Sentence examples for is hump from inspiring English sources
verb
To bend something into a hump.
A commonly-advanced hypothesis is that the effect of the degree of centralization on unemployment is hump shaped, with either full centralization or full decentralization dominating intermediate levels of bargaining.
"What in the world is Hump Day?
And all we do is hump each other all day long," she quipped as a short video of the foursome dancing on the set played.
Rohlfs and Hoffmeister (2003) show that the survival from egg to adulthood for Drosophila subobscura is hump shaped, with low survival not only at low population numbers, but also at high population numbers.
Further we find that the incumbent's capital stock level needed to deter entry is hump shaped as a function of the entry time, whereas the corresponding entry cost, where the entrant is indifferent between entry and non-entry, is U-shaped.
Furthermore, some authors [15, 16] have also described a type IV functional response that is humped and that declines at high prey densities.
Later, when Alan is "humping" Joanna, the scene suddenly becomes a crane shot.
The relationship between these two quantities is humped, with a maximum increase when absorbance is close to 0.5.
Kcrita is hump-shaped and the corresponding F I a U-shaped between T ˜ = 0 and approximately T ˜ = 40.
If this is the case, this would be a good strategy since the survival curve of the larvae is hump-shaped, with the highest survival at intermediate larval densities (Rohlfs and Hoffmeister, 2003).
However, by extending the range of oocyst densities examined, we show that the relationship is humped, with a decrease in sporozoite production at high oocyst densities.
