| 词汇 | litmus |
| 释义 | litmus noun[ U ] uk /ˈlɪt.məs/ us /ˈlɪt.məs/ a powder that is turned red by acid and blue by alkali: 石蕊 litmus paper石蕊试纸 a litmus test石蕊测试 See also litmus test Laboratory equipment aspirator bell jar bubble chamber Buchner funnel Bunsen burner calorimeter condenser flask microscope particle accelerator Petri dish photometer pipette retort stand scope siphon synchrotron syphon test tube transducer litmus | American Dictionarylitmus noun[ U ] us/ˈlɪt·məs/ chemistry a powder that is turned red by acid and blue by alkali (= substance with the opposite chemical reaction as acid) Examples of litmuslitmus The litmus test for any formal theory lies in its predictive ability. That is why it functions as a litmus test for the overman; it tests his ability to live without the salvation of meaning. Taking them together we get a good litmus test on recent thinking on the evolution of monetary relations from a political economy perspective. The litmus test was the quantity of goods. The ability of an institution to outlive its initial founder is the litmus test of institutionalisation. More troubling is the implied litmus test - that countries that have gotten this right will be identifiable because they will not make ' policy errors'. In the bilingual case, the litmus test for the presence of lexical sharing is the presence of cross-language semantic priming effects. It holds this option to the litmus of bioethical principles and pragmatism, notes the proposed system's strengths and weaknesses, and calls for pilot programs. If a government's goodness is to be defined by the nature and consequences of its policies, which policies and which results should be used as litmus tests? Coordinate semantics disallows backward pronominalization and this phenomenon thus provides another litmus test for semantic coordinatehood. The secretion was acid to litmus. It forms an enlightening and hitherto unused litmus test of cardenista intentions and abilities in the national process of pushing reform on often reluctant regional actors. This establishes that cannot be used like x if it is to pass the litmus test for branching time of distinguishing a(b + c) from ab + ac. That is a good litmus paper for deciding whether a system is working well. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The true litmus paper test has been our electoral success, and that has been due to the success of our policies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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