The DVB Multimedia Home Platform ( DVB-MHP ) defines a Java-based platform for the development of consumer video system applications.

Java API for XML Registries ( JAXR ) defines a standard API for Java platform applications to access and programmatically interact with various kinds of metadata registries.

Another technique taught by Johnstone is to establish a ' platform ' early in the scene that defines the characters and background.

In its platform, it defines itself as a catch-all liberal, progressive, but conservative-leaning organization.

The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface ( UEFI ) is a specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware.

The standard also defines an alerting mechanism for the system to send a simple network management protocol ( SNMP ) platform event trap ( PET ).

Resting on concrete foundations, the 4 foot ( 1. 2 m ) high marble base defines a platform, 43 feet 5 inches ( 13. 2 m ) in diameter, intended for use as a bandstand.

The platform defines and establishes a congregational polity — meaning that churches are independent both of any higher ecclesiastical authority, and of one another.

His Ethics defines `` possessions as the property of the community, of which the individual is sovereign steward.

In discussing the process of communication, Loomis defines it as `` the process by which information, decisions, and directives are transmitted among actors and the ways in which knowledge, opinions, and attitudes are formed, or modified by interaction ''.

For every criterion which defines what something is, at the same time proclaims -- implicitly if not openly -- what that something is not.

Instead, the limbs of agnostids closely resemble those of stem group crustaceans, although they lack the proximal endite, which defines that group.

Another view defines anxiety as " a future-oriented mood state in which one is ready or prepared to attempt to cope with upcoming negative events ," suggesting that it is a distinction between future and present dangers which divides anxiety and fear.

In this work, Alan uses prose and verse to illustrate the way in which nature defines its own position as inferior to that of God.

The Dictionary of Politics: Selected American and Foreign Political and Legal Terms defines the term Alford plea as: " A plea under which a defendant may choose to plead guilty, not because of an admission to the crime, but because the prosecutor has sufficient evidence to place a charge and to obtain conviction in court.

" The book Plea Bargaining's Triumph: A History of Plea Bargaining in America published by Stanford University Press defines the plea as one in " which the defendant adheres to his / her claim of innocence even while allowing that the government has enough evidence to prove his / her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt ".

which defines the Abbe number with respect to the yellow Fraunhofer d ( or D < sub > 3 </ sub >) helium line at 587. 5618 nm wavelength.

Most traffic classes also introduce the concept of Cell Delay Variation Tolerance ( CDVT ), which defines the " clumping " of cells in time.

Queen Charlotte Sound defines its western side, while to the south lies Tory Channel, which is on the sea route from Wellington in the North Island to Picton.

It defines the administrative act, the most common form of action in which the public administration occurs against a citizen.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants ( AICPA ) defines accountancy as " the art of recording, classifying, and summarizing in a significant manner and in terms of money, transactions and events which are, in part at least, of financial character, and interpreting the results thereof.

72 ) defines affray as taking part in a fight in a public highway or taking part in a fight of such a nature as to alarm the public in any other place to which the public have access.

The formalisation defines algorithm complexity, problem complexity and reducibility which in turn allows equivalence classes to be defined.

On September 21, 1996, barely three years after the " Don't Ask, Don't Tell " imbroglio, and further straining relations with the LGBT community, Clinton signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act ( DOMA ), which defines marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman.

This defines a future horizon, which limits the events in the future that we will be able to influence.

; Independent countries: This category has independent countries, which the CIA defines as people " politically organized into a sovereign state with a definite territory ".

Well-known communications protocols are Ethernet, a hardware and Link Layer standard that is ubiquitous in local area networks, and the Internet Protocol Suite, which defines a set of protocols for internetworking, i. e. for data communication between multiple networks, as well as host-to-host data transfer, and application-specific data transmission formats.

Within states, whether sovereign or federated, a constitution defines the principles upon which the state is based, the procedure in which laws are made and by whom.

Although the Copenhagen interpretation is often confused with the idea that consciousness causes collapse, it defines an " observer " merely as that which collapses the wave function.

Constitutional law is the body of law which defines the relationship of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary.

Quasimodo defines his own art as `` the search for what is not there ''.

While there is no generally accepted formal definition of " algorithm ," an informal definition could be " a set of rules that precisely defines a sequence of operations.

For example, if one defines categories in terms of sets, that is, as sets of objects and morphisms ( usually called a small category ), or even locally small categories, whose hom-objects are sets, then there is no category of all sets, and so it is difficult for a category-theoretic formulation to apply to all sets.

The Islamic law of inheritance ( Sura 4, ayah 11 ) defines exactly how the estate is calculated after death of an individual.

This is a paradox: there must be an integer defined by this expression, but since the expression is self-contradictory ( any integer it defines is definable in under eleven words ), there cannot be any integer defined by it.

* Classical or Angkor Wat Style ( 1080 – 1175 ): Angkor Wat, the temple and perhaps the mausoleum of King Suryavarman II, is the greatest of the Angkorian temples and defines what has come to be known as the classical style of Angkorian architecture.

