The practical operational problem of lexicostatistics is the establishment of a basic list of items of meaning against which the particular forms or terms of languages can be matched as the medium of comparison.

Some mediums speak in practical, down-to-earth terms, while others may stress the spiritual.

In practical terms, however, since most of us are spontaneously self-centered, Buddhism encourages us to focus love and compassion on others, and thus can be characterized as " altruistic.

In practical terms, the ampere is a measure of the amount of electric charge passing a point in an electric circuit per unit time with 6. 241 × 10 < sup > 18 </ sup > electrons, or one coulomb per second constituting one ampere.

The practical definition may lead to confusion with the definition of a coulomb ( i. e., 1 amp-second ), but in practical terms this means that measures of a constant current ( e. g., the nominal flow of charge per second through a simple circuit ) will be defined in amperes ( e. g., " a 20 mA circuit ") and the flow of charge through a circuit over a period of time will be defined in coulombs ( e. g., " a variable-current circuit that flows a total of 10 coulombs over 5 seconds ").

" In practical terms, the most important law in the code may well be the very first: " We enjoin, what is most necessary, that each man keep carefully his oath and his pledge ," which expresses a fundamental tenet of Anglo-Saxon law.

Use of two guns was therefore a reasonable compromise, as this allowed one gun to be cocked as the other is being fired, in practical terms doubling the rate of fire and the available number of bullets.

In practical terms, this is generally possible only with securities and financial products that can be traded electronically, and even then, when each leg of the trade is executed the prices in the market may have moved.

In practical statistical analysis, the terms are often used before one has chosen even a preliminary form of analysis: thus an initial objective might be to " choose an appropriate measure of central tendency ".

The book's popularity had the effect of perpetuating many of these terms as part of the Standard English lexicon, even though they have long ceased to have any practical application.

Even in their original context of medieval venery, the terms were of the nature of kennings, intended as a mark of erudition of the gentlemen able to use them correctly rather than for practical communication.

Although attempts to abolish slavery failed by narrow margins in the legislature, in practical terms, the state had mostly ended the practice.

In practical terms, the equivalence of inertial reference frames means that scientists within a box moving uniformly cannot determine their absolute velocity by any experiment ( otherwise the differences would set up an absolute standard reference frame ).

The Vertebrata as a subphylum comprises such a small proportion of the Metazoa that to speak of the kingdom Animalia in terms of " Vertebrata " and " Invertebrata " would be about as practical as classifying animals into mayflies and non-mayflies, or transport into rowing boats and non-rowing boats.

In practical terms that means for an older standard definition TV set the ideal viewing distance was about 8 times the height ( not diagonal ) of the screen away.

This is to relay the authoritative nature of the Oral Law as authoritative in practical terms, as the traditions of the Oral Law are considered as the necessary basis for the interpretation, and often for the reading, of the Written Law.

In practical terms this means moose are more vulnerable in areas where wolf or bear populations were decimated in the past but are now rebounding.

It is believed that in practical terms the victory at Cedynia sealed Western Pomerania's fate as Mieszko ' dependency.

In practical terms, the defence will be more likely to raise the issue of mental incapacity to negate or minimise criminal liability.

In the other four de jure socialist states existing today — China, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam — the ruling Parties hold Marxism – Leninism as their official ideology, although they give it different interpretations in terms of practical policy.

In practical terms, each additional user increases the total system load, leading to busy signals, the inability to get a dial tone, and poor customer support.

In practical terms, this means that one can set the zero of and anywhere one likes.

The domain of rhetoric is civic affairs and practical decision making in civic affairs, not theoretical considerations of operational definitions of terms and clarification of thought – these, for him, are in the domain of dialectic.

Each quatrain is accompanied with Persian text, a glossary of terms, Yoganada's spiritual interpretation, and practical interpretation.

Another factor, more recently pointed out, was the way in which Christianity combined its promise of a general resurrection of the dead with the traditional Greek belief that true immortality depended on the survival of the body, with Christianity adding practical explanations of how this was going to actually happen at the end of the world.

In a practical sense, both of these trajectory types mean the object is " breaking free " of the planet's gravity, and " going off into space ".

All three types of Humanism ( and all three of the American Humanist Association's manifestos ) reject deference to supernatural beliefs ; promoting the practical, methodological naturalism of science, but also going further and supporting the philosophical stance of metaphysical naturalism.

For a practical idea of what is going on, consider an auto race.

Lewis and Clark initially believed they had found a practical overland route to the west coast ; however, the two passes they found going through the Rocky Mountains, Lemhi Pass and Lolo Pass, turned out to be much too difficult for wagons to pass through without considerable road work.

Harriman, a tycoon and latter-day robber baron, had always dreamed of going to the Moon, and had spent much of his career and resources making space flight a practical commercial enterprise.

Although shapes themselves ( particularly paths ) can be decomposed further into nodes such as spline nodes, it is practical to think of the scene graph as composed of shapes rather than going to a lower level of representation.

Brown goods usually require high technical knowledge and skills ( which get more complex with time, such as going from a soldering iron to a hot-air soldering station ), while white goods need more practical skills and " brute force " to manipulate the devices and heavy tools required to repair them.

" A technique mentioned in the study and / or training of management, as well as practical guidance by consultants, is that group members, when the time comes for a group to make decisions, should ask each other, " Are we going to Abilene?

They staged a very large rally, of over 20, 000 men, on Easter Sunday 1915 in Dublin's Phoenix Park, but their Inspector General, Maurice Moore, saw no military future for the organisation: " They cannot be trained, disciplined or armed, moreover, the enthusiasm has gone and they cannot be kept going ... it will be of no practical use against any army, Orange or German.

In teaching foreign languages, besides emphasizing students ' abilities in different practical situations, the school practices the " going out and inviting in " method.

Lamb was one of the first to propose that climate could change within human experience, going against the orthodox view of the time that climate could be treated as constant for practical purposes.

When practical, it is usually considered better for the vehicle going downhill to yield the right of way by stopping at a wide spot.

Peter Novak, the Matrix's location scout said that " They were looking at finding a practical freeway to film the car chase on, which was going to be about 6 to 7 weeks of shutting down a major freeway.

In it he demonstrates that existing compressors are " flying stalled ", and that major improvements can be made by redesigning the blades from a flat profile into an airfoil, going on to mathematically demonstrate that a practical engine is definitely possible and showing how to build a turboprop.

One practical issue with small loops as transmitting antennas is that the loop not only has a very large current going through it, but has a very high voltage on its terminals, typically kilovolts when fed with only a few watts of transmitter power.

It is also a practical way to find out what is going on in universities around the world, either for simple information, or from the perspective of studying abroad.

The man, who unwittingly has become the victim of a practical joke by one of his workmates, sacrifices his daughter for a higher standard of living when he takes at face value his colleague's news that he is going to be dismissed.

Dean has suggested that during his time in the soap, the most letters he received were about a storyline that saw him cross-dressing as part of a practical joke: " The episode I got the most letters about was when Pete was going to a Topsy Turvy party, where men dress as women and women as men.

Although it was a practical reason, as the stations of the Kakhovskaya Line connect three major transport arteries, the Kashira Highway which continues on to become the M4 ( E111 ) motorway going southwards to the Caucasus ; the Varshava highway, although named after Warsaw, its direction is actually southwards as the M2 ( E105 ) towards Ukraine and Crimea.