(n.) An instrument for measuring or comparing electrial potentials or electro-motive forces.
Example Sentences:
(1) The system involves computer analysis and graphic display of vectors created from rotational and linear potentiometers that are activated by listeners using a hand-held pointer as they track an acoustic event.
(2) Potentiometer settings offer variations in dosing schedules, distribution volumes as well as in absorption and elimination rate constants.
(3) By manipulation of two simple potentiometer controls, any temperature gradient between 0 and 50 C could be obtained.
(4) The lower strip (D, displacement of the handle) was moved in proportion to angular displacement of the handle by a potentiometer coupled to the handle axis.
(5) Subjects were asked to compensate this geometrical distortion by adjusting a potentiometer.
(6) The instrument is designed to adjust to trunk movement that might occur in the sagittal and coronal planes while transmitting the torque that results from rotation in the horizontal plane directly to the active potentiometer of the electrogoniometer.
(7) When there is a modification in frequency at the onset of the placing reaction relative to activity during the unloading reaction, the beginning of this change occurs after the onset of the movement as recorded by a potentiometer placed at the elbow joint.
(8) We present the design of an instrumentation biopotential amplifier that, (a) combines the ac coupling and high input impedance of an ac-coupled buffer with the CMRR of a simple differential amplifier or a monolithic instrumentation amplifier, (b) improves the CMRR by using a potentiometer without requiring either precision resistors or high-CMRR op amps, (c) illustrates how to calculate the CMRR for differential-input stages for either differential output or single-ended output.
(9) The device used to apply electrical current to the heart was constructed using a 9-volt battery, a push-button switch, and a 100-ohm potentiometer with calibrated dial.
(10) twisting of the forearms were transduced linearly by foam-cushioned clamps at the wrists and a potentiometer into a direct current of 0-2,7 V, respectively.
(11) The series resistance value, obtained very quickly by the method described, may be used in setting the compensation potentiometer to offset this resistance in voltage-clamp measurements.
(12) The course of the titration is followed potentiometrically with a glass and calomel electrode coupled and recorded automatically with a suitable registration potentiometer.
(13) Specifically, potentiometers and Hall effect sensors, capacitive force transducers, inductive displacement transducers (LVDTs), and various position resolvers are discussed.
(14) A potentiometer strapped to the knee recorded the angle of the joint, the output signal being displayed on an oscilloscope.
(15) By recording the rotation of the hinges using potentiometers, the position of the end-point of the palpator can be calculated.
(16) The translational scanning action is sensed by a position potentiometer and combines with the ultrasonic B-mode echoes to produce a cross-sectional image of the wall.
(17) By installing the two potentiometers on the pantographic arm and electrical switches, the position of the test target and the setting of the four levers which defines the size and the brightness of the test target were transferred directly to the computer.
(18) It includes a probe pack, a measuring pack and an automatic potentiometer.
(19) Continuous recording of excursion related to joint motion was obtained using a rotary potentiometer and an electrogoniometer.
(20) Two rating scales, a seven-stepped non-verbal scale on a Pain-Track logger, and a 100-mm VAS on a potentiometer, were found valid for continuous recording of itch.
Precise
Definition:
(a.) Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality.
(a.) Strictly adhering or conforming to rule; very nice or exact; punctilious in conduct or ceremony; formal; ceremonious.
Example Sentences:
(1) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(2) They more precisely delineate the hazard identification process and the factors important in supporting risk decisions for developmental toxicants than does any other document.
(3) The determination of basic levels of TSH is more sensitive and more precise.
(4) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
(5) It now seems clear that greater precision can be achieved through modification of the original technique.
(6) Validation studies, to show that the method is precise, accurate and rectilinear, have been carried out on four linctus formulations and two pastille formulations.
(7) Precise excision of the masses was thus accomplished and functional and aesthetic reconstruction aided by the conservation of normal anatomical structures.
(8) Compared to the SRK II-equation the results of the new programme are much more precise.
(9) However, while the precise nature of the city’s dietary problems is hard to pin down, the picture regarding physical activity is much clearer.
(10) Labelling of the albumin with 99mTc ensured an accuracy of measurements only limited by the precision of the weighing.
(11) This noninvasive but precise imaging modality demonstrates the potential value of using MRI to evaluate the diameter of small vessels, including the postoperative monitoring of arterial bypass graft patency in peripheral regions.
(12) These results strongly suggest that urinary GAGs determination is a precise method for ovulation detection.
(13) While the precise function of the MIRP is not known, the availability of this protein in pure and biologically relevant quantities will allow further studies to elucidate its pathobiologic function.
(14) This procedure yields excellent precision and accuracy, as demonstrated by the analysis of a known amino acid mixture and of neonatal plasma.
(15) This gene was previously shown to have a DNase I- and S1-sensitive site for which the boundaries varied with the cell cycle, and we have now precisely mapped these modifications.
(16) The Radio-PAGE and immunoblot typing methods both gave precise identification of Helicobacter pylori strains, but Radio-PAGE was found to give higher resolution and represents a standardised universally applicable fingerprinting method for Helicobacter pylori.
(17) Strict precautions are necessary to prevent the catastrophic events resulting from inadvertent gentamicin injection; such precautions should include precise labeling of all injectable solutions on the surgical field, waiting to draw up injectable antibiotics until the time they are needed, and drawing up injectable antibiotics under direct physician observation.
(18) The great clinical value of the procedure is shown by the following findings:X-ray-negative lesions--including 2 cases of carcinoma--were found in 35 percent of the cases, radiologically demonstrated lesions could be defined more precisely in 18 percent, and the presence of colonic lesions could be ruled out in 11 percent in spite of equivocal X-ray findings.
(19) The precision of measurement using the cancellation technique was found to be high.
(20) The precision obtained with the different methods is similar.