And if we understand the rocking as an erotic symbol we can also see how well it serves as the symbol of impending tragedy.

as Pike proved himself adept in the political arena, he also became a social lion in the village of Little Rock, where he served as a symbol of the culture that the ladies of the town were striving so eagerly to cultivate.

Its symbol Ac is also used in abbreviations of other compounds that have nothing to do with actinium, such as acetyl, acetate and sometimes acetaldehyde.

The abbess also traditionally adds a pectoral cross to the outside of her habit as a symbol of office, though she continues to wear a modified form of her religious habit or dress, as she is unordained-not a male religious-and so does not vest or use choir dress in the liturgy.

According to Kapila Vatsyayan, " Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature ( kāvya ), music, and dancing evolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.

Plant potash lent the name to the element potassium, which was first derived from caustic potash, and also gave potassium its chemical symbol K ( cf German Kalium ), which ultimately derives from alkali.

The lowercase letter o for octet is defined as the symbol for octet in IEC 80000-13 and is commonly used in several non-English languages ( e. g., French and Romanian ), and is also used with metric prefixes ( for example, ko and Mo )

Lists of the elements by name, by symbol, and by atomic number are also available.

The candela ( or ; symbol: cd ) is the SI base unit of luminous intensity ; that is, power emitted by a light source in a particular direction, weighted by the luminosity function ( a standardized model of the sensitivity of the human eye to different wavelengths, also known as the luminous efficiency function ).

" Y " is also often used as a general chemical symbol, although it is also the symbol of yttrium.

At least one additional, two-letter generic chemical symbol is also in informal usage, " Ln " for any lanthanide element.

SCTV writers responded by making the " crane shot " a ubiquitous symbol of production excess while also lampooning network executives who care nothing about artistic vision and everything for the bottom line.

The symbol * x * is also hereby endowed with

Gauss also made important contributions to number theory with his 1801 book Disquisitiones Arithmeticae ( Latin, Arithmetical Investigations ), which, among things, introduced the symbol ≡ for congruence and used it in a clean presentation of modular arithmetic, contained the first two proofs of the law of quadratic reciprocity, developed the theories of binary and ternary quadratic forms, stated the class number problem for them, and showed that a regular heptadecagon ( 17-sided polygon ) can be constructed with straightedge and compass.

The symbol of fire was a cue pointing towards transformation, the chemical variant being the symbol delta, which is also the classical symbol for fire.

The Corcovado is also a symbol of the Brazilian culture.

This is illustrated by the Discordian Hodge Podge ( also Sacred Chao ), a symbol that is similar in design to the Taoist yin yang.

The transform is sometimes denoted by the symbol, as in or or < ref group =" note "> As a linear transformation on a finite-dimensional vector space, the DFT expression can also be written in terms of a DFT matrix ; when scaled appropriately it becomes a unitary matrix and the X < sub > k </ sub > can thus be viewed as coefficients of x in an orthonormal basis .</ ref >

The Docklands ' status as a symbol of Thatcher's Britain has also made it a target for terrorists.

William Jones was born in London at Beaufort Buildings, Westminster ; his father ( also named William Jones ) was a mathematician from Anglesey in Wales, noted for devising the use of the symbol pi.

The lyrebird has been featured as a symbol and emblem many times, especially in New South Wales and Victoria ( where the Superb Lyrebird has its natural habitat ) – and in Queensland ( where Albert's Lyrebird has its natural habitat ).

This story may have been made up by the English poet Michael Drayton, but the leek has been known to be a symbol of Wales for a long time ; Shakespeare, for example, refers to the custom of wearing a leek as an “ ancient tradition ” in Henry V. In the play, Henry tells Fluellen that he is wearing a leek “ for I am Welsh, you know, good countryman .” The 1985 and 1990 British one pound coins bear the design of a leek in a coronet, representing Wales.

Nonetheless, since the 18th century, shamrock has been used as a symbol of Ireland in a similar way to how a rose is used for England, thistle for Scotland and leek for Wales.

Wales is primarily represented by the symbol of the red Welsh Dragon, but other national emblems include the leek and daffodil.

Although football has traditionally been the more popular sport in North Wales, rugby union is seen as a symbol of Welsh identity and an expression of national consciousness.

The National Assembly for Wales has a gold, silver and brass mace which bears the Assembly's official symbol at its head.

