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Any large, smoothbore, muzzle-loading gun — used before the advent of breech-loading, rifled guns — may be referred to as a cannon, though once standardized names were assigned to different sized cannons, the term specifically referred to a gun designed to fire a shot, as opposed to a demi-cannon-, culverin-, or demi-culverin-.
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Any of the antithyroid drugs, of either type, if given in large enough doses for a long period of time will cause goitre, owing to inhibition of thyroid hormone synthesis, with production of hypothyroidism.
* Any large snake that " crushes " its prey ( see Constriction ), if applied loosely, could be called anaconda.
Any configuration of charges or currents has a ' dipole moment ', which describes the dipole whose field is the best approximation, at large distances, to that of the given configuration.
Any DVD drive will read single layer discs as the drive software just regards the disc as a very large CD.
Any of these changes might have an effect that is highly advantageous or highly disadvantageous, but large effects are very rare.
Any large project was further delayed by the Franco-Prussian War, in which Bartholdi served as a major of militia.
Any collection of objects and morphisms defines a ( possibly large ) directed graph G. If we let J be the free category generated by G, there is a universal diagram F: J → C whose image contains G. The limit ( or colimit ) of this diagram is the same as the limit ( or colimit ) of the original collection of objects and morphisms.
Any large body of water upwind will impact lake-effect precipitation to the lee of a downwind lake by adding moisture or pre-existing lake-effect bands, which can re-intensify over the downwind lake.
Any fish can theoretically be caught with any rod, of course, but catching panfish on a heavy rod offers no sport whatsoever, and successfully landing a large fish on an ultralight rod requires supreme rod handling skills at best, and more frequently ends in broken tackle and a lost fish.
# Any phenomena that would seem attributable to absolute space and time ( e. g. inertia, and centrifugal force ) should instead be seen as emerging from the large scale distribution of matter in the universe.
Any new entrant in the market who wants to either buy or sell pork bellies would be forced to accept an illiquid market and market prices that have a large bid-ask spread or might even find it difficult to find a co-party to buy or sell to.
Any allele, deleterious, beneficial or neutral is more likely to be lost from a small population ( gene pool ) than a large one.
Any two adjacent conductors can be considered a capacitor, although the capacitance will be small unless the conductors are close together for long distances or over a large area.
Any member of either House can put down a motion that an Instrument should be annulled, although in the Commons unless the motion is signed by a large number of Members, or is moved by the official Opposition, it is unlikely to be debated, and in the Lords they are seldom actually voted upon.
Any measuring device or apparatus acts as an environment since, at some stage along the measuring chain, it has to be large enough to be read by humans.
Any fin must attach directly on to the rear part of the wing, giving a small moment arm from the aerodynamic center, which in turn means that to be effective the fin area must be large.
Any camper, and not only the survival ones, need waterproof matches and a large safety pin or fish hook which can be used in fishing.
* The chapter called " Birth of a New School " and large sections of " Ezra Pound and the Measuring Worm ," " There is Never Any End to Paris ," and " Winter in Schruns " have all been re-added.
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Any target within the point-blank range required the gun to be depressed ; any target beyond the point-blank range required the gun to be elevated, up to the angle of greatest range, which happens somewhat before 45 degrees of elevation.
Any soldier could drive or man any position in a gun, which, albeit unrealistic, allowed for many interesting gameplay implications.
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Love and Erlandson continued to pursue with the band, and released the single " Be A Man "— an outtake from the Celebrity Skin sessions — for the soundtrack of the Oliver Stone film Any Given Sunday ( 1999 ).
Any formal or informal group — a family, a church, a club, a business, a trade union — may be said to have government.
Any parabola can be repositioned and rescaled to fit exactly on any other parabola — that is, all parabolas are similar.
Any assumption of legitimate political power ( government and rule ) by the bourgeoisie represented a Fascist loss of totalitarian State power for social control through political unity — one people, one nation, one leader.
# Any activity – such as tests, measurements, replacements, adjustments and repairs — intended to retain or restore a functional unit in or to a specified state in which the unit can perform its required functions.
David wrote in his December 13, 2006 blog entry, " Any fans of my run on Supergirl — particularly those who are torqued because Linda Danvers was consigned to oblivion in the DCU -- must, must, MUST pick up " Fallen Angel " # 14 and # 15 when they come out next year.
According to the historian of science Norwood Russell Hanson: There is no bilaterally-symmetrical, nor excentrically-periodic curve used in any branch of astrophysics or observational astronomy which could not be smoothly plotted as the resultant motion of a point turning within a constellation of epicycles, finite in number, revolving around a fixed deferent. Any path — periodic or not, closed or open — can be represented with an infinite number of epicycles.
Any structure — an instance of a particular species — is associated with some set, and there are often many possible structures for the same set.
Any slope over this threshold created a braided stream, while any slope under the threshold created a meandering stream or — for very low slopes — a straight channel.
# The Jini Service — Any entity that can be used by a client program or another service ( for example, a printer, a DVR ( this used to say " VCR "-that's how old this software is ), or a software entity like an EJB service )
Any number system that forms a commutative ring — for instance, the integers, the real numbers, and the complex numbers — can be extended to a wheel in which division by zero is always possible ; however, in such a case, " division " has a slightly different meaning.
* Ralph Nader — consumer rights advocate ; Unsafe at Any Speed ( 1965 ), exposed unsafe automobile manufacturing
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