unction

[ UK /ʌnktɪˈɒn/ ]
NOUN
  1. excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm
  2. smug self-serving earnestness
  3. semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
  4. anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual
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  • The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces. A Disclaimer for Behe?
  • I've got a couple of equipment malfunctions which I'm struggling with.
  • And if from this conjunction a baby was born, the infernal rite was resumed, all around a little jar of wine, which they called the keg, and they became drunk and would cut the baby to pieces, and pour its blood into the goblet, and they threw babies on the fire, still alive, and they mixed the baby's ashes and his blood, and drank! The Name of the Rose
  • Objective:To observe the effects of transurethral vaporization for prostate (TVP) and suprapubic prostatectomy (SPP) on sexual function of the patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).
  • He can dissolve the parliament, and nominate people to all the key state functions.
  • Construction here would include offices, retail and hotels with the objective of integrating the docklands with the city centre and extending its functions to the east.
  • Fitness functions include a simple linear problem for binary strings and classification of data sets which are dynamically loaded from a specified data file.
  • Dysfunctional families seem to be occupying the minds of Scotland's visiting choreographers.
  • The digital flux that frames our experience of physical and socio-political realities functions through continuous additions, subtractions, and disappearances.
  • Administration. Quality assurance must be integrated into local health care management functions. 3.
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