The instrument is shown in Fig. 1 and consists essentially of a hard, sharp, tungsten carbide knife which is pushed along the substrate to remove the coating.

The substance of an indictment or other charging instrument is usually the same, regardless of the jurisdiction: it consists of a short and plain statement of where, when, and how the defendant allegedly committed the offense.

* The second is the agentic state theory, wherein, per Milgram, " the essence of obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view themselves as the instrument for carrying out another person's wishes, and they therefore no longer see themselves as responsible for their actions.

First and foremost, a drummer is a musician that performs music on the multi-percussion instrument known as the drum set, which usually consists of a bass drum ( with pedal ), a floor tom, tom-toms, a snare drum, hi-hats, a ride cymbal, and a crash cymbal.

The instrument consists of two thin leaves of gold foil suspended from an electrode.

The moving system of the instrument consists of two vanes that are magnetized by the current coil.

Such a model consists of ( possibly simplified ) laws of physics that govern the sound production, and will typically have several parameters, some of which are constants that describe the physical materials and dimensions of the instrument, while others are time-dependent functions that describe the player's interaction with it, such as plucking a string, or covering toneholes.

Some common group settings include music for Full Orchestra ( consisting of just about every instrument group ), Wind Ensemble ( or Concert Band, which consists of larger sections and greater diversity of wind, brass and percussion instruments than are usually found in the orchestra ), or a chamber group ( a small number of instruments, but at least two ).

The xylophone ( from the Greek words — xylon, " wood " + — phonē, " sound, voice ", meaning " wooden sound ") is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden ( not steel ) bars struck by mallets.

The rhythm section of a jazz band consists of the percussion, double bass or bass guitar, and usually at least one instrument capable of playing chords, such as a piano, guitar, Hammond organ or vibes ; most will usually have more than one of these.

In African music, the mbira ( also known as likembe, mbila, thumb piano, mbira huru, mbira njari, mbira nyunga nyunga, sansu, zanzu, karimbao or kalimba ) is a musical instrument that consists of a wooden board to which staggered metal keys have been attached.

The theme song, written by the show's co-writer David Croft and composer Ronnie Hazlehurst, consists of a lift girl ( whose voice was provided by Stephanie Gathercole ) announcing each floor over the musique concrète sounds of a cash register ( which basically serves as the only percussion instrument ) and a simple musical accompaniment.

ToothbrushesThe toothbrush is an oral hygiene instrument used to clean the teeth and gums that consists of a head of tightly clustered bristles mounted on a handle, which facilitates the cleansing of hard-to-reach areas of the mouth.

The bones are a musical instrument ( more specifically, a folk instrument ) which, at the simplest, consists of a pair of animal bones, or pieces of wood or a similar material.

) In a fundamental sense, capital consists of any produced thing that can enhance a person's power to perform economically useful work — a stone or an arrow is capital for a caveman who can use it as a hunting instrument, and roads are capital for inhabitants of a city.

The Sanskrit word ( m .; also n. mantram ) consists of the root man-" to think " ( also in manas " mind ") and the suffix-tra, designating tools or instruments, hence a literal translation would be " instrument of thought ".

In its simplest electronic form, the instrument consists of an air bottle connected to the external atmosphere through a sensitive air flow meter.

The present instrument consists of 189 ranks and 10, 647 pipes.

Here, the class that consists of T's children would be closed at the time of the instrument as it is impossible for T to have any children after T dies.

The class that consists of T's grandchildren is NOT a valid measuring life as T's children are free to reproduce after T dies, meaning the class is not closed at the time of the instrument.

The index mainly consists of sound effects and musical instrument samples.

The instrument consists of a chanter which plays the melody, drones which play a constant unchanging harmony, a bag which holds the air to blow drones and chanter, and a set of bellows to supply air to the bag.

