Where boundary maintenance describes the boundaries or limits of the group, systemic linkage is defined `` as the process whereby one or more of the elements of at least two social systems is articulated in such a manner that the two systems in some ways and on some occasions may be viewed as a single unit.

Silenus describes the Meropids, a race of men who grow to twice normal size, and inhabit two cities on the island of Meropis ( Cos?

In statistics, the autocorrelation of a random process describes the correlation between values of the process at different points in time, as a function of the two times or of the time difference.

Chapter two describes a divorce.

The doctrine of five phases describes two cycles of balance, a generating or creation ( 生, shēng ) cycle and an overcoming or destruction ( 克 / 剋, kè ) cycle of interactions between the phases.

The Luttrell Psalter, dating to around 1340, describes a grindstone rotated by two cranks, one at each end of its axle ; the geared hand-mill, operated either with one or two cranks, appeared later in the 15th century ;

One form describes the primeval state as an eternal union of two parents, and the creation takes place when the two are pulled apart.

Machiavelli attributes two episodes to Cesare Borgia that were at least partially executed by his father: the method by which the Romagna was pacified, which Machiavelli describes in chapter VII of The Prince, and the assassination of his captains on New Year's Eve of 1503 in Senigallia.

He describes two mechanisms: distortion and denial.

William Camden, in his 1607 edition of Britannia, describes Cornwall and Devon as being two parts of the same ' country ' which:

Churchill's account of the First World War, The World Crisis, describes Beatty's next order as, " Steer two points nearer the enemy.

In the two opening chapters the speaker describes himself as the son of David, and king over Israel in Jerusalem (,, ;, ), presenting himself as a philosopher at the center of a brilliant court.

Rava states in the Babylonian Talmud that although Ezekiel describes the appearance of the throne of God ( Merkabah ), this is not because he had seen more than the prophet Isaiah, but rather because the latter was more accustomed to such visions ; for the relation of the two prophets is that of a courtier to a peasant, the latter of whom would always describe a royal court more floridly than the former, to whom such things would be familiar.

The distinction between the two is subtle: " higher-order " describes a mathematical concept of functions that operate on other functions, while " first-class " is a computer science term that describes programming language entities that have no restriction on their use ( thus first-class functions can appear anywhere in the program that other first-class entities like numbers can, including as arguments to other functions and as their return values ).

One book describing the MIT train room describes two buttons by the door: labelled foo and bar.

The possibility that Lorentz symmetry may be violated has been seriously considered in the last two decades, particularly after the development of a realistic effective field theory that describes this possible violation, the so-called Standard-Model Extension.

He describes them as two spans high, very reluctant to interact with humans, and able to move through solid earth as easily as humans move through air.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic describes Parsons as " enormously influential " for both country and rock, " blending the two genres to the point that they became indistinguishable from each other.

Tom Wolfe, in his book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, describes a character's thoughts during an acid trip: " He looks down, two bare legs, a torso rising up at him and like he is just noticing them for the first time ... he has never seen any of this flesh before, this stranger.

Finkelstein describes two known frauds, that of The Painted Bird by Polish writer Jerzy Kosinski and Fragments by Binjamin Wilkomirski, and how they were defended by people even after they'd been exposed.

In mammals, genomic imprinting describes the processes involved in introducing functional inequality between two parental alleles of a gene.

* 785 – 805: Chinese geographer Jia Dan describes large lighthouse pillars built in the Persian Gulf, which is confirmed a century later by al-Mas ' udi and al-Muqaddasi.

The word mezzanine, meaning a platform inserted between two floors of a building, describes the way in which a PMC card fits between two adjacent host cards in a standard card rack, attached to one of the cards by connectors and mounting pillars.

Kilcullen describes the " pillars " of a stable society, while Eizenstat addresses the " gaps " that form cracks in societal stability.

It describes its four fundamental pillars as " the fight against oppression, poverty and unjust distribution ", " the fight against racism and discrimination ", " work for equality and against violence and injustice " and " prevention, voluntary engagement and competence-building ".

The Greek cognate of Assuwa first describes a plain near the Kayster river in Homer.

In one of his poems Catullus describes his happy return to the family villa at Sirmio on Lake Garda near Verona.

