The law of definite proportions contributed to, and was placed on a firm theoretical basis by, the atomic theory that John Dalton promoted beginning in 1803, which explained matter as consisting of discrete atoms, that there was one type of atom for each element, and that the compounds were made of combinations of different types of atoms in fixed proportions.

While the mathematics permits calculation of many quantities that can be measured experimentally, there is a definite theoretical limit to values that can be simultaneously measured.

Charles Cros, a French poet and amateur scientist, is the first person known to have made the conceptual leaps from recording sound as a traced line to the theoretical possibility of reproducing the sound from the tracing and then to a definite method for accomplishing the reproduction.

However, the Risch algorithm applies only to indefinite integrals and most of the integrals of interest to Physicists, theoretical Chemists and Engineers, are definite integrals often related to Laplace transforms, Fourier transforms and Mellin transforms.

However, Aberdeen told him that no definite decision on reform had been taken and persuaded Palmerston to return to the Cabinet.

This would be in effect until Congress made a definite decision at its next session.

: In the beginning there was a very definite reason for the decision of Desilu Productions to put I Love Lucy on film instead of doing it live and having kinescope recordings carry it to affiliate outlets of the network.

The presence of the English contingent and its very definite purpose of making Dunkirk a new Calais, to be held by England forever, gave the next campaign a character of certainty and decision which was entirely wanting in the rest of the war.

For some days Goblet took no definite decision, but left Flourens, who stood for peace, to fight it out with General Boulanger, the minister of war, who urged the despatch of an ultimatum.

However it takes some months before a definite decision to be made on the true date of solar minimum, which is announced by the relevant expert authorities.

Mackenzie ’ s expeditions had been primarily reconnaissance trips, while Fraser ’ s assignment, by contrast, reflected a definite decision to build trading posts and take possession of the country, as well as to explore travel routes.

By 2002 and 2003 cross-party resolutions of the Bundestag reached a compromise to support at least a partial rebuilding of the Stadtschloss, but no definite decision was made.

Chahi had nothing to do with the development of the game, beyond suggesting Lester's death, but has since regretted that decision stating that he did not like it because it made a definite conclusion to the story, which he had deliberately left open-ended.

Agent environments can be organized according to various properties like: accessibility ( depending on if it is possible to gather complete information about the environment ), determinism ( if an action performed in the environment causes a definite effect ), dynamics ( how many entities influence the environment in the moment ), discreteness ( whether the number of possible actions in the environment is finite ), episodicity ( whether agent actions in certain time periods influence other periods ), and dimensionality ( whether spatial characteristics are important factors of the environment and the agent considers space in its decision making ).

: " Today's decision sanctions school officials to conduct fullscale searches on a ' reasonableness ' standard whose only definite content is that it is not the same test as the ' probable cause ' standard found in the text of the Fourth Amendment.

* Item: Cooperation by the commission with other bodies-Decision: no definite decision was made.

* Item: Development of a 20-year program for achieving peace through the United Nations-Decision: no definite decision was made.

There is no definite time period in which the president has to make a decision.

Six days later, in a meeting with Lowenstein and another liberal leader McCarthy made his decision definite.

Some Qur ' anic scholars have translated Dīn in places as " faith " Others suggest that the term " has been used in various forms and meanings, e. g., power, supremacy, ascendancy, sovereignty or lordship, dominion, law, constitution, mastery, government, realm, decision, definite outcome, reward and punishment.

An example of a more definite class bias is noted in proceedings of the Commission on the Financing of Higher Education sponsored by the Association of American Universities and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation.

The cubist generation before World War 1,, and, on a lower level, the surrealists of the period between the wars, both assumed an accepted universe of discourse, in which, to quote Andre Breton, it was possible to make definite advances, exactly as in the sciences.

In urethane foams, for example, there has been a definite trend toward the polyether-type materials ( which are now available in two-component rigid foam systems ) and the emphasis is definitely on one-shot molding.

Based on this idea and the atomic theory of John Dalton, Joseph Proust had developed the law of definite proportions, which later resulted in the concepts of stoichiometry and chemical equations.

Berthollet was engaged in a long-term battle with another French chemist Joseph Proust on the validity of the law of definite proportions.

Hubbard described Dianetics as " an organized science of thought built on definite axioms: statements of natural laws on the order of those of the physical sciences ".

This is a concept of distance expressed by means of a smooth positive definite symmetric bilinear form defined on the tangent space at each point.

Meanwhile there is definite evidence of grimoires being used by certain, particularly Gnostic sects of early Christianity ; in the Book of Enoch found within the Dead Sea Scrolls for instance, there is various information on astrology and the angels.

The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of consciousness.

During the 19th century the gospel-song genre spread rapidly in Protestantism and, to a lesser but still definite extent, in Roman Catholicism ; the gospel-song genre is unknown in the worship per se by Eastern Orthodox churches, which rely exclusively on traditional chants ( a type of hymn ).

Jonathan Silk has argued that the term " Hinayana " was used to refer to whomever one wanted to criticize on any given occasion, and did not refer to any definite grouping of Buddhists.

There are definite examples of humor restricted by copyright law on the internet ; examples include the Dilbert cartoons of Scott Adams or the newspaper columns of Dave Barry.

Through the fundamental theorem of calculus, which they independently developed, integration is connected with differentiation: if f is a continuous real-valued function defined on a closed interval, then, once an antiderivative F of f is known, the definite integral of f over that interval is given by

Kepler claimed to have had an epiphany on July 19, 1595, while teaching in Graz, demonstrating the periodic conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the zodiac ; he realized that regular polygons bound one inscribed and one circumscribed circle at definite ratios, which, he reasoned, might be the geometrical basis of the universe.

That the several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government ; but that, by compact, under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each state to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government ; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force ; that to this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party ; that this government, created by this compact, was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself, since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.

The lack of a decipherment means there is no definite evidence for this view, though there is support based on onomatopoeia ( for example: AB 23 ' mu ' from Hieroglyphic 12, a bull-head ; AB 80 ' ma ' from H cat-head ; AB 67 ' ki ' from H 57 a sistrum ( a type of rattle ); AB 60 ' ra ' from H 18 dog-head ; AB 50 ' pu ' from H 58 harp ).

Thus materialism has no definite content independent of the particular theory of matter on which it is based.

In the administration's view, the United States needed to adopt a definite position on the world scene or fear losing credibility.

The presence of demyelinating white matter lesions on brain MRI at the time of presentation of optic neuritis is the strongest predictor for developing clinically definite MS.

Scientific experiments have not yet pinpointed any definite evidence that this is the case, although they have placed upper bounds on the maximum possible relative change per year at very small amounts ( roughly 10 < sup >− 17 </ sup > per year for the fine structure constant α and 10 < sup >− 11 </ sup > for the gravitational constant G ).

A definite diagnosis of ADPKD relies on imaging or molecular genetic testing.

Names will not be assigned to satellites until their orbital elements are reasonably well known or definite features have been identified on them.

In the case of a classical computer, we sample from the probability distribution on the three-bit register to obtain one definite three-bit string, say 000.