The word distance is used here in a rather general sense ; ;

In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.

In more general sense, each column is treated as a polynomial over GF ( 2 < sup > 8 </ sup >) and is then multiplied modulo x < sup > 4 </ sup >+ 1 with a fixed polynomial c ( x ) = 0x03 · x < sup > 3 </ sup > + x < sup > 2 </ sup > + x + 0x02.

A large part of mythology is based upon a belief in souls and spirits — that is, upon animism in its more general sense.

He compares this to the work of the historian Thucydides, who found it difficult recording speeches verbatim but instead had the speakers say what he felt was appropriate for them to say on the occasion while adhering as much as possible to the general sense.

In the general sense, frequency ranges can be emphasized or attenuated using low-pass, high-pass, band-pass or band-stop filters.

Artillery may also refer to a system of applied scientific research relating to the design, manufacture and employment of artillery weapon systems although, in general, the terms ballistics and ordnance are more commonly employed in this sense.

When the Roman Empire turned Christian during the following century, this imagery came to be used in a more metaphysical sense, and removed legal impediments to the development and public use of the Anno Domini dating system, which came into general use during the reign of Charlemagne.

In the general sense, a " brick " is a standard-sized weight-bearing building unit.

* Physical restraint in a more general sense

In the general sense many printers rely on a matrix of pixels, or dots, that together form the larger image.

In a general sense, anything that increases the rate of a process is a " catalyst ", a term derived from Greek καταλύειν, meaning " to annul ," or " to untie ," or " to pick up.

In general topological spaces, however, the different notions of compactness are not necessarily equivalent, and the most useful notion, introduced by Pavel Alexandrov and Pavel Urysohn in 1929, involves the existence of certain finite families of open sets that " cover " the space in the sense that each point of the space must lie in some set contained in the family.

In general topological spaces, however, the different notions of compactness are not equivalent, and the most useful notion of compactness — originally called bicompactness — involves families of open sets that " cover " the space in the sense that each point of the space must lie in some set contained in the family.

In a general sense a control unit ( CU ) is a central ( or sometimes distributed but clearly distinguishable

In the most general sense of the word, a cement is a binder, a substance that sets and hardens independently, and can bind other materials together.

The English noun commonwealth in the sense meaning " public welfare ; general good or advantage " dates from the 15th century.

In contrast, just as postmodernism has so far failed to take root in ethnic Chinese circles as opposed to a general sense of Chinese nationalist moral certainty, much of ethnic Chinese scholarship of Chinese history remains largely modernist or even outright traditionalist in outlook.

In a sense it is more of a research program proposal: part of the research is to find a proper formal statement that is physically reasonable and that can be proved to be true or false ( and that is sufficiently general to be interesting ).

* The strong cosmic censorship hypothesis asserts that, generically, general relativity is a deterministic theory, in the same sense that classical mechanics is a deterministic theory.

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people sustain from one generation to the next.

As a general rule a statistic of N is twice as capable as a level of N-1, where this makes sense.

Education – in the general sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual.

In its most general sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event — whether natural or caused by humans — that generates seismic waves.

It is a court-ordered form of debt enforcement proceedings that applies, in general, to registered commercial entities only.

The argument applies only to digital computers and does not apply to machines in general.

The general theory of specialization applies to trade among individuals, farms, manufacturers, service providers, and economies.

Erasmus applies the general principles of honor and sincerity to the special functions of the Prince, whom he represents throughout as the servant of the people.

In general, the Bancroft rule applies.

Although the details differ greatly, this general sequence applies to all games.

Whereas originally the term Navigation applies to the process of directing a ship to a destination, Navigation research deals with fundamental aspects of navigation in general.

Interestingly, the halting paradox still applies to such machines ; although they determine whether particular Turing machines will halt on particular inputs, they cannot determine, in general, if machines equivalent to themselves will halt.

At present, one of the deepest problems in theoretical physics is harmonizing the theory of general relativity, which describes gravitation, and applies to large-scale structures ( stars, planets, galaxies ), with quantum mechanics, which describes the other three fundamental forces acting on the atomic scale.

* First, classical general relativity breaks down at singularities, and quantum mechanics becomes inconsistent with general relativity in the neighborhood of singularities ( however, no one is certain that classical general relativity applies near singularities in the first place ).

The general form of the gain equation, which applies regardless of the input intensity, derives from the general differential equation for the intensity I as a function of position z in the gain medium:

A similar paradox applies to the vertical resolution in television in general: reducing the bandwidth of the video signal will preserve the vertical resolution, even if the image loses sharpness and is smudged in the horizontal direction.

The general Stokes theorem applies to higher differential forms instead of F.

The principle is typically used to describe closed negative-feedback systems, but applies, in general, to thermodynamically closed and isolated systems in nature, since the second law of thermodynamics ensures that the disequilibrium caused by an instantaneous shock must have a finite half-life.

Software products such as email, calendaring, text chat, wiki, and bookmarking belong to this category, whenever used for group work, whereas the more general term social software applies to systems used outside the workplace, for example, online dating services and social networking sites like Friendster, Twitter and Facebook.

In general, the term packet applies to any message formatted as a packet, while the term datagram is reserved for packets of an " unreliable " service.

Significantly, though, the Scots Vowel Length Rule applies only before voiced fricatives and, whereas Canadian raising is not limited in this fashion ; thus, it may represent a sort of merging of the Scots Vowel Length Rule with the general English rule lengthening vowels before voiced consonants of any sort.

The doctrine of informed consent should be contrasted with the general doctrine of medical consent, which applies to assault or battery.

The same general concept applies all over Indonesia.

Remailing as discussed in this article applies to e-mails intended for particular recipients, not the general public.

This also applies to feedlots, which are specifically developed to a single purpose and are often not able to be used for more general purpose ( mixed ) farming practices.

Although it may seem as if PPP and the law of one price are the same, there is a difference: the law of one price applies to individual commodities whereas PPP applies to the general price level.