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Vestigial

Vestigial meaning

Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a trace from the past. | Not fully developed in mature animals. | Of a vestigial structure; that has lost all or most of its original function in the course of evolution.

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Vestigial sideband (VSB) VSB modulation A vestigial sideband (in radio communication) is a sideband that has been only partly cut off or suppressed.

But for the Mini we have a kind of vestigial key, a key-shaped switch sticking out of the dash as if you’ve left it in there.

Is this a vestigial remnantof the upheaval of the pandemic?

They wanted to know if it would be possible to GPS map those vestigial segments of the ancient roadbed from Earle’s Ford to Ninety-Six, a major crossroad in the Cherokee Path and the scene of two significant battles between Tory and Whig factions.

So let's say War had its job, and now it's vestigial; and Nature's plot to protect the Garden has been hijacked by self serving demagogues, most of whom have nothing left in their pants but still feel the urge to f*ck somebody.

They will largely cease to operate (though some vestigial functionality will remain).

Adult females of many bagworm species have only vestigial wings, legs, and mouthparts.

A few nouns also exhibit vestigial noun classes, such as stewardess, where the suffix -ess added to steward denotes a female person.

A few species of roses have only vestigial prickles that have no points.

All that remains of them in modern horses is a set of small vestigial bones on the leg below the knee, citation known informally as splint bones.

A persistent sinus tract may remain as a vestigial remnant of the tubular development of the thyroid gland.

A single-side band (SSB) or vestigial sideband (VSB) modulation scheme would achieve almost half that bandwidth for the same symbol rate (i.

Birds have only one functional ovary (the left), while the other remains vestigial.

Capybaras have slightly webbed feet and vestigial tails.

Changes from western (Iñupiaq) to eastern dialects are marked by the dropping of vestigial Yupik-related features, increasing consonant assimilation (e.

Even snakes, whose limbs have become vestigial or lost entirely, are nevertheless tetrapods.

Helicosporidium Helicosporidium is a genus of nonphotosynthetic parasitic green algae that is thought to contain a vestigial chloroplast.

In late 2008, even floppy disk drives and serial ports were disappearing, and the extinction of vestigial ISA (by then the LPC bus ) from chipsets was on the horizon.

In practice a technique called vestigial sideband is used to reduce the channel spacing, which would be nearly twice the video bandwidth if pure AM was used.

In some species, a functional or vestigial haptonema is also present.