(a.) Consisting in a point; limited to a point; unextended.
(a.) Observant of nice points; punctilious; precise.
(a.) Appearing or done at, or adhering exactly to, a regular or an appointed time; precise; prompt; as, a punctual man; a punctual payment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The punctual verify of vaccinal covering rate in a little Sanitary District in the Province of Treviso points out values higher than 90%.
(2) Beside morphologic studies the amounts of silver or chromium can be determined semiquantitatively by the intensity of the specific X-radiate from "sum up-analysis" out of punctual areas.
(3) Based upon many years of experience with specific reflexotherapy and conventional stimulation therapy for treatment of pain we started a clinical study in migraine applying the punctual transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (PuTENS) performed with self-made pocket electrostimulators (TRG I-III).
(4) I will support my contention by examining: (1) Sicilian-Canadian conceptions of punctuality; and, (2) the communicative dimension of the pain experience.
(5) It is being dubbed Britain's least punctual plane – a service run (somewhat inappropriately) by Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in central and eastern Europe.
(6) The elaboration performed discriminates between those stations constantly polluted and the punctual pollution phenomena that seldom affect more than one station.
(7) I want to see prisoners motivated to engage in their own learning and governors with the right tools to be more demanding and creative about the education provided in the prisons they run.” Coates recently carried out a review of teaching standards for the Department for Education and her recommended diet of punctuality, respect and constant exams has been credited with turning around Burlington Danes academy in White City in west London, which lies in the shadow of Wormwood Scrubs prison.
(8) A device for measuring hardness has been developed which allows an almost punctual evaluation of the mechanic value of bone.
(9) The method uses only codon usage tables and takes into account the length of sequences, and preserves the information contained in each codon by a punctual index.
(10) It missed its targets on financial efficiency, asset stewardship and, crucially, both freight and passenger train punctuality.
(11) They don't have the strength of character … Instead they show submissiveness, spinelessness, lack of punctuality, and many other factors which prevent them from becoming political activists."
(12) The laser beam is a punctual source of thermal energy which can be used to vaporize human atheroma.
(13) McNulty defended the achievements of privatisation, saying that punctuality and safety standards were now at impressive levels.
(14) The general physical properties of living systems, considered as open systems being far from equilibrium, are listed and simple non-linear mathematical models describing gradual and punctual speciation are suggested.
(15) Among the numerous musculo-cutaneous flaps, the lower trapezius island appears an interesting procedure for punctual indications.
(16) The deflagellated enterobacteria are, therefore, immobilized, and multiply, forming small punctual colonies, of 0.5-1 mm phi, whereas the vibrios tolerating FDF develop and at the same time move in the liquid agar, mass, forming large colonies, of 8-14 mm phi.
(17) London Overground has become one of the most popular and punctual railways anywhere in the country.
(18) BBC staffers not already familiar with their new boss may also like to know that he is a stickler for punctuality.
(19) It's a really strict environment, strict on punctuality, on socialising.
(20) Then ordinary passengers can continue to benefit from clean and punctual trains.
Timeliness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being timely; seasonableness; opportuneness.
Example Sentences:
(1) But he added: “Whilst it is being rolled out, we must have the data to allow us to hold the DWP [Department for Work and Pensions] to account and suggest where improvements can be made.” Scrooge is at large on our hungry streets | Letters Read more The committee said it had been difficult to hold the department to account on benefit delays because of a lack of available data on the timeliness and accuracy of benefits for some disabled people and short-term benefit advance applications.
(2) The timeliness of reporting four nationally notifiable diseases was examined using data reported via the National Electronic Telecommunications System for Surveillance.
(3) The percentage of children with a usual source of routine care; the timeliness of visits for routine care; the usual source where routine care is received; and the continuity between sources of care.
(4) Criteria of timeliness, accuracy, objectivity, completeness, and use of the information in patient care were measured by a questionnaire sent to users of the service.
(5) Such systems tend to be reportoriented rather than information-oriented with resultant problems in the timeliness of information.
(6) Recipients of telefax materials who answered questions about the purpose, timeliness, and quality of the materials were generally well pleased.
(7) They terminate affirming only a timeliness diagnosis can consent a really decisive therapeutic approach.
(8) Examples might include the quick and full acknowledgment of an offender regarding abuse, or timeliness and permanence of legal actions affecting a child's custody.
(9) "I see [the new policy] as a range of 'floor standards' including the educational attainment of children in care, placement stability, proportion of children adopted from care and the timeliness of adoption," he said.
(10) This study of 45 SNFs and their 15 attached ICFs evaluated the length of time required to reach physicians by phone about significant clinical changes in patients' conditions and the appropriateness and timeliness of action taken by the physicians once contact was made.
(11) The aim of this study was to identify deficiencies in the timeliness of emergency care received by patients with open fracture of the lower limb treated in the Accident and Emergency department at the City Hospital Truro, to help decide whether further investments in emergency ambulance services are warranted and, if so, where specific investments should be made.
(12) Frequency and character of the bleeding during defloration, experienced pain, a complex of fear due to pain and bleeding, motivation, evaluation and self-esteem of the behaviour, self-esteem on timeliness of the first sexual act, the attitude of the husband to defloration performed by other partner before marriage.
(13) The differences were established in the degree of mental retardation, in its complication by additional psychopathological symptomatology, in the share of some complicating syndromes and the time of their origin, in the times of the diagnosis establishment and sending to specialized institutions, in the quality and timeliness of the assistance rendered, and in some other indicators.
(14) Specific indicators in surgical pathology and cytopathology focus on timeliness of reports, diagnostic accuracy, relevance of information in reports to the care of the patient, and proficiency testing.
(15) Drug reviews appearing in Clinical Pharmacy, Drug Intelligence and Clinical Pharmacy (DICP), Drugs, and Pharmacotherapy from January 1982 through December 1984 were evaluated for number, duplication among journals, timeliness, scope, and format.
(16) Interview, pill count, and serum digoxin concentration (SDC) were compared in 173 patients prescribed digoxin to determine (1) feasibility, ease, timeliness; (2) reasons for noncompliance; and (3) validity of interview and pill count compared with SDC.
(17) A degree of restoration of the extremity function depends on timeliness and adequacy of the operation.
(18) A sample of notifications was selected from medical practitioner notifications and was compared for both completeness and timeliness of notification with a sample of notifications obtained through the Laboratory Infectious Diseases Surveillance Project.
(19) This seems as good a time as any to say thank you for the tremendous work, both in breadth and timeliness, done by the Guardian in reporting on the NSA surveillance revelations.
(20) This study examines the provider's assessment of the timeliness of care received in the department of medicine of a prepaid program.