(n.) A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little bit; an atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of dust.
(n.) Any very small portion or part; the smallest portion; as, he has not a particle of patriotism or virtue.
(n.) A crumb or little piece of concecrated host.
(n.) The smaller hosts distributed in the communion of the laity.
(n.) A subordinate word that is never inflected (a preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a word that can not be used except in compositions; as, ward in backward, ly in lovely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lung sections of rats exposed to quartz particles were significantly different.
(2) In oleate-labeled particles, besides phosphatidic acid the product of PLD action radioactivity was also detected in diglyceride as a result of resident phosphatidate phosphohydrolase, which hydrolyzed the phosphatidic acid.
(3) Subunits maintained under the above ionic conditions were compared with 30S and 50S particles at low (6 mM) magnesium concentration with respect to the reactivity of individual ribosomal proteins to lactoperoxidase-catalyzed iodination.
(4) Charcoal particles coated with the lipid extract were prepared and the suspension inoculated intravenously into mice.
(5) These observations suggest that the liver secretes disk-shaped lipid bilayer particles which represent both the nascent form of high density lipoproteins and preferred substrate for lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase.
(6) Intramembrane particles (IMP) were quantitatively assessed in the perikaryal plasma membranes of infundibular neurons.
(7) The mode of ribosome degradation under this condition is discussed in terms of differential appearance of these intermediate particles.
(8) When commercial chickens are infected in most sensitive one-day age, the virus titre does not exceed the value of 10(12) particles per 1 ml of plasma.
(9) Interaction of viable macrophages with cationic particles at 37 degrees C resulted in their "internalization" within vesicles and coated pits and a closer apposition between many segments of plasmalemma than with neutral or anionic substances.
(10) A 2-fold increase in the dissolution rate was observed when the same number of particles was immobilized without macrophages.
(11) Photolysis of the photosystem I particles induces a progressive depletion of phylloquinone, however, photochemistry as assayed at room temperature by the photooxidation of P-700 is unaffected.
(12) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
(13) Well defined surface projections could be found in all particle types.
(14) Type C-like particles were found inter- and intracellularly in gland and vessel lumina and scattered in the connective tissue.
(15) The intracellular distribution and interaction of 19S ring-type particles from D. melanogaster have been analysed.
(16) Viral particles in the cultures and the brain were of various sizes and shapes; particles ranged from 70 to over 160 nm in diameter, with a variable position of dense nucleoids and less dense core shells.
(17) In the absence of adequate data exclusively from studies of inhaled particles in people, the results of inhalation studies using laboratory animals are necessary to estimate particle retention in exposed people.
(18) Depletion of extracellular Ca2+ by EGTA [ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N'N'-tetraacetic acid] attenuated both [Ca2+]i increase and superoxide production induced by particles.
(19) Completed RNA chains were released from the subviral particles.
(20) Problems of calculations and predictions on more than two particles moving are known in mathematics and physics since a long time already.
Plane
Definition:
(n.) Any tree of the genus Platanus.
(a.) Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.
(a.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature.
(a.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator.
(a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
(a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.
(a.) To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank.
(a.) To efface or remove.
(a.) Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
(2) The Ta loop was a smooth, elongated ellipse in configuration and showed clockwise rotation in all planes, as did the P loop.
(3) Typically the iron-iron axis (gz) of the binuclear iron-sulfur clusters is in the membrane plane.
(4) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
(5) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
(6) Deviations in two planes simultaneously cause less error than deviation in one plane.
(7) Other fusiform cells of the cPVN are oriented in a rostral-caudal plane and are situated more medially in this subdivision.
(8) We set a new basic plane on an orthopantomogram in order to measure the gonial angle and obtained the following: 1) Usable error difference in ordinary clinical setting ranged from 0.5 degrees-1.0 degree.
(9) All the wounded Britons have been repatriated , including four severely injured people who were brought back by an RAF C-17 transport plane.
(10) The relapse was 80% in the sagittal plane, 70% in the transverse plane, and 12% in the vertical plane.
(11) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
(12) A technique is therefore described using 3-D images and reconstruction of high-resolution films, which allows rapid examination of the menisci in optimal planes.
(13) The technique of two-plane angiography of femoro-popliteal bypasses with 90 degrees knee flexion is described.
(14) Right ventricular volumes were determined in 12 patients with different levels of right and left ventricular function by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an ECG gated multisection technique in planes perpendicular to the diastolic position of the interventricular septum.
(15) This provides a direct display, in the viewing plane, of the slice profile.
(16) The resistance is a complex function of the perfusion pressure and the cross-sectional area of the stenosis and cannot be accurately predicted from a single plane angiographic image.
(17) After 1 month, scaling and root planing had effected significant clinical improvement and significant shifts in the subgingival flora to a pattern more consistent with periodontal health; these changes were still evident at 3 months.
(18) Subsequently, due to the rotation of the original polar axis in one hemisphere, the third cleavage plane through one half of the egg is transverse to the third cleavage plane through the other half.
(19) Manchester United 3-1 Barcelona | match report Read more While, according to Louis van Gaal , Rojo was not on the flight because of an issue with his travel documents, the manager was unsure why Di María had failed to board the plane.
(20) The lower neck flexion is 35 degrees and extension of the plane of the face 15 degrees, each angle measured relative to horizontal.