This in turn sets off an alarm, notifying the observers at the station that a tsunami is in progress.

Ignition sets off blast

Intuitively, for two sets S and T to have the same cardinality means that it is possible to " pair off " elements of S with elements of T in such a fashion that every element of S is paired off with exactly one element of T and vice versa.

In that novel, Nichlas Haflinger designs and sets off a data-gathering worm in an act of revenge against the powerful men who run a national electronic information web that induces mass conformity.

A fight ensues in which the " evil " Superman tries to dispose of the " good " Kent, but the latter fights back, " kills " the evil side to his nature and, reclaiming the Superman mantle, sets off to repair the damage and capture the villains.

The same night, Lee breaks into the underground base, avoiding a booby-trap set for him, and gathers sufficient evidence to warrant Han's arrest, but sets off an alarm while using the radio transmitter to contact Braithwaite.

After the meal is over, the band sets off back toward the city, to rebuild society.

While the Sidhe retreats, one elf ( revealed in the sequel to be named Corvus ), sets off on a quest of vengeance against the weakest of the three Serpent Riders, D ' Sparil.

The god Hermóðr volunteers and sets off upon the eight-legged horse Sleipnir to Hel.

The Getica sets off with a geography / ethnography of the North, especially of Scandza ( 16-24 ).

The matchmaker, in turn, sets him up with Helen, the town floozy, who runs off with him.

* detonator or igniter ( sets off the booster charge )

The young man immediately sets off to seek his kinsman.

Due to its power source, the ACU sets off a thermo-nuclear explosion when destroyed.

Mei, believing that her mother can be cured by healthy food, sets off on foot to the hospital with an ear of corn.

Legal action by rival RCA kept commercial use of the system off the air until June 1951, and regular broadcasts only lasted a few months before manufacture of all color television sets was banned by the Office of Defense Mobilization ( ODM ) in October, ostensibly due to the Korean War.

* 1990 – The first all woman expedition to the South Pole ( 3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians ) sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek.

When filling mode is on, it sets every pixel until filling mode is turned off or the line ends.

Long-Tailed Widow Bird offspring of both sexes will inherit both sets of genes, with females expressing their genetic preference for long tails, and males showing off the coveted long tail itself.

Constant flow scuba sets do not have a demand regulator ; the breathing gas flows at a constant rate, unless the diver switches it on and off by hand.

But because Alvin's legs and eyes are too impaired for him to receive a driving license, he hitches a trailer to his recently purchased thirty year-old John Deere 110 Lawn tractor and sets off on the 240-mile journey from Laurens, Iowa to Mount Zion, Wisconsin.

The magazine does not put the titles of plays or books in italics but simply sets them off with quotation marks.

The car will not start so he sets off on foot through the chaos.

* A logging crew sets off a second forest fire in the Tillamook Burn, which destroys.

For example, after having established that the set X contains only non-empty sets, a mathematician might have said " let F ( s ) be one of the members of s for all s in X.

If the anchor continues to drag, or sets after having dragged too far, it should be retrieved and moved back to the desired position ( or another location chosen.

Compactrons simply don't exist in any TV sets designed after 1986.

By mid-1896 all of Satie's financial means had vanished, and he had to move to cheaper and much smaller lodgings, first at the, and two years later, after he'd composed the two first sets of in 1897, to Arcueil, a suburb some five kilometres from the centre of Paris.

Not long after that, in 1883, Georg Cantor, who attended lectures by Weierstrass, published examples of subsets of the real line known as Cantor sets, which had unusual properties and are now recognized as fractals.

Very shortly after that work was submitted, by March 1918, Felix Hausdorff expanded the definition of " dimension ", significantly for the evolution of the definition of fractals, to allow for sets to have noninteger dimensions.

The slaves depicted in Gone with the Wind are primarily loyal house servants, such as Mammy, Pork, Prissy, and Uncle Peter, and these slaves stay on with their masters even after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 sets them free.

* 1961 – Cold War: the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent, comes into force after the opening date for signature set for the December 1, 1959.

This is especially so because, being recited before sunset, it is actually recited on 9 Tishri, which is the day before Yom Kippur ; it is not recited on Yom Kippur itself ( on 10 Tishri, which begins after the sun sets ).

He later sets the teleporter to self-destruct after he uses it, killing the attacking Parademons, and his living batteries.

The widow dies shortly after Superman's return to Earth, and Luthor immediately sets out to avenge himself, first by ransacking the Fortress of Solitude, and later through the abduction of Lois Lane and her son Jason.

The person who completes the route the quickest sets the " standard time " and all other competitors must finish within a certain amount of time of the standard time to be counted as a finisher ( they received penalty points for every minute after the quickest finisher ).

sets forth the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, from whom the nations branched out over the earth after the Flood.

World War II slowed the deployment of television in the US, but RCA began selling television sets almost immediately after the war ceased.

Red – black trees are also particularly valuable in functional programming, where they are one of the most common persistent data structures, used to construct associative arrays and sets which can retain previous versions after mutations.

A statute of limitations is an enactment in a common law legal system that sets the maximum time after an event that legal proceedings based on that event may be initiated.

Although any sets manufactured after the mid-1970s should be able to receive either variant.

This is increased to 90 seconds when the players change ends ( after every odd-numbered game ), and a 2-minute break is permitted between sets.

A second expedition, one ship of about 40 men, led by Leif's brother Thorvald, sets out in the autumn after Leif's return and stays over three winters at the new base ( Leifsbúðir (- budir ), meaning Leif's temporary shelters ), exploring the west coast of the new land in the first summer, and the east coast in the second, running aground and losing the ship's keel on a headland they christen Keel Point ( Kjalarnes ).

after July 1, 1999 had to have the V-chip installed and that all television sets at least 13 in.

sets after January 1, 2000 had to have it installed.

* Mark Antony leaves Alexandria ; after receiving news of the outcome at Perusia while en route to Phoenicia, he sets sail for Italy meeting the ambassadors of Sextus Pompey in Athens.

It does not necessarily preserve angles or lengths, but does have the property that sets of parallel lines will remain parallel to each other after an affine transformation.

After watching his father work on film sets, Leone began his own career in the film industry at the age of 18 after dropping out of law studies at the university.

The noble savage sets a king to reign over him, to whom he submits his life and limbs without a murmur or question and whose whole life is passed chin deep in a lake of blood ; but who, after killing incessantly, is in his turn killed by his relations and friends the moment a grey hair appears on his head.