If a pitcher throws 100 pitches at which batters swing, and the batters fail to make contact on 26 of them, the pitcher's whiff rate is 26 %.

He tends to use his curveball when ahead in the count, bolstered by its 34 % whiff rate.

It has a whiff rate of 48 % since 2007, the third-highest among all changeups thrown by relief pitchers.

Its whiff rate is 42 % over this span, and more than half the pitches put in play are ground balls.

When Danican's poorly trained men attacked, on 13 Vendémiaire, 1795 — October 5, 1795, in the calendar used in France, at the time — Napoleon ordered his cannon to fire grapeshot into the mob, an act that became known as the " whiff of grapeshot ".

* A small scratch and sniff card which bore seven numbered areas ( at certain points in the game, the player would be instructed to scratch a certain number and then whiff the resulting odor.

This scandal, which would have destroyed his career if the whole truth had come out at the time, was a precursor to the whiff of corruption ( e. g. the sale of honours ) that later surrounded Lloyd George's premiership.

Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse at the first whiff of gunpowder.

While associated to the clientelist and nearly feudal style of government of many provincial governors and the corruption of the PJ, Kirchner was comparatively unknown to the national public, and he showed himself as a newcomer who had arrived at the Casa Rosada without the usual whiff of scandal about him, trying not to make a point of the fact that he himself had seven times been on the same electoral ballot with Menem.

In 2010, Hugh Hefner's former girlfriend Izabella St. James, in her memoir " Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion ", wrote that the house was in need of renovation: " Everything in the Mansion felt old and stale, and Archie the house dog would regularly relieve himself on the hallway curtains, adding a powerful whiff of urine to the general scent of decay.

Chicago journalist Neil Steinberg said ( of the Bristol Renaissance Faire ), " If theme parks, with their pasteboard main streets, reek of a bland, safe, homogenized, whitebread America, the Renaissance Faire is at the other end of the social spectrum, a whiff of the occult, a flash of danger and a hint of the erotic.

This test, called the whiff test, is performed by adding a small amount of potassium hydroxide to a microscopic slide containing the vaginal discharge.

Similar to the whiff test, the test for clue cells is performed by placing a drop of sodium chloride solution on a slide containing vaginal discharge.

Chairman and CEO Scott Livengood attributed the poor results to the low-carbohydrate diet craze, an explanation viewed with skepticism by analysts as " blaming the Atkins diet for disappointing earnings carried a whiff of desperation ".

He did not go, for just days before he was to embark for the Near East he proved himself useful to the Directory by putting down a Parisian mob in the whiff of grapeshot and was kept in France.

It was put down by Napoleon with a whiff of grapeshot.

Born into an upper-middle class family, Gómez de la Serna refused to follow his father into law or politics and soon adopted the marginal lifestyle of a bohemian bourgeois artist, finding his literary feet in the journal Prometeo, which, funded by his indulgent father between 1908 and 1912, introduced into Spain a whiff of scandal from the likes of Oscar Wilde, Remy de Gourmont and Marinetti.

By 1922 Birkenhead and Churchill had become the leading figures of the Lloyd George Coalition and associated with the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the attempt to go to war with Turkey over Chanak, later vetoed by the governments of the Dominions and, in Birkenhead's case if not Churchill's, the general whiff of moral and financial corruption which had come to surround the Coalition.

* A whiff of teargas by Andy Durgan, International Socialism, 125, ( 2010 )

In 1945 Mayne was recommended for a VC, but the accuracy of the citation has been questioned by those present, one of whom noted that his account of the incident had been altered and that the final version, signed by the Canadian Commander of 4th Canadian Armoured Division, Christopher Vokes, had a whiff of ' bullshit ' about it.

Not even a whiff.

A characteristic fishy odor is considered a positive whiff test and is suggestive of bacterial vaginosis.

