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PARTICIPATING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Taking part in an activity
Example:
the participating organizations
Synonyms:
active; participating
Classified under:
Similar:
involved (connected by participation or association or use)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb participate
Context examples:
A non-profit organization that allows scientists and physicians participating in clinical bone marrow transplantation to share their experience and develop co-operative studies.
(European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, NCI Thesaurus)
EXAMPLE(S): healthcare provider, adjudication committee, family member, radiologist, vendor (may provide a uniform assessment for all sites participating in a study), heart rate monitor, pace maker.
(Evaluator, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
On Friday evening Dyn said a security company Flashpoint and a cloud services provider Akamai identified symptoms of malware Mirai participating in the attacks.
(Distributed malware attacks Dyn DNS, takes down websites in US, Wikinews)
Researchers from the University of Tübingen (Germany) and the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), among others, are also participating in this pioneering research project.
(Hair was dyed for first time as part of funeral rituals, University of Granada)
Using crowdsourced observations from participating users' smartphones, scientists could detect and analyze earthquakes, and transmit customized earthquake warnings back to them and other users.
(Crowdsourced Smartphone Data Could Give Advance Notice for People in Quake Zones, JPL)
Nor have I been debarred, (BURNS) from participating in the intellectual feasts he has spread before us.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
With the help of citizen scientists participating in a project called Galaxy Zoo, it was then tagged as a system of colliding galaxies.
(Three Black Holes on Collision Course, NASA)
From a public health perspective, this amount of physical activity was achieved by 70% of all ADAD individuals participating at the DIAN study.
(Rare Alzheimer's Disease Patients May Delay Cognitive Decline with Exercise, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The researchers analyzed the relationship between KL-VS and cognition in more than 700 people, ages 52 to 85, who had no signs of dementia and were all participating in clinical studies.
(Longevity gene linked to better brain skills, NIH, US)
No longer participating in the follow-up phase of a study; not being followed.
(Off Follow-up, NCI Thesaurus)
