The word angulus is a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin.

Every information exchange between living organisms — i. e. transmission of signals that involve a living sender and receiver can be considered a form of communication ; and even primitive creatures such as corals are competent to communicate.

Based on dental features and braincase sizes, it is now known that Carnivora must have evolved from a form even more primitive than Creodonta, and thus these two orders may not even be sister groups.

The older form of rasterization is characterized by rendering an entire face ( primitive ) as a single color.

The code has been seen as an early example of a fundamental law regulating a government — i. e., a primitive form of what is now known as a constitution.

Buehler has suggested that the centriole may form a primitive directional " eye ", sensitive to certain wavelengths in the Infra red spectrum.

When attempting to draw a complicated shape such as a human figure, it is helpful at first to represent the form with a set of primitive shapes.

1850 BCE " contains fifteen Pythagorean triples with quite large entries, including ( 13500, 12709, 18541 ) which is a primitive triple ,< ref > Three positive integers form a primitive Pythagorean triple if and if the highest common factor of is 1.

For his paintings, Gammell used symbols drawn from C. G. Jung, primitive and medieval cultures, and biblical and mythological sources, to give visual form to Thompson's poem.

The first primitive form of pedal harps were developed in the Tyrol region of Austria.

Granaries housed another primitive form of insurance to indemnify against famines.

He was reportedly impressed with how the mountain tribes of Cambodia lived, which the party interpreted as a form of primitive communism ; as a result, those minorities received more lenient and sometimes even favorable treatment than the urbanized " bourgeois " Chinese and Vietnamese.

In the absence of soft tissues, such as the pouch and reproductive system, fossil marsupials can be distinguished from placentals by the form of their teeth ; primitive marsupials possess four pairs of molar teeth in each jaw, whereas placental mammals never have more than three pairs.

Sponges have no nervous system, although they have homologs of many genes that play crucial roles in nervous system function, and are capable of several whole-body responses, including a primitive form of locomotion.

The first vertebrates appeared in the form of primitive fish, which greatly diversified in the Silurian and Devonian.

In a desperate bid to preserve humanity and ease population burdens on Earth, the UN has initiated a " draft " for colonizing the nearby planets, where conditions are so horrific and primitive that the unwilling colonists have fallen prey to a form of escapism involving the use of an illegal drug ( CAN-D ) in concert with " layouts ".

In computability theory, primitive recursive functions are a class of functions that form an important building block on the way to a full formalization of computability.

A normal form theorem due to Kleene says that for each k there are primitive recursive functions and such that for any μ-recursive function with k free variables there is an e such that

Blaise Pascal introduced a primitive form of roulette in the 17th century in his search for a perpetual motion machine.

A sophisticated drainage system was even incorporated into the village's design, one that included a primitive form of toilet in each dwelling.

Victor understood the meaning of actions and used what Shattuck describes as " action language ", which Itard regarded as a kind of primitive form of communication.

* Siberian Vint a redecessor and more primitive form of Vint,

* A primitive form of eyeglasses were developed for a nearsighted princess in Syria.

This was, in effect, a primitive form of eugenics.

Accepting the claim of the preface to the Experimenta Nova that the entire work had been essentially completed before March 1663, von Guericke can be fairly credited with inventing a primitive form of frictional electrical machine before 1663.

This extreme growth can be exploited to show that f, which is obviously computable on a machine with infinite memory such as a Turing machine and so is a computable function, grows faster than any primitive recursive function and is therefore not primitive recursive.

Although considered " small and primitive " by the standards of its time, it was the first working machine to contain all of the elements essential to a modern electronic computer.

In the end science and scientific rationality, often taking models from the 18th-century Enlightenment, came to be seen as the source of logic and stability, while the basic primitive sexual and unconscious drives, along with the seemingly counter-intuitive workings of the new machine age, were taken as the basic emotional substance.

Recording for that primitive machine was a comparatively simple matter.

Even on a single machine, primitive pointer objects are too fragile to save, because the objects to which they point may be reloaded to a different location in memory.

Babbage appreciated that the machine was capable of great feats of calculation, including primitive logical reasoning, but he did not appreciate that no other machine could do better.

In 1949, RCA engineers worked on the first primitive computer-type OCR to help blind people for the US Veterans Administration, but instead of converting the printed characters to machine language, their device converted it to machine language and then spoke the letters: an early text-to-speech technology.

