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* 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 ).
According to the American calendar, the U. S. summer season is commonly regarded as beginning on Memorial Day weekend ( the last weekend in May ) and ending on Labor Day weekend ( the first weekend in September ), more closely in line with the meteorological definition ; the similar Canadian tradition starts summer on Victoria Day one week prior ( although summer conditions vary widely across Canada's expansive territory ) and ends, like the United States, on Labour Day.
Tiger Woods has come closest to meeting the modern definition of golf's Grand Slam by holding all four modern major championships simultaneously — the U. S. Open, The Open Championship and the PGA Championship in 2000 and the 2001 Masters — although not in the same calendar year.
Unlike the astronomical seasonal definition, these dates are dependent on the Gregorian calendar and time zones.
The sages of the Talmud settled disputes over the halachic definition of the vernal equinox by establishing it on March 25 of the Julian calendar.
When the Anglican and Lutheran churches implemented their own calendar and lectionary reforms in 1976, they adopted the same shortened definition of the Easter season as the Roman Catholic Church had promulgated six years earlier.
This section applies to any facility that is required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ( OSHA ) under its Hazard Communication Standard to prepare or have available a Material Safety Data Sheet ( MSDS ) for a hazardous chemical ( See II above for definition ) or that has on-site, for any one day in a calendar year, an amount of a hazardous chemical equal to or greater than the following threshold limits established by the EPA:
The amendment also introduces an explicit definition for the term " a day according to the Hebrew calendar ".

definition and day
An equivalent definition is the radius of an unperturbed circular Newtonian orbit about the Sun of a particle having infinitesimal mass, moving with an angular frequency of radians per day ; or that length such that, when used to describe the positions of the objects in the Solar System, the heliocentric gravitational constant ( the product GM < sub >☉</ sub >) is equal to ()< sup > 2 </ sup > AU < sup > 3 </ sup >/ d < sup > 2 </ sup >.
Meteorologists ( and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere ) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, According to United States tradition, autumn runs from the day after Labor Day ( i. e. the Tuesday following the first Monday of September ) through Thanksgiving ( i. e. the fourth Thursday in November ), after which the holiday season that demarcates the unofficial beginning of winter begins.
The definition of ballroom dance also depends on the era: balls have featured popular dances of the day such as the Minuet, Quadrille, Polonaise, Polka, Mazurka, and others, which are now considered to be historical dances.
This definition are the absolute proportions for the Danish national flag to this day, for both the civil version of the flag (" Stutflaget "), as well as the merchant flag (" Handelsflaget ").
Between 1000 ( when al-Biruni used seconds ) and 1960 the second was defined as 1 / 86, 400 of a mean solar day ( that definition still applies in some astronomical and legal contexts ).
19th-and 20th-century astronomical observations revealed that the mean solar day is slowly but measurably lengthening and the length of a tropical year is not entirely predictable either ; thus the sun – earth motion is no longer considered a suitable basis for definition.
Thus, the 1960 SI definition abandoned any explicit relationship between the scientific second and the length of a day, as most people understand the term.
Because the temperature lag is shorter in the oceanic temperate southern hemisphere most countries in this region, especially Australia and New Zealand, use the meteorological definition with summer starting on December 1 and ending on the last day of February.
One definition of Overactive bladder is when a person urinates more than eight times per day, though there can be other causes of urination frequency.
It does not define the time of day, as this is defined by various time scales, which may be based upon the metric definition of the second.
The precise definition of a sidereal day is the time taken for one rotation of the Earth in this precessing reference frame.
On the third day, the jury asked Judge Gerald Fisher to clarify the definition of assault.
Vandervert ( 1980 / 1988 ) described in scientific detail a simple, every day illustration of an operational definition in terms of making a cake ( i. e., its recipe is an operational definition used in a specialized laboratory known as the household kitchen ).
Dwivedi & Dwivedi ( 2007 )— on the condition described by Sushruta — hold that: ' It embodies all the essential components of present day definition, i. e. site, nature, aggravating and relieving factors and referral.
Exactly how this is chosen depends on the tidal regime in the area being charted and on the policy of the hydrographic office producing the chart in question ; a typical definition is Lowest Astronomical Tide ( the lowest tide predictable from the effects of gravity ), or Mean Lower Low Water ( the average lowest tide of each day ), although MSL is sometimes used in waters with very low tidal ranges.
Glucose levels vary before and after meals, and at various times of day ; the definition of " normal " varies among medical professionals.
The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transsexual community ( commonly abbreviated as the " LGBT " community ), mostly evident in North America, Southern Cone, Western Europe, Australasia and South Africa, fits the definition of a countercultural movement as " a cultural group whose values and norms of behavior run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day.
For a brief trial period in Summer 2000, selected episodes from the first series were shown on Fridays at 7 pm and from 16 February 2009, the show began transmitting in high definition on BBC HD at 4: 00pm the same day.
The Suharto regime's definition of poverty was also inflated: it was a monetary sum, a rupiah base sufficient to enable the poor to get the internationally accepted norm of 2, 100 calories a day.
Not widely known, the correct definition of an " intra-day " means the move as measured from the previous close and not just relative to another price traded on the same day.
) While these early musicians were likely using the term " bossa nova " as a generic reference to this novel musical style, the term took hold as the definition of their own specific artistic creation to this day.
The latter definition encompasses many modern structures, while the former more generally covers tunnel systems from ancient times to the present day.
The first programme was the movie Lost in Translation, followed the next day by the 50th anniversary tribute to television in Sweden, which was the first live entertainment programme to be broadcast in high definition in Sweden.

