The practical definition may lead to confusion with the definition of a coulomb ( i. e., 1 amp-second ), but in practical terms this means that measures of a constant current ( e. g., the nominal flow of charge per second through a simple circuit ) will be defined in amperes ( e. g., " a 20 mA circuit ") and the flow of charge through a circuit over a period of time will be defined in coulombs ( e. g., " a variable-current circuit that flows a total of 10 coulombs over 5 seconds ").

The idea that a definition should state the essence of a thing led to the distinction between nominal and real essence, originating with Aristotle.

This leads to a corresponding distinction between nominal and real definition.

The ambiguities introduced by relativity led, starting in the 1960s, to considerable debate in the teaching community as how to define weight for their students, choosing between a nominal definition of weight as the force due to gravity or an operational definition defined by the act of weighing.

Elsewhere, echoing Kant, Peirce calls such a definition " nominal " ( CP 5. 553 ).

That truth is the correspondence of a representation with its object is, as Kant says, merely the nominal definition of it.

Peirce, like Kant before him, recognizes Aristotle's distinction between a nominal definition, a definition in name only, and a real definition, one that states the function of the concept, the reason for conceiving it, and so indicates the essence, the underlying substance of its object.

To get beneath the superficiality of the nominal definition it is necessary to analyze the notion of correspondence in greater depth.

William James ( 1907 ) begins his chapter on " Pragmatism's Conception of Truth " in much the same letter and spirit as the above selection from Peirce ( 1906 ), noting the nominal definition of truth as a plausible point of departure, but immediately observing that the pragmatist's quest for the meaning of truth can only begin, not end there.

In turn nominal values are related to real values by the following arithmetic definition:

The linguist David Dowty included these qualities in his definition of a Proto-Agent, and proposed that the nominal with the most elements of the Proto-Agent and the fewest elements of the Proto-Patient tends to be treated as the agent in a sentence.

To address this issue, the Comité International des Poids et Mesures ( CPIM ), also known as the International Committee for Weights and Measures, affirmed in 2005 that for the purposes of specifying the temperature of the triple point of water, the definition of the Kelvin thermodynamic temperature scale would refer to water with a composition of the nominal specification of VSMOW.

The demonstration is distinguished as a syllogism productive of scientific knowledge, while the definition marked as the statement of a thing's nature, ... a statement of the meaning of the name, or of an equivalent nominal formula.

From the definition of monetary-disequilibrium movements in the demand for money are responded to the changes in the real money supply through adjustments in the nominal money supply as seen from the movement fro point O to A in the figure and not the price level ( movement from O to A ' in the figure ).

Further, there is no mileage charge or mileage limitations when you lease a car, and you pay only the flat monthly rate plus a nominal charge for documents and insurance since the car is registered and insured individually for your trip.

Verbal and adverbial elements too participated in each epic diction, but it is for the present sufficient to mark the large nominal and adjectival supply of semantic near-equivalents, and to designate the members of any system of equivalents as basic formulas of the poetic language.

The second stage is to retain the nominal classification of `` neutralist '', while in fact turning the country into an active advocate and adherent of Soviet policy.

A plea of nolo contendere, followed by a nominal fine, after all is a small price to pay for this untrammeled license.

Statistical arbitrage is an imbalance in expected nominal values.

As the ion will travel from the tip at voltage V < sub > 1 </ sub > to some nominal ground potential, the speed at which the ion is travelling can be estimated by the energy transferred into the ion during ( or near ) ionisation.

Typically the sweep takes the simple form of an advancement of the surface, such that the surface is expanded in a symmetric manner about its advancement axis, with the advancement rate set by some nominal volume attributed to each event, representative of the atomic volume of the atom prior to evaporation.

Bulgaria's per-capita PPP GDP is still only about a half of the EU27 average, while the country's nominal GDP per capita is about 20 % of the EU27 average.

If the filter shows amplitude ripple within the passband, the x dB point refers to the point where the gain is x dB below the nominal passband gain rather than x dB below the maximum gain.

This license is a 2-clause BSD license with an additional copyleft clause similar to the GNU GPL version 2's Section 3, requiring source code of an application using Berkeley DB to be made available for a nominal fee.

In nearly all cases, the monarch is still the nominal chief executive, but is bound by constitutional convention to act on the advice of the Cabinet.

Only a few monarchies ( most notably Japan and Sweden ) have amended their constitutions so that the monarch is no longer even the nominal chief executive.

