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 indulgent, it allows simultaneity, absolute space and time and a deterministic universe ( along with decoherence theory ) whilst the status-quo permits time travel / causality paradoxes, subjectivity in the measurement process and multiple universes.

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 someone were to drop a match in here, this place would go up like a haystack ''.

If he bites a playmate she says, `` Danny won't like you ''.

If the soup tastes like dishwater, your employees won't blame the concessionaire.

If you would like to start your tour in Italy, where the rental fees are actually the lowest in Europe, Fiats in all sizes are available, as are Alfa Romeo Giulietta models.

If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.

If, on the other hand, it is not settled, or while it is being debated and resolved, does the Federal government have a responsibility in situations like that in Prince Edward County??

If it could be shown that judgments of good and bad were not judgments at all, that they asserted nothing true or false, but merely expressed emotions like `` Hurrah '' or `` Fiddlesticks '', then these wayward judgments would cease from troubling and weary heads could be at rest.

If a wedge-shaped coating of increasing thickness is removed from a substrate by an instrument like the Hesiometer with a knife of constant rake angle, a number of removal mechanisms are often observed which depend upon the thickness of the coating.

If you are not well acquainted with the area in which you wish to locate, or if you are not sure that you and your family will like and make a success of farming, usually you would do better to rent a place for a year or two before you buy.

If you draw the short straw I'll lend you some bread, like fifty bucks, before I take off to visit my sister in Frisco.

If laborers are merely commodities competing against each other in a market place like so many bags of wheat and corn ( unsupported, by the way, by any agricultural subsidy ), then they may be pardoned for reacting with complete antagonism to a system that imposes such status upon them.

If death receives more than its share of attention from the theologian and if sin receives less than its share, the gift of the life eternal through Christ begins to look like the divinely appointed means of rescue from temporal, i.e., created, existence.

I kept saying, `` If I could just build up a reputation for myself, make some real money, get to be well known as an illustrator -- like Peter Askington, for instance -- then I could take some time off and paint ''.

If one looks at the fields around the Deserted Village and right up the mountain, one can see the tracks in the fields of ' lazy beds ', which is the way crops like potatoes were grown.

# If adiabats and isotherms are graphed severally at regular changes of entropy and temperature, respectively ( like altitude on a contour map ), then as the eye moves towards the axes ( towards the south-west ), it sees the density of isotherms stay constant, but it sees the density of adiabats grow.

If separate Chinese-language menus are available, they typically feature delicacies like liver, chicken feet or other meat dishes that might deter American customers.

If world peace depended solely on financial support, it would not seem a goal, but more like an act of pity.

" If you live in a country like Sweden, with five, six months of snow, and the sun disappears totally for like two months, that would be reflected in the work of artists ," he said.

If the ball has left the field along the sidelines, the referee must decide which team touched the ball last, and award a restart stroke to the opposing team, just like football's throw-in.

If the Czech ethnic origin was to be stressed, combinations like " Bohemian of Bohemian language "( Čech českého jazyka ), " a real Bohemian " ( pravý Čech ) etc.

If more than 75 % of members voted in favour, the building society would then become a limited company like any other.

If so, this is arguably insider dealing on a grand scale with the benefit of inside specialist knowledge of the business and resources of the firm not shared with outsiders like politicians and members ( and, perhaps, regulators ).

If the character encoding for a web page is chosen appropriately then HTML character references are usually only required for a markup delimiting characters mentioned above, and for a few special characters ( or not at all if a native Unicode encoding like UTF-8 is used ).

If HTML attributes are not fully quoted, then you must entity encode whitespace like space, tab, and others.