trapped
past simple and past participle of
trap
Meaning of trapped in English
(Definition of trapped from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of trapped
trapped
The closure of the blocked channels can be inferred because the blocker remains stably trapped in the closed channel.
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Three regions are shown for different trapped particles in momentum space.
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Once the particles are trapped, streptavidin is introduced in solution at the trap location and bond with the biotin on the particles.
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All of these are reasonable for a large class of coastal trapped waves.
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The power of critical thoughts was significantly related to wanting to escape from them, feeling trapped by them and wanting to fight them.
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The pure-electron plasmas are generated by hot filaments and trapped in a grounded cylinder.
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The domain of the substitution also determines the variables of an expression that are trapped at the hole.
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Most of the trapped electrons remain close to the island separatrix, with only a few particles migrating towards the centre.
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Trapped-particle effects become more important for oblique injection being typical for outer radii.
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If the trapped ergative case marker had been lost for phonotactic reasons, we would expect it to have been retained at least in vowel-final stems.
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Extensively managed grasslands could prove crucial in catchment management to effectively lock up nutrients trapped from adjacent areas of intensively fertilized crops and pastures.
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They are found in evaporite salt lakes and can be trapped in salt crystals during evaporation.
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In this scheme, the charged particles are trapped by the magnetic field and travels in the direction of the field.
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So, for the existence of the double-layer solution (4.26), the contribution of trapped particles in the density function of electrons cannot be equal to zero.
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Also, for the high-n ballooning modes, the trapped electrons reduce the pressure perturbations.
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