Mail armour provided an effective defence against slashing blows by an edged weapon and penetration by thrusting and piercing weapons ; in fact a study conducted at the Royal Armouries at Leeds concluded that " it is almost impossible to penetrate using any conventional medieval weapon " Generally speaking, mail's resistance to weapons is determined by four factors: linkage type ( riveted, butted, or welded ), material used ( iron versus bronze or steel ), weave density ( a tighter weave needs a thinner weapon to surpass ), and ring thickness ( generally ranging from 18 to 14 gauge in most examples ).

Generally it does not refer to a type of direct colonization, rather, colonialism by other means.

Generally regarded as the most pleasant taste, sweetness is almost always caused by a type of simple sugar such as glucose or fructose, or disaccharides such as sucrose, a molecule combining glucose and fructose.

Generally, this type of semi-institutionalized humor starts as a specific group's in-joke, and grows until it reaches a significant portion of Internet users, gaining popularity, " rules " and mythos.

Generally companies providing general material handling type belt conveyors do not provide the conveyors for bulk material handling.

Generally PCI expansion cards will function on any CPU platform if there is a software driver for that type.

Generally it was imagined like a Greek warship, a galley, and authors hypothesized that it was the first ship of this type that had gone out on a high-sea voyage.

Generally EOD render safe procedures ( RSP ) are a type of tradecraft protected from public dissemination in order to limit access and knowledge, depriving the enemy of specific technical procedures used to render safe ordnance or an improvised device.

Generally, antiferromagnetic order may exist at sufficiently low temperatures, vanishing at and above a certain temperature, the Néel temperature ( named after Louis Néel, who had first identified this type of magnetic ordering ).

Generally these systems operated hand-in-hand with a simple command processor that allowed the user to type in English-like commands, and receive output.

Generally, the covariant metric tensor, contracted with a tensor of type ( M, N ), yields a tensor of type ( M − 1, N + 1 ), whereas its contravariant inverse, contracted with a tensor of type ( M, N ), yields a tensor of type ( M + 1, N − 1 ).

Generally, beer in modern Chinese is referred to by the compound ( binomial character / syllable ) word (), and would be distinguished as a specific type from the main generic type of jiu.

Generally, the folk type of poems they are anonymous, and may show signs of having been edited or polished in the process of fixing them in written characters.

Generally a type of tower crane, these cranes, also called self-assembling, jack-up, or " kangaroo " cranes, lift themselves from the ground or lift an upper, telescoping section using jacks, allowing the next section of the tower to be inserted at ground level or lifted into place by the partially erected crane itself.

Generally, a picture of the girl is provided, and sometimes, the type of sexual services she is willing to offer.

Generally stun guns or electric shock devices, CS gas not usually cattle prods but depends on type

Generally these least expensive type of whiteboard are most commonly found in use in non-institutional applications.

Generally this type of noise will only affect a small number of image pixels.

Generally, these varied explanations conceive of homophobia as one type of latent homosexuality where persons either are unaware of or deny their homosexual urges.

Generally the bond and angle terms are modeled as harmonic potentials centered around equilibrium bond-length values derived from experiment or theoretical calculations of electronic structure performed with software which does ab-initio type calculations such as Gaussian.

* By Dream ( or Vision ): Generally accomplished through connection with God or Goddess, always magic or mystic communication type.

Generally the software provides functions for debugging and troubleshooting the PLC software, for example, by highlighting portions of the logic to show current status during operation or via simulation.

Generally speaking, software is free if the source code is free to use, distribute, modify and study, and proprietary if the source code is kept secret, or is privately owned and restricted.

Generally the features an AIO has focus on scan and print functionality for home use, and may come with bundled software for organising photos, simple OCR and other uses of interest to a home user.

Generally live CDs are booted from read-only media, requiring either copying to rewriteable media ( i. e. a hard drive ) or complete remastering to install additional software ; however, there are exceptions such as Puppy Linux which has the ability to save files to the live CD itself or other multisession media, allowing users to carry data, and more importantly, added programs and customized settings, along with them on optical disc.

Generally speaking this is a better guideline than minimum system requirements in order to have a fully usable and enjoyable experience with a software.

Generally, a control surface will contain one or more controls that can be assigned to parameters in the software, allowing tactile control of the software.

Generally only system software, i. e. the BIOS, operating systems, and some specialized utility programs ( e. g., memory testers ), address physical memory using machine code operands or processor registers, instructing the CPU to direct a hardware device, called the memory controller, to use the memory bus or system bus, or separate control, address and data busses, to execute the program's commands.

Generally these solutions do not provide the full remote access seen on software such as VNC or Terminal Services, but do allow administrators to perform a variety of tasks, such as rebooting computers, resetting passwords, and viewing system event logs, thus reducing or even eliminating the need for system administrators to carry a laptop or be within reach of the office.

Generally, managing such work requires software ; the most common tools for editing documents are wikis, and those for programming, version control systems.

Generally the Hotelling system is maintained by a piece of software which integrates with the company's communication systems and is tailored to the office of each individual company.

Generally, however, it is used to refer to any data extraction and analysis software.

Generally, however, there is an abundance of available machinery of coordination -- in NATO, in O.E.C.D., in the U.N. and elsewhere.

Generally, throughout the South, there is a growing impatience with the pattern of violence with which every step of desegregation is met.

Generally, it is necessary to mark distances on a specimen ( or garment ) in both lengthwise and widthwise directions and to measure before and after laundering.

Generally, however, in such marriages as those cited, the husband is at his wife's mercy.

Generally the first salvo of a tsunami is a rather sharp swell, not different enough from an ordinary wave to alarm casual observers.

Generally, there is no trial in an appellate court, only consideration of the record of the evidence presented to the trial court and all the pre-trial and trial court proceedings are reviewed — unless the appeal is by way of re-hearing, new evidence will usually only be considered on appeal in " very " rare instances, for example if that material evidence was unavailable to a party for some very significant reason such as prosecutorial misconduct.

Generally, an answer is a reply to a question or is a solution, a retaliation, or a response that is relevant to the said question.

Generally speaking in private, civil cases there is no plea entered of guilt or innocence.

Generally speaking, negation is an automorphism of any abelian group, but not of a ring or field.

Generally, however, northern Alberta ( and areas along the Alberta Rockies ) is forested land and logging is more important than agriculture there.

Generally the visible spectrum ( vmag ) is used for the apparent magnitude, but other spectrums such as the near-infrared J-band magnitude are also used.

Generally it is a battery, but sub-divided batteries are quite common, and in some armies very common.

The body of rules that governs financial accounting in a given jurisdiction is called Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP.

Generally the absent zee-rhyme is not missed, although some children use a zee pronunciation in the rhyme which they would not use elsewhere.

Generally it is impossible to close two or three transactions at the same instant ; therefore, there is the possibility that when one part of the deal is closed, a quick shift in prices makes it impossible to close the other at a profitable price.

Generally, a battle is a conceptual component in the hierarchy of combat in warfare between two or more armed forces, or combatants.

Generally Heinz Guderian is attributed as creating the military doctrine later described as blitzkrieg.

Generally, information currently available as of January 1 of the current year is used in preparing the Factbook.