Billy Budd's physical attractiveness is described in quasi-feminine terms: " As the Handsome Sailor, Billy Budd's position aboard the seventy-four was something analogous to that of a rustic beauty transplanted from the provinces and brought into competition with the highborn dames of the court.

Darwin described natural selection as being analogous to the artificial selection practised by animal breeders, and emphasised competition between individuals ; Wallace drew no comparison to selective breeding, and focused on ecological pressures that kept different varieties adapted to local conditions.

Two metals in electrical contact share the same electrons, so that the " tug-of-war " at each surface is analogous to competition for free electrons between the two materials.

On remand the district court, per the Supreme Court's ruling, dismissed Twentieth Century Fox's Lanham Act claims as well as analogous California state law unfair competition claims.

Thus the Project Super Nova competition was created to select the next-generation advanced variable fighter ( analogous to the 20th century Advanced Tactical Fighter competition ).

The competition between the two chat shows was analogous to similar competition in a previous decade between Byrne and Kenny.

The same two teams originally contested the Ryder Cup, but unlike that competition, the Curtis Cup has not widened the Great Britain and Ireland team to include all Europeans ( nor has the analogous event for amateur men, the Walker Cup ).

This led to americium being located right below its twin lanthanide element europium ; it was thus by analogy named after another continent, America: " The name americium ( after the Americas ) and the symbol Am are suggested for the element on the basis of its position as the sixth member of the actinide rare-earth series, analogous to europium, Eu, of the lanthanide series.

An analog or analogue signal is any continuous signal for which the time varying feature ( variable ) of the signal is a representation of some other time varying quantity, i. e., analogous to another time varying signal.

" Hall of the Slain " i. e. " the Chosen Ones ") This heavenly abode, somewhat analogous to the Greek Elysium, is reserved for those brave warriors who die heroically in battle.

* Despite its heritage, Applesoft lacked commands common to most other Microsoft BASIC interpreters, such as INSTR ( which searched for a substring in a given string ; this had to be done manually with loops and the MID $ function ), PRINT USING ( which formatted numbers with commas and currency signs according to a format string ), and INKEY $ ( which checked for a keypress without stopping the program as Applesoft's GET command — analogous to the INPUT $ function — did, although a PEEK location did provide this functionality ).

In 2008, psychology professor Benny Shanon published a controversial hypothesis that a brew analogous to Ayahuasca was heavily connected to early Judaism, and that the effects of this brew were responsible for some of the most significant events of Moses ' life, including his vision of the burning bush.

Each tip of the " Y " of an antibody contains a paratope ( a structure analogous to a lock ) that is specific for one particular epitope ( similarly analogous to a key ) on an antigen, allowing these two structures to bind together with precision.

Though the anthem of the Church of England is analogous to the motet of the Roman Catholic and Lutheran Churches, both being written for a trained choir and not for the congregation, it is as a musical form essentially English in its origin and development.

This calculation also includes an allowance for light-time correction, and is therefore analogous to the concept of planetary aberration.

While some argued for the seat of government to move to Berlin, others advocated leaving it in Bonn — a situation roughly analogous to that of the Netherlands, where Amsterdam is the capital but The Hague is the seat of government.

This generalizes an analogous fact for normal operators.

An analogous relationship for the spherical Bessel functions follows immediately:

Historically, cryptography was split into a dichotomy of codes and ciphers ; and coding had its own terminology, analogous to that for ciphers: " encoding, codetext, decoding " and so on.

One of the reasons often given for opposing any form of cultural imperialism, voluntary or otherwise, is the preservation of cultural diversity, a goal seen by some as analogous to the preservation of ecological diversity.

This use is analogous to the use of parentheses in English, for example in the phrase " congress ( wo ) man.

These were lists, prepared by collating observations on the actions of substances one upon another, showing the varying degrees of affinity exhibited by analogous bodies for different reagents, and they retained their vogue for the rest of the century, until displaced by the profounder conceptions introduced by Claude Berthollet.

These decurions, analogous to city councilors, were responsible for paying from their own pocket what they failed to collect.

In its mathematical form it is analogous to the description of a physical wave, but its " crests " and " troughs " indicate levels of probability for the occurrence of certain phenomena ( e. g., a spark of light at a certain point on a detector screen ) that can be observed in the macro world of ordinary human experience.

The best-known FFT algorithms depend upon the factorization of N, but there are FFTs with O ( N log N ) complexity for all N, even for prime N. Many FFT algorithms only depend on the fact that is an th primitive root of unity, and thus can be applied to analogous transforms over any finite field, such as number-theoretic transforms.

This is analogous to the slash notation (/ a /, / b /) used for phonemes, and the square bracket notation used for phonetic transcriptions (, ).

The term bespoke in fashion is reserved for individually patterned and crafted men's clothing, analogous to women's haute couture, in contrast with mass manufactured ready-to-wear ( also called off-the-peg or off-the-rack ).

The U. S. Secretary of State is analogous to the foreign minister of other nations and is the official charged with state-to-state diplomacy, although the president has ultimate authority over foreign policy ; that policy includes defining the national interest, as well as the strategies chosen both to safeguard that and to achieve its policy goals.

