How to Use sequencer in a Sentence

sequencer

noun

• In a sense, the genome sequencer is almost like a smartphone.
  — Polina Marinova, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2017
• At that point, the ground launch sequencer computer will stop the countdown and the test will end.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2022
• And also the Roland MC 4, which was like a programmable sequencer.
  — David Chiu, Forbes, 3 July 2022
• My set up at the time was all electronic: sequencers and samples.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024
• So, as the sequencer spun, the Facebook hunters fretted that, once again, nothing would come of a promising lead.
  — Nicholas Thompson, Wired, 2 Nov. 2020
• The genome is understood through a machine called a sequencer.
  — Caroline Catherman, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Aug. 2021
• Such a fingerprint would not be as clear as catching DNA in a sequencer.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 23 Mar. 2018
• The bad sensor, which is not part of the sequencer, is not considered to be a flight instrument, Blevins said.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Sep. 2022
• The samples were then run through a DNA sequencer to reveal the airborne microbiome.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2018
• The main theme embraces the sound of dark folk music mixed with a thundering analog sequencer synth bass line.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2022
• To complete the wet dress test, NASA chose to mask the leak from the ground launch sequencer, the ground-side computer that controls the majority of the countdown.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2022
• But more often than not, synthesizers and sequencers are used to form sound waves from scratch.
  — Shuja Haider, New York Times, 13 July 2017
• And yet there are potential advantages to the sequencer.
  — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
• Resynth is designed to look like a music sequencer, and solving the game’s puzzles is akin to making music.
  — Michael Moore, The Verge, 11 Nov. 2018
• But then in 1998 Mr. Hunkapiller’s parent company, impressed by the speed of his new sequencers, decided to take on the job itself.
  — Kyle Peterson, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2018
• All of Us will depend on prices falling for sequencing — and more sequencers being built.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2018
• In many respects, a genetic sequencer is over-engineered for the task of simply testing for a virus.
  — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
• The scientists use a DNA sequencer — a machine roughly the size of an office copier — to read those patterns of building blocks and search for anomalies.
  — Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 21 Apr. 2021
• The sequencer contains a single sensor chip, which contains a membrane embedded with a bunch of nanopores—a fancy name for tiny holes.
  — Sarah Scoles, Quartz, 2 Dec. 2019
• And Illumina’s latest top-of-the-range sequencer — the NovaSeq — still costs almost $1 million.
  — Time, 12 Oct. 2017
• The Atlas and Agena both performed well, everything looked great, but then a timer in the spacecraft's central computer and sequencer failed.
  — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2018
• Having grown up with a studio in her parents' Long Island home, Tucci had learned how to write and record vocals and produce on a Korg sequencer at a young age.
  — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2019
• The risk was not zero, because Grail and a handful of his nascent-stage competitors rely on Illumina’s sequencers to process their tests.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 27 July 2023
• With all the testing turnarounds, that means that genomes coming off the sequencer are usually from samples collected 10 to 14 days prior.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 5 Dec. 2021
• At some computers down the hall from the sequencers, the maps help another team of researchers assemble sequence fragments into a full T2T genome.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2023
• Genome sequencer 23andMe, for example, has DNA from its 5 million customers.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2018
• Using a pocket-sized gene sequencer, his lab assembled the variant’s entire genome within eight hours.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2021
• During a transition between the ground launch sequencer computer and the flight software, the flight software flagged the hydrogen leak as a reason to stop the countdown with 29 seconds left.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 June 2022
• The former records whichever audio loops are playing to a master track, while the latter records actions such as button presses, knob turns, and loop activations to the track sequencer.
  — Pete Cottell, WIRED, 2 May 2024
• On Saturday, June 1, the spacecraft was less than four minutes away from liftoff when the ground launch sequencer — the computer that launches the rocket — triggered an automatic hold.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 5 June 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024