(a.) Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square.
(a.) Tetragonal.
(a.) Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as, a quadratic equation, in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two recent innovations in time-dose models are reviewed: the linear-quadratic (L-Q) and the variable-exponent Time-Dose Factor (TDF) models.
(2) A sample of 481 clinical isolates from nine of the most commonly isolated gram-negative groups was identified by the quadratic discriminant function technique.
(3) The reported second-order quadratic curves could be used as reference for prosthetic and orthodontic reconstructions.
(4) Egg production and egg specific gravity were correlated to D3 level in a quadratic fashion.
(5) The pattern of gastric emptying assumed the following three attitudes, that is, exponential (44%), quadratic (29%) and unclassified (27%) pattern.
(6) Plasma urea concentrations decreased linearly (P less than .01) on d 28 as lysine level increased, whereas plasma lysine and insulin were increased (quadratic, P less than .01).
(7) Sound velocities, breaking strengths calculated from velocities adjusted for estimated soft tissue cover, measured bone mediolateral diameters and cannon diameters minus estimated soft tissue increased as quadratic functions of chronologic age (r greater than .840; P less than .0001).
(8) This model corresponds to quadratic summation of the stimulus followed by a random threshold device.
(9) The growth rate of broiler chicks fed the diets increased quadratically (P less than .001) with L-threonine addition.
(10) Primitively, vibrations reached the stapes mainly via the anterior hyoid cornu, but in dicynodonts, therocephalians, and cynodants vibrations passed mainly or exclusively from mandible to quadrate to stapes and the reflected lamina was a component of the eardrum.
(11) In the 3 subsets with duration of disease less than 21 years, stepwise regression produced in the final step linear or quadratic combinations not containing duration of disease but correlating quite well with the 'Larsen index' (R = 0.64-0.96).
(12) Conduction changes were better fitted by this "quadratic model" (least sum of squared deviations 3.9 x 10(-3) by mapping in five dogs, 2.7 x 10(-2) by use of QRS duration in nine dogs) than by a monoexponential model (sum of squared deviations 5.7 x 10(-3) by mapping, 3.4 x 10(-2) with QRS; p less than 0.01 vs. quadratic model for each).
(13) The diagnosis of gravity rests on the measurement of the mean gradient by applying Bernouilli's equation and the point by point quadratic transformation of the transmitral velocity curve obtained by Doppler and the measurement of the mitral area either by measurement of the half-decrease time in pressure or by applying the continuity equation.
(14) In the case of quadratic regression, the type I error will be increased by roughly 50 per cent.
(15) Both food and water intake showed a quadratic relationship with the level of added dietary Cu.
(16) were not found to increase when tested by linear and quadratic models of time trend.
(17) Dose-effect relationships for most of the sampling times were linear and sometimes linear-quadratic concave upward or downward.
(18) The parietal, squamosal, and exoccipital bones, and the quadrate cartilage were displaced when otic capsule material was absent or oversized.
(19) In 1,071 men randomly selected from the general population and in an unrelated sample of 1,209 military men, systolic and diastolic blood pressure were correlated with urinary sodium following a model, which included both the linear and quadratic terms of urinary sodium.
(20) A quadratic discriminant analysis of morphometric-densitometric data of tumour cell nuclei and semiquantitative microscopic data gave a 94% agreement with subjective grading.
Quintic
Definition:
(a.) Of the fifth degree or order.
(n.) A quantic of the fifth degree. See Quantic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Liver bile acid levels followed a quintic trend, rising until 23 days of age and dropping sharply at 30 days of age and holding steady.
(2) Bile acid pool size was significantly affected by age and followed a quintic trend (a fifth degree polynomial).
(3) Noise in measured muscle length was filtered by means of quintic splines.
(4) The stages used comprise the synchronization of data obtained from two camera views, the determination of three-dimensional coordinates of joint centres, the calculation of an angle from a sequence of sine and cosine values and the curve fitting of angles using quintic splines.
(5) Original procedures are presented for obtaining individual error estimates of both the film data and the calculated angles to permit the automatic fitting of quintic splines for interpolation and differentiation and for deriving the time history of an angle as a continuous function from a sequence of sine and cosine values.
(6) Two different quintic-spline smoothing methods were used to analyze the motion data obtained with Roentgenstereophotogrammetry in two experiments.