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practical and terms
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 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.

practical and defence
Alnwick was one of three castles held by Lancastrian forces in 1461 and 1462, and it was there that the " only practical defence of a private castle " was made according to military historian D. J. Cathcart King.
Repton's defence of Brown rested partly on the impracticality of many picturesque ideas ; as a professional, Repton had to produce practical and useful designs for his clients.
This branch of study naturally conducted him to the investigation of explosives, and on the theoretical side led to the results published in his work Sur la force de la poudre et des matières explosives ( 1872 ), while in practical terms it enabled him to render important services to his country as president of the scientific defence committee during the siege of Paris ( 1870 – 1871 ) and subsequently as chief of the French explosives committee.
The South West Coast Path is no longer used by the Coastguard but it has been transformed from a practical defence system into a resource for recreational walkers.
Research and investigation into civilian defence, in order to judge its workability, relate it to a specific country's defence problems, and develop strategic and tactical concepts so that the proposal can be presented in concrete and practical terms.
A Catholic conservative force, it was the political heir to Angel Herrera Oria's Acción Popular and defined itself in terms of the ' affirmation and defence of the principles of Christian civilization ,' translating this theoretical stand into a practical demand for the revision of the republican constitution.
This is as opposed to " modern " martial arts, whose primary focus is generally upon the self-improvement ( mental, physical, or spiritual ) of the individual practitioner, with varying degrees of emphasis on the practical application of the martial art for either sport or self defence purposes.
In 1999 at the 1st World Ving Tsun Conference in Hong Kong, he gave one of the most memorable, practical and entertaining demonstrations of Wing Chun street self defence to the background music of " the good, the bad and the ugly ".
This meant that the aspis was no longer a practical defence.
It wished to retain the current level of Canadian involvement in North American air defence through NORAD, but was reluctant to see scarce military funds spent on a single large research and development project of dubious practical value.
" Carolyn Egan, President of the Steelworkers Toronto Area Council, stated that Steel workers “ Respect CUPE Ontario's record of solidarity with the oppressed, both inside and outside the labour movement, and respect CUPE Ontario's initiative to educate its members and the entire labour movement on the plight of the people of Palestine, and to take practical action in defence of Palestinian human rights.

practical and will
This, however, will not exhaust their practical usefulness, as they rather clearly indicate what thorough phonologic investigation can contribute to orthography design.
In practical situations there will be restrictions on the admissible operating conditions, and we regard the vectors as belonging to a fixed and bounded set S.
# Utilitarianism, where the practical consequences of various policies are evaluated on the assumption that the right policy will be the one which results in the greatest happiness
The above compositions may describe most of the explosive material, but a practical explosive will often include small percentages of other substances.
While this event has no practical effect, the sautier issues a formal press release and the local newspaper will usually mention the news.
When it comes to the matter of practical farm managing which will secure definite, practical, financial results, you are wanting again in ability.
Working through the difficulties and applying practical solutions will assist one to continuously make improvements, thereby moving the soul to its goal of ultimate liberation.
In Christianity the practical definition of love is best summarised by St. Thomas Aquinas, who defined love as " to will the good of another ," or to desire for another to succeed.
Therefore, the current Gregorian calendar suffices for practical purposes, and the correction suggested by John Herschel of making 4000 a non-leap year will probably not be necessary.
Lowering resolution has practical uses, as the NASA New Horizons craft will transmit thumbnails of its encounter with Pluto-Charon before it sends the higher resolution images.
Some neurologists argue that classification will only be reliable and valid when based on neurobiological features rather than clinical interview, while others suggest that the differing ideological and practical perspectives need to be better integrated.
# Promotes universal enjoyment of all human rights by giving practical effect to the will and resolve of the world community as expressed by the United Nations ;
However, by the conventions of responsible government, designed to maintain administrative stability, the viceroy will call to form a government the individual most likely to receive the support, or confidence, of a majority of the directly-elected House of Commons ; as a practical matter, this is often the leader of a party whose members form a majority, or a very large plurality, of Members of Parliament ( MPs ).
" Hertz also stated, " I do not think that the wireless waves I have discovered will have any practical application.
Because dielectric materials usually contain minute defects, the practical dielectric strength will be a fraction of the intrinsic dielectric strength of an ideal, defect-free, material.
The reflected signal will have no practical effect on digital systems because of its low level relative to the direct signal ; i. e., it will have no practical effect on the detected signal seen at the decision point of the digital optical receiver.

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