This case is also used for nouns in several other senses, e. g., where the action occurs " because of " or " without " a certain noun ; nouns indicating distance or direction.

Epicurus emphasized the senses in his epistemology, and his Principle of Multiple Explanations (" if several theories are consistent with the observed data, retain them all ") is an early contribution to the philosophy of science.

* A proponent or practitioner of humanism, which has several distinct senses, which are listed at Humanism and at Humanism ( disambiguation )

Greek distinguishes several different senses in which the word " love " is used.

* Modus ( medieval music ), several other technical senses of modus or mode in medieval music theory

The word trinitarian is used in several senses:

If a word participates in several synsets ( i. e. has several senses ) then typically some senses are much more common than others.

The word " cultivation " has several senses that overlap substantially with those of " tillage ".

While civilian drones do generally match humans in intelligence, drones built especially as Contact or Special Circumstances agents are often several times more intelligent, and imbued with extremely powerful senses, powers and armaments ( usually forcefield and effector-based, though occasionally more destructive weaponry such as lasers or, exceptionally, " knife-missiles " are referred to ) all powered by antimatter reactors.

* ( 1862 ) On the several senses of Being in Aristotle ( Von der mannigfachen Bedeutung des Seienden nach Aristoteles )

In the last two decades, according to the Boas and Gans-Morse study of 148 journal articles, neoliberalism is almost never defined but used in several senses to describe ideology, economic theory, development theory, or economic reform policy.

Angirasa turned his senses inwards and meditated on Para-Brahman, the creator of the creator, for several years.

:... Emotional ( imitation ) is designed to arouse in us by means of sound the notion of the several passions of the heart, and to awaken solely through the sense of hearing the impressions that human beings experience only through the other senses.

On cars and trucks, several senses of the word " Tandem axle " co-occur in casual usage, referring to the shaft itself, its housing, or simply any transverse pair of wheels.

The word has undergone several changes of meaning since it was first coined and is still used in a variety of senses.

* In mathematics, the term even is used in several senses related to odd:

Dr Samuel Johnson, in his A Dictionary of the English Language ( 1755 ), defined honour as having several senses, the first of which was " nobility of soul, magnanimity, and a scorn of meanness.

Quantification has several distinct senses.

However, the term " ape " is used in several different senses.

In mathematics, the term is used in several senses related to even:

The word has several different senses, including:

The horses were only several lengths away when he fired.

These could be met only by considering the dynamical elements of several planets at one time.

As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

But the facts about our Advisory Board and its members' duties are only one of several sets of facts about the quest for advice, both reliable and imaginative, on which to base our selections of Fellows.

But during the last several years boats were launched in areas where, a short time ago, the only water to be found was in wells and watering troughs for livestock.

Often the burrows are only an inch or two apart, and the bee cities cover several acres.

Experiments carried out over long periods of time in order to allow establishment of a steady state have shown that the onset of contraction and its completion are confined to an interval of several degrees Centigrade and to a concentration range of only several per cent.

For, in the process of decanting, the bottle is only tilted once instead of several or more times at the table: hence, a minimum of the undesirable mixture of wine and dregs.

Since Mrs. Calhoun remembered only that the marriage had been in the spring, he started to plod through several months.

Harris dates studies of both to Classical Greece and Classical Rome, specifically, to Herodotus, often called the " father of history " and the Roman historian, Tacitus, who wrote many of our only surviving contemporary accounts of several ancient Celtic and Germanic peoples.

Johnston could only keep up his defense by raids and other measures to make it appear he had larger forces than he did, a strategy that worked for several months.

Sometimes he ruled over only one community, sometimes over several, each of which had its own abbot as well.

Pyrrolysine trait is restricted to several microbes, and only one organism has both Pyl and Sec.

When talking about those who have made " shipwreck " of their faith ( 1 Tim 1: 19 ), Wesley claims that " not one, or a hundred only, but I am persuaded, several thousands ... innumerable are the instances ... of those who had fallen but now stand upright.

Ambrose told Theodosius to imitate David in his repentance as he had imitated him in guilt — Ambrose readmitted the emperor to the Eucharist only after several months of penance.

Alcott was one of several who attempted to storm the courthouse ; when gunshots were heard, he was the only one who stood his ground, though the effort was unsuccessful.

However, Wolfram points out that at the time " Clovis got no farther than the Seine ; only after several more years did the Franks succeed in occupying the rest of the Gallo-Roman buffer state north of the Loire.

Furthermore, only bishops and presbyters ( priests ) ordained by bishops in the apostolic succession can validly celebrate or " confect " several of the other sacraments, including the Eucharist, reconciliation of penitents, confirmation and anointing of the sick.

This is supported by the fact that adenylate cyclases are coincidence detectors, meaning that they are activated only by several different signals occurring together.

Abd al-Rahman was only one of several surviving Umayyad family members to make their way to Ifriqiya at this time.

Abd ar-Rahman III did not send an army and only several local Berber jefes offered a pointless resistance.

Most other US Navy and allied navy destroyers, destroyer escorts, frigates, and several different classes of cruisers only carried the one ASROC ' matchbox ' MK 112 launcher with eight ASROC missiles ( although later in service, some of those missiles could be replaced by the Harpoon anti-ship missile ).

Clinton has been subject to several allegations of sexual misconduct, though he has only admitted extramarital relationships with Monica Lewinsky and Gennifer Flowers.

There were several GUI-based BBSes on the Apple Macintosh platform, including TeleFinder and FirstClass, but these remained widely used only in the Mac market.