he had no use any longer for exact time, even had the watch been running.

It is instrumental for keeping time, in that UTC is basically the atomic time synchronized to Earth's rotation by means of exact observations.

The exact number and extent of these pagi is unclear and probably changed over time.

His exact birth site is unclear because he was born about the time his mother was making a difficult trip home from burying Jackson's father.

His motivation for changing it to something meaning ' the East electrode ' ( other candidates had been " eastode ", " oriode " and " anatolode ") was to make it immune to a possible later change in the direction convention for current, whose exact nature was not known at the time.

It was already founded at the time of the establishment of the city shortly after 1200 ; the exact date is not known.

Early BOFH editions took place in a university, moving on to an office workplace over time ( an exact transition is not given ).

Evidences, studies and oral tradition leave little doubt about its Brazilian roots, but it is impossible to precisely identify the exact Brazilian region or time it began to take form.

The feigned retreat, next to unknown in Western Europe at that time — it was a traditionally eastern tactic — required both extraordinary discipline on the part of the troops and exact timing on the part of their commander.

His motivation for changing it to something meaning ' the West electrode ' ( other candidates had been " westode ", " occiode " and " dysiode ") was to make it immune to a possible later change in the direction convention for current, whose exact nature was not known at the time.

The large possible variance in time justifies performing query optimization, though finding the exact optimal way to execute a query, among all possibilities, is typically very complex, time consuming by itself, may be too costly, and often practically impossible.

The large possible variance in time justifies performing query optimization, though finding the exact optimal way to execute a query, among all possibilities, is typically very complex, time consuming by itself, may be too costly, and often practically impossible.

The exact location of Truso was not known for a long time, as the seashore has significantly changed, but most historians trace the settlement inside or near to modern Elbląg on Lake Drużno.

A third measurement of traffic is instantaneous traffic, expressed as a certain number of erlangs, meaning the exact number of calls taking place at a point in time.

At some time between late 1792 and early 1793, a serious illness ( the exact nature of which is not known ), left Goya deaf, and he became withdrawn and introspective.

Many almanacs list full moons not just by date, but by their exact time as well, usually in Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ).

A wavelet-based approximate FFT by Guo and Burrus ( 1996 ) takes sparse inputs / outputs ( time / frequency localization ) into account more efficiently than is possible with an exact FFT.

: However, whatever the exact events of the time, Gibraltar ceased being under the rule of Philip V of Spain in 1704.

Since Galen states that he is using observations of monkeys ( human dissection was prohibited ) to give an account of what the body looks like, Vesalius could portray himself as using Galen's approach of description of direct observation to create a record of the exact details of the human body, since he worked in a time when human dissection was allowed.

Periodization is not an exact science but the following list contains movements or time periods typically used in discussing German literature.

The exact time when hoplitic warfare was developed is uncertain, the prevalent theory being that it was established sometime during the 8th or 7th century BC, when the " heroic age was abandoned and a far more disciplined system introduced " and the Argive shield became popular.

Competition shooters will generally throw a slightly underweight charge, and use a powder trickler to add few granules of powder at a time to the charge to bring it to the exact weight desired for maximum consistency.

The exact number and placement of Endosymbiotic theory | endosymbiotic events is currently unknown, so this diagram can be taken only as a general guide It represents the most parsimonious way of explaining the three types of endosymbiotic origins of plastids.

Though the EPR paper has often been taken as an exact expression of Einstein's views, it was primarily authored by Podolsky, based on discussions at the Institute for Advanced Study with Einstein and Rosen.

However, there is some degree of debate regarding Clement's exact meaning of " spiritual gospel "; care must be taken not to ascribe to his phrase modern prejudices or expectations.

" Whether or not this amounts to misogyny, whether his polemic against women is meant to be taken literally, and the exact nature of his opinions of women, are controversial.

The scale statement may be taken as exact when the region mapped is small enough for the curvature of the Earth to be neglected, for example in a town planner's city map.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

* Variable bonus scoring: Each player scores one point for each trick taken, plus a variable bonus if the player takes the exact number of tricks bid.

As the systems and processes of interest are taken further from thermodynamic equilibrium, their exact thermodynamical study becomes more difficult.

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.

Although the exact legal implications of the judgement are unclear when analysed by lawyers, it was generally taken at the time to have determined that slavery did not exist under English common law and was thus prohibited in England.

Sea floor core sample labelled to identify the exact spot on the sea floor where the sample was taken.

( Because the term " stud " is used inconsistently when referring to length, care should be taken to always specify the exact, actual length required.

To be useful, it was necessary to find the exact location ( latitude and longitude ) of the ' station ' where a gravity measurement was taken, so pendulum measurements became part of surveying.

He subsequently made a number of journeys in England: the exact sequence and their dates are again uncertain, but there seem to have been five major English itineraries, taken over the summers of the years 1539 to 1543.

The integral of an inexact differential depends upon the particular path taken through the space of thermodynamic parameters while the integral of an exact differential depends only upon the initial and final states.

When a still wears out and has to be replaced, or when a distillery decides to expand the number of stills it operates, precise measurements of the existing stills are taken to ensure the new stills are exact reproductions of the old.

Several years later, de Havilland would remember the slight and exact her own by brushing past Fontaine, who was waiting with hand extended, because de Havilland had allegedly taken offence at a comment Fontaine had made about de Havilland's husband.

The paintings are shown in the exact positions recorded in an inventory taken around this time.

Within a month, William Huskisson, a Tory colleague, was writing of Goderich: " The king has taken the exact measure of him, and openly says he must do all the duties of a premier himself, because Goderich has no nerves!

: G. J. Warnock's Foreword – Having taken a course from Austin on this topic at Oxford in 1947, Sir Geoffrey Warnock ( 1923-95 ) says he put Austin's fragmentary lecture notes into sentence form, with the help of class notes from later students of the course, and claims to relate faithfully Austin's " argument " though not his exact wording.

All species feed on insects, although exact details of what prey are taken has not been studied in detail.

The exact nature of Francis's surrender — in particular, who exactly had taken him prisoner — is uncertain, with a variety of candidates ranging from Alonso Pita da Veiga, Juan de Urbieta and Diego Dávila to Lannoy himself being put forward by various historians.

The exact date of the club's formation was never recorded however 1874 is regarded as the year of formation as it was when association rules were taken on, although Tom Purdie claimed the club was formed in 1873.

Biopsy specimens are often taken from part of a lesion when the cause of a disease is uncertain or its extent or exact character is in doubt.