Search results for "Discrete" - New World Encyclopedia
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- *Pleural plaques--discrete fibrous or partially calcified thickened area which can be seen on X-rays of individuals exposed to asbestos. They ...20 KB (2,941 words) - 18:08, 16 August 2023
- the information is encoded as a set of discrete values (for example, 1s ... digital (information is encoded as a set of discrete values). ...40 KB (5,781 words) - 02:52, 19 April 2023
- that the gods dwelt apart from humans in a discrete, heavenly realm was in common currency among the skalds and mythographers of Norse society, the ...19 KB (3,050 words) - 03:59, 18 August 2023
- Indeed, the two depictions are seen as sufficiently discrete that ... (1600-1867), they became recognized as a discrete literary literary form, ...37 KB (5,598 words) - 02:59, 19 April 2023
- objects are continuous. It is contrasted by discrete mechanics. *Fluid Mechanics, the study of how liquids and gases (fluids) react to forces ...21 KB (2,997 words) - 03:49, 9 November 2022
- worker in the performance of that worker's discrete task." # Divide work nearly equally between managers and workers, so that the managers ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 10:33, 11 April 2024
- of organisms of "like kind" into discrete and stable units has been traced at least from the time of Plato and Aristotle. Nonetheless ...23 KB (3,511 words) - 17:36, 14 October 2022
- were developed to describe the motion of discrete systems, were then extended to continuous systems and in this form can be used to define vector ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 10:47, 12 May 2023
- This ROM was programmed by installing discrete semiconductor diodes at selected locations between a matrix of word line traces and bit line ...21 KB (3,125 words) - 19:08, 16 April 2023
- Discrete damage to the brain, especially to parts of the interior surface of the temporal lobes of the cerebral hemispheres, can also cause profound ...23 KB (3,498 words) - 17:16, 26 July 2023
- #039; inactivity continuum. They are discrete features being adopted by diverse species of organisms under different types of environmental conditions ...21 KB (3,263 words) - 09:30, 15 January 2023
- they are a store of value, issued in discrete units; they are controlled by a central issuing authority; and they have varying rates of exchange ...23 KB (3,579 words) - 06:47, 12 January 2024
- (1949), the government defined the Yao as a discrete nationality. Beginning with the establishment of the Longsheng Yao Autonomous County in Guangxi ...21 KB (3,250 words) - 10:13, 22 May 2023
- force. Though its various exponents addressed discrete elements of the Dao, their common focus is what permitted later systematizers (such as Sima ...21 KB (3,367 words) - 19:34, 7 July 2023
- texts, instead of a large pleroma, there is a discrete division between light and darkness. The ruler of darkness is called Ptahil (similar to the ...22 KB (3,408 words) - 11:01, 9 March 2023
- J.G. Bolton, G.J. Stanley, and O.B. Slee, Positions of three discrete sources of Galactic radio frequency radiation, Nature 164: 101. ...23 KB (3,450 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- wasps), and if the castes are morphologically discrete, then the system is "highly eusocial." [[Image:Hoverfly on flower-2.jpg|250px ...24 KB (3,674 words) - 10:22, 26 September 2023
- *Lumpectomy - a common surgical procedure designed to remove a discrete lump (usually a tumour, benign or otherwise) from an affected man or ...22 KB (3,284 words) - 23:38, 18 September 2021
- In practice, the discrete component sold as a "resistor" is not a perfect resistance, as defined above. Resistors are often marked ...24 KB (3,494 words) - 19:43, 16 April 2023
- when constructing with simple logic gates and discrete components. ====State machines and software==== A finite state machine or software running ...28 KB (4,495 words) - 14:19, 28 April 2023
- . They also enabled tunable oscillators in early discrete tuning of radios, where a cheap and stable, but fixed-frequency, crystal oscillator provided ...25 KB (3,818 words) - 17:12, 22 July 2020
- He treated the emotions as separate discrete entities, such as anger ... Paul Ekman developed Darwin's view that emotions are discrete ...51 KB (6,936 words) - 18:27, 13 February 2024
