Sentence examples for minimal unit from inspiring English sources

When 'one'-phrases are used as minimizers, they profile the minimal unit of a scale, which serves as the foundation for inducing scalar inferences.

In still others, the minimal unit is the frame.

The cell, whether bacterial or nucleated, is the minimal unit of life.

Unlike the American phonologists, Trubetskoy and his followers did not take the phoneme to be the minimal unit of analysis.

The minimal unit of meaning seems to have been a verbal root, such as zic or zich, meaning "write".

The results showed that a 10-aa peptide 145RGDLQVLTPK154 was the minimal unit with maximal binding activity to MAb 8E8.

"Microbes are the minimal units, the basic building blocks of life on earth," Margulis said.

The design of minimal units required for enzyme inhibition is a major field of interest in structural biology and biotechnology.

One result of the Chomsky-Halle partnership was their seminal 1968 book, "The Sound Pattern of English" — often simply called "SPE" — which systematically set out the rules that convert strings of abstract minimal units (known as phonemes) into uttered sounds, in English.

For someone not trained in reading Darwin's handwriting, these minimal units of meaning can be difficult to discern.

After extending these minimal units as far as possible, it becomes feasible to assess the relative number and size of synteny blocks in both nearby and distant species.