What's the difference between sestet and sextet?

Sestet


Definition:

  • (n.) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet; -- called also sestuor.
  • (n.) The last six lines of a sonnet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sonnets, one should note in passing, are hard to read – particularly as they move on to the “sestet”, or last six lines.

Sextet


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Sextetto

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous studies of oxygen-derived free radical generation based on spin-trapping methods have shown a signal formed of six bands (sextet) using electron spin resonance spectrometry (ESR) of coronary effluents collected during post-ischaemic reperfusion of isolated hearts perfused with 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline N-oxide (DMPO).
  • (2) (1) The matrix concentration of divalent cations has been calculated from the total cation uptake, from the increase of matrix volume and from the ESR sextet signal of Mn(H2O)L2+.
  • (3) The ESR spectrum consists of a triplet of sextets (aN = 1.48 mT, a beta N = 0.25 mT and a beta H = 0.14 mT), indicating that the unpaired nitroxide electron interacts with the nuclei of a beta-nitrogen and beta-hydrogen.
  • (4) In the present study we show that, in the rat, this sextet and cytosolic iron release occur simultaneously, and that this signal can be inhibited by the iron chelator desferrioxamine.
  • (5) This may be responsible for the production of an artefactural signal observed as the sextet.
  • (6) When the sextet were reeled in with two laps to go, the final attempt at an escape came from Alex Dowsett, winner of a Tour of Britain time trial stage in London in 2010 and out to hone his form for the world championship time trial.
  • (7) This exhibits a quadrupole-split doublet at room temperature and both a doublet and a Zeeman-split sextet at 4.2 K, due to a distribution of particle sizes.
  • (8) The sextet is centrally placed about the icosahedral threefold axis, with its edges parallel to those of the facet.
  • (9) Using the amplitude of its characteristic sextet signal as a measure of free Mn(H2O)+6+, the apparent affinities of cardiolipin and phosphatidylserine for Mn2+ were measured as a function of monovalent electrolyte.
  • (10) A capsid model is proposed with each facet comprising a small p3 net of 12 hexons, arranged as a triangular sextet with three outer hexon pairs.
  • (11) The Mössbauer sextet species is EPR invisible and corresponds to magnetically ordered polynuclear aggregates with high magnetic anisotropy.
  • (12) The coefficient of variation for MDD distances was greater than that for mismatch counts for singlets but both measures approached the same low value for sextets.
  • (13) In addition, in any isolated condition most of the variables categorising other members of the sextet were still significantly altered in comparison with 1,049 normal subjects.
  • (14) Citi and Deutsche Bank, who also missed out on running the IPO, make up the sextet.
  • (15) In total there were 39, all of whom, aside from me and a handful of other Brits, two Swiss men and a sextet of South Africans, were Australian.

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