More generally, one curve is a curvilinear asymptote of another ( as opposed to a linear asymptote ) if the distance between the two curves tends to zero as they tend to infinity, although usually the term asymptote by itself is reserved for linear asymptotes.

More than 40 million farmers have been displaced from their land, usually for economic development, contributing to 87, 000 demonstrations and riots across China in 2005.

More specifically the temporal aspects usually include valid-time and transaction-time.

More broadly the term is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation ; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy, as in semiotics ; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern culture, in the general sense of symbol — i. e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities: one thing, an image or depiction, that represents something else of greater significance through literal or figurative meaning, usually associated with religious, cultural, political, or economic standing.

More exotic materials usually only seen on art or ceremonial knives include: Stone, bone, mammoth tooth, mammoth ivory, oosik ( walrus penis bone ), walrus tusk, antler ( often called stag in a knife context ), sheep horn, buffalo horn, teeth, mop ( mother of pearl or " pearl ") etc.

More comparable to the English Fyrd, it was a popular voluntary joining of the local полк polk, or a regiment, though it had no regular established strength or officers, these usually elected from prominent local citizens.

More precisely, the order of magnitude of a number can be defined in terms of the common logarithm, usually as the integer part of the logarithm, obtained by truncation.

More precisely, H is a subgroup of G if the restriction of * to H x H is a group operation on H. This is usually represented notationally by H ≤ G, read as " H is a subgroup of G ".

More specifically, the term " mass " is often used when the lesion has a maximal diameter of at least 20 millimeters ( mm ) in greatest direction, while the term " nodule " is usually used when the size of the lesion is less than 20 mm in its greatest dimension ( 25. 4 mm

More often, the result included a substantial amount of syndicated programming, usually consisting of old movies, independently produced and syndicated shows, and reruns of network programs.

More events of defenestration have occurred in Prague during its history, but they are not usually called defenestrations of Prague.

More recent studies using more sophisticated methodologies have generally refuted these findings: density, land use and public transport accessibility can influence travel behaviour, although social and economic factors, particularly household income, usually exert a stronger influence.

" More accurately, such recordings are made from a film's music track, because they usually consist of the isolated music from a film, not the composite ( sound ) track with dialogue and sound effects.

More complex box models are usually solved using numerical techniques.

More complex systems for championship playoffs involving four or more wrestlers also exist, but these are usually only seen in determining the winner of one of the lower divisions.

More inclusively, golden age hip hop is a phrase usually framing the late 1980s in mainstream hip hop, said to be characterized by its diversity, quality, innovation and influence, and associated with Public Enemy, KRS-One and his Boogie Down Productions, Eric B.

More precisely, a PCI component requests bus ownership from the PCI bus controller ( usually the southbridge in a modern PC design ), which will arbitrate if several devices request bus ownership simultaneously, since there can only be one bus master at one time.

More specialized species exhibit a greater variety of case size, shape, and composition, usually narrowing on both ends.

More often, individuals will complain of nausea, abdominal pain, and frequent watery and usually foul-smelling diarrhea accompanied by mucus and blood, rectal pain, and fever.

More and more PACS include web-based interfaces to utilize the internet or a Wide Area Network as their means of communication, usually via VPN ( Virtual Private Network ) or SSL ( Secure Sockets Layer ).

More rarely it describes the highest male solo voice type ( usually designated countertenor ), and it is also the root word of contralto, the lowest standard female voice type.

More recently, in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the crew is sometimes seen playing five-card stud, often an officer's game hosted by Commander William Riker and usually entered by Data ( as part of his efforts to become more human ), Worf, Geordi LaForge, Dr Beverley Crusher, Deanna Troi and occasionally by other crewmembers.

( More precisely, optimal rules usually react to changes in the output gap, rather than changes in output per se.

More rarely, some systems support having the extra bit of color depth on the red or blue channel, usually in applications where that color is more prevalent ( photographing of skin tones or skies, for example ).

More complex techniques, usually involving chemicals, can be applied in specialist laboratories to appropriate articles removed from a crime scene.

More common were instruments with split sharps, also designed to accommodate the tuning systems of the time.

More than 200 scores have already been written for kora solo or kora and Western instruments.

More than 100 instruments, including approximately 50 historical viola da gambas in playable condition, are the property of this new concept of museum: the Orpheon Foundation Museum of Historical Instruments.

More recently, film critic Dennis Schwartz gave the film a mixed review, writing, " The gallows humor was the melodramatic farce's saving grace ; the film uses its razor-sharp instruments to cut into the hides of the insensitive institutionalized health care providers like Michael Moore's Sicko does in 2007 to the fat-cat HMOs.

More traditional Finnish instruments include the kantele, which is a chordophone, and was used in the Kalevala by the hero Väinämöinen.

More primitive instruments like the jouhikko ( a bowed lyre ) and the säkkipilli ( Finnish bagpipe ) had fallen into disuse, but are now finding new popularity in a folk revival.

More modern merengues incorporate electric instruments and influences from salsa, and rock and roll.

* More works by César Franck performed on virtual instruments

More clarinets were gradually added and brass instruments were further developed.

More recent advances have included smaller and more refined instruments for use in the eye, the injection of various medications at the time of surgery to manipulate a detached retina into its proper position and mark the location of tissue layers to allow their removal, and for long term protection against scar tissue formation.

More recently imported folk percussion instruments include the conga and bongo from Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Cuba, and the tambourine.

More modern performers Safet Isović, Himzo Polovina, Zaim Imamović and Hanka Paldum have used non-native instruments, including the accordion, clarinet, violin and guitar.

More modern style instruments are often used in the more modern dance music that was an offshoot of traditional village music.

More than half of the instruments seen in surviving early vihuela / viola iconography have such cuts.

More generally, rates on a long-term instrument are equal to the geometric mean of the yield on a series of short-term instruments.

* More information on early keyboard instruments

More instruments were made with occasional student help.

" More skilled bands can have people with high levels of musical talent playing unusual instruments.

More rarely, other wind or brass instruments such as flute, clarinet or tuba may be added.

More exotic instruments such as harpsichord, xylophone or sitar may also be heard.

More recently, the theatre has concentrated on revivals of musicals which feature cast members playing 2 or more instruments over the course of the play.

Diamond Rio has been one of few self-contained country bands to have followed the " rock band " route, each member playing their own instruments and singing their own vocals on all their albums themselves without any additional input from outside musicians ; starting with the One More Day album, however, some of their songs have occasionally featured accompaniment from a string section, but the actual band members still perform their own parts nonetheless.

: More focused on the instruments and music of the Bayaka, beautiful and melodic.

More recently, some cardiac surgeons have been performing aortic valve replacement procedures using an approach referred to as minimally invasive cardiac surgery ( MICS ), in which the surgeon replaces the valve through small incisions between two to four inches in length using specialized surgical instruments rather than by cutting a six to ten-inch incision down the center of the sternum.