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terms and comparison
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.
The best comparison in terms of legal physical contact is soccer, where checking is used to improve one's positioning in relation to the ball rather than to remove an opposing player from the play.
In terms of international comparison, with the most efficient and corruption-free application procedure, lowest income tax and lowest corporate tax as well as abundant and sustainable government finance that the government of Hong Kong consistently upheld the policy of encouraging ( and supporting ) activities of private businesses and this is having a sound impact on the overall economic performance by removing unnecessary barriers for the private enterprises in the Special Administrative Region.
For comparison, the other two general conic sections, the ellipse and the parabola, derive from the corresponding Greek words for " deficient " and " comparable "; these terms may refer to the eccentricity of these curves, which is greater than one ( hyperbola ), less than one ( ellipse ) and exactly one ( parabola ), respectively.
Where a hedge fund holds assets that are hard to value reliably or are relatively illiquid ( in comparison to the redemption terms of the fund itself ), the fund may employ a " side pocket ".
Engineers at the company's research lab carried out a systematic comparison of various power sources and determined that the almost forgotten Stirling engine would be most suitable, citing its quiet operation ( both audibly and in terms of radio interference ) and ability to run on a variety of heat sources ( common lamp oil – " cheap and available everywhere " – was favoured ).
The two poles of predestinarian belief may be usefully described in terms of their doctrinal comparison between the Creator's freedom, and the creature's freedom.
It is usually expressed in terms of a commonly used international currency such as the Euro or United States dollar, and is useful because it is widely known, easily calculated from readily-available GDP and population estimates, and produces a useful statistic for comparison.
Perhaps the most interesting feature of Logudorian is that, due to the particular history of the area, it has suffered very little contamination and has changed very slowly from Vulgar Latin in comparison to other Latin languages, even though in terms of vocabulary it is not as close to its Latin ancestor as Italian, the most Latin of Romance languages.
For comparison, the nearest competing method in terms of structures analyzed is nuclear magnetic resonance ( NMR ) spectroscopy, which has resolved 9561 chemical structures.
While this is a phenomenon common to most languages in the world ( for example, spoken English does not always correspond to written standards ), the degree of " correctness " of spoken Indonesian ( in terms of grammar and vocabulary ) by comparison to its written form is noticeably low.
On one hand, the document says that non-Catholic Christian ecclesial communities that have not preserved a valid episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery are not Churches in the proper sense and that non-Christians are seriously deficient in terms of access to the means of salvation in comparison with those who in the Church have the full means of salvation.
Scandinavian adjectives, like English ones, are inflected in terms of comparison by adding '- ere '/'- are ' ( comparative ) or '- est '/'- ast ' ( superlative ).
It was a curious conclusion, since in terms of military successes Patton had accomplished far more than any other U. S. ground force commander, particularly in comparison to Bradley.
In terms of outright power, size and weight this is still likely to be true, though there are those who believe that the much lighter and more aerodynamic DTM cars are actually faster, although a direct comparison between the two has never been made, neither series having ever run at the same race tracks.
In terms of this philosophy maya is true in itself but it is not true in comparison with the truth.
The related terms chronomics and chronome have been used in some cases to describe either the molecular mechanisms involved in chronobiological phenomena or the more quantitative aspects of chronobiology, particularly where comparison of cycles between organisms is required.
Its professionalization led to an overall reduction of 30, 000 men on all three branches ; the Portuguese military holds the 72nd position in the international comparison in terms of manpower.
Another difference, in comparison with JPEG, is in terms of visual artifacts: JPEG 2000 produces ringing artifacts, manifested as blur and rings near edges in the image, while JPEG produces ringing artifacts and ' blocking ' artifacts, due to its 8 × 8 blocks.
Though compared to his contemporary Norman Rockwell in terms of subject matter, Hopper didn ’ t like the comparison.
Despite a lopsided comparison in terms of the two teams ' win-loss records, three of the four Pacers losses were close, losing games 1 – 3 by an average of just 5 points.
