SUSTAINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sustained mean? 

• SUSTAINED (adjective)
  The adjective SUSTAINED has 2 senses:

1. maintained at length without interruption or weakening

2. (of an electric arc) continuous

  Familiarity information: SUSTAINED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUSTAINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Maintained at length without interruption or weakening

Context example:

sustained flight

Similar:

continuous; uninterrupted (continuing in time or space without interruption)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of an electric arc) continuous

Synonyms:

free burning; sustained

Context example:

heat transfer to the anode in free burning arcs

Similar:

continuous; uninterrupted (continuing in time or space without interruption)

 Context examples 

Sustained administration of flerobuterol, similar to other beta-adrenergic agonists, may increase serotonin (5-HT) synthesis, thereby enhance serotonergic neurotransmission, partially through an increased transport of the serotonin precursor (tryptophan) to brain.

(Flerobuterol, NCI Thesaurus)

When an excitatory current develops in response to social stress—and is driven high enough for a sustained period—it triggers its own compensatory adaptation.

(Self-tuning neurons promote resilience to stress, depression, NIH)

An implant containing a sustained release particle of fluorouracil, an antimetabolite fluoropyrimidine analog of the nucleoside pyrimidine, with antineoplastic activity.

(Fluorouracil Implant, NCI Thesaurus)

Translocation of phosphorylated ERK/MAPK to the nucleus leads to amplification and de-restriction of TFF expression to ensure sustained action.

(Mucosal Healing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The route allows sustained therapeutic plasma drug levels and avoids first pass effect.

(Percutaneous Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

"Ladies and Gentlemen," he began, amid a sustained interruption from the back.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To control Mtb infection and prevent clinical disease, a TB vaccine must elicit strong, sustained responses from the immune system’s T cells, specifically those in the lungs.

(Changed route of immunization dramatically improves efficacy of TB vaccine, National Institutes of Health)

This was the point—this was where the nerve was touched and teased—this was where the fever was sustained and fed: she could not charm him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is characterized by sustained thrombocytosis in the blood, increased numbers of large, mature megakaryocytes in the bone marrow, and episodes of thrombosis and/or hemorrhage.

(Essential thrombocythemia, NCI Thesaurus)

Had this star formed with only a slightly lower mass, the fusion reaction of hydrogen in its core could not be sustained, and the star would instead have transformed into a brown dwarf.

(Astronomers discover smallest known star, Wikinews)