In each step, the algorithm compares the input key value with the key value of the middle element of the array.

It was notable for its use of constructors for abstract data types that included the code that operated on them, a key step in the direction of object-oriented programming ( OOP ).

The classic merge ( the one used in merge sort ) outputs the data item with the lowest key at each step ; given some sorted lists, it produces a sorted list containing all the elements in any of the input lists, and it does so in time proportional to the sum of the lengths of the input lists.

The acquisition of pitcher Roy Oswalt in early August was a key step, as Oswalt won seven consecutive games in just over five weeks from August 11 through September 17.

Moving a step further, augmented systems for password-authenticated key agreement ( e. g., AMP, B-SPEKE, PAK-Z, SRP-6 ) avoid both the conflict and limitation of hash-based methods.

The degradation of cyclins is the key step that governs the exit from mitosis and progress into the next cell cycle.

When the third protection level key scheme is used it affects the distribution of a message through the container ( see figure The Third Protection Level Scheme, where F ( P, L ) – distribution function of a message within a container ; P – minimum number of container samples that are needed to embed one message sample ; L – step of a message distribution within a container ).

The speed discrepancy ( being about 3. 5 % slow ) was brought to Bruce Botnick's attention by a Brigham Young University professor, who noted that all the video and audio live performances of The Doors performing the song, the sheet music, and the statements of band members show the song in a key almost a half step higher than the stereo LP release.

** Cold War: Belarus declares its sovereignty, a key step toward independence from the USSR.

The allocution, by which Pius is seen to withdraw his moral support for the Italian unification movement, is a key first step in the soon-to-be crushing reaction against the revolutions of 1848.

When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, Tubman saw a Union victory as a key step toward the abolition of slavery.

The double accidental with respect to a specific key signature, raises or lowers the notes containing a sharp or flat by a half step.

For example, when in the key of C-sharp minor or E major, F, C, G, and D contain a sharp ; adding a double accidental ( double sharp ) to F for example in this case would only raise the already sharp containing note F one half step or semitone, creating G natural, respectively.

Conversely, if a double sharp were added to any other note not containing a sharp or flat as indicated by the key signature then the note will be raised two semitones or a whole step with respect to the chromatic scale.

For example, in the aforementioned key signature any note that is not F, C, G, and D will be raised by a whole step or two semitones instead of one, so an A double sharp raises the note A to the enharmonic equivalent of B.

On 27 July 1990, Belarus declared its national sovereignty, a key step toward independence from the Soviet Union.

Biofilm development can be divided into several key steps including attachment, microcolony formation, biofilm maturation and dispersion ; and in each step bacteria may recruit different components and molecules including flagellae, type IV pili, DNA and exopolysaccharides.

Unlike a graph, however, the number of semitones represented by a vertical step from a line to an adjacent space depends on the key, and the exact timing of the beginning of each note is not directly proportional to its horizontal position ; rather, exact timing is encoded by the musical symbol chosen for each note in addition to the tempo.

To create active electronic elements, the first key step was to chemically dope a semiconductor nanowire.

Spirals, step patterns, and key patterns are dominant motifs in Celtic art before the Christian influence on the Celts, which began around 450 A. D.

The concentration on each element as equally important was a key step towards generating a pictorial sign for each element.

Jerry Falwell, whose founding of the Moral Majority was a key step in the formation of the " New Christian Right "

In each search step it calculates where in the remaining search space the sought item might be, based on the key values at the bounds of the search space and the value of the sought key, usually via a linear interpolation.

The key word in my plays is ' perhaps ' ''.

We know that much is made of the multiplicity and ambiguity of the identities that cluster around the key symbol of the Jew.

The symposium provides an opportunity to confront the self with specific statements which were made at particular times by identifiable communicators who were addressing definite audiences -- and throughout several hundred pages everyone is talking about the same key symbol of identification.

This is the key fact emerging from Sunday's national election.

But the key revelation is not new.

A romantic is one who thinks the world is divinely inspired and all he has to do is find the right key, and then divine justice and altruism will appear.

The long-range objective is to bring about consolidation of ownership through use of land exchange authority and through purchase on a moderate scale of inholdings which comprise key tracts for recognized National Forest programs such as recreation development, or which are a source of damage to lands in National Forests and National Grasslands.

otherwise, you'll have to spend a few minutes to either attach a suitable spring clip somewhere on the press head or fit the key to a length of light chain and fasten to the bottom of the motor mount so that the key is out of the way when not in use.

The key to effective marketing is wrapped up in defining your company's marketing problems realistically.

A new low capacity meter is the key that unlocks the situation at Oakwood Heights.

The phrasing is irregular, and the abrupt key changes have a primitive forcefulness.

Rangoni's first entrance is a musical shock, a sudden open fifth in a key totally unrelated to what has preceded it.

The key to the world of geology is change ; ;

I submit that this is the key problem of international relations, that it always has been, that it always will be.

The soldiers are fighting and the Americans are helping, he said, but in the fight against the Pathet Lao the key factor is the villager himself.

The key to Protestant development, therefore, is economic integration of the nucleus of the congregation.

I said `` Darn it, that's the automatic signal that shows when the ignition key is on.

And the key to the suite is still missing ''.

Mr. Schaefer also recommended that the snow emergency route plan, under which parking is banned on key streets and cars are required to use snow tires or chains on them, should be `` strictly enforced ''.

`` Convenience is therefore the key to the housing market today.

A publicity release from Oregon Physicians Service, of which Harvey is president, quoted him as saying the welfare office move to Salem, instead of `` crippling '' the agency, had provided an avenue to correct administrative weaknesses, with the key being improved communications between F & A and the commission staff.

Now a quiet-spoken, middle-aged man, Fiedler is an aeronautical engineer for Lockheed's Missiles and Space Division at Sunnyvale, where he played a key role in the development of the Navy's Polaris missile.