Fasces (, a plurale tantum, from the Latin word fascis, meaning " bundle ") are a bundle of wooden sticks with an axe blade emerging from the center, which is an image that traditionally symbolizes summary power and jurisdiction, and / or " strength through unity ".

In agriculture, a harrow ( often called a set of harrows in a plurale tantum sense ) is an implement for breaking up and smoothing out the surface of the soil.

* " swimmers " is sometimes a plurale tantum for a swimsuit

The Serbian gusle ( pluralia tantum ) has one or two strings and is usually made of maple wood.

A plurale tantum ( Latin for " plural only "; plural form: pluralia tantum ) is a noun that appears only in the plural form and does not have a singular variant for referring to a single object.

In English, some plurale tantum nouns in fact have a singular form, but one that is used only attributively.

The term for a noun which appears only in the singular form is singulare tantum ( plural: singularia tantum ); for example, the English words " information ", " dust ", and " wealth ".

For example, Swedish en sax (" a scissor ") is not a plurale tantum, while in English it is ( scissors ).

An ethic mean is mostly only used as a plurale tantum, and is therefore expressed as ethic means or just means.

It is a plurale tantum ; the singular equivalent, " the power that is ," is less commonly used.

Both in common law and in civil law, a rebuttable presumption ( in Latin, praesumptio iuris tantum ) is an assumption made by a court, one that is taken to be true unless someone comes forward to contest it and prove otherwise.

Regalia is Latin plurale tantum for the privileges and the insignia characteristic of a sovereign.

Breeches uses a plural form to reflect it has two legs ; the word has no singular form ( it is a plurale tantum ).

His Latin style was greatly admired by Erasmus, who also praised Linacre's critical judgment (" vir non exacti tantum sed sever judicii ").

A 10th century codex, Codex Vossianus Latinus Q 69 found by Gino Zaninotto in the Vatican Library contains an 8th-century account saying that an imprint of Christ's whole body was left on a canvas kept in a church in Edessa: it quotes a man called Smera in Constantinople: " King Abgar received a cloth on which one can see not only a face but the whole body " ( in Latin: tantum faciei figuram sed totius corporis figuram cernere poteris ).

*-In " Machina arithmetica in qua non additio tantum et subtracto sed et mutiplicatio nullo, diviso vero paene nullo animi labore peragantur ", written in 1685, Leibniz described an arithmetic machine he had invented that was made by linking two separate machines, one to perform additions / subtractions and one for multiplications / divisions.

In many dialects of English, quantifying a plurale tantum noun requires a measure word, for example " one pair of scissors " instead of " one scissors ".

* Wiktionary list of English pluralia tantum.

* Horace, Satires i. 8. 14-" nunc licet Esquiliis habitare salubribus atque / aggere in aprico spatiari, quo modo tristes / albis informem spectabant ossibus agrum ,/ cum mihi non tantum furesque feraeque suetae / hunc vexare locum curae sunt atque labori / quantum carminibus quae versant atque venenis / humanos animos: has nullo perdere possum / nec prohibere modo, simul ac vaga luna decorum / protulit os, quin ossa legant herbasque nocentis.

The Tatra Mountains, Tatras or Tatra ( Tatry either in Polish and in Slovak-plurale tantum, Tátra in Hungarian ), are a mountain range which forms a natural border between Slovakia and Poland, and are the highest mountain range in the Carpathian Mountains.

There are referred to with the term plurale tantum.

" Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere-quare ; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te.

*( 35 ) Zeriuani, quod tantum est regnum, ut ex eo cuncte genetes Sclauorum exorte sint et originem, sicut affirmant, ducant.

: Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te.

* The text tantum ergo used at Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament has been set to the tune.

: Ut qui servum servamve alienum alienamve quadrupedem vel pecudem iniuria occiderit, quanti id in eo anno plurimi fuit, tantum aes dare domino damnas esto.

: Ceterarum rerum praeter hominem et pecudem occisos si quis alteri damnum faxit, quod usserit fregerit ruperit iniuria, quanti ea res fuit in diebus triginta proximis, tantum aes domino dare damnas esto.

Some words, such as " brain " and " intestine ", can be used as either pluralia tantum or as count nouns.

Pluralia tantum vary arbitrarily between languages.

In some other languages, rather than quantifying a plurale tantum noun with a measure word, special numeral forms are used in such cases.

* Immunitas ab errore tam speculativo quam practico definitionum s. Sedis apostolicae in canonizatione sanctorum, in festorum ecclesiasticorum institutione et in decisione dogmatum, quae in verbo Dei scripto, traditove implicite tantum continentur, aut ex alterutro sufficienter deducuntur, Bologna, 1668 ( Listed in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1669 )

Exceptions are pluralia tantum ( Vianoce-Christmas ) and words that are drifting into other gender and are currently in the neuter ( knieža-Fürst ), and masculine animals that are animate in singular and mostly inanimate in plural.

A new South is emerging after the post-bellum years of hesitation, uncertainty, and lack of action from the Negro in defining his new role in the amorphously defined socio-political organizations of the white man.

A small business is defined as one which is independently owned and operated and which is not dominant in its field.

Field shifts were derived from the mean value of the resonance line, defined as the field about which the first moment is zero.

Dirt, which is here defined as particulate material which is usually inorganic and is very often extremely finely divided so as to exhibit colloidal properties.

The international unit is equipotent with the USP unit adopted in 1952, which was defined as the amount of activity present in 20 mg of the USP reference substance.

The function f{t} defined in this way is multi-valued.

In some neighborhood of an isolated tangent point in the f-plane, say Af, the function Af is either double-valued or has no values defined, except at the tangent point itself, where it is single-valued.

Suppose Af is defined in the sub-interval Af.

Where boundary maintenance describes the boundaries or limits of the group, systemic linkage is defined `` as the process whereby one or more of the elements of at least two social systems is articulated in such a manner that the two systems in some ways and on some occasions may be viewed as a single unit.

The positive Kohnstamm reactivity in Condition 1 ( ( the naive state ) is not adequately explained by such a concept as suggestibility ( if suggestibility is defined as the influence on behavior by verbal cues ).

For example, property `` used in the trade or business '' of a transferor corporation, as defined in section 1231, presumably would not retain its special status following a non-taxable reorganization if it is not so used in the business of the acquiring corporation.

Planes defined as parallel to the surface also cut through it into real space, and a depth is suggested optically which is greater than that established pictorially.

**yc is defined by the geometry of the knife ; ;

The gyro angular momentum is defined by H.

But since this is a world in which people disagree about ends and goals and concerning justice and injustice, and since, in a situation where direct action and economic pressure are called for, the justice of the matter has either not been clearly defined by law or the law is not effectively present, there has to be a morality of means applied in every case in which people take it upon themselves to use economic pressures or other forms of force.

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