Consider the space of real-valued functions together with a special point.

In times of war ( as seen in Consider Phlebas ), the Contact section of the Culture, and in particular Special Circumstances, acts as a military intelligence and special forces service.

The special status of Special Circumstances is best explained by Bora Horza Gobuchul in Consider Phlebas:

Consider the special case N = 1.

Consider marking certain important buildings and monuments with a special protective emblem of the Convention.

Consider the case when we have four layers to blend to produce the final image: F =

Geometric arrangement for Fresnel's calculation Consider the case of a point source located at a point P < sub > 0 </ sub >, vibrating at a frequency f. The disturbance may be described by a complex variable U < sub > 0 </ sub > known as the complex amplitude.

Consider the case in which liquid crystal molecules are aligned parallel to the surface and an electric field is applied perpendicular to the cell as in the following diagram.

Consider the case of an airfoil accelerating from rest in a viscous flow.

Consider also the case of a vessel leaving a star system, or heading to the outer planets.

Consider the case where the far end of the cable is shorted ( that is, it is terminated into zero ohms impedance ).

Argument from rarity – Consider this case: a lottery winner is accused of cheating, based on the improbability of winning.

Consider the case when bits are already exchanged between the parties.

Consider the simplest case, a system with one independent variable, time.

Consider the simple case of two-body system, where object A is moving towards another object B which is initially at rest ( in any particular frame of reference ).

Consider the manufacture and sale of any item, which in this case we will call a widget.

Consider the following quote: " How can the fact that, in the case of the brains in a vat, the language is connected by the program with sensory inputs which do not intrinsically or extrinsically represent trees ( or anything external ) possibly bring it about that the whole system of representations, the language in use, does refer to or represent trees or any thing external?

Consider the following theorem ( which is a case of the Pigeonhole Principle ):

Consider the case when a child executes an "" system call ( which is used to execute any executable file from within a C program ) or exits very soon after the.

Consider the Gram – Schmidt process applied to the columns of the full column rank matrix, with inner product ( or for the complex case ).

Consider a case of a level sensing platform on an aircraft flying due North with its three gimbal axes mutually perpendicular ( i. e., roll, pitch and yaw angles each zero ).

Consider the expression: in this case, the dummy variable of the product is not mentioned within the term.

Consider that in the case of the Mount Isa orebody, large amounts of capital are required to sink shafts and associated underground infrastructure, then laboriously drill and blast the ore, crush and process it, to extract the base metals, an activity which requires a large workforce.

Consider the case where ( that is, the jth element is one and all others zero ).

Consider the case when the surfaces are flat and planar cross-sections.

Consider the following test case: The field f has been on for infinite time and is switched off at t = 0

Consider the case this way-to a cat, catching and eating mice is perfectly natural and morally sound.

Consider the case of a 2-by-2 matrix

Consider adopting a system of holidays in which time off is granted with an eye to minimum inconvenience to the operation of the plant.

Consider a simple, closed, plane curve C which is a real-analytic image of the unit circle, and which is given by Af.

( Consider 1 / 0, which is defined with the value of infinity, vs. 0 / 0, which is undefined.

Consider a car's cruise control, which is a device designed to maintain vehicle speed at a constant desired or reference speed provided by the driver.

Consider Japan, for instance, which used to have optional jury trials for capital or other serious crimes between 1928 and 1943.

Consider for example determining which of the following are to be considered diseases ( i. e., abnormal states requiring cure ): alcoholism, homosexuality, and chronic fatigue syndrome.

Consider a binary electrolyte AB which dissociates into A + and B-ions and the equilibrium state is represented by the equation:

Consider a hypothetical event which has 8 possible outcomes, in a country using a decimal currency such as dollars.

Consider two ISPs, A and B, which each have a presence in New York, connected by a fast link with latency 5 ms ; and which each have a presence in London connected by a 5 ms link.

Consider the analogy between the sentence " Snow is white " and the character named Snow White, both of which can be true in some sense.

Consider a system in which voters can vote for any candidate from any one of many parties ; suppose further that if a party gets 15 % of votes, then that party will win 15 % of the seats in the legislature.

Consider a traveling transverse wave ( which may be a pulse ) on a string ( the medium ).

Consider Hawaiian, which has a and, but no or.

Consider a hypothetical hotel with countably infinitely many rooms, all of which are occupied – that is to say every room contains a guest.

Consider a customer purchasing an item which costs five pence, who possesses several silver sixpence coins.

Consider a typical rational number 415 / 93, which is around 4. 4624.

Consider the implication " if I am in Massachusetts, then I am in North America ", which we might alternatively express as, " if I were in Massachusetts, then I would be in North America ".

Consider an operation like vector addition, which is used very often in computer graphics applications.

Consider the problem of determining the index of the database entry which satisfies some search criterion.

As a sidenote, the fact that artificial intelligences are accepted as citizens of the Culture was a major factor in the Idiran-Culture War, which is explored in Consider Phlebas.

Consider the following claim: " it is false that A and B are both true ", which is written as: