The A-type main sequence star has the multiple star designation WDS 19508 + 0852A and has three visual companion stars, WDS 19508 + 0852B, C, and D. Component B is not physically close to A but merely appears close to it in the sky.

Effects such as superposition of differing ions with multiple electrons removed, or through the presence of complex species formation during evaporation may cause two or more species to have sufficiently close time-of-flights to make definitive identification impossible.

The pair remain close although Cox was chairman of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission until he was forced to resign as chairman of the SEC on January 20, 2009 due to multiple allegations of fraud.

Many razors have multiple blades purportedly to ensure a close shave.

In astronomy and calendar studies, the Metonic cycle or Enneadecaeteris ( from Greek words for nineteen years ) is a period of very close to 19 years which is remarkable for being very nearly a common multiple of the solar year and the synodic ( lunar ) month.

This continuous action became known as the Battle of the Atlantic, as the British developed technical defences such as ASDIC and radar, and the German U-boats responded by hunting in what were called " wolfpacks " where multiple submarines would stay close together, making it easier for them to sink a specific target.

The 19th century saw a number of reported cases of multiple personalities which Rieber estimated would be close to 100.

In Small World: An Academic Romance, one of David Lodge's satires of academia, the naive hero Persse follows Angelica to a forum where she discourses on Romance: '" Roland Barthes has taught us the close connection between narrative and sexuality, between the pleasures of the body and the ' pleasure of the text '.... Romance is a multiple orgasm.

Ussher's chronology represented a considerable feat of scholarship: it demanded great depth of learning in what was then known of ancient history, including the rise of the Persians, Greeks and Romans, as well as expertise in the Bible, biblical languages, astronomy, ancient calendars and chronology, Ussher's account of historical events for which he had multiple sources other than the Bible is usually in close agreement with modern accounts – for example, he placed the death of Alexander in 323 BC and that of Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

The player must pay close attention to the use of the damper pedal in order to cleanly articulate and avoid multiple notes ringing unintentionally at the same time.

This suggests that if chloroplasts originated de novo, they did so multiple times, in which case their close similarity to each other is difficult to explain.

Upon this information, the unstable community members work themselves into a murderous rage, stabbing Richard multiple times and bringing him close to death.

Production began to slow as the war drew to a close, but the city ’ s population and infrastructure had swelled to include multiple new communities and a larger school district.

Attendance has declined in recent years, as many performers schedule multiple performances in the same area in close succession, and many fans are more interested in seeing their favorite musicians perform than in the pageantry of the showboat, and so choose to see the same musicians elsewhere.

Typically, third party aircraft models have multiple levels of detail, which allow the AI traffic to be better on frame rates, while still being detailed during close looks.

Similarly, fans found preliminary artwork of multiple characters, although it was not known at the time how close these were to the final designs.

Both are usually in triple meter, begin on the second beat of the bar, and have a theme of four measures ( or a close multiple thereof ).

The Show / Fairground community is close knit, with multiple ties often existing between the older families and a vibrant social scene centred both around the summer fairs and the various sites and yards used as winter quarters.

It was found that nests close to cuckoo perches were most vulnerable: multiple parasitised nests were closest to the vantage points, and unparasitised nests were farthest away.

Some parabolic antennas transmit or receive at multiple frequencies by having several feed antennas mounted at the focal point, close together.

A multiple star consists of three or more stars which appear from the Earth to be close to one another in the sky.

This may result from the stars being physically close and gravitationally bound to each other, in which case it is physical, or this closeness may be merely apparent, in which case the multiple star is optical.

In addition, antennas are most efficient when their length is close to a multiple of a quarter-wavelength of the radio waves they are receiving.

Some games involve commanding multiple game pieces ( or units ), such as chess pieces or Monopoly houses and hotels, that have unique designations and capabilities within the parameters of the game ; in other games, such as Go, all pieces controlled by a player have the same capabilities.

Many BBSes also offer on-line games, in which users can compete with each other, and BBSes with multiple phone lines often provide chat rooms, allowing users to interact with each other.

Batman has also starred in multiple video games, most of which were adaptations of the various cinematic or animated incarnations of the character.

The game was released on multiple platforms, Xbox 360, PS3 and PC as well as Mac OSX and is aimed as a competition to other FPS games such as the Call of Duty and the Battlefield series.

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, a number of games were created using DHTML, but differences between browsers made this difficult: many techniques had to be implemented in code to enable the games to work on multiple platforms.

German-style games are usually multiplayer and can be learned easily and played in a relatively short time, perhaps multiple times in a single session.

The founders of Id Software met in the offices of Softdisk developing multiple games for Softdisk's monthly publishing.

Around this time, Scott Miller of Apogee Software learned of the group and their exceptional talent, having played one of John Romero's Softdisk games, Dangerous Dave, and contacted Romero under the guise of multiple fan letters that Romero came to realize all originated from the same address.

* 1962 – During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.

In multiplayer online games, a MUSH ( a backronymed pun on MUD most often expanded as Multi-User Shared Hallucination, though Multi-User Shared Hack, Habitat, and Holodeck are also observed ) is a text-based online social medium to which multiple users are connected at the same time.

The 2002 NBA Playoffs were scheduled to begin two days later, with Albert scheduled to call multiple games that week.

Some games have multiple fee schedules, where players can pay more to perform advanced actions, or to take a greater number of actions in a turn.

Pong has been referenced and parodied in multiple television shows and video games, and has been a part of several video game and cultural exhibitions.

The original game has spawned a vast franchise that includes a collectible card game, two miniature-based wargames, multiple video games, a series of novels and music.

Most games have only one skin, but others allow choosing from multiple skins.

Some board games use tiles to create their board, giving multiple possibilities for board layout, or allowing changes in the board geometry during play.

Four Swords Adventures includes two gameplay modes: " Hyrulean Adventure ", with a plot and gameplay similar to other Zelda games, and " Shadow Battle ", in which multiple Links, played by multiple players, battle each other.

In the 2010 film adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World there are multiple references to the Zelda games and the soundtrack, including use of the " Fairy Fountain " theme in one of the film's dream sequences.

It contains several pieces of concept art from the series's conception to the release of Skyward Sword in 2011, multiple essays about the production of the games, and for the first time ever in Zelda history, the series's timeline was included in the book, confirming fan theories about a split in the timeline, as well as a third split, asking what would happen if Link was defeated in the final battle with Ganon in Ocarina of Time.

Some fighting games have also offered the challenge of fighting against multiple opponents in succession, testing the player's endurance.

Dealing with multiple elements complicates the model of the simulation side of a wargame, so games with a true combined arms approach tend to be strategic in nature, where all aspects are abstracted to a greater degree.