What's the difference between rise and spline?

Rise


Definition:

  • (v.) To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.
  • (v.) To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.
  • (v.) To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.
  • (v.) To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.
  • (v.) To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.
  • (v.) To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.
  • (v.) To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.
  • (v.) To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.
  • (v.) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.
  • (v.) To retire; to give up a siege.
  • (v.) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
  • (v.) To have the aspect or the effect of rising.
  • (v.) To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.
  • (v.) To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore.
  • (v.) To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.
  • (v.) To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.
  • (v.) To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.
  • (v.) To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.
  • (v.) To become of higher value; to increase in price.
  • (v.) To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like.
  • (v.) To increase in intensity; -- said of heat.
  • (v.) To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.
  • (v.) To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.
  • (v.) In various figurative senses.
  • (v.) To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
  • (v.) To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.
  • (v.) To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; -- said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.
  • (v.) To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
  • (v.) To come; to offer itself.
  • (v.) To ascend from the grave; to come to life.
  • (v.) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.
  • (v.) To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.
  • (v.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form.
  • (n.) The act of rising, or the state of being risen.
  • (n.) The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step.
  • (n.) Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.
  • (n.) Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream.
  • (n.) Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet.
  • (n.) Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.
  • (n.) Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.
  • (n.) Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.
  • (n.) The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The recent rise in manufacturing has been welcomed by George Osborne as a sign that his economic policies are bearing fruit.
  • (2) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
  • (3) These are typically runaway processes in which global temperature rises lead to further releases of CO², which in turn brings about more global warming.
  • (4) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
  • (5) A commensurate rise in both smoking and adenocarcinoma has occurred in the Far East where the incidence rate (40%) is twice that of North America or Europe.
  • (6) An initial complex-soma inflection was observed on the rising phase of the action potential of some cells.
  • (7) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
  • (8) Rise time and fall time constants have been quantified for describing kinetics of response.
  • (9) Basal 20 alpha DHP levels remained low until a sharp rise at mid pro-oestrus.
  • (10) The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software.
  • (11) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
  • (12) The authors conclude that during the infusion of 5-FU, the rise in FpA activation and reduction in PCa as compared to PCag are compatible with activation of coagulation.
  • (13) He said: "Monetary policy affects the exchange rate – which in turn can offset or reinforce our exposure to rising import prices.
  • (14) The increased muscular strength in due to a rise of calcaemia, improved muscle contraction and probably also due to the mentioned nutritional factors.
  • (15) We investigated the possible contribution made by oropharyngeal microfloral fermentation of ingested carbohydrate to the generation of the early, transient exhaled breath hydrogen rise seen after carbohydrate ingestion.
  • (16) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
  • (17) Under a revised deal most people are now being vetted on time, but charges for the service have had to rise from £12 and free vetting for volunteers, to £28 for a standard disclosure and £33 for an advanced disclosure.
  • (18) It inhibits platelet and vascular smooth muscle activation by cGMP-dependent attenuation of the agonist-induced rise of intracellular free Ca2+.
  • (19) The conversion of orotate to UMP, catalyzed by the enzymes of complex II, was increased at 3 days (+42%), a rise sustained to 14 days.
  • (20) During the development of Shvets' leukosis, the weight of spleen and lymph glands and their lymphocyte content change enormously while the number of plasmocytes rises exponentially.

Spline


Definition:

  • (n.) A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece.
  • (n.) A long, flexble piece of wood sometimes used as a ruler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This paper addresses the latter assumption by applying a direct and flexible approach, cubic spline functions, to two widely used models: the logistic regression model for binary responses and the Cox proportional hazards regression model for survival time data.
  • (2) After filament images were straightened by spline-fitting, several transforms showed well-defined layer-lines arising from the helical structure of the filament.
  • (3) We have compared three interpolation methods (surface splines, spherical splines and tridimensional interpolation functions).
  • (4) The smoothing B-spline function was applied to 3, 10, 25, 50, 75, 90, and 97 percentile TW2 RUS, carpal and 20-bone scores.
  • (5) The four parameter logistic method, which is based on an approximation of the mass action law, performed better than the Spline method, a procedure which makes no a priori assumptions about the data.
  • (6) The first and second derivatives of progress curves are obtained from the cubic spline function.
  • (7) To improve the qualitative and quantitative analysis of surfaces of protein, two new methods are proposed: one that smoothes the MS surface of Connolly with B-spline smoothing functions to highlight the significant features of the surface, and one that computes the density of surface neighborhood to allow quantitative comparison.
  • (8) In the model, patellofemoral joint profiles projected on a horizontal plane have been expressed as spline functions.
  • (9) It was demonstrated that by using a least-squares surface-fitting technique, the SPG data on the surface can accurately be described by a single parametric biquintic spline function.
  • (10) Approximating the signal with a linear combination of cubic B-splines with equally spaced knots, according to the linear least-squares criterion gives the desired data reduction and an elegant way to perform an automatic analysis.
  • (11) The practical implementation of a rapid Catmull-Rom (cardinal) spline is described, and its advantages with respect to speed and ease of use are discussed.
  • (12) One of these is the procedure known as one of the best automatic smoothing and differentiating techniques: generalised cross validatory spline smoothing and differentiation (GCVC).
  • (13) Splines, were invented nearly 30 years ago and have been shown to have desirable properties.
  • (14) The spline technique is superior in accuracy to sampling at eight-times the Nyquist rate and is comparable to a Fourier-transform-based interpolation algorithm.
  • (15) Lines representing linear regression, log-linear regression or quadratic regression were inferior to those described by linear splines.
  • (16) Although spline functions are by no means unknown to demographers, no simple and direct explanation of their application exists.
  • (17) The spline technique was used to analyse these data as continuous variables, and showed that the 'super-obese' group of families was too small to be of any practical importance.
  • (18) Using penalized likelihood the three curves can be fitted as cubic splines by non-linear regression, and the extent of smoothing required can be expressed in terms of smoothing parameters or equivalent degrees of freedom.
  • (19) In general, the bilinear and bicubic spline methods of interpolation perform about equally.
  • (20) The folding pathway is defined by piecewise B-spline curves and the atoms are initially positioned with respect to the local Frenet trihedra determined by the equations of the curves.