Peirce's definition of the term " semiotic " as the study of necessary features of signs also has the effect of distinguishing the discipline from linguistics as the study of contingent features that the world's languages happen to have acquired in the course of human evolution.

NHK has also been an innovator in television, developing the world's first high definition television technology in 1964 and launching high definition services in Japan in 1981.

A group of the world's leading planet formation experts decided on a conference in 2006 on the following definition of a planetesimal:

But luckily the job definition of a Distinguished Engineer is " you're supposed to be the world's leading expert in your field, so you figure out what would be most important for the company for you to work on.

Among the improvements was installation of a $ 10 million video display, which was at the time listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest high definition video board.

A great percentage of the world's population lives in the equatorial regions, but for the most part, these regions do not experience weather as it is understood by this definition.

In 1996, Academy trustees attempted to solve the problem of " compressing 75 % or more of the world's music into a single award category " by broadening the definition of " world music " to include non-Western classical music.

On September 22, 2010, CMS announced a partnership with Panasonic to install the world's largest high definition video board at the track.

It is the world's first USB device that can capture in high definition.

This definition places all of the world's microthermal climates in the Northern Hemisphere, as the absence of broad land masses at upper-middle latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere precludes the existence of such temperature conditions there.

In a sense this understanding is broader than the definition applied within UNESCO, including, as it does, almost the whole of the world's occupied surface, plus almost all the uses, ecologies, interactions, practices, beliefs, concepts, and traditions of people living within cultural landscapes.

Tiger Leaping Gorge is a contender for the world's deepest river canyon, depending on the exact definition used.

On November 2, 1936, they performed live in the inaugural programme of the world's first scheduled ' high definition ' ( 240-line or better ) television service at Alexandra Palace, London, and may thus be said to be the first black artists in television history.

Videotex in its broader definition can be used to refer to any such service, including the Internet, bulletin board systems, online service providers, and even the arrival / departure displays at an airport.

Temporary facilities built on paved airport runways and closed-off public roads ( such as street circuits ) are also usually included in the definition.

Some airlines also extend the definition of " frills " to include standard services and conveniences ; for example, a no-frills airline may charge passengers an additional fee for carrying luggage, using the airport check-in desk, using wheelchairs or even for using the toilet.

At about the age of twelve I became a Spencerian liberal, and I have always considered myself a liberal of some kind even though the definition has changed repeatedly since Spencer became a reactionary.

Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.

It has to, by virtue of the very dictionary definition of the word `` few ''.

Rather than a definition in terms of the force between two current-carrying wires, it has been proposed to define the ampere in terms of the rate of flow of elementary charges.

This wider definition of Anatolia has gained widespread currency outside of Turkey and has, for instance, been adopted by Encyclopedia Britannica and other encyclopedic and general reference publications.

As such, it has to be distinguished from agricultural land, which, according to Food and Agriculture Organization's ( FAO ) definition, additionally includes land under permanent crops as well as permanent pastures.

However, it is the editor who has " the power to impose the dominant definition of the writer and therefore to delimit the population of those entitled to take part in the struggle to define the writer ".

The main advantage is the fine definition of the analog signal which has the potential for an infinite amount of signal resolution.

* Inverses: by definition every isomorphism has an inverse which is also an isomorphism, and since the inverse is also an endomorphism of the same object it is an automorphism.

The power of choice under this definition has the potential for as much harm as it does good, and open theists see free will as the best answer to the problem of evil.

Tylor's definition of animism has since largely been followed by anthropologists, such as Émile Durkheim, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Tim Ingold.

Philosophical aesthetics has not only to speak about art and to produce judgments about art works, but has also to give a definition of what art is.

This " institutional definition of art " ( see also Institutional Critique ) has been championed by George Dickie.

Some Anglicans accept that anointing of the sick has a sacramental character and is therefore a channel of God's grace, seeing it as an " outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace " which is the definition of a sacrament.

In this definition, it is implicitly assumed that storing a value into a variable U has no effect on the state of a distinct variable V. To make this assumption explicit, one could add the constraint that

However, today the definition of the role of conservation has widened and would more accurately be described as that of ethical stewardship.

Based on this definition, the drain efficiency cannot exceed 25 % for a class A amplifier that is supplied drain bias current through resistors ( because RF signal has its zero level at about 50 % of the input DC ).

According to United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization the term bean should include only species of Phaseolus ; however, a strict consensus definition has proven difficult because in the past, several species such as Vigna ( angularis ( azuki bean ), mungo ( black gram ), radiata ( mung bean ), aconitifolia ( moth bean )) were classified as Phaseolus and later reclassified.

In Australia the definition requires that at least some snow has been raised from the ground.

A precise definition for the word has proved elusive.

In retrospect, the definition of chemistry has changed over time, as new discoveries and theories add to the functionality of the science.

The definition is further complicated by the fact that Irish independence has allowed Ireland to promote ' Celtic ' music as a specifically Irish product.

Like other SI base units, the candela has an operational definition — it is defined by a description of a physical process that will produce one candela of luminous intensity.

But contest definition -- that dramatic muscular separation of every muscle group that seems as though it must have been carved by a sculptor's chisel -- is something quite different.

By definition it does not cover problems whose solution are unknown or have not been characterised formally.

More generally, many philosophers and scientists have been unhappy about the difficulty of producing a definition that does not involve circularity or fuzziness.

This definition has since been changed ( see krypton ).

In practice, the above definition is rarely used because in virtually all cases, the curl operator can be applied using some set of curvilinear coordinates, for which simpler representations have been derived.

However, the Russian culture has two distinct terms: Средняя Азия ( Srednjaja Azija or " Middle Asia ", the narrower definition, which includes only those traditionally non-Slavic, Central Asian lands that were incorporated within those borders of historical Russia ) and Центральная Азия ( Central ' naja Azija or " Central Asia ", the wider definition, which includes Central Asian lands that have never been part of historical Russia ).

:" Since a precise mathematical definition of the term effectively calculable ( effectively decidable ) has been wanting, we can take this thesis ... as a definition of it ..."

Legislation in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Nova Scotia expressly or by judicial opinion have been read to allow for what are informally known as national " opt-out " class actions, whereby residents of other provinces may be included in the class definition and potentially be bound by the court's judgment on common issues unless they opt-out in a prescribed manner and time.

According to Bryan Wilson, functionally the definition of a " fellowship " within Christadelphian history has been mutual or unilateral exclusion of groupings of ecclesias from the breaking of bread.

As Martin's definition suggests, the countercult ministries concentrate on non-traditional groups that claim to be Christian, so chief targets have been The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science and the Unification Church, but also smaller groups like the Swedenborgian Church

While there is no universally accepted definition of " democracy ," equality and freedom have both been identified as important characteristics of democracy since ancient times.

Certain rules have traditionally been given for this particular type of definition.

Although this sort of definition involves a form of circularity, it is not vicious, and the definition has been quite successful.

The varieties of Arabic are considerably different from each other-especially those spoken in North Africa ( Maghreb ) from those of the Middle East ( the Mashriq in the broad definition including Egypt and Sudan )-and had there been the political will in the different Arab countries to cut themselves off from each other, the case could have been made to declare these varieties as separate languages.

A modern definition has been created and provided by the World Union of Deists ( WUD ) that provides a modern understanding of deism: