(a.) Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
(a.) Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people.
(a.) Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government.
(a.) Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family.
(a.) Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and varieties.
(a.) Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8.
(n.) One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude.
(n.) An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority.
(n.) One who represents, or stands in the place of, another.
(n.) A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress.
(n.) That which presents the full character of the type of a group.
(n.) A species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
(2) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(3) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
(4) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
(5) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(6) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(7) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(8) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
(9) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(10) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
(11) Measurement of urinary GGT levels represents a means by which proximal tubular disease in equidae could be diagnosed in its developmental stages.
(12) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
(13) The penicillin-resistant Enterococcus hirae R40 has a typical profile of membrane-bound penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) except that the 71 kDa PBP5 of low penicillin affinity represents about 50% of all the PBPs present.
(14) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(15) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(16) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(17) Because of the short detachment interval, and the absence of underlying pathology or trauma, the recovery process described here probably represents an example of optimum recovery after retinal reattachment.
(18) Breast reconstruction should not be limited to the requiring patients, but should represent, in selected cases with favourable prognosis, an integrative and complementary procedure of the treatment.
(19) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
(20) The blockade of H2 receptors is the primary action of these drugs; however, they possess also secondary actions which may represent untoward effects but in some cases may be actually useful (increase in prostaglandin synthesis, inhibition of LTB4 synthesis, etc.)
Sampler
Definition:
(n.) One who makes up samples for inspection; one who examines samples, or by samples; as, a wool sampler.
(n.) A pattern; a specimen; especially, a collection of needlework patterns, as letters, borders, etc., to be used as samples, or to display the skill of the worker.
Example Sentences:
(1) The DCM sampler is expected to contribute to public health impact assessments by facilitating detailed determinations of the identities, compositions, concentrations, sources, formation mechanisms, and biological activity of environmental toxicants in gaseous atmospheres.
(2) The sampling rates of the samplers were derived from Fick's First Law of Diffusion.
(3) A commercially available auto-sampler was modified to enable unattended sampling over a 24-h test period using a cumulative drug release test based on the USP apparatus 1.
(4) Airborne particulate matter was collected by high volume samplers at two sampling stations in Berlin (West) between March 1983 and February 1984 (immissions).
(5) The performance of a new ectocervical brush sampler--the Cervex--was compared with the Ayre spatula in 280 paired cervical smears.
(6) The 50% effective cut-off diameter of stage 1 of this sampler is 8.0 microns for spherical particles.
(7) Volumetric levels of pollens derived from broad-leaved herbaceous plant species heve been determined at a midwestern urban site with suction and rotating arm samplers.
(8) In the following investigation, air-germ measurements were conducted--using the Reuter-Centrifugal-Sampler (RCS) and the Sartorius-Sampler MD 3 (SAR), and using standardized nutrient-substratum and breeding conditions--in order to detect differences in the measuring process itself.
(9) The convenience and portability of the Reuter centrifugal air sampler (RCS) encouraged us to determine a range of 'expected values' for bacterial air counts in nine hospitals at 13 defined locations.
(10) The technique is applicable to the Andersen sampler.
(11) Electric air samplers equipped with foam plugs were used to monitor ambient air from the basement, the kitchen, and one bedroom at: 24 h prior to termiticide application, during application, and post-application at 24 h, 1 wk, and monthly for 6 mo.
(12) The electrostatic filter was placed in front of one of the treatment chairs and the slit sampler was, for one period, placed at a distance of 5 m from the filter.
(13) A new field sampler has been developed for measuring the particulate matter (PM) and carbon monoxide emissions of woodburning stoves.
(14) Using a newly developed SPM sampler and NO2 filter badge, continuous 4 day (96 hours) measurements were conducted in two hundred residential homes for four weeks.
(15) Using a low-noise air sampler and a sensitive radioimmunoassay, we measured the concentration of mite allergens in the air during sleeping with Japanese bedquilts (futon).
(16) The FIAX system uses quantitative indirect immunofluorescence to measure the specific binding of ANA to a sampler coated with human epithelial cells.
(17) The paper describes special problems of sampling toxic gases, very soluble in water, on workplaces with passive samplers.
(18) Andersen air samplers were used to determine the particle size distribution of Serratia marcescens aerosols created during several common laboratory procedures and simulated laboratory accidents.
(19) A significantly higher number of microorganisms was recovered by the Reyniers sampler.
(20) Air concentrations of solvents were measured with personal samplers and gas chromatography.