It should be noted that this map is of the nominal population and thus, especially in Europe, the numbers are higher than those of actual practitioners.

If the nominal compression ratio of an engine is given, the pre-ignition cylinder pressure can be estimated using the following relationship:

This ratio is higher with more conservative ( i. e., earlier, soon after BDC ) intake cam timing, and lower with more radical ( i. e., later, long after BDC ) intake cam timing, but always lower than the static or " nominal " compression ratio.

These are similar to, but different from, nominal damages ( see below ), in which no written sum is specified.

When it comes to the kind of correspondence that might be said to exist between a symbol, a word like " works ", and its object, the springs and catches of the clock on the wall, then the pragmatist recognizes that a more than nominal account of the matter still has a lot more explaining to do.

Domitian's authority was merely nominal, however, foreshadowing what was to be his role for at least ten more years.

They controlled most of what is now the barony of Murrisk in South-West County Mayo and recognized as their nominal overlords Mac William Íochtar Bourkes, who controlled much of what is now County Mayo ( the Bourkes were originally Anglo-Irish but by her lifetime completely gaelicised ).

Despite his extensive knowledge of ancient history, classics, archaeology and what would be termed today cultural anthropology, he apparently had not even read enough in his nominal major to pass the required examination.

One interpretation of the end of the novel is that Beran Panasper is only in nominal charge of the planet, on the sufferance of the warrior caste, and that it is uncertain what will become of him and his plans of re-uniting the populace of Pao.

For a nominal fee, subsidized by Reed Freeman, a wealthy Binghamton clothing manufacturer, the Chautauqua Assembly at Carmel Grove combined what we would call today a week long " resort " experience with a stimulating series of lectures by nationally known figures of the time, along with popular musical and theater acts.

Throughout his life, Kantor had an interesting and unique relationship with Jewish culture, despite being a nominal Catholic and having a father with anti-Semitic tendencies, Kantor incorporated many elements of what was known as " Jewish theatre " into his works.

The nominal homologation at capacity meant that BDA-engined cars competed in what was usually the top class ( 1600 cc and up ) so were eligible for absolute victories rather than class wins.

Several modern makers prefer to produce pipes pitched at what Northumbrian pipers refer to as F +, a pitch where the nominal G sounds approximately twenty cents sharp of F natural.

By April 1863, the numbers of the 21st Massachusetts had been so thinned by what Clark called the " cruel fate of war ," that the regiment had virtually ceased to exist and Clark's command was only nominal.

Moreover, the said jurisprudence has determined that regardless of what nominal or cosmetic veneer has moted Puerto Rico's political status, it is essentially a U. S. colonial territory, since it is under the plenary powers of the U. S. Congress.

The scaling that results in the use of a smaller range of digital values than what might appear to be desirable for representation of the nominal range of the input data allows for some " overshoot " and " undershoot " during processing without necessitating undesirable clipping.

That nominal rate is almost always what is meant by the media referring to the Federal Reserve " changing interest rates.

The first nominal legal land section, a little portion of land with a few homes and a few inhabitants, in what is today Esplugues was made in 1096.

The eastern entrance to the tunnel has been buried, while the tunnel as a whole was sold to Leicester city council for a nominal sum, though the council has never decided what use to make of it.

Different institutions have different policies as to what type of identification they require to provide the guarantee and whether they charge a fee for such service ( usually nominal if any ).

* In language, the status of an item ( usually through what is known as " downranking " or " rank-shifting ") in relation to the uppermost rank in a clause ; for example, in the sentence " I want to eat the cake you made today ", " eat " is on the uppermost rank, but " made " is downranked as part of the nominal group " the cake you made today "; this nominal group behaves as though it were a single noun ( i. e., I want to eat it ), and thus the verb within it (" made ") is ranked differently from " eat ".

He treats not only his own experiences, which included long-delayed reunions and police harassment, but also his impressions of what more than two decades of nominal independence and autocratic rule had done to the material and psychological conditions of his countrypeople.

When the crisis with the Transvaal came in 1899, Courtney's views, which remained substantially what they were when he supported the settlement after Majuba in 1881, had plainly become incompatible with his position even as a nominal follower of Lord Salisbury and Joseph Chamberlain.

The Italian Tennis Federation criticized the ATP for singling out Italian players, and Bracciali chastised them for only concentrating on less well-known players, for what he considered nominal offenses.