Sentence examples for extent meaning from inspiring English sources

One view of the novel, the one that E. M. Forster advanced, says it's "a fiction in prose of a certain extent" — meaning more than 50,000 words, in Forster's opinion.

However, for the 20-Hz alternating magnetic field, the field-treated sample re-showed the amorphous aggregates to some extent, meaning that the alternating magnetic field of the frequency had not induced the assembly of γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles.

A cognitive system counts as modular in Fodor's sense if it is modular "to some interesting extent," meaning that it has most of these features to an appreciable degree (Fodor, 1983, p. 37).

Filters offer another avenue to explore in terms of single-click enhancements, and they do for Photos on the desktop what Instagram did for mobile, to some extent – meaning they broaden the appeal of post-capture effects to an audience far beyond the motivated hobbyist.

Once cells become committed to some kind of behavior, and are isolated from other cells in the embryo, they and their local environment can go off to some extent on their own (to some extent meaning that centrally sent signals like hormones, nutrients, a common body skin and shell, and so on, maintain the integrity of a single organism).

Second, H7N9 subtype influenza has never before infected humans to a significant extent, meaning the human population has little or no pre-existing immunity.

Whether this is a telling objection depends on larger issues about the explanatory role of meanings in particular, to what extent meanings must be stable through disagreement and theory change.

These interactions are overlapping and to some extent redundant, meaning that erythrocyte invasion is a relatively plastic phenomenon that can be influenced by natural genetic variation in both parasite and human genomes.

Furthermore, all of these previous studies investigated laughter perception using stimuli produced by actors, which were all to some extent posed, meaning that none of these studies were designed to address uncontrolled, authentic laughter (nor how this is perceived).

Deconstruction stressed the extent to which "meaning" and "authorial intention" are virtually impossible to fix precisely.

Infrastructure both digital and otherwise is used by many for all kinds of activities, and is often to some extent "non-rival", meaning one person's use does not forestall another's.