Competitive archery involves shooting arrows at a target for accuracy from a set distance or distances.

After conferring with his captains, the admiral decided that the French target must be Egypt and set off in pursuit.

is a code, whose source alphabet is the set and whose target alphabet is the set.

For example, a central bank might set a target rate for overnight lending of 4. 5 %, but rates for ( equivalent risk ) five-year bonds might be 5 %, 4. 75 %, or, in cases of inverted yield curves, even below the short-term rate.

The Fed sets a target for the Fed funds rate, which its Open Market Committee tries to match by lending or borrowing in the money market ... a fiat money system set by command of the central bank.

A compiler is a computer program ( or set of programs ) that transforms source code written in a programming language ( the source language ) into another computer language ( the target language, often having a binary form known as object code ).

To do this, a target is set for the grade of service ( GoS ) or quality of service ( QoS ).

This may include the objective of business, targets set, and results in financial terms, e. g., the target set for sale, resulting cost, growth, required investment to achieve the planned sales, and financing source for the investment.

More explicitly, the action groupoid is the set with source and target maps s ( g, x )

The Honduran government and the IMF had set an inflation target of 12 percent for 1992 and 8 percent for 1993.

The notes Erwin made for his planned meeting with Holt ( which he evidently provided to Reid ) indicate that he and others were worried that Holt was too susceptible to traps set for him by the ALP over issues like the VIP jets scandal, and that he had repeatedly let himself become the target of Opposition " harassment " instead of letting his ministers take the heat on controversial issues.

Major won by 218 votes to Redwood's 89 ( with 12 spoiled ballots, eight ' active ' abstentions and two MPs abstaining ), enough to win in the first round, but only three more than the target he had privately set himself.

The territorial capital of Lecompton, Kansas, the target of much agitation, became such a hostile environment for Free-Staters that they set up their own unofficial legislature at Topeka.

One target is a set of spinal interneurons that project to motor neurons controlling the arm muscles.

The Germans set up deception operations, from April 1941, to add substance to their claims that Britain was the real target: Operations Haifisch and Harpune.

The government brought the deficit down to 2. 5 % of GDP in 2001, and set a target of 1. 9 % of GDP for 2002.

Thereafter, the annual average growth rate was estimated to be less than 1 %, similar to the low growth rates of most industrialized countries and to the target figure set by the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs for the 1990s.

The incident ions set off collision cascades in the target.

In these systems, two six-sided dice ( 2d6 ) are rolled against a target number set by the referee — and usually the roll must be equal to or higher than the target number in order to succeed.

Classic Traveller later formalized a Universal Task Profile ( UTP ) — a standard set of target numbers with Difficulty Levels, such as Routine ( 7 +), Difficult ( 11 +), and Formidable ( 15 +).

Using number of dice to set a task difficulty approximates fixed target numbers without needing to recall those numbers, thus streamlining actions requiring fast play ( combat ).

The target numbers are usually set by the character's relevant skill they are using, plus any situational modifiers.

In the bow and stern technique, an anchor is set off each the bow and the stern, which can severely limit a vessel's swing range and also align it to steady wind, current or wave conditions.

But if set to a frequency outside the human audible range then the ear can't perceive the square wave, only the difference between the speaker being switched on and off.

Before computers, some armies set the range on the gun's sights, which mechanically corrected it for the gun's muzzle velocity.

Therefore, counting the turns of the cups over a set time period produced the average wind speed for a wide range of speeds.

The range of times and places in which the horrors of the Mythos can be encountered was also expanded in late 2005 onwards with the addition of Cthulhu Dark Ages by Stéphane Gesbert, which gives a framework for playing games set in eleventh-century Europe, Secrets of Japan by Michael Dziesinski for gaming in modern day Japan, and Secrets of Kenya by David Conyers for gaming in interwar period Africa.

Turbine engines made with ceramics could operate more efficiently, giving aircraft greater range and payload for a set amount of fuel.

A meeting chaired by Charles A. Phillips was held at the Pentagon on May 28 and 29 of 1959 ( exactly one year after the Zürich ALGOL 58 meeting ); there it was decided to set up three committees: short, intermediate and long range ( the last one was never actually formed ).

Digital TV is more tolerant of interference than analog TV, and this is the reason a smaller range of channels can carry an all-digital set of television stations.

After crossing the Bolivian mountain range and traveling past Lake Titicaca, Almagro arrived on the shores of the Desaguadero River and finally set up camp in Tupiza.

In 1999, Switzerland concluded a set of bilateral agreements with the European Union covering a wide range of areas, including movement of persons, transport, and technical barriers to trade.

In addition to his body of music, Satie also left a remarkable set of writings, having contributed work for a range of publications, from the dadaist 391 to the American culture chronicle Vanity Fair.

EPR tried to set up a paradox to question the range of true application of Quantum Mechanics: Quantum theory predicts that both values cannot be known for a particle, and yet the EPR thought experiment purports to show that they must all have determinate values.

Applied behavior analysis, a set of techniques based on the behavioral principles of operant conditioning, is effective in a range of educational settings.

A theory about some topic is usually first-order logic together with: a specified domain of discourse over which the quantified variables range, finitely many functions which map from that domain into it, finitely many predicates defined on that domain, and a recursive set of axioms which are believed to hold for those things.

The range of the quantifiers is the set of objects that can be used to satisfy them.

) In addition to specifying the meaning of predicate symbols such as Person and Time, an interpretation must specify a nonempty set, known as the domain of discourse or universe, as a range for the quantifiers.

This is particularly important when shooters go down range to set up, score or remove targets.

Scholars set a range of c. 90 – 100.

At Jupiter, the outboard ( 11 m ) set of sensors could measure magnetic field strengths in the range from ± 32 to ± 512 nT, while the inboard ( 6. 7 m ) set was active in the range from ± 512 to ± 16, 384 nT.

The songs from the Symphonia are set to Hildegard ’ s own text and range from antiphons, hymns, and sequences, to responsories.

In the mathematical field of numerical analysis, interpolation is a method of constructing new data points within the range of a discrete set of known data points.

* Interval ( mathematics ), a range of numbers ( formally, a type of subset of an ordered set )