The derivative of a function at a chosen input value describes the best linear approximation of the function near that input value.

This record describes a battle in 1208 near a place called " Felin " during the Estonia campaign of King Valdemar II.

" Terebinth ", for example, describes Shechem as " near Neapolis ", modern Nablus, and " Tophet " is located " in the suburbs of Jerusalem ".

Herodotus, in Book II of his Histories, describes as a " labyrinth " a building complex in Egypt, " near the place called the City of Crocodiles ," that he considered to surpass the pyramids in its astonishing ambition:

The geographer Pausanias describes the shrine as small, situated near a clear stream, and flanked by bronze statues of Helios and Pasiphaë.

The series describes the life of teenagers in the fictional boarding school Schloss Einstein near Berlin.

In complex analysis, a branch of mathematics, the Casorati – Weierstrass theorem describes the behaviour of holomorphic functions near their essential singularities.

Sutter describes how he wanted a sawmill near the Sacramento and how Marshall told him of the gold.

After the harsh meeting with Bell and other church leaders, and near the end of Tyndale's time at Little Sodbury, John Foxe describes an argument with a " learned " but " blasphemous " clergyman, who had asserted to Tyndale that, " We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's.

One traditional story describes the pilot as the famous Arab navigator Ibn Majid, but other contemporaneous accounts place Majid elsewhere, and he could not have been near the vicinity at the time.

The derivative of a function at a chosen input value describes the rate of change of the function near that input value.

This term describes tribes that, with the backing of casino investors, attempt to locate a casino off their reservation, usually near a large urban center.

The Bible describes that as the Israelites in their Exodus came to the country east of the Jordan, near Heshbon, King of the Amorites refused to let them pass through his country.

Vitruvius ( c. 80 – 15 BC ) describes the " Temple of Ceres near the Circus Maximus " ( her Aventine Temple ) as typically Araeostyle, having widely spaced supporting columns, with architraves of wood, rather than stone.

In his autobiography, Liddy describes an " Ellsberg neutralization proposal " originating from Howard Hunt, which involved drugging Ellsberg with LSD, by dissolving it in his soup, at a fund-raising dinner in Washington in order to " have Ellsberg incoherent by the time he was to speak " and thus " make him appear a near burnt-out drug case " and " discredit him ".

In his book The Motorcycle Diaries, Che Guevara describes an instrument that he identified as a charango while near Temuco, Chile in 1952.

Wells ' The War of the Worlds told from the perspective of a small town Texas sheriff ( a homage to Slim Pickens ) who finds an off-course Martian cylinder crashing down near his town ; " Heirs of the Perisphere " involves robotic Disney characters waking up in the far future ; " Fin de Cyclé " describes the Dreyfus affair from the perspective of bicycle enthusiasts.

It is therefore fitting that his last book, published posthumously, should be one that he describes as being " something of a shorter and more accessible version of the longer books, The Great Code and Words with Power ," which he asks his readers to read sympathetically, not " as proceeding from a judgment seat of final conviction, but from a rest stop on a pilgrimage, however near the pilgrimage may now be to its close " ( Double Vision Preface ).

The descent of the land held by him cannot be clearly traced: but his name long remained attached to part of it ; and, as late as the year 1653, a parliamentary grant of the Abbey or Chapter lands describes " the common field at Paddington " as being " near a place commonly called Baynard's Watering.

The statement expresses " shock " at " the horrific events of September 11, 2001 " but, evoking " similar scenes in Baghdad, Panama City, and, a generation ago, Vietnam ", describes Iraq as " a country which has no connection to the horror of September 11 ", and deplores the administration's " spirit of revenge " and the " simplistic script of ' good vs. evil ': " In our name, the Bush administration, with near unanimity from Congress, not only attacked Afghanistan but arrogated to itself and its allies the right to rain down military force anywhere and anytime.

In his book Early Golf, Steven van Hengel describes how the game of " Colf " or " Kolf " was played in 1297 near the castle of Kronenburg.

* Fatal Depth: Deep Sea Diving, China Fever, and the wreck of the Andrea Doria Author Joseph Haberstroh-Although the author states that the Gilboa Quarry his character trains at is near Cincinnati he describes driving on Old State Route 224 and passing Gilboa's giant fiberglass bull.