definition and resembling
" This attitude markedly differs from the common definition in photography which qualifies 40mm to 65mm as the focal length of a normal lens instead due to resembling natural human field of view, unlike Gilliam's signature style defined by extreme perspective distortion due to his usual choice of focal length.
This later school began around eastern India and Bengal, and developed theories resembling modern logic, such as Gottlob Frege's " distinction between sense and reference of proper names " and his " definition of number ," as well as the Navya-Nyaya theory of " restrictive conditions for universals " anticipating some of the developments in modern set theory.
The seminal American Yacht Designer of the first half of last century, Francis Herreshoff, reflected this traditional definition of a yawl as " a ship's boat resembling the pinnace " set up to be primarily rowed.
Battling Maxo is a robot, or, to be exact, an android, definition: ' an automaton resembling a human being.
This later school began around eastern India and Bengal, and developed theories resembling modern logic, such as Gottlob Frege's " distinction between sense and reference of proper names " and his " definition of number ," as well as the Navya-Nyaya theory of " restrictive conditions for universals " anticipating some of the developments in modern set theory.

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The traditional definition of Anatolia within modern Turkey
The Arrhenius definition of acid – base reactions is a development of the hydrogen theory of acids, devised by Svante Arrhenius, which was used to provide a modern definition of acids and bases that followed from his work with Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald in establishing the presence of ions in aqueous solution in 1884, and led to Arrhenius receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1903 for " recognition of the extraordinary services ... rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation ".
The Shakespearean English form of the word ' brass ' can mean any bronze alloy, or copper, rather than the strict modern definition of brass.
One of these was the property, an essential universal true of the species, but not in the definition ( in modern terms, some examples would be grammatical language, a property of man, or a spectral pattern characteristic of an element, both of which are defined in other ways ).
Regardless of the physical geography, in the modern internationally accepted legal definition as defined by the League of Nations in 1937 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945, a resident of a country is subject to the independent exercise of legal jurisdiction.
The first known European gambling house, not called a casino although meeting the modern definition, was the Ridotto, established in Venice, Italy in 1638 to provide controlled gambling during the carnival season.
) In reliance on this assumption, modern statutes often leave a number of terms and fine distinctions unstated — for example, a statute might be very brief, leaving the precise definition of terms unstated, under the assumption that these fine distinctions will be inherited from pre-existing common law.
The candela is sometimes still called by the old name candle, such as in foot-candle and the modern definition of candlepower.
In 1979, because of the difficulties in realizing a Planck radiator at high temperatures and the new possibilities offered by radiometry, the 16th CGPM adopted the modern definition of the candela.
The word " strategy " had only recently come into usage in modern Europe, and Clausewitz's definition is quite narrow: " the use of engagements for the object of war.
" Some modern readers find this narrow definition disappointing, but his focus was on the conduct of military operations in war, not on the full range of the conduct of politics in war.
This is however not the modern definition which only requires the result be accurate to within any given accuracy.
The informal definition above is subject to a rounding problem called the table-maker's dilemma whereas the modern definition is not.
In Samuel Johnson's 1828 dictionary, his definition of " pall mall " clearly describes a game with similarities to modern croquet: " A play in which the ball is struck with a mallet through an iron ring ".
While the specific definition has changed over time, modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic style of such works.
assumption that Western society is the definition of modern society.
A modern definition has been created and provided by the World Union of Deists ( WUD ) that provides a modern understanding of deism:
The modern definition has four points, which it numbers zero to three in compliance with zero-based numbering common to computer systems.
There is no broadly accepted modern definition of feudalism.
A narrow definition would take in roughly the same area as the modern states of Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Jordan, while a wider definition would include Syria.
In other words, the modern definition may be thought of as, " that pride that comes just before the fall ".

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