Search results for "Discrete" - New World Encyclopedia
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- gives a completely different topology, the "discrete topology"; with this definition numbers cannot be arbitrarily close. ...18 KB (2,703 words) - 15:29, 29 January 2024
- Periodization is the attempt to categorize or divide historical time into discrete named blocks. This is usually done in order to facilitate ...29 KB (4,535 words) - 16:10, 29 December 2020
- these laws to whole plants, unit operations or discrete parts of equipment. In doing so, chemical engineers use principles of thermodynamics, reaction ...15 KB (2,143 words) - 14:40, 5 December 2023
- out of vacuum tube triodes, and later out of discrete transistors, were used for smaller and faster memories such as registers and (random access ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 17:22, 16 April 2023
- staff). Most ILS separate software functions into discrete programs called modules, which are then integrated into a unified interface. Examples of modules ...16 KB (2,219 words) - 22:54, 5 February 2023
- Active transcription units are clustered in the nucleus, in discrete sites called “transcription factories.” Such sites could be visualized ...18 KB (2,706 words) - 17:57, 4 November 2022
- provided definitive evidence that neurons are discrete cells that communicate with each other via specialized junctions, or spaces, between cells. His ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 03:22, 23 December 2022
- fungi, and protists, while unable to ingest discrete lumps of matter, instead live by absorbing and metabolizing on a molecular scale. Scavengers are ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 08:55, 15 January 2023
- Ethology emerged as a discrete discipline in the 1920s, through the efforts of Konrad Lorenz, Karl von Frisch, and Niko Tinbergen, who were jointly ...16 KB (2,274 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- that of other early humanists after him, as a discrete period distinct from our "Modern" age, has endured, and the term still finds use ...17 KB (2,782 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- use computer simulation, especially discrete event simulation, for system analysis and evaluation. == Areas of expertise == Ever since its creation ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 22:36, 5 February 2023
- and darkest parts of an image, measured in discrete steps at any given moment. Generally, the higher the contrast ratio, the more realistic the image ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 20:45, 9 April 2023
- tends to treat philosophy in terms of discrete problems, capable of being analyzed apart from their historical origins (much as scientists consider ...19 KB (2,642 words) - 02:47, 8 January 2024
- and discontinuous in structure, made up of discrete atoms. The cosmos and its components acted independently with characteristics of living creatures ...16 KB (2,416 words) - 12:50, 22 May 2024
- is quantized (that is, it comes in discrete amounts). With that, he began developing the modern concept of the photon as the fundamental unit ...20 KB (3,162 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- of a corporeal know-how that occurs through discrete, syntactic processes. Moreover, through the publication in 1991 of The Embodied Mind (by Francisco ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 00:45, 9 November 2022
- imager (analog) waveform output into a discrete digital-video signal. The ... by Ampex based on the D1 format. It used discrete cosine transform as its ...34 KB (5,130 words) - 18:53, 25 November 2023
- in the formation of large, fairly discrete nodules in the periurethral region of the prostate. When sufficiently large, the nodules compress ...18 KB (2,577 words) - 08:14, 2 December 2022
- phases can be continuous instead of having a discrete boundary. In this case the matter is considered to be in a supercritical state. When three phases ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- library. They can be highly specialized, serving a discrete user group with a restricted collection area. In an increasingly global and virtual workplace ...23 KB (3,189 words) - 11:04, 7 March 2023
