median length

median length
fork length (the distance from the most anterior point of the body to the deepest point of the fork in the caudal fin. Abbreviated FL. Mostly used in fishery biology and not in systematics)

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

Игры ⚽ Нужно решить контрольную?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Median nerve palsy — Classification and external resources Diagram from Gray s anatomy, depicting the peripheral nerves of the upper extremity, amongst others the median nerve. ICD 10 …   Wikipedia

  • Median graph — The median of three vertices in a median graph In mathematics, and more specifically graph theory, a median graph is an undirected graph in which any three vertices a, b, and c have a unique median: a vertex m(a,b,c) that belongs to shortest… …   Wikipedia

  • Median (geometry) — For another use of the term median in geometry, see Geometric median. The triangle medians and the centroid. In geometry, a median of a triangle is a line segment joining a vertex to the midpoint of the opposing side. Every triangle has exactly… …   Wikipedia

  • median survival time — 1. the length of time at which 50 per cent of the patients have died and 50 per cent still survive …   Medical dictionary

  • Culver Boulevard Median bicycle path — The Culver Boulevard Median bicycle path is a stretch of Class 1 bicycle path that runs along Culver Boulevard, beginning to the northeast of Huron Avenue in Culver City, passing under the San Diego Freeway, and ending at Braddock Drive in the… …   Wikipedia

  • Minimum message length — (MML) is a formal information theory restatement of Occam s Razor: even when models are not equal in goodness of fit accuracy to the observed data, the one generating the shortest overall message is more likely to be correct (where the message… …   Wikipedia

  • Minimum description length — The minimum description length (MDL) principle is a formalization of Occam s Razor in which the best hypothesis for a given set of data is the one that leads to the best compression of the data. MDL was introduced by Jorma Rissanen in 1978. It is …   Wikipedia

  • Anterior median fissure of the medulla oblongata — Infobox Brain Name = PAGENAME Latin = fissura mediana anterior medullae oblongatae GraySubject = 187 GrayPage = 767 Caption = Section of the medulla oblongata at about the middle of the olive. (Anterior median fissure labeled at bottom center.)… …   Wikipedia

  • arch length — the length of a line segment within the median plane perpendicular to and extending from the line connecting the first premolars to the most labial point on the anterior arch, usually to the point between the maxillary central incisors. Called… …   Medical dictionary

  • Late Roman army — The Late Roman army is the term used to denote the military forces of the Roman Empire from the accession of Emperor Diocletian in 284 until the Empire s definitive division into Eastern and Western halves in 395. A few decades afterwards, the… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”