(a.) Not equal; not matched; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers are of unequal length; peers and commoners are unequal in rank.
(a.) Ill balanced or matched; disproportioned; hence, not equitable; partial; unjust; unfair.
(a.) Not uniform; not equable; irregular; uneven; as, unequal pulsations; an unequal poem.
(a.) Not adequate or sufficient; inferior; as, the man was unequal to the emergency; the timber was unequal to the sudden strain.
(a.) Not having the two sides or the parts symmetrical.
Example Sentences:
(1) The data were analysed using statistical methods that yield continuous piecewise linear regression equations and allow subjects to have repeated measures which are unequally spaced and at different times for different subjects.
(2) When initial joint angles were unequal, joints moving from smaller initial angles reached their functional limits earlier and stopped first.
(3) A large proportion of allergen escaped rapidly from the ear, about 50% within 3 hr in the case of PCl, within 15 min for DNCB, the difference probably reflecting their unequal reaction constants.
(4) Even in Mondrian-like patterns resembling those used by Land and McCann (1971), equiluminant objects may appear to be of unequal brightness.
(5) Approximately 15% are multilobed but, unlike (-Mg) cells, contain lobes of unequal size with either zero, one, or several nuclei present in each.
(6) We propose that the deletion of the rRNA operon occurred in the ilv-leu gene cluster of the B. subtilis genome as a result of unequal recombination between redundant sequences.
(7) In the pediatric age group, this malformation is notable because of the marked sex predilection in males (70%) and an unequal topographic incidence in the circle of Willis, where carotid artery (39.3%) and anterior communicating artery lesions (30%) predominate.
(8) We deduce that in ubiquitin genes, concerted evolution involves both unequal crossover and gene conversion, and that the average time since two repeated units within the polyubiquitin locus most recently shared a common ancestor is approximately 38 million years (Myr) in mammals, but perhaps only 11 Myr in Drosophila.
(9) "This unfair and unequal treatment means that children with disabilities – already so disadvantaged – suffer further indignities.
(10) The fact that property is unequally distributed so many people don't have blessed "property rights" gets airbrushed from the theory.
(11) These results show that there is an unequal expression of the two non-allelic genes controlling insulin biosynthesis in foetal and adult rat pancreas.
(12) Nonheterogeneity of histamine effect can be presumably explained by a strong representation of various types of receptors to which this biogenic amine is bound (H1, H2, H3) in the organs and tissues, their unequal location on the pre- and postsynaptic membrane, the differences in their physiological functions.
(13) The finding indicates that supplier induced demand is a factor to consider in addition to supplier induced utilization when one tries to explain how supplier inducement may affect the unequal distribution of dentists.
(14) Although the role of each form is unknown, it is possible that variable or joining-gene segment selection events or functional differences account for their unequal usage.
(15) For maximum responses less than about 5 mV in cones, the length constant of exponential decay, lambda, varied from less than 10 mum to greater than 35 mum, and the values obtained in opposite directions were often unequal.
(16) Possible explanations for the failure to obtain 100% concordance are methodologic shortcomings, intercell variations in chromosome contraction, and unequal mitotic crossing over.
(17) The reason black people could not get out of New Orleans was not because they were separate but because they were unequal - the wealthier ones left.
(18) Unequal or absent pulses were found in three patients.
(19) In addition, these genes form highly complicated gene families that have evolved through gene conversion and unequal crossing-over.
(20) In Rec+ haploids, as in diploids, intrachromosomal recombination in the ribosomal DNA was detected in 2 to 6% of meiotic divisions, and most events were unequal reciprocal sister chromatid exchange (SCE).
Uneven
Definition:
(a.) Not even; not level; not uniform; rough; as, an uneven road or way; uneven ground.
(a.) Not equal; not of equal length.
(a.) Not divisible by two without a remainder; odd; -- said of numbers; as, 3, 7, and 11 are uneven numbers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The local guide led us down a rough, uneven pathway, talking as he went.
(2) Using EIOM the determination of the homogeneous and uneven components of respiratory resistance was possible in control animals, whereas in AAE group resistance was entirely represented by its uneven component.
(3) While there has been some unevenness in the extent to which successful risk reeducation has occurred, it is nonetheless dramatic compared with prior health educational efforts, and especially so given the exceptional sensitivity of the sexual and illicit drug using behaviors at issue.
(4) "Of course this recovery which is starting is likely to be choppy and uneven.
(5) However, the number of abortion providers declined by five percent between 1982 and 1985, and the geographic distribution of abortion services continued to be markedly uneven.
(6) Tillerson described US progress on sanctions alongside China as uneven.
(7) The redistribution of the elderly population in the United States is receiving increased attention as the sociodemographic consequences of the uneven geography of the aged are becoming more evident to state and local policymakers.
(8) In most of the cases of MML there were unevenly distributed poorly defined leukemic, infiltrates in the renal cortex and medulla.
(9) Macroscopic and microscopic examination of plaster models obtained from impressions with alginate mass Kromopan Super and silicone mass Dentaflex Pasta confirmed that leaving of saliva and blood on the surface of impressions causes uneven surface of plaster models.
(10) A wide but uneven distribution was substantiated for the rat brain.
(11) The uneven geographic distribution of physicians has been identified as a significant problem for the delivery of health care services.
(12) What Katrina left behind: New Orleans' uneven recovery and unending divisions Read more Ten years on, resentment still lingers about the failure of the federal levee system during hurricane Katrina, the botched response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and the long and difficult process of accessing billions of dollars in grant money for rebuilding, which for some people is not finished.
(13) The computerized tomographic scans showed uneven wear of the glenoid surface, osteophytes, large cysts, and posterior displacement of the humeral head.
(14) The regional CMP distributions in the brains were uneven on both the 2nd and 7th experimental days.
(15) They are uneven ventilation throughout the lung; redistribution of regional pulmonary blood flow between zones due to gravity; nonuniform pulmonary blood flow between individual metarteriolar-capillary networks because of local vasoconstriction; uneven systemic blood flow between organs; irregular systemic blood flow at the microcirculatory level, producing inadequate nutritional flow to the tissues; and redistribution of body water, leading particularly to fluid accumulation in the extracellular compartment, with expanded interstitial space and contracted plasma volume (hypovolemia).
(16) Jeegar Kakkad at EEF, the manufacturers' organisation When viewed in the context of previous, often uneven recoveries, UK economic growth remains healthy with manufacturing enjoying the best 12 months since 1994.
(17) The hypotonic treatment was shown to result in differential decondensation of chromosomes which consists in the uneven distribution of deoxyribonucleoprotein (DNP) fibrils along chromatids.
(18) Mortality statistics were used to check the previously observed uneven geographical distribution of multiple sclerosis (MS) in Finland, and also to compare the distribution of tuberculosis and MS with each other.
(19) Additional impairments occur in a large percentage of patients, but are unevenly distributed in the disease groups.
(20) The uneven distribution of long term mentally ill patients suggests that community pyschiatric resources might be better targeted at those practices with higher numbers of such patients.