slough something off

Examples of sloughing

sloughing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Preliminary experiments have focussed on quantifying erosion and sloughing as separate indicators of overall detachment rate.
Sloughing occurs only rarely and renewal takes place at a very low rate.
Finally, detachment of biofilms through erosion and sloughing in drinking-water distribution systems needs to be quantified.
The height-dependent mechanism produced flat biofilms that lacked sloughing events.
The different detachment mechanisms demonstrated diverse characteristics regarding structure, sloughing, and the existence of a steady state.
This first sloughing occurred at different times around day 40 for each of the five replicate simulations.
Detachment from biofilms in technical systems is caused by a combination of processes including abrasion, erosion, sloughing and predator grazing.
In the remaining test animals, histopathological changes could not be evaluated due to advanced autolysis and sloughing of the epithelium.
The neighbor mechanism did not produce either a non-zero steady state or sloughing events.
Detachment based on substrate starvation produced significant sloughing events in almost every case.
Sloughing and renewal of hematin cells.
The seeds were immediately transferred in plastic bags to the laboratory and were then soaked in water for 30 min to permit sloughing of the pericarps.
In fact, society is sloughing off the debt it has incurred.
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