What is "insertions"

Usage examples of "insertions".

Some of these passages, especially in the case of romances preserved in the Leabhar na h-Uidhri (The Book of the Dun Cow), look like insertions made by scribes of an antiquarian turn of mind,[1] and are probably of very ancient date.

The two first of these insertions contain no matter that cannot be found by allusions in the version itself.

There seems no reason to suppose them to be insertions, especially in cases like this one, where they come in quite naturally.

The prose translation given here follows Windisch's translation pretty closely, with insertions occasionally from L.

I was used to transits in quick series, several to several score insertions in sequence, followed by periods of an hour or more to recalculate.

They'll figure out in a hurry that we're using them to do the insertions and ex-tractions.

Which lately had been practicing insertions and extractions using the Big Black Birds, which nobody was supposed to know about.

The absolute number of insertions is all that matters, not the rate of occurrence.

She thought of the insertions of the next day and the nine days after that—if they lived so long.

He recalled from their conversations at the SOA reunions that Boos, for a short time after he retired from the Navy, had done some contract work for the CIA--highly specialized agent insertions and extractions into and out of high-risk areas, including Nicaragua.

For Gannon the brief ride across the bay in the inflatable rubber boat brought back flash memories of insertions into North Vietnam more than twenty years ago, but they were quickly driven from his conscious thoughts as the elegant yacht came into view.

The twelve-man team he now commanded had served with him in Afghanistan, running long-range insertions into mujahedin-held territory--specializing in assassinations of the rebels command structure and cross-border operations into Pakistan against commanders of the mujahedin base camps and staging areas.

Marine insertions, clandestine ground attacks, and drone penetrations were displayed every few minutes, all manner of the precise and sudden attacks that hostage situations called for.

Vecher hadn't saved a high percentage of marines whose insertions had failed.

Arlo had almost gone shooting past the supermart--it was possible to clock the entire action in the store with a fast pass-down in the parking lot --but now, keeping one eye on the trembling roundnesses produced by her attempted disentanglement of the cart from its insertion into the long line of insertions (oh, lord, insertions!