It will be noted that point f has seven nearest neighbors, h and e have six, and p has only one, while the remaining points have intermediate numbers.

After each competitor has delivered all of their bowls ( four each in singles and pairs, three each in triples, and two bowls each in fours ), the distance of the closest bowls to the jack is determined ( the jack may have been displaced ) and points, called " shots ", are awarded for each bowl which a competitor has closer than the opponent's nearest to the jack.

For instance, if a competitor has bowled two bowls closer to the jack than their opponent's nearest, they are awarded two shots.

The distance from the front edge of the circle to where the discus has landed is measured, and distances are rounded down to the nearest centimetre.

The nearest potential images included one claimed to be by noted Revolutionary War era engraver Pierre Eugene du Simitiere that turned out to be a forgery, and a reference to a portrait possibly by Ralph Earl that has not been found ( as of Stewart Holbrook's writing in 1940 ).

According to the ETC, the average rural inhabitant of Ethiopia has to walk 30 kilometers to the nearest phone.

Katima Mulilo is about 130 km from the nearest railway in Zambia as the crow flies, once the Zambesi has been bridged.

Since the 17th century, the Roman Catholic ecclesiastic year has started on the first day of Advent, the Sunday nearest to St. Andrew's Day ( 30 November ).

Thus 4, 000, 000, which has a logarithm ( in base 10 ) of 6. 602, has 7 as its nearest order of magnitude, because " nearest " implies rounding rather than truncation.

Once the nearest object has been identified, the algorithm will estimate the incoming light at the point of intersection, examine the material properties of the object, and combine this information to calculate the final color of the pixel.

Oyster Pay As You Go has a set of daily maximum charges that are the same as buying the nearest equivalent Day Travelcard.

For comparison, the nearest competing method in terms of structures analyzed is nuclear magnetic resonance ( NMR ) spectroscopy, which has resolved 9561 chemical structures.

Holly realizes that she is actually in love with Brad, that she has always loved him ; and takes command of the show, mounting a circus parade through the town nearest the crash and staging an open air show by the crash site ( as the Big Top and lighting were lost in the wreck ).

Each atom has six nearest neighbors, with octahedral geometry.

Nice, being the point of continental France nearest to Corsica, has ferry connections with the island developed with the arrival of NGV ( navires à grande vitesse ) or high-speed craft.

Recently it has also been used for efficient nearest neighbor search

As a result of its population size and highly mountainous terrain, Andorra la Vella has no airport of its own, but is three hours ' drive from the nearest airports at Toulouse ( Tolosa ), Girona, Perpignan and Barcelona.

Asimov here is drawing attention to an astronomical curio: the nearest star system to Sol contains a star that has the same spectral type, G2 V, though Alpha Centauri A is a little larger and brighter.

With advances in computing power and numerical algorithms for nearest neighbor sorting, it has become possible to numerically simulate millions of particles on a single processor.

The eyes decrease in size from the handle to the tip, with the one nearest the handle usually much larger than the rest to allow less friction as the coiled line comes off the reel, and to gather the very large loops of line that come off the spinning reel's spool.

Leaving the Downs, Albemarle came upon De Ruyter's fleet of 85 ships at anchor, and he immediately engaged the nearest Dutch ship before the rest of the fleet could come to its assistance.

As Smith's skills and strengths become apparent to the nuns, they come to believe that he has been sent by God to fulfill their dream of building a chapel for the townsfolk -- who are Mexican and impoverished -- as the nearest church is miles away.

Even with the canals and the bridge bringing easier access to larger markets Cohoes was a sleepy place to be in prior to 1831, the nearest post office was at Waterford and fresh meat and groceries were a luxury hard to come by in Cohoes.

He, other than pro footballer Neil MacKenzie, is probably the nearest the show has come to having a celebrity as a contestant outside of the occasional deliberate celebrity editions of the game.

The nearest approach will occur in about 71, 000 years, when it will come within.

The nearest the two colleges had come to full union was as the " Caroline University of Aberdeen ", a merger initiated by Charles I of Scotland in 1641.

To start, the player who could strike a ball at one end of the table and get the ball to come to rest nearest the opposite cushion without lying against it earned the right to shoot for points first.

Of these opinions the third, which is also given by Festus, seems to come nearest the truth.

:“ I had been carried off by Thomas More, who had come to pay me a visit on an estate of Mountjoy ’ s ( the house of Lord Mountjoy near Greenwich ) where I was staying, to take a walk by way of diversion as far as the nearest town ( Eltham ).

This is the nearest that UTV have come to using identical idents to the rest of the ITV network.

Services over most of the area come from the nearest BBC DAB transmitters at Sutton Coldfield and Waltham, plus Holme Moss in the north.

The Kifissos Bus Terminal where buses come from Peloponese, Epirus, Macedonia and Thrace is slightly east of Peristeri itself, along with its nearest station in Sepolia, a part of Athens.

Bill realizes that it must be mating season, which means all of the male anacondas come out of their territories to find the nearest female in its mating pit.

The nearest that one might come to finding a " clan " design is four identical targes from the family armoury at Castle Grant.

These were all the guns that would bear on the sound ; the southern half of the island, nearest Pamlico Sound, in the direction from which the attack would come, was unprotected.

The festival of St. Gonsalo has come to be held on the first Sunday nearest to the neap tide following Christmas in Vasai.

A drawback to the basic " majority voting " classification is that the classes with the more frequent examples tend to dominate the prediction of the new vector, as they tend to come up in the k nearest neighbors when the neighbors are computed due to their large number.

