The third calibration point, taken as 96 ° F, was selected as the thermometer's reading when the instrument was placed under the arm or in the mouth.

Activities such as personal reading or practicing a musical instrument are considered to be hobbies or pastimes.

Activities such as personal reading or practicing a musical instrument are considered to be hobbies.

' Swinging ' the sextant about the axis of the telescope ensures that the reading is being taken with the instrument held vertically.

The accuracy of an analog instrument usually refers to full-scale deflection ; a measurement of 30V on the 100V scale of a 3 % meter is subject to an error of 3V, 10 % of the reading.

* Sample and hold, which will latch the most recent reading for examination after the instrument is removed from the circuit under test.

A direct reading power factor meter can be made with a moving coil meter of the electrodynamic type, carrying two perpendicular coils on the moving part of the instrument.

The density of mercury will change with temperature, so a reading must be adjusted for the temperature of the instrument.

As the air pressure will be decreased at altitudes above sea level ( and increased below sea level ) the actual reading of the instrument will be dependent upon its location.

The German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, whose translation of the play had strong impact on Heidegger's reading, brings out a more subtle reading of the play: he focuses on Antigone's legal and political status within the palace, her privilege to be the hearth ( according to the legal instrument of the epiklerate ) and thus protected by Zeus.

When reading from the bass clef, the baritone horn is a non-transposing instrument.

The last part reading If an instrument payable to two or more persons is ambiguous as to whether it is payable to the persons alternatively, the instrument is payable to the persons alternatively contemplates use of and / or, and how an item with those words written is to be accepted ( use of or prevails ).

In modern gliders, most electronic variometers generate a sound whose pitch and rhythm depends on the instrument reading.

Achieving such development takes focus, practice and persistence more akin to learning a musical instrument than reading a book.

When reading a scale on the side of an instrument filled up with liquid, the meniscus must be taken into account in order to obtain a precise measurement.

In Kircher's reading, the Eye of Horus and a glyph depicting a chessboard ( the syllable mn ) are interpreted as " instrument of divine providence, eye of the political universe ".

This differentiation leaves a third more restricted use of the term " sight-reading " for the silent reading of music without creating sound by instrument or voice.

This type of memory has specifically come into focus when discussing “ Sight Reading ” since the process of looking at musical notes for the first time and deciphering them while playing an instrument can undoubtedly be considered a “ complex task of comprehension .” The main conclusion in terms of this idea is that, “ Working memory and short-term memory capacity and mental speed are three important predictors for sight reading achievement .” Although none of the studies discredit the correlation between the amount of time one spends practicing and musical ability, specifically, sight-reading proficiency, more studies are pointing to the level at which one ’ s working memory functions as the key factor in sight-reading abilities.

It had black 14 " steel wheels with full-size plastic wheel covers, power steering, body-coloured rear-view mirrors and bumpers, velour interior trim, tachometer, centre console with Ghia emblem, lockable glovebox, driver's seat with lumbar support and height adjust, storage drawer underneath the front passenger seat, full-size interior door trims, vanity mirror in passenger sunvisor, ticket holder in driver's sunvisor, felt interior hoodlining and sunvisors, rear headrests, additional warning lights in the instrument cluster, central locking with illuminated driver's door lock barrel, remote exterior mirrors, front door map pockets, front seatback pockets, additional reading lamps, chrome insert strips in the body side mouldings and bumpers, red tailgate garnish and orange beaver panel garnish.

The core Suzuki literature is published on audio recordings and in sheet music books for each instrument, and Suzuki teachers supplement the repertoire common to each instrument as needed, particularly in the area of teaching reading.

Critiques of the MMPI-A include a non-representative clinical norms sample, overlap in what the clinical scales measure, irrelevance of the mf scale, as well as long length and high reading level of the instrument.

The langeleik is tuned to about an A, though on score the C major key is used, as if the instrument were tuned in C. This is for simplification of both writing and reading, by circumventing the use of accidentals

He leafed through the light reading provided by Mrs. Kirby for her guests: four separate adventures of the Bobbsey Twins ( At the Seashore, At the Mountains, On the Farm, and In Danger ) and several agricultural bulletins on the treatment of hoof-and-mouth disease in cattle, hideously illustrated.

Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

The Minḥat Ḳenaot is instructive reading for the historian because it throws much light upon the deeper problems which agitated Judaism, the question of the relation of religion to the philosophy of the age, which neither the zeal of the fanatic nor the bold attitude of the liberal-minded could solve in any fixed dogmatic form or by any anathema, as the independent spirit of the congregations refused to accord to the rabbis the power possessed by the Church of dictating to the people what they should believe or respect.

This new rating is not a change to the stock itself-it is merely a way of calculating exposure without figuring out the compensation after each light reading.

From a careful reading of the Enoch literature and the Book of Giants, alongside the description of the Manichaean myth, it becomes clear that the " Great King of Glory " of this myth ( a being that sits as a guard to the world of light at the seventh of ten heavens in the Manichaean myth ,) is identical with the King of Glory sitting on the heavenly throne in the Enoch literature.

Modern methods of reading palimpsests using ultraviolet light and photography are less damaging.

' Like most such theories it makes exciting light reading, but as an example of scientific method it fares quite poorly.

Not all of these were full-fledged branches: in Leipzig there was a depot run by H. Bohun Beet, and In Canada and Australia there were small, functional depots in the cities and an army of educational representatives penetrating the rural fastnesses to sell the Press ’ s stock as well as books published by firms whose agencies were held by the Press, very often including fiction and light reading.

Examples of such environmental modifications include using the bed for sleep or sex only, not for activities such as reading or watching television ; waking up at the same time every morning, including on weekends ; going to bed only when sleepy and when there is a high likelihood that sleep will occur ; leaving the bed and beginning an activity in another location if sleep does not result in a reasonably brief period of time after getting into bed ( commonly ~ 20 min ); reducing the subjective effort and energy expended trying to fall asleep ; avoiding exposure to bright light during nighttime hours, and eliminating daytime naps.

In 1997, after reading an editorial by the Chairman of the NTSB about the crash of TWA Flight 800, Bill had a letter to the editor published in the Wall Street Journal that began a 4 year effort to bring to light the true cause of the crash.

These typically contain reading lights, air vents, and a flight attendant call light.

On most narrowbody aircraft ( and some Airbus A300s and A310s ), the flight attendant call button and the buttons to control the reading lights are located directly on the PSU, while on most widebody aircraft, the flight attendant call button and the reading light control buttons are usually part of the in-flight entertainment system.

Its full title is a poem Apple wrote after reading letters that appeared in Spin regarding an article that had cast her in a negative light in an earlier issue.

Zachariae edited with Karl Joseph Mittermaier the Kritische Zeitschrift fur Rechtswissenschaft und Gesetzgebung des Auslandes, and the introduction which he wrote illustrates his wide reading and his constant desire for new light upon old problems.

Some light guns designed for sequential targeting are not timed precisely enough to get an ( X, Y ) reading against the video signal, but they can use a combination of the two methods.

The qualitative " reading " usually based on detection of intensity of transmitted light by spectrophotometry, which involves quantitation of transmission of some specific wavelength of light through the liquid ( as well as the transparent bottom of the well in the multiple-well plate format ).

Cecil annoys everyone by reading aloud from a light romance novel that contains a scene suspiciously reminiscent of when George kissed Lucy in Florence.

This reliving of the details surrounding the affair only takes up the first half of the text however ; Beckett called this part the ‘ Narration .’ As Paul Lawley says in " Beckett ’ s dramatic counterpoint: a reading of Play ", “ he second half of the text ( preceded by a five second long blackout ) – called ‘ Meditation ’ by Beckett himself – sheds a subtle new light on the first.

An unusual scene with a preponderance of light colors or specular highlights would have a higher reflectance ; a reflected-light meter taking a reading would incorrectly compensate for the difference in reflectance and lead to underexposure.

In an attempt to disrupt the match, flour bombs, along with flares, leaflets and a parachute-support banner reading " Biko " were dropped into Eden Park from a light plane flying overhead.

They are cheap and durable, but provide little light and are unsuitable for reading.

Regulated LED flashlights may also have user-selectable levels of output appropriate to a task, for example, low light for reading a map and high output for checking a road sign.

The books recounted the humorous adventures of the character Sam Slick and became popular light reading.