On 27 December Radio Kabul broadcast Karmal's pre-recorded speech, which stated " Today the torture machine of Amin has been smashed, his accomplices – the primitive executioners, usurpers and murderers of tens of thousand of our fellow countrymen – fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters, children and old people ..." On 1 January Leonid Brezhnev, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and Alexei Kosygin, the Soviet Chairman of the Council of Ministers, congratulated Karmal on his " election " as leader, before any Afghan state or party organ had elected him to anything.

It is said that Alan Turing was a master of this on the early Manchester Mark 1 machine, and he was already deriving the primitive conception of an operating system from the principles of the Universal Turing machine.

The machine was slightly incompatible with the 6000-series, so it required a completely different operating system, which like most new OSs, was primitive.

Herbert proclaims that the time has come to return to his own time, by himself, in order to destroy a machine that is too dangerous for primitive mankind.

Following the lung scene we are shown the operation of a primitive heart-lung machine, the autojektor ( or autojector ), composed of a pair of diaphragm linear pumps and what appears to be an oxygen bubble chamber.

The result is an uneven blend of technologies, in which the highly advanced ( interstellar travel ) mixes with the contemporary ( machine guns, internal combustion engines ) and even primitive.

* To prove that operational semantics over a high-level machine is related by a bisimulation with the semantics over a low-level machine, whereby the low-level abstract machine contains more primitive operations than the high-level abstract machine definition of a given language.

I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.

His metier was the American tropics, and he had lived all over Latin America and among the primitive tribes on the Amazon river.

Movement itself was the chief and often the only attraction of the primitive movies of the nineties.

) There was nothing to indicate that Lauren Payne was primitive.

To help him on this religious aspect of primitive jazz he had `` Big '' Miller, as a preacher-singer and Hannah Dean, Gospel-singer, while Oscar Brown Jr., an extremely talented young man, did a slave auctioneer's call, a field-hands' work song, and a beautifully sung Negro lullaby, `` Brown Baby '', which was one of the truly moving moments of the festival.

Demonstrating the primitive African rhythmic backgrounds of the Blues was Michael Babatunde Olatunji, who plays such native drums as the konga and even does a resounding job slapping his own chest.

Early anthropology was divided between proponents of unilinealism, who argued that all societies passed through a single evolutionary process, from the most primitive to the most advanced, and various forms of non-lineal theorists, who tended to subscribe to ideas such as diffusionism.

Ichthyostega was one of the first primitive amphibians, with nostrils and more efficient lungs.

As a self-described " confirmed scientific rationalist ", Tylor believed that this view was " childish " and typical of " cognitive underdevelopment ", and that it was therefore common in " primitive " peoples such as those living in hunter gatherer societies.

It also was responsible for switching to ROM BASIC when the system was turned on with the break key pressed, and later supported a primitive LAN system, using the RS232 port with modified cabling.

In On the Infinite, David Hilbert hypothesized that the Ackermann function was not primitive recursive, but it was Ackermann, Hilbert ’ s personal secretary and former student, who actually proved the hypothesis in his paper On Hilbert ’ s Construction of the Real Numbers.

Although the Greeks and Romans typically scorned Egypt's animal-headed gods as bizarre and primitive ( Anubis was known to be mockingly called " Barker " by the Greeks ), Anubis was sometimes associated with Sirius in the heavens, and Cerberus in Hades.

A very successful Portuguese feature film was made in the early 20th century that dramatically captured the primitive and dangerous life of these fishermen.

Sparrow I was a limited and rather primitive weapon.

In settling the American west it was generally faster to navigate down River from Brownsville, Pennsylvania, to the Ohio River confluence with the Mississippi and then pole up river against the current to St Louis than to travel overland on the rare primitive dirt roads for many decades after the American revolution.

The condition of the Ottoman railways of the time was primitive, so most reinforcement would have to come by sea through the Aegean Sea.

This taxon was traditionally thought to be a primitive stem lineage, from which all the larger bodied platyrrhines evolved ( see Hershkovitz, 1977 ).

Morgan, like other 19th century social evolutionists, believed there was a more or less orderly progression from the primitive to the civilized.

In the earlier part of the Cenozoic, the world was dominated by the gastornid birds, terrestrial crocodiles like Pristichampsus, and a handful of primitive large mammal groups like uintatheres, mesonychids, and pantodonts.

Most historical records and various primitive tribal practices indicate that the death penalty was a part of their justice system.