Accurate valve timing was accomplished through the pioneering use of stroboscopic lamps ( see timing light ).

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's " Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophesies of Agnes Nutter, Witch " contains reference to the broth as the substance in Anathema Device's mug when she is run into by Aziraphale and Crowley.

Accurate treatment thus incorporates a concept known as retarded time ( as opposed to advanced time, which is not physically possible in light of causality ), which adds to the expressions for the electrodynamic electric field and magnetic field.

Accurate analysis of data using standardized statistical methods in scientific studies is critical to determining the validity of empirical research.

Accurate business valuation is one of the most important aspects of M & A as valuations like these will have a major impact on the price that a business will be sold for.

Accurate knowledge of open cluster distances is vital for calibrating the period-luminosity relationship shown by variable stars such as cepheid and RR Lyrae stars, which allows them to be used as standard candles.

Accurate radiometric dating generally requires that the parent has a long enough half-life that it will be present in significant amounts at the time of measurement ( except as described below under " Dating with short-lived extinct radionuclides "), the half-life of the parent is accurately known, and enough of the daughter product is produced to be accurately measured and distinguished from the initial amount of the daughter present in the material.

* Memoria — Accurate memory ; that is, memory that is true to reality

Accurate description of real speech is a difficult problem, and linguists have often been reduced to approximations.

Accurate knowledge of the distance allows astronomers to plot a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram for the cluster, which, when compared to those plotted for clusters whose distance is not known, allows their distances to be estimated.

Accurate to this modern understanding of soil is Nikiforoff's 1959 definition of soil as the " excited skin of the sub aerial part of the earth's crust ".

Accurate dates for Praxiteles are elusive, but it is likely that he was no longer working in the time of Alexander the Great, in the absence of evidence that Alexander employed Praxiteles, as he probably would have done.

Accurate, high quality sound reproduction is possible with both analog and digital systems.

Accurate figures for casualties have never been compiled, and even in writings by modern historians there is a considerable range, though the more specialised the historian, the lower they tend to be.

* Information: Accurate and relevant data is made available to all participants.

Accurate rounding of transcendental mathematical functions is difficult because the number of extra digits that need to be calculated to resolve whether to round up or down cannot be known in advance.

In digital TV ( see Freeview +), the feature Accurate Recording is based on the PDC specification.

Accurate room measurements ( length, width, and height ) along with number of window and door openings is essential for ordering wallpaper.

Accurate calibration of the thermometers used is fundamental to precise humidity determination by the wet-dry method.

Accurate telescope pointing and tracking is critical for obtaining good astronomical images and photographs.

Accurate cost benefit analysis is difficult to make in most of the cases in terms of how the sanctions also affect the economy of the imposing country.

Accurate repetition of angles in the cutting and polishing process is aided by the angle readout and index gear.

Accurate pest identification is critical to a successful IPM program.

As a result of the FACT Act ( Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act ), each legal U. S. resident is entitled to a free copy of his or her credit report from each credit reporting agency once every twelve months.

Accurate casualty figures are impossible to determine, because many victims were cremated by the firestorm.

Accurate, working reenactments of the Fort's daily activities are performed, such as by this blacksmith

Accurate demand forecasting also allows the desired inventory proportions to be dynamic by determining expected sales out into the future ; this allows for inventory to be in proportion to expected short-term sales or consumption rather than to past averages, a much more accurate and optimal outcome.

The novel Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett satirizes the apocalypse and several events of the film, including the baby swap.

* Accurate temperature measurements are hindered by differing emissivities and reflections from other surfaces

* Accurate Democracy suggests Parallel Voting by PR and Condorcet rules to make a balanced council with a few central swing voters.

Accurate numbers of figures are hard to come by as the interpretation of what is and is not a sheela na gig will vary from writer to writer, for example Freitag omits the Rochester figure from her list while Weir and Jerman include it.

“ The 1988-2000 Employment Projections: How Accurate Were They ?”, by Andrew Alpert and Jill Auyer, Occupational Outlook Quarterly, Spring 2003

Accurate census data begins in 1851 ; the older numbers are estimates by historians.

American Civil War soldiers by A Call to Arms, Accurate, and Italieri

Painted and unpainted plastic figures by Accurate

Accurate accounting of Poshepny's career is complicated by government secrecy and by his tendency to embellish stories.

The pumpkinseed sunfish is widely recognized by its shape of a pumpkinseed, which is where its common name comes from .< ref > Accurate and Reliable Dictionary.

Accurate models of smaller apartment buildings and private homes, now represented by generic models, can also be added.

Accurate information on the state of language use is complicated by the inability ( due to constitutional provisions ) of the state to ask language use questions in the census.

Accurate control of their chemical composition by doping with other elements made the production of the solid state transistor in 1951 and made possible the production of tiny integrated circuits for use in electronic devices, especially computers.

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