(n.) In a general sense, that which just out or projects; a projection; also, the measure of the projection; as, the overhang is five feet.
(n.) Specifically: The projection of an upper part (as a roof, an upper story, or other part) of a building beyond the lower part; as, the overhang of a roof, of the eaves, etc.
(n.) The portion of the bow or stem of a vessel that projects over the water beyond the water line.
(n.) The projection of a part beyond another part that is directly below it, or beyond a part by which it is supported; as, the overhang of a shaft; i. e., its projection beyond its bearing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Marginal overhang was the prevailing type of failure (17%), recurrent caries occurred at 12% of the restorations, unacceptable proximal contact at 10%, unacceptable marginal adaptation at 8% and isthmus fractures at 2%.
(2) The enzyme was capable of ligating phi X174 (+) strand DNA to double-stranded oligonucleotides that contained 5'-overhang, 3'-overhand, or blunt ends.
(3) Sadly, this warmer weather has left many fashion retailers with a substantial stock overhang, raising the question of earlier and deeper discounts as we get closer to Christmas.
(4) Highly purified endonuclease cleaves the DNA of the intronless form of the td gene in vitro at 24 bp upstream of the exon 1-exon 2 junction, generating a 2-base staggered cut with 3'-hydroxyl overhangs.
(5) Selective degradation of the dUMP residues in the PCR products with uracil DNA glycosylase (UDG) disrupts base pairing at the termini and generates 3' overhangs.
(6) Here we show that the break fragments end in extensive 3'-overhanging, single-stranded tails.
(7) When the non-complementary overhanging-ends are short (i.e.
(8) All had ulcerating stomatitis, four had partial villous atrophy on small intestinal biopsy, all had colitis characterised by large ulcers with overhanging edges, and four had severe perianal disease; no stool pathogens were detected.
(9) For a proper radiographic diagnosis of secondary caries and interproximal overhangs or undercuts, tooth colored inlays and their appropriate luting agents have to be radiopaque.
(10) Email from Resins.Man, showing us it's always okay to be sentimental when it comes to baseball games i've only ever been to one baseball game........ ....at Fenway Park back in '79, and I remember it just like David Lengels photo, pillars, overhanging roof, pitch like a widescreen slot.
(11) All the small bits of climbing gear that anchored them to the overhanging cliff above had ripped out, one by one, and only one piece was left, a temporary piece, something not meant to hold for long.
(12) This isn’t a dark, scary tunnel deep in the mountainside; it’s merely a shallow overhang, big enough to keep the wind and rain at bay, but open enough to prevent any claustrophobia.
(13) The surgical blade, and especially the reciprocating motor-driven diamond tip eliminated overhangs better than the chisel.
(14) This normal level of end joining is observed regardless of the type of overhang and regardless of the requirement for nucleolytic activities prior to ligation.
(15) This takes the form of an eccentrically placed convex stenosis with a narrow neck due to one or more overhanging edges or irregular, scalloped borders, or both.
(16) Measurement of rejoining at several adjacent sites having different types of termini, consistently showed a range of efficiencies with 5' 4-base greater than 3' 4-base overhangs and 4-base greater than 2-base greater than no overhang.
(17) "We don't want to build up another big debt overhang that is going to hurt individuals and is very much going to slow the economy in the medium term.
(18) Complementary oligonucleotides with 5' overhanging deoxyguanosine or deoxycytidine stretches, respectively, of the general form 5'-d(GGGCAARAAC).5'-d(CCCGTTYTTG), where R represents the bases adenine (A), hypoxanthine (base of inosine nucleoside, I), purine (R), 2-aminopurine (n2R), or 2,6-diaminopurine (n2,6(2)R) and where Y represents the pyrimidine bases thymine (T) or cytosine (C), have been chemically synthesized.
(19) Furthermore, similar to other ENases encoded by mobile mt introns of yeast, the ENase generates a cut with a four-base 3'-OH overhang.
(20) The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of overhanging margins and associated periodontal status in 100 patients who had received completed treatment by final year dental students.
Undercut
Definition:
(n.) The lower or under side of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.
(v. t.) To cut away, as the side of an object, so as to leave an overhanging portion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Republicans remain wary of a contentious debate on the divisive issue, which could anger their core voters and undercut potential electoral gains in the November elections when control of Congress will be at stake.
(2) Monday's ruling didn't just undercut the mayor's farewell gesture, a capstone in his crusade against unhealthful or just distasteful public behavior, which he was planning to trumpet on Letterman that night.
(3) But the large sums that undercut Hillary’s sudden fondness for economic populism will undercut Biden just as much, especially if raised conspicuously quickly.
(4) Uruguay is trying to bring the cannabis market under state control by undercutting and outlawing the traffickers.
(5) Differences between frameworks, number of clasps, and depth of undercuts were all significant.
(6) The absence of a credible vision of a reformed EMU and financial 'firewall' has rendered Spain and other so-called peripheral nations vulnerable to capital flight and undercut their access to affordable fiscal funding."
(7) 1) In polishing the axial surface of the inner crown of the conic telescope crown system, the milling machine with a polishing disk facilitated specular finishing without causing undercutting in the region from the occlusal surface to the dental cervix.
(8) Zinc oxide-eugenol paste are widely used in clinical dentistry, principally for impression of non-undercut edentulous ridges, or bite taking materials.
(9) That will also benefit the many companies that do innovate and invest in their staff and pay their taxes – and should not be undercut by the unethical practices of a few.
(10) Combinations of undercut dimensions and tray relief were tested by using three different sized trays with each tissue conditioner.
(11) For the precipitation of protein the pH-value 3 must not be undercut.
(12) Indeed, this anti-patriarchal behaviour, which undercuts the nuclear family and makes partnership with men a peripheral concern, is something to celebrate.
(13) But making immigration work for everyone and not just a few means people should contribute before they claim and we should never, ever allow companies to undercut wages and conditions of workers here by paying slave wages to those brought in from overseas.” Miliband also criticised the prime minister for his failure to commit to TV debates during the general election campaign, claiming Cameron was desperate because he “knows he has failed”.
(14) In three visits to the area over the last two weeks, almost all the voters I spoke to began each conversation by saying, unprompted, that they were concerned about immigration – the electrician complaining about wages being undercut by eastern European workers, the parents unable to get their offspring into local primary schools because immigrant children were taking up scarce places, the patients waiting for a GP appointment in a waiting room filled with foreign chatter.
(15) Simon Burgess, a specialist PPI broker who claims to undercut bank rates by 50%, says: "It is easy to hide profits through wholly-owned subsidiaries.
(16) Agüero's deadlock-breaker was undercut by trademark explosiveness.
(17) Support for waterboarding would not undercut such advocacy, he insisted.
(18) He says it made a huge difference because by putting out the narrative of a protest gone wrong, the Obama administration undercut Libyan president Magarief, who was calling the attack a terror attack.
(19) That will be attractive to publishers worried that ebooks will undercut them.
(20) The so-called margin control mechanism is designed to stop BT undercutting rivals.