Various definitions of its exact composition exist, and no one definition is universally accepted.

No widely accepted exact definition exists for DBMS.

However, there is no exact, universally agreed, definition of the term " discrete mathematics.

The definition of an extreme sport is not exact and the origin of the term is unclear, but it gained popularity in the 1990s when it was picked up by marketing companies to promote the X Games.

While the exact definition and what is included as extreme sport is debatable, some attempted to make classification for extreme sports.

Authorities disagree on the exact definition of fractal, but most usually elaborate on the basic ideas of self-similarity and an unusual relationship with the space a fractal is embedded in.

An exact definition of how GWP is calculated is to be found in the IPCC's 2001 Third Assessment Report.

There are also a few nations in which the exact title and definition of the office of head of state have been vague.

This definition is not exact because " non-leptonic " may also signify " photonic ".

The exact legal definition of " incest ," including the nature of the relationship between persons, and the types sexual activity, varies by country, and by even individual states or provinces within a country.

The phrase is not a term of art in the law ; it has no exact meaning, nor does it have a legal definition.

In 1964, at the 12th CGPM conference, the original definition was reverted to, and thus the litre was once again defined in exact relation to the metre, as another name for the cubic decimetre, that is, exactly 1 dm < sup > 3 </ sup >.

The exact number of known living languages will vary from 5, 000 to 10, 000, depending generally on the precision of one's definition of " language ", and in particular on how one classifies dialects.

The exact definition of a mineral is under debate, especially with respect to the requirement a valid species be abiogenic, and to a lesser extent with regards to it having an ordered atomic structure.

It is important to note that what exactly constitutes a machine gun, and whether volley guns are a type of machine gun, and to what extent some earlier types of devices are considered to be like machine guns, is a matter of debate in many cases and can vary depending which language and exact definition is used.

A military academy or service academy ( in American English ) is an educational institution which prepares candidates for service in the officer corps of the army, the navy, air force or coast guard, which normally provides education in a service environment, the exact definition depending on the country concerned.

Though the exact definition varies between scholars, natural language can broadly be defined in contrast on the one hand to artificial or constructed languages, such as computer programming languages like Python and international auxiliary languages like Esperanto, and on the other hand to other communication systems in nature, such as the waggle dance of bees.

* The Islamic calendar has retained an observational definition of the new moon, marking the new month when the first crescent moon is actually seen, and making it impossible to be certain in advance of when a specific month will begin ( in particular, the exact date on which Ramadan will begin is not known in advance ).

The exact point of intersection of the Earth's axis and the Earth's surface, at any given moment, is called the " instantaneous pole ", but because of the " wobble " this cannot be used as a definition of a fixed North Pole ( or South Pole ) when metre-scale precision is required.

The exact definition of racism is controversial both because there is little scholarly agreement about the meaning of the concept " race ", and because there is also little agreement about what does and doesn't constitute discrimination.

All schools agree this implies the cessation of worldly desires and freedom from the cycle of birth and death, though the exact definition differs.

Since the terms are administrative political subdivisions of the local regional government their exact relationship and definitions are subject to home rule considerations, tradition, as well as state statute law and local governmental ( administrative ) definition and control.

Classic Islamic law details the exact definition of the fast, the times of fasting, how a fast may be broken, who must fast, and permitted exceptions to the fast.

The exact mathematical definition is given below.

While all modern variants of the acre contain 4, 840 square yards, there are alternative definitions of a yard, so the exact size of an acre depends on which yard it is based on.

Therefore, it works as a neutron reflector and neutron moderator, effectively slowing the neutrons to the thermal energy range of below 0. 03 eV, where the total cross section is at least an order of magnitude lower – exact value strongly depends on the purity and size of the crystallites in the material.

( The exact structure of this Hilbert space depends on the situation.

The exact membership of the configuration depends upon the topic ; for example, when discussing agricultural policy the Council is formed by the twenty-seven national ministers whose portfolio includes this policy area ( with the related European Commissioner contributing but not voting ).

The exact position of the peak depends on the substituents.

The exact amount of fabric needed depends upon several factors including the size of the sett, the number of pleats put into the garment, and the size of the person.

When an atom undergoes nuclear fission, a few neutrons ( the exact number depends on several factors ) are ejected from the reaction.

The exact composition and characteristics of an individual pastel stick depends on the type of pastel and the type and amount of binder used.

As regards animals, to what extent different animals think depends on the exact definition of the word that is given, so it may be taken literally or regarded as anthropomorphic.

A rope with a bowline retains approximately 65 % of its strength at the location of the knot, although in practice the exact strength depends on a variety of factors.

These relationships are certainly not exact because the size of an atom is not constant but depends on its chemical environment.

This operation slows the processors attached to those banks, so the overall speed increase due to NUMA depends heavily on the exact nature of the running tasks.

The exact angle depends on the size of the particles.

The exact pattern of bipolar violations that is transmitted in any given case depends on the line rate ( i. e., the level of the line code in the T-carrier hierarchy ) and the polarity of the last valid mark in the user data prior to the unacceptably long string of zeros.

The exact response of a resonance, especially for frequencies far from the resonant frequency, depends on the details of the physical system, and is usually not exactly symmetric about the resonant frequency, as illustrated for the simple harmonic oscillator above.

The exact drug used depends on what the particular ecosystem a given tribe lives in can support, and are typically found growing wild.

Unlike a graph, however, the number of semitones represented by a vertical step from a line to an adjacent space depends on the key, and the exact timing of the beginning of each note is not directly proportional to its horizontal position ; rather, exact timing is encoded by the musical symbol chosen for each note in addition to the tempo.

A town plan may be constructed as an exact scale drawing but for larger areas a map projection is necessary and no projection can represent the Earth's surface at a uniform scale: in general the scale of a projection depends on position and direction.

Since good tracking depends on the exact distance between the rotating drum and the fixed control / audio head reading the linear tracks, which usually varies by a couple of micrometers between machines due to manufacturing tolerances, most VCRs offer tracking adjustment, either manual or automatic, to correct such mismatches.

The exact year depends on the year Thutmose ascended to the throne of Egypt and among scholars the estimates range from 1479 to 1504 BC.

For example, even if a bidder knew the University of North Carolina would be the tournament winner and thus pay out 32 % of the pool, she would still be unsure of the exact value of the team ( unless it was the last team being bid on ) since the payout depends on the sum total of all winning bids, i. e. the final size of the pool.

The exact choice of detector depends on the wavelengths of light to be recorded.

The exact relationship is usually measured in a wind tunnel and depends on the airfoil section.