Many Welsh people wear one or both of the national emblems of Wales on their lapel to celebrate St. David: the daffodil ( a generic Welsh symbol which is in season during March ) or the leek ( Saint David's personal symbol ) on this day.

Similarly, a wyvern is the crest of Newington College in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and is the symbol of the Trinity Residents ' Club in Perth, Western Australia.

The flag was granted official status in 1959, but the red dragon itself has been associated with Wales for centuries, though the origin of the adoption of the dragon symbol is now lost in history and myth.

Despite the close link throughout early Welsh history, the dragon was not used exclusively as a symbol for Wales during this period, and it was used throughout Britain as a symbol of authority.

In 1485, the most significant link between the symbol of the Red Dragon and Wales occurred when Henry Tudor flew the red dragon of Cadwallader during his invasion of England.

* Welsh Dragon, a national symbol of Wales.

Megson first developed the concept for COUM on a family trip to Wales, during which he was sitting in the back of the car when he " became disembodied and heard voices and saw the COUM symbol and heard the words ' COUM Transmissions '.

In the 17th century the well became known as a symbol of the survival of Catholic recusancy in Wales.

Lord Rosebery obtained the permission to use this symbol from the Prince of Wales, hereditary owner of the land on which The Oval stands, in 1915.

* Red Dragon of Cadwaladr: the symbol of Wales, and a heraldic badge of Henry VII and many other royal figures.

As well as being used in royal heraldry, the badge is sometimes used to symbolise Wales, particularly in Welsh rugby union and rugby league ; however, its use as such is controversial and rejected by some Welsh nationalists as a symbol of the British monarchy rather than of Wales.

Since a key factor in the English army's victory at Crécy was the use of Welsh archers, it is also sometimes said to have been Edward's pride in the men of Wales which led him to adopt a symbol alluding to their assistance.

The magic circle is, in fact, a symbol of and preparation for the metaphysical orgasm ''.

Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).

Whatever the psychological truth in the Oedipus myth, an Oedipus who is drawn to his fate by irresistible external forces can carry the symbol of humanity and its archaic crime, and the incest that is unknowing renews the mystery of the eternal dream of childhood and absorbs us in the secret.

We know that much is made of the multiplicity and ambiguity of the identities that cluster around the key symbol of the Jew.

The formal position of Americans who identify themselves with one or more of the several identities of the Jewish symbol is already clear ; ;

The symposium provides an opportunity to confront the self with specific statements which were made at particular times by identifiable communicators who were addressing definite audiences -- and throughout several hundred pages everyone is talking about the same key symbol of identification.

More than that, Sam Rayburn is the very living symbol of an iron-clad integrity so powerful in his nature and so constantly demonstrated that he can count some of his best friends in the opposition.

The symbol for division is a straight line that separates two numbers placed one above the other.

The symbol for multiplication is `` **b ''.

The symbol for subtraction is the standard minus sign.

The number on the right of the symbol is always subtracted from the number on the left of the symbol.

Addition is indicated by the + symbol.

The symbol is used to separate two or more numbers.

To simplify the formulas a representative symbol is substituted for each of the factors.

That he mastered every aspect of his medium according to his own great talents and contemporary judgments, is a good and solid symbol of his people under the tremendous pressures of proclaiming and practising the rigors of a new culture ; ;

The order of this congruence is Af, since Af secants of a curve of symbol ( B ) on a quadric surface pass through an arbitrary point.

This curve is of symbol Af since it meets **yl, and hence every line of Af in the Af invariant points on **yl and since it obviously meets every line of Af in a single point.

He often spoke of them as his `` ecumenical '' glasses and used them as a symbol of the kind of vision that is required in the church.

His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.

To appreciate the nature of the gamble, it should be realized that while college teaching is almost a public symbol of security, that security does not come as quickly or as automatically as it does in an elementary school system or in the Civil Service.

The biblical symbol for this affirmation is expressed in the words: `` So God created man in his own image ; ;

His addle-brained knight-errant, self-appointed to the ridiculous position in an age when armor had already been relegated to museums and the chivalrous code of knight-errantry had become a joke, is, as Cervantes no doubt intended, a gaunt but gracious symbol of good, moving soberly and sincerely in a world of cynics, hypocrites and rogues.

An alkyl group, generally abbreviated with the symbol R, is a functional group or side-chain that, like an alkane, consists solely of single-bonded carbon and hydrogen atoms, for example a methyl or ethyl group.