Depending on the weight of the branch, the first cut should be a notch on the underside of the branch about a third to half of the way through.

In order to protect 3. 3V cards from being damaged in 5V-only devices, the card reader should have some mechanical provision ( such as detecting the type of notch ) to disallow insertion of an unsupported type of card.

With typical blade iron sights, the shooter should center the front post in the notch of the rear sight and the tops of both sights should be level.

From the shooter's point of view, there should be a noticeable space between each side of the front sight and the edges of the notch ; the spaces are called light bars, and the brightness of the light bars provides the shooter feedback as to the alignment of the post in the notch.

Also a large number of thresholds need to be calculated because the auditory filters are asymmetrical, so thresholds should also be measured with the notch asymmetric to the frequency of the signal.

The benefits of this system over series elements is that should one small element fail then the rest of the system will continue to operate, a draw back of this system is that its length is limited to multiples of the notch distance, so when installing on site you normally have to install slightly beyond the end of the pipe work.

But his wife loved him and protected him after Urey had decided the brash playboy should be brought down a notch.

I have a hunch Marv Breeding might move up a notch.

In each position the pedal can be secured in a notch so that the foot does not have to keep holding it in the correct position.

They have a straight ( planar ) opening, sometimes with a notch on the bottom side, and sealed with an operculum that has no ligula, clavicles, furrow or rooflets.

There is also a notch at the end of the bill and many species have slight serrations in the mandibles.

Sciaenids have a long dorsal fin reaching nearly to the tail, and a notch between the rays and spines of the dorsal, although the two parts are actually separate.

One of these efforts, the Digital Audio Recorder Copycode Act of 1987 ( introduced by Sen. Al Gore and Rep. Waxman ), instigated by CBS Records president Walter Yetnikoff, involved a technology called CopyCode and required DAT machines to include a chip to detect attempts to copy material recorded with a notch filter, meaning that copyrighted prerecorded music, whether analog or digital, whether on LP, cassette, or DAT, would have distorted sound resulting from the notch filter applied by the publisher at the time of mastering for mass reproduction.

The skyline appears to have a notch taken out of it when viewed from Delta.

When a " skinny " Dual In-line Pin package ( DIP ) integrated circuit ( such as a typical DIP-14 or DIP-16, which have a 0. 3 inch separation between the pin rows ) is plugged into a breadboard, the pins of one side of the chip are supposed to go into column E while the pins of the other side go into column F on the other side of the notch.

Several notable Celtic scholars, including Joseph Loth and Kuno Meyer, have preferred to derive it rather from Old Irish bolc " gap, breach, notch " ( cognate with Welsh bwlch ), suggesting a linguistic link with the second element in the name of Fergus mac Róich's sword, Caladbolg and King Arthur's sword Caledfwlch.

If headphones were designed to have a flat response, then they would sound much too ' bright ' when used to listen to stereo recordings and for this reason, most headphones are designed to have a notch around 5 kHz.

The fact that most headphones are actually designed to have a notch in the 5 kHz region is not widely understood, and this may have led to errors in the assessment of binaural recordings, since flat headphones are not normally available, and ' high quality ' headphones incorporate the notch just like any others, though perhaps with a better approximation to that needed by the average ear.

DDR, DDR2 and DDR3 all have a different pin-counts, and different notch positions.

For instance, XLR connectors have a notch to ensure proper orientation, while Mini-DIN plugs have a plastic projection, which fits into a corresponding hole in the socket and prevent different connectors from being pushed together ( they also have a notched metal skirt to provide secondary keying ).

Some BPL providers have installed " notch filters " to block out certain portions of the spectrum ( namely the amateur radio bands ), but a great amount of controversy over the deployment of this access method remains.

In this regard, they are believed to have taken a cue from Phish's Live Phish series and stepped up the formula a notch by releasing every show instead of just select concerts.

To find where they were, an operator would adjust the distance of the piece of wood closer or farther away from his eyes in order to have the bottom of the plank levelled with the horizon and the North Star placed inside the notch.

They have flukes with sharply pointed tips, a distinct notch in the middle and concave edges.

Its name, derived from the Polish word szczerba meaning a gap, notch or chip, is sometimes rendered into English as " the Notched Sword " or " the Jagged Sword ", although its blade has straight and smooth edges.

< center > MicroburinA microburin is a characteristic waste product from manufacture of lithic tools, sometimes confused with an authentic burin, which is characteristic of the Mesolithic, but which has been recorded from the end of the Upper Paleolithic until the Calcolithic .< ref > ( pages 127 y 272 )</ ref > This type of lithic artifact was first named by Henri Breuil who defined it as « a type of angular, smooth, with a terminal retouch in the form of a small notch ».

He was able to notch one top ten finish, however in July ppc Racing announced that the team could not continue with a full season due to insufficient sponsorship.

