Sentence examples for to sill from inspiring English sources
noun
(also window sill) A horizontal slat which forms the base of a window.
- She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill.
Unknown to Sill, the women of his family had hidden the enrollment papers.
Under the command of Ellen MacArthur, the British star who sailed the boat to a wild second-place finish in last winter's Vendée Globe, and Nick Moloney, the Australian professional, Kingfisher was second to Sill in the race's overall standing at the outset of the leg.
The Variance ratio, structural variance as related to sill, and r 2 are presented in Table 2.
The ratio of nugget variance to sill is considered as a criterion for classifying the spatial dependence of groundwater quality variables.
Only for the residuals of regression model for the C sequestration in the humus layer spatial autocorrelation could be detected (nugget to sill ratio = 0.76).
In contrast to that, both parameters showed a relatively low heterogeneity (nugget to sill ratio of ≥0.67) whereas most soil parameter were characterized by a moderate or strong spatial dependency (nugget to sill ratio down to 0.2 as for microbial biomass C) and by relatively low range values (down to 37 m as for ergosterol and microbial biomass C), respectively.
Nugget effect and nugget-to-sill ratio were used to classify the spatial dependence (Cambardella et al. 1994) of the variables.
Regarding the HM concentrations in the soil samples, the nugget-to-sill ratio ranged between 37% (for Cd in 1995) and 72% (for Pb in 2005).
Nugget-to-sill ratios showed that, in general, spatial dependence of soil properties was: new resettlement > old resettlement > communal area; which was potentially attributed to both intrinsic (e.g. texture) and extrinsic (e.g. management) factors.
Spatial analysis of the data showed that the best fit semi-variogram models for nutrients N and K were rational quadratic and hole effect for available P. Relative nugget effect (RNE) and nugget-to-sill ratio (Co/Co + C) of the total N concentration in soil were 70%and45%5%, respectively for exchangeable K.
According to Liu et al. (2006), a variable is considered to have strong spatial dependence if the nugget-to-sill ratio is less than 0.25, and has a moderate spatial dependence if the ratio is between 0.25 and 0.75; otherwise the variable has a weak spatial dependence.
