If the slowing down of certain seismic waves caused by the damp spot helped uncover the underground ocean, the unusual temperature variation with depth measured in 241 inactive oil wells helped locate the subterranean river.

To meet this demand, Opel engineers developed an unusual variation on normal cooling for the 3. 6 L truck engine.

Some of the unusual sounds were created by a variation of silly putty and dimes tucked between and over the strings of the piano.

Karonga in the far north shows little variation in temperature with maximum daytime temperature remaining around all year round but is unusual in that April and May are the wettest times of the year due to strengthening southerly winds along the lake.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts allows an unusual indication variation for pedestrian movement.

Thus even a small variation in the eye spacing is unusual and should be exaggerated, whereas a correspondingly small change in the nose size relative to the mean would not be unusual enough to be worthy of exaggeration.

The plumage patterns of Ruddy Turnstones exhibit an unusual amount of variation in comparison with other shorebirds.

Thus, despite the occasional revival by GMs Vladimir Akopian, Vladimir Malaniuk and Jeroen Piket, this variation is also unusual.

A diagram of Saffron Walden turf maze, an unusual variation on the medieval labyrinth pattern

While individual schools may show variation, it would not be unusual to train with sandbags or boxing gloves.

In a variation common in the United States, the second phase is unusual because sequences of cards are played, connected, and picked up during the rummy phase.

An unusual glycoform variation is seen in neuronal cell adhesion molecule, NCAM involving polysialic acids, PSA.

An unusual case of a transversely blown but vertically held flute is a special variation of the standard flute, or, more specifically, the Western concert flute, designed to be played in an upright position.

This was picked up by psychologists such as Hans Eysenck and Gordon Claridge who sought to understand this variation in unusual thought and behaviour in terms of personality theory.

The Ingushians also showed unusual patterns of mtDNA variation when compared with other Caucasus populations ( Nasidze and Stoneking, submitted ), which indicates that some feature of the Ingushian population history, or of this particular sample of Ingushians, must be responsible for their different patterns of genetic variation at both mtDNA and the Alu insertion loci.

She favours sharp and unusual openings, such as the Grand Prix Attack ( Sicilian ), b3 in the French, f5 variation in the Ruy Lopez, the Philidor Defence as Black, and many others.

Napoleon has an unusual variation on the idea, where every third player turn is ' night turn ' where combat is not allowed.

The melody is unusual among English folk melodies in that it consists of one musical phrase repeated twice, followed by a refrain which is a variation on that phrase.

It also included a set of game variation cards that could produce unusual chance effects that might alter the situation.

There can be some variation in the severity and persistence of SLI in identical twins, indicating that environmental factors affect the course of disorder, but it is unusual to find a child with SLI who has an identical twin with normal language.

The Baltic is an unusual variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined.

If she sensed any unusual preoccupation on the part of her mother, she did not comment upon it.

Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.

For some unusual photographic subjects, if your vacation takes you nearby, try these events: the 600-mile auto race in Charlotte, N.C.,, on May 27 ; ;

In the period since the end of World War 2, -- a period coinciding with merchandising demands for the colorful, the unusual, and the original in signs and displays -- plastics have come on so strong that today they are the acknowledged leaders in the field.

That had happened on the day when two other unusual things had occurred.

the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.

And Houston police have the final say in the matter since she died there on September 20, 1960, `` Diane Harris Graham, 30, D.O.A., circumstances -- unusual ''.

He also developed his own highly unusual theories of physics, according to which such concepts as " penetrability ", " suction and pressure " and " zig-zag-and-swirl " were discoveries on par with Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

The rival forces met at Sievershausen on 9 July 1553, and after a combat of unusual ferocity Albert was put to flight.

Due to a name which is unusual in Denmark, it is speculated that he was christened on the Danish " Absalon " name day, October 30.

Another feature of blue laws restricts the purchase of particular items on Sundays which is an unusual feature in modern American culture.

In his defense, some baseball historians have suggested that it was not customary for game-ending hits to be fully " run out ", it was only Evers's insistence on following the rules strictly that resulted in this unusual play.

Numerous medical studies on treatment of these abscesses with antibiotics have been done with varying results, but the consensus is once pus is aspirated and analysed, provided no unusual bacilli are present, the abscess will generally heal on its own in a matter of weeks.

The first player's bowl has come to rest just in front of the jack ; the second has delivered his bowl and is following after it with one of those eccentric contortions still not unusual on modern greens, the first player meanwhile making a repressive gesture with his hand, as if to urge the bowl to stop short of his own ; the third player is depicted as in the act of delivering his bowl.

It describes Potter ’ s maturing artistic and intellectual interests, her often amusing insights on the places she visited, and her unusual ability to observe nature and to describe it.

Stolpe found very large amounts of amber on the island, which is unusual since amber is not normally found in lake Mälaren.

Often his research was simple: he would review period newspapers of the dates of reported incidents and find reports on possibly relevant events like unusual weather, that were never mentioned in the disappearance stories.

Likewise, a type collection might focus on an unusual design feature such as coins with a hole in the middle, coins that are not circular in shape or coins with brockage.

During sets, it was not unusual for Love to go on monologist rants between songs, or to bring fans onstage and give impromptu guitar lessons.

In describing an unusual miniature fifth-century Greek bronze in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, that takes the form of a man on all fours with the foreparts of a pig, Dorothy Kent Hill expressed the artist's dilemma: how could an artist depict a man bewitched into a pig other than as a man with a pig's head?

Caractacus lived out his days on land provided by the Roman state, an unusual end for an enemy commander.

It was an important step for a leading female novelist to write a biography of another, and Gaskell's approach was unusual in that, rather than analysing her subject's achievements, she concentrated on private details of Charlotte's life, emphasising aspects which countered accusations of ' coarseness ' which had been levelled at her writing.