Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620 and an important symbol in American history.

The British thermal unit ( symbol Btu or sometimes BTU ) is a traditional unit of energy equal to about 1. 055 KJoules.

For purposes of international communication and trade, the official names of the chemical elements both ancient and more recently recognized are decided by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ), which has decided on a sort of international English language, drawing on traditional English names even when an element's chemical symbol is based on a Latin or other traditional word, for example adopting " gold " rather than " aurum " as the name for the 79th element ( Au ).

It is prominent in Welsh, Breton, Irish, Scottish and other Celtic cultures within traditional or folk music and as a social and political symbol.

The koi is also an often recurring symbol in Irezumi, the Japanese art of traditional tattooing.

In these countries, the symbol L is also used with prefixes, as in mL and µL, instead of the traditional ml and µl used in Europe.

The traditional symbol of Mecklenburg, the grinning steer's head ( Low German: Ossenkopp, lit.

Unusually fine for their early date, and with a remarkably rich survival of evidence, these sites stand as a visible symbol of the achievements of early peoples away from the traditional centres of civilisation ... Maes Howe is a masterpiece of Neolithic peoples.

Nutcrackers have long been a traditional symbol of Christmas.

In 1595, Vimaladharmasurya brought the sacred Tooth Relic – the traditional symbol of royal and religious authority amongst the Sinhalese – to Kandy, and built the Temple of the Tooth.

In traditional Christian Christian art | iconography, saints are often depicted as having Halo ( religious iconography ) | halos, which is a symbol of their holiness.

Contemporary Welsh artist Jen Delyth created a Celtic Tree of Life symbol, in part based on ancient Celtic veneration of trees and traditional Celtic designs.

Orange topaz, also known as precious topaz, is the traditional November birthstone, the symbol of friendship, and the state gemstone of the US state of Utah.

There is no explicit symbol representing zero in unary as there is in other traditional bases, so unary is a bijective numeration system with a single digit.

It is probably best known from the royal coats of arms of Scotland and the United Kingdom: two unicorns support the Scottish arms ; a lion and a unicorn support the UK arms, representing the 1707 Union of England ( whose traditional heraldic symbol is the lion ) and Scotland.

The cartoon depicted four leading Republicans trying to push an elephant ( the traditional symbol of the Republican Party ) to stand on a teetering stack of ten tar buckets, the topmost of which was labeled " McCarthyism ".

Shamrock, the traditional Irish symbol, which according to legend was coined by Saint Patrick for the Holy Trinity, is commonly associated with clover, though sometimes with Oxalis species, which are also trifoliate ( i. e., they have three leaves ).

The most traditional form of the swastika's symbolization in Hinduism is that the symbol represents the purusharthas: dharma ( that which makes a human a human ), artha ( wealth ), kama ( desire ), and moksha ( liberation ).

The symbol of the phoenix could be found on Vietnamese Bronze Drums, on traditional customs of Au Viet tribes in North Vietnam and South China ( Yunnan, Guangxi ).

The Jolly Roger is the traditional name for the flags of European and American pirates and a symbol for piracy that has been adopted by film-makers and toy manufacturers.

Irish euro coins all share the same design by Jarlath Hayes, that of the harp, a traditional symbol for Ireland since the Middle Ages, based on that of the Brian Boru harp, housed in Trinity College, Dublin.

One can also find this symbol on the sides of dgħajes and luzzijiet, traditional Maltese boats.

It is likely that the name originated from the resemblance of the traditional circular bullet symbol (< big >•</ big >) to an actual bullet.

The Emperor of Japan is defined as a symbol, not head, of state by the post-war constitution ( contrasting with the former divine status ) but is treated as an imperial head of state under diplomatic protocol ( even ranking above kings ) and retains Shinto mystique.

The use of bearers for litters to shift persons of rank or religious idols, especially in formal processions, seems to have extended their practical function into that of ceremonial status symbol in the often conservative protocol of court and cult, a role continued into the 20th century with the papal sedia gestatoria and possibly echoed in the modern funeral pallbearer.

