Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having tiny spots, points, or depressions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a point or points; pointed.
- In mathematics, having an acnode, or point separate from the rest of the locus spoken of.
- In botany and zoology, having dots scattered over the surface; studded with points, as of color, shape, texture, etc.; dotted; pitted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective marked by
spots ,dots ,points , orpunctures .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Three additional patients with corneal defects, called punctate keratitis, had no evidence of healing although they did report reduction in eye inflammation and increased comfort.
unknown title 2011
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Three additional patients with corneal defects, called punctate keratitis, had no evidence of healing although they did report reduction in eye inflammation and increased comfort.
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Three additional patients with corneal defects, called punctate keratitis, had no evidence of healing although they did report reduction in eye inflammation and increased comfort.
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Treatment of three additional patients with corneal defects called punctate keratitis showed no evidence of healing, although they did report a reduction in eye inflammation and increased comfort.
RegeneRx Announces Letter to Stockholders Posted on Website - Yahoo! Finance 2010
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Operative measures, such as punctate and linear scarification, electrolysis and excision, are occasionally practised, but the results are rarely satisfactory and permanent; not infrequently, indeed, renewed activity in the progress of the growth is noted to follow.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Systematic studies of chromatin modifications have revealed a complex landscape including 'punctate' sites of modified histones (histone H3 lysine 9 / 14 acetylation and lysine 4 di - and trimethylation) at transcription start sites and distal regulatory elements
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Li Jia et al. 2008
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It doesn't help that mainstream media tends to report on findings as if they are punctate and out-of-the-blue, which I think misrepresents science and confuses a lot of readers, since often 1 year later, another paper will out-of-the-blue say exactly the opposite.
Honestly, Research Blogging, Get over yourself GamesWithWords 2010
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In order to correlate mathematical concepts with phenomenal time in this sense Weyl grants the possibility of introducing a rigidly punctate “now” and of identifying and exhibiting the resulting temporal points.
Hermann Weyl Bell, John L. 2009
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While Ockham does not assert that a line is actually “composed” of points, he had the insight, startling in its prescience, that a punctate and yet continuous line becomes a possibility when conceived as a dense array of points, rather than as an assemblage of points in contiguous succession.
Continuity and Infinitesimals Bell, John L. 2009
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How do you properly punctate the combination of ' and ,?
Spam Evolution Rogers 2006
reesetee commented on the word punctate
Marked or covered with small points, dots, spots, or circular depressions or elevations.
November 5, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word punctate
Something cute about this word.
November 5, 2007