Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests.

There were two possible methods of breaching the conservative barriers around the Rules Committee: 1 ) to pack it with additional liberals and break the conservative-liberal deadlock, or 2 ) to remove one of the conservatives -- namely Mississippi's 14-term William Meyers Colmer ( pronounced Calmer ).

In standard Spanish, it is possible to tell the pronunciation of a word from its spelling, but not vice versa ; this is because certain phonemes can be represented in more than one way, but a given letter is consistently pronounced.

For example, the orbital 1s < sup > 2 </ sup > ( pronounced " one ess two ") has two electrons and is the lowest energy level ( n

The In10did method ( pronounced " intended ") is a ten-key limited chord system that places one key under each finger in order to utilize all of them, however only two are needed for any operations ( excluding the " F " keys, which require three key presses ).

The lateral clicks are pronounced by sucking on the molars of one or both sides.

* Afrikaans uses diaeresis to mark vowels that are pronounced separately and not as one would expect where they occur together, for example voel ( to feel ) as opposed to voël ( bird ).

Dylan, pronounced ˈdəlan ( Dullan ) in Welsh, caused his mother to worry he might be teased as the " dull one ".

Although the grammatical structures of Yupik and Inuit languages are similar, they have pronounced differences phonologically, and differences of vocabulary between Inuit and any of one of the Yupik languages is greater than between any two Yupik languages.

While grammatical structures of Yupik and Inuit languages are similar, they have pronounced differences phonologically and differences of vocabulary between Inuit and any of one of the Yupik languages is greater than between any two Yupik languages.

In standard English spelling, however, nearly every sound can be spelled in more than one way, and most spellings and all letters can be pronounced in more than one way and often in many different ways.

In Greek mythology, Eurystheus ( pronounced, meaning " broad strength " in folk etymology and pronounced ) was king of Tiryns, one of three Mycenaean strongholds in the Argolid, although other authors including Homer and Euripides cast him as ruler of Argos: Sthenelus was his father and the " victorious horsewoman " Nicippe his mother, and he was a grandson of the hero Perseus, as was his opponent Heracles.

Although the Estonian orthography is generally guided by phonemic principles, with each grapheme corresponding to one phoneme, there are some historical and morphological deviations from this: for example the initial letter ' h ' in words, preservation of the morpheme in declension of the word ( writing b, g, d in places where p, k, t is pronounced )

For example, oleic acid, with one double bond, has a " kink " in it, whereas linoleic acid, with two double bonds, has a more pronounced bend.

He then pronounced the affair to be a private one closed to debate.

It is probable that Hesiod wrote his poems down, or dictated them, rather than passed them on orally, as rhapsodes did — otherwise the pronounced personality that now emerges from the poems would surely have been diluted through oral transmission from one rhapsode to another.

::: have at least one pronounced knuckle throughout all or most of their length

An instrumental version of a song which otherwise features vocals is also known as a-1 ( pronounced minus one ).

Burke's tribute was well received and one journalist called it " the eulogium of Apelles pronounced by Pericles ".

The Jutes, Iuti, or Iutæ ( pronounced ) were a Germanic people who, according to Bede, were one of the three most powerful Germanic peoples of their time, the other two being the Saxons and the Angles.

This action was one of the acts brought up against him by the senatus-consulte of 3 April 1814, which pronounced his fall " considering that he has violated the constitutional laws by the decrees on the state prisons.

In spoken English, the abbreviation " mL " ( for millilitre ) is often pronounced as " mil ", homophonous with the colloquial term " mil ", which is intended to mean " one thousandth of a metre ", or in the United States, a thousandth of an inch.

Aspect ratios are mathematically expressed as x: y ( pronounced " x-to-y ") and x × y ( pronounced " x-by-y "), with the latter particularly used for pixel dimensions, such as 640 × 480.

CyKey ( pronounced sai-ki or " psyche ") is named after the Microwriter chord system's co-inventor Cy Endfield, who died in 1995 but the name also reflects its intuitive nature.

Is (" as well ") and se (" not ... either ") also function as clitics: although written separately, they are pronounced together with the preceding word, without stress: Ő is jön.

Diagram illustrating the position of CAAC in relation to other Generative music SystemsComputer-Aided Algorithmic Composition ( CAAC, pronounced " sea-ack ") is the implementation and use of algorithmic composition techniques in software.

C *- algebras ( pronounced " C-star ") are an important area of research in functional analysis, a branch of mathematics.

For the same reason, Kung-fu ( Pinyin gōngfú 功夫 " ability ", meaning " Chinese martial arts ") is pronounced instead of.

The name " epsilon " (, " simple e ") was coined in the Middle Ages to distinguish the letter from the digraph αι, a former diphthong that had come to be pronounced the same as epsilon.

The Extended Industry Standard Architecture ( in practice almost always shortened to EISA and frequently pronounced " eee-suh ") is a bus standard for IBM PC compatible computers.

For example, German Rat ( pronounced with a long " a ") (= " council ") is cognate with English " read " and German and Dutch Rede (= " speech ", often religious in nature ) ( hence Æthelred the ' Unready ' would not heed the speech of his advisors, and the word ' unready ' is cognate with the Dutch word " onraad " meaning trouble, danger ), while English and Dutch " rat " for the rodent has its German cognate Ratte.

The Game. com ( styled as game. com but pronounced as " game com ," not " game dot com ") is a handheld game console released by Tiger Electronics in September 1997.

Īao Valley ( English: Iao, Hawaiian: Ī-ao: " cloud supreme ", pronounced similar to " EE-ow ") is a lush, stream-cut valley in West Maui, Hawaii, located west of Wailuku.

The terms 7th July, July 7th, and 7 / 7 ( pronounced " Seven-seven ") have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the 7 July 2005 bombings on London's transport system.

In this era of escalating Japanese militarism, the name was changed from (" Chinese hand " or " Tang hand " verbatim, as the name of the Tang dynasty was a synonym to China in Okinawa ) to (" empty hand ") – both of which are pronounced karate – to indicate that the Japanese wished to develop the combat form in Japanese style.

Born in Hornell, New York, United States, Freas ( pronounced like " freeze ") was the son of two photographers, and was raised in Canada.

" great god ") on the Japanese game cover, makes a play on words between the word for wolf ( 狼 ) and the word Kami, as 大神 and 狼 are pronounced the same way ; the pivotal protagonist is a statue of a wolf possessed by Amaterasu.

He is known by the epithets Lámhfhada ( pronounced /' la: wad ̪ ˠə /, meaning " long arm " or " long hand "), for his skill with a spear or sling, Ildánach (" skilled in many arts "), Samhildánach (" Equally skilled in many arts "), Lonnbeimnech (" fierce striker " or perhaps " sword-shouter ") and Macnia (" boy hero "), and by the matronymic mac Ethlenn or mac Ethnenn (" son of Ethliu or Ethniu ").

A monoid is a set, S, together with a binary operation "•" ( pronounced " dot " or " times ") that satisfies the following three axioms:

Masada ( Hebrew מצדה, pronounced, from מצודה, metzuda, " fortress ") is the name for a site of ancient palaces and fortifications in the Southern District of Israel, on top of an isolated rock plateau, or horst, on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea.

The name has fallen into disfavor and is now considered to be pejorative, possibly because of a folk etymology for " Galla " ( that it came from Qal la or " قال لا ," pronounced similar to Gal la, Arabic for " he said no ") that implies they refused Muhammad's offer to convert to Islam.