My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.

At this point a working definition of idea is in order, although our first definition will have to be qualified somewhat as we proceed.

A tragedy, by his definition, is an imitation of an action that is serious, of a certain magnitude, and complete in itself.

Now good definition is one thing that all of us can acquire with occasional high-set, high-rep, light-weight workouts.

But contest definition -- that dramatic muscular separation of every muscle group that seems as though it must have been carved by a sculptor's chisel -- is something quite different.

It is the one exercise that drastically influences the definition of the thighs at the hipline -- that mark of the champion that sets him apart from all other bodybuilders ; ;

But for purely definition purposes -- used in conjunction with your regular Squatting, Leg Curling, Leg Extensor programs -- a heavy weight is not needed.

If Af is the operator induced on Af by T, then evidently Af, because by definition Af is 0 on the subspace Af.

Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.

Finally, when the accelerometer output is zero, the entire system remains stationary, and the platform is, by definition, leveled.

When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

One definition of paternalism is `` The principle or practice, on the part of a government, of managing the affairs of a country in the manner of a father dealing with his children ''.

If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.

Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful ,< ref name =" definition ">

The majority of the clocks are caesium clocks ; the definition of the SI second is written in terms of caesium.

This definition was proposed by Justus von Liebig circa 1838, based on his extensive works on the chemical composition of organic acids.

Meteorologists ( and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere ) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, According to United States tradition, autumn runs from the day after Labor Day ( i. e. the Tuesday following the first Monday of September ) through Thanksgiving ( i. e. the fourth Thursday in November ), after which the holiday season that demarcates the unofficial beginning of winter begins.

He goes on to define error as self-contradiction of definition (" an absurdity, or senselesse Speech ") or conclusions that do not follow the definitions on which they are supposed to be based.

The current definition of rookie status for the award is based only on Major League experience, but some feel that past NPB players are not true rookies because of their past professional experience.

The scientific definition of a " crystal " is based on the microscopic arrangement of atoms inside it, called the crystal structure.

Heine provided the first published definition of uniform continuity in 1872, but based these ideas on lectures given by Dirichlet in 1854.

The London-based Rainforest Foundation notes that " the UN figure is based on a definition of forest as being an area with as little as 10 % actual tree cover, which would therefore include areas that are actually savannah-like ecosystems and badly damaged forests.

The widespread adoption of digital video has also drastically reduced the bandwidth needed for a high-definition video signal ( with HDV and AVCHD, as well as several commercial variants such as DVCPRO-HD, all using less bandwidth than a standard definition analog signal ) and tapeless camcorders based on flash memory and often a variant of MPEG-4.

However, some systems use the reverse definition (" 0 " is " High ") or are current based.

His definition is based on the presence in the esoteric currents of four essential characteristics: a theory of correspondences between all parts of the invisible and the visible cosmos, the conviction that nature is a living entity owing to a divine presence or life-force, the need for mediating elements ( such as symbols, rituals, angels, visions ) in order to access spiritual knowledge, and, fourthly, an experience of personal and spiritual transmutation when arriving at this knowledge.

They feel that characteristics based on the new definition are wrongly projected back onto Christian fundamentalists by their critics.

" Despite this ruling, a bill to add discrimination based on subculture affiliation to the definition of hate crime in British law was not presented to parliament.

The definition is similar to other, non-computer based, uses of the term " hack-job ".

Instead, what is demonstrated in the definition of Hīnayāna given by Yijing, is that the term referred to individuals based on doctrinal differences with the Mahāyāna tradition.

The CISA Review Manual 2006 provides the following definition of risk management: " Risk management is the process of identifying vulnerabilities and threats to the information resources used by an organization in achieving business objectives, and deciding what countermeasures, if any, to take in reducing risk to an acceptable level, based on the value of the information resource to the organization.

One argument based on incompatible properties rests on a definition of God that includes a will, plan or purpose and an existence outside of time.

