What's the difference between semisextile and twelfth?
Semisextile
Definition:
(n.) An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees.
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Twelfth
Definition:
(a.) Next in order after the eleventh; coming after eleven others; -- the ordinal of twelve.
(a.) Consisting, or being one of, twelve equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by twelve; one of twelve equal parts of one whole.
(n.) The next in order after the eleventh.
(n.) An interval comprising an octave and a fifth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subtle cognitive deficits in Inferential Reading Comprehension were detected when Reading Vocabulary was at or better than a twelfth grade level.
(2) The phospholipid which accumulated between the sixth and twelfth culture days was composed of 21--27% disaturated phosphatidylcholines.
(3) Serum PRL was relatively unchanged in the control animals from the fourth through the twelfth weeks of the study.
(4) Eleven involved the left hemidiaphragm, and the twelfth the right.
(5) Administration of dihydrotestosterone led to inhibition of xenograft growth at the ninth passage compared with untreated controls (P less than 0.05), but had no effect on xenograft growth at the tenth and twelfth passages when androgen receptors were absent.
(6) Otocysts of twelfth and thirteenth gestation day mouse embryos were grown in organ culture for 9 and 8 days respectively.
(7) The preparation of convenience soups takes only between one fifth and one eighth of the necessary time for the preparation of conventionally, of sauces only between one sixth and one twelfth of the required time.
(8) When the target mRNA encodes the activated c-Ha-ras differing by a single nucleotide at the twelfth amino acid codon from normal c-Ha-ras, the magnitude of the inhibitory effect of Ras I increased significantly because Ras I is now perfectly complementary to its target mRNA.
(9) The ninth and twelfth grade records reveal that those who had previously been identified as showing behavior related to attention deficit disorder later performed significantly more poorly in school and had poorer social adjustment.
(10) Neoplastic foci of mixed hepatocytes and cholangiocytes increased in livers of exposed guppies from the second month, developing into hepatoblastomas, which occurred in almost 100% of exposed guppies by the twelfth month.
(11) Three-year panel data collected from seventh- to twelfth-grade adolescents were analyzed using differences in means tests and discriminant analysis.
(12) One million came by sea last year, a twelfth of those displaced after 1945.
(13) The clinical course from this exposure included papilledema from the third to the sixth month and depressed visual evoked response accompanied by delta activity in the electroencephalogram from the sixth to the twelfth month.
(14) Despite normal peripheral nerve conduction along the tibial nerve, the mean latency of the spinal cord potential of the twelfth thoracic vertebra was increased compared with normal, possibly indicating an incipient conduction defect at or near the spinal root ganglion or lumbar spinal cord.
(15) Only a few solitary neurinomas of the twelfth cranial nerve have been reported.
(16) A patient with endocarditis produced by Listeria monocytogenes is presented, the twelfth such case reported.
(17) The animals were slaughtered between the seventh and twelfth days after Sui, and the following ovulation percentages were established: 100 per cent in the first group, 83.3 per cent in the second, 55.6 per cent in the third, and 72.2 per cent in the fourth.
(18) Nonspecific airway responsiveness to eucapneic hyperventilation with subfreezing air was measured on at least two occasions between the sixth and twelfth annual surveys.
(19) Twelfth months later the control-angiocardiography showed the total obliteration of the ductal aneurysm.
(20) The veteran journalist, currently the executive editor of PBS Newshour, may have been hosting his twelfth such debate but he faced a blistering level of criticism for his performance.