(n.) One who, or that which, steps; as, a quick stepper.
Example Sentences:
(1) A set of Microsoft BASIC and Turbo PASCAL programs that interfaces a microprocessor-controlled stepper motor microscope stage (MDACE 1000) to an IBM PC or PC-AT or compatible microcomputer via a serial interface (RS-232) is described.
(2) "The trapped second-steppers, who are already in a property but want to move up the ladder to a larger one, are finding that falling property values mean they don't have substantial equity to call upon," he said.
(3) Salient features of the hardware are stepper motor-controlled movement of the stage and fine adjustment of an inverted microscope, a high-quality 16-mm cine camera with light meter and controls, and a miniature incubator in which cells may be grown under defined conditions directly on the microscope stage.
(4) When places come along that are cheaper it’s a bit of a bunfight.” First-time buyers, investors and second-steppers – people trying to move up the property ladder – are all vying for properties and supply is short.
(5) An IBM-type microcomputer is used to control a stepper motor driving a ball screw with a positional accuracy of about 1 micron.
(6) The difficulties faced by aspiring second-steppers are having a considerable knock-on impact for potential first-time buyers due to the resulting shortage of properties available on the market with housing chains proving hard to establish."
(7) Credlin in very short order became the witch in the office, Abbott’s lucky charm, the enforcer, the over-stepper, the punisher, the keeper of the diary and the door.
(8) This paper describes a simple, inexpensive apparatus for performing these experiments; it is based on a ball screw driven by a microcomputer controlled stepper motor.
(9) On Tuesday White gave an unusual first taste of the music to come: High Ball Stepper, released as a YouTube video , is a four-minute instrumental track with growling and reversed guitars, chewy distortion, and nary a single lyric.
(10) The mechanical elements and the electronic control system from a stepper motor-driven microelectrode positioner is described.
(11) Click here to watch High Ball Stepper Unlike Blunderbuss, which White issued as several special packages, Lazaretto will get only one limited-edition treatment.
(12) A microprocessor-controlled stepper motor modulates the amount of beam cutoff by regulating the movement of the shutter from the foot end of the film.
(13) A motor stepper-driven simulator (jaw replicator) was connected to investigate the occlusion during the terminal masticatory movements.
(14) We have studied the effects of temporal bone on the ultrasound beam and sample volume characteristics of the EME Transcan 2 MHz transducer using a stepper motor, computer-controlled ultrasound plotting system.
(15) The apparatus is based on a ball screw driven by a microcomputer-controlled stepper motor capable of generating 100 Newtons of traction, the resulting force in the tissue is monitored in real-time acquisition by a load cell.
(16) Scanning across the cornea is achieved by a stepper motor coupled to the fine focus of the microscope.
(17) The rapid-mixing device is based on a syringe driven by a stepper motor and can inject up to 2 cm3 liquid in less than 100 ms.
(18) Meanwhile two Japanese companies – Nikon and Canon – share with Zeiss of Germany total dominance in cutting the giant lenses used in so-called steppers (the photo-optical devices that print lines on computer chips).
(19) A rolling diaphragm pump, driven through a slider-crank mechanism by a microprocessor-controlled stepper motor, generated characteristic arterial pulse waves at a rate of 75 cycles per minute.
(20) A new skin extensometer, constructed with digital stepper motors and controlled with a microcomputer, is described to measure these properties for both skin and its subcutaneous attachments.
Stopper
Definition:
(n.) One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.
(n.) A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something.
(n.) A name to several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies; as, the red stopper. See Eugenia.
(v. t.) To close or secure with a stopper.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of genetic, phenotypic and physiological criteria, these mutants are divided into four groups: 1) the cytochrome aa3 and b deficient "poky" variants that are defective in mitochondrial ribosomes assembly, 2) the cytochrome aa3 deficient mutants, [mi-3] and [exn-5], that appear to have genetic lesions affecting a component of a regulatory system controlling cytochrome aa3 synthesis, 3) the cytochrome aa3 and b deficient "stopper" mutants with physiological lesions that probably affect mitochondrial protein synthesis, and 4) cni-3, a mutant that is constitutive for an inducible mitochondrial cyanide-insensitive oxidase in spite of having a normal cytochrome mediated electron-transport system.
(2) The cannulation system consists of an injection port 'In Stoppers' as a flow swivel, connected to an injection needle, which is inserted into a polyethylene tube protected by a steel spiral.
(3) The system prevents stoppers from being dislodged by gas-producing anaerobes and keeps the stoppers sterile so that the closed system of transfer can be conveniently utilized.
(4) "I am not sure there was any single policy show-stopper, but they just wanted to go in with the Conservatives in the end.
(5) I’ve always thought, if you like eating it, you should learn to make it, so that you can eat it more often.” The season closes on Wednesday, with a final show-stopper challenge, and the return of all the candidates who have died trying.
(6) Mixed cultures of epithelial cells and fibroblasts, derived from primary cultures of the skin of embryo rats, grown always in rubber-stoppered T-60 flasks, first yielded a transplantable tumor from the 52nd passage, at the end of 13 months of frequently repeated subculture.
(7) Rubber stoppers adsorb (or dissolve) HCN when in contact with this gas.
(8) Rather, the product moisture content increases with time and reaches an apparent equilibrium value characteristic of the product, amount of product, and stopper treatment method ("SV1" much greater than "U" greater than "SV1").
(9) At 72 hr, stoppered Erlenmeyer flasks, which originally contained 1% ethanol, still had a concentration of 0.85%.
(10) The drinking tube is fitted to a rubber stopper at the top of a 250 ml soft polyethylene bottle.
(11) The capacity of stoppers to bind Chinosol physically is expressed quantitatively by a partition coefficient.
(12) The number of particles released from a stopper during sterilization varies considerably between different stoppers and even between different batches of the same stopper.
(13) A comparison of the two groups suggests that the average "spacer" among new acceptors is 24 years old and has 2.6 living children, of whom the youngest is 12.0 months, while the average "stopper" is 34 years old and has 6.2 living children, of whom the youngest is 25.9 months.
(14) The cause of there abnormal values was investigated, and significant interference was observed when blood samples were drawn using evacuated glass tubes sealed with butyl rubber stoppers.
(15) The toxic material originated from zinc compounds that were present in the rubber stopper and plunger of the container and that subsequently leached into the formulation.
(16) Not even when I put a stopper in it and that bottle lasts well over a month.
(17) An extensive bacteriological screening of the staff was negative, but in the ward environment, F. meningosepticum was found around sinks, on rubber stoppers for milk bottles and on "cleaned" teats.
(18) Bill Hamid, Nick Rimando, Adam Kwarasey, Sean Johnson, David Ousted among others are all exceptional shot-stoppers and could certainly command a place at a top European team if they so desired.
(19) Deschamps’ problems lie elsewhere, namely in a back four which – with Kurt Zouma, Raphaël Varane and Jérémy Mathieu injured and Mamadou Sakho not picked because of his initial doping suspension – will miss the presence of a true stopper to play alongside Laurent Koscielny in central defence.
(20) In Expt I, Co2+ concentration increased after drinking, and remained elevated until the stopper was removed.