" One may introduce arguments for and against this proposition, based upon such things as standards of statistical analysis, the definition of " overweight ," etc.

The gram was first introduced in 1795, with a definition based on the density of water ( so that at the temperature of melting ice, one cubic centimeter of water would have a mass of one gram ; while the meter at the time was defined as the 10, 000, 000th part of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole ).

** A definition match algorithm was created to automatically merge the correct meanings of ambiguous words between the two online resources, based on the words that the definitions of those meanings have in common in LDOCE and WordNet.

The United States nautical mile was defined as 1853. 248 metres ( 6080. 20 U. S. feet, based on the definition of the foot in the Mendenhall Order of 1893 ): it was abandoned in favour of the international nautical mile in 1954.

Israel's definition of a nation state differs from other countries as its concept of a nation state is based on the Ethnoreligious group ( Judaism ) rather than solely on ethnicity, while the ancient mother language of the Jews, Hebrew, was revived as a unifying bond between them as a national and official language.

The definition was based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines, written and adapted primarily by Bruce Perens.

His goal was to achieve a definition based on astronomical constants, using a pendulum.

This definition has been both praised and criticized, and remains disputed by some scientists since it excludes many objects of planetary mass based on where or what they orbit.

Therefore, it is very likely that any definition of " the physical " based on the current state of physics would end up being ultimately false.

First, we can encourage responsibility by establishing as conditions for assistance on a substantial and sustained scale the definition of objectives and the assessment of costs.

Used in several sets of high reps once or twice each week it will not be long before your entire upper leg takes on a razor-sharp definition in which the muscles look like wire cables writhing and twisting under the skin!!

It might be contended, of course, that Eichmann in stubbornly denying anti-Semitic feelings was lying or insisting on a private definition of anti-Semitism.

The appellate court will typically be deferential to the lower court's findings of fact ( such as whether a defendant committed a particular act ), unless clearly erroneous, and so will focus on the court's application of the law to those facts ( such as whether the act found by the court to have occurred fits a legal definition at issue ).

The new definition is expected to be formally proposed at the 25th General Conference on Weights and Measures ( CGPM ) in 2014.

Its domain is the powerset of A ( with the empty set removed ), and so makes sense for any set A, whereas with the definition used elsewhere in this article, the domain of a choice function on a collection of sets is that collection, and so only makes sense for sets of sets.

The exact definition of an automorphism depends on the type of " mathematical object " in question and what, precisely, constitutes an " isomorphism " of that object.

( The definition of a homomorphism depends on the type of algebraic structure ; see, for example: group homomorphism, ring homomorphism, and linear operator ).

* The Logicians or the School of Names, which focused on definition and logic.

This definition was adopted by the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in The Despouy Report on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty.

In this definition, it is implicitly assumed that storing a value into a variable U has no effect on the state of a distinct variable V. To make this assumption explicit, one could add the constraint that

In fact anode polarity depends on the device type, and sometimes even in which mode it operates, as per the above electric current direction-based universal definition.

Also running on a JOHANNIAC, the Logic Theory Machine constructed proofs from a small set of propositional axioms and three deduction rules: modus ponens, ( propositional ) variable substitution, and the replacement of formulas by their definition.

Celsius was the first to perform and publish careful experiments aiming at the definition of an international temperature scale on scientific grounds.

Heschel then goes on to explore the problems of doubts and faith ; what Judaism means by teaching that God is one ; the essence of humanity and the problem of human needs ; the definition of religion in general and of Judaism in particular ; and human yearning for spirituality.

Based on this definition, the drain efficiency cannot exceed 25 % for a class A amplifier that is supplied drain bias current through resistors ( because RF signal has its zero level at about 50 % of the input DC ).

The definition of ballroom dance also depends on the era: balls have featured popular dances of the day such as the Minuet, Quadrille, Polonaise, Polka, Mazurka, and others, which are now considered to be historical dances.