The nearest McCoy had previously come in the National were three third-place finishes, in 2001 and 2002 aboard Martin Pipe's Blowing Wind ( as the 8-1 favourite in 2002 ), and in 2006 on Jonjo O ' Neill's 5-1 joint favourite, Clan Royal.

In addition to these, peoples of some other sub-districts e. g. Rowmari, Char Rajibpur, and Fulbari usually use boat and ferries to come into the main land of the district by crossing their nearest rivers.

Hence arise the Distribution of Stars, according to their Order and Dignity, into Classes ; the first Class containing those which are nearest to us, are called Stars of the first Magnitude ; those that are next to them, are Stars of the second Magnitude ... and so forth, ' till we come to the Stars of the sixth Magnitude, which comprehend the smallest Stars that can be discerned with the bare Eye.

In a 2001 retrospective review of " Forever Changes ," Andrew Cowen of The Birmingham Post ( UK ) wrote, " This 1967 masterpiece ... is the nearest the Americans came to having their own ' Sgt Pepper ' and, in true American style, it was largely overlooked by the mainstream audience which, at the time, was hanging on every note played by The Beatles.

The relationship between Islamabad and Muscat is warm, because it is the nearest Arab country to Pakistan and the fact that some 30 % of Omani's are of Balochi origin from Pakistan's Balochistan province, having settled in Oman over a hundred years ago.

Both Zenadors are called away to the nearest world for trial ( a journey that would take twenty-two years ), the colony's charter is revoked, and all humans are ordered to evacuate posthaste, leaving no sign of ever having been there.

The Bludgers and the Snitch, having been bewitched, fly off on their own accord ; the Snitch to hide itself quickly, and the Bludgers to attack the nearest players.

AAH suggests that many features that distinguish humans from their nearest evolutionary relatives emerged because the ancestors of humans underwent a period when they were adapting to an aquatic or semiaquatic way of life, but returned to terrestrial life before having become fully adapted to the aquatic environment.

The main roads, both county-maintained roads, only pass over it and Interstate 164, instead of having an interchange with either highway and the nearest Indiana road is Indiana 68, 3. 5 miles north of town.

The nearest airport having scheduled commercial airline service is Newark Liberty International Airport, north, although Monmouth Executive Airport for general aviation airplanes is just distant.

) Despite its location at the confluence of two substantial roads and close to many tourist locations the town is notable for having no hotels or motels, the nearest options being in Farmington, New Mexico to the East and Cortez, Colorado to the North.

According to Edmond Ludlow on May 7th, about twelve o-clock we went to take our places in the House, Mr. Lenthal our Speaker leading the way, and the officers of the army lining the rooms for us, as we passed through the Painted Chamber, the Court of Requests, and the lobby itself, the principal officers having placed themselves nearest to the door of the Parliament-House, every one seeming to rejoice at our restitution, and promising to live and die with us.

Cameron, realising the importance of having a secure supply line ordered that river gunboats be built in Sydney-the nearest city with the necessary industrial experience.

The Hawks offense was largely composed of role players who seemed to take turns having big games and off days, and it was the team's speed that drove the team as the Hawks led the league in stolen bases in the regular season with 148, well ahead of their nearest challenger, who had 116.

On another, Cole dared an old schoolfriend from Eton, the newly elected Member of Parliament for Ramsey in Huntingdonshire, Oliver Locker-Lampson, to dash before him on a London street to the nearest corner with a 10-yard head start — having already slipped his gold watch into the MP's pocket.

The pricing system has also been changed with many products having their prices rounded up or down to the nearest multiple of 25p ( i. e. £ 1. 29 becomes £ 1. 25 ), this is known as Clear Cut Prices and aims to simplify the pricing system.

The system's 3D hardware performs transform and lighting, texture-coordinate transformation, texture mapping, alpha blending, cel shading, and z-buffering ; however, it uses point ( nearest neighbor ) texture filtering, leading to some titles having a blocky appearance.

Any stations having information concerning the whereabouts of the named vessel are asked to communicate with and report same to the nearest coast guard station.

The group has driven eight miles off the nearest back road without having told anyone where they were going, making rescue impossible.

When local detection is used, a computer in a network is not required to communicate with the entire network in order to detect an error — the error can be detected by having each computer communicate only with its nearest neighbors.

* fillet: said, by those who do not believe in the comble or chief enhanced, to be the nearest that the chief comes to having a diminutive, which is effectively a barrulet conjoined to a chief at its bottom edge — blazoned either as ' a chief supported by a fillet ' or as ' a chief filleted ' ( or things similar ); occasionally appears in its own right — though it is then very little other than a barrulet enhanced.

Auerbach's plexus ( or myenteric plexus ) provides motor innervation to both layers of the tunica muscularis, having both parasympathetic and sympathetic input, whereas Meissner's plexus has only parasympathetic fibers and provides secretomotor innervation to the mucosa nearest the lumen of the gut.

The nearest railway station is Paddock Wood, Horsmonden railway station having closed in 1961.

The nearest challenger was Giraud-Cabantous two laps down, Bira having retired with a fuel problem.

By this time, he was alone in the post and, having destroyed the telephone, he joined the nearest post and maintained a Lewis gun until reinforcements arrived.

Lieutenant McCarthy, realizing the situation, dashed across the open ground with two men to the nearest post, where, having out-distanced his companions, he put the gun out of action, then continued fighting his way down the trench.