Sentence examples for discrete portion from inspiring English sources

Its definitions are numerous and often mutually contradictory, for example as a discrete portion of one's time or as a quality of experience irrespective of time.

The massive frontal assault was marred by Beauregard's improper organization of forces successive attacks by corps in lines 3 mile long, rather than assigning each corps a discrete portion of the line for a side-by-side assault.

Thymidine analogs label only a discrete portion of these subpopulations.

Structure-function studies identified a discrete portion of the falcipain-2 prodomain required for inhibition of the cognate mature protease.

Thus, only a discrete portion of BAK appeared to be complexed with BCL-XL.

The continuous portion of the mixture model also included these covariates, whereas the discrete portion included only FPG.

Its self-possession here is emblematic of the chef César Ramirez's contemplative and intermittently fussy approach to cooking, evident as well in an entree of "milk-fed porcelet" that divides the young porker into discrete portions of belly, loin and head meat and, for good measure, throws in puréed chanterelles and diced Brussels sprouts.

The crack extends stepwise over discrete portions of the crack front.

Hence, incomplete mitochondrial genome sequencing, designed to scan discrete portions of the genome, misses potentially important sequence variants associated with cancer or other diseases.

Chromosome engineering combines the power of gene targeting in embryonic stem (ES) cells with Cre loxP technology to create mice that are functionally haploid in discrete portions of the genome.

This has the consequence that the results of a measurement are now sometimes "quantized", i.e. they appear in discrete portions.