Alternatively, a Greek derivation from " manless, without husbands " ( a-privative and a derivation of * man-also found in Slavic muzh ) has been proposed, an explanation deemed " unlikely " by Hjalmar Frisk.

Alternatively, if the boards are pre-dealt, " curtain cards " may be supplied which have each hand printed on them, so that each player can check at the beginning of the deal that he has the right cards.

* Alternatively, the device's invention has been popularly attributed to Mary the Jewess, an ancient alchemist traditionally supposed to have been Miriam, a sister of Moses.

Alternatively, a connection to the Rbhus, semi-divine craftsmen in Indian mythology, has also been suggested ( OED ).

Alternatively, jewellery has been used as a currency or trade good ; an example being the use of slave beads.

Alternatively, 5 ml from a neutron star of radius 20 km radius ( average density ) has a mass of about 400 million metric tons, or about the mass of all humans .</ ref > The resulting force of gravity is so strong that if an object were to fall from a height of one meter it would only take one microsecond to hit the surface of the neutron star, and would do so at around 2000 kilometers per second, or 7. 2 million kilometers per hour.

Alternatively, it has been also suggested that this is of non-Greek origin and probably of non-Indo-European origin too, while it is of an unknown etymology.

Alternatively, if M is a linear subspace then ; apply this inequality to the subspace defined by the ( orthogonal ) complement of the image of BC in the image of B, whose dimension is ; its image under A has dimension

Alternatively, the name has been suggested to originate from the Latin verb solari, meaning " to soothe ".

Alternatively, it has been suggested that the arrangement has a magical origin, a way to trap evil spirits.

Alternatively it has been suggested that the star could be in a low-activity state analogous to a Maunder minimum — a historical period, associated with the Little Ice Age in Europe, when sunspots became exceedingly rare on the Sun's surface.

Alternatively, the setter moves into the right front and has both a middle and an outside attacker ; the disadvantage here lies in the lack of an offside hitter, allowing one of the other team's blockers to " cheat in " on a middle block.

Alternatively, Æthelred has been seen as one of the key forces in the promotion of Edward's cult and that of their sister Eadgifu ( Edith of Wilton ).

Alternatively, the derivation pēnē and lepō ( λέπω ), " peel ", because of the shroud-unweaving mytheme, has been suggested.

Alternatively, the real line has two ends, and the resulting end compactification is the extended real line.

Alternatively, the bonded male has the option of rejecting his intended bride and choosing another.

Alternatively, it is possible to show that any bridgeless bipartite planar graph with n vertices and m edges has by combining the Euler formula ( where f is the number of faces of a planar embedding ) with the observation that the number of faces is at most half the number of edges ( because each face has at least four edges and each edge belongs to exactly two faces ).

Alternatively, people who are aware that a couple has different surnames may not realize that they are married.

Alternatively, if the seller has set a minimum sale price in advance ( the ' reserve ' price ) and the final bid does not reach that price the item remains unsold.

Alternatively it has been proposed to abolish the roles of the Governor-General and the monarchy and have their functions exercised by other constitutional officers such as the Speaker.

Alternatively, it has been suggested that " its purpose, though crudely handled, is to explain to Gilgamesh ( and the reader ) the various fates of the dead in the Afterlife " and in " an awkward attempt to bring closure ", it both connects the Gilgamesh of the epic with the Gilgamesh who is the King of the Netherworld, and is " a dramatic capstone whereby the twelve-tablet epic ends on one and the same theme, that of " seeing " (= understanding, discovery, etc.

Alternatively, rehabilitation robotics can be used to provide high volumes of passive or assisted movement, depending on the individual's requirements ; this form of therapy can be useful if therapists are at a premium, and has been found effective at reducing spasticity in patients suffering from stroke.

Alternatively, Latin C-represents an attempt to render the unfamiliar Proto-Germanic h =, perhaps due to Celtic-speaking interpreters ( a Celtic intermediary would also explain why Germanic * Þeuðanōz became Latin Teutones ).

Alternatively, the coordinates of a point p can also be taken as the ( signed ) distances from p to the three planes defined by the three axes.

Alternatively, a single hostname may correspond to many IP addresses: this can facilitate fault tolerance and load distribution, and also allows a site to move physical locations seamlessly.

( Alternatively, apparent cognates in Eurasian language families far removed from each other could also be early loanwords, compare Wanderwort.

Alternatively one could also consider combinations of five cubes that are themselves 3D, i. e., are not part of one layer of cubes.

Alternatively, when a self-balancing binary search tree is used, insertion and removal also take O ( log n ) time, although building trees from existing sequences of elements takes O ( n log n ) time ; this is typical where one might already have access to these data structures, such as with third-party or standard libraries.

Alternatively the guan dao is also known as " Chun Qiu Da Dao " or ' Spring Autumn Great Knife ', again probably related to Guan Yu's loyal image depicted in the Ming dynasty novel ' Romance of the Three Kingdoms ', but possibly a Ming author invention.

Alternatively, genes that enable males to develop impressive ornaments or fighting ability may simply show off greater disease resistance or a more efficient metabolism, features that also benefit females.

Alternatively, the sauce can also be made of a cup each of rice wine, sugar, and soy sauce.

Alternatively, if,, and are known, but is not adjustable, the voltage difference across or current flow through the meter can be used to calculate the value of, using Kirchhoff's circuit laws ( also known as Kirchhoff's rules ).

( Alternatively, Lucien Gubbay suggests the name Medina could also have been a derivative from the Aramaic word Medinta, which the Jewish inhabitants could have used for the city.

Alternatively, certain patients can choose to have a wide local excision, also known as a lumpectomy, an operation in which a small volume of breast tissue containing the tumor and some surrounding healthy tissue is removed to conserve the breast.

Alternatively, also fishes in the current Lotidae ( with burbot, cusk ) and Phycidae ( hakes ) have been included in Gadidae, as its subfamilies Lotinae and Phycidae.

Alternatively, the halogen lamp can be mounted inside an outer bulb, similar to an ordinary incandescent lamp, which also reduces the risks from the high bulb temperature.

Alternatively, the yaoi fandom is also viewed as a " refuge " from mainstream culture, which in this paradigm is viewed as inherently misogynistic.

Alternatively, fact may also indicate an allegation or stipulation of something that may or may not be a " true fact ", ( e. g., " the author's facts are not trustworthy ").

Alternatively, Ino was also stricken with insanity and killed Melicertes by boiling him in a cauldron, then took the cauldron and jumped into the sea with it.

Alternatively, she became pregnant with Trambelus while still on board the ship and then escaped ; it is also possible, though, that the mother of Trambelus was not Hesione, but a certain Theaneira.

Alternatively, the plane can also be given a metric which gives it constant negative curvature giving the hyperbolic plane.

Alternatively Union pipes were certainly a favourite of the upper classes in Scotland, Ireland and the North-East of England and were fashionable for a time in formal social settings, where the term Union pipes may also originate.

e. Alternatively, T is also injective since, if g * x = g * x implies g = g ' ( by post-multiplying with the inverse of x, which exists because G is a group ).

Alternatively, the objective piece can also be struck between a stationary anvil-stone, and the hammer stone, in a process known as bipolar percussion.