" However, as Stocking notes, Tylor mainly concerned himself with describing and mapping the distribution of particular elements of culture, rather than with the larger function, and he generally seemed to assume a Victorian idea of progress rather than the idea of non-directional, multilineal cultural development proposed by later anthropologists.

When more electrons are added to a single atom, the additional electrons tend to more evenly fill in a volume of space around the nucleus so that the resulting collection ( sometimes termed the atom ’ s “ electron cloud ” ) tends toward a generally spherical zone of probability describing where the atom ’ s electrons will be found.

Tiles are generally named after their two values ; e. g. 2 – 5 or 5 – 2 are alternative ways of describing the tile with the values 2 and 5.

During most of his career, Orwell was best known for his journalism, in essays, reviews, columns in newspapers and magazines and in his books of reportage: Down and Out in Paris and London ( describing a period of poverty in these cities ), The Road to Wigan Pier ( describing the living conditions of the poor in northern England, and the class divide generally ) and Homage to Catalonia.

It generally resonates better with existing Muslim views than with Christianity: it foretells the coming of Muhammad by name ; rather than describing the crucifixion of Jesus, it describes him being raised up into heaven, similar to the description of Elijah in 2 Kings, Chapter 2 ; and it calls Jesus a " prophet " whose mission was restricted to the " house of Israel ".

Although English largely separates tense and aspect formally, its generally recognized aspects do not correspond very closely to the traditional notion of perfective vs. imperfective aspectual distinction originally devised to classify aspect in most Classical and Slavic languages ( those languages for which the concept of aspect was first proposed in describing non-tense handling of verbal " viewpoint ").

A statistic is an observable random variable, which differentiates it both from a parameter that is a generally unobservable quantity describing a property of a statistical population, and from a unobservable random variable, such as the difference between an observed measurement and a population average.

Iraqis and Americans who spoke with Saddam after his capture generally reported that he remained self-assured, describing himself as a " firm, but just leader.

Cochrane, the son of a physician, speculated that Thucydides generally ( and especially in describing the plague in Athens ) was influenced by the methods and thinking of early medical writers such as Hippocrates of Kos.

In Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, the word " smacking " is generally used in preference to " spanking " when describing striking with an open hand, rather than with an implement.

Ancient Greek philosophers, describing and commenting on the uncontrolled anger, particularly toward slaves, in their society generally showed a hostile attitude towards anger.

Many contemporary narratives describing his life and death refer to him as Lord Darnley, his title as heir apparent to the Earldom of Lennox, and it is by this appellation that he is now generally known.

Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in Latin America, exploring and describing it for the first time in a manner generally considered to be a modern scientific point of view.

In describing this motion astronomers have generally shortened the term to simply “ precession ”.

The following terms generally apply when describing a four-cornered chad:

An eight-page pamphlet, Y Digrifwr, was published in 1844, its subtitle admirably describing its contents (" The jokester: a collection of feats and tricks of Thomas Jones of Tregaron, Cardiganshire, he who is generally known under the name Twm Sion Catti ").

The song was generally well-received, Allmusic describing it as " funkier and more club-happy than The Beatles ' original " and was a commercial success on both sides of the Atlantic, reaching number three in the UK pop charts and number eleven on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart.

The tour was generally well received by the children's media, describing the show as " diverse " and " dazzling ", whereas the group was criticised by the broadsheets as being " like a compilation of toddler-friendly Eurovision entries " although conceding that it was a " slick, decent-value show ".

Media reception was generally lukewarm, with Rolling Stone describing the album as " frantic, faceless, fake-sexy R & B.

It is a transfer function, describing how a sound from a specific point will arrive at the ear ( generally at the outer end of the auditory canal ).

# For describing the blur spot achieved by a lens, at its best focus or more generally.

Chatiquette varies from community to community, generally describing basic courtesy ; it introduces new user into the community and the associated network culture.

* Neoclassical ballet, a term describing the ballet style which uses traditional ballet vocabulary, but is generally more expansive than the classical structure allowed

' " In describing the play, he said: " ' The play started with the idea of doing a farce ... The next thing was to do it as an elegant farce, because the farces in Moliere's days were generally about wealthy people.

