0 the short part of something that is left after the main part has been used, especially a cigarette after it has been smoked or one of the small pieces of paper left in a book from which cheques or tickets have been torn --
1 to hurt your toe by hitting it against a hard object by accident --
2 the short end which is left after the main part of something has been used or removed, as of a pencil: --
4 the short piece of paper left in a cheque book after a cheque has been removed, used as a record of payment: --
The central portion of this wire was then etched to expose an active length of tungsten wire about 0.8 mm long, supported on either side by a copper plated stub.
This morphology star ted from a soma with five dendritic stubs.
Flat sections were used, and samples were mounted with cut surfaces parallel to the stub surface.
If you stub your toe on the rock that fell there, you do not feel pain.
Dried specimens were mounted on aluminium stubs with double-sided cellulose tape.
The intention is to stub all references that will not be used further in the evaluation, before starting any reductions.
Experience shows that stubs do eventually turn into full and useful articles.
The specimens were dehydrated in alcohol, submitted to critical point drying, mounted on stubs and coated with gold-palladium.