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.

In industry, other larger or smaller units of mass and or volume are often more practical and US customary units may be used.

In larger networks, this is not practical.

Small-bore ( e. g.. 22 Long Rifle ) handguns have long been very popular for competitive target shooting, partially due to the low cost of both the firearms and the ammunition, and there is also a rapidly growing number of sporting competitions for larger calibers, including " practical shooting ", the guidelines of which usually require a handgun of caliber in 9mm or greater.

In practical use, this is not a problem, because we are generally only interested in compressing certain types of messages, for example English documents as opposed to jibberish text, or digital photographs rather than noise, and it is unimportant if our compression algorithm makes certain kinds of random sequences larger.

This effect can be made larger by employing a longer PN sequence and more chips per bit, but physical devices used to generate the PN sequence impose practical limits on attainable processing gain.

They made intensive animal husbandry practical on a much larger scale.

The synchrotron moves the particles through a path of constant radius, allowing it to be made as a pipe and so of much larger radius than is practical with the cyclotron and synchrocyclotron.

Some practical camera obscuras use a lens rather than a pinhole because it allows a larger aperture, giving a usable brightness while maintaining focus.

This makes larger RAID groups more practical, especially for high-availability systems.

The role of the media for the Religious right has been influential in its ability to connect Christian audiences to the larger American culture while at the same time bringing together religion, politics, and culture that was personal and practical.

The Wright Brothers used wing warping instead of ailerons for roll control, and initially, their aircraft had much better control in the air than aircraft that used movable surfaces ; however, as aileron designs were refined, and aircraft became larger and heavier, it became clear that they were much more effective and practical for most aircraft.

Napoleon's practical strategic triumphs, repeatedly leading smaller forces to defeat larger ones, inspired a whole new field of study into military strategy.

The throat is usually sized slightly larger than the projectile, so the loaded cartridge can be inserted and removed easily, but the throat should be as close as practical to the groove diameter of the barrel.

Insulators with a larger band gap, usually greater than 3 eV, are not considered semiconductors and generally do not exhibit semiconductive behaviour under practical conditions.

To a larger degree, the financial situation happened because the Adelsverein was an organization of noblemen with no practical backgrounds at running a business.

Increasing pressure on land use in the UK throughout the 20th century meant that protection of closed trackbeds as in larger countries ( such as the US Rail Bank scheme which holds former railway land for possible future use ) was not practical.

The invention of rotor machines mechanised polyalphabetic encryption, providing a practical way to use a much larger number of alphabets.

Though larger than Leinster House, the building eventually selected, it possessed three major practical problems.

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.

While technically the term includes propagation with larger losses than in standard atmosphere, in practical applications it is most often meant to refer to cases when signal propagates beyond normal radio horizon.

Cooperative inquiry creates a research cycle among four different types of knowledge: propositional knowing ( as in contemporary science ), practical knowing ( the knowledge that comes with actually doing what you propose ), experiential knowing ( the feedback we get in real time about our interaction with the larger world ) and presentational knowing ( the artistic rehearsal process through which we craft new practices ).

Most of these sections are bypasses of the larger towns on the route, where the need to deviate the route to construct the bypass made it practical to deny access from adjoining land and thus provide full freeway conditions.

For the next two hundred years, Greek building sites witnessed a sharp drop in the weights handled, as the new lifting technique made the use of several smaller stones more practical than of fewer larger ones.

This breaks down due to the practical limits imposed by the atmosphere, whose random nature disrupts the single spot of the Airy disk into a pattern of similarly-sized spots covering a much larger area ( see image of binary on right ).

But the armoire desk is even bigger and larger than the Wooton, and despite the use of rich veneers by some makers, it is a much more practical piece of furniture.