(n.) Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus Turbo or family Turbinidae, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum.
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) Technology – along with turbo-capitalism – seems to me to be hastening the cultural and environmental apocalypse.
(3) Immunochemically, the major common epitope expressed by the neutral fraction glycolipids of the 3 taeniid species is the same or very similar to the glycosphingolipid, neogalatriaosyl ceramide derived from the marine mollusc Turbo cornutus (Gal(beta 1-6) Gal(beta 1-6) Gal(beta 1-1)Cer).
(4) The cadmium-binding proteins were shown to exist in the hepatopancreas of three molluscs, a whelk, Buccinum tenuissimum, a turbo, Batillus cornutus, and a squid, Todarodes pacificus.
(5) A new technique (turbo-FLASH), which combines gradient echo and preparation pulse, has opened the door to a true dynamic (high time resolution) MRI.
(6) We critically evaluated the Nephelometry System (TDx Turbo) for the TDx Analyzer (Turbo), as currently used for immunoglobulins (IgA, IgG, and IgM) and transferrin assays.
(7) Claudio Ranieri has said that his initial target of 79 points may not be enough to win the Premier League title, with the Leicester City manager claiming “we have to put a turbo behind us” for the rest of the season to try to surpass the tally he set his players at the halfway stage.
(8) This could change in the future as a result of improvement in signal behavior of the 2D gradient echo (2D GE) sequences and of the use of phonation studies (Turbo-FLASH).
(9) The Renault-powered Red Bull won eight world championships in their glory seasons between 2010-13 but the relationship soured in 2014 when the French engine manufacturer struggled to come to terms with the new turbo hybrid power units.
(10) Local media: “This was low behaviour.” Also unruffled Croatia: Dinamo Zagreb owner Zdravko Mamic – still awaiting trial for fraud and bribery – stripping at a wedding while singing hits from the 80s , including regional turbo-folk classic: “No one can hurt us … We’re stronger than fate, those who don’t like us can only hate.” Mamic denies wrongdoing.
(11) Rattling through the technical details – 4-cylinder, 1.4 litre turbo engine, 6-speed automatic transmission, optional 17-inch wheels, back-up reversing camera, combined average of 25mpg – he moved smoothly to a more general sales pitch.
(12) This, conflated with a kind of turbo-Darwinism, made eugenics a common feature of the national debate, and it was not at all unusual for judges and politicians and other notables to wish, out loud, like Leslie Scott, the solicitor general, that "by a stroke of the pen it could be ordained that from today onwards no mental defective should be allowed to breed".
(13) By bout four, the turbo-folk, the strobe lights and the procession of outclassed foreigners was beginning to blur a little.
(14) David Cameron has marched onto territory staked out by Ed Miliband by promising that there would be no return to the "turbo-capitalism" of recent decades.
(15) We describe a user-friendly software package using Turbo Pascal language under MS-DOS environment for estimating LD50 and LD90 by Logit Analysis with a X2 test of goodness of fit for the model.
(16) An exoglycosidase, 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-beta-D-hexosidase (beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase) from Turbo cornutus, split off 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose amounting to 22.5 and 20.4% of the total weight of JS and N-1 blood-group substances, respectively.
(17) It is based on a decision tree which has been converted into a program written in Turbo-Pascal and can be run on any IBM-compatible computer.
(18) Government fan plan on club strategy to be written into league rules Read more “ The big teams haven’t switched on the turbo yet – and we hope they don’t switch on turbo.” Despite the seven-point cushion for Champions League qualification and the nine-point gap to the final European qualification place in the table, Ranieri still remains guarded about the possibility.
(19) It was three weeks ago that the News of the World dumped a vast archive of data at Scotland Yard's door – a trove that has turbo-charged the Met investigation.
(20) Pounding Chechen turbo-folk ushered the first contestant into the ring.
Turbocharger
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(1) By allowing corporates to make unlimited donations of this kind, the court gave birth to the so-called Super Pacs, which are turbocharged fundraising " political action committees " that support a candidate while remaining nominally independent of his or her campaign.
(2) There's been a turbocharged masculinity at the heart of British newspaper culture for decades.
(3) Whoever comes next will have to take this on in a very significant way.” A game-changer would be if the leader of a developed country came out firmly against prohibition, something that would turbocharge the drive for reform.
(4) The reason they fought so hard to move from Upton Park after 112 years was because they believe it will turbocharge their prospects.
(5) In IT planned obsolescence has been turbocharged by must-have software which is only upwardly compatible.
(6) Cohen’s recommendations show how to take that appeal and turbocharge it.
(7) Prime minister David Cameron said on Monday that an EU-US pact would "turbocharge the transatlantic economy" by delivering up to £10bn a year to the UK, or £380 to every British household.
(8) Football, the great and simple game played by clubs with working-class roots and deep local attachments, has been turbocharged by pay-TV into a globally expanding and increasingly consumerist sport, viewed by many of those who now work in it as a branch of the entertainment industry.
(9) The successful candidate will be expected to turbocharge not just the city but an entire region.
(10) I dip the stick in a glass of Cobra, the vibrations turbocharge its carbonation, and within two seconds I have Brad Pitt, ie a perfect head.
(11) The fact of the matter is that it’s not like [1999] or 2000, where we had a major budget surplus which allowed us to turbocharge income tax cuts as we were making a major tax mix switch,” he told the ABC’s Insiders program.
(12) Greg Clark from the Conservatives and Andrew Adonis from Labour are both doing some good thinking about how to turbocharge urban centres.
(13) The company halted sales of the diesel turbocharged direct injection (TDI) models affected after the scandal broke.
(14) It was this fight for freedom that directly led to a turbocharging of the decolonisation movement across Asia and Africa.
(15) Photograph: Tom Phillips for the Guardian Rosa is the latest addition to China’s rapidly growing squad of Brazilian footballers – a group Chinese managers hope will turbocharge their clubs’ rise to glory and boost President Xi Jinping’s bid to transform his country into a footballing superpower.
(16) Joining up with Salazar, and splitting with his long-time coach Alan Storey, in 2011 turbocharged an already impressive career.
(17) By chastising his colleagues and suggesting gender may be motivating their attacks Abbott has only turbocharged that resentment and the public discussion of the government’s disunity.
(18) For a long time, Sarah Lucas, who also has a show on in the capital, seemed like the bad girl of British sculpture, although her career was never turbocharged by market success like Altmejd's was.