(n.) One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
(n.) A kind of governor.
(n.) A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square.
(v. i.) To admit extension.
(v. t.) To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.
Example Sentences:
Tester
Definition:
(n.) A headpiece; a helmet.
(n.) A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb.
(n.) A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts.
(n.) An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston.
Example Sentences:
(1) As compared with solvent-treated control, no significant increases were observed in the number of revertant colonies in all tester strains in both systems with and without mammalian metabolic activation (S9 Mix).
(2) Gamma-ray-induced reversions in the Ames Salmonella tester strain TA2638 have been studied for their dependence on a number of experimental parameters.
(3) In addition to the fatigue tester and the pulse duplicator, a signal conditioner, a DC amplifier, an analog-to-digital converter, and a digital microcomputer comprised the essential hardware.
(4) Exogenous IC-DH in the incubation for LMA did not alter the mitotic crossing-over and the mitotic gene conversion of dimethylnitrosamine (DMNA) and AR2MNFN (a nitroimidazo[2,1-b]thiazole) in the tester D7 strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
(5) These results suggest that nickel is unable to induce basepair or frameshift mutations in Salmonella tester strains and are discussed in relationship to the low binding affinity of Ni(II) for DNA.
(6) In Drosophila melanogaster new tester strains for the somatic mutation and recombination test (SMART) in the wing were constructed with the aim of increasing the metabolic capacity to activate promutagens.
(7) Vibratory sensitivity was strongly related to height when measurements were made with either the vibration sensitivity tester (P = .02) or the biothesiometer (P less than .01); however, there was no relation between thermal sensitivity (as measured with the thermal sensitivity tester) and height.
(8) Trials with Escherichia coli ATCC and Staphylococcus aureus ATCC strains have been carried out using a point-acting tester as generator of negative oxygen ions.
(9) In addition, the depression of prophage induction observed when the drugs were combined with aflatoxin B1 may be indicative of a common target site of action in the tester strains.
(10) The newly engineered acetyltransferase-enhanced Salmonella tester strain YG1024 (TA98(pYG219] demonstrated greatly enhanced sensitivity to the mutagenicity of 2,4-DAT.
(11) A study was conducted to evaluate the potential of the Testark system in comparison with a commercially available pulp tester.
(12) The stiffness tester and torque meter were found to yield nearly the same measurements of bending deformation for orthodontic wires as small as .007 inch diameter, provided the different bending apparatus are calibrated to each other.
(13) Results establish a revised expression for Young's modulus and show that either the stiffness tester or the torque meter will yield essentially the same measured values of bending properties.
(14) These findings indicate the necessity for using the same tester when effects of treatment are evaluated.
(15) To aid linkage analysis and mapping studies in Dictyostelium discoideum, we have constructed several tester strains with easily scored mutations characterizing the six currently identified linkage groups.
(16) Chromotest agar dishes yielded optimal results after 16-18 h incubation, presumably because of the agar growth characteristics of tester strain PQ37.
(17) The two strains were crossed individually to normal sequence tester strains and the sizes of the proximal and distal segments were followed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.
(18) Despite the strong, positive mutagenic response of fecanpentaenes using Ames tester strains TA 98 and TA 100, no increase in nuclear aberrations, taken as a measure of genotoxicity in colonic epithelial cells, was observed over control levels.
(19) The deficience can be restored, giving respiratory sufficience, in crosses with rho0 testers.
(20) The mutants have also been crossed to mit- testers with defined genetic lesions.