Since ΔA << 1, this expression can be approximated by expanding the exponentials in a Taylor series to first-order and then discarding terms of ΔA in comparison with unity and converting from radians to degrees:
When used in the name of an instrument, these terms are relative, describing the instrument's range in comparison to other instruments of its family and not in comparison to the human voice range or instruments of other families.
Early Christians were hardly monolithic in their preachings, and the Nativity accounts of the gospels may have diverged as a result, but a comparison of the Nativity stories of Luke and Matthew show common elements in terms of the virgin births, the birth at Bethlehem and the upbringing at Nazareth.

terms and far
I believe that these proposals, however meritorious in terms of world needs, go far beyond our capacity to realize them.
The standard model of particle physics was developed that so far has successfully explained the properties of the nucleus in terms of these sub-atomic particles and the forces that govern their interactions.
The principle of operation of the centrifuge also can be simply understood in terms of this expression for the potential energy, which shows that it is favorable energetically when the volume far from the axis of rotation is occupied by the heavier substance.
Colombia is still far behind Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina in terms of online usage.
These were by far the most serious attacks on Australia in time of war, in terms of fatalities and damage.
The Druzes and their Christian Maronite neighbors, who had thus far lived as religious communities on friendly terms, entered a period of social disturbance in the year 1840, which culminated in the civil war of 1860.
By the time mass applications for wireless Internet had emerged, and the U. S. had opened up to DECT, well into the new century, the industry had moved far ahead in terms of performance and DECT's time as a wireless data transport had passed.
Since such radiation can produce severe damage to life at powers that produce very little heating, it is considered far more dangerous ( in terms of damage-produced per unit of energy, or power ) than the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Hence GSSPs are usually described in terms of transitions between different faunal stages, though far more faunal stages have been described than GSSPs.
The Norse had a strong sense of naval architecture, and during the early medieval period they were advanced for their time, compared to other European nations ( earlier shipbuilding techniques, for example those of Mediterranean peoples, such as ancient Greece and Rome, were far more sophisticated and varied, especially in terms of joinery ).
The terms far left and ultra-left refer to positions that are more radical.
In several countries, the terms far left and radical left have been associated with communism, Maoism, Autonomism and many forms of anarchism.
Hare, and Simon Blackburn have argued in favor of the fact / norm distinction, meanwhile, with Gibbard going so far as to argue that, even if conventional English has only mixed normative terms ( that is, terms that are neither purely descriptive nor purely normative ), we could develop a nominally English metalanguage that still allowed us to maintain the division between factual descriptions and normative evaluations.
As the composition of the Earth's crust is dominated by silicon and oxygen, silicate elements are by far the most important class of minerals in terms of rock formation and diversity.
As far as the Internet is concerned, Moldova has one of the best wired Internet connections in the world as well as one of the cheapest in terms of $ per Mbit.
Among other things, limited scope of the EITI involving disparity in terms of knowledge of the industry and negotiation skills, thus far flexibility of the policy ( e. g. liberty of the countries to expand beyond the minimum requirements and adapt it to their needs ), creates another risk of unsuccessful implementation.
For this purpose, DECtapes were far superior to paper tapes, in terms of reliability, durability, and speed.
He chose to make peace with Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV, and as far as possible came to terms with the Franciscans, who were then at odds with the Roman See.
The path, expressed in terms of the domains ( or confederations ) traversed so far, is carried in a special path attribute that records the sequence of routing domains through which the reachability information has passed.
U2 frontman Bono holds Orbison as a standard in musical creativity, commenting in 1999, " The thing people don't talk about enough as far as I'm concerned is how innovative this music was, how radical in terms of its songwriting.
Both men wanted Russia to leave the western European states far behind in terms of development.
It is by far the largest kingdom in terms of land area, but not in population.
When the force on the far particle is subtracted from the force on the near particle, this first term cancels, as do all other even-order terms.
It is likely that the fissile material of an old bomb which is due for refitting will contain decay products of the plutonium isotopes used in it, these are likely to include U-236 from Pu-240 impurities, plus some U-235 from decay of the Pu-239 ; due to the relatively long half-life of these Pu isotopes, these wastes from radioactive decay of bomb core material would be very small, and in any case, far less dangerous ( even in terms of simple radioactivity ) than the Pu-239 itself.

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