Competitive basketball is primarily an indoor sport played on a carefully marked and maintained basketball court, but less regulated variations are often played outdoors in both inner city and remote areas.

Kenilworth's inner court consists of a number of buildings set against a bailey wall, originally of Norman origin, exploiting the defensive value of a natural knoll that rises up steeply from the surrounding area.

From the great hall, visitors could look out to admire the Great Mere or the inner court through huge windows.

The remainder of the inner court was built by Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, in the 1570s.

He built a tower now known as Leicester's building on the south edge of the court as a guest wing, extending out beyond the inner bailey wall for extra space.

The rest of Kenilworth Castle's interior is divided into three areas: the base court, stretching between Mortimer's Tower and Leicester's gatehouse ; the left-hand court, stretching south-west around the outside of the inner court ; and the right-hand court, to the north-west of the inner court.

By contrast the interior, with its contemporary wood panelling, is in the same, highly contemporary Elizabethan fashion of Leicester's building in the inner court.

Elizabeth visited in 1566 and 1568, by which time Leicester had commissioned the royal architect Henry Hawthorne to produce plans for a dramatic, classical extension of the south side of the inner court.

In 1933 he completed a famous series of twenty-seven fresco panels entitled Detroit Industry on the walls of an inner court at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

The core institution of the inner court was the Grand Council ().

This royal Zwingergarten, a garden used to supply the court, still fulfilled one of its functions, as indicated by the name, as a narrow defensive area between the outer and inner defensive walls.

On passing through the gateway, the outer court of the inner ward was entered, with the western facade of the monastic church in front.

Edward was still relying upon his French relatives – Isabella's uncle, Louis d ' Évreux, for example had been sent from Paris to assist him – but Hugh Despenser the elder now formed part of the inner circle, marking the beginning of the Despensers ' increased prominence at Edward's court.

The gatehouse to the second, inner court was adorned in 1540 with an early example of a post-Copernican astronomical clock.

However, the French failed to capitalize on the aftermath of Montargis, in large part because the French court was caught in an inner power struggle between the constable Arthur de Richemont and the chamberlain Georges de la Trémoille, a new favorite of the Dauphin Charles.

Besides the cour d ’ honneur ( court of honour ) entrance, the château might have an inner cour (“ court ”), and inside, in the private residence, the château faces a simply and discreetly enclosed park.

He was aware of insistent inner beatings, as if prisoners within sought release from his rigid body.

In addition, the inner surface of the carbon shield was covered with aluminum foil to reduce radiation.

Another poultice was made from the inner bark of the elm tree, steeped in water until it formed a sticky, gummy solution.

Casey kept his smile fixed, but some small inner disturbance was working on him as he thought again about Needham, who was eight or ten years older than the girl.

There were intense discussions in the inner councils of the White House about the advisability of an early meeting, not because the international climate was improving, but precisely because it was deteriorating alarmingly.

The feeling was that he would sense an inner core of toughness and determination in the President and that plain talk by Mr. Kennedy would give him pause.

The day was brilliant around her -- flower-scented, crisp with breeze -- yet her inner turmoil darkened it.

In this manner, for example, it was theorized that mercury could penetrate into metals and modify their inner structure.

Since the mid-1890s Schweitzer had formed the inner resolve that it was needful for him as a Christian to repay to the world something for the happiness which it had given to him, and he determined that he would pursue his younger interests until the age of thirty and then give himself to serving humanity, with Jesus serving as his example.

The inner bark of the alder, as well as red osier dogwood, or chokecherry, was also used by Native Americans in their smoking mixtures, known as kinnikinnick, to improve the taste of the bearberry leaf.

The outer shell of the calorimeter was packed with snow, which melted to maintain a constant temperature of around an inner shell filled with ice.

His primary interest was in applying the methodology of science to realms of inner experience and the spiritual worlds ( Steiner's appreciation that the essence of science is its method of inquiry is unusual among esotericists ), and Steiner called anthroposophy Geisteswissenschaft ( lit.

It was the gateway from inner Edo to northern and northwestern Japan and Kan ’ ei-ji temple in Ueno.

The notation was introduced in 1939 by Paul Dirac and is also known as Dirac notation, though the notation has precursors in Grassmann's use of the notation for his inner products nearly 100 years previously.

A second inner line of four frigates was positioned approximately west of the main line, roughly halfway between the line and the shoal.

He developed a method of measuring the horizontal intensity of the magnetic field which was in use well into the second half of the 20th century, and worked out the mathematical theory for separating the inner and outer ( magnetospheric ) sources of Earth's magnetic field.

His brow was low and broad, his eyes a volcanic blue that smoldered as if with some inner fire.

