The difference between rugby and gridiron-based codes is that in rugby, the ball must be touched to the ground in the in-goal area to count as a try ( the rugby equivalent of a touchdown ), whereas in the gridiron-based games, simply possessing the ball while it is in the end zone is sufficient to count it as a touchdown.

Thus, " earl " and " earldom " were taken as equivalent to the continental use of " count " and " county ".

There exists some argument among historians as to whether Rollo was a " duke " ( dux ) or whether his position was equivalent to that of a " count " under Charlemagne.

The post-medieval rank of gefürsteter Graf ( princely count ) embraced but elevated the German equivalent of the intermediate French, English and Spanish nobles.

In later medieval Britain, it became the equivalent of the continental count ( in England in the earlier period, it was more akin to duke ; in Scotland it assimilated the concept of mormaer ).

* in Vietnam's Annamite realm / empire, hau ( Hán tự: 侯 ) was a senior title of hereditary nobility, equivalent to marquis, for male members of the imperial clan, ranking under vuong ( king ), quoc-cong ( grand duke ), quan-cong ( duke ) and cong ( prince, but here under duke, rather like a German Fürst ), and above ba ( count ), tu ( viscount ), nam ( baron ) and vinh phong ( no equivalent ).

Since there was no feminine Old English or Old Norse equivalent for the term, " Countess " is used ( an Earl is analogous to the Continental count ), from the Latin comes.

is a member of the European nobility whose comital title ranks usually, as in the British peerage, above a baron, below an earl ( in the United Kingdom ) or a count ( the earl's continental equivalent ).

In families introduced after 1809 only the head of the family is called count, the rest had a status similar to barons and were called by the equivalent of Mr / Ms / Mrs, before the use of titles was abolished.

The etymological heir of the margrave, also introduced in countries that never had any margraviates, the marquess ( see that article ; their languages may use one or two words, e. g. French margrave and marquis ), still ranks in the British peerage between duke and earl ( equivalent to a continental count ).

It thus implies the exercise of a quasi-royal prerogative within a county, that is to say a jurisdiction ruled by an earl, the English equivalent of a count.

In the English language, the title is equivalent to count, a rank in several European nobilities.

The subscriber count reached 2. 7 billion by end of 2006 according to Informa, and 3. 3 billion by November, 2007, thus reaching an equivalent of over half the planet's population.

The equivalent full charge ( EFC ) count is suggested to be approximately 7, 500 ; however, during fire and practice, has yielded only around 1, 500 EFCs.

In October 2011, several bots created 80, 000 articles ( then equivalent to 10 % of the entire edition's article count ) in only 11 days.

Thus, goals scored in Serie A, the top Italian football league, will count for more than those scored in the weaker Welsh Premier League, its Welsh equivalent.

This allows a higher horizontal and vertical resolution ( at the expense of diagonal resolution ) to be achieved than a traditional sensor of an equivalent pixel count.

He then counts, starting from himself and going counter-clockwise, until he reaches the number equivalent to the card, where Aces count as one, Jacks as 11, Queens as 12, and Kings as 13.

As it was the custom of that alert colony to take over the property of persons asking for protection, this was an act roughly equivalent to throwing open the door to a pack of wolves and saying `` Come and get it ''.

For a while there was such shrill girlish commotion I couldn't have made myself heard if I'd had the equivalent of the message to Garcia.

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

This was equivalent to 240 mg/lBOD on a 24-hr. basis.

Exports from producing countries in terms of equivalent oil were a little more than 1 million tons, about half of which was palm kernels or oil from them and about half was palm oil.

In addition, disclosures that missile workers were earning sums far in excess of what is paid for equivalent work elsewhere provoked his indignation on behalf of the American taxpayer who was footing the bill.

Feeling protective toward this sleeping being, Henrietta found a yesterday bun and milk in a white jug, a breakfast which was somewhat the equivalent of going barefoot.

Only after 1915, with the suggestion and evidence that this Z number was also the nuclear charge and a physical characteristic of atoms, did the word and its English equivalent atomic number come into common use.

Some were the equivalent of Paneloux and thought that France was to blame for the calamity that had befallen it.

Jean-Robert Argand introduced the term " module " ' unit of measure ' in French in 1806 specifically for the complex absolute value and it was borrowed into English in 1866 as the Latin equivalent " modulus ".

