Spin is often depicted as a particle literally spinning around an axis, but this is a misleading and inaccurate picture: Spin is an intrinsic property of a particle, fundamentally different from orbital angular momentum.

They were able to show that some of the pro-paranormal material is often misleading or inaccurate, but its producers continue to market it.

The information available on Greek fire is exclusively indirect, based on references in the Byzantine military manuals and a number of secondary historical sources such as Anna Komnene and Western European chroniclers, which are often inaccurate.

Although haiku are often stated to have 17 syllables, this is inaccurate as syllables and on are not the same.

According to Thomas Edge, an early 17th century whaling captain who was often inaccurate, " William Hudson " discovered the island in 1608 and named it " Hudson's Touches " ( or " Tutches ").

Note that, although capitalization can aid in recognizing named entities in languages such as English, this information cannot aid in determining the type of named entity, and in any case is often inaccurate or insufficient.

Statements which entail an interpretation of fact are not perjury because people often draw inaccurate conclusions unwittingly, or make honest mistakes without the intent to deceive.

Actual counting of disks in the very final stages is often critical, but sometimes in human play an inaccurate choice for disk differential can be better than an accurate one in terms of the expected outcome ( and can be essential in lost positions ).

The renewed attention to these feats has prompted a new round of oversimplified or inaccurate explanations, leading some inexperienced people to attempt them without adequate training often resulting in injury and sometimes even death.

It has often been claimed that around 75 % of silent films have been lost, though these estimates may be inaccurate due to a lack of numerical data.

Very often, Westerners mistake hudud punishment for the punishment regularly given under sharia law, but that is inaccurate ; hudud punishments are only meant as a deterrent for rare cases.

The writer of future history does not have such knowledge, such works being based on speculations and predictions current at the time of writing — which often turn out to be wildly inaccurate.

As an investigator, Dalton was often content with rough and inaccurate instruments, though better ones were obtainable.

The nature of warfare provides several factors which exacerbate these effects ; the fog of war means that information about the enemy forces is often limited or inaccurate, making it easy for the intelligence process to interpret the information to agree with existing assumptions, or to fit it to their own preconceptions and expectations.

It is more reliable, and often more accurate, than a GPS receiver for measuring altitude ; GPS altimeters may be unavailable, for example, when one is deep in a canyon, or may give wildly inaccurate altitudes when all available satellites are near the horizon.

On the other hand, most philosophical movements in history consisted in a great number of individual thinkers who disagreed in various ways ; it is often inaccurate and something of a caricature to treat any movement as consisting in followers of uniform opinion.

Given Russia's often inadequately trained conscript armies and the use of inaccurate smooth-bore muskets, Russian officers preferred to use the bayonet charge in lieu of musket volley fire where possible.

Many of his stories seem to be wildly inaccurate, often physically or historically impossible, and occasionally inconsistent even with each other, suggesting that Grampa is quite senile.

" United States infantry armed with potentially accurate rifles often fought using volley tactics, devised for earlier inaccurate smoothbore muskets, because the United States Army had failed to keep pace with European military training for tactical advantage from rifle technology.

Due to its brevity, the sound bite often overshadows the broader context in which it was spoken, and can be misleading or inaccurate.

This a cause for concern especially as study by Flyvbjerg, Skamris Holm and Buhl ( 2005 ) found that many of the models that planners use to sell big-ticket highway and rail projects are fundamentally flawed and often grossly inaccurate.

The loose definition of the term and the often poor correlation between the real-life situations people describe as Orwellian and his own dystopian fiction leave the use of the adjective at best inexact and frequently politically inaccurate.

Despite the fact that the far-reaching independence assumptions are often inaccurate, the naive Bayes classifier has several properties that make it surprisingly useful in practice.

These accusations, articles and crimes printed in Der Stürmer were often inaccurate and rarely investigated by staff members.

In 1978, anthropologist Ronald Cohen claimed that the identification of " ethnic groups " in the usage of social scientists often reflected inaccurate labels more than indigenous realities:

Although its function is unknown, it has been often suggested that the jewel was one of the æstels — pointers for reading — that Alfred ordered sent to every bishopric accompanying a copy of his translation of the Pastoral Care.

* Students often use the poor English translation of J. C. Rolfe in the Loeb Classical Library, 1935 – 1940 with many reprintings.

He knew rhetoric, and often used figures of speech and rhetorical forms which cannot easily be reproduced in translation, depending as they often do on the connotations of the Latin words.

In the theory there are several other major ways of looking at this notion, and the translation of the condition into other language is often needed.

Defoe's description of Glasgow ( Glaschu ) as a " Dear Green Place " has often been misquoted as a Gaelic translation for the town.

One passage in particular is often quoted from the Fergusson translation:

Daena has been used to mean religion, faith, law, even worship as a translation for the Hindu and Buddhist term Dharma, often interpreted as " duty " or social order, right conduct, or virtue.

The insect-winged fairies in British folklore are often called " älvor " in modern Swedish or " alfer " in Danish, although the correct translation is " feer ".

Halakha is often translated as " Jewish Law ", although a more literal translation might be " the path " or " the way of walking ".

For the next 15 years, until he died, Jerome produced a number of commentaries on Scripture, often explaining his translation choices in using the original Hebrew rather than suspect translations.

The continued spread of Christianity, and the foundation of national churches, led to the translation of the Bible — often beginning with books from the New Testament — into a variety of other languages at a relatively early date: Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopic, Persian, Soghdian, and eventually Gothic, Old Church Slavonic, Arabic, and Nubian.

The " perimeter " is often translated as " coastline ," but this translation is misleading.

The term is sometimes used to refer only to protein translation but more often it refers to a multi-step process, beginning with amino acid synthesis and transcription of nuclear DNA into messenger RNA, which is then used as input for translation.

Limited proteolysis of a polypeptide during or after translation in protein synthesis often occur for many proteins.

The English name firefox is often claimed by English sources to be a literal translation of the Chinese name for the red panda.

In addition Westerners often declare that particularly violent, gory, or sexually explicit works " cannot possibly " be shōjo, or disbelieve that the producers of yaoi titles target a market of girls rather than homosexual men, although both of these claims are false, and the reason for them was most likely due to uneven translation of Japanese anime terminology.

The Talmud El Am contains Hebrew text, English translation and commentary by Rabbi Dr A. Ehrman, with short ' realia ', marginal notes, often illustrated, written by experts in the field for the whole of Tractate Berakhot, 2 chapters of Bava Mezia and the halachic section of Qiddushin, chapter 1.

Both terms were used to designate individuals dedicated to "... magic, medicine, divination ,... methods of longevity and to ecstatic wanderings " as well as exorcism ; in the case of the wu, " shamans " or " sorcerers " is often used as a translation.

Page tables are used to translate the virtual addresses seen by the application into physical addresses used by the hardware to process instructions ; such hardware that handles this specific translation is often known as the memory management unit.

However, since many English-speaking Orthodox find this literal translation awkward, in liturgical use, Theotokos is often left untranslated, or paraphrased as Mother of God.

When such dissemination happens, the limitations of the original naming convention, which had formerly been latent and moot, become painfully apparent, often necessitating retronymy, synonymity, translation / transcoding, and so on.

Dodd argued that in pagan Greek the translation of hilasterion was indeed to propitiate, but that in the Septuagint ( the oldest Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament ) that kapporeth ( Hebrew for " atone ") is often translated with words that mean " to cleanse or remove " ( Dodd, " The Bible and the Greeks ", p 93 ).