The Swiss government organized such a conference to take place on December 5 – 6, 2005, to adopt a third additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions introducing the Red Crystal as an additional symbol with equal status to the Red Cross or Red Crescent.

The rules for the use of this symbol, based on the third additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions, are the following:

Furthermore, a national society can choose to display a previously and effectively used symbol, after officially communicating this symbol to the state parties of the Geneva Conventions through Switzerland as the depositary state prior to the adoption of the proposed third additional protocol.

The 8b10b encoding system serves several purposes: it preserves DC balance over time, it generates sufficient signal transitions to maintain receiver bit-alignment ( pixel clock recovery ), and it provides symbol ( byte ) alignment.

This side project also created Coheed's official logo, the Keywork, a symbol for the planetary alignment of the Amory Wars universe.

At least one of them ( i. e. a " comma " symbol ) needs to be used to define the alignment of the 10 bit symbols.

Occasionally, the road's alignment is emphasized with signs that show the symbol for winding road.

Her alignment is primarily Neutral, and the symbol of Akadi is usually represented by a pale cloud on a blue background.

The formal position of Americans who identify themselves with one or more of the several identities of the Jewish symbol is already clear ; ;

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.

Like almost everybody else, he confused the heart, both as organ and as symbol, with the disturbed psyche, the deranged glands, and the jumpy central nervous system.

Man, to whom Mij gave endless affection and fealty, was responsible in the form of a road worker with a pickaxe who somehow becomes an abstract symbol of the savage in man.

The red-haired captain, towering above the prisoner as a symbol of decency and authority, was shocked to find himself looking with sympathy upon Philip Spencer.

An alkyl group, generally abbreviated with the symbol R, is a functional group or side-chain that, like an alkane, consists solely of single-bonded carbon and hydrogen atoms, for example a methyl or ethyl group.

Canadian syllabics differ from other abugidas in that the vowel is indicated by rotation of the consonantal symbol, with each vowel having a consistent orientation.

Argon ( ) is a chemical element with symbol Ar and atomic number 18.

Arsenic ( ) is a chemical element with symbol As and atomic number 33.

Antimony ( or ; ) is a toxic chemical element with symbol Sb and atomic number 51.

Actinium ( ) is a radioactive chemical element with symbol Ac and atomic number 89, which was discovered in 1899.

Its symbol Ac is also used in abbreviations of other compounds that have nothing to do with actinium, such as acetyl, acetate and sometimes acetaldehyde.

Astatine ( or ) is a radioactive chemical element with the chemical symbol At and atomic number 85.

These states are labeled by a set of quantum numbers summarized in the term symbol and usually associated with particular electron configurations, i. e., by occupation schemes of atomic orbitals ( e. g., 1s < sup > 2 </ sup > 2s < sup > 2 </ sup > 2p < sup > 6 </ sup > for the ground state of neon -- term symbol: < sup > 1 </ sup > S < sub > 0 </ sub >).

Jensen argues that in line with Robinson's original proposal, the use of the circle symbol should be limited to monocyclic 6 pi-electron systems.

For example, a positron ( the antiparticle of the electron, with symbol ) and an antiproton ( symbol ) can form an antihydrogen atom.

* Avaya, a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange with symbol " AV "

Agrippina landing at Brundisium with the ashes of Germanicus, ( 1768, Benjamin West, oil on canvas ). In art, Agrippina has served as a symbol of marital devotion and fidelity.

The coins were produced using an anvil die technique and stamped with the Lion's head, the symbol of the Mermnadae.

Numerous Indian documents on copper plates exist, with the same symbol for zero in them, dated back as far as the 6th century CE.

He says in the page 114 of his autobiography that he was responsible for the null set symbol ( Ø ) and it came from the Norwegian alphabet, with which he alone among the Bourbaki group was familiar.

According to Kapila Vatsyayan, " Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature ( kāvya ), music, and dancing evolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.

( Compare with symbol grounding ).