A very rough rule of thumb is that, under favorable conditions, you'll need 15 BTU's of cooling for every square foot of your house.

The best rule of thumb for detecting corked wine ( provided the eye has not already spotted it ) is to smell the wet end of the cork after pulling it: if it smells of wine, the bottle is probably all right ; ;

One rule of thumb: " If the largest standard deviation

This is not always true, but the rule of thumb is: Don't use Blackwood with a void unless you are absolutely sure you know what you are doing, and why you are doing it.

As a rough rule of thumb, common law systems trace their history to England, while civil law systems trace their history to Roman law and the Napoleonic Code.

As a rule of thumb, a scattering or a decay process is cosmologically important in a certain cosmological epoch if the time scale describing that process is smaller or comparable to the time scale of the expansion of the universe, which is with being the Hubble constant at that time.

According to one study, humans apply a rule of thumb by which we expect a significant event to have a significant cause.

Another epistemic " rule of thumb " that can be misapplied to a mystery involving other humans is cui bono?

As a general rule of thumb, if the condition number, then you may lose up to digits of accuracy on top of what would be lost to the numerical method due to loss of precision from arithmetic methods.

As a rule of thumb, the greater the intensity of the orange colour of the fruit or vegetable, the more β-carotene it contains.

The other way of orienting the axes is following the left hand rule, placing the left hand on the plane with the thumb pointing up.

As a result, simple distillation is usually used only to separate liquids whose boiling points differ greatly ( rule of thumb is 25 ° C ), or to separate liquids from non-volatile solids or oils.

Nevertheless, as a rule of thumb, high-performance parallel computation in a shared-memory multiprocessor uses parallel algorithms while the coordination of a large-scale distributed system uses distributed algorithms.

Indeed, that is a good rule of thumb in deconstruction.

For example, he coined the programming phrase " two or more, use a for ," alluding to the rule of thumb that when you find yourself processing more than one instance of a data structure, it is time to consider encapsulating that logic inside a loop.

As a rule of thumb, most explosives become dangerously unstable at temperatures above 70 ° C.

As such, the general rule of thumb is that cold foods ( such as dairy products ) should be kept cold and hot foods ( such as soup ) should be kept hot until storage.

One common example has to do with the phrase rule of thumb, meaning a rough measurement.

The 13 Jupiter mass ( M < sub > J </ sub >) cutoff is a rule of thumb rather than something of precise physical significance.

As a rule of thumb, if a character or symbol was not already part of a widely used data-processing character set and was also not usually provided on typewriter keyboards for a national language, it didn't get in.

From this hypothesis was derived the whole number rule, which was the rule of thumb that atomic masses were whole number multiples of the mass of hydrogen.

Comparing this yield to the observed damage produced a rule of thumb called the 5 psi lethal area rule.

The most reliable rule of thumb is that liqueurs are quite sweet and often syrupy in consistency, while liquors are not.

The latter would end up going to a more junior branch of the Habsburgs in the person of Charles's brother Ferdinand, while the senior branch continued rule in Spain and in the Burgundian inheritance in the person of Charles's son, Philip II of Spain.

Another section of royal followers were the curia regis ; these curiales were the senior officials and agents of the king and were essential to his day-to-day rule.

The king and the senior queen rule together in theory, and did so in practice up until the reign of Sobhuza II, making the term " monarchy " somewhat misleading historically.

In his youth, Yaroslav was sent by his father to rule the northern lands around Rostov but was transferred to Novgorod, as befitted a senior heir to the throne, in 1010.

This exile lasted only until 1512, however, and the " senior " branch of the family — those descended from Cosimo the Elder — were able to rule on and off until the assassination of Alessandro de ' Medici, first Duke of Florence, in 1537.

In that year the Roman general Magnus Maximus would strip all of western and northern Britain of troops and senior administrators and launch a successful bid for imperial power, continuing to rule Britain from Gaul as emperor.

Edmund of Kent was in conversations with other senior nobles questioning Isabella's rule, including Henry de Beaumont and Isabella de Vesci.

As of 2011, a rule change allowed for rolling substitutions to be made at senior level.

He was a senior general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam ( ARVN ) during the rule of Ngô Đình Diệm.

This build-up of the Stewart family power did not appear to cause resentment among the senior magnates — the king generally did not threaten their territories or local rule and where titles were transferred to his sons the individuals affected were usually very well rewarded.

He decided not to offer the position to Gustav Mahler, Fritz Steinbach, and Willem Mengelberg but did not rule out the young Bruno Walter if nobody more senior were to accept.

The system of such rule of families by senior males is termed patriarchy.

Although the Army's senior officers did not share many of their soldiers ' political opinions, their independence from Parliament led to the Army's willingness to contribute to the overthrow of both the Crown and Parliament's authority, and to establish a short-lived Commonwealth, which included a period of direct military rule.

Historically though, the most senior member of the Privy Council ( during the absolute rule this was the Lord High Chancellor ) had certain similarities to the office of a head of government.

This liberated Ceredigion from Norman rule, but, though it had historically been part of Deheubarth, it was taken over by Gwynedd, the senior partner in the alliance.

The Commission, which concluded that 1, 000 Arab rebels had been killed during the strike, later described the disturbances as " an open rebellion of the Palestinian Arabs, assisted by fellow-Arabs from other countries, against Mandatory rule " and noted two unprecedented features of the revolt: the support of all senior Arab officials in the political and technical departments in the Palestine administration ( including all of the Arab judges ) and the " interest and sympathy of the neighbouring Arab peoples ", which had resulted in support for the rebellion in the form of volunteers from Syria and Iraq.

In 1854, the rank of Colonel-General () was created in order to promote William I, German Emperor to senior rank without breaking the rule that only wartime field commanders could receive the rank of field marshal for a victory in a decisive battle or the capture of a fortification or major town.

Tadaharu was first famed for his wise rulership of Takatō ; however, his rule soon became oppressive, especially after he killed seven of his senior retainers who admonished him.

The Lord Chief Justice was the most senior judge in the court, and the second most senior Irish judge under English rule and later when Ireland became part of the United Kingdom.

Balbinus was probably in his early seventies: his qualifications for rule are unknown, except presumably that he was a senior senator, rich and well-connected.

: What is meant here is not actual rule ... but a sizeable shift in voting power so subtantial that the priorities of the young and of future generations are at risk of being subordinated to senior citizens.

On March 1, 293, Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus established the Tetrarchy, a system of rule by two senior Emperors and two junior sub-Emperors.

The senior men and BBC representatives ...... have all been temperate men, not teetotallers but as a rule disinclined to take wine-or any other alcoholic drink-during the course of the working day .... Latterly though, Brian Johnston has been coaxed round by way of Pouilly Fume to the occasional hock and now, fizz.