Sentence examples for defined as a contraction from inspiring English sources

Federal Reserve officials, who have cut rates four times since August including sharp reductions twice last month, are predicting that the economy will escape a true recession — usually defined as a contraction in activity that lasts for at least two back-to-back quarters.

Measures of maternal complications will include uterine tachysystole (defined as over 5 contractions in 10 minutes), uterine hypertonus (defined as a single contraction lasting over 2 minutes), caesarean section, uterine rupture, instrumental vaginal delivery, severe hypertension and HELLP Syndrome, maternal vomiting, maternal diarrhoea, fever, antibiotic use, and postpartum haemorrhage.

The mechanical properties of this region are characterized by the apparent cortical tension (defined as a free contraction energy per unit area) and the apparent bending modulus (introduced as a bending free energy per unit area) of its middle plane.

Poole, president of the St . LouisFederal Reserve, stated that the chances of a recession, defined as a two-quarter contraction, were quite low.

For the fatigue index, the first contraction was defined as 100%, and all other contractions were defined as a percentage of this contraction.

Here, an abdominal contraction period is defined as a series of abdominal contractions flanked by intervals of rest, and for calculations referring to complete contraction periods only those periods containing both start and end points were used in the analysis (periods that overlapped with the beginning and end of captured videos were discarded).

Study inclusion criteria were patients diagnosed with COPD based on GOLD Global Initiativee for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease) criteria and the presence of quadriceps weakness defined as a quadriceps maximum voluntary contraction (QMVC) in kilograms < 120% of the patient's BMI.

In our previous study [8], we successfully measured V0 of human plantar flexor muscles in vivo without any confounding effects of series elastic recoil and antagonist coactivation, and demonstrated that V0, expressed as an angular velocity of ankle joint, increased with muscle activation level defined as a fraction of maximal voluntary contraction torque (MVC).

In these realms of the avout, the word saunt (a punning contraction of "savant") is defined as "a term of veneration applied to great thinkers, almost always posthumously".

It is defined as an involuntary phasic detrusor contraction of any pressure associated with symptoms of urge or leakage while the patient is attempting to inhibit micturition.

A peristaltic contraction may be defined as an advancing ring, or wave, of contraction that passes along a segment of the gastrointestinal tract.