Clement Greenberg, for instance, argued in 1960 that each artistic medium should seek that which makes it unique among the possible mediums and then purify itself of anything other than expression of its own uniqueness as a form.

Pointing out that predicables are predicated univocally of substances ; that is, they refer to " the same thing " found in each instance, St. Thomas argued that whatever can be said about being is not univocal, because all beings are unique, each actuated by a unique existence.

For square matrices with entries in a non-commutative ring, for instance the quaternions, there is no unique definition for the determinant, and no definition that has all the usual properties of determinants over commutative rings.

For instance, if the login name of a user is unique, addresses and phone numbers for that user would be recorded with the login name as its key.

For instance, Tecumseh Fitch has argued that the descended larynx is not unique to humans.

The story of the Wounded King's mystical fasting is not unique ; several saints were said to have lived without food besides communion, for instance Saint Catherine of Genoa.

For instance, the specification states that each message stored on the server has a " unique id " to allow the clients to identify the messages they have already seen between sessions.

Usually, each instance will have a unique name, so that if you have two instances of vacuum cleaners, one might be " vac1 " and the other " vac2 ".

Given a hierarchical netlist, the list of instance names in a path from the root definition to a primitive instance specifies the single unique path to that primitive.

Each character bears unique characteristics ; for instance, Doug Wendt moves rather slowly yet can sustain a particularly large amount of damage, while Lorelei Ni has fewer hit points but is very quick and accurate.

A unique identifier ( UID ) is an identifier that refers to only one instance — only one particular object in the universe.

A part number is an identifier, but it is not a unique identifier — for that, a serial number is needed, to identify each instance of the part design.

For instance we might follow the statement " an integer can be factored as a product of prime numbers " with " the product is unique up to ordering ", meaning the order of the operands is irrelevant, integers and their prime factorization are ; or we might say " the solution to an indefinite integral is, up to addition by a constant ", meaning that the constant is not the focus here, the solution is, and that the addition of a constant is to be regarded as a background, of secondary focus.

The ink ribbon also does not easily dry out, including both the ribbon stored in the casing as well as the portion that is stretched in front of the print head ; this unique property allows the dot-matrix printer to be used in environments where printer duty can be rare, for instance, as with a Fire Alarm Control Panel's output.

For instance, the Renaissance began in Italy around 1425 and spread to all of western Europe over the next 200 years, with the French, Belgian, German, English and Spanish Renaissance being recognisably the same style, but with unique characteristics.

The Chocolate Monk-released album " Anusol " by the A Band, for instance, came packaged with a " suppository " unique to each copy-one of which was a used condom wrapped in tissue.

Indeed, the conditions surrounding every instance of friction ridge deposition are unique and never duplicated.

the Centre for Russian Music director Alexander Ivashkin is internationally renowned for its outstanding archives ( Prokofiev, Schnittke ) and unique collections ( Stravinsky, Russian Piano Music first editions ), for instance.

Non-static fields are also known as instance variables because their values are unique to each instance of a class ( to each object, in other words ); the of one bicycle is independent from the of another.

It possesses a unique experimental style, one that is, for instance, evident in newly invented " dithyrambs " narrated or sung by Zarathustra.

for instance, Shiadeh, the unique and intact forest, is located in south-east Babol.

A unique instance in which the supporters stand on the motto scroll is in the arms of New Jersey.

As of October 2011, 201 unique zeolite frameworks have been identified, and over 40 naturally occurring zeolite frameworks are known.

Diversity of belief among organized Spiritualists has led to a few schisms, the most notable occurring in the U. K. in 1957 between those who held the movement to be a religion sui generis ( of its own with unique characteristics ), and a minority who held it to be a denomination within Christianity.

" Soil erosion is not unique to Africa but is occurring worldwide.

The level and type of development occurring over the past ten years, and likely to continue for the next ten to twenty years, is unique to inner Melbourne.

Regarding the source of drying out, she wrote: " Similar to situations occurring with increasing frequency in various arid regions of the world, agricultural development and associated water extraction in the region have placed new pressures on the ecological integrity of the unique ecosystems of Cuatro Ciénegas.

Their unique feature is their naturally occurring bob tail which can come in any length.

This gives naturally occurring ice its unique property of being less dense than its liquid form.

As a core Kabbalistic text, it is especially unique in its utmost precision to detail to the structural organization and processes occurring in the upper worlds.

