For instance, the word " bank " has several distinct lexical definitions, including " financial institution " and " edge of a river ".

For different applications there are different precise definitions.

For example, consider these two definitions:

For example, Canada has passed legislation favouring the International System of Units, while also maintaining legal definitions for traditional Canadian imperial units.

For example, consider these two definitions:

For endomorphisms and automorphisms, the descriptions above coincide with the category theoretic definitions ; the first three descriptions do not.

For the present article, the following definition will be convenient, as abstracted from the definitions of various authors.

For example, the mile ranged by country from one half to five U. S. miles ; even foot and pound had varying definitions.

For determining error-rates mathematically, some definitions will be needed:

For other definitions and meaning for the word orthodox, see Orthodoxy.

" For researchers, the term is popular partly due to the broad range of outcomes it can explain ; the multiplicity of uses for social capital has led to a multiplicity of definitions.

For example, one possible proposed redefinition is " the ampere ... is such that the value of the elementary charge e ( charge on a proton ) is exactly 1. 602176487 × 10 < sup >− 19 </ sup > coulomb " This proposal is not yet accepted as part of the SI system: The SI definitions are unlikely to change until at least 2015.

For example, in an online reference work such as Wikipedia, many words and terms in the text are hyperlinked to definitions of those terms.

For example the definitions offered by the American Speech-language-Hearing Association differ from that of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual 4th edition ( DSM-IV ).

For example, in Fictionary not everyone needs to create plausible dictionary definitions ; humorous submissions are welcome.

For a device that converts a quantity to another quantity there are three basic definitions for integral linearity in common use: independent linearity, zero-based linearity, and terminal, or end-point, linearity.

For definitions of the variables below, see box at end of article.

For the rest, some minor deviations from the Aristotelian definitions are quoted from the Topica of Theophrastus.

For different definitions of automata, the recognizable languages are different.

For example, the International Organisation for Standardisation-approved definitions ( see e. g., ISO 9241 part 11 ) usability are held by some to be a context-dependent yardstick for the effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction with which specific users should be able to perform tasks.

For example, dictionary definitions generally designate it as 10 – 13 years.

For example, components of the coverage concept are selectively recombined into new, different definitions of a coverage.

For a long time, one of the difficulties has been that there were many reasonable and useful definitions, none of which appeared to capture all the important aspects of finite matroid theory.

For example according to Errett Bishop's definitions, the continuity of a function ( such as sin x ) should be proved as a constructive bound on the modulus of continuity, meaning that the existential content of the assertion of continuity is a promise that can always be kept.

( For technical definitions of these terms, see below.

For narratologists, all parts of narratives — characters, narrators, existents, actors — are characterized in terms of diegesis.

`` For Christ's sake, don't waste your powder on one of 'em ''!!

For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;

For one thing, this is not a subject often discussed or analyzed.

For one thing, there is a natural belt of rock across the river bed ; ;

For one thing, the world that Beckett sees is already shattered.

For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.

For this change is not a change from one positive position to another, but a change from order and truth to disorder and negation.

For paradigmatic history `` breaks '' rather than unfolds precisely when the movement is from order to disorder, and not from one order to a new order.

For innocence, of all the graces of the spirit, is I believe the one most to be prayed for.

For what we propose, however, a psychoanalyst is not necessary, even though one aim is to enable the reader to get beneath his own defenses -- his defenses of himself to himself.

For a freshman Congressman to read political Lessons to graybeard Democrats was poor policy for one who needed to make friends.

For this reason, then, poetry tends to weaken the power of control, the reason, because it tempts one to indulge his passions, and even the best of men, he maintains, may be corrupted by this subtle influence.

For one thing, Aristotle mentions that plays may corrupt the audience.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

For the sad truth is that while one might write well without having read Bartleby The Scrivener, one is more likely, to write well if one has `` read it, and much else.

For one thing, there wasn't going to be any ceremony at all this year.

For a few brief minutes they had all been part of one little drama.

For that is the one an increasingly large number of prominent Americans are now proposing.

For discouragement, or the temptation to abandon our efforts, `` would show that one placed excessive trust in purely human means without thinking of the omnipotence of God, the irresistible efficacy of prayer, the action of Christ or the power of the Divine Spirit ''.