Modern school textbooks often define separate figures called lines ( infinite ), rays ( semi-infinite ), and line segments ( of finite length ).

Modern historians may be more accurate than the mediæval sources as the modern figures are based on estimates of the logistical ability of the countryside to support these numbers of men and animals.

There is no way to verify the figures reported by Roman historiographers, but if they are taken at face value, the scale of the witch-hunts in the Roman Republic in relation to the population of Italy at the time far exceeded anything that took place during the " classical " witch-craze in Early Modern Europe.

To stage Modern Medicine they raised £ 1, 000 sponsorships from artworld figures including Charles Saatchi.

Modern operant conditioning chambers typically have many operanda, like many response levers, two or more feeders, and a variety of devices capable of generating many stimuli, including lights, sounds, music, figures, and drawings.

On 1 March 2009, a flashmob organised through the Facebook social networking website paid tribute to Hart with around two hundred Morph figures displayed outside the Tate Modern art gallery.

Modern descendants of free love could be seen to include the contemporary sex-positive, polyamory, and queer movements and figures such as Susie Bright, Patrick Califia, and Annie Sprinkle.

Other examples can be found in the strange figures of the 1866 series Kinsei kyōgiden, (“ Biographies of Modern Men ”), which depicted the power struggle between two gambling rings, and the 1867 series Azuma no nishiki ukiyo kōdan.

Modern figurines, particularly those made of plastic, are often referred to as figures.

The Modern Political and Constitutional History Collection comprises some 300, 000 items related to Japan's political and legal modernization in the 19th century, including the original document archives of important Japanese statesmen from the latter half of the 19th century and the early 20th century like Itō Hirobumi, Iwakura Tomomi, Sanjō Sanetomi, Mutsu Munemitsu, Terauchi Masatake, and other influential figures from the Meiji ( 1868 – 1912 ) and Taishō ( 1912 – 1926 ) Periods.

With Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Nicholas Grimshaw, Hopkins was one of the leading figures in the introduction of ' high tech ' Modern architecture into Britain.

Modern scholarship, according to Meir Shahar, has shown that he is based on two figures from Hindu mythology, namely Nalakubar and Krishna.

Metal Toy soldiers were traditionally sold in sets, plastic figures were sold in toy shops individually in Britain and Europe and in large boxed sets in the U. S. Modern, collectable figures are often sold individually.

* The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture ; section " Popular Culture " discusses Russian " narrative jokes ( anekdot ) and chastushkas: ... further " wise fool " figures, such as brave Red Army commander Chapayev, hippies, Cheburashka and Cornet Rzhevsky have replaced Ivan the Fool

Computer Modern supports text figures but is not the default.

Modern sport compacts have faster acceleration and better handling, but the performance figures for the Storm were quite respectable for an economical compact car from that era.

The sign shows that all three come together as one. Modern Pagans use the triquetra to symbolize a variety of concepts and mythological figures.

" The " Makers of Modern Literature " series published criticism and literary histories of major figures in or influences on modern literature.

The architects selected for the project, Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, were leading figures in the Modern Movement.

The son of two literary figures, he was educated at Kelly College at Tavistock in Devon and took a BA Hons degree in Modern History at University College London.

This painting was the catalyst for his series of works known as the Images of Modern Evil, all depicting similar nightlife and exploitation of women figures, or commodification of sex, symbolized in recurring motifs ; sticks or skin-toned blobs with red smiles and single, elaborately styled eyes with curly lashes.

Modern spiritual figures like Ram Dass and Eli Wyld openly acknowledge that the use of cannabis has allowed them to gain a more spiritual perspective and use the herb frequently for both its medicinal and mind-altering properties.

Literary translators into Modern Hebrew, most notably Leah Goldberg among others, also contributed a great deal to Israeli-Hebrew literature through bringing international literature and literary figures into Hebrew circles through translation.

`` To give up these notions required a revolution in thought '', Mr. Clark said in reminiscing about the abrupt changes in ideas he experienced when he began reading `` Organic Gardening '' And `` Modern Nutrition '' in a search for help with his problems.

Modern IFVs are well-armed infantry carriers, differencing from earlier APCs by their heavier armament allowing them to give direct-fire support during an assault.

Modern theories give weight to intuition, perceptually observed properties, comparisons of categories among persons, and the direction of investigation towards known specified ends, to determine what humanity in its present state of being needs to consider irreducible.

Modern societies generally regard crimes as offences against the public or the state, as distinguished from torts ( wrongs against private parties that can give rise to a civil cause of action ).

Modern comprehensive IQ tests no longer give a single score.

As early as 1819, in his famous speech “ On Ancient and Modern Liberty ,” the political philosopher Benjamin Constant, a proponent of constitutional monarchy and representative democracy, criticized Rousseau, or rather his more radical followers ( specifically the Abbé de Mably ), for allegedly believing that " everything should give way to collective will, and that all restrictions on individual rights would be amply compensated by participation in social power .”

The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ( 2005 ), The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ( 2007 ), and The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English ( 2008 ) give a secondary meaning as " any blind, unthinking, unquestioning follower of a philosophy.

( Modern sources give the death toll as 75.

Modern UEA is the result of a decades lasting process of several attempts to give the Esperanto movement a proper organization.

He was perfectly skill'd in the History of Architecture, and could give exact account of all the famous buildings, both Antient ( sic ) and Modern, in every part of the world ; to which his excellent memory, that never fail'd him to the very last, greatly contributed.

Modern styli ( phonograph needles ) and phono cartridges give a very low level output signal of the order of a few millivolts which the circuitry amplifies and equalizes.

Among the issues have been the extent to which Modern Orthodoxy should cooperate with the more liberal denominations, support secular academic pursuits combined with religious learning, and embrace efforts to give women a larger role in Jewish learning and worship ; This view is largely anecdotal, and is based on individual behaviour, as opposed to any formal, institutional position ; see above:

" Modern scholarship however is much more divided about Valentine's actions at the end of the play, with some critics arguing that he does not offer to give Silvia to Proteus at all.

Sunday Reed returned 284 other paintings and drawings to Nolan, but she refused to give up the 25 remaining Kellys, partly because she saw the works as fundamental to the proposed Heide Museum of Modern Art.

Modern sources usually give the date of Henry Willobie's death as 1597x1605.

Modern PC keyboards are essentially a membrane keyboard mechanism covered with an array of dome switches which give positive tactile feedback.

Modern Shichigahama developed as the seven beach settlements that now give the town its name and the village of Shichigahama was officially established in 1889.

Modern " decorator " copies of these may look the same, but are often too lightly constructed to be carried whilst loaded, or may even be simply a single fixed case as per a normal bookcase, but with separate doors to each shelf to give the appearance of a barrister's bookcase.

Modern ( 2006 ) photographs give a flavour of this development.

Modern electronic ballast designs detect cycling and give up attempting to start the lamp after a few cycles.

Modern automatic thrombapheresis allows blood donors to give a portion of their platelets, while keeping their red blood cells and at least a portion of blood plasma.

Modern radars typically give CEPs around 0. 3-0. 4 % of range.

Modern societies generally regard crimes as offenses against the public or the state, distinguished from torts ( offenses against private parties that can give rise to a civil cause of action ).

Modern navigation tools such as GPS report speed over ground and in general will not give the same results as a log when currents are present.