However, the Sikh governors turned out to be hard taskmasters, and Sikh rule was generally considered oppressive, protected perhaps by the remoteness of Kashmir from the capital of the Sikh empire in Lahore ; The Sikhs enacted a number of anti-Muslim laws, which included handing out death sentences for cow slaughter, closing down the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, and banning the azaan, the public Muslim call to prayer.

Although his father's rule was generally peaceful, the empire was experiencing challenges by the end of his reign.

The numbering of German rulers generally follows a sequence that leads back to the Carolingian empire and the East Frankish kingdom that emerged from it.

The upper classes of the Aztec empire were considered noblemen by the Spaniards and generally treated as such initially.

The hegemonic nature of the Aztec empire can be seen in the fact that generally local rulers were restored to their positions once their city-state was conquered and the Aztecs did not interfere in local affairs as long as the tribute payments were made.

Marcian generally ignored the affairs of the Western Roman Empire, leaving that tottering half of the empire to its fate.

As the protagonist discovers, the game embodies the incumbent preferences of the social elite, reinforcing and reiterating the pre-existing gender and caste inclinations of the empire, putting the lie to the " fairness " which is generally perceived to govern the outcome of the tournament and thus the shape of Azadian society.

But since most of the Persian empire had been conquered and Bessus only ruled over a loose alliance of renegade provinces, historians do not generally regard him as an official Persian king.

" The sense-development in ancient times was ( with the Greeks ) ‘ foreign, non-Hellenic ,’ later ‘ outlandish, rude, brutal ’; ( with the Romans ) ‘ not Latin nor Greek ,’ then ‘ pertaining to those outside the Roman empire ’; hence ‘ uncivilized, uncultured ,’ and later ‘ non-Christian ,’ whence ‘ Saracen, heathen ’; and generally ‘ savage, rude, savagely cruel, inhuman .’"

Although granted freedom of worship and generally better treated than non-Christians in most European countries, non-Muslims in the Ottoman empire were required, in accordance with Islamic law, to pay a special poll tax, the jizya, which in times of poor harvests was a crippling burden on mainly subsistence-level peasants.

It is not to be confused with auctoritas or potestas, different and generally inferior types of power in the Roman republic and empire.

So while the Mandinka people generally referred to their land and capital province as Manden, its semi-nomadic Fula subjects residing on the heartland's western ( Tekrur ), southern ( Fouta Djallon ) and eastern borders ( Macina ) popularized the name Mali for this kingdom and later empire of the Middle Ages.

Since the empire took on trappings of a Chinese state, Chinese historians generally refer to the empire as the Western Liao Dynasty, emphasizing its continuation from the Liao Dynasty in North and Northeast China.

I went thither prejudiced against that country, the government and the people ; the first is much more agreeable than is generally supposed ; the second is seemingly the best adapted for so vast an empire ; and the third, even the lowest classes, are in general kind, hospitable, and benevolent.

Saladin returned to Damascus in September 1184 and a generally peaceful environment between the Crusader states and the Ayyubid empire subsequently ensued in 1184 – 85.

In the Mirror Universe, Earth is the capital of the despotic Terran Empire which rules over large portions of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants and is generally seen as the most powerful interstellar empire.

Cao Pi was generally viewed as a competent, but unspectacular, administrator of his empire.

It is necessary to distinguish this traditional sense of thalassocracy from an " empire ", where the state's territories, though possibly linked principally or solely by the sea lanes, generally extend into mainland interiors.

After Augustus established the Roman Empire, the title imperator was generally restricted to the emperor, though in the early years of the empire it would occasionally be granted to a member of his family.

Abhs generally group social roles to three types: their role as soldiers of the empire, their role as businessmen of the empire, and, most important to them, their role as parents.

In the late 5th century, the Ruruan established a powerful nomadic empire spreading generally farther north of Northern Wei.

The concept of a democratic empire can likewise be an instrument of social control as with ideology and ideological conditioning generally.

Unions described as producing zambos took place all throughout the Spanish colonial empire, following the pattern established in Hispaniola ; and the group was generally classified among those people who were not of European ancestry.