(n.) The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank.
(n.) Special or temporary character; profession; occupation; assumed or asserted rank, part, or position.
(n.) That which makes, or helps to make, anything such as it is; anything belonging to a subject, or predicable of it; distinguishing property, characteristic, or attribute; peculiar power, capacity, or virtue; distinctive trait; as, the tones of a flute differ from those of a violin in quality; the great quality of a statesman.
(n.) An acquired trait; accomplishment; acquisition.
(n.) Superior birth or station; high rank; elevated character.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(2) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(3) Research efforts in the Swedish schools are of high quality and are remarkably prolific.
(4) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
(5) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(6) Our results underline the importance of patient-related factors in MVR, and indicate that care is needed in comparing the quality of MVR from different institutions with respect to mortality and morbidity.
(7) Perceived quality of life interviews with the clients were also conducted at both times.
(8) The quantity of social ties, the quality of relationships as modified by type of intimate, and the baseline level of symptoms measured five years earlier were significant predictors of psychosomatic symptoms among this sample of women.
(9) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(10) This method provided myocardial perfusion images of high quality which were well correlated with N-13 ammonia images.
(11) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
(12) It has been an enormous improvement in our quality of life.
(13) The protein quality and iron bioavailability of mechanically deboned turkey meat (MDT) and hand-deboned turkey meat (HDT) were determined in rats.
(14) The primary focus of both nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapy should be to control systemic blood pressure in a simple, affordable, and nontoxic fashion that provides an adequate quality of life.
(15) Quality evaluations by usual human spermiogram methods were applicable with only minor modifications to the procedures.
(16) An experience in working out and introduction of a system of failure-free performance work as one of the most important steps in creating a complex system for the production quality control at the Leningrad combine "Krasnogvardeets" is described.
(17) The effect of scrotal mange (Chorioptes bovis) on semen quality was assessed in a flock of rams during an outbreak of chorioptic mange and in rams with experimentally induced chorioptic mange.
(18) Gove said in the interview that he did not want to be Tory leader, claiming that he lacked the "extra spark of charisma and star quality" possessed by others.
(19) The department of dietetics at a large teaching hospital has substantially reduced its food and labor costs through use of computerized systems that ensure efficient inventory management, recipe standardization, ingredient control, quantity and quality control, and identification of productive man-hours and appropriate staffing levels.
(20) The quality of liver grafts was evaluated using an original, blood-free isolated perfusion model, after 8 h cold storage, or after 15 min warm ischemia performed prior to harvesting.
Timbre
Definition:
(n.) See 1st Timber.
(n.) The crest on a coat of arms.
(n.) The quality or tone distinguishing voices or instruments; tone color; clang tint; as, the timbre of the voice; the timbre of a violin. See Tone, and Partial tones, under Partial.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two possible versions of any instrumental timbre differed in the physical information used in their synthesis.
(2) Infants 7 to 8.5 months of age were tested for their discrimination of timbre or sound quality differences in the context of variable exemplars.
(3) We know, don't we, instantly when under the tutelage of a good teacher, we feel it in the timbre of their voice, we can feel the subtle, invisible flow of their good intention.
(4) Spectral properties appear to play a much larger role than dynamic properties in imagery for musical timbre.
(5) Fundamental frequency, pitch, timbre, and melody were analyzed with computerized electroglottography and sonography.
(6) These results suggest that timbre is perceived more in absolute than in relative terms.
(7) For fundamental frequencies in the human pitch range, many realizable timbres have vowel-like perceptual qualities.
(8) At the launch of a report by the all-party parliamentary group on women, she also called for an inquiry into sexism towards female MPs in the media, as anecdotally they tend to attract "superficial criticism about what we wear or the timbre of our voice, rather than what we say".
(9) Six listeners were asked to indicate whether perceived grouping of 49 such sequences was based on pitch proximity, timbre similarity, or ambiguous percepts not dominated by either cue.
(10) Voice clinicians, as well as singers, always correlate the assessment of the singing voice to the vocal and corporal gestures that model singing, and among these parameters, especially timbre.
(11) A possible explanation of the observed vowel timbres lies in the dependence of the short-time amplitude spectra on phase changes.
(12) 3, 45-52 (1979)] demonstrated that timbre differences could also bring about segregation.
(13) (1) When two complex tones contain different harmonics, do the differences in timbre between them impair the ability to discriminate the pitches of the tones?
(14) Recent studies have investigated the structure of perceptual relations among musical instrument timbres by multidimensional scaling (MDS) techniques.
(15) Previous reports have warned that tonsillectomy or uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP) may alter patients' speech by increasing the amount of nasal resonance as well as by changing voice timbre due to enlargement of the vocal tract.
(16) In recognition memory tasks, a target tone always appeared in a fixed position in the sequences, and listeners were instructed to attend to either its pitch or its timbre.
(17) Experiment 1, through the use of the Garner classification tasks, found that pitch and timbre of isolated tones interact.
(18) Harmonic complex tones comprising components in different spectral regions may differ considerably in timbre.
(19) The musical quality of timbre is based on both spectral and dynamic acoustic cues.
(20) Left hemisphere damaged aphasic patients were more accurate for target timbres over phonemes; the reverse pattern was found in the nonaphasic right hemisphere patients.