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Discover LudwigThe word "situ" is not standard in written English
It is often used as a shorthand for "situation" in informal contexts.
Example: "In this situ, we need to act quickly to resolve the issue."
Alternatives: "Circumstance" or "Scenario."
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situ
noun
Only used in situ
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Better, they clearly believe, to keep him in situ and berate him continually in order to undermine Labour.
Shortly before the show, news filtered from backstage that Galliano was in situ, working alongside de la Renta.
Airbnb offered the chance to explore a different side of some of his favourite cities, by shacking up with the hosts in situ on a speedy global tour.
Local families also rent out houses by the month – again, it is easiest to ask around when in situ.
A project in collaboration with Oxford University to breed native vultures in captivity in situ proved abortive, and though 182 chicks have resulted from the Bombay Natural History Society's all-India secular progamme, it may be a while before it can rank among Europe's success with the Eurasian Griffon Vulture or the saving of the Californian Condor.
Now, however, Darryl Bornhop at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, and his colleagues at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, have come up with a simple, low-cost way of studying membrane proteins unmodified and in situ using a laser.
The top half of one of the statues of him at Thebes (though not the one described by Diodorus, which still lies in situ toppled and mutilated) had been dragged, on trolleys and with palm-fibre ropes, as far as the bank of the Nile opposite Luxor, and now waited only for a boat to transport it the rest of the way.
Only a small portion of available oysters will be harvested, whether publicly or privately; most will be left in situ for the environmental benefits they provide.And Maryland will likely turn away from public fisheries and toward private ownership of beds after all, people tend to take better care of what they own.
The composite fills the crack and then hardens in situ.
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They now mostly extract uranium by in-situ leaching (ISL), which pumps alkali or a weak sulphuric acid solution into an isolated, ore-bearing stratum and recovers the mineral in suspension.
In-situ hybridisation works by detecting these messengers using molecules that bind specifically to each.
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