Depth profiling of the TiC layer by XRD and GISRD has revealed a distinct gradation in phase composition.
In addition, the tooth enamel has been shown to be a hierarchical graded biomaterial with a distinct gradation in structure, texture and hardness, which is reminiscent of the fibrous-microstructures found in natural plants such as bamboo and com.
But a distinct gradation is apparent in the structure of these ciliary photoreceptors from larval sea-squirts (ascidia), through hagfish, to lampreys, and then to jawed vertebrates a sequence corresponding to the stages of antiquity at which those other lines diverged from the vertebrate line.
Intermediate greens in infinite gradations, subtle and distinct, as numerous as all the names of God.
Follicular lymphomas should not be divided into distinct subtypes, but rather shows a continuous gradation in the number of large cells.
While the effective material properties change gradually along the gradation direction, there exist two microstructurally distinct zones: particle matrix zone and transition zone.
20 Interestingly, recessive mutations in ZMPSTE24 also disrupt lamin A proteolytic processing and are associated with three distinct but related human diseases that share features of premature aging, with a gradation of severity.
It is not that individuals who have such problems do not exist; it is rather that such individuals are recognized as having a distinct state of disease, with specific causes of those diseases, and there is not a gradual gradation of such people with the general population such that health and disease are but extremes on a continuum.
In social terms, it featured the end of an order characterized by an imperial retinue at the top and massive slavery at the bottom, that order's replacement by gradations of feudal vassalage descending from lord to serf, and the eventual appearance of a bourgeois society with distinct classes of workers, landlords, and entrepreneurs.
Millar's (and Mill's) "ranks" are not (quite) "classes" in our modern sense that is, purely descriptive, fairly distinct, and normatively neutral socio-economic entities but are instead meant to pick out people of particular intellectual merit and to mark gradations of moral and civic influence.
