* Letterform, typographic term for alphabetical letter shapes

The Rise of the Roman Letterform.

Just as one classifies conic sections and quadratic forms into parabolic, hyperbolic, and elliptic based on the discriminant, the same can be done for a second-order PDE at a given point.

Cameron classifies these as ( 1 ) gaseous, involving mists and other forms of obscuration, ( 2 ) reddish colorations, ( 3 ) green, blue or violet colorations, ( 4 ) brightenings, and ( 5 ) darkenings.

Not all closed-form expressions have closed-form antiderivatives ; this study forms the subject of differential Galois theory, which was initially developed by Joseph Liouville in the 1830s and 1840s, leading to Liouville's theorem which classifies which expressions have closed form antiderivatives.

Japan ` s Ministry of Education classifies Hogaku as a category separate from other traditional forms of music, such as Gagaku ( court music ) or Shōmyō ( Buddhist chanting ), but most ethnomusicologists view Hogaku, in a broad sense, as the form from which the others were derived 34.

Natya Shastra classifies this type of dance form as margi, or the soul-liberating dance, unlike the desi ( purely entertaining ) forms.

It classifies itself as a monotheistic tradition, seeing the many forms of Vishnu as expansions or incarnations of the one Supreme God, adipurusha.

Samuel Adler classifies the harp as a plucked string instrument in the same category as the guitar ( acoustic or electric ), mandolin, banjo, or zither.

There is no simpler intermediary between being and non-being that explains and classifies being.

The Correlates of War, a dataset widely used by scholars of conflict, classifies civil wars as having over 1000 war-related casualties per year of conflict.

The text elaborates various hand-gestures or mudras and classifies movements of the various limbs of the body, gait, and so on.

By definition, this classifies it as both a river and a strait — a strait being a narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water.

* Physiognomy classifies forests based on their overall physical structure or developmental stage ( e. g. old growth vs. second growth ).

* Virginia classifies most felonies by number, ranging from Class 6 ( least severe: 1 to 5 years in prison or up to 12 months in jail ) through Class 2 ( 20 years to life, e. g., first-degree murder and aggravated malicious wounding ) up to Class 1 ( life imprisonment or the death penalty, reserved for certain types of murders ).

Paracelsus uses Gnomi as a synonym of Pygmæi, and classifies them as earth elementals.

In the metaphysics of the " New Age Prophetess ", Alice Bailey, in her system called the Seven Rays which classifies humans into seven different metaphysical psychological types, the " third ray " of " creative intelligence " is represented by the color green.

The IAEA classifies safety as one of its top three priorities, yet is spending only 8. 9 percent of its 352 million-euro ($ 469 million ) regular budget in 2011 on making plants secure from accidents.

* The " New Age Prophetess ", Alice A. Bailey, in her system called the Seven Rays which classifies humans into seven different metaphysical psychological types, the " second ray " of " Love-Wisdom " is represented by the color indigo.

The exact number of known living languages will vary from 5, 000 to 10, 000, depending generally on the precision of one's definition of " language ", and in particular on how one classifies dialects.

Modern Jewish legal practice ( halakha ) on kashrut classifies the flesh of both mammals and birds as " meat "; fish are considered to be parve, neither meat nor a dairy food.

Additionally, anti-money laundering software filters customer data, classifies it according to level of suspicion, and inspects it for anomalies.

Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather than on taxonomy.

There are somewhere between twenty and forty different varieties of cheese in Mexico, depending on how one classifies.

* Expressive power: The theory of computation classifies languages by the computations they are capable of expressing.

A type system defines how a programming language classifies values and expressions into types, how it can manipulate those types and how they interact.

The US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ) classifies CAM therapies into five categories or domains, including: alternative medical systems, or complete systems of therapy and practice ; mind-body interventions, or techniques designed to facilitate the mind's effect on bodily functions and symptoms ; biologically based systems including herbalism ; and manipulative and body-based methods such as chiropractic and massage therapy.

In the United States, for example, the general perjury statute under Federal law classifies perjury as a felony and provides for a prison sentence of up to five years.

Singer classifies euthanasia as voluntary, involuntary, or non-voluntary.

This reduces to the relationship: Af, where Af is the intercept at zero thickness of the extrapolation of the slope indicated in eqn. ( 1 ), Af is the thickness of the coating equivalent to the rounding off of the knife tip, Af is a straight line first approximation of this roundness, and the other symbols are equivalent to those of eqn. ( 1 ).

Unlike the Oriental Natural, the Akoya pearl, and the South Sea and Tahitian cultured pearls, abalone pearls are not primarily judged by their roundness.

Some properties, such as hardness, roundness and dampness, are clearly natural properties.

Those natural properties, such as hardness and roundness, can be perceived and encountered in the real world.

* The monk Bede ( c. 672 – 735 ) wrote in his influential treatise on computus, The Reckoning of Time, that the Earth was round (' not merely circular like a shield spread out like a wheel, but resembl more a ball '), explaining the unequal length of daylight from " the roundness of the Earth, for not without reason is it called ' the orb of the world ' on the pages of Holy Scripture and of ordinary literature.

Ælfric of Eynsham paraphrased Bede into Old English, saying " Now the Earth's roundness and the Sun's orbit constitute the obstacle to the day's being equally long in every land.

" In order to harden a quill that is soft, thrust the barrel into hot ashes, stirring it till it is soft ; then taking it out, press it almost flat upon your knees with the back of a penknife, and afterwards reduce it to a roundness with your fingers.

* After network executives, especially executive producer Gail Berman, criticized her appearance and the roundness of her face, Cho starved herself for several weeks.

In this group also belong reeds with a ' cover ,' i. e. a tube in which the air vibrates only in a secondary sense, not producing the sound but simply adding roundness and timbre to the sound made by the reed's vibration ; generally recognizable by the absence of fingerholes.

He was somewhat old-fashioned in retaining a roundness in his figures, rather than adopting the thin angularity of most of his artist contemporaries, especially those in London.

According to Aristotle, if bronze is a bronze sphere ’ s matter, then roundness is its form.

It becomes actually a bronze sphere when given roundness.

Thus, roundness is an " actuality " of the bronze sphere — or, rather, part of the bronze sphere's actuality: it is the shape that a thing needs in order to actually be a bronze sphere.

Similarly, a bronze sphere's ( proximate ) matter is bronze, which needs roundness in order to be a sphere.

The quality of paintballs is dependent on the brittleness of the ball's shell, the roundness of the sphere, and the thickness of the fill ; higher-quality balls are almost perfectly spherical, with a very thin shell to guarantee breaking upon impact, and a thick, brightly colored fill that is difficult to hide or wipe off during the game.

For this reason, single malt Scotches that have been matured in sherry casks are especially prized by blenders, as they give a blend a roundness and richness.

The other differences come in wine making styles, with the Alsatian preferring more French-oriented methods that produce wines of higher alcohol content ( normally around 12 %) and more roundness due to longer time spent in neutral oak barrels or steel tanks.

In 1883, Friedrich Fischer, founder of FAG, developed an approach for milling and grinding balls of equal size and exact roundness by means of a suitable production machine and formed the foundation for creation of an independent bearing industry.

Producers and network officials were concerned about the roundness of her face.

* specific shape of letters, e. g. their roundness or sharpness ;

The oft-praised " roundness " of the poem is thus emphasized, and the final link-word is repeated in the first line of the whole, forging a connection between the two ends of the poem and producing a structure that is itself circular.