" Rising concern about the " environmental crisis " is sweeping the nation's campuses with an intensity that may be on its way to eclipsing student discontent over the war in Vietnam ... a national day of observance of environmental problems, analogous to the mass demonstrations on Vietnam, is being planned for next spring, when a nationwide environmental ' teach-in '... coordinated from the office of Senator Gaylord Nelson is planned ...."

This is analogous to the social democratic parties of the Second International during the First World War, when they supported their national governments in prosecution of the war.

In an analogous way to the Governor-General of Australia at the national level, the Governor performs constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level.

* Maria Clara, from the novel Noli me Tangere by national hero José Rizal — refers to the idealised Filipina ( analogous to the Japanese Yamato nadeshiko ).

Reform Democrats in the United States are members of the Democratic Party who are opposed to the Democratic political machines of their respective cities, counties, or states or to analogous machine politics at a national level.

Wallerstein thus perceives formal empire as performing a function that was analogous to that of the mercantilist drives of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England and France ; consequently, the expansion of the Industrial Revolution contributed to the emergence of an era of aggressive national rivalry, leading to the late nineteenth-century scramble for Africa and the acquisition of formal empires.

They had been studying questions involving national self-determination and federative polities with help from academic experts at institutions such as the Eastern Institute ( Instytut Wschodni ) in Warsaw and an analogous one in Vilnius, as well as at an Institute for Study of Nationalities ( Instytut Badań Narodowościowych ) and at several publications.

Eight teams qualify for the Division II ICT, where they compete alongside other D-2 teams in a manner analogous to that of D-1 Undergraduate teams.

In view of the Exquisite series ' success, the company has released 2004 – 05 and 2005 – 06 basketball sets, a 2005 football line, and an analogous 2005 – 06 hockey line called The Cup.

The semifinals and final of the tournament, held at a single site every year, are collectively known as the Women's College Cup ( analogous to the College Cup in men's soccer ).

The Champions Tour has no season-ending championship as such ; although its final event, the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, is a limited-field event analogous to the PGA Tour's Tour Championship, it does not directly determine the championship of the season or even the Charles Schwab Cup points race.

He points out that Shrine 261 is not strictly analogous to the Ark of the Covenant: it can only be said that the Anubis Shrine is " ark-like ", constructed of wood, gilded and gessoed, stored within a sacred tomb, " guarding " the treasury of the tomb ( and not the primary focus of that environment ), that it contains compartments within it that store and hold sacred objects, that it has a figure of Anubis on its lid, and that it was carried by two staves permanently inserted into rings at its base and borne by eight priests in the funerary procession to Tutankhamun's tomb.

The victorious powers divided the city into four sectors, analogous to the occupation zones into which Germany was divided.

The influence of German Expressionism favoured by Itten was analogous in some ways to the fine arts side of the ongoing debate.

Itten was replaced by the Hungarian designer László Moholy-Nagy, who rewrote the Vorkurs with a leaning towards the New Objectivity favored by Gropius, which was analogous in some ways to the applied arts side of the debate.

An analogous decision was published in the Journal officiel in France ( December 2, 1997 ).

Central Committee was the common designation of a standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, whether ruling or non-ruling in the 20th century and of the surviving states in the early 21st century.

This was done by synthesizing a very long DNA molecule containing an entire bacterium genome, and introducing this into another cell, analogous to the accomplishment of Eckard Wimmer's group, who synthesized and ligated an RNA virus genome and " booted " it in cell lysate.

( Additionally, analogous EXPRESS compilers / executors didn't exist when the standard was written, and may not still exist today!

It is analogous to the way a processor caches memory for short term use, but the only implication by this reference was that it was something that a human ( or maybe a Martian ) would do.

The development of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous styles in other media that became known as impressionist music and impressionist literature.

In an appendix, Kepler also discussed the recent chronology work of the Polish historian Laurentius Suslyga ; he calculated that, if Suslyga was correct that accepted timelines were four years behind, then the Star of Bethlehem — analogous to the present new star — would have coincided with the first great conjunction of the earlier 800-year cycle.

The map was popularized in a seminal 1976 paper by the biologist Robert May, in part as a discrete-time demographic model analogous to the logistic equation first created by Pierre François Verhulst.

The meme, analogous to a gene, was conceived as a " unit of culture " ( an idea, belief, pattern of behaviour, etc.

" Memeticist " was coined as analogous to " geneticist " originally in The Selfish Gene.

This was interpreted as analogous to the political birth of the State of California without having gone through the probation period of being a Territory.

At the time Bush saw the current ways of indexing information as limiting and instead proposed a way to store information that was analogous to the mental association of the human brain: storing information with the capability of easy access at a later time using certain cues ( in this case, a series of numbers as a code to retrieve data ).

The term was introduced by Darwin in his influential 1859 book On the Origin of Species, in which natural selection was described as analogous to artificial selection, a process by which animals and plants with traits considered desirable by human breeders are systematically favored for reproduction.

It is also hypothesized that during the Last Glacial Maximum ( LGM ), NADW was replaced with an analogous watermass that occupied a shallower depth known as Glacial North Atlantic Intermediate Water ( GNAIW ).