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

The figure was equivalent to just over 2 percent of Armenia ’ s overall foreign trade.

On the scale he used, the boiling-point of water was marked at + 73 and the melting-point of ice at 51, so that the zero of his scale was equivalent to about − 240 on the Celsius scale.

After James Prescott Joule had determined the mechanical equivalent of heat, Lord Kelvin approached the question from an entirely different point of view, and in 1848 devised a scale of absolute temperature which was independent of the properties of any particular substance and was based solely on the fundamental laws of thermodynamics.

His steel enterprises were bought out at a figure equivalent to 12 times their annual earnings —$ 480 million ( presently, $) which at the time was the largest ever personal commercial transaction.

Later it was discovered by an enterprising hacker that the required code was actually in the Applesoft ROM ( though it was never executed ) and could be called there instead: CALL-3288 or ( equivalent ) 62248.

This topic was further developed in the 1930s by Alonso Church and Alan Turing, who on the one hand gave two independent but equivalent definitions of computability, and on the other gave concrete examples for undecidable questions.

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.

During the 20th century Italian universities introduced more advanced research degrees, such as the Ph. D., and now that it is part of the E. U. Bologna Process, a new three-year first degree, or “ laurea ” ( equivalent to a B. A.

London gin-London gin is obtained exclusively from ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin with a maximum methanol content of 5 grams per hectolitre of 100 % ABV equivalent, whose flavour is introduced exclusively through the re-distillation in traditional stills of ethyl alcohol in the presence of all the natural plant materials used, the resultant distillate of which is at least 70 % ABV.

Entrance examinations equivalent to the School Leaving Certificate were introduced and average ages of entry rose to 17 or 18.

It was introduced by Legendre and Bessel who solved problems for geodesics on the ellipsoid by transforming them to an equivalent problem for spherical geodesics by using this smaller latitude.

In this case, the XML counterpart would be the specific empty tag, equivalent to the SGML NET-enabling start-tag, introduced in the TC2 ( International Standard ISO 8879: 1986, Technical Corrigendum 2, November 1999 ).

The SPITBOL implementation also introduced a number of features which, while not using traditional structured programming keywords, nevertheless can be used to provide many of the equivalent capabilities normally thought of as " structured programming ", most notably nested if / then / else type constructs.

In the process he introduced the magnetic vector potential which was later shown to be equivalent to the underlying mechanism proposed by Faraday.

Allowing for demolitions, 1. 3 million new homes were built between 1965 and 1970, To encourage home ownership, the government introduced the Option Mortgage Scheme ( 1968 ), which made low-income housebuyers eligible for subsidies ( equivalent to tax relief on mortgage interest payments ).

That same year, national insurance benefits were increased by 13 %, which brought pensions as a proportion of average earnings “ up to a value equivalent to the previous high, which was reached in 1965 as a result of Labour legislation .” In order to maintain the real value of these benefits in the long term, the government introduced legislation which linked future increases in pensions to higher incomes or wages.

The real line carries a standard topology which can be introduced in two different, equivalent ways.

The name " Otago " is an old southern Maori word whose North Island dialect equivalent is " Otakou ", introduced to the south by Europeans in the 1840s.

To encourage home ownership, the government introduced the Option Mortgage Scheme ( 1968 ), which made low-income house buyers eligible for subsidies ( equivalent to tax relief on mortgage interest payments ).

Bratz Kidz, the " kid " equivalent of the teenaged Bratz dolls, were introduced in 2006.

DNA fingerprinting revealed that it is genetically equivalent to the Croatian grape Crljenak Kaštelanski, and also the Primitivo variety traditionally grown in Puglia ( the " heel " of Italy ), where it was introduced in the 18th century.

50 tenge were later introduced in 1997, followed by 100 tenge in 2002 replacing the equivalent notes.

This conjecture introduced the key idea of bounding various quadratic functions of the coefficients rather than the coefficients themselves, which is equivalent to bounding norms of elements in certain Hilbert spaces of schlicht functions.

In 1968 and 1969 decimal coins which had precise equivalent values in the old currency ( 5p, 10p, 50p ) were introduced, while decimal coins with no precise equivalent ( ½p, 1p, 2p ) were introduced on 15 February 1971.