Multivortex structure is not unique to tornadoes, occurring in other circulations such as dust devils, but is a natural result of the physics of vortex dynamics.

Restriction sites within an MCS are typically unique, occurring only once within a given plasmid.

A unique feature of the Somali funds transfer companies is that they all charge the same low commission of 5 % for sending amounts of up to approximately $ 1000, a fee range that encompasses the vast majority of household Somali remittances.

The majority of races are of an individual nature however, unique to New Zealand stockcar racing is the team racing format.

Drawing on contributions from the students, researchers, and journalists who make up the majority of its wide readership, the PCM offers unique perspectives on current events from around the world.

While the majority of lexical items in Quebec French exist in other dialects of French, many words and expressions are unique to Quebec.

Gentoo describes itself as a meta-distribution, " because of its near-unlimited adaptability ", in that the majority of users have configurations and sets of installed programs which are unique to themselves.

This unique system of governance is achieved by a governing body, the Executive Council, which is made up of a majority of elected undergraduates.

The majority of SPGs have a solution from about six to about thirty moves, although examples with unique solutions more than fifty moves long have been devised.

Justifications for Quebec's sovereignty include its unique culture and French-speaking majority ( 80 %).

According to some, the majority of the Maya troops, not realizing the unique strategic advantage of their situation, had left the lines to plant their crops, planning to return after planting.

It is unique to the Western World ; Quebec is the only region in North America with a French-speaking majority, as well as one of only two provinces in Canada where French is a constitutionally-recognized official language ( New Brunswick being the other ).

Peterlee is unique among the new towns which came into being after the Second World War in that it was the only one requested by the people through their MP – though whether a majority of the people living in the surrounding colliery villages actually wanted it to be built is disputable.

In the elections of 1946, which were done in a " unique " fashion, whereby the votes were cast out in the open ( under the watchful eyes of the state / CHP apparatus ) and then they were tallied in secret by the CHP faithfuls and then burned and destroyed immediately, CHP claimed that they won the elections by a 70 % majority vote and gained 396 seats and thus self-ranked as the first party.

This puts them at a unique disadvantage when they are then exposed to the majority Anglophone community in the rest of Canada.

Hitler's Willing Executioners ( 1996 ) posits that the vast majority of ordinary Germans were as the title indicates " willing executioners " in the Holocaust because of a unique and virulent " eliminationist antisemitism " in the German identity, which had developed in the preceding centuries.

This move was closely related to the province's unique characteristics since the majority of people in this province are Ismaili.

Liver transplantation is unique in that the risk of chronic rejection also decreases over time, although the great majority of recipients need to take immunosuppressive medication for the rest of their lives.

A majority of Americans report that religion plays a " very important " role in their lives, a proportion unique among developed nations.

It is a unique parliamentary chamber in Australian politics in that it is the only chamber in any state parliament that is majority non partisan, with only 2 of 15 current MLCs being endorsed representatives of a political party.

Glenrothes is unique in Fife as the majority of the town's centre is contained indoors, within Fife's largest indoor shopping centre, the Kingdom Shopping Centre.

It is also unique in that a majority of its structures are made of brick, and the neighborhood contains the highest concentration of residential homes with stained glass windows in the U. S. Many of the buildings are in the Victorian-era styles of Romanesque, Queen Anne, Italianate, among others ; and a large number of blocks have had few or no buildings razed.

The majority of Ayreon's albums are dubbed " rock operas " because the albums contain complex storylines featuring a host of characters, usually with each one being represented by a unique vocalist.

Today, with the majority of Yemenite Jewry being outside of Yemen and in closer contact with Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews, it could be perceived that the proportion with which the Dor Daim perspective is spreading ( though in a milder form than the original ) is not much different from the rate at which Yemenite Jews as a whole are giving up their unique traditions and assimilating into mainstream Judaism.

The majority of MVNOs are consumer-focused and most have a focus on price as their unique selling point ; customers of major carriers spend about 3. 4 times as much money on their service as MVNO customers.

He also wrote the vast majority of the descriptive " tech spec " biographies printed on the Transformers toy packages that Hasbro produced in the 1980s, giving each figure unique personality quirks.

Although the topic of each gallery varies, the majority of members espouse a cultural foundation unique to DC Inside, sharing thoughts in " DC slang " and " DC mentality " ( a. k. a. leftistism ).