- things (concepts, objects, and so on) into discrete categorized units with singular coded meanings or identities, towards a rhizomatic zone of multiplicity ...23 KB (3,142 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- because of his focus on continuous, rather than discrete, traits (now known as polygenic traits). He went on to found the biometric approach to the study ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- Some scholars argue that literacy is not autonomous or a set of discrete technical and objective skills that can be applied across context. Instead ...24 KB (3,587 words) - 04:28, 29 October 2022
- are classified as cotyledonary (multiple, discrete areas of attachment). Dogs, cats, bears, whales, and elephants have placentas that are classified ...25 KB (3,557 words) - 20:43, 9 April 2023
- versions of Kabir—a process that generated three discrete textual corpuses, each with their own particular perspectives. Regardless of this proliferation ...23 KB (3,622 words) - 17:22, 5 April 2023
- Often, the device is a discrete component which outputs either a digital or analog signal proportional to its orientation. This signal is interpreted ...26 KB (3,954 words) - 00:20, 8 January 2024
- worker in the performance of that worker's discrete task # Divide work nearly equally between managers and workers, so that the managers ...26 KB (4,018 words) - 18:21, 1 August 2023
- from one point to another, the discrete molecular nature of a gas is ignored. The continuity assumption becomes less valid as a gas becomes increasingly ...26 KB (3,914 words) - 06:23, 15 June 2023
- dividing the long season after Pentecost into two discrete segments. During Kingdomtide, Methodist liturgy emphasizes charitable work and alleviating ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- depth, whereas SPT only records major changes at discrete steps of 150 mm (6 in); however, SPT allows soil sampling for laboratory testing. ...29 KB (4,284 words) - 02:56, 30 November 2022
- are obvious. Some touches are more discrete and veiled, revealing themselves only progressively. His influence on other artists of the middle ...25 KB (3,985 words) - 23:13, 3 May 2023
- Laurasia. The Mediterranean Sea is very nearly a discrete ocean, being connected to the World Ocean only through the eight-mile-wide Strait of Gibraltar ...25 KB (3,710 words) - 21:09, 17 April 2023
- between birds; a series of "caws" in discrete units, counting out numbers; a long caw followed by a series of short caws (usually made when ...26 KB (3,938 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- *Reticular system. A network of neuronal fibers that includes discrete groups of neurons (called nuclei), distributed through a core of the medulla ...28 KB (4,199 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023
- way that cannot be precisely duplicated by the discrete light emitters in a computer display. However, by making careful measurements of pigments, close ...29 KB (4,213 words) - 06:14, 24 November 2022
- of trust, which can exist at many discrete levels of integration. But this is true of all multicellular organisms, not all cells in the body ...30 KB (4,599 words) - 11:57, 4 December 2023
- foolishe, madde and phrenetike shal governe the discrete and give counsel to such as be sober of mind. And such be al women, compared unto man in bearing ...27 KB (4,483 words) - 14:37, 18 August 2023
- peculiar institution," by which he meant a discrete and separable domain of human thought, Williams resembled the nineteenth century German philosopher ...30 KB (4,357 words) - 20:51, 23 January 2024
- class whites at the time that “races” were discrete, biologically determined categories, naturally ranked in a hierarchy. In this scheme, the white ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:23, 21 January 2023
- interactions do not always fit into such discrete categories. Rather, symbioses should be perceived as a continuum of interactions ranging from ...33 KB (5,007 words) - 07:43, 24 October 2022
- number springs from the experience of counting discrete objects. It is held that mathematics is not universal and does not exist in any real sense, ...31 KB (4,571 words) - 04:15, 24 November 2022
- Robin Evans describes as a "matrix of discrete but thoroughly interconnected chambers."Evans, Robin "Translations from Drawing to Building: ...27 KB (3,923 words) - 00:12, 4 February 2024
- The classical Aristotelian view claims that categories are discrete entities characterized by a set of properties which are shared by their members ...32 KB (5,041 words) - 02:42, 8 January 2024
