The definition, therefore, assumes a particular value for the density of mercury.

This article assumes that a scaling can have a scale factor of 1, so that all congruent shapes are also similar, but some school text books specifically exclude congruent triangles from their definition of similar triangles by insisting that the sizes must be different to qualify as similar.

This definition assumes that the voltage stays undistorted ( sinusoidal, without harmonics ).

A common response from Christian philosophers, such as Norman Geisler or Richard Swinburne is that the paradox assumes a wrong definition of omnipotence.

A circular definition is one that uses the term ( s ) being defined as a part of the definition or assumes a prior understanding of the term being defined.

It assumes that cooperation is possible in the anarchic system of states, indeed, regimes are by definition, instances of international cooperation.

This definition assumes that a continuum exists between ( real-world ) empiricism and ( supernatural ) transcendentalism, with science fiction film on the side of empiricism, and horror film and fantasy film on the side of transcendentalism.

The definition of an open system assumes that there are supplies of energy that cannot be depleted ; in practice, this energy is supplied from some source in the surrounding environment, which can be treated as infinite for the purposes of study.

As far as animals are concerned, this article assumes the ‘ zoological definition ’ of feral.

This is as the definition finds the tangent to the total cost curve at the point q which assumes that costs increase at the same rate as they were at q.

The Department of Labor on June 22, 2010 clarified the definition of " son and daughter " under the FMLA " to ensure that an employee who assumes the role of caring for a child receives parental rights to family leave regardless of the legal or biological relationship " and specifying that " an employee who intends to share in the parenting of a child with his or her same sex partner will be able to exercise the right to FMLA leave to bond with that child.

This value definition differs from the previous one in that it assumes an orderly transition, and not " extreme compulsion ".

Ostensive definition assumes the questioner has sufficient understanding to recognize the type of information being given.

This type of definition assumes both knowledge and acceptance of the theories that it depends on.

Note that the second definition assumes that the depth of field is symmetric around H ( which is roughly correct for normal lenses ) and therefore assumes a setting in which only half the depth of field is utilized ( i. e., for a lens focused at infinity, the depth of field is 10. 4 m to infinity ).

The original definition of OLSR does not include any provisions for sensing of link quality ; it simply assumes that a link is up if a number of hello packets have been received recently.

The distinction between the two is that this second definition assumes that the combustion products are all returned to the reference temperature and the heat content from the condensing vapor is considered not to be useful.

The definition of the load impedance implicitly assumes that stress and speed are proportional and that the ratio therefore is independent of speed.

The definition of a competitive Lotka-Volterra system assumes that all values in the interaction matrix are positive or 0 ( α < sub > ij </ sub > ≥ 0 for all i, j ).

'" The mistake the cowboy makes is that he assumes that the definition of a lesbian is somebody who spends the " whole day thinking about women.

These recipients are by definition too poor to post a bond or to repay the benefits that, as the majority assumes, must be spent as received to insure survival.

This security definition is currently the strongest definition known for a public key cryptosystem: it assumes that the attacker has access to a decryption oracle which will decrypt any ciphertext using the scheme's secret decryption key.

The appellate court will typically be deferential to the lower court's findings of fact ( such as whether a defendant committed a particular act ), unless clearly erroneous, and so will focus on the court's application of the law to those facts ( such as whether the act found by the court to have occurred fits a legal definition at issue ).

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

Heschel then goes on to explore the problems of doubts and faith ; what Judaism means by teaching that God is one ; the essence of humanity and the problem of human needs ; the definition of religion in general and of Judaism in particular ; and human yearning for spirituality.

Certain rules have traditionally been given for this particular type of definition.

Robbins describes the definition as not classificatory in " pick out certain kinds of behaviour " but rather analytical in " focus attention on a particular aspect of behaviour, the form imposed by the influence of scarcity.

Among economists more generally, it argues that a particular definition presented may reflect the direction toward which the author believes economics is evolving, or should evolve.

Yet another equivalent definition of the ellipse is that it is the set of points that are equidistant from one point in the plane ( a focus ) and a particular circle, the directrix circle ( whose center is the other focus ).

By an abuse of the definition, a particular formal language is often thought of as being equipped with a formal grammar that describes it.

Moore asserted that philosophical arguments can suffer from a confusion between the use of a term in a particular argument and the definition of that term ( in all arguments ).

This comes in contrast with the direct meaning of the notion of semantic consequence, that quantifies over all structures in a particular language, which is clearly not a recursive definition.

In this definition, references to the way or ways in which an offence is triable are to be construed without regard to the effect, if any, of section 22 of the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 on the mode of trial in a particular case.

The bull of definition of the dogma, Ineffabilis Deus, mentioned in particular the patrististic interpretation of as referring to a woman, Mary, who would be eternally at enmity with the evil serpent and completely triumphing over him.

This definition stresses the fact that human languages can be described as closed structural systems consisting of rules that relate particular signs to particular meanings.

However, the standard definition of libre requires that a work be free from a particular set of permission restrictions ; some works that qualify as libre open access would not qualify as libre ( for example, those with a Creative Commons NonCommercial or NoDerivatives licence term ).

In 2001, David Wiley criticized learning object theory in his paper, The Reusability Paradox which is summarized by D ' Arcy Norman as, If a learning object is useful in a particular context, by definition it is not reusable in a different context.

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.

* The Islamic calendar has retained an observational definition of the new moon, marking the new month when the first crescent moon is actually seen, and making it impossible to be certain in advance of when a specific month will begin ( in particular, the exact date on which Ramadan will begin is not known in advance ).

The book " Archbold " said that it appears to be immaterial whether the court, before which the statement is made, has jurisdiction in the particular cause in which the statement is made, because there is no express requirement in the Act that the court be one of " competent jurisdiction " and because the definition in section 1 ( 2 ) does not appear to require this by implication either.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the definition of the word privy in Privy Council is an obsolete one meaning " of or pertaining exclusively to a particular person or persons, one's own ;" hence the council is personal to the sovereign.

* Choice Corollary: People choose for themselves the particular alternative in a dichotomized construct through which they anticipate the greater possibility for extension and definition of their system.

He argued, back in 1871, that narrowing the definition to mean the belief in a supreme deity or judgment after death or idolatry and so on, would exclude many peoples from the category of religious, and thus " has the fault of identifying religion rather with particular developments than with the deeper motive which underlies them ".

The third definition attempts to distinguish shamans from other magico-religious specialists who are believed to contact spirits, such as " mediums ", " witch doctors ", " spiritual healers " or " prophets ", by claiming that they undertake a particular technique not used by the others.