
(17) The tenth case of this curious entity in a diverticulum of urethra in women is presented here.
(18) Parallel to these alterations in the parasitism, the evolution of the corticosteronemy differs, from two points of view, from that described in infested virgin rats: --Suppression of the hypercorticosteronemy which normally appears 48 hours after infestation; --Attenuation of the hypocorticosteronemy which usually sets in from the tenth day of infestation.
(19) In addition, with interest rates remaining low across the eurozone, a nation that traditionally saves a tenth of its income has had to learn to look elsewhere to park its savings.
(20) The detachment process of the domestic chick from its mother, or any other imprinting object occurs between the sixth and tenth week after hatching.