In 1963 White was unable to win a race for the first time since the 1957 season, but still managed to finish ninth in points, and notch 14 more top 10 finishes.

The 1968 campaign saw Chance put up a lackluster 16 – 16 record ( echoing the Twins ' 79 – 83 finish ), but saw him notch career lows in hits and walks per 9 innings ( 6. 9 & 1. 9 respectively ), and career highs in innings ( 292 ), strikeouts ( 234 ), and strikeouts per 9 innings ( 7. 9 ).

The notch on the left hand front of the device is slightly shallower on a CardBus device so, by design, a 32-bit device cannot be plugged into earlier equipment supporting only 16-bit devices.

High pass, low pass, and notch filters must be used to block certain frequencies, or channels, so that the modulator can broadcast the audio / video signal of the source device on that channel.

Tony Toscano of Talking Pictures had high praise for the film, saying that " its character development and writing ... is so crisp it crackles on the screen " and that " Matrix Reloaded re-establishes the genre and even raises the bar a notch or two " above the first film, The Matrix.

Some of the higher-end cameras used this notch to determine the correct exposure, or to set the light meter, if so equipped.

To rectify the sphere for use, first slacken the screw r in the upright stem R, and taking hold of the arm Q, move it up or down until the given degree of latitude for any place be at the side of the stem R ; and then the axis of the sphere will be properly elevated, so as to stand parallel to the axis of the world, if the machine be set north and south by a small compass: this done, count the latitude from the north pole, upon the celestial meridian L, down towards the north notch of the horizon, and set the horizon to that latitude ; then, turn the nut b until the sun Y comes to the given day of the year in the ecliptic, and the sun will be at its proper place for that day: find the place of the moon's ascending node, and also the place of the moon, by an Ephemeris, and set them right accordingly: lastly, turn the winch W, until either the sun comes to the meridian L, or until the meridian comes to the sun ( according as you want the sphere or earth to move ) and set the hour-index to the XII, marked noon, and the whole machine will be rectified.

Reese Witherspoon, who portrayed June Carter Cash in the film and won a Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance, stated during an interview that when they first performed in-character before a live audience, she was so impressed with his impersonation that she knew she " had to step it up a notch ".

The position of the sprung ' hopper ' or ' jack ' centred in the key of Crisofori's action ( see illustration below ) is so adjusted that the hopper escapes from the ' notch ' in the middle of the intermediate lever just before the hammer strikes the string, so that the hammer is not driven all the way but travels the remaining distance under its own momentum and then falls into the check.

A common practice with single-sided floppies was to punch a second notch on the opposite side of the disk to enable use of both sides of the media, creating a flippy disk, so called because one originally had to flip the disk over to use the other side.

Each character attribute is assigned a price to improve, so for example it might cost a character 2 points to raise an archery skill one notch, 10 points to raise overall dexterity by one, or it might cost 20 points to learn a new magic spell.

The racks hold ten 4. 5 mL tubes, and have a notch so they can only go in one way.

Notch and most of its ligands are transmembrane proteins, so the cells expressing the ligands typically must be adjacent to the notch expressing cell for signaling to occur.

A Swiss arrow ( also known as a Dutch arrow, Yorkshire arrow or Gypsy arrow ) is a weapon similar to an arrow but thrown rather than shot from a bow ( so as to make it a dart ), with the addition of a small notch close to the fletching.

* The pedicles are directed laterally and backward, and are attached to the body midway between its upper and lower borders, so that the superior vertebral notch is as deep as the inferior, but it is, at the same time, narrower.

Once all discs and the dial are rotating together, the dial is rotated until the last disc is in place and the notch is in the proper positioning, then by rotating the dial in the other direction, the catches will all disconnect, starting from the dial to the first disc and so on until they connect from the other side and the discs begin to rotate together by the same method but in the opposite direction.

The larger the opening the more conspicuous would be the notch in the roof which is so greatly objected to ; in this respect Jacques Hittorf would seem to be nearer the truth when, in his conjectural restoration of Temple R. at Selinus, he shows an opaion about half the relative size shown in Cockerells of that at Aegina, the coping on the side elevation being much less noticeable.

Ancient Greek fishermen created an artificial notch on the dorsal fin of dolphins entangled in nets so that they could tell them apart years later.

Opposite Cannon Mountain, on the east side of the notch, are the Eagle Cliffs, so named for the eagles that sometimes roost there.

Chrysler promoted the greater safety of the PowerFlite pattern ; because forward and reverse settings were separated by neutral and it was necessary to move the lever only one notch to the left or right to put the car in motion, so an accidental overshift past D would result in a harmless shift to low gear rather than an unintended engagement of reverse.

The format was changed again so that both adults sat above the gunge tank with the winning child from the games being given a 1 notch head start ( or, if the winning margin was 60 points or more, a 2 notch head start ).

The magazine is inserted front-first into the well so that the notch on the front of the magazine is retained in the well.