rarefaction

Example Sentences

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Caries-related parameters included root canal fillings, apical rarefactions and caries lesions.

From Science Daily

In reaching these heights of fancy, however, the movie achieves, to use one of Glaisher’s own words, “rarefaction.”

From The New Yorker

To investigate how mean tag sequence prevalence changes with increasing sequencing depth across environments, we calculated the average mean tag sequence prevalence across three replicate rarefactions.

From Nature

Here is art that turns confectionery into both rarefaction and panache.

From New York Times

The compressions and rarefactions are rapidly transmitted through the air from the original source as a  wave, making sound.

From Scientific American