The instrumentation of a DMA consists of a displacement sensor such as a linear variable differential transformer, which measures a change in voltage as a result of the instrument probe moving through a magnetic core, a temperature control system or furnace, a drive motor ( a linear motor for probe loading which provides load for the applied force ), a drive shaft support and guidance system to act as a guide for the force from the motor to the sample, and sample clamps in order to hold the sample being tested.

Such an instrument is expected to be especially useful if it could be used to measure the elasticity of heavy pastes such as printing inks, paints, adhesives, molten plastics, and bread dough, for the elasticity is related to those various properties termed `` length '', `` shortness '', `` spinnability '', etc., which are usually judged by subjective methods at present.

During his second week at sea he brought the curious melody out of the instrument and suddenly wanted to force the biwa to remain at just that moment in its history when it had given him pleasure.

Using visual imagery of a soroban, one can arrive at the answer in the same time as, or even faster than, is possible with a physical instrument.

In his instrument, temperatures were indicated by the height at which a column of mercury was sustained by a certain mass of air, the volume, or " spring ", of which varied with the heat to which it was exposed.

The able and forceful empress Euphrosyne tried in vain to sustain his credit and his court ; Vatatzes, the favourite instrument of her attempts at reform, was assassinated by the emperor's orders.

Weather systems such as weather radar ( typically Arinc 708 on commercial aircraft ) and lightning detectors are important for aircraft flying at night or in instrument meteorological conditions, where it is not possible for pilots to see the weather ahead.

In general, the guitar's soundbox can be thought of as composed of two connected chambers: the upper bouts and lower bouts ( a bout being the rounded corner of an instrument body ), which meet at the waist, or the narrowest part of the body face near the soundhole.

Carbon-fiber and phenolic composite materials have become desirable for building necks, and at least one high-end luthier ( Composite Acoustics ) produces a line of all-carbon-fiber guitars, prized for their high stability in changing climates that would cause wood instrument panels to swell and shrink.

Since the ammeter shunt has a very low resistance, mistakenly wiring the ammeter in parallel with a voltage source will cause a short circuit, at best blowing a fuse, possibly damaging the instrument and wiring, and exposing an observer to injury.

) In the field of particle physics, " shmoo " refers to a high energy survey instrument, as utilized at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to capture subatomic cosmic ray particles emitted from the Cygnus X-3 constellation.

( 2005 ) verified gravity darkening using the measurements made by the Palomar and Navy interferometers, together with new measurements made by the VINCI instrument at the VLTI.

Various refinements were made to the instrument, including the use of a so-called position-sensitive ( PoS ) detector by Alfred Cerezo, Terence Godfrey, and George D. W. Smith at Oxford University in 1988.

In the final part of the first chapter, the prophet expresses shock at God's choice of instrument for judgment.

Governments at this point could use currency as an instrument of policy, printing paper currency such as the United States Greenback, to pay for military expenditures.

A decision is an instrument which is focused at a particular person or group and is directly applicable.

This instrument records concentrations of acrylonitrile in the air at various points throughout the chemical laboratory.

A male protester at Occupy Wall Street playing the instrument, September 2011

The instrument at Occupy Eugene

Graduating from his plastic saxophone to a real instrument in 1962, Bowie formed his first band at the age of 15.

The increased use of playing techniques such as thumb position and modifications to the bass, such as the use of lighter-gauge strings at lower tension, have eased the difficulty of playing the instrument.

Once at a target, DS1 senses the particle environment with the PEPE ( Plasma Experiment for Planetary Exploration ) instrument.

Sometimes, for the sake of appearance or of the desired " feel " of the instrument, a drum with a trigger will be used as a trigger pad by muffling it so heavily that no significant sound at all is produced, see Electronic drum # Acoustic triggered drum kit.

The low-voltage electron microscope ( LVEM ) is a combination of SEM, TEM and STEM in one instrument, which operates at relatively low electron accelerating voltage of 5 kV.

Various experiments at electrically amplifying the vibrations of a string instrument date back to the early part of the twentieth century.