The " Former Standard ," used for about 300 years or more in speech in refined language, was the " Schönbrunner Deutsch ", a sociolect spoken by the imperial Habsburg Family and the nobility of Austria-Hungary.

Deeply imbued with the old Roman culture, she gave to that son's education a more refined and literary turn than suited the ideas of her Gothic subjects.

The company now ships more than 2000 tons of refined ore from Andersonville each week.

This design was further refined and made much more compact as the D84 machine which was completed in 1965.

This position is a more refined version of the theorem first discovered by David Hume.

In China, the Hongwu Emperor created and refined a document he called Ancestral Injunctions ( first published in 1375, revised twice more before his death in 1398 ).

A more refined classification is often shown in colored presentations of the periodic table ; this system restricts the terms " metal " and " nonmetal " to only certain of the more broadly defined metals and nonmetals, adding additional terms for certain sets of the more broadly viewed metals and nonmetals.

Due to the more refined proportions and scroll capitals, the Ionic column is sometimes associated with academic buildings.

However, after reverting back to his earlier style, his work became, according to Rewald, “ more subtle, his color scheme more refined, his drawing firmer.

Of the handful of groups not taken down by disco's fall from favor, The Jacksons — and Michael Jackson in particular — stand out: In spite of having helped define the disco sound early on, they continued to make popular and danceable, if more refined, songs for yet another generation of music fans in the 1980s and beyond.

Once these basic shapes have been assembled into a likeness, then the drawing can be refined into a more accurate and polished form.

A more refined art of figure drawing relies upon the artist possessing a deep understanding of anatomy and the human proportions.

Although not complete or refined to his satisfaction, director Sam Peckinpah still preferred the director's cut, as it was more inclusive and thorough than the 105-minute cut.

A refined element shares the meaning of the unqualified element, but with a more restricted scope.

The availability of atomic clocks, together with the increasing accuracy of astronomical observations ( which meant that relativistic corrections were at least in the foreseeable future no longer going to be small enough to be neglected ), led to the eventual replacement of the ephemeris time standard by more refined time scales including terrestrial time and barycentric dynamical time, to which ET can be seen as an approximation.

After 350, 000 BP ( Before Present ) the more refined so-called Levallois technique was developed, a series of consecutive strikes, by which scrapers, slicers (" racloirs "), needles, and flattened needles were made.

Finally, after about 50, 000 BP, ever more refined and specialized flint tools were made by the Neanderthals and the immigrant Cro-Magnons ( knives, blades, skimmers ).

These temporary elements are usually replaced with more refined final elements by the sound, music, and visual effects teams hired to complete the picture.

Other local delicacies are the praline chocolates from local producers such as Leonidas and Dascalides, the ' neuzekes ' (' noses '), cone-shaped purple jelly-filled candies, ' babeluten ' (' babblers '), hard butterscotch-like candy, and of course, on the more fiery side, the famous ' Tierenteyn ', a hot but refined mustard that has some affinity to French ' Dijon ' mustard.

Too much refinement is generally considered to be against the hearty spirit of the Greek cuisine, though recent trends among Greek culinary circles tend to favour a somewhat more refined approach.

However, by the 20th century, many pony breeds had Arabian and other blood added to make a more refined pony suitable for riding.

`` Dearly beloved '', he preached, `` unless you repent of your sins in a measure, and become converted to a degree, you will, I regret to say, be damned to a more or less extent ''.

The ceaseless effort to understand and measure the distance mankind has traversed since its primitive anthropological status offers a more durable sort of drama.

With more advanced equipment, but still cheap in comparison to professional setups, amateur astronomers can measure the light spectrum emitted from astronomical objects, which can yield high-quality scientific data if the measurements are performed with due care.

Ara Vartanian, the chairman of the Armenian Trade and Industry Chamber, thinks that this measure is a far more objective indicator of the tourist influx into the country.

In the 16th century, Tycho Brahe used improved instruments, including large mural instruments, to measure star positions more accurately than previously, with a precision of 15 – 35 arcsec.

A more precise way to measure resistance is to place an object within an artificial, uniform stream of air where the velocity is known.

For m ≥ 4, however, it grows much more quickly ; even A ( 4, 2 ) is about 2, and the decimal expansion of A ( 4, 3 ) is very large by any typical measure.

In more general mathematical settings, the Boltzmann distribution is also known as the Gibbs measure.

The Anabaptist tradition was largely ostracized by the other Protestant parties at the time, but has achieved a measure of affirmation in more recent history.

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

Adult dyslexics can read with good comprehension, but they tend to read more slowly than non-dyslexics and perform more poorly at spelling and nonsense word reading, a measure of phonological awareness.

It is a local measure of its " outgoingness "— the extent to which there is more exiting an infinitesimal region of space than entering it.

A more comprehensive approach to measuring cost-effectiveness or efficacy of malarial control would not only measure the cost in dollars of the project, as well as the number of people saved, but would also consider ecological damage and negative aspects of insecticide use on human health.

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

If the number of counts is not very large, it is more accurate to measure the time interval for a predetermined number of occurrences, rather than the number of occurrences within a specified time.

They emphasize that not every film noir embodies all five attributes in equal measure — one might be more dreamlike ; another, particularly brutal.

But in measuring a wavy fractal curve such as the one in Figure 2, one would never find a small enough straight segment to conform to the curve, because the wavy pattern would always re-appear, albeit at a smaller size, essentially pulling a little more of the tape measure into the total length measured each time one attempted to fit it tighter and tighter to the curve.

Then they voted a measure far more radical, declaring themselves the National Assembly, an assembly not of the Estates but of " the People.

The orchestra on the other hand is more repetitive and pulse like: the left hand continually plays the high A and it is not until the 5th measure where another note is added, but the A continues to be played throughout always on the off beat.

Other tools are used to prepare yarn for knitting, to measure and design knitted garments, or to make knitting easier or more comfortable.

For this measure, higher kurtosis means more of the variance is the result of infrequent extreme deviations, as opposed to frequent modestly sized deviations.

These higher-order averages are more difficult to measure, but can yield additional information about molecular ordering.