Speckle is the chief limitation of coherent imaging in optical heterodyne detection.

A locking differential is designed to overcome the chief limitation of a standard open differential by essentially " locking " both wheels on an axle together as if on a common shaft.

Marshal Sergei Biryuzov, chief of the Soviet Rocket Forces, led a survey team that visited Cuba.

He planned to dig a canal through the Isthmus in Greece and sent a chief centurion to survey the work.

As chief engineer, he performed much of the land survey work to determine the best possible route for the railroad over the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Judah undertook to survey and plan a way through what was one of the chief obstacles of a central route to California: a way over the high and rugged Sierra Nevada mountains.

In 2011, The New York Times ranked Fudan University as the 34th universities in the world according to a survey of chief executives and chairmen of leading companies, and the second in Asia.

Although he was never made chief librarian, he was responsible for producing a bibliographic survey based upon the contents of the Library.

In 1866 the chief engineer for the Grand River Valley Railroad began a survey for a route from Jackson to Grand Rapids.

Mae Hong Son historical records state that in the year 1831, which corresponds to the reign of King Nangklao ( Rama III ) of the Rattanakosin Period, in the mueang of Phing Nakhon ( เม ื องพ ิ งค ์ นคร ) known today as Chiang Mai, in the lands of the Kingdom of Lannathai, was Phraya Chiang Mai Mahawong ( พระยาเช ี ยงใหม ่ มหาวงศ ์), who was later to ascend to the rank of Phra Chao Mahottraprathet Racha Thibodi ( พระเจ ้ ามโหตรประเทศราชาธ ิ บด ี), who knew that to the west of Chiang Mai, which meant the lands of today's Mae Hong Son, was a geography of tall mountains and dense forests inhabited by a myriad of forest creatures of which wild elephants in particular were in great abundance, and thus ordered Lord Kaeo, who was a relative of his and a local military chief and governor, to herd these elephants out into the custody of mahouts, to survey the feasibility of this task on such western frontierlands and to be of further service in the capturing of the elephants so that they might be trained for labour thereafter.

Joseph was Andrew's chief assistant during the latter part of the survey.

Thus the interdisciplinary subject of sociology was developed into the science of “ man ’ s interaction with a natural environment: the basic technique was the regional survey, and the improvement of town planning the chief practical application of sociology.

Born in Nottingham, Sandby joined the topographical drawing room of the Board of Ordnance at the Tower of London in the early 1740s and in 1747 was tasked as chief draughtsman with mapping the remote Scottish Highlands-a " compleat and accurate survey of Scotland ".

In 1876 Chamberlin became chief geologist for the Wisconsin geological survey, supervising the completion of the survey and the publication of the four-volume report, for which he authored sections on glacial deposits, Paleozoic and Precambrian bedrock geology, lead-zinc ore deposits, artesian wells, and soils.

The decision to complete the railway through to Boden sparked interest in Norrbotten among the members of the Swedish General Staff, and the chief, Axel Rappe, conducted a survey trip to the region in 1887.

The chief Surveyor Scrivener occupied Acton Homestead at an early stage during his survey of the capital site.

Robert Mylne was named as chief engineer on the project, and appears to have made the initial survey and given evidence to parliament in support of the bill.

For purposes of the survey, the state was divided into four districts and Hall became assistant geologist for Ebenezer Emmons, chief of the Second District.

At the time of the Domesday survey the chief lay-tenant in Northamptonshire was Robert, earl of Mortain, whose fief escheated to the crown in 1106.

Discovered on aerial flights by the United States Antarctic Service in 1940, and named for Richard S. Moulton, chief dog driver at West Base and a member of the survey party which sledged to the western end of the Flood Range in December 1940.

He was then appointed palaeontologist to the survey and gave his chief attention to the Palaeozoic fossils, spending much time in Wales and the border counties.

Shibazaki was promoted to Kaigun Taii in 1921, and after taking courses in navigation, was assigned as chief navigator to Tachikaze, oiler Kamoi and survey ship Musashi.

He moved to the geodetic survey in 1912, and at the time of his death was chief engineering clerk for the survey.

Byrd's account of the journey to survey the contentious border with his chief surveyor William Mayo included such nuggets as the derivation of the name of " Matrimony Creek ," so named because of its ' brawling ' waters.

A chief characteristic of experience in the mode of causal efficacy is one of derivation from the past.

Finally, in The Maltese Falcon among others, the clash between detective and police is carried to its logical conclusion: Sam Spade becomes the chief murder suspect.

His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.

Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.

It is the chief merit in Copernicus' work that all his planetary calculations are interdependent.

Mr. Stavropoulos is the U.N. legal chief and a very good man, but he is not fully versed on some technical points of American law ''.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Next to it is a copper section, with cooking utensils and a figure of the chief cook in an elaborate, floor-length robe.

The chief experience is the sensing of communion, and in the higher religions, of a harmonious relationship with the supernatural power.

As Loomis remarks, `` In the internal pattern the chief reason for interacting is to communicate liking, friendship, and love among those who stand in supporting relations to one another and corresponding negative sentiments to those who stand in antagonistic relations ''.

`` Unfortunately '', says Chief Postal Inspector David H. Stephens, who has prosecuted many device quacks, `` the ghouls who trade on the hopes of the desperately ill often cannot be successfully prosecuted because the patients who are the chief witnesses die before the case is called up in court ''.

This serious condition, popularly known as pyorrhea, is one of the chief causes of tooth loss in adults.

One of the chief features of this community of interest is the automotive patents cross-licensing agreement, a milestone in the development of American industrial cooperation.

Jerome Leavitt, a partner in the Union Liquor company, 3247 S. Kedzie Av., Dominic Senese, a teamster union slugger who is a buddy of Stein and a cousin of Tony Accardo, onetime gang chief ; ;

They know it is the chief ingredient in gallstones.

Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.

His chief motivation for enrolling at Hanford is the desire to '' --

The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι-– arkhi-(" chief ") and πέλαγος – pélagos (" sea ") through the Italian arcipelago.

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

Odin is the chief of Asagarth.

In 1541, he received Bayreuth as his share of the family lands, but, as the chief town of his principality was Kulmbach, he is sometimes referred to as the Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.

His chief work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri v de Gestis Francorum, which deals with the history of the Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the middle of the twelfth century.

) where each of them is declared to be the chief in some quality, Ānanda is mentioned five times ( more often than any other ).