Prestige is a measure of how other people think of you, well or ill.

Efficiency is a measure of how much of the power source is usefully applied to the amplifier's output.

This is a measure of how much noise is introduced in the amplification process.

* RC — Runs created: statistic that attempts to measure how many runs a player has contributed to his team

* RP — Runs produced: statistic that attempts to measure how many runs a player has contributed

In baseball statistics, on-base percentage ( OBP ; sometimes referred to as on-base average / OBA, as the statistic is rarely presented as a true percentage ) is a measure of how often a batter reaches base for any reason other than a fielding error, fielder's choice, dropped / uncaught third strike, fielder's obstruction, or catcher's interference ( the latter two are ignored as either times-on-base ( TOB ) or plate appearances in calculating OBP ).

The initial, and perhaps even sole task of philosophers, according to this view, is not to establish and demonstrate theories about reality, but rather to subject all theories — including those about philosophy itself — to critical review, and measure their validity by how well they withstand criticism.

Extending this concept to all sentient beings, one can measure a range of consciousness based on how many and how powerfully neurons are actually firing, varying from worms to humans.

To measure how well the program is exercised by a test suite, one or more coverage criteria are used.

In calculus, a branch of mathematics, the derivative is a measure of how a function changes as its input changes.

So in some sense it provides a measure of how far the group is from being abelian ; the larger the commutator subgroup is, the " less abelian " the group is.

On the other hand, it is not immediately clear how to physically see, touch or measure the goodness of a novel or the rightness of an action.

* Equivalent variation, a measure of how much more money a consumer would pay before a price increase to avert the price increase

The thermodynamic definition was developed in the early 1850s by Rudolf Clausius and essentially describes how to measure the entropy of an isolated system in thermodynamic equilibrium.

The length is called the diffusion length and provides a measure of how far the concentration has propagated in the x-direction by diffusion in time t ( Bird, 1976 ).

A sequence is an absolute measure of base composition of an individual, or a representative of a species or group ; a genotype typically implies a measurement of how an individual differs or is specialized within a group of individuals or a species.

Global-warming potential ( GWP ) is a relative measure of how much heat a greenhouse gas traps in the atmosphere.

In other words, this is a measure of how much, on the average, the probability distribution on X will change if we are given the value of Y.

The entropy of a message multiplied by the length of that message is a measure of how much information the message contains.

Its analog joystick could register movement in any direction as well as measure the degree of push, which could move the player character at different speeds depending on how far the joystick is pushed in a certain direction.

x | θ ) is a likelihood function of θ: it gives a measure of how " likely " any particular value of θ is, if we know that X has the value x.

Efficiency of atomic orbital interactions is determined from the overlap ( a measure of how well two orbitals constructively interact with one another ) between two atomic orbitals, which is significant if the atomic orbitals are close in energy.

The Babylonians also had theorems on how to measure the area of several shapes and solids.

Thus, liquid crystal sheets are often used in industry to look for hot spots, map heat flow, measure stress distribution patterns, and so on.

Any attempt to measure this voltage necessarily involves connecting another conductor to the " hot " end.

A thermometer ( from the Greek θερμός, thermos, meaning " hot " and μἐτρον, metron, " measure ") is a device that measures temperature or temperature gradient using a variety of different principles.

Sensors also have an impact on what they measure ; for instance, a room temperature thermometer inserted into a hot cup of liquid cools the liquid while the liquid heats the thermometer.

The Heat Index ( as shown in the table above ) is a measure of how hot it feels when relative humidity is factored with the actual air temperature.

This latter measure, however, makes such heat pumps unsuitable to produce output above roughly 40 ° C ( 104 ° F ) which means that a separate machine is needed for producing hot tap water.

Gentlemen may tither, and tither, and tither, and may think it a bad measure ; but their heads at present are hot, and will so remain till they grow cool again, and so they can't decide right now, but when the day of judgement comes then honourable gentlemen will be satisfied with this most excellent union.

If treatment is desired, any measure that increases blood flow to the muscle, such as low-intensity work, massage, hot baths, or a sauna visit may help somewhat.

Atomic absorption photometers are photometers that measure the light from a very hot flame.

