(n.) An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most of the subjects' mandibular movements did not improve to the point of making reproducible border movements on a pantograph.
(2) An analysis of variance showed that the condylar inclination recorded by wax was statistically less than recorded with a pantograph.
(3) A total of 136 dentulous patients were divided into three groups for purposes of quantitative pantographic comparison of voluntary and induced Bennett movement.
(4) The average condylar inclination recorded with a pantograph (29.5 degrees) was greater than the recording by either intraoral registration material.
(5) The object of our research is to compare clinically and objectively three articulators: -- the Dentatus, semiadjustable articulator which employs dynamico-static records -- the T.M.J., fully adjustable articulator which employs dynamico-cinematic stereographic endobuccal records -- the Denar, fully adjustable articulator which employs dynamico-cinematic pantographic extrabuccal records.
(6) The pantographic reproducibility index (PRI) has been developed to quantitate incoordinated mandibular movements; one of the signs and symptoms of TMJ dysfunction.
(7) Proper use of a pantograph to program fully adjustable articulators is dependent on stable clutch construction.
(8) A comparison between the pantograph and the polyvinyl siloxane displayed no statistically significant difference in recording condylar inclination.
(9) Other features of the articulator are: (1) a condylar lock mechanism which is activated by only a half turn, (2) adjustable spring tension, (3) precise long centric and wide centric controls, (4) an incisal pain which can be removed and replaced on the articulator without changing its setting, (5) a Bennett movement carefully selected to avoid the complication of a pantograph type of face-bow, and (6) a new sponge wall type of mounting plate which supports both casts for simultaneous mounting.
(10) In an experimental investigation, Stuart pantographic records are geometrically analyzed.
(11) It can be inferred that the actual idling condylar displacement was more inward and upward than that measured by the Pantograph.
(12) Articulator settings were obtained for two subjects 10 times in a 2-week period by using both a lateral interocclusal record technique and a Pantronic pantograph.
(13) The methods of recording immediate side shift from best to worst were: (1) electronic pantograph; (2) polyether interocclusal records; (3) mechanical pantography (Denar) and simplified mandibular motion analyzer (Panadent); (4) simplified mandibular motion analyzer (Whip-Mix and Denar); and (5) zinc oxide interocclusal records.
(14) The incisal point movement was recorded using Sirognathograph Analysing System, and condylar movement was recorded with a pantograph.
(15) For construction of craniopantograph the principles of function of two typical instruments--craniometer and pantograph were used.
(16) Twenty pantographic recordings were transferred to the Stuart fully adjustable articulator.
(17) A clinical experiment was undertaken to study the relationship between occlusal therapy and pantographic reproducibility.
(18) Using this technique a stable centric relation position can be maintained during the maxillary cast mounting procedure and the subsequent setting of the articulator to the pantographic recordings.
(19) Even after removing and reinserting the clutches several times, retention is sufficient to support the weight of the pantograph.
(20) Pantographic tracings were made and transferred to the semiadjustable articulator.
Parallelogram
Definition:
(n.) A right-lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel, and consequently equal; -- sometimes restricted in popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Second, although the parallelogram model provides a slightly better fit of our data than the other two shapes, it does not serve as a better guide than the ellipsoidal model for interpolating from the measurements to thresholds in novel color directions.
(2) A new calcium quantification technique that uses a parallelogram was developed to eliminate the problem of nodule superimposition over ribs.
(3) The parallelogram approach is based on the principle that estimates can be obtained on the amount of genetic damage that cannot always be assessed directly.
(4) Analysis of these responses provides weak but consistent evidence for the elicitation of depth in the Sander parallelogram, Mueller-Lyer, Zoellner, and Ehrenfels variant of the Ponzo illusion.
(5) When added to suspensions of membrane crystals of the channel, the polyanion caused disordering of the usual parallelogram array and increased occurrence of a contracted form of the array.
(6) Inspired by the parallelogram suspension utilized in the larger Huxley-style micromanipulator (A. F. Huxley.
(7) This can be illustrated by parallelograms of forces.
(8) Partially reassociated mixtures show dimers of the subunit that have a characteristic parallelogram shape when lying flat on the electron microscope grid, and a "boat" form in side view.
(9) Each group was classified in a parallelogram without overlapping, except for a part of the imidazole and thiol groups.
(10) Pigeons learned to peck a green key on which parallelogram-shapes were projected; they then received generalization tests in which the orientation of the parallelogram was varied.
(11) We evaluate how well three different parametric shapes, ellipsoids, rectangles, and parallelograms, serve as models of three-dimensional detection contours.
(12) Nondifferential training produced very little eventual stimulus control along the orientation dimension, but when training included S- trials (absence of the parallelogram) subjects responded consistently more to certain orientations than to others.
(13) Approximately, the dimer belongs to point group Ci with the centre of inversion at the centre of La2O2 parallelogram.
(14) This result was confirmed by varying element size and spacing, and by using oblique crosses rather than parallelograms as stimuli.
(15) The monomeric unit can be divided into a glycan chain piece, a connecting peptide, and a peptide chain piece, which define a solid parallelogram.
(16) A parallelogram approach can be used to estimate effects in non-accessible human tissues by using data from accessible human tissues and analogous tissues in animals.
(17) The zebrafish sperm plasma membrane, treated with freeze-fracture techniques, is seen to contain a multitude of intramembranous particles that, in a specific region of the posterior part of the sperm head, are organized into unusual particle arrays that appear as simple hexagons or parallelograms.
(18) Joystick-controlled rho-pixel arrays have been implemented with parallelogram-shaped rho-pixels incorporated as a simplified case of quadrilateral projection.
(19) Aside from conceptual difficulties with the task for both non-musicians and composers, choices for both groups provide support for the parallelogram model indicating a capacity in listeners to perceive abstract relations among the timbres of complex sounds without specific training in such a task.
(20) Such reports were made in the presence or absence of various types of visual, geometric surrounds (squares, triangles, crosses, or parallelograms).