Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at punctuated.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Punctuated.

Examples

  • It was said that it shouldn’t be called Punctuated Equilibrium PE if all of the species undergoes whatever the change is.

    Evolution as Feedback? - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • Punctuated by fitful intervals of school, he has subsequently occupied himself as a submarine sailor, a Christmas tree farmer, a dimensional and optical metrologist, a writer, and a musician.

    Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011

  • Punctuated with the urgency of someone who is desperate for distractions, who needs small fillers to pass the time.

    The Color of Healing Amy B 2011

  • A principle in evolution called Punctuated Equilibrium says that natural selection doesn't produce steady changes.

    The Malthusian Trap, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Someone (I can't find a name ...) wrote A principle in evolution called Punctuated Equilibrium says that natural selection doesn't produce steady changes.

    The Malthusian Trap, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Punctuated by fitful intervals of school, he has subsequently occupied himself as a submarine sailor, a Christmas tree farmer, a dimensional and optical metrologist, a writer, and a musician.

    Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011

  • Punctuated by moos from the adjacent barn, Ehrlich's talk focused on the themes that many farmers there wanted to hear: that state regulations had become punitive in the O'Malley administration, that the state government's hunger for revenue had overtaxed farmers and other small businesses, and that no one in Annapolis was standing up to the regulatory and confiscatory excesses coming from the Obama administration.

    Ehrlich courts Md. farmers, horse industry Fredrick Kunkle 2010

  • Punctuated by some funky 12 '' breaks, there are lots of photos of men in cut-off denim shorts sporting big moustaches and memories of orgiastic experiences in St Mark's Baths, on Christopher Street or on the disused piers that jut into the Hudson (River, not Rock.) "It's quite Pompeii, isn't it?" remarks one interviewee, wistfully looking at striking black-and-white photos of a monumental but disappeared city.

    Gay Sex in the 70s 2010

  • The 1795 Lettered Edge Punctuated Date and the 1797 Lettered Edge are slightly to moderately more expensive than most other varieties.

    Liberty Cap Half Cent, Head Facing Right, Small Head, 1795-1797 : Coin Guide 2008

  • Punctuated Equilibrium by Stephen Jay Gould (Harvard Belknap) The untimely death of Stephen Jay Gould deprived the world of a superb writer and popularizer of important events and processes in biology.

    Cover to Cover 2008

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.