The word distance is used here in a rather general sense ; ;

In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.

In more general sense, each column is treated as a polynomial over GF ( 2 < sup > 8 </ sup >) and is then multiplied modulo x < sup > 4 </ sup >+ 1 with a fixed polynomial c ( x ) = 0x03 · x < sup > 3 </ sup > + x < sup > 2 </ sup > + x + 0x02.

A large part of mythology is based upon a belief in souls and spirits — that is, upon animism in its more general sense.

He compares this to the work of the historian Thucydides, who found it difficult recording speeches verbatim but instead had the speakers say what he felt was appropriate for them to say on the occasion while adhering as much as possible to the general sense.

In the general sense, frequency ranges can be emphasized or attenuated using low-pass, high-pass, band-pass or band-stop filters.

Artillery may also refer to a system of applied scientific research relating to the design, manufacture and employment of artillery weapon systems although, in general, the terms ballistics and ordnance are more commonly employed in this sense.

When the Roman Empire turned Christian during the following century, this imagery came to be used in a more metaphysical sense, and removed legal impediments to the development and public use of the Anno Domini dating system, which came into general use during the reign of Charlemagne.

In the general sense, a " brick " is a standard-sized weight-bearing building unit.

* Physical restraint in a more general sense

In the general sense many printers rely on a matrix of pixels, or dots, that together form the larger image.

In general topological spaces, however, the different notions of compactness are not necessarily equivalent, and the most useful notion, introduced by Pavel Alexandrov and Pavel Urysohn in 1929, involves the existence of certain finite families of open sets that " cover " the space in the sense that each point of the space must lie in some set contained in the family.

In general topological spaces, however, the different notions of compactness are not equivalent, and the most useful notion of compactness — originally called bicompactness — involves families of open sets that " cover " the space in the sense that each point of the space must lie in some set contained in the family.

In a general sense a control unit ( CU ) is a central ( or sometimes distributed but clearly distinguishable

In the most general sense of the word, a cement is a binder, a substance that sets and hardens independently, and can bind other materials together.

The English noun commonwealth in the sense meaning " public welfare ; general good or advantage " dates from the 15th century.

In contrast, just as postmodernism has so far failed to take root in ethnic Chinese circles as opposed to a general sense of Chinese nationalist moral certainty, much of ethnic Chinese scholarship of Chinese history remains largely modernist or even outright traditionalist in outlook.

In a sense it is more of a research program proposal: part of the research is to find a proper formal statement that is physically reasonable and that can be proved to be true or false ( and that is sufficiently general to be interesting ).

* The strong cosmic censorship hypothesis asserts that, generically, general relativity is a deterministic theory, in the same sense that classical mechanics is a deterministic theory.

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people sustain from one generation to the next.

As a general rule a statistic of N is twice as capable as a level of N-1, where this makes sense.

Education – in the general sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual.

In its most general sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event — whether natural or caused by humans — that generates seismic waves.

Indeed, Disraeli had objected to Murray about Croker inserting " high Tory " sentiment, writing that " it is quite impossible that anything adverse to the general measure of Reform can issue from my pen.

Rumours abound of large wild cats such as cougars roaming wild on the moor, but little evidence has been forthcoming and until anything more substantial is available these reports should be filed under the general heading of cryptozoology.

" (...) In general, the word " materialistic " serves many of the younger writers in Germany as a mere phrase with which anything and everything is labeled without further study, that is, they stick on this label and then consider the question disposed of.

However, this practice is not extensively used in regular Leet ; more often it is seen in situations where the argot ( i. e., " secret language ") characteristics of the system are required, either to exclude newbies or outsiders in general, i. e., anything that the average reader cannot make sense of is valid ; a valid reader should himself try to make sense, if deserving of the underlying message.

As a general rule, anything spoken or written by a prophet, while under inspiration, is considered to be the word of God.

In general, " twentieth-century theories have tended to see myth as almost anything but an outdated counterpart to science Consequently, moderns are not obliged to abandon myth for science.

For Plato it was not possible to have knowledge of anything that could change or was particular, since knowledge had to be forever unfailing and general.

Because of this the general public valued it more for its comic relief than anything else, however It did find an audience in the rational dissenters who found it an attractive alternative to explain human motivations without the attached superstitions of religion.

In general, my refusal to have anything to do with the Plath Fantasia has been regarded as an attempt to suppress Free Speech ... The Fantasia about Sylvia Plath is more needed than the facts.

In the general definition above, the Supreme Court of Canada has construed " anything " very broadly, stating that it is not restricted to tangibles, but includes intangibles.

In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it … No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness … we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good: that each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons .”

The term " seed " also has a general meaning that antedates the above — anything that can be sown, e. g. " seed " potatoes, " seeds " of corn or sunflower " seeds ".

A Magus is further limited in terms of the spell's application: Ars Magica features a set of magical ' laws ', similar in concept to those of physics, defining the upper limits of any magical spell ( Creo Corpus, for example, cannot create ' true ' life, nor can it restore the dead ; magic, in general, cannot affect the flow of time, nor can it affect the ' lunar sphere or anything above it ' ( i. e. the realms of the Divine, according to medieval thought )).

While the analysis is sometimes involved, the general practice is that anything that is permitted on yom tov and does not impinge on Shemini Atzeret carries over to Shemini Atzeret.

* The intelligibility of the universe: One would anticipate that evolutionary selection would produce hominid minds apt for coping with everyday experience, but that these minds should also be able to understand the subatomic world and general relativity goes far beyond anything of relevance to survival fitness.

During the middle of the 1830s the Gazette was considered an intellectual journal, strongly supporting the progressive arts and Romanticism in general, and opposing anything which it considers as debasing this.

8in., nice butt, Midwestern American, kind-of-German last name, green eyes, big pouty lips, fair skin, ahhh .... sinewy bod ..." However, during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on June 11, 2008 when Jay Leno questioned him about anything related to rumors of engagement and pregnancy, Timberlake jokingly responded that he " is engaging in a conversation with Leno " and " everybody in general can get pregnant ".

In general he is pessimistic about anything to do with paganism or the past and optimistic regarding Christianity and his present, which is remarkable given the difficult times that he was living in.

The verb to sandwich has the meaning to position anything between two other things of a different character, or to place different elements alternately, and the noun sandwich has related meanings derived from this more general definition.

As an adjective military originally applied only to soldiers and soldiering, but it soon broadened to apply to land forces in general and anything to do with their profession.

This can be shown by counting the possible columns of the matrix: the first column can be anything but the zero vector ; the second column can be anything but the multiples of the first column ; and in general, the kth column can be any vector not in the linear span of the first k − 1 columns.

These range from the large ceremonial Indian mound and cave at Nanih Waiya, built about 1700 years ago and sacred to the Choctaw ; to the still thriving Williams Brothers Store, a true old-fashioned general store founded in 1907 and featured in National Geographic in 1939 as a source of anything from “ needles to horse collars ”, and still offering everything from bridles, butter and boots to flour, feed and fashion.