Stains, which include the wide variety of nonparticulate materials which give color even when present in very low concentration on the soiled object.

In later collages of both masters, a variety of extraneous materials are used, sometimes in the same work, and almost always in conjunction with every other eye-deceiving and eye-undeceiving device they can think of.

The low cost and ease of fabrication of the dies for three-dimensional foam cutting plus the wide variety of shapes, dimensions, and contours that can be tailor-made to customer requirements has made the technique useful for producing case liners, materials handling containers, packaging and cushioning devices, and such novelties as soap dishes, toys, head rests, arch supports, and gas pedal covers.

It has been made from a variety of materials ; from rudimentary leather protection, personal armour evolved to Mail and full plated suits of armour.

Over the course of military history, projectiles were manufactured from a wide variety of materials, made in a wide variety of shapes, and used different means of inflicting physical damage and casualties to defeat specific types of targets.

They are composed of many different materials ranging from carbon fibre composite ( graphite reinforced plastic ) to solid steel, which may be augmented by a variety of materials.

Players may choose between a variety of grip materials.

However, in reality, most crystalline materials have a variety of crystallographic defects, places where the crystal's pattern is interrupted.

Based on the raw materials and ingredients used, the method of preparation and cultural differences, a variety of foods with different flavours and textures are prepared in different regions of the country.

Mail worn today for re-enactment and recreational use can be made in a variety of styles and materials.

* Progressive teachers use a wider variety of materials allowing for individual and group research.

Such FETs are manufactured using variety of materials such as silicon carbide ( SiC ), gallium arsenide ( GaAs ), gallium nitride ( GaN ), and indium gallium arsenide ( InGaAs ).

Horseshoes are available in a wide variety of materials and styles, developed for different types of horse and for the work they do.

The strings are made from a variety of materials.

Knitting needles in a variety of sizes and materials.

Knapsack problems appear in real-world decision-making processes in a wide variety of fields, such as finding the least wasteful way to cut raw materials, selection of capital investments and financial portfolios, selection of assets for asset-backed securitization, and generating keys for the Merkle – Hellman knapsack cryptosystem.

Knife blades can be manufactured from a variety of materials, each of which has advantages and disadvantages.

Advances in materials science have enabled making devices with ever-shorter wavelengths, emitting light in a variety of colors.

Conventional LEDs are made from a variety of inorganic semiconductor materials.

The economies of scale, ready availability of cheap high-quality materials and ability to incorporate electronic functionality make silicon attractive for a wide variety of MEMS applications.

The NCNR provides scientists access to a variety of neutron scattering instruments, which are used in many fields of research ( materials science, fuel cells, biotechnology, etc.

Although the term polymer is sometimes taken to refer to plastics, it actually encompasses a large class of compounds comprising both natural and synthetic materials with a wide variety of properties.

Sign cutting plotters are in decline in some applications, such as general billboard design, where wide-format inkjet printers that use solvent-based inks are employed to print directly onto a variety of materials.

You can get year-'round air conditioners in the same variety of styles in which you buy a furnace alone -- high or low boy, horizontal or counterflow.

We know that actors can learn to portray a wide variety of character roles.

I hope it can be said without boasting that no other nation offers its vacationing motorists such variety and beauty of scene, such an excellent network of roads on which to enjoy it and such decent, far-flung over-night accommodations.

There is a wide variety of representations possible and one can express a given Turing machine program as a sequence of machine tables ( see more at finite state machine, state transition table and control table ), as flowcharts ( see more at state diagram ), or as a form of rudimentary machine code or assembly code called " sets of quadruples " ( see more at Turing machine ).

The design is a burying variety, and once well set can develop high resistance.

It can be used to describe a broad variety of phenomena, including Psychokinesis, Faith healing and reality shifts.

Argentines enjoy a variety of alcoholic beverages and Argentina can boast a varied array of elaboraciones, whether industrial or artisanal.

Wave files can also contain data encoded with a variety of ( lossy ) codecs to reduce the file size ( for example the GSM or MP3 formats ).

Alkenes serve as a feedstock for the petrochemical industry because they can participate in a wide variety of reactions.

The acidic hydrogen on terminal alkynes can be replaced by a variety of groups resulting in halo -, silyl -, and alkoxoalkynes.

Because of the wide variety of evidence, which can include artefacts as well as sites, there is no one way to practice archaeoastronomy.

Genetic testing can confirm albinism and what variety it is, but offers no medical benefits except in the cases of non-OCA disorders ( see below ) that cause albinism along with other medical problems which may be treatable.

Further information can be gained by staining slices of brain tissue with a variety of chemicals that bring out areas where specific types of molecules are present in high concentrations.

This broad-winged raptor has a wide variety of plumages, and in Europe can be confused with the similar Rough-legged Buzzard ( Buteo lagopus ) and the only distantly related European Honey Buzzard ( Pernis apivorus ), which mimics the Common Buzzard's plumage for a degree of protection from Northern Goshawks.

Expression data can be used to infer gene regulation: one might compare microarray data from a wide variety of states of an organism to form hypotheses about the genes involved in each state.

The banshee can appear in a variety of guises.

BDB can support thousands of simultaneous threads of control or concurrent processes manipulating databases as large as 256 terabytes, on a wide variety of operating systems including most Unix-like and Windows systems, and real-time operating systems.

It primarily eats zooplankton, insects, insect larvae, and phytoplankton, although it can eat a variety of other foods, such as worms and small crustaceans, if its preferred sources are not readily available.

System software is responsible for managing a variety of independent hardware components, so that they can work together harmoniously.

Its subfields can be divided into a variety of theoretical and practical disciplines.

Their reliability as indicators of consciousness is disputed, however, due to numerous studies showing that alert human subjects can be induced to behave purposefully in a variety of ways in spite of reporting a complete lack of awareness.

There are also a variety of circumstances that can change the relationship between the mind and the world in less drastic ways, producing what are known as altered states of consciousness.

Community building can use a wide variety of practices, ranging from simple events such as potlucks and small book clubs to larger – scale efforts such as mass festivals and construction projects that involve local participants rather than outside contractors.