It declares that the government is the " organ that defines, leads, and executes the general internal and external policy of the country " and is responsible to the National Assembly.

The atomic number of an element is equal to the number of protons that defines the element.

A formal grammar defines ( or generates ) a formal language, which is a ( usually infinite ) set of finite-length sequences of symbols ( i. e. strings ) that may be constructed by applying production rules to another sequence of symbols which initially contains just the start symbol.

The following is a simpler grammar that defines the same language:

In the United States, where the felony / misdemeanor distinction is still widely applied, the federal government defines a felony as a crime punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year.

IEEE Std 802. 3, which defines all Ethernet variants, for historical reasons still bears the title " Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection ( CSMA / CD ) access method and physical layer specifications ".

For this reason, the Orange Book ( still a reference on the design of secure operating systems design ) characterizes the various security assurance levels that it defines mainly in terms of the structure and security features of the TCB.

Overseas Chinese defines several criteria for identifying Han overseas Chinese: there is a direct racial lineage of descent from groups originating from China, they still retain their culture, self-identify with Chinese culture or acknowledge Chinese origin.

Aristotle's Poetics clearly defines aspects of literature and introduces many literary terms still used today.

Additionally, the very nature of the automatic-voluntary dissociation of motor abilities that defines apraxia means that patients may still be able to automatically perform activities if cued to do so in daily life.

For example, the Canadian census defines first language for its purposes as " the first language learned in childhood and still spoken ", recognizing that for some, the earliest language may be lost, a process known as language attrition.

( For example, a sketch of a hole that is clearly not round still accurately defines the part as having a true round hole, as long as the label says " 10mm DIA ", because the " DIA " implicitly but objectively tells the user that the skewed drawn circle is a symbol representing a perfect circle.

Despite the re-branding, the ' Scottish Executive ' still uses the original description for a number of purposes ( s. 44 of the Scotland Act defines the nature of the body but does not use the words " shall be known as " with regard to a name as is the case with various other bodies whose names are thus fixed by statute ).

In the context of population censuses conducted on the Canadian population, Statistics Canada defines mother tongue as " the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual at the time of the census.

After that needful but confined step, next in clearness's third grade ( the pragmatic, practice-oriented grade ) he defines truth — not as actual consensus, such that to inquire would be to poll the experts — but as that which would be reached, sooner or later but still inevitably, by research taken far enough, such that the real does depend on that ideal final opinion — a dependence to which he appeals in theoretical arguments elsewhere, for instance for the long-run validity of the rule of induction.

Fibrations do not necessarily have the local Cartesian product structure that defines the more restricted fiber bundle case, but something weaker that still allows " sideways " movement from fiber to fiber.

He answers a question concerning the correct term to describe the hair on one ’ s head, confirms he can still hear her again when she reduces the volume at which she speaks over stages, becoming audibly angrier in the process, finally he defines “ hog ” for her, lavishing a whole two albeit short sentences on her in the process.

* Peter Stravinskas, in the short article on apocatastasis in Our Sunday Visitor's Catholic Encyclopedia ( 1998 ) and the still shorter entry in his Catholic Dictionary ( 1993 ), defines it as the belief " that all rational creatures are saved, including the fallen angels and unrepentant sinners ".

In many ways, Roosevelt's legacy still defines the Democratic Party ; he forged an enduring New Deal Coalition of big city machines, the White South, intellectuals, labor unions, Catholics, Jews, and Westerners.

Despite the opposition, Chapter 2, Article 3, Section 608 of the California Streets and Highways Code still legally defines Route 380 as traveling from " Route 1 near Pacifica to Route 280 in San Bruno ", and the exit numbers assigned at I-280 go to five instead of one or zero.

As the Joker prepares to end existence, Superman realizes that, for all his power, the Joker still cannot erase Batman, as the Joker defines himself by his constant opposition to the Dark Knight, allowing Superman to shatter the Joker's control of reality.

Statistics Canada defines mother tongue as the first language learned in childhood and still spoken ; it does not presuppose literacy in that or any language.

This legislation, still in force, defines economic policy in the United States 170 years after the official birth of the Industrial Revolution as the right to a job.

Zeller's congruence, a well-known algorithm for finding the day of week for any date, explicitly defines January and February as the " 13th " and " 14th " months of the previous year in order to take advantage of this regularity, but the month-dependent calculation is still very complicated for mental arithmetic:

there are still some basic formula that defines the genre.

But when a superconductor fills space, or equivalently in a Higgs phase, electric charge is still globally conserved but no longer defines the superselection sectors.

Maehle ( 2006: p. 234 ) defines Dharana as: " The mind thinks about one object and avoids other thoughts ; awareness of the object is still interrupted.

Though the Secretary General had asked for an increase of 13, 100 soldiers, in October 2004 the Security Council by Resolution 1565, authorized a reinforcement of 5, 900 military personnel and defines the mandate which is still valid today.