In practical terms, the ampere is a measure of the amount of electric charge passing a point in an electric circuit per unit time with 6. 241 × 10 < sup > 18 </ sup > electrons, or one coulomb per second constituting one ampere.

Ordinary Weston-type meter movements can measure only milliamperes at most, because the springs and practical coils can carry only limited currents.

In practical statistical analysis, the terms are often used before one has chosen even a preliminary form of analysis: thus an initial objective might be to " choose an appropriate measure of central tendency ".

Flynn originally took the extreme position that the very large increase indicates that IQ tests do not measure intelligence but only a minor sort of " abstract problem-solving ability " with little practical significance.

As a practical measure, officials of the Ming and Qing dynasties carried out the administration of the empire using a common language based on Mandarin varieties, known as Guānhuà.

This was a practical measure meant to prevent fruit flies from hovering over the sweet sherry ( see below for more explanations ).

Although the hydrogenation of disulfides is usually not practical, the equilibrium constant for the reaction provides a measure of the standard redox potential for disulfides:

( As a practical matter, this is also a measure of the degree of randomness or entropy they generate.

As this is a very large unit for most practical uses, scientists commonly use the nanotesla ( nT ) as their working unit of measure.

There are, however, practical measurement problems no matter which definition is used, because it is difficult to measure continuous exposure to the risk of pregnancy over a period of years.

While is of great practical importance, being the overall measure of gas transport, the interpretation of this measurement is complicated by the fact that it does not measure any one part of a multi-step process.

Construct validity refers to the extent to which operationalizations of a construct ( i. e., practical tests developed from a theory ) do actually measure what the theory says they do.

: As the ability to measure brainwave frequency has significantly improved with advances in digital technology, it has become possible and practical to measure brainwave frequencies beyond 30 Hz.

There are several practical ways of checking water quality, the most direct being some measure of attenuation ( that is, reduction in strength ) of light as it passes through a sample column of water.

However, sugar is by far the compound in greatest quantity and so for all practical purposes these units are a measure of sugar level.

In practical applications, as when measuring room illumination, it is very difficult to measure illuminance more accurately than ± 10 %, and for many purposes it is quite sufficient to think of one footcandle as about ten lux.

count / measure ) are rarely seen in practical use, e. g. " 5000 km " is much more common than " 5 Mm ".

count / measure ) are rarely seen in practical use, because they are too big for any terrestrial tasks.

In early development it is not practical to directly measure that a drug is effective in treating the desired disease, and a surrogate endopoint is used to guide whether or not it is appropriate to proceed with further testing.

The apparent contradiction arising from the fact that political and practical Zionism were overwhelmingly secular, socialist and even atheist schools of thought, was resolved by the concept of " the Messiah's donkey " ( khamoro shel mashiakh ) whereby majority secular Zionism was seen as a temporary divine measure for the achievement of Jewish salvation.

Another practical device is mercury-filled strain gauges used to continuously measure circumference of the extremity, e. g. at mid calf.

This unusual measure, which raised the construction costs of Kontek significantly, was made for practical rather than technical reasons.

The primary practical use of a calendar is to identify days: to be informed about and / or to agree on a future event and to record an event that has happened.

Tertiary explosives, also called blasting agents, are so insensitive to shock that they cannot be reliably detonated by practical quantities of primary explosive, and instead require an intermediate explosive booster of secondary explosive.

Invigorated by the victory of Brown and frustrated by the lack of immediate practical effect, private citizens increasingly rejected gradualist, legalistic approaches as the primary tool to bring about desegregation.

For example, if the second or third hard disk is of SCSI type and on MS-DOS requires drivers loaded through the CONFIG. SYS file ( e. g. the controller card does not offer on-board BIOS or using this BIOS is not practical ), then the first SCSI primary partition will appear after all the IDE partitions on MS-DOS.

Ultimately, however, his primary passion was still practical optics, once noting that " In all my experiments I could, owing to lack of time, pay attention to only those matter which appeared to have a bearing upon practical optics ".

In closed primary systems, true independents are, for all practical purposes, shut out of the process.

The primary goal for many, if not most, workers was the need for a practical television camera technology.

Thus, conscience was considered an act or judgment of practical reason that began with synderesis, the structured development of our innate remnant awareness of absolute good ( which he categorised as involving the five primary precepts proposed in his theory of Natural Law ) into an acquired habit of applying moral principles.

These systems, which made use of the steam locomotive, were the first practical forms of mechanized land transport, and they remained the primary form of mechanized land transport for the next 100 years.

Low DC voltages were used ( on the order of 100 volts ) since that was a practical voltage for incandescent lamps, which were the primary electrical load.

Dynamic or AC fan-out, not DC fan-out, is therefore the primary limiting factor in many practical cases, due to the speed limitation.

Mizusawa Shogyo Koko ( 水沢商業高校 ) is a commercial high school whose primary focus is on practical business and IT skills.

He maintains a web site www. PeoplesCapitalism. org where he outlines a practical plan to achieve a future economic system where income from ownership of capital assets supplements, and eventually supplants, wages and salaries as the primary source of income for the average citizen.

His assignment was to study the Adler – Bell – Jackiw anomaly, a mismatch in the theory of the decay of neutral pions ; formal arguments forbid the decay into photons, whereas practical calculations and experiments showed that this was the primary form of decay.

In July 2012 Experian launched the UK's first free online teaching resource called Values, Money and Me, designed to help primary school pupils explore both practical and emotional issues around managing money.

This is as opposed to " modern " martial arts, whose primary focus is generally upon the self-improvement ( mental, physical, or spiritual ) of the individual practitioner, with varying degrees of emphasis on the practical application of the martial art for either sport or self defence purposes.

YCbCr and Y ′ CbCr are a practical approximation to color processing and perceptual uniformity, where the primary colors corresponding roughly to red, green and blue are processed into perceptually meaningful information.

The practical prayer advice contained in The Cloud of Unknowing forms a primary basis for the contemporary practice of Centering Prayer, a form of Christian meditation developed by Trappist monks William Meninger, Basil Pennington and Thomas Keating in the 1970s.

With several gigabytes of primary memory, algorithms that require a periodic check of each and every memory frame are becoming less and less practical.

The primary advantage of 70 centimeters is that base station antennas of very significant gain ( up to 11 dB or so ) are practical while 6 dB is about the practical limit on 2m.

In light of his fundamental ontology, Martin Heidegger interprets Aristotle in such a way that phronesis ( and practical philosophy as such ) is the original form of knowledge and thus primary to sophia ( and theoretical philosophy ).

Silver fulminate is a primary explosive that has very little practical value due to its extreme sensitivity to impact, heat, pressure and electricity.