Sentence examples for thereby means from inspiring English sources

In the classic metonymy, the waiter says "The ham sandwich wants more coffee," and thereby means that the customer who ordered a ham sandwich wants more.

Reliable thereby means that in a large population of cells, the number of cells that have already initiated the transformation can be described deterministically with high accuracy.

Many theorists find it intuitive to think that we thereby mean something different by our term 'water' than our Twin Earth counterparts mean by theirs, and thus that the beliefs we describe as beliefs about water are different from those that our Twin Earth counterparts would describe in the same way.

Grice introduced the technical terms implicate and implicature for the case in which what the speaker said is distinct from what the speaker thereby meant or implied.[1] Thus Barb implicated that she is not going; that she is not going was her implicature.

For those who ask the question, "Aren't you a Civil Rights leader?" and thereby mean to exclude me from the movement for peace, I have this further answer.

Thereby, mean power refers to the mean of a 1D frequency spectrum created by rotational averaging within each sector.

Thereby, mean eGFP intensities were of up to 100-fold higher than auto-fluorescence levels measured in the negative control.

Thereby, mean wall thickness, lumen diameter, media and lumen area were determined in every arteriole that was present in all semithin sections per animal.

For each clutch, the mean chick age and thereby mean hatching date were calculated.

Through simulation, this specification of the hierarchical Bayesian model allows marginal distributions for a number of parameters of interest to be easily determined, thereby providing means for estimation of means and credible regions.

The threshold for the subarea corresponding to tubulin signal (filamentous) and to the background signal were then defined manually using the threshold dialog window and the final mean fluorescence intensity determined by subtracting from the thereby assigned mean signal intensity the corresponding mean background intensity.