mixtural
adjEtymology From mixture + -al.
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Pertaining to mixture.
- One of them complained that his “breakfast was served up in a compendious form,” meaning no doubt that his tea came with milk and sugar put in for him. His mixtural rights were invaded!1867 November 30, “Sir D. Brewster and The Athenæum”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 2092, London, page 725:
- Every disturbance in this connection will produce a mixtural change of the blood, a dyscrasia, and in fact by far the greatest number of the anomalies of the blood are diseases of this kind of blood-adulteration.1872, Edward Rindfleisch, translated by William C. Kloman and F[Francis] T[urquand] Miles, A Text-Book of Pathological Histology: An Introduction to the Study of Pathological Anatomy, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lindsay & Blakiston, page 182:
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- But these figures only show equality for mixtural frequency: they prove nothing as regards time frequency.1940, G. F. Sleggs, “Morphogenetic Pattern Elements According to the Theory of Differential Periodicity”, in Growth: A Journal for Studies of Development and Increase, volume IV, page 44:
- Analogical unity, then, is at once the actuality and the proper excellence (areté) of the parts of a mixtural whole, whether political, physical, or even dramatic (Met. A 10, 1076 A 1; N 3, 1090 B 19).1960, Harald A. T. Reiche, Empedocles' Mixture, Eudoxan Astronomy and Aristotle’s Connate Pneuma, Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, page 27:
- Since the quantity on the right is an instantaneous, irreducible unity, that on the left must also be because of a changeless equality; and the quantity on the left is so expressed as to preclude artificial separability of either constituent in the additive or mixtural sense.1966, Jack Kevorkian, Beyond Any Kind of God, New York, N.Y.: Philosophical Library, page 18:
- Proportion the mean and variance such that the estimation from the AGEE model can be written as mixtural Gaussian model form:[…].2002, Yulan Liang, King-Ip Lin, Arpad Kelemen, “Adaptive Generalized Estimation Equation with Bayes Classifier for the Job Assignment Problem”, in Ming-Syan Cheng, Philip S. Yu, Bing Liu, editors, Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 6th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2002, Taipei, Taiwan, May 6-8, 2002, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 444: