deflated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: economics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more deflated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deflated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Empty of all the air or gas that was or could be inside.
pos: adj
examples: While, of course it is not advisable to run on a deflated tire, tests have been made which showed that this type of tire was not damaged after it was running several miles.
Except for turnings with a deflated rear tire as an outerside tire, difference in the performance is small between fixed control and manual control.
The very deflated basketball in part c has no bounce at all, and a maxiumu amount of kinetic energy is lost during the completely inelastic collision.
According to an aspect of some embodiments of the present invention there is provided a method for dissecting tissue, including inserting an inflatable bladder, in a deflated state, via an introducer tube, into a space in a body, and inflating the bladder to a substantially planar form, thereby dissecting tissue.
She puts a deflated balloon on a balance and shows the students that it has a mass of 10 g.
gloss: Disappointed; depressed, especially after having been hopeful or in high spirits.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: I sat down in the lounge at K.G. very deflated and also concerned.
Our self-esteem is so low, our healthy ego so deflated, that we can't imagine having a life that is truly free.
Hurt and disappointment are very deflated states to be in, with little energy to them.
So, some very deflated people trudged back into the hotel bar to drown their sorrows.
At this point, the entrepreneur's world is going to feel a lot like: […] A deflated dead-end
On the flight home after their first talks, a deflated Merkel concluded that Trump “looked at everything like the real estate developer he was before he entered politics” – as a zero-sum game.
gloss: Reduced or lowered.
pos: adj
examples: Instead, a terrific escalation of corporate rivalries was combined with a deflated power medium and an exceedingly inflated influence medium, particularly in the area of purely technical expertise.
We will thus be left with a deflated concept of truth — a "thin" concept whose understanding is exhausted by the deflationary account of "true," a concept that is isolated from all other concepts of interest to us and can play no substantive explanatory role with respect to them.
A dead person's tissue depths are a little more deflated than in life however, and as these were relatively small samples that took little account of human diversity markers, reconstruction techniques were no more than loose guidelines.
In her book Epistemic Injustice: Power & the Ethics of Knowing, Miranda Fricker argues that there is a distinctly epistemic kind of injustice, which she calls testimonial injustice, resulting from identity-prejudicial credibility deficit— identity prejudice causing a hearer to give a deflated level of credibility to a speaker's word.
gloss: Adjusted downward to compensate for inflation.
pos: adj
examples: Among these relationships are the correlation for the years 1923-40 of personal saving and disposable personal income in current dollars, the correlation of deflated per capita saving with deflated per capita income, the correlation of saving with income and accumulated liquid assets on a deflated per capita basis, the correlation of deflated per capita saving with income and a cyclical variable such as the ratio of current to past peak income, and the correlation of the ratio of saving to income with a cyclical variable alone.
In general, the output measure used in calculating these indexes is based on a deflated value concept and is developed in the following way:
Output indexes are developed as a deflated value of production or physical quantity of production of an industry.
gloss: Suffering from deflation.
pos: adj
examples: The result is striking: durables unfilled orders fell almost continuously from the beginning of 1947 until the end of the recession, and there was only a submerged second cycle in the deflated purchased-materials investment series.
I am not talking about a deflated economy.
Secondly, the cyclical expansion now taking shape in the United States is starting from a relatively high level; it has much less headroom than earlier expansions that began from a deeply deflated recession base.
A deflated economy also gives rise to the need for more social services at the very time that it cuts the tax-base.
gloss: Subsided or compressed downward.
pos: adj
examples: A deflated hearth, about 5 m² in area, lay on the northernmost section of the surface concentration.
Located on a deflated sandy surface 100m east of Azariq I, this was apparently a small 40 m2, transitional Kebaran/Geometric Kebaran occupation which was largely destroyed by tracked vehicles following discovery.
If more than one archaeological horizon was present in the dune prior to deflation, the artifacts from each horizon become mixed on the deflated surface.
Derived words: deflatedly
deflatedness
nondeflated
undeflated
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