During the summer of 1900, the extremely hot weather and scarcity of the hydric supply in Paris, usually insured by the Ourcq channel and by the " aqueduc de la Dhuis " force the authorities to pump water from the Seine, direct it towards the channels and to filter it in order to make it usable, a measure that in those times inevitably led to a sudden and alarming growth of the typhoid cases in Paris.

: Similar to a silver screen, this screen has narrow viewing angles and a higher gain ( the measure of reflected light ), but it does suffer from color-shifts to red and a tendency to hot spot.

The expansion and contraction of materials must be considered when designing large structures, when using tape or chain to measure distances for land surveys, when designing molds for casting hot material, and in other engineering applications when large changes in dimension due to temperature are expected.

Suppose we measure the demand for hot dogs at a football game.

Plagge supported his workers ' survival by procuring extra food rations and supplying hot meals to the workers in his workshops ( an unusual measure ) to supplement their starvation rations.

) These thermometers can also be used to measure hot oil for deep frying.

The couscous that is sold in most Western supermarkets has been pre-steamed and dried, the package directions usually instruct to add 1. 5 measures of boiling water or stock and butter to each measure of couscous and to cover tightly for 5 minutes.

Variables like employment level, unemployment level, labour force, and unfilled vacancies are called stock variables because they measure a quantity at a point in time.

A more comprehensive measure is enterprise value ( EV ), which includes debt, preferred stock, and other factors.

Examples: unemployment rate, quits rate, housing starts, Consumer Price Index ( a measure for inflation ), Consumer Leverage Ratio, industrial production, bankruptcies, Gross Domestic Product, broadband internet penetration, retail sales, stock market prices, money supply changes.

Some signal processing researchers negate the random walk hypothesis that stock market prices resemble Wiener processes, because the statistical moments of such processes and real stock data vary significantly with respect window size and similarity measure.

Some countries use the changes in this index to measure inflation in their economies, in particular India – The Indian WPI figure was earlier released weekly on every Thursday and influenced stock and fixed price markets.

Another way to look at implied volatility is to think of it as a price, not as a measure of future stock moves.

There are also other commonly referenced volatility indices such as the VXN index ( Nasdaq 100 index futures volatility measure ), the QQV ( QQQ volatility measure ), IVX-Implied Volatility Index ( an expected stock volatility over a future period for any of US securities and exchange traded instruments ), as well as options and futures derivatives based directly on these volatility indices themselves.

Under this measure, a highly liquid stock is one that experiences a small price change for a given level of trading volume.

When stock price returns follow a single Brownian motion, there is a unique risk neutral measure.

Forward dividend yield is a measure of estimating the future yield of a stock.

Titchener put great stock in the systematic work of Gustav Fechner, whose psychophysics advanced the notion that it was indeed possible to measure mental phenomena ( Titchener 1902, p. cviii-cix ).

* Dividend yield, a measure of dividends paid on stock

The Ralph Bakshi-helmed Seasons 2 and 3, however, almost entirely eliminated villains from the comic book as a cost-cutting measure, choosing to instead have Spider-Man face generic green skinned magical villains and monsters, thereby enabling re-use of stock footage from Rocket Robin Hood, another animated cartoon TV show Bakshi produced.

To measure it, multiply the current stock price by the fully diluted shares outstanding.

One illustration of this difficulty was the adoption in September 2008 by some of Canada ’ s international counterparts, including the United States and United Kingdom, of restrictions of short-selling of certain stock as a temporary stability measure.

" Total fixed investment " ( gross ) is not usually a published statistical measure, since economists are interested primarily in the contribution of fixed investment to value added, i. e., they are interested in the net additions made to the total fixed capital stock ( additions less withdrawals ).

In modern national accounts, an empirical proxy of the flow of variable capital is the wage-payments associated with productive activity in an accounting period, and a proxy for constant capital ( flow measure ) is depreciation charges + intermediate consumption ; a stock measure of constant capital would be the fixed capital stock plus the average value of inventories held during the period of account ( usually a year ).

The flow value divided by the stock value provides a measure of the number of rotations of the stock ( the speed of turnover or turnover time ) in an accounting period.