Because the bobbin-to-cone winding process is a relatively high-cost operation for the mill, the almost complete automation provided by the Uniconer can mean important economies in textile production, at the same time upgrading quality.

This will mean that every time there's an increase in hospital rates your cost will go up in like manner.

At the present time we do not know by what biochemical mechanism TSH acts on the thyroid, but for bio-assay of the hormone there are a number of properties by which its activity may be estimated, including release of iodine from the thyroid, increase in thyroid weight, increase in mean height of the follicular cells and increase in the thyroidal uptake of Af.

They speak of the work of Christ as the bestowal of incorruptibility, which can mean ( though it does not have to mean ) deliverance from time and history.

Starting from Julian Date 2443144. 5 ( 1 January 1977 00: 00: 00 ), corrections were applied to the output of all participating clocks, so that TAI would correspond to proper time at mean sea level ( the geoid ).

Then we can express the variables as the sum of the ( time averaged ) mean field () that varies in space and a small fluctuating field () that varies in space and time.

According to the Christian doctrine of Universal Reconciliation, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word " eon " to mean a long period ( perhaps 1000 years ) and the word " eonian " to mean " during a long period "; Thus there was a time before the eons, and the eonian period is finite.

In the mean time Da Ponte would begin work with Mozart on Le nozze di Figaro ( The Marriage of Figaro ).

Thus, over time, the expression " a cappella " ( Italian for " in the manner of the chapel ") came to mean exclusively vocal music in contradistinction to the spreading use of the organ in cathedrals.

) Then X < sub > i </ sub > is the value ( or realization ) produced by a given run of the process at time i. Suppose that the process is further known to have defined values for mean μ < sub > i </ sub > and variance σ < sub > i </ sub >< sup > 2 </ sup > for all times i. Then the definition of the autocorrelation between times s and t is

However, for many acts the " off season " does not mean a period of inactivity, they use time for maintenance and practice.

In the mean time, Fátimih lived in the home of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá ’ s uncle Mírzá Músá.

" In the mean time, Marlborough invested the elaborate fortress of Menin which, after a costly siege, capitulated on 22 August.

At the same time, however, he can use this term to mean the glorious future destiny of a truly comprehensive " Israel ".

This expresses the mean squared displacement in terms of the time elapsed and the diffusivity.

The second part of Einstein's theory relates the diffusion constant to physically measurable quantities, such as the mean squared displacement of a particle in a given time interval.

By measuring the mean squared displacement over a time interval along with the universal gas constant, the temperature, the viscosity, and the particle radius, Avogadro's number can be determined.

It might mean again or a second time or from above, which would explain Nicodemus ' confusion.

The astronomer's mean tropical year which is averaged over equinoxes and solstices is currently 365. 24219 days, slightly shorter than the average length of the year in most calendars, but the astronomer's value changes over time, so William Herschel's suggested correction to the Gregorian calendar may become unnecessary by the year 4000.

The small amount of milk available for the calf under such systems may mean that it takes a longer time to rear, and in subsistence farming it is therefore common for cows to calve only in alternate years.

The historical associations of maleness with power and femaleness with submission and frivolity mean that in the present time a woman dressing in men's clothing and a man dressing in women's clothing evoke very different responses.

It was typically an extremely prized commodity as it was expensive and time consuming to produce and could mean the difference between life and death in a battle.

During the era of the original series, Captain James Kirk once noted ( in the episode Metamorphosis ) that humanity was on " a thousand planets and spreading out ;" however, this number apparently encompasses Earth's many off-Earth colonies and the various alien worlds on which humans can be found ( just as non-humans have been depicted as residing on Earth ) and should not be taken to mean that the Federation itself had a thousand members at that time.

Kirk can mean " church " in general or the Church of Scotland in particular.

He orders Garrovick back to the ship, but the young officer refuses to abandon his Captain and a fight ensues before Kirk can explain that he does not mean to sacrifice himself.

He examines each of the three terms in the Berkeleian aphorism esse est percipi, " to be is to be perceived ", finding that it must mean that the object and the subject are necessarily connected so that " yellow " and " the sensation of yellow " are identical-" to be yellow " is " to be experienced as yellow ".

When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;

And for him to leave this job now without accomplishing anything would mean practically the end of his career in the Methodist church, if not in all churches.

This is what we mean when we say this demand must be accepted without condition.

( The two-syllable form learnèd, usually written without the grave, is used as an adjective to mean " educated " or to refer to academic institutions in both BrE and AmE.

To make a Turing machine that speaks Chinese, Searle gets in a room stocked with algorithms programmed to respond to Chinese questions, i. e., Turing machines, programmed to correctly answer in Chinese questions asked in Chinese, and he finds he's able to process the inputs to outputs perfectly without having any understanding of Chinese, nor having any idea what the questions and answers could possibly mean.

:"< sup >†</ sup > We shall use the expression ' computable function ' to mean a function calculable by a machine, and let ' effectively calculable ' refer to the intuitive idea without particular identification with any one of these definitions.

Although any music which uses computers in its composition or realisation is computer-generated to some extent, the use of computers is now so widespread ( in the editing of pop songs, for instance ) that the phrase computer-generated music is generally used to mean a kind of music which could not have been created without the use of computers.

An example occurs that involves the term " barney ", which has been used to mean an altercation or fight since the late 19th century, although without a clear derivation.

This adds a periodic component to the position of the equinoxes ; the positions of the celestial equator and ( vernal ) equinox with fully updated with precession and nutation are called the true equator and equinox ; the positions without nutation are the mean equator and equinox.

All of these expressions are for the mean obliquity, that is, without the nutation of the equator included.

This is a purely descriptive approach to what we mean by " natural language " without attempting to address its emergence.

In addition, without changes to either calendar, the frequency of monthly divergence between the two festivals will increase over time as a result of the differences in the implicit solar years: the implicit mean solar year of the Hebrew calendar is 365. 2468 days while that of the Gregorian calendar is 365. 2425 days.

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While the title states that it is naive, which is usually taken to mean without axioms, the book does introduce all the axioms of Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory and gives correct and rigorous definitions for basic objects.

Ogg derives from ogging, jargon from the computer game Netrek, which came to mean doing something forcefully, possibly without consideration of the drain on future resources.

Everybody understands what we mean when we talk about playing a game, and we can even clearly identify and correct inaccurate uses of the word, all without reference to any definition that consists of necessary and sufficient conditions for the application of the concept of a game.

For example, " woman, without her man, is nothing " ( emphasizing the importance of men ) and " woman: without her, man is nothing " ( emphasizing the importance of women ) have greatly different meanings, as do " eats shoots and leaves " ( to mean " consumes plant growths ") and " eats, shoots and leaves " ( to mean " eats firstly, fires a weapon secondly, and leaves the scene thirdly ").

In the domain of simulations, the term means that the simulation's clock runs as fast as a real clock would ; and in the domain of data transfer, media processing and enterprise systems, the term is used to mean ' without perceivable delay '.

A dominant male must stay in his territory to defend it, which can mean months without eating, living on his store of blubber.

#: The sphere is the only imbedded surface without boundary or singularities with constant positive mean curvature.

In conjunction with modern logistic systems ( where the SP gun's systems can track and report on ammunition consumption and levels ) with similar navigation systems and palletized load dropping / lifting capabilities mean that the rapid displacement can occur without significant disruption to actually firing missions as it is possible for the ammunition to keep up with the guns.

By extension the term self-determination has come to mean the free choice of one's own acts without external compulsion.