Plywood is used instead of plain wood because of its resistance to cracking, shrinkage, splitting, and twisting / warping, and its general high degree of strength.

She earned a degree in communications at Berkeley and dated Bruce Banner until his failed attempts at cracking the super soldier problem turned him into the Hulk.

A higher degree of cross-linking could result in brittleness and stress cracking of the material.

What they discuss with dialectical seriousness is the degree to which sex can inspire the Muse.

We can do this through the characteristic values and vectors of T in certain special cases, i.e., when the minimal polynomial for T factors over the scalar field F into a product of distinct monic polynomials of degree 1.

While this influence is a complex matter, depending upon personality factors in the individual as well as upon his social-class experience, there probably are some general statements about social-class background and educational policy that can be made with a fair degree of truth.

This can be done to a high degree of accuracy by existing surveying techniques.

The images can easily be aligned with a high degree of accuracy.

Soil type, drainage, or degree of slope can make the difference between good crops and poor ones.

Students of the college who are candidates for the A.B. degree and can satisfy the academic requirements of the medical and business schools, may enter either of these associated schools at the beginning of senior year, thus completing the two-year postgraduate course in one year.

Practically all of these practical skills are of such a nature that a degree of mastery can be obtained in high school sufficient to enable the youth to get a job at once on the basis of the skill.

Of course, it can be argued that an ability to write English correctly and with some degree of elegance is a marketable skill.

`` How can a man with any degree of common decency charge this ''??

Greek art puts into Apollo the highest degree of power and beauty that can be imagined.

Many alloys of aluminium, copper, magnesium, titanium, and nickel can be strengthened to some degree by some method of heat treatment, but few respond to this to the same degree that steel does.

The latter have a greater degree of anticholinergic and antihistaminergic activity, which can counteract dopamine-related side effects.

The main disadvantage of abstraction is that highly abstract concepts are more difficult to learn, and require a degree of mathematical maturity and experience before they can be assimilated.

The degree of an amplifier's stability can be quantified by a so-called stability factor.

This broad-winged raptor has a wide variety of plumages, and in Europe can be confused with the similar Rough-legged Buzzard ( Buteo lagopus ) and the only distantly related European Honey Buzzard ( Pernis apivorus ), which mimics the Common Buzzard's plumage for a degree of protection from Northern Goshawks.

Bézier curves can be defined for any degree n.

The term can also be applied to some degree to functions in mathematics, referring to the anatomy of curves.

" Even some complex " medical devices " ( see below ) can reasonably be deemed " biotechnology " depending on the degree to which such elements are central to their principle of operation.

This can be either a Masters or Doctoral level degree ; while in certain specialties a Ph. D. is notably more common than in others, it is hardly ever the majority ( except in academia ).

" Bachelor " can also refer to those holding a " bachelor's degree " from a university ( or a four-year college, in the American system of higher education ).

This expression can always be rewritten as a polynomial in n of degree m + 1.

Too, the act of dramatizing real or fictional events injects a degree of falseness or contrived efforts which media savvy people today can identify easily.

Combustion is not necessarily favorable to the maximum degree of oxidation and it can be temperature-dependent.

After only eighteen years of non-interference, there were already indications of melioration, though `` in a slight degree '', to be sure.

In conformance with the maximization principle we affirm that Gentile-Jewish relations will be harmonious or inharmonious to the degree that one relation or the other is expected by the active participants to yield the greatest net advantage, taking all value outcomes and effects into consideration.

In addition, would not the young female public of Washington be afforded a greater degree of protection at night when they are on the streets if they were accompanied by a dog on a leash??

Next September, after receiving a degree from Yale's Master of Arts in Teaching Program, I will be teaching somewhere -- that much is guaranteed by the present shortage of mathematics teachers.

An additional 15 million acres will be given a lesser degree of protection but adequate to meet the average fire situation.

This broad delegation leaves within our discretion ( subject to the always-present criterion of the public interest ) both the determination of what degree of interference shall be considered excessive, and the methods by which such excessive interference shall be avoided.

Because of this, only those with truly fine equipment will be able to appreciate the exact degree of the engineers' triumph.

The continuation and expansion of the shooting development program will assure to some degree that national and community leaders will be made aware of the ever-growing need for shooting facilities and activities for hunting and shooting in answer to public demand.

`` Dearly beloved '', he preached, `` unless you repent of your sins in a measure, and become converted to a degree, you will, I regret to say, be damned to a more or less extent ''.

Second, even if the characteristic polynomial factors completely over F into a product of polynomials of degree 1, there may not be enough characteristic vectors for T to span the space V.

A function G such that Af, i.e., Af, must be a polynomial function of degree Af or less: Af.

In this way a degree of unification of nomenclature, symbols, and units will be realized.

The degree of circumstance, the ratio of memory to forgetfulness, determines whether a dream will be a recognized, fulfilled prevision, or the vaguely, effective source of the weird deja vue feeling.

whether in the last degree or a lesser one was a matter to be determined individually.

This means that such factors as the health of the parents, particularly the mother, their ability to provide their children with the necessities of life, the degree of population density of a country and the shortage of housing facilities may legitimately be taken into consideration in determining the number of offspring.

and allowed little initiative in early play and work patterns -- then in adolescence her normal degree of vanity, sensitivity, and preoccupation with whether others find her appearance and behavior acceptable, will be compounded.

If she has not had such experiences, the female's normal adolescent degree of indecision will be compounded.

The `` moving '' picture of the train or the wave coming at the audience is, to be sure, more intense than a still picture of the same subject, but the difference is really one of degree ; ;

Fortunately the number of pathological bigots appears to be quite small, but it would be a mistake to think that more than a matter of degree separates them from the rest of us.