A more detailed description of dictionary operations -- text lookup and dictionary modification -- gives a clearer picture.

Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner used the words lituum alpinum for the first known detailed description of the alphorn in his De raris et admirandis herbis in 1555.

" The most detailed surviving description of Agathon is in the Thesmophoriazousae, in which Agathon appears as a pale, clean-shaven young man dressed in women's clothes.

Ammianus ' work contains a detailed description of the tsunami in Alexandria which devastated the metropolis and the shores of the eastern Mediterranean on 21 July 365.

An overview of impact printing contains a detailed description of many of the technologies used.

* Cragon, Harvey G. From Fish to Colossus: How the German Lorenz Cipher was Broken at Bletchley Park ( Cragon Books, Dallas, 2003 ; ISBN 0-9743045-0-6 ) – A detailed description of the cryptanalysis of Tunny, and some details of Colossus ( contains some minor errors )

Josephus gives a detailed description of Caligula's assassination.

A detailed description of the gastraphetes, along with a drawing, is found in Heron's technical treatise Belopoeica.

A detailed description of the gastraphetes, or the “ belly-bow ”, along with a watercolor drawing, is found in Heron's technical treatise Belopoeica.

Youth in the CCC ( 1938 ) detailed description of all major activities

* Denarius of L. Censorinus, for the detailed description of a specific Roman denarius

A detailed description of Domitian's appearance and character is provided by Suetonius, who devotes a substantial part of his biography to his personality.

The collaboration between Kroeber and Sapir was made difficult by the fact that Sapir largely followed his own interest in detailed linguistic description, ignoring the administrative pressures to which Kroeber was subject, among them the need for a speedy completion and a focus on the broader classification issues.

* Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History-Over 160, 000 objects from Pacific, North American, African, Asian ethnographic collections with images and detailed description, linked to the original catalogue pages, field notebooks, and photographs are available online.

He published a highly detailed description of the development of a depth-first backtracking algorithm .< sup > 2 </ sup >

-week 5 gives a detailed description by David Farrell, of the University of Manchester ( England ), Elizabeth McLeay of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

* Geiger – Müller tube-For a more detailed description of GM tube operation and types.

* For Eric Leif Davin's Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965, MacLean supplied him with a detailed description of her negotiations with John W. Campbell in regards to the publication of her earliest stories.

The most detailed description of Laocoön's grisly fate was provided by Quintus Smyrnaeus in Posthomerica, a later, literary version of events following the Iliad.

For a detailed description of the differences between the microscopic ( total charge and current )

From these and other sources, it is possible to derive an almost complete description of the detailed Manichaean vision ( a complete list of Manichaean deities is outlined below ).

Beginning with the time of its creation by Mani, the Manichaean religion had a detailed description of deities and events that took place within the Manichaean scheme of the universe.

A detailed description and analysis of bottom-up mergesort appeared in a report by Goldstine and Neumann as early as 1948.

For a more detailed description of the physics and operating principles of critical fission reactors, see nuclear reactor physics.

In 1990, in a paper entitled " Climate and Smoke: An Appraisal of Nuclear Winter ," TTAPS give a more detailed description of the short-and long-term atmospheric effects of a nuclear war using a three-dimensional model:

Howard's detailed proposals for improvements were designed to enhance the physical and mental health of the prisoners and the security and order of the prison.

Task analysis is the analysis of how a task is accomplished, including a detailed description of both manual and mental activities, task and element durations, task frequency, task allocation, task complexity, environmental conditions, necessary clothing and equipment, and any other unique factors involved in or required for one or more people to perform a given task.

The reductive materialist contrasts the eliminativist more strongly, arguing that a mental state is well defined, and that further research will result in a more detailed, but not different understanding.

The claim was that Brown dictated the confession to the SBI agent but given his mental state at the time, there is no possibility that he could have given such a detailed confession.

Before each voyage begins, the navigator should develop a detailed mental model of how the entire voyage will proceed.

After a detailed and lengthy account by Karpov of Soviet psychiatric reforms in which he emphasized the specialities of the new mental health legislation and in particular the legal safeguards for patients, other panellists worked out on what they considered as positive aspects of the new developments.

Although the full extent of this tampering is not detailed, the most crippling is their pacifism — when Darhel are stressed, their bodies produce an epinephrine analogue they call tal — which unlike epinephrine, augments both physical and mental abilities.

One detailed application of mental accounting, the behavioral life cycle hypothesis ( Shefrin & Thaler, 1988 ), posits that people mentally frame assets as belonging to either current income, current wealth or future income and this has implications for their behavior as the accounts are largely non-fungible and marginal propensity to consume out of each account is different.

Task analysis is the analysis of how a task is accomplished, including a detailed description of both manual and mental activities, task and element durations, task frequency, task allocation, task complexity, environmental conditions, necessary clothing and equipment, and any other unique factors involved in or required for one or more people to perform a given task.

The Framingham Heart Study participants, and their children and grandchildren, voluntarily consented to undergo a detailed medical history, physical examination, and medical tests every two years, creating a wealth of data about physical and mental health, especially about cardiovascular disease.

Neo chooses the red pill and is illuminated as to the true nature of the Matrix ; a detailed simulation of Earth circa 1999, which keeps the inhabitants, whose physical bodies are stored in massive power plants, complacent in a mental prison, in order to convert their heat and bioelectrical energy into power for machine consumption.

In physics, a statistical ensemble is a large set of ( mental ) copies of a system, considered all at once ; each copy of the system representing a different possible detailed realisation of the system, consistent with the system's observed macroscopic properties.

The book deals for the most part with trying to fit the various phenomena described into Fort's new theory of psychic and mental power-the " Wild Talents " of the title-that are detailed below.

From inside, it can be seen that there is no obvious physical means of operation ; instead, the three are simply seated back-to-back, a formation seen quite commonly among the aliens throughout the season, frequently in a state of some type of shared mental exercise ( though what this practice is exactly is never detailed in the series ).

A physician by profession, he sought to combine with an elaborate theory of mental association a minutely detailed hypothesis as to the corresponding action of the nervous system, based upon the suggestion of a vibratory motion within the nerves thrown out by Isaac Newton in the last paragraph of the Principia.

In the diary, Arenas describes the geographical location and the natural beauty of the Marquetalia area with many details, giving the reader a detailed mental picture of the area, made up of 800 square km in the Andes, at around 6000 feet above sea level, with the presence of monsoon rainfall.

Epistemics, in Goldman's version, differs only slightly from traditional epistemology in its alliance with the psychology of cognition ; epistemics stresses the detailed study of mental processess and information-processing mechanisms that lead to knowledge or beliefs.