(n.) A large and bright constellation on the equator, between the stars Aldebaran and Sirius. It contains a remarkable nebula visible to the naked eye.
Example Sentences:
(1) With use of the flowing, high mixing-velocity liquid junction of the Orion SS-30, the residual liquid junction potential due to blood cells was found to be less than 0.1 mV and to be independent of the hematocrit.
(2) In this study the particle size, as well as the in vitro deposition and the immediate bronchodilating effect on asthmatic patients, of two salbutamol inhalation aerosol preparations (Ventoline, Glaxo, UK, and salbutamol inhalation aerosol, Orion Pharmaceutica, Finland) were compared.
(3) A 10-minute period for sweat accumulation is employed rather than a zero-time collection as in the original Orion method.
(4) The methods used were latex agglutination (Rotalex, commercially-available kit from ORION DIAGNOSTIC ESPOO, Finland) and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(5) The crew on board the Orion reported seeing two objects – the first a grey or green circular object and the second an orange rectangular object.
(6) Seven News reported that Australia had dispatched a P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft and the Anzac-class frigate HMAS Stuart to monitor the four Russian ships, which were said to be in the Coral Sea south of Bougainville and heading towards Australian waters.
(7) The former owner had the constellation of Orion picked out in halogen lights in the ceiling.
(8) The police report from the time states that an officer was dispatched to Orion at Oak Hill, a large, gated apartment complex in west Fort Worth, after a woman called the police and said that she believed someone had fired a shot into her apartment.
(9) The three methods of detection were cytological examination of the oral mucosa, and direct culture methods from mucosal smears using Sabouraud's dextrose agar (Becton Dickinson Microbiology Systems, Cockeysville, MD) and Oricult-N (Orion Diagnostica, Espoo, Finland).
(10) We used the Orion fluoride electrode system to determine the normal range of serum ionic fluoride concentrations and to investigate its relationship to sex and age (A).
(11) A Royal Australian Air Force P-3 Orion aircraft takes off from RAAF Base Pearce north of Perth March 21, 2014.
(12) Paraffin-based, 3% dithranol sticks (Ditrastick, Orion Pharmaceutica, Espoo, Finland) and similar, equimolar 4% butantrone sticks were used.
(13) The results of clinical trials of ditrastic, an agent manufactured by Orion, Finland, are analyzed.
(14) The Orion has sonar to search below sea level, although it’s not being used in this search, Yardley said.
(15) • Bradley Wiggins' autobiography, In Pursuit of Glory , is out now (Orion, £18.99) How to measure your heart rate Heart rate is the number of beats your heart makes per minute.
(16) Bacterial contamination of hands and drinking water was assessed semi-quantitatively by direct contact using agar-coated slides incorporating a selective medium permitting growth of Enterobacteriaceae (Hygicult, Orion Diagnostica, Finland).
(17) A commercially available latex agglutination test, Rotalex (Orion Diagnostics, Finland), for detecting rotaviruses was evaluated in comparison with four other tests (electron microscopy, immunofluorescence, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay) routinely used in our laboratories.
(18) This is our planet: our little blue sphere in the Orion Spur of the Milky Way Galaxy, with the beautifully elaborate systems of birds and insects and weather and flowering plants all working together – or that used to work together, and which are now falling apart.
(19) Twenty of the 60 specimens were found positive on the basis of cytopathic effects and latex agglutination (Adenolex [Orion Diagnostica, Helsinki, Finland]), and 16 were identified and typed as adenoviruses by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(20) A third RAAF P3 Orion departed for the search area around 12.45pm.
Pursuer
Definition:
(n.) One who pursues or chases; one who follows in haste, with a view to overtake.
(n.) A plaintiff; a prosecutor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The city is formed by a succession of those restless pursuers of greatness, sure of their own minds, who use its fluid historical momentum and the revolutionary intention lingering in the atmosphere to establish their own position and personality.
(2) And the abiding image of this game will be of Argentina's No10 scampering past opponents like the fastest kid at school evading his pursuers in a game of tag; somehow being faster with the ball than without it.
(3) In catathymic mania, hatred is projected on to the "pursuer".
(4) He then fled south before crashing into a semi as he tried to elude his pursuers.
(5) He was wounded and came close to being captured several times, but evaded his pursuers.
(6) His pursuer, George Zimmerman , immediately targeted him as a potential criminal, "reporting" to a police dispatcher: "This guy looks like he's up to no good, or he's on drugs or something … these assholes they always get away."
(7) Udall, a Colorado Democrat and one of the CIA’s leading pursuers on the committee, appeared to reference that surreptitious spying on Congress, which Udall said undermined democratic principles.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 8.18pm BST They begin the second last lap, with the three upstarts still in front, and all of the main sprinters starting to position themselves at the front of the pursuers.
(9) He would not give himself up to his pursuers like Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi declared in radio addresses, nor would he flee, like Tunisia's ousted president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the first "victim" of the Arab spring.
(10) The endpoint is the fusion between them, which can occur in 2 modes: either by the leading cell of the pursuer catching up with the target (pursuer-mediated fusion, or PMF) or by the target running into the preformed side of the pursuer (target-mediated fusion, or TMF).
(11) The causal specifications are the step size, the speed of the pursuer, the speed of the target, the restoration constant, and the initial direction of the pursuer; the outcome variables are the number of steps to fusion and the mode of fusion.
(12) Only the most spectacular of collapses, parlayed with the most unlikely bursts of success for a gaggle of flawed pursuers, would prevent it.
(13) The more the pursuer pursues, the more the distancer distances (or masturbates), and vice versa.
(14) It is cast in terms of the geometry of the pursuit of a linearly moving target by the growth of a chain of cells in the same plane, the pursuer, which at each step adjusts its direction of growth towards the current position of the target.
(15) Deaf for most of his Westminster career, he was an inspiration to people with disabilities, a battler on their behalf and a relentless pursuer of justice for underdog causes.
(16) Its primordial construct is a chain of cells (termed a "pursuer") growing under the influence of a signal towards a fixed structure termed a "target."
(17) Pamela, scandalised, offered a mock punch and insisted that she was the pursued, not the pursuer.)
(18) If the speed of the pursuer is defined as unity, r is also the ratio of the speeds.
(19) The major interventions included coaching the co-alcoholic to differentiate a self in the family system, to modify the habitual overfunctioner and pursuer roles, to bridge cutoffs, and to de-triangle oneself as the anxiety and tension rise in the family system.
(20) A key quantity is r, the speed of the target expressed as a fraction of that of the pursuer.