(n.) A character or vocal sign representing more than one sound, as read, which is pronounced red.
Example Sentences:
(1) The power of polyphonic vocal in a reverberant space – it’s simple and transcendent.
(2) Greece is and must remain a democratic, well-ruled, tolerant and polyphonic society which claims an equal place in Europe.
(3) We can absorb written stuff in different ways, and in polyphonic ways.
(4) What we really desire is the polyphonic cacophony of real democracy, the one we could hear in the post-punk explosion.
(5) Although house music was driven by outdated electronic technology, principally Roland drum machines and rudimentary polyphonic synthesisers, Knuckles's intentions revealed him as someone more ambitious than the average bedroom producer.
(6) In the second half, as the story neared its climax, the structure was cleared, and the final scenes played out under arc lights on the vast amphitheatre of the Barbican stage , with each Johan and Marianne shadowing each other – sometimes chanting the text in unison, sometimes splintering polyphonically into pairs or groups.
(7) 2) Continuous adventitious lung sounds in asthmatic patients were divided into monophonic tones and polyphonic tones, according to sound spectrographic findings.
(8) Hecker turned these polyphonic templates into fresh scores, then gave them to the Icelandic Choir Ensemble at a recording session in Reykjavík, with instructions to “imagine you’re Chewbacca and you have a saxophone, and you just drunk 8,000 litres of codeine – now sing 10 times slower than that.” The aim was to drain their voices of any expression – “to become, like, dead, basically.” Some of the choir were hungover.
(9) But the ravages of deindustrialisation only encouraged Nyman to hook up with Christopher Monks, artistic director of the Armonico Consort – a polyphonic choral group – to bring Hillfields and Monteverdi together: this month, children from Frederick Bird will be involved in a project called Monteverdi's Flying Circus, singing the Ave Maris Stella from the Italian master's 1610 Vespers.
(10) This pool of virtuoso musicians has seeded a music scene that’s the envy of much larger cities, producing acts such as Norah Jones, the Polyphonic Spree, Neon Indian and Midlake .
(11) Everywhere you went in Paris during the revolt in Tunisia , portable televisions blared at top volume in shops, takeaways and cafes, broadcasting a polyglot, polyphonic babble from Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya and the French-speaking channels from the Maghreb.
(12) The origin of the polyphonic tones was unknown, but they were also relatively well transmitted to the neck over the trachea.
(1) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(2) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
(3) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(4) With UVB treatment clinical improvement was achieved, and a less pronounced decrease in epidermal LC was noticed.
(5) Escherichia enterotoxigenic strains, Yersinia enterocolitica and Salmonella typhimurium virulent strains, Campylobacter jejuni clinical isolates possess more pronounced capacity for adhesion to enteric cells of Peyer's plaques than to other types of epithelial cells, which may be of importance in the pathogenesis of these infections.
(6) Hypercalcitoninemia was the most pronounced in patients with cardiac rhythm disorders and a simultaneous reduction in total serum calcium.
(7) The most pronounced changes occurred during the initial hours of nutrient and energy deprivation.
(8) This phenomenon is age dependent and more pronounced in animals with sever autoimmune disease.
(9) Comparison of the 50% binding concentrations of the compounds for the various PBPs of the five strains with their antibacterial activity indicates that the different antibiotics are excluded to a greater or lesser degree by the outer membrane permeability barrier and that the exclusion is most pronounced in P. aeruginosa.
(10) Electron microscopic observations of the masseter nerve in the aged cats revealed a disruption of the myelin sheaths and a pronounced increase in collagen fibers in the endoneurium and perineurium.
(11) Inhibition of binding of [3H]TPA to the receptor preparation by tigliane and ingenane DTE correlates with irritant activity in vivo, while some daphnane and 1 alpha-alkyldaphnane DTE inhibit binding of [3H]TPA in a less pronounced manner but still are very irritant.
(12) There were pronounced differences from the fine structural aspects in late infantile cases.
(13) A more pronounced and significant inhibition was observed in chicks given BCG subcutaneously 8 weeks before the start of the dietary regimen.
(14) There were pronounced interspecies differences in binding affinity and binding capacity which were the highest in guinea pig and human species, respectively.
(15) When propofol and fentanyl were used together, the cardiovascular effects were more pronounced than when they were used alone.
(16) In the synovia, size and number of the multinuclear giant cells are less pronounced.
(17) The concomitant reduction in aortic pressure and increase in heart rate following total occlusion of the portal vein were most pronounced during the first weeks after stenosis, and were probably due to diminished venous return to the heart.
(18) The sensitivity of the Limulus lateral eye exhibits a pronounced circadian rhythm.
(19) This early elevation in IOP was significantly more pronounced in bilateral superior cervical ganglionectomized (BG) rabbits.
(20) The ligands bind at discrete sites in the minor groove of DNA, and analysis on DNA sequencing gels show pronounced protection at the ligand binding sites, as well as more generalized protection.