(a.) Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sequence data were used to infer phylogeny by using a maximum-parsimony method, an evolutionary-distance method, and the evolutionary-parsimony method.
(2) The efficient and reliable assessment of general community health requires the development of comprehensive and parsimonious measures of proven validity.
(3) The most parsimonious explanation of this result is that much genetic drift accompanied the establishment of local populations in cities and that there has been little subsequent gene flow.
(4) With benzodiazepines, StD of memory retrieval conceivably constitutes a parsimonious explanation of the anxiolytic and untoward (amnesic, drug dependence) actions of these drugs.
(5) The affiliations of the oligohymenophoreans were assessed using both distance matrix (DM) and maximum parsimony (MP) analyses.
(6) Maximum-parsimony analyses of the total data set of 67 vertebrate alpha A sequences support the monophyletic origin of alligator, tegu, and birds and favor the grouping of crocodilians and birds as surviving sister groups in the subclass Archosauria.
(7) Faced with the realities of Britain's rickety finances, chancellors and shadow chancellors of all parties have frequently turned parsimonious.
(8) The site-by-site parsimony analysis was also used to determine the 3' boundary of each catarrhine species-specific conversion.
(9) The patterns of continuity and change in planning status from pregnancy to pregnancy provide a parsimonious description of reproductive behavior over the course of the life cycle and of the major trends in planning in the recent past.
(10) Phylogenetic trees constructed by both the maximum parsimony method and the neighbor-joining method were highly congruent.
(11) A parsimonious phylogenetic tree suggests that aphA1-IAB evolved from an ancestral form that is closely related or identical to the aphA1 found in Tn903.
(12) The most parsimonious and maximum-likelihood trees both separated the Coleoptera and Neuroptera, but this separation was not statistically significant.
(13) Furthermore, because he fails to take a full count of the number of parameters used in his autoregressive model his argument from parsimony is flawed.
(14) Using regressive logistic models, we analyzed familial aggregation of birth defects among relatives of infants with OM and GA. An autosomal recessive model of inheritance was found to be the most parsimonious explanation for the families of infants with isolated OM or GA.
(15) It was concluded that ARIMA models may, in some cases, produce the most parsimonious model, but in other cases they may miss important process behaviors.
(16) Data from a 52-item self-administered Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Self-Care Scale designed for persons diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) were refactored for the purpose of achieving scale parsimony and clarifying interrelationships among ADL self-care behaviors.
(17) Overall, there is structural and computational economy, or even parsimony.
(18) Thus, whereas a change in central MSH sensitivity may contribute to reduced fever in aged homeotherms, a reduction in central pyrogen receptors appears to be the most parsimonious explanation.
(19) Fourteen thioredoxin sequences were used to construct a minimal phylogenetic tree by using parsimony.
(20) For simplicity the emphasis is placed more on parsimony than on sequence homology in the present study, though both are certainly important.
Skinflint
Definition:
(n.) A penurious person; a miser; a niggard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Skinflints and mixtape collectors are taking on the world's vinyl fetishists with the arrival of the first-ever Cassette Store Day.
(2) The Treasury's carefully crafted riposte, spelled out in the autumn statement green book last week, is that rather than a tale of skinflint employers and their downtrodden staff, the weakness of take-home pay is a consequence of the increased cost to employers of providing staff pensions, and paying higher national insurance contributions after the rate rose under Labour.
(3) She had a reputation for being a skinflint and Burns wrote on her death: Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation!
(4) Mervyn Kohler, special adviser for Help the Aged, said the chancellor had delivered "a truly skinflint package for the UK's older citizens".