(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.
Wrinkle
Definition:
(n.) A winkle.
(n.) A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth.
(n.) hence, any roughness; unevenness.
(n.) A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.
(v. t.) To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.
(v. t.) Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
(v. i.) To shrink into furrows and ridges.
Example Sentences:
(1) Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that these blebs were devoid of organelles and microvilli; scanning electron microscopy revealed that the blebs were highly wrinkled and more numerous than were the projections observed in tissue from animals treated with testosterone alone, or in tissue from unoperated controls.
(2) However, patients can be taught how to retard the onset of wrinkles by avoiding unprotected sun exposure, unnecessary facial movements, and certain sleeping positions.
(3) Besides the rough, wrinkled, and brown or black surface of the fingertips, microwrinkles of the epidermis occur on the skin ridges, which have so far not been described.
(4) In fact, in some patients the lower-lid wrinkling appears far worse after fat removal.
(5) Substratum wrinkling was indicative of tension development and quantitated as percent of cells contracted.
(6) SMC also displayed several structurally detectable interactions with the fibrin substratum, such as organization of the gel by means of extension of numerous filamentous processes and contraction and wrinkling of the gel.
(7) A recipient cornea gradually developed wrinkling and opacification in Bowman's layer following an uneventful myopic epikeratoplasty.
(8) "But then a customer pointed out that our carpet was smoking and a chair was beginning to wrinkle in the heat, caused by the concentrated sun coming through the window."
(9) More than once, she replies to a question by wrinkling her nose and saying: “It’s all in the book.” Tempest can’t quite see why the breadth of her output – songs, poems, plays, a novel – is notable, because it’s all about writing and performance.
(10) Some intercalated sheaths had a wrinkled irregular configuration and some lacked a light-microscopically distinct myelin layer.
(11) Adhesions to the Gore-SM occurred at wrinkles in or at the edges of the membrane.
(12) During the course of the irradiation the animals develop permanent wrinkles on the exposed dorsal surface, which can be recorded in plastic impressions.
(13) The deflecting wrinkle is a well-known character state of the lower m2 and M1 of the human dentition, but there is little information regarding its presence in great apes.
(14) An algorithm is used to transform the number of wrinkles, recorded just before and 2.5 and 6 hr after the injection, into the intensity of the oedematous reaction.
(15) Fine wrinkling, coarse wrinkling, sallowness, looseness, and hyperpigmentation were significantly improved with tretinoin therapy.
(16) Kaeng Khoi virus was recovered from bedbugs (Stricticimex parvus and Cimex insuetus) and from suckling wrinkle-lipped bats (Tadarida plicata) collected in central Thailand.
(17) Hacked Off, which campaigns on behalf of victims of press intrusion for tighter press regulation, said this would help the government smooth out the wrinkles in the relevant clause added to the crime and courts bill, which attempts to define which publishers should be in or outside the regulator's remit.
(18) The percentage of cells showing a decrease of wrinkles was significantly higher (P less than 0.05 at 5 min and P less than 0.001 at 10 min) during the ANP-treated period than during the control period.
(19) Most dogs give a series of increasingly serious warning signs before they lose their tempers: lick their lips, blink, turn their heads away, curl their lip, lower their ears, wrinkle their foreheads, and if the dog that's annoying them doesn't get the message, they may growl or bare their teeth, and if that's still not enough it will be head and chest forward, muscles flexed, and bang, you've had it.
(20) Other specimens showed wrinkling of the outer layer that was seen later to peel off.