As amoebas themselves are polyphyletic and subject to some imprecision in definition, the term " amoeboid " does not provide identification of an organism, and is better understood as description of locomotion.

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.

Russell offered his theory of descriptions in part as a way of defining a proper name, the definition being given by a definite description that " picks out " exactly one individual.

Orwell ’ s description of political speech is extremely similar to the contemporary definition of doublespeak ;

( Form of Content, that Louis Hjelmslev distinguished from Form of Expression ) than how the word " house " may be tied to a certain image of a traditional house ( i. e. the relationship between signifier and signified ) with each term being established in reciprocal determination with the other terms than by an ostensive description or definition: when can we talk about a " house " or a " mansion " or a " shed "?

The concept of libre works arose with Richard Stallman ’ s description of free software in 1985 and was codified in the 1986 free software definition.

In the vacuum cleaner analogy, one might have a vacuum cleaner definition with its ports, but now this definition would also include a full description of the machine's internal components and how they connect ( motors, switches, etc.

According to the descriptivist theory of meaning, there is a description of the sense of proper names, and that description, like a definition, picks out the bearer of the name.

The intension of a general term is basically a description of what all dogs have in common ; it's what the definition expresses.

The algorithm for deciding this is conceptually simple: it constructs ( the description of ) a new program t taking an argument n which ( 1 ) first executes program a on input i ( both a and i being hard-coded into the definition of t ), and ( 2 ) then returns the square of n. If a ( i ) runs forever, then t will never get to step ( 2 ), regardless of n. Then clearly, t is a function for computing squares if and only if step ( 1 ) terminates.

One way is by intensional definition, using a rule or semantic description:

Mathematical description of the surface area is considerably more involved than the definition of arc length or polyhedra ( objects with flat polygonal faces ) the surface area is the sum of the areas of its faces.

( 1998 ) Toward a humanistic-phenomenological spirituality: definition, description and measurement.

The ' definition ' of a taxon is encapsulated by its description.

Kolmogrov's definition of a random string was that it is random if has no description shorter than itself via a universal Turing machine.

See real property for a definition and estate agent for a description of the practice in the UK.

Later critics have attempted to revise the definition of the term as a description of poetic style, thereby including some new names or excluding some old ones.

If dictionaries were logico-mathematical texts, then so-called circular definition would amount to infinite regress, where one of the steps involved in running the procedure is to run the procedure ; and, in the context of explanation ( as opposed to description in the form of dictionary definition ), this would be a vicious infinite regress.

The first chapters of this section concern definition and description, the notions of subject and predicate, the meaning of terms like whole, being and so on.

Several university programs use this description as the working definition of ecotourism.

This preprocessor takes the description of the semantics of a language ( i. e. an interpreter ) and, by combining compile-time interpretation and code generation, turns that definition into a compiler to the OCaml programming language — and from that language, either to bytecode or to native code.

But the highroad, according to the description of its traffic, belongs to life as it is lived in unawareness of death, while the way to the churchyard belongs to some other sort of life: a suffering form, an existence wholly comprised in the awareness of death.

We divided the country into five regions plus Hawaii and Alaska and in each is included a general description of the area plus specific recommendations of places and events to cover.

A typical `` sonogram '' of a human eye, together with a description of the anatomical parts, is shown in Fig. 5.

Freeman, Cameron and McGhie, in their description of the disturbances of thinking found in chronic schizophrenic patients, say, in regard to condensation, that `` the lack of adequate discrimination between the self and the environment, and the objects contained therein in itself is the prototypical condensation ''.

Finally, information is retrieved from the dictionary as required by stages of the translation process -- the grammatical description for sentence-structure determination, equivalent-choice information for semantic analysis, and target-language equivalents for output construction.

This is a penetrating description of our post-war illusion, which applied to other areas than East Europe.

It is not positivism which has isolated metaphysics from reality by distinguishing between description and prescription.

What follows is therefore a description of three separate undertakings, the new frescoing of the gap, and the successive essays in conservation, with some discussion of problems that arose in connection with each.

A full description of the DIOCS, DTF, and DUF statements is contained in the 7070 Data Processing System Bulletin `` IBM 7070 Input/Output Control System '', form Aj.

There is a complete synonymy at the beginning of each species description.

References are given at the end of each mineral description and a general index is given at the end of each volume.

A Yankee sergeant gave the following description of his sweetheart: `` my girl is none of your one-horse girls.

`` This is a long picture and a controversial one, but basically it is a moral, enthralling and heartbreaking description of humans who have become unlinked from life as perhaps Rome has from her traditional political, cultural and religious glories ''.

That is almost a perfect description of the predicament in which we find ourselves today, isn't it??

Field Marshal Slim is striking in description, amusing in many anecdotes.

Claude Jannequin's vocal description of a battle ( the French equivalents of tarantara, rum-tum-tum, and boom-boom-boom are very picturesque ) is lots of fun, and the singers get a sense of grace and shape into other chansons by Jannequin and Lassus.

This is an exact description of what Mr. Sansom does.

Holtorf ’ s description of the archaeologist as a detective is very similar to Christie ’ s Poirot who is hugely observant and is very careful to look at the small details as they often impart the most information.

The novel is most noted for its careful description of the dig site and house, which showed the author had spent much of her own time in very similar situations herself.

In The Plague, a key description of Oran occurs early, when it is explained that the town is built in such a way that it " turns its back on the bay, with the result that it's impossible to see the sea, you always have to go to look for it.