Inefficiency comes not just from the fact that the device is always conducting to some extent ( that happens even with class AB, yet its efficiency can be close to that of class B ); it is that the standing current is roughly half the maximum output current ( although this can be less with square law output stage ), together with the problem that a large part of the power supply voltage is developed across the output device at low signal levels ( as with classes AB and B, but unlike output stages such as class D ).

Inefficiency only arises when means are chosen by individuals that are inconsistent with their desired goals.

I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.

Suggest the following twenty-first-century amendment: By moving the term `` Republic '' to lower case, substituting the modern phrase, `` move ahead '' for the stodgy `` keep '', and by using the Postmaster's name on every envelope ( in caps, of course, with the `` in spite '' as faded as possible ), the slogan cannot fail.

His teacher and his school principal were conferred with and everyone agreed that, if he kept up with a certain amount of work at home, there was little danger of his losing a term.

If you would feel happier with full collision insurance, there is a small additional charge, again varying from country to country and depending on the term of such insurance.

The term enquetes demographiques, previously used for the supplementary investigations carried out in connection with the administrative censuses, was used for the new investigations.

The variable costs alone are assigned to the different units of freight traffic as representing `` long-run out-of-pocket costs '' -- a term with a meaning here not distinctly different from that of the economist's `` long-run marginal costs ''.

What does it mean to be creative, a term we hear with increasing frequency these days??

Resentment welled up yesterday among Democratic district leaders and some county leaders at reports that Mayor Wagner had decided to seek a third term with Paul R. Screvane and Abraham D. Beame as running mates.

or `` Carmine Theater, 1912 '', the only canvas with an ash can ( and foraging dog ), although Sloan was a member of the famous `` Eight '', and of the so-called `` Ash-Can School '', a term he resented.

" Appellate review " is the general term for the process by which courts with appellate jurisdiction take jurisdiction of matters decided by lower courts.

Assistive technology or adaptive technology ( AT ) is an umbrella term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities and also includes the process used in selecting, locating, and using them.

Augmentative and alternative communication ( AAC ) is an umbrella term that encompasses methods of communication for those with impairments or restrictions on the production or comprehension of spoken or written language.

The term is often used to refer to activities with some potential for physical danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing and or participating in extreme sports.

The term also broadly refers to any enterprise that is potentially fraught with physical, financial or psychological risk, such as a business venture, a love affair, or other major life undertakings.

While not entirely synonymous with Anatolia, the term Asia Minor, derived from the Latin Asia Minores, refers to Asia inside the Roman Empire, versus Asia Magna, all of Asia beyond the borders.

Before Europeans discovered other oceans, the term " ocean " itself was synonymous with the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar that we now know as the Atlantic.

While current mouthwash treatments must be used with a degree of frequency to prevent this bacteria from regrowing, future treatments could provide a viable long term solution.

They are grouped with the outer bodies — centaurs, Neptune trojans, and trans-Neptunian objects — as minor planets, which is the term preferred in astronomical circles.

The al-prefix was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an " allegation " ( the French allegeance comes from the English ).

Existentialist philosophers use the term " angst " with a different connotation.

However, it is the Jewish artists, Gustav Mahler and Franz Kafka in music and literature that have embraced the theme of angst so highly in their work that they have become synonymous with the term to the point of popular joking and cartoons today.

The term vestibular ataxia is employed to indicate ataxia due to dysfunction of the vestibular system, which in acute and unilateral cases is associated with prominent vertigo, nausea and vomiting.

The term is most commonly used with reference to:

( Rothbard is credited with coining the term " Anarcho-capitalism ").

The term was coined by Michael Dummett, who introduced it in his paper Realism to re-examine a number of classical philosophical disputes involving such doctrines as nominalism, conceptual realism, idealism and phenomenalism.

The term abstract data type can also be regarded as a generalised approach of a number of algebraic structures, such as lattices, groups, and rings.

Professional mathematicians sometimes use the term ( higher ) arithmetic when referring to more advanced results related to number theory, but this should not be confused with elementary arithmetic.

* whiff rate: a term, usually used in reference to pitchers, that divides the number of pitches swung at and missed by the total number of swings in a given sample.

This number can be seen as equal to the one of the first definition, independently of any of the formulas below to compute it: if in each of the n factors of the power one temporarily labels the term X with an index i ( running from 1 to n ), then each subset of k indices gives after expansion a contribution X < sup > k </ sup >, and the coefficient of that monomial in the result will be the number of such subsets.

Previously, there were a number of false etymologies, including a claim that the term derived from a New York brothel whose madam was known as Eve.

Increases in the number of immigrants to the United States from Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America have brought up questions about who uses the term African-American.

In the United States, the term for most existing works is a fixed number of years after the date of creation or publication.

Now setting all of the X < sub > s </ sub > equal to the unlabeled variable X, so that the product becomes, the term for each k-combination from S becomes X < sup > k </ sup >, so that the coefficient of that power in the result equals the number of such k-combinations.

The UP also suffered an increasing number of losses during this term ( including the assassination of presidential candidate Bernardo Jaramillo ), which stemmed both from private proto-paramilitary organizations, increasingly powerful drug lords and a number of would-be paramilitary-sympathizers within the armed forces.

Nonetheless, it turns out that infinite sets do have a well-defined notion of size ( or more properly, of cardinality, which is the technical term for the number of elements in a set ), and not all infinite sets have the same cardinality.

Langmuir wrote that " we shall denote by the term covalence the number of pairs of electrons which a given atom shares with its neighbors.

The actual number in Scotland varies considerably — between approximately 350 to 500 due to the use of the term " island dun " for well over one hundred Hebridean examples — a distinction that has created a divide between mainland Scottish crannog and Hebridean islet settlement studies.

Despite making a number of mockumentaries, Guest dislikes the term.

" Shag " itself ( when used in reference to American social dances ) is a very broad term used to denote a number of swing dances that originated during the early part of the 20th century.

Although the present-day, loose use of the term " cyberspace " no longer implies or suggests immersion in a virtual reality, current technology allows the integration of a number of capabilities ( sensors, signals, connections, transmissions, processors, and controllers ) sufficient to generate a virtual interactive experience that is accessible regardless of a geographic location.

The term is derived from the purely classical picture of ( a large number of ) point-like projectiles directed to an area that includes a solid target.

As CISC became a catch-all term meaning anything that's not a load-store ( RISC ) architecture, it's not the number of instructions, nor the complexity of the implementation or of the instructions themselves, that define CISC, but the fact that arithmetic instructions also perform memory accesses.

It created a number of bishoprics, first at Albi around 1165 ( hence the term Albigensians ) and after the 1167 Council at Saint-Félix-Lauragais sites at Toulouse, Carcassonne, and Agen, so that four bishoprics were in existence by 1200.

The preferred wood is " keyaki " ( 欅 ) due to its density and beautiful grain, but a number of other woods are used, grouped under the generic term " meari " ( 目有 ).

In an effort to clarify the rather muddled reception of the term deconstruction Derrida specifies what deconstruction is not through a number of negative definitions.

Its emphasis was on science — and conformably to the broad 18th-century understanding of the term ' science ', its content extends beyond what would be called science or technology today, and includes topics from the humanities and fine arts, e. g. a substantial number from law, commerce, music, and heraldry.