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.

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.

A practical and concrete representative for an equivalence class representing a real number is provided by the representation to base b – in practice, b is usually 2 ( binary ), 8 ( octal ), 10 ( decimal ) or 16 ( hexadecimal ).

For practical considerations in thermodynamics or engineering it is rarely necessary, nor convenient, to consider all energies belonging to the total intrinsic energy of a sample system, such as the energy given by the equivalence of mass.

For practical considerations in thermodynamics or engineering, it is rarely necessary, convenient, nor even possible, to consider all energies belonging to the total intrinsic energy of a sample system, such as the energy given by the equivalence of mass.

There is indeed a concept of isomorphism of categories where a strict form of inverse functor is required, but this is of much less practical use than the equivalence concept.

Specifically, he collaborated with Yves Meyer to develop the Multiresolution Analysis ( MRA ) construction for compactly supported wavelets, which made the implementation of wavelets practical for engineering applications by demonstrating the equivalence of wavelet bases and conjugate mirror filters used in discrete, multirate filter banks in signal processing.

A pairwise mapping between n attributes would result in mapping rules ( given equivalence mappings )-a number that quickly gets too large for practical purposes.

Pulse-width modulation ( PWM ), or pulse-duration modulation ( PDM ), is a commonly used technique for controlling power to inertial electrical devices, made practical by modern electronic power switches.

For the practical purpose of finding the acceleration of objects with respect to the Earth, such as for use in an inertial navigation system, a knowledge of local gravity is required.

As a practical matter, inertial frames often are taken as frames moving uniformly with respect to the fixed stars.

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

This is perhaps one of the most practical ways to collect a national currency since probably the majority of coin reference books and coin albums catalogue in the same manner.

The codex holds considerable practical advantages over other book formats, such as compactness, sturdiness, ease of reference ( a codex is random access, as opposed to a scroll, which is sequential access ), and especially economy of materials ; unlike the scroll, both recto and verso could be used for writing.

In practical voltage reference circuits, Zener and switching diodes are connected in series and opposite directions to balance the temperature coefficient to near-zero.

Jones however was the one who is generally credited with having gone much of the way towards a practical solution through his scheme of ' Cardinal Vowels ', a relatively simple system of reference vowels which for many years has been taught systematically to students within the British tradition.

For practical purposes, it is useful to define a common reference point to which potentials may be expressed and compared.

This tiny language is relatively unknown outside the video game industry ; however, it is a concrete example of how reference counting can be practical and efficient ( especially in realtime environments ).

Having frequently used nodes near the root is an advantage for nearly all practical applications ( also see Locality of reference ), and is particularly useful for implementing caches and garbage collection algorithms.

Thermocouples are usually standardized against a reference temperature of 0 degrees Celsius ; practical instruments use electronic methods of cold-junction compensation to adjust for varying temperature at the instrument terminals.

These several elements have each to be considered separately with reference to their best practical forms for various purposes.

" For practical purposes though, a metallic reference standard was required, one thousand times more massive, the kilogram.

Using frequency dividers, frequency multipliers and phase locked loop circuits, it is practical to derive a wide range of frequencies from one reference frequency.

Note: In DSB-RC transmission, the carrier is usually transmitted at a level suitable for use as a reference by the receiver, except for the case in which it is reduced to the minimum practical level, i. e. the carrier is suppressed.

To one of these additions — that to an ancient utterance concerning the " Book of Adam, the First Man ,"— this statement is appended: " Ashi and Ravina are the last representatives of independent decision ( hora ' ah )", an evident reference to the work of these two in editing the Babylonian Talmud, which as an object of study and a fountainhead of practical " decision " was to have the same importance for the coming generations as the Mishnah had had for the Amoraim.

Stated this way, compass and straightedge constructions appear to be a parlour game, rather than a serious practical problem ; but the purpose of the restriction is to ensure that constructions can be proven to be exactly correct, and is thus important to both drafting ( design by both CAD software and traditional drafting with pencil, paper, straight-edge and compass ) and the science of weights and measures, in which exact synthesis from reference bodies or materials is extremely important.

As a practical matter, most district courts have a standing " reference " order to that effect, so that all bankruptcy cases in that district are handled, at least initially, by the bankruptcy court.

For practical purposes it makes more sense to choose the zero point of normal gravity to be that of the reference ellipsoid, and refer the potentials of other points to this.

An early reference to the use of electronic concordancers in language teaching can be found in Higgins & Johns ( 1984: pp. 88 – 94 ), and many examples of their practical use in the classroom are described by Lamy & Klarskov Mortensen ( 2010 ).

When a reference was made to his friendship with Ferdinand Lassalle ( a nationalist and state-oriented socialist ), Bismarck said that he was a more practical " socialist " than the Social Democrats.

Pure practical reason in the process of determining it dictates what ought to be done without reference to empirical contingent factors.

Some iwi cluster into larger groupings based on genealogical tradition, known as waka ( literally: " canoes ", with reference to the original migration voyages ), but these super-groupings generally serve symbolic rather than practical functions.

ICC Publications is the publishing arm of the International Chamber of Commerce providing business with essential resources in three broad categories: ICC rules and guidelines, practical commentaries, and reference works.

This practical reference led to the use of the word tensor to describe the elements of the multilinear space.