`` Dearly beloved '', he preached, `` unless you repent of your sins in a measure, and become converted to a degree, you will, I regret to say, be damned to a more or less extent ''.

It is a measurement, although the degree of specificity may not be easy to measure, and need not be linear or of the nature of a rate-limited step or equation.

In 1736, he participated in the expedition organized for that purpose by the French Academy of Sciences, led by the French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis ( 1698 – 1759 ) to measure a degree of latitude.

The aim of the expedition was to measure the length of a degree along a meridian, close to the pole, and compare the result with a similar expedition to Peru, today in Ecuador, near the equator.

Christian Science teaches that we are not Christians until we " go and do likewise ," until we in some degree " come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ ," as it says in the Scriptures ( Ephesians 4: 13 ).

Porter used Rogers ' transcripts to devise a system to measure the degree of directiveness or non-directiveness a counselor employed.

The field of recursion theory, meanwhile, categorizes undecidable decision problems by Turing degree, which is a measure of the noncomputability inherent in any solution.

Then, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Vera Rubin, a young astronomer at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, presented findings based on a new sensitive spectrograph that could measure the velocity curve of edge-on spiral galaxies to a greater degree of accuracy than had ever before been achieved.

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, tried to identify the key factors necessary to measure the degree of freedom of economy of a particular country.

This and other similar indices do not define a free market, but measure the degree to which a modern economy is free, meaning in most cases free of state intervention.

Whereas the older " depth scales " tried to infer the level of " hypnotic trance " based upon supposed observable signs, such as spontaneous amnesia, most subsequent scales measure the degree of observed or self-evaluated responsiveness to specific suggestion tests, such as direct suggestions of arm rigidity ( catalepsy ).

Its analog joystick could register movement in any direction as well as measure the degree of push, which could move the player character at different speeds depending on how far the joystick is pushed in a certain direction.

To form a concept, one mentally isolates a group of concretes ( of distinct perceptual units ), on the basis of observed similarities which distinguish them from all other known concretes ( similarity is ' the relationship between two or more existents which possess the same characteristic ( s ), but in different measure or degree '); then, by a process of omitting the particular measurements of these concretes, one integrates them into a single new mental unit: the concept, which subsumes all concretes of this kind ( a potentially unlimited number ).

Subjectivists, also known as Bayesians or followers of epistemic probability, give the notion of probability a subjective status by regarding it as a measure of the ' degree of belief ' of the individual assessing the uncertainty of a particular situation.

If the overall system is pure, the entropy of one subsystem can be used to measure its degree of entanglement with the other subsystems.

The concept of radian measure, as opposed to the degree of an angle, is normally credited to Roger Cotes in 1714.

Professional sextants use a click-stop degree measure and a worm adjustment that reads to a minute, 1 / 60 of a degree.

The concept of walkability has arisen as a measure of the degree to which an area is friendly to walking.

A multimeter can be a hand-held device useful for basic fault finding and field service work or a bench instrument which can measure to a very high degree of accuracy.

Barlow and Proschan define availability of a repairable system as " the probability that the system is operating at a specified time t ." While Blanchard gives a qualitative definition of availability as " a measure of the degree of a system which is in the operable and committable state at the start of mission when the mission is called for at an unknown random point in time.

*** Nucleotide diversity, the measure the degree of polymorphism within a population

In Scoville's method, a measured amount of alcohol extract of the capsaicin oil of the dried pepper is produced, after which a solution of sugar and water is added incrementally until the " heat " is just barely detectable by a panel of ( usually five ) tasters ; the degree of dilution gives its measure on the Scoville scale.

In angular measure, it is the degree that is subdivided into minutes and seconds, while in time, it is the hour.

* Weighing scale, also known as a balance, a type of device used to measure the mass of an object.

This measure tipped the balance in favor of Alawite officers who staged a coup in 1966 and for the first time placed Damascus in the hands of the Alawites.

The test object is instrumented with a sensitive balance to measure the forces generated by airflow ; or, the airflow may have smoke or other substances injected to make the flow lines around the object visible.

With the model mounted on a force balance, one can measure lift, drag, lateral forces, yaw, roll, and pitching moments over a range of angle of attack.

In practice, the watt balance is used to measure amperes with the highest possible accuracy.

She is depicted on coins holding a cornucopia and a balance scale ( libra ), which was more often a symbol of " honest measure " to the Romans than of justice.

A section of the Egyptian Book of the Dead written on papyrus showing the " Weighing of the Heart " in the Duat using the feather of Maat as the measure in balance

A business operating entirely in cash can measure its profits by withdrawing the entire bank balance at the end of the period, plus any cash in hand.

The balance that he used, made by a craftsman named Harrison, was the first of the precision balances of the 18th century, and as accurate as Lavoisier's ( which has been estimated to measure one part in 400, 000 ).

The experimental apparatus consisted of a torsion balance with a pair of 2-inch 1. 61-pound lead spheres suspended from the arm of a torsion balance and two much larger stationary lead balls ( 350 pounds ), and Cavendish intended to measure the force of gravitational attraction between the two.

The most precise values of the Planck constant come from watt balance experiments, which are currently used to measure the product KR < sub > K </ sub >.

However, people are cautioned to stay within the limits of reasonable balance and measure.

However historians do not believe this balance is a good measure of class incidence and was by that time thoroughly archaic.

By quantifying this dilution it is possible to measure anatomical and alveolar dead space, employing the concept of mass balance, as expressed by Bohr equation.

In his February 25 speech ending the debate on the tariff, Clay captured the spirit of the voices for compromise by condemning Jackson's Proclamation to South Carolina as inflammatory, admitting the same problem with the Force Bill but indicating its necessity, and praising the Compromise Tariff as the final measure to restore balance, promote the rule of law, and avoid the " sacked cities ", " desolated fields ", and " smoking ruins " that he said would be the product of the failure to reach a final accord.

The FSA pushed for stricter rules on TV advertising to children of foods high in salt, sugar and fat and devised a nutritional profiling system to measure the balance of benefit and detriment in individual food products.

The sex ratio, which is a measure used to indicate the balance of males to females in a population, is calculated by taking the number of males divided by the number of females, and multiplying by 100.

" Radiative forcing is a measure of the influence a factor has in altering the balance of incoming and outgoing energy in the Earth-atmosphere system and is an index of the importance of the factor as a potential climate change mechanism.

* The D ' Arsonval movement used in mechanical pointer-type meters to measure electrical current is a type of torsion balance ( see below ).

Y. Hatano promoted " manpo-kei pedometers " from 1985, after his research was accepted as proving that 10, 000 Steps A Day was the proper balance of caloric intake and activity-based caloric expenditure to maintain a healthy body, and Jiro Kato who is Yamasa Tokei Keiki Co., Ltd., Tokyo Japan founder, Akira and Yasuji Kato's Father, manufactured pedometers recognized to be accurate, and, named them, " manpo-meter " ( later known as " manpo-kei ") as the world first invented device to measure number of steps of walking.

In this case, the electric current and the potential difference would be measured in SI units, and the watt balance would become an instrument to measure mass.

Any laboratory which had invested the ( very considerable ) time and money in a working watt balance would be able to measure masses to the same accuracy as they currently measure the Planck constant.