(a.) Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees.
Example Sentences:
(1) The solution to these problems would seem either to reduce the time spent in rectangular wires or to change to a bracket with reduced torque, together with appropriate second order compensations in the archwire or the bracket.
(2) For a long rectangular field, the agreement between measured and calculated attenuation coefficients is better than 1.5% for all energies.
(3) Similar aftereffects were obtained whether the area of the test stimulus was fixed or varied randomly from trial to trial, and whether the test stimulus was rectangular or elliptical.
(4) Computer-assisted reconstruction of the axon showed that in layer IV the axons occupied a rectangular area about 300 X 500 microns, elongated anteroposteriorly in area 17 and mediolaterally in area 18.
(5) In pentobarbital-anesthetized rats, hyperventilatory responses to rectangular mild hypercapnic normoxic gas mixtures inhalation were analysed.
(6) To estimate mechanical characteristics of such membranes, it is necessary to carry out the noncontact pressure test and membranous contact test, in addition to the usual monotonic tensile test, by using a rectangular specimen cut from the membranes.
(7) The membrane potential in single nodes of Ranvier was changed in rectangular pulse steps while the membrane currents, associated with the potential steps, were measured.
(8) At low pH, it is theorized that the trapezoidal profile of the dimer is shifted to a more rectangular configuration such that flat ribbons are formed by the lateral association of dimers.
(9) Depending on the size of the kindred, the pedigree automatically obtains a rectangular or circular appearance.
(10) The distribution of oviposition times in CL showed a great deal of variation among the populations and departed significantly (P less than 0.05) from the uniform rectangular distribution, in all but three populations.
(11) Each muscle strip was stimulated with trains of electrical rectangular pulses (10 Hz, 50-70 V, 0.5 ms).
(12) The subgel Lc(c') phases of both homologs show significant two-dimensional long range order and can be described by rectangular lattices.
(13) These concepts allow data measured for square or circular fields to be extended to calculate, for example, the percentage depth doses or output factors of rectangular or irregular fields.
(14) Fast twitch fibres of rat and rabbit show rectangular patterns of intramembrane particles in freeze-fracture preparations of the sarcolemma.
(15) It is concluded that the physical performance of sedentary people, athletes and patients with impaired cardio-pulmonary function can be more precisely qualified in quantitative terms by means of computer assisted rectangular-triangular ergospirometry.
(16) Then, in the R-phase, a large (20-50 mV) rectangular wave of depolarization arose with superimposed high-frequency oscillations.
(17) This logistic relationship is more general than the rectangular hyperbola or linear methods, provides excellent goodness of fit, and can be used as a "global" method for the entire calibration curve, rather than as a "local" method for small segments of the curve.
(18) Hill's rectangular hyperbola fitted the force-velocity data if the load during shortening was less than 70% of Fo.
(19) The effects of rectangular linearly rising (ramp) current pulses were also studied.
(20) By comparison of the scattering curves with triaxial geometric bodies which are equivalent in scattering, the tetrameric enzyme is described as a rectangular prism, with overall dimensions of A = 131.0 A, B = 131.0 A, and C = 65.0 A, and the octameric form as that of a cube with A = B = C = 120.0 A.
Rectilinear
Definition:
(a.) Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course.
Example Sentences:
(1) Validation studies, to show that the method is precise, accurate and rectilinear, have been carried out on four linctus formulations and two pastille formulations.
(2) To meet these prerequisites we have introduced some technical refinements: (1) computer-controlled rectilinear translations of the target in combination with different angular positions of the source and (2) computer-controlled rotations of the target around a vertical axis in combination with different angular positions of the source.
(3) Several characteristics of plasma membrane (caveolae, rectilinear arrays, intramembranous particles) and sarcoplasmic reticulum which show fiber type differences in the adult ALD and PLD muscles are compared in the developmental stages.
(4) This indicates that the weave complex contributes to the initial rectilinear portion of the pressure volume curve.
(5) There was a rough rectilinear correlation between axon size and number of myelin lamellae in small and medium sized fibres.
(6) The incorporation of 14CO into acid-stable assimilation products by Pseudomonas gazotrophia Z-1156 is characterized by a slow rate at the beginning, contrary to the rectilinear kinetics for incorporation of the bicarbonate 14C in the presence of 12CO.
(7) (2) left ventricular segmental wall motion analysis, using rectilinear and polar method, the segmental ejection fraction and normalized segmental contraction are determined.
(8) The perfusion per unit lung increased rectilinearly down the lung in subjects below 30 years of age but decreased in the lowermost regions in older subjects.
(9) In the second experiment with 12-month-old infants only, it was shown that recognition of rectilinear, but not curvilinear, form occurred despite a difference in the orientation and size of tracing and object.
(10) Growth was exponential in I and II and exponential progressing to rectilinear in III and IV.
(11) Although it is often unknown whether the response of a biological variable is adequately described by one rectilinear regression function or by piecewise linear regression function(s) with separation point(s), an F test is proposed to determine whether one regression line is the optimal fitted function.
(12) Thyroid scintigraphy was performed in 69 consecutive infants with permanent primary congenital hypothyroidism (CH) detected by systematic neonatal thyroid screening using a rectilinear scanner or a gamma camera 15 minutes after the intravenous injection of 250 microCi Tc-99m sodium pertechnetate, immediately after the infants were fed.
(13) This program was added to the software of a GE 8800 CT scanner to perform the following operations: millimetre precise calculation and display of the rectilinear coordinates of a target identified on axial CT images; preplotting of phantom target trajectories on the CT images or electronic radiographs; calculation of probe angles required to achieve various trajectories; display of a coordinate scale on each CT image to allow direct target determination without mathematical calculations; calculation of the intercommissural plane for functional neurosurgery.
(14) Calibration graphs for 1 and 2 were rectilinear for 0.06-0.32 micrograms and 0.12-0.32 micrograms respectively.
(15) and each cell type number or percentage is rectilinear.
(16) The first consists of patches of particles closely spaced in rectilinear arrays.
(17) Non-junctional intramembranous particle arrays in the form of ridges, bracelets or rectilinear assemblies have been found by freeze-fracturing in the cytoplasmic half or P face of the plasma membrane in a variety of arthropod tissues.
(18) In 1506, Pope Julius had the old, rectilinear St Peter’s pulled down and a new one built that would be all curves, with its famous colonnade embracing the round world.
(19) These 1117 cells were classified into four functional classes of neurones: (a) visually unresponsive cells, (b) non-specific cells which were sensitive to spots or slits of light moving in any direction, (c) immature cells which were preferentially activated by a rectilinear stimulus but unselective regarding its precise orientation and (d) specific cells that appeared to be as selective for orientation as the simple or complex cells in the adult cat.
(20) The relationship between the rate of work and energy expenditure was rectilinear within the present range of values.