- In molecular beam experiments, discrete peaks were observed corresponding to molecules with the exact masses of 60, 70, or more carbon atoms ...28 KB (4,196 words) - 07:18, 15 April 2024
- and others developed atomic models with discrete energy levels that could account qualitatively for the sharp spectral lines and energy quantization ...34 KB (4,943 words) - 20:26, 27 September 2023
- natural worlds. For example, the Greeks posited discrete gods of love (Aphrodite), music and technology (Apollo), and even gods of particular foods such ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- equalization of continuous magnitudes and discrete numbers, an idea that Oresme took out of musical monochord-theory (sectio canonis). In this ...30 KB (4,510 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
- a number that can be represented as a regular and discrete geometric pattern (e.g. dots). If the pattern is polytopic, the figurate is labeled a polytopic ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- In D. J. Aldous, and R. Pemantle, Random Discrete Structures. New York: Springer. ISBN 0387946233 * Ashlock, P. D. 1974. The uses of cladistics ...33 KB (4,767 words) - 22:30, 10 December 2023
- During the Han Dynasty, the idea of Daoism as a discrete tradition ... the establishment of Daoist alchemy as a discrete school of thought and practice)). ...58 KB (8,657 words) - 22:14, 25 January 2024
- goods in transport decisions, called "discrete choice" models, led to establishment of the important branch of econometrics, for which Daniel ...32 KB (4,686 words) - 21:07, 16 April 2023
- linguistic signs are constructed are discrete units, e.g. sounds and words ... designed to represent all of the discrete sounds that are known to ...112 KB (16,049 words) - 21:16, 26 February 2023
- So, at the phenomenal level, religions exist as discrete realities that offer their adherents a path up the mountain. Each is fully able to provide ...33 KB (5,242 words) - 16:49, 26 February 2022
- must be studied phenomenologically, that is, as discrete experiences that must be approached from within their own respective contexts. ...30 KB (4,475 words) - 18:55, 9 November 2022
- Mayan gods were not discrete, separate entities like Greek gods. The gods had affinities and aspects that caused them to merge with one another ...31 KB (4,849 words) - 02:21, 9 November 2022
- of intermediate neurons are clustered into discrete ganglia (Ruppert et al. 2004). The development of the nervous system in radiata is relatively ...36 KB (5,328 words) - 04:33, 11 March 2023
- that Athena Parthenos may have constituted a discrete cult of Athena, intimately connected with, but not identical to that of Athena Polias. Research ...33 KB (4,981 words) - 18:45, 23 March 2023
- to categorize or divide historical time into discrete named blocks *Historical revisionism: Traditionally has been used in a completely neutral ...33 KB (4,990 words) - 23:36, 20 April 2021
- are specifically required to demonstrate a discrete and documented "change" in belief, including a precipitant, that converted a non-CO ...33 KB (4,966 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- * Landscape ecology, which studies the interactions between discrete elements of a landscape and spatial patterns, including the role of disturbance ...38 KB (5,612 words) - 18:02, 12 February 2024
- Father is God and the Son and Holy Spirit are discrete from God himself as creatures (like Dynamistic Monarchianism). The relationship of the two sets ...42 KB (6,496 words) - 11:56, 9 May 2024
- regarded culture not as a set of discrete products or activities (whether material or symbolic), but rather as the underlying patterns that are ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- efforts). Also, seeing the Earth as a single, discrete object instills a powerful sense of the unity and connectedness of the human environment and of ...37 KB (5,482 words) - 22:47, 5 February 2023
- bodies emit electromagnetic radiation only as discrete bundles or packets of energy. Each packet was called a quantum (plural quanta). The energy E ...39 KB (6,028 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- from one species to another occurs in discrete jumps" (Margulis and Sagan 2002). Margulis proposes to explain the discrete jumps in part ...79 KB (11,963 words) - 23:52, 24 March 2024
- plants are a viable alternative to building discrete structures for each process stage. One type of system that combines secondary treatment and ...40 KB (5,900 words) - 10:11, 26 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 ...40 KB (5,552 words) - 21:51, 20 March 2023
