If, for example, a string sounds the note C when plucked, a string twice as long will sound the same note an octave lower.

If this sounds like hyperbole, anything about Fermi is likely to sound like hyperbole ".

If they are not secured, the loops of a knitted course will come undone when their yarn is pulled ; this is known as ripping out, unravelling knitting, or humorously, frogging ( because you ' rip it ', this sounds like a frog croaking: ' rib-bit ').

If the arytenoids are pressed together for glottal closure, the vocal cords block the airstream, producing stop sounds such as the glottal stop.

If the diaphragm is placed on the patient, body sounds vibrate the diaphragm, creating acoustic pressure waves which travel up the tubing to the listener's ears.

If the relations between letters and sounds are similar in both languages, a transliteration may be ( almost ) the same as a transcription.

If done correctly it is very hard for audiences to tell what sounds were added and what sounds were originally recorded ( location sound ).

If a sound editor uses such sounds in the context of emotional climax or a character's subjective experience, they can add to the drama of a situation in a way visuals simply cannot.

If an instrument has a range too high or too low for composers to easily write its music on bass or treble clef, the music may be written either an octave higher or an octave lower than it sounds, in order to reduce the use of ledger lines.

If creatures do not " speak " loud enough, their voice will be masked by anthropogenic sounds.

If variations of the sounds th, d, t, and n are spoken quickly, it can be difficult for listeners to notice a difference.

If the romanization attempts to transliterate the original script, the guiding principle is a one-to-one mapping of characters in the source language into the target script, with less emphasis on how the result sounds when pronounced according to the reader's language.

If 15m ( 50 ft ) sounds enormous, remember that the weight of a multihull, of this length, is probably not much more than half the weight of a monohull of the same length and it can be sailed with less crew effort.

( If this sounds unwieldy, compare it to the Swedish 8 Daler plate money piece of the mid-17th century, which contained 35 kilograms of copper!

If the universe is reduced to molecules, ultimately we can dispense with a catalogue and a dictionary ; all things are the same thing, and all words are just sounds – molecules in motion.

If a PA system's microphone picks up sounds from its own loudspeakers, and these sounds are re-amplified enough, the effect of this feedback can be loud squealing or howling noises from the loudspeakers.

If a microphone picks up the amplified sound output of loudspeakers in the same circuit, then howling and screeching sounds of audio feedback ( at up to the maximum power capacity of the amplifier ) will be heard, as random noise is re-amplified by positive feedback and filtered by the characteristics of the audio system and the room.

" Also in 1996, a critical review of the book was penned by William A. Donohue, president of The Catholic League, who comments: " If this sounds like nonsense, well, it is.

If players allow a friendly planet in a quadrant to be destroyed, that quadrant becomes a " red zone " where joystick controls are reversed and booming sounds are overheard.

“ Dazzling light, colors never seen, harmonies of ecstasies and of hell, unheard-of sounds, a new beauty that is mine … If my damaging sorrows are due to labor in childbirth, I am pregnant with an immense, new world !”

In " A Stellar Way to Lose Money ," after looking at the dismal performance after five years to establish an audience for AsiaStar broadcasting in India, the article concludes: “ If you enjoy companies that pay management at a rate of 2. 5 times your company's entire revenue, burn cash like crazy, but have a story that sounds good until you listen closely, this may be the stock for you.

He stated, " It sounds fanciful, to be sure ," but that, " If this is correct, we will have to pursue the war against terror far beyond the boundaries of the Middle East, into the heart of Western Europe.

If the media agency responsible for the authorized production allows material from fans, what is the limit before legal constraints from actors, music, and other considerations, come into play?

If the pitcher allows no runners to reach base, the no-hitter is a perfect game.

If only partial consilience is observed, this allows for the detection of errors in methodology ; any weaknesses in one technique can be compensated for by the strengths of the others.

If the DBMS provides a way to interactively enter and update the database, as well as interrogate it, this capability allows for managing personal databases.

* If glass flows at a rate that allows changes to be seen with the naked eye after centuries, then the effect should be noticeable in antique telescopes.

If used in a permanent installation, a split sensor allows the electric current to be tested without dismantling the existing circuit.

If all water flow has stopped, the loaded waste valve reopens against the now static head, which allows the process to begin again.

* If legacy software runs on only antiquated hardware, the cost of maintaining the system may eventually outweigh the cost of replacing both the software and hardware unless some form of emulation or backward compatibility allows the software to run on new hardware.

If a court does not have personal jurisdiction over a party, its rulings or decrees cannot be enforced as to that person, otherwise than by comity, that is to the extent the sovereign that does have jurisdiction upon the person allows the court to.

If the secondary coil is attached to a load that allows current to flow, electrical power is transmitted from the primary circuit to the secondary circuit.

If this surface is folded along a third dimension, it allows one to picture a wormhole " bridge ".

: If the OLE DB provider allows it, transactions can be used.

If the device stops responding, active monitoring will throw an alarm showing the device as unavailable and allows for the proactive correction of the problem.

If the power supply and ground wires have significant resistance, the voltage drop across them may create noise voltage pulses in the ground wires, which are applied to other parts of the circuit, The large capacitance of the ground plane allows it to absorb the current pulses without much change in voltage,

If the pension plan allows for early retirement, payments are often reduced to recognize that the retirees will receive the payouts for longer periods of time.

If is a natural transformation between functors and is a natural transformation between functors, then the composition of functors allows a composition of natural transformations.

If one allows arbitrary temperature dependence of the prefactor, the Arrhenius description becomes overcomplete, and the inverse problem ( i. e., determining the prefactor and activation energy from experimental data ) becomes singular.

If the magnetic-pole distribution is known, then the pole model gives the magnetic field H. Outside the magnet, the field B is proportional to H, while inside the magnetization must be added to H. An extension of this method that allows for internal magnetic charges is used in theories of ferromagnetism.

If private enterprise appears not to be meeting these goals, the Act expressly allows the government to create a " reservoir of public employment.

If h = 1, then simply move the disk from peg A to peg C. If h > 1, then somewhere along the sequence of moves, the largest disk must be moved from peg A to another peg, preferably to peg C. The only situation that allows this move is when all smaller h-1 disks are on peg B.

If the outer glazing has high ultraviolet transmittance, and the window in the trombe wall is normal glass, this allows efficient use of the ultraviolet light for heating.

If we pass polarized light through a circular polarizer which allows either only polarized light, or only polarized light, intensity would be reduced by half in both cases.

If it manages to reach term, the turtle will try to flip over with the yolk sac, which allows air into the body cavity and death follows.