The first meaning refers to a social philosophy or political philosophy which values rural society as superior to urban society, the independent farmer as superior to the paid worker, and sees farming as a way of life that can shape the ideal social values.

Players shape their fingernails for ideal tone and feel against the strings.

While a catenary is the ideal shape for a freestanding arch of constant thickness, the Gateway Arch is narrower near the top.

Under ideal conditions, this produces an " hourglass " shape of this point source in the third ( axial ) dimension.

Even drawn to the point where our senses cannot perceive a defect, in its essence the shape will still be imperfect ; forever unable to match the ideal triangle.

Filarete's ideal city, building on Leone Battista Alberti's De re aedificatoria, was named " Sforzinda " in compliment to his patron ; its twelve-pointed shape, circumscribable by a " perfect " Pythagorean figure, the circle, took no heed of its undulating terrain in Filarete's manuscript.

The 180 grain. 308 bullet shows an ideal mushroom shape in the ballistic gelatin, and clearly shows the ripples in the temporary cavity formed by the spinning bullet.

Holme drafted an ideal version of the grid, but alleyways sprouted within and between larger blocks as the city took shape.

* The combustion chamber formed with the sleeve at the top of its stroke is ideal for complete, detonation-free combustion of the charge, as it does not have to contend with compromised chamber shape and hot exhaust ( poppet ) valves.

The site, now bordered on three sides by the village of Ashwaubenon, was selected because it had a natural slope, ideal for creating the bowl shape.

In 1908. he published a paper titled " On membranes of same opposition " in which he proves that the ideal shape for water reservoir of equally thick walls is that of a drop of water.

Alluvial fan deltas, as seen in their name, avulse frequently and more closely approximate an ideal fan shape.

Media portrayals of an ' ideal ' body shape are widely considered to be a contributing factor to bulimia ( Barker 2003 ).

In turn, Thompson and Stice assert that if the thin ideal is accepted, one could begin to feel uncomfortable with their body shape or size since it may not necessarily reflect the thin ideal set out by society.

Because of their irregular shape and incomplete design, cobs were ideal candidates for clipping and counterfeiting.

This process is called mushrooming, as the ideal result is a shape that resembles a mushroom — a cylindrical base, topped with a wide surface where the tip of the bullet has peeled back to expose more area.

The Form School analyses the shape of the land and flow of the wind and water to find a place with ideal qi.

Indeed, as a student, Anker summed up his approach to art as follows: " One has to shape an ideal in one's imagination, and then one has to make that ideal accessible to the people.

Fish quality usually takes into account size, meatiness, and percentage of fat, colour of flesh, taste, shape of the body, ideal oil and omega-3 content ( Gjedrem 1985 ).

It is often considered to be an imperfection of telescopes and other instruments which makes their focusing less than ideal due to the spherical shape of lenses and mirrors.

To better shape the shocks that will contribute to lift, the rest of an ideal supersonic airfoil is roughly diamond-shaped in cross-section.

The name " sinc filter " is applied also to the filter shape that is rectangular in time and a sinc function in frequency, as opposed to the ideal low-pass sinc filter, which is sinc in time and rectangular in frequency.

The region responsible for electron transport would be an electron-crystal of a high-mobility semiconductor, while the phonon-glass would be ideal to house disordered structures and dopants without disrupting the electron-crystal ( analogous to the charge reservoir in high-T < sub > c </ sub > superconductors.

In a simplified ideal situation a semiconductor diode would never function, since it would be composed of several diodes connected back-to-front in series.

The first improvement was the realization that the existing cells were based on standard semiconductor manufacturing process, even though that was not ideal.

Thus the transformation of Adam Smith's ideal entrepreneur into a mythological detective coincides closely with the decline of the real entrepreneur in economic life.

One-armed, gruff, frugally honest, Governor Pope had been the ideal man to assume office in Arkansas after the disgraceful antics of political bosses like Crittenden, and he ruled the state with an iron fist, tolerating no nonsense.

Their expressed standards concerning sex roles, desirable age for marriage, characteristics of an ideal mate, number of children desired are congruent with the values and stereotypes of the preceding generation -- minus compulsive rebellion.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

In instances where both of these are persons or firms with integrity, the situation is ideal.

The ideal storage temperature for long periods is about fifty-five degrees, with an allowable range of five degrees above or below this, provided there are no sudden or frequent changes.

The cabins are equipped with bunks, blankets, and cooking equipment and are ideal bases for hikes and skiing trips.

Back at the Factory-to-You with the other old maids, back there she was the youngest clerk and she was thirty-four, which made her young enough to resent the usual ideal working conditions, like the unventilated toilet with the door you had to hold shut while you sat down.

Artists and sculptors tried to find this ideal order in relation with mathematics, but they believed that this ideal order revealed itself not so much to the dispassionate intellect, as to the whole sentient self.

It needs to be clarified whether the ideal is union or link with ' Waheguru ' ( God ) or merger in God ( Hindu belief ).

The ideal grade is called " Deep Siberian " and has a primary purple hue of around 75 – 80 %, with 15 – 20 % blue and ( depending on the light source ) red secondary hues.

The ideal gas law or another equation of state is often used in conjunction with these equations to form a determined system to solve for the unknown variables.

His other important works include his Letters to Serapion, which dealt with the divinity of the Holy Spirit, and his classic Life of St Anthony, which was translated into several languages and played an important role in the spreading of the ascetic ideal in Eastern and Western Christianity.

Whenever possible, a pair will adopt an ideal attacking formation with one player hitting down from the rearcourt, and his partner in the midcourt intercepting all smash returns except the lift.

This notion of ideal coincides with the notion of ring ideal in the Boolean ring A.

Further levels of editing have also been proposed, including: a late 8th century edition pointing to Hezekiah of Judah as the model for kingship ; an earlier 8th century version with a similar message but identifying Jehu of Israel as the ideal king ; and an even earlier version promoting the House of David as the key to national well-being.

h corresponds to the strength of the β-lactam bond with lower numbers ( more planar ; more like ideal amides ) being stronger and less reactive.

* Every unital real Banach algebra with no zero divisors, and in which every principal ideal is closed, is isomorphic to the reals, the complexes, or the quaternions.

Let A be a unital commutative Banach algebra over C. Since A is then a commutative ring with unit, every non-invertible element of A belongs to some maximal ideal of A.

On the other hand, were surface regions with lower energy available, the water occupying surface locations of higher potential energy would move to occupy these positions of lower energy, inasmuch as there is no barrier to lateral movement in an ideal liquid.

On human nature, Boethius says that humans are essentially good and only when they give in to “ wickedness ” do they “ sink to the level of being an animal .” On justice, he says criminals are not to be abused, rather treated with sympathy and respect, using the analogy of doctor and patient to illustrate the ideal relationship between prosecutor and criminal.

The first theoretical description of metals was given by Paul Drude in 1900 with the Drude model, which explained electrical and thermal properties by describing a metal as an ideal gas of then-newly discovered electrons.