The statute was removed after the intervention of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in the 1960s after it came to the attention of Oxford's Wykeham Professor of Logic, A. J. Ayer, himself Jewish and an Old Etonian, who " suspected a whiff of anti-semitism ".

A whiff of scandal in English lexicography " Australian Style, 12 ( 1 ): 1 – 3.

Notes Price: " The name already carried a whiff of sulfur: Sheol was the name for the Netherworld mentioned in the Bible and the Gilgamesh Epic.

This study exposed a group of women to a whiff of perspiration from other women.

* October 5: 13 Vendémiaire-Napoleon's " whiff of grapeshot " quells Paris insurrection.

Such wines lack the pungent " whiff of turpentine " streak of old, and are considered ideal accompaniments to such strong-tasting local cuisine as pastırma or garlic dips.

In the " amine whiff test " 10 % KOH is added to the discharge, a positive result indicated if a fishy smell is produced.

He nearly falls off the wagon due to his catching a whiff of fish blood.

The K factor, a term used to denote the rate of heat transmission through a material ( B.t.u./sq. ft. of material/hr./*0F./in. of thickness ) ranges from 0.24 to 0.28 for flexible urethane foams and from 0.12 to 0.16 for rigid urethane foams, depending upon the formulation, density, cell size, and nature of blowing agents used.

However, in late 2006 and early 2007 the rate of attrition reached new proportions, and the term colony collapse disorder was coined to describe the sudden disappearances.

This involves a central bank buying back long term government bonds from other domestic financial institutions without reference to the interest rate ( which is typically low when QE is called for ), seriously increasing the money supply.

Long term cross ownership of shares combined with a high capital tax rate greatly increases periods of asset deflation both in time and in severity.

The main monetary policy instruments available to central banks are open market operation, bank reserve requirement, interest rate policy, re-lending and re-discount ( including using the term repurchase market ), and credit policy ( often coordinated with trade policy ).

The inflation rate was also kept low during his term.

The term relative bradycardia is used in explaining a heart rate which, although not actually below 60 beats per minute, is still considered too slow for the individual's current medical condition.

In a general sense, anything that increases the rate of a process is a " catalyst ", a term derived from Greek καταλύειν, meaning " to annul ," or " to untie ," or " to pick up.

However the term inhibitor is preferred since they do not work by introducing a reaction path with higher activation energy ; this would not reduce the rate since the reaction would continue to occur by the non-catalyzed path.

The first term on the right-hand side of this equation gives the local rate of change of the property occurring at position.

The second term of the right-hand side is the convective rate of change and expresses the contribution of the particle changing position in space ( motion ).

in which the term proportional to the square of the rate of rotation appears on the acceleration side as a " centripetal acceleration ", that is, a negative acceleration term in the direction.

The centrifugal force term in this equation is called a " fictitious force ", " apparent force ", or " pseudo force ", as its value varies with the rate of rotation of the frame of reference.

In epidemiology and actuarial science, the term morbidity rate can refer to either the incidence rate, or the prevalence of a disease or medical condition.

But the principal effect is over the long term: over many centuries tidal friction inexorably slows Earth's rate of rotation by about + 2. 3 ms / day / cy.

The term " calcium-sparing diuretic " is sometimes used to identify agents that result in a relatively low rate of excretion of calcium.

The term high explosive is in contrast to the term low explosive, which explodes ( deflagrates ) at a slower rate.

The term dV < sub > k </ sub >/ dt represents the rate of change of the system volume at position k which result in pV power done by the system.

The coefficient of the in the metric tensor is the square of the clock rate, which for small values of the potential is given by keeping only the linear term:

This relationship is represented in a linear regression where the change in unemployment rate () is a function of an intercept (), a given value of GNP growth multiplied by a slope coefficient and an error term,:

Under the rating system of the Royal Navy, by the middle of the 18th century, the term " frigate " was technically restricted to single-decked ships of the fifth rate, though small 28-gun frigates were classed as sixth rate.