- primary focus of this virtue ethics is not discrete actions but rather: What sort of person should one be, try to be, or want to be? The focus is the ...43 KB (6,406 words) - 20:37, 3 May 2023
- [P]rejudice against discrete and insular minorities may be a special condition, which tends seriously to curtail the operation of those political ...45 KB (6,808 words) - 12:57, 12 February 2022
- | rowspan="2" | Third Generation (Discrete transistors and SSI, MSI, LSI Integrated circuits) || Mainframes || System/360, BUNCH ...50 KB (7,240 words) - 00:24, 8 January 2024
- atoms have UV absorbance spectra that show a discrete PAH electronic structure, but a PAH of 222 carbon atoms has Raman bands similar to those in graphite. ...43 KB (6,272 words) - 12:18, 24 January 2023
- on a euclidean geometric scheme and the discrete component-based model of classical architecture. Their structurally perfect design, near-perfect ...43 KB (6,355 words) - 00:40, 3 May 2023
- is done in a smooth transition, rather than using discrete intervals. #Short tessitura or range: The most traditional flamenco songs are usually ...47 KB (7,370 words) - 23:16, 21 April 2024
- Wales, and because of this it constitutes a discrete jurisdiction in international law. J. G. Collier, Conflict of Laws (Cambridge University ...48 KB (6,984 words) - 17:25, 12 May 2024
- races, and racial traits overlap without discrete boundaries—making genetic ... refined emotion is not in all cases as discrete and separate from natural ...94 KB (13,955 words) - 12:18, 4 February 2023
- Of course, Sunday did not preach to 100 million discrete individuals, but to many of the same people repeatedly during the course of a campaign ...47 KB (7,375 words) - 22:05, 3 February 2022
- In England, such decoration could be discrete, as at Hereford and Peterborough cathedrals, or have a sense of massive energy as at Durham. In ...63 KB (10,037 words) - 21:37, 16 April 2023
- Jonathan Z. Smith argues, "[r]eligion [as a discrete category] is solely the creation of the scholar’s study. It is created for the scholar’s ...54 KB (7,792 words) - 03:38, 8 December 2022
- in one layer (Smith 1973). Snake scales are not discrete but extensions of the epidermis; hence, they are not shed separately, but are ejected as a ...54 KB (8,016 words) - 05:10, 13 October 2022
- angle (e.g. 40 degrees) with a small number of discrete exposures (e.g. 10) are used. This incomplete set of data can be digitally processed to yield ...61 KB (9,364 words) - 00:24, 8 January 2024
- parent to offspring, and identified genes as discrete elements within DNA. Though largely maintained within organisms, DNA is both variable across individuals ...68 KB (10,248 words) - 19:33, 21 October 2021
- patent for the production of "cylindrical discrete carbon fibrils" with a "constant diameter between about 3.5 and about 70 nanometers… ...62 KB (8,806 words) - 19:09, 26 November 2023
- #039;s restaurant, he had picked out particular discrete tables, which were always reserved for him, along with eighteen clean linen napkins upon his ...61 KB (9,138 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- that light interacts with matter as discrete "packets" (quanta) of energy, an idea that had been introduced by Max Planck in 1900 as ...63 KB (8,940 words) - 05:00, 17 June 2023
- meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as discrete poems, or may occur in conjunction with other arts, as in poetic drama, hymns, or lyrics. ...69 KB (10,532 words) - 00:11, 5 March 2023
- airspace (and terrestrial locations). There is no discrete boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and space, as the atmosphere gradually attenuates ...63 KB (9,360 words) - 04:22, 11 March 2023
- roots in the French Revolution. These are not discrete clearly described rights that are circumscribed by law and custom but abstractions bestowed ...68 KB (10,394 words) - 10:55, 11 April 2024
- which is electrically equivalent, and is based on discrete electrical components whose behavior is well known. An ideal solar cell may be modeled by a ...90 KB (13,568 words) - 15:08, 27 April 2023
- in intensity and pitch, rather than discrete signals, appear central to communication. Lion sounds include snarling, purring, hissing, coughing ...86 KB (13,304 words) - 17:35, 12 May 2023
- Punitive psychiatry is neither a discrete subject nor a psychiatric specialty but, rather, it is an emergency arising within many applied sciences ...199 KB (24,192 words) - 20:08, 19 September 2022