According to biographer Keay Davidson, Sagan's " inner war " was a result of his close relations with both his parents, who were in many ways " opposites ".

Flirty Fishing was practiced by members of Berg's inner circle starting in 1973, and was later introduced to the general membership.

The summer term was formerly marked by Tubestock, an unofficial tradition in which the students used wooden rafts and inner tubes to float on the Connecticut River.

Knowing what he did was best for his country, but the tense posture of his feet and toes reveals his inner turmoil.

Instead of adopting a form of eliminativism or mental fictionalism, positions that deny that inner mental phenomena exist, a behaviorist was able to adopt epiphenomenalism in order to allow for the existence of mind.

The second two pieces lap over the inner member of the keelson and butt against the outer member.

" According to Anthroposophy, moral development reveals the extent to which one has achieved control over one's inner life and can exercise it in harmony with the spiritual life of other people ; it shows the real progress in spiritual development, the fruits of which are given in spiritual perception.

Although a wide variety of graphite tube designs have been used over the years, the dimensions nowadays are typically 20 – 25 mm in length and 5 – 6 mm inner diameter.

The produced NADH and quinol molecules then feed into the enzyme complexes of the respiratory chain, an electron transport system transferring the electrons ultimately to oxygen and conserving the released energy in the form of a proton gradient over a membrane ( inner mitochondrial membrane in eukaryotes ).

Puncture repair kit with tire levers, sandpaper to clean off an area of the inner tube around the puncture, a tube of rubber solution ( Vulcanization | vulcanizing fluid ), round and oval patches, a metal grater and piece of chalk to make chalk powder ( to dust over excess rubber solution ).

To see that it is sufficient — that the parallelogram law implies that the form defined by the polarization identity is indeed a complete inner product — one verifies algebraically that this form is additive, whence it follows by induction that the form is linear over the integers and rationals.

It is filled with precisely the kind of shrill hyperbole that Finkelstein rightly deplores in much of the current media hype over the Holocaust ; it is brimming with the same indifference to historical facts, inner contradictions, strident politics and dubious contextualizations ; and it oozes with the same smug sense of moral and intellectual superiority.

In this style, the bar again is approached on a diagonal, but the inner leg is used for the take-off, while the outer leg is thrust up to lead the body sideways over the bar.

Formally, an inner product space is a vector space V over the field together with an inner product, i. e., with a map

In contrast all finite-dimensional inner product spaces over or, such as those used in quantum computation, are automatically metrically complete and hence Hilbert spaces.

These had four turrets mounting two 30. 5 cm guns arranged in two turrets either end, with the inner turret able to fire over the outer.

The state also has political jurisdiction over the approximately-wide portion of subsea land of the inner continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico.

While the rest of Stalin's inner circle ( even Molotov, saved from certain liquidation ) stood sobbing unashamedly over the body, Beria reportedly appeared " radiant ", " regenerated ", and " glistening with ill-concealed relish.

The ratio of M to R increases by a factor of only three over 2. 5 orders of magnitude of M. This relation is roughly proportional to the star's inner temperature T < sub > I </ sub >, and its extremely slow increase reflects the fact that the rate of energy generation in the core strongly depends on this temperature, while it has to fit the mass – luminosity relation.

She also wrote " Landslide ", inspired by the scenery of Aspen and her inner turmoil over her decision to pursue music.

The inner city temperature is averaged over the year.

Let u, v be arbitrary vectors in a vector space V over F with an inner product, where F is the field of real or complex numbers.

" He was preparing a bull that would excommunicate the King of France and put the interdict over France, and to depose the entire clergy of France, when in September 1303, William Nogaret, the strongest critic of the Papacy in the French inner circle, led a delegation to Rome, with intentionally loose orders by the king to bring the pope, if necessary by force, before a council to rule on the charges brought against him.

The inner flower segments are usually marked with a green, or greenish-yellow, bridge-shaped mark over the small " sinus " ( notch ) at the tip of each tepal.

A white inner gown hangs over his square shoes.

One advantage of coax over other types of radio transmission line is that in an ideal coaxial cable the electromagnetic field carrying the signal exists only in the space between the inner and outer conductors.

But it is steady ; over millions of years an asteroid's orbit can be perturbed enough to transport it from the asteroid belt to the inner Solar System.

The first courtyard, the Base Court, ( B on plan ), was his creation, as was the second, inner gatehouse ( C ) which leads to the Clock Court ( D ) ( Wolsey's seal remains visible over the entrance arch of the clock tower ) which contained his private rooms ( O on plan ).

Noise-induced hearing loss-hearing loss caused by exposure to harmful sounds, either very loud impulse sound ( s ) or repeated exposure to sounds over 90-decibel level over an extended period of time that damage the sensitive structures of the inner ear.