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The single, small dorsal fin is positioned far back on the body, about opposite the anal fin, and has a rounded margin.
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Thus was invented the single thread sewing machine, which Mr. Gibbs in partnership with Mr. Willcox decided to bring to Brown & Sharpe with the proposal that the small company undertake its manufacture.
It was concluded that it would be appropriate to process the two groups of responses as a single sample of all small businesses engaged in, or wishing to sell to, defense programs.
A small single switchboard was installed in the Village over Woodcock's hardware store ( later E. H. Hemenway's ).
The single animal or a small bunch were referred to as `` strays '' ; ;
Once, in New York, he had gone flying with some friends in a small private airplane with a single engine.
It is often stated that a unit of alcohol is supplied by a small glass of wine, half a pint of beer, or a single measure of spirits.
He made a number of Madonnas, single religious figures, and small scenes with comic peasant figures.
Devices that integrate ( multiple ) laboratory functions on a single chip of only millimeters to a few square centimeters in size and that are capable of handling extremely small fluid volumes down to less than pico liters.
The wastes of a single family are usually insufficient to produce enough methane for anything more than small amounts of cooking.
Ingested proteins are usually broken up into single amino acids or dipeptides in the small intestine, and then absorbed.
On personal computers and small workstations, the CPU is housed in a single silicon chip called a microprocessor.
Additionally, as the ability to construct exceedingly small transistors on an IC has increased, the complexity and number of transistors in a single CPU has increased many fold.
In the criminal justice system, actual conspiracies and conspiracy theories can also be distinguished by scale, as actual conspiracies are usually small in scale and involve " a single event or issue.
It differs from a retirement home, which is a single building or small complex, by having a number of autonomous households.
Ndzwani was generally ruled by a single sultan, who occasionally attempted to extend his authority to Mayotte and Mwali ; Ngazidja was more fragmented, on occasion being divided into as may as 12 small kingdoms.
Coyotes ( both single individuals and groups ) have been known to occasionally kill bobcats – in most cases, the bobcats were relatively small specimens, such as adult females and juveniles.
For example up to 200, 000 different small molecules might be made in plants, although not all these will be present in the same species, or in a single cell.
Many small engines, such as those found in mopeds or garden machinery, are single cylinder and use only a single piston, simplifying crankshaft design.
Check digits and parity bits are special cases of checksums, appropriate for small blocks of data ( such as Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, computer words, single bytes, etc .).
The LINC proved to attract intense interest in the scientific community, and has since been referred to as the first real minicomputer, a machine that was small and inexpensive enough to be dedicated to a single task even in a small lab.
The probability of a single failure is typically small.
Pigeons generally have very small clutches, and the Dodo is said to have laid a single egg.
The probability of a single failure is typically small.
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* originated by crossbreeding numerous different established varieties with " scaleless " German carp ( generally, fish with only a single line of scales along each side of the dorsal fin ).
The caudate and putamen contain the same types of neurons and circuits-many neuroanatomists consider the dorsal striatum to be a single structure, divided into two parts by a large fiber tract, the internal capsule, passing through the middle.
The dorsal striatum is a single entity closed and continuous.
It is known only from the dorsal and ventral impressions of a single animal and was estimated to be from snout to vent.
Tetrapods, however, only ever have a single set of ribs which are probably homologous with the dorsal ribs of fishes.
Spatial firing patterns of seven place cells recorded from a single electrode in the dorsal CA1 layer of a rat.
In reptiles, it is usually a single median structure, arising from the dorsal side of the large intestine.
The swim bladder normally consists of two gas-filled sacs located in the dorsal portion of the fish, although in a few primitive species, there is only a single sac.
Note the single row of twelve dorsal plates and eight tail spikes ; Stegosaurus actually had 17 plates and just four spikes
Modern lungfish all have an elongate body with fleshy, paired pectoral and pelvic fins and a single unpaired caudal fin replacing the dorsal, caudal and anal fins of most fishes.
They also possess two dorsal fins with separate bases, as opposed to the single dorsal fin of actinopterygians ( ray-finned fish ).
Bichirs are elongated fish with a unique series of dorsal finlets which vary in number from seven to eighteen, instead of a single dorsal fin.
* Dermatome ( anatomy ), an area of skin that is supplied by a single pair of dorsal roots
The bottlenose dolphin has a single blowhole located on the dorsal surface of the head consisting of a hole and a muscular flap.
The family contains only one genus, Coryphaena, which contains two species, both of which have compressed heads and single dorsal fins that run the entire length of the fish's bodies.
They have a single, somewhat high dorsal fin running nearly the entire length of the back ; it may contain 54-58 pliable spines.
An area innervated by a single dorsal root is called a dermatome.
Their dorsal fins are often continuous and long ; the pelvic fins typically have a single embedded spine and are short and slender, situated before the pectoral fins.
Their eyes and terminal mouths are large, with a single long, continuous dorsal fin which begins just behind the head ; the anal fin is similarly extensive, and both it and the dorsal fin may either have 1-2 spines, or none at all.
The single dorsal and ventral fins have spines and soft rays ; the paired pectoral and pelvic fins have soft rays only ; and the caudal fin has soft rays and is truncate and rounded.
A distinctive characteristic of the Queensland lungfish is the presence of a single dorsal lung, used to supplement the oxygen supply through the gills.
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