Sentence examples for major interval from inspiring English sources
noun
An interval that is either a major second, major third, major sixth, or a major seventh
Pennsylvanian Subperiod, second major interval of the Carboniferous Period, lasting from 323.2 million to 298.9 million years ago.
Other times that the limits are re-adjusted are when automin, automax pad, major mode, minor mode minor num, tickformat, major interval or minor interval are changed.
The Cenozoic, the most recent major interval of geologic time (i.e., the past 66 million years), is commonly divided into the Paleogene, Neogene, and Quaternary periods.
The DiatonicInterval class handles all the under-the-hood tasks of figuring out that, say "AA6" should have a.niceName of "Doubly-Augmented Sixth", or that the complement of a major interval is a minor interval, etc.
Paleozoic Era, also spelled Palaeozoic, major interval of geologic time that began 541 million years ago with the Cambrian explosion, an extraordinary diversification of marine animals, and ended about 252 million years ago with the end-Permian extinction, the greatest extinction event in Earth history.
Most of these records display, since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), several major intervals of rapid sea-level rise over timescales of several centuries, referred to as melt water pulses, in the uppermost Pleistocene.
What rouses us from our own dogmatic slumbers, however, is Ekirch's assertion that "until the close of the early modern era, Western Europeans on most evenings experienced two major intervals of sleep bridged by up to an hour or more of wakefulness".
Consistent with the hypothesis, the spectra of major intervals are more similar to spectra found in excited speech, whereas the spectra of particular minor intervals are more similar to the spectra of subdued speech.
The seasonal variations of the infection rate were examined within 2 major intervals (Winter & Spring: December-May; Summer & Autumn: June-November).
Signals from the first 10 s of the conventional ECG recording were analyzed automatically in software to quantify all major intervals, axes and voltages, as well as ST segment levels.
Actigraphic data are analysed during four major intervals: down intervals – the time spent in bed trying to sleep; up intervals – the time between successive down intervals; 0 0 intervals – the time from sleep onset to sleep offset and 24-h intervals – used to determine circadian rhythm.
