(a.) Having one meaning only; -- contrasted with equivocal.
(a.) Having unison of sound, as the octave in music. See Unison, n., 2.
(n.) Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.
(n.) Unequivocal; indubitable.
(n.) A generic term, or a term applicable in the same sense to all the species it embraces.
(n.) A word having but one meaning.
Example Sentences:
(1) Several reviewed works show that this appearance of chronic abcess is a common and univocal reaction to various pathogenic factors, such as bacteria and parasites.
(2) The response of the fungus to an increase in the number of larvae is not univocal : at 10 degrees C and 22 degrees C the nematode-trapping efficiency does not seem to depend upon the larval dnesity of the inoculum; at 15 degrees C, on the contrary, the nematodes are all the more trapped as their concentration is high.
(3) Les Revenentes (translated by Ian Monk as The Exeter Text) is a univocalism, a text which only uses one vowel, in this case "e".
(4) Results show that no general rules can be proposed to describe univocally the relation between the shape of isotherms and the nature of adsorbate-adsorbent system.
(5) The type of organization is not univocal and could perhaps depend on the number of patients to be cared for.
(6) The results show that although the lack of phase IV does not have a univocal signification (and this is a limit to the utilization of the closing volume alone as a detection test) the quantification of the closing volume brings, as the Ce, f relation does, an original element, but the evaluation of Ce, f is more difficult to realize in practice.
(7) A survey on perinatal handicaps must follow some standards: a) homogeneous population; b) univoc method of evaluation; c) 7 years follow-up; d) case control study.
(8) The analysis do not allow the univocal interpretation of the importance of organic brain changes in psychotic patients.
(9) A univocal attitude was suggested in what concerns their diagnosis and their treatment, both medical and surgical.
(10) It seems that, with our current knowledge, no univocal explanation is perfectly satisfactory.
(11) Results show an almost univocal interpretation of the images and also that the data inhomogeneity in the less reproducible diameters valuation is caused by real difficulty in the interpretation of the pictures.
(12) Ovarian ultrasonography is often difficult to explain, particularly because of the non-univocal macroscopic appearance of the ovaries.
(13) With regard to the second question XP seems to provide some support for various theories on carcinogenesis and, DNA repair defects may favour actinic carcinogenesis in a complex, non-univocous manner.
(14) This analysis is complex because two out of the three factors are not univocal in their definition (various composition and doses for pills, numerous histologic types of BBD).
(15) Studies with leukocytes gave more univocal results and the majority of these studies found an increase in intracellular Na+ in many genetic normotensives.
(16) Although somatostatin inhibits a variety of pituitary and non-pituitary hormones, not univocal data on its effects on ACTH release have been reported so far.
(17) Results demonstrate that the influence of compared histological methods on lectin binding is not univocal.
(18) A univocal disorder of dopaminergic activity in the nerve structures responsible for extra-pyramidal motility does not take into account the total phenomena seen in psychomotor neurological studies.
(19) the heat quantity generated by the tumour per untis of volume and time, computed from from intramammary temperature and thermal conductivity measurements made using of fluvographic needle probes), is typical of each cancer and re7ains remarkably constant during the growth in spite of themorphological and of the morphological and circulatory changes; b) the tumour doubling time tau2v (calculated from measurements of the tumour size effected at various stages of the evolution by assuming an exponential growth), is univocally related to 1 by a hyperbolic law so that the faster the tumour is growing themore heat generates; c) q is significanty higher and tau2v shorter in all cases where the histological examination has revealed signs of lymphatic dissemination (carcinomatous lymphangitis, lymph node metastases,...).
(20) After describing the phenomenon of sudden death both from a historical and literary viewpoint, the paper tackles the problem of its definition which is not yet univocal in the present literature, and identifies it mainly in its chronology.
Vowel
Definition:
(n.) A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech; -- distinguished from a consonant in that the latter, whether made with or without vocality, derives its character in every case from some kind of obstructive action by the mouth organs. Also, a letter or character which represents such a sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 5, 146-149.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a vowel; vocal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The obtained results are used to study the relation between the acoustic characteristics of these vowels and the corresponding articulatory dimensions.
(2) The current study explored the temporal course of the perception of vowel duration.
(3) In addition, they were tested with dichotic listening for correct reports of consonant-vowel syllables.
(4) Test items in each of the 4 groups therefore contained different amounts of information regarding the nature of the following vowel, due to coarticulatory influences of the vowel on the preceding consonants.
(5) Coarticulatory effects of the vowel on the aperiodic portion were found to (1) occur early in the aperiodic portion, (2) vary with consonant and vowel, and (3) vary with vowel feature.
(6) As for vowel formant, missing anterior teeth and missing posterior teeth presented more such differences for formant i and formants i and e, respectively.
(7) Vowel identification was best when at least two kinds of cues were available.
(8) Three male and 2 female subjects produced six repetitions of 12 utterances that were initiated and terminated by vowels and consonants of differing phonetic features.
(9) The perception of voicing in final velar stop consonants was investigated by systematically varying vowel duration, change in offset frequency of the final first formant (F1) transition, and rate of frequency change in the final F1 transition for several vowel contexts.
(10) These results suggest that Japanese monkeys process formant and pure-tone frequency increments differentially and that the same mechanisms mediate formant frequency discrimination in single-formant and vowel-like complexes.
(11) The major findings were as follows: (1) no significant difference was found in consonant identification scores between aperiodic, aperiodic + vocalic transition, and vocalic transition segments in CV syllables compared to those in VC syllables; (2) consonant identifications from vocalic transition + vowel segments in VC syllables were significantly greater than those from vocalic transition + vowel segments in CV syllables; (3) no significant difference was found in vowel identification scores between aperiodic + vocalic transition, vocalic transition + vowel, and vocalic transition segments in CV syllables compared to those in VC syllables; and (4) vowel identifications from aperiodic segments were significantly greater in CV syllables than in VC syllables.
(12) Comparisons between normalized spectral energy within a selected high frequency range revealed that energy within this frequency range for vowels produced by TE speakers was significantly higher than that produced by normal speakers.
(13) The amount of variability found in the labeling of speech contrasts may be dependent on cue salience, which will be determined by the speech pattern complexity of the stimuli and by the vowel environment.
(14) Acoustic information about the place of articulation of a prevocalic nasal consonant is distributed over two distinct signal portions, the nasal murmur and the onset of the following vowel.
(15) The shorter latency N2 was found for the separating features of vowels or intensities but not for consonants.
(16) After learning to categorize syllables consisting of [d], [b], or [g] followed by four different vowels, quail correctly categorized syllables in which the same consonants preceded eight novel vowels.
(17) The ability of listeners to identify 10 vowels under two conditions was investigated.
(18) In this article, acoustic analyses are reported which show that the spectral properties of stuttered vowels are similar to the following fluent vowel, so it would appear that the stutterers are articulating the vowel appropriately.
(19) The perceived goodness of i parallel vowels declined systematically as stimuli were further removed from the prototypic i parallel vowel.
(20) All subjects received 60 monaural and dichotic consonant-vowel (CV) nonsense syllables presented at equal loudness levels using the most comfortable level (MCL) as the loudness criteria.