(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.
Third
Definition:
(a.) Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day.
(a.) Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The sixtieth part of a second of time.
(n.) The third tone of the scale; the mediant.
(n.) The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
(2) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
(3) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
(4) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
(5) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
(6) A third group of healthy children was added for comparison.
(7) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
(8) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
(9) However, about one-third of the melanomas showed a higher surviving fraction at 2.0 Gy than the highest value measured for the other tumors.
(10) The third route was quantitated by its sensitivity to probenecid and its activity was increased in saline buffers and upon addition of glucose and was inhibited by oligomycin.
(11) The G+C content of the third base of the codon in the tufB gene was 84.8% and G was especially preferred in this position.
(12) In lactate medium the capacity of each AIB carrier is unchanged but its affinity is reduced to one-third.
(13) Of the sampled population, 6.3 per cent exhibited some degree of hypodontia (third molar agenesis excluded).
(14) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
(15) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
(16) Patients with MID, but not those with DAT, exhibited correlations between enlargement of the third and lateral ventricles and severity of cognitive impairment.
(17) Two-thirds of the specimens tested gave positive results.
(18) NE differentially affected responses to stimulus movement in the preferred and non-preferred direction in one-third of these neurons, such that directional selectivity was increased.
(19) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
(20) A third autopsy of Tomlinson, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second postmortem.