As the meter is defined in terms of the second, and the speed of light is constant for all observers, the terrestrial meter appears to change in length compared to the " planetary meter " on a periodic basis.

After an instruction is fetched, the PC is incremented by the length of the instruction word in terms of memory units.

Many countries have extended the length of their copyright terms ( sometimes retroactively ).

In 1831 Gauss developed a fruitful collaboration with the physics professor Wilhelm Weber, leading to new knowledge in magnetism ( including finding a representation for the unit of magnetism in terms of mass, length and time ) and the discovery of Kirchhoff's circuit laws in electricity.

It was the longest game in Rockies history, in terms of both total innings and total length of time.

The required distance ρ ( s ) at arc length s is defined in terms of the rate of rotation of the tangent to the curve, which in turn is determined by the path itself.

In terms of arc length s let the path be described as:

An important simplification occurs when the sequences are of finite length, N. In terms of the DFT and inverse DFT, it can be written as follows:

The meridian arc length from the equator to latitude is written in terms of:

Although Schmidt's organ works may resemble others of the era in terms of length, complexity, and difficulty, they are forward-looking in being conceived for the smaller, clearer, classical-style instruments of the Orgelbewegung, which he advocated.

In informal usage, the length was combined with the weight of shot, yielding terms like " long 9s ", referring to full length cannons firing a 9-pound round shot.

The distribution of hollow and full months can be determined using continued fractions, and examining successive approximations for the length of the month in terms of fractions of a day.

In the International System of Units ( SI ), the basic unit of length is the meter and is now defined in terms of the speed of light.

In terms of genetics, the gene ROBO1 has been associated with phonological buffer integrity or length

To further reduce uncertainty, the seventeenth CGPM in 1983 replaced the definition of the metre with its current definition, thus fixing the length of the metre in terms of the second and the speed of light:

A mass can sometimes be expressed in terms of length.

The May Day bank holiday, on the first Monday in May, was traditionally the only one to affect the state school calendar, although new arrangements in some areas to even out the length of school terms mean that the Good Friday and Easter Monday bank holidays, which vary from year to year, may also fall during term time.

Despite its modest length ( 74 km ), it is the third largest river in Europe in terms of average discharge ( after the Volga and the Danube ).

In mathematical terms, given a random variable X with distribution F, a random sample of length n ( where n may be any of 1, 2, 3 ,...) is a set of n independent, identically distributed ( iid ) random variables with distribution F.

" The war that had lasted so many years was at length ended by their acceding to the terms offered by the King ; which were renunciation of their national religious customs and the worship of devils, acceptance of the sacraments of the Christian faith and religion, and union with the Franks to form one people.

In geometrical terms, the square root function maps the area of a square to its side length.

In the TSP with triangle inequality case it is possible to prove upper bounds in terms of the minimum spanning tree and design an algorithm that has a provable upper bound on the length of the route.

However, in Harmelin v. Michigan,, a fractured Court retreated from the Solem test and held that for non-capital sentences, the Eighth Amendment only constrains the length of prison terms by a " gross disproportionality principle.

The recession of the glaciers is so recent ( in geologic terms ) that modern-day drainage patterns are immature and poorly established.

In terms of drainage basin size the Pecos River is the largest.

The Corporation of the Bedford Level was set up, and took control of the river and the drainage channels, under the terms of the General Drainage Act, passed in 1663.

Other terms that are used to describe a drainage basin are catchment, catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, river basin and water basin.

Technical and economic feasibility are evaluated based on the following: regional geologic conditions ; overburden characteristics ; coal seam continuity, thickness, structure, quality, and depth ; strength of materials above and below the seam for roof and floor conditions ; topography ( especially altitude and slope ); climate ; land ownership as it affects the availability of land for mining and access ; surface drainage patterns ; ground water conditions ; availability of labor and materials ; coal purchaser requirements in terms of tonnage, quality, and destination ; and capital investment requirements.

Limestone is slightly soluble in water and especially in acid rain, so corrosive drainage along joints and cracks in the limestone can produce slabs called " clints " isolated by deep fissures called " grikes " or " grykes ", terms derived from the North of England dialect.

Its drainage provides one of the most important rainbow trout fisheries in Idaho in terms of habitat, fish populations, and use by anglers.

In terms of drainage areas the largest is the North Fork, which drains about 60 % of the entire upper Feather River watershed.

In terms of drainage area, the North Fork Feather River is the largest, accounting for about 60 % of the total basin above Lake Oroville.

Differences in vegetation have been explained in terms of freshwater and low salinity influences in the Northeast and variations in drainage and siltation.

In total, he dug over of canals and received of land under the terms of his first drainage contract of January 1881.

It rises in the Ligurian Alps, close to the border with France and is the most significant right-side tributary to the Po in terms of length, size of drainage basin ( partly Alpine, partly Apennine ) and discharge.

Because of the dual purpose of drainage and navigation, water levels in relation to the land surface were strictly controlled by the terms of the enabling Act.

This comes after the studies of structural geology ( at the reservoir scale ), sedimentary basin analysis, reservoir characterization ( mainly in terms of porosity and permeable structures ).

In terms of mineralogy, the basin floor is much richer in clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene than the surrounding highlands that are largely anorthositic.

The most significant part of Bar, in terms of rich ornithofauna, is the Skadar Lake basin.

In geologic terms, the lake is rather young, formed – like almost all lakes in northern Europe – through the carving activity of the inland ice sheets in the latter part of the last Ice Age, about 12, 000 years ago: In Paleozoic Era ( 300 – 400 million years ago ) the entire territory of the modern basin of the lake was covered with a shelf sea lying near the ancient, near-equatoric Baltic continent.

The Serra do Caramulo, located to the west of the city, plays an important role in climatic terms by lessening the influences of the western air masses ( although the Mondego River's basin makes the penetration easier ).

In terms of both area of the basin and the average discharge, the Onega is the third river basin of the White Sea ( behind the Northern Dvina and the Mezen.