(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.
Regent
Definition:
(a.) Ruling; governing; regnant.
(a.) Exercising vicarious authority.
(a.) One who rules or reigns; a governor; a ruler.
(a.) Especially, one invested with vicarious authority; one who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.
(a.) One of a governing board; a trustee or overseer; a superintendent; a curator; as, the regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
(a.) A resident master of arts of less than five years' standing, or a doctor of less than twwo. They were formerly privileged to lecture in the schools.
Example Sentences:
(1) An ‘approved’ poster in the student center at Regent University.
(2) Her parents, Apiruj and Wanthanee Suwadee, were found guilty of violating Article 112 of Thailand’s criminal code which says anyone who “defames, insults or threatens the king, the queen, the heir-apparent or the regent” will be punished with up to 15 years in prison.
(3) They were banging on their shields and chasing these people up Regent Street.
(4) What the Qataris own in Britain • HSBC Tower, the bank’s global headquarters in Canary Wharf • The Shard on the south bank of the Thames (95%) • Harrods, bought in 2010 for a reported £1.5bn • The Olympic Village in east London • Numbers 1-3 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park – this week denied planning permission to be turned into a £200m single home • A 50% stake in the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank • Half of One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive apartment block • The former US embassy building in Grosvenor Square • The site of Chelsea Barracks in west London, being turned into a luxury housing estate • 20% slice of Camden market • Stakes in Barclays, Sainsbury’s, the London Stock Exchange and Heathrow • And coming soon: Canary Wharf, after the controlling group capitulated and recommended a £2.6bn bid to shareholders Julia Kollewe
(5) Similarly, on the south side of the nearby Regent's Canal stand huge blocks of modern private apartments; two-bed flats here have a £600,000 price tag .
(6) According to Vince McCartney of Holborn Studios, “there will be a corridor of steel and glass from King’s Cross to Limehouse” – a distance of about five miles along the Regent’s Canal – as waterside spaces are made into flats.
(7) People have felt part of this right throughout the season,” said Bodiat, 19, a student from Regent College who had come out with four other friends all wearing blue headscarves.
(8) I’m a tax exile.” The high-profile property developer – who with his brother, Nick, developed the superluxe One Hyde Park apartment complex for London’s oligarchs and is now converting a row of seven houses overlooking Regent’s Park into a single 4,600 sq metre London mansion – even named his twins Isabella Monaco Evanthia and Cayman Charles Wolf.
(9) Squatters inside the building, a former police station in Beak Street, off Regent Street, accused police of heavy-handed tactics after they were led out by officers who forced their way in after a tense standoff lasting more than three hours.
(10) Had something happened to his spouse, Prince Philip would have served as Regent until his son came of age.
(11) Serological survey of the other primates in the Regent's Park collection did not reveal the presence of the surface antigen in 2 gorillas, 11 orang-utans, and 2 gibbons, although surface antibody was present in the serum of 1 gorilla and 2 orang-utans.
(12) The Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park won best musical revival for Hello Dolly!
(13) Right now, there are properties for sale for tens of millions of pounds around London's Regent's Park.
(14) A typical sales pitch comes from Pendragon Management in London , with an office address in Regent Street.
(15) "As a leader, I have always followed the principles I first saw demonstrated by the regent at the 'great place'," Mandela recalled.
(16) It gets even worse when you are proud of the fact that you went to Pat Robertson’s God Hates Facts pay-and-print diploma mill Regents University, where you wrote , “Every level of government should statutorially and procedurally prefer married couples over cohabitators, homosexuals, and fornicators.” So it gets fantastically worse when you describe your marriage as on “hold” and live during the trial with your parish priest, Rev Wayne Ball of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, whose assignations Talking Points Memo delicately summarizes as thus : Ball, then pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Norfolk, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of frequenting a bawdy place.
(17) Cotton was a founder of the American College of Surgeons and served as Regent of the College as well as on the Committee on Fractures.
(18) At that time there were nine wolves still left on the island, and Isle Royale National Park Superintendent Phyllis Green said: “The decision is not to intervene as long as there is a breeding population.” Regent Honeyeater breeding program boosts population of endangered bird Read more In just one year, that “breeding population” is all but extinct.
(19) The New West End Company, which represents 600 retailers on Oxford Street, Bond Street and Regent Street, estimated about 1 million shoppers had visited their stores over the weekend – fewer than the 1.2 million customers they had expected based on last year's figures.
(20) But no – we just run down Piccadilly Circus and into Regent Street, then Oxford Street.