For comparison, Sirius has an absolute magnitude of 1. 4 which is greater than the Sun's absolute visual magnitude of 4. 83 ( it actually serves as a reference point ).

His application of reference lines, a diameter and a tangent is essentially no different than our modern use of a coordinate frame, where the distances measured along the diameter from the point of tangency are the abscissas, and the segments parallel to the tangent and intercepted between the axis and the curve are the ordinates.

where R < sub > i </ sub > is the position vector of particle i from the reference point, m < sub > i </ sub > is its mass, and V < sub > i </ sub > is its velocity.

* Benchmark ( surveying ), a point of reference for a measurement

A point of reference for clinical engineers would be the catalogue published by the American Society for Hospital Engineering in the Hospital Engineering Reference Series called Maintenance Management for Medical Equipment.

However, some sources point out that this is a modern saying used by the Chinese from other regions in reference to Cantonese culinary habits.

The individual, rather than the community or institutions, was the point of reference.

To summarize, every established national group used cultural productions to assert and strengthen a sense of national unity and destiny ; less politically consolidated groups, especially those pursuing the goal of nationhood, used them in the same ways, though often with a note of determination that makes them easier to see from our contemporary point of reference.

# The best vantage point for understanding behavior is from the internal frame of reference of the individual.

Each reference line is called a coordinate axis or just axis of the system, and the point where they meet is its origin, usually at ordered pair ( 0, 0 ).

Bokmål is based on Danish unlike the other Norwegian language, Nynorsk, which is based on the Norwegian dialects, with Old Norwegian as an important reference point.

In further cases of the use of the term, " the reference to the conceptual homeland – to the ' classical ' diasporas – has become more attenuated still, to the point of being lost altogether ".

The second reference point was selected as the reading of the thermometer when it was placed in still water when ice was just forming on the surface.

In his Logical Investigations, Husserl mentions Frege only twice, once in a footnote to point out that he had retracted three pages of his criticism of Frege's The Foundations of Arithmetic, and again to question Frege's use of the word Bedeutung to designate " reference " rather than " meaning " ( sense ).

For practical purposes, it is useful to define a common reference point to which potentials may be expressed and compared.

This reference point naturally takes the name earth or ground.

In other words, when you pass a sequence to a routine, initially only a reference to it is passed, but at the point the routine modifies this sequence parameter the sequence is copied and the routine updates only a copy of the original.

As only differences in electronegativity are defined, it is necessary to choose an arbitrary reference point in order to construct a scale.

However, in principle, since the same electronegativities should be obtained for any two bonding compounds, the data is in fact overdetermined, and the signs are unique once a reference point is fixed ( usually, for H or F ).

Although enthalpy is commonly used in engineering and science, it is impossible to measure directly, as enthalpy has no datum ( reference point ).

Starting with Hart, a great deal of effort has gone into developing scientific theories about, and possible models of, extraterrestrial life, and the Fermi paradox has become a theoretical reference point in much of this work.

Its melting point is used as a temperature reference point.

Gallium's melting point ( mp ) is one of the formal temperature reference points in the International Temperature Scale of 1990 ( ITS-90 ) established by BIPM.

After hitting " only ". 298 and seeing an almost 200 point drop in his OPS percentage, Manush was traded on December 13, to the Browns in exchange for outfielder Harry Rice, mediocre starter Elam Vangilder, and Chick Galloway.

And he missed the point that the swarthy witches might be laughing at him for hoping to escape Nicolas Manas.

In any social system in which communications have an importance comparable with that of production and other human factors, a point like f in Figure 2 would ( other things being equal ) be the dwelling place for the community leader, while e and h would house the next most important citizens.

If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

In his recent evaluation of Kennedy's potentialities for leadership, Walter Lippmann has cited the `` precision '' of his mind, his `` immense command '' of factual detail, and his `` instinct for the crucial point '' as impressive in the extreme ; ;

If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.

The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

Economic analysis was never Trevelyan's strong point and the England of the industrial transformation cries out for economic analysis.

Gun on shoulder, he would march smartly for a few yards, bring his heels together with a click, make a brisk pirouette, skirts flaring, and march back to his point of departure.

The other is that the charge for cabanas and parasols, though modest from an American point of view, still is a little high for many Athenians.

The point is that an ethical critic, with an assist from Freud, can seize on this theory to argue that tragedy provides us with a harmless outlet for our hostile urges.

That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.

What is wrong with advertising is not only that it is an `` outrage, an assault on people's mental privacy '' or that it is a major cause for a wasteful economy of abundance or that it contains a coercive tendency ( which is closer to the point ).

-- Her choice of one color means she is simply enjoying the motor act of coloring, without having reached the point of selecting suitable colors for different objects.

Just as a varitinted Oriental rug may suggest the starting point for a room scheme, so may some of the newest versions of embroidery.

`` A better position for negotiations is the real point of this speech.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

On the other hand, it is no interference with sovereignty to point out defects where they exist, such as that a plan calls for factories without power to run them, or for institutions without trained personnel to staff them.

Of these states the average `` change-over '' point ( at which a car is substituted for allowances ) is 13,200 miles per year.

Although the laws of the various states, in general, specify the situs of property, i.e., residence or domicile of the owner, or location of the property, the exceptions regarding boats, airplanes, mobile homes, etc., seem to add to the uncertainty of the proper origination point for assessment.

The gradient was about one half of a millidegree at 4.2 Af but increased to several millidegrees for bath temperatures slightly greater than the **yl point.