Various reasons have been suggested for the resistance to the Celsius system in the U. S., including the larger size of each degree Celsius ( resulting in the need for decimals where integer Fahrenheit degrees were adequate for much non-technical work ), the lower zero point in the Fahrenheit system ( which reduces the number of negative signs when measurements such as weather data were averaged ), and the more intuitive alignment of its 0-100 scale to the ordinary range of outdoor temperatures seen in most of the U. S. ( e. g., 0 ° F

This is not the only way probabilistic statements are used in ordinary human language: when people say that " it will probably rain ", they typically do not mean that the outcome of rain versus not-rain is a random factor that the odds currently favor ; instead, such statements are perhaps better understood as qualifying their expectation of rain with a degree of confidence.

The length of time depends on the degree to which the rice was polished, ranging from several hours or even overnight for an ordinary milling to just minutes for highly polished rice.

An " echoppe " point can be made from an ordinary tempered steel etching needle, by grinding the point back on a carborundum stone, at a 45 – 60 degree angle.

They differ from ordinary polynomials in that they may have terms of negative degree.

In mathematics, the general linear group of degree n is the set of n × n invertible matrices, together with the operation of ordinary matrix multiplication.

In mathematics, the special linear group of degree n over a field F is the set of n × n matrices with determinant 1, with the group operations of ordinary matrix multiplication and matrix inversion.

Graduates of liberal degrees, i. e. non-professional such as Humanities or Science, receive an honours Bachelor of Arts degree after four years, but may receive an ordinary B. A.

One degree of freedom occurs when one has an autonomous ordinary differential equation in a single variable, with the resulting one-dimensional system being called a phase line, and the qualitative behaviour of the system being immediately visible from the phase line.

The degree to which ordinary Red Sox fans ever believed in the curse has been questioned, e. g., by Bill Simmons in his 2005 book, Now I Can Die in Peace.

If a student passes the course but fails to do so sufficiently well for third class honours to be awarded he will be awarded with an ordinary degree.

Some graduates write " Hons " after their degree postnominals to show that they have an honours degree rather than an ordinary degree however some consider this to be an affectation.

In ordinary usage it denotes respect and status, and it is often used to suggest that someone is not receiving a proper degree of respect, or even that they are failing to treat themselves with proper self-respect.

* the practical limit on the degree of vacuum attainable means that a very large brake piston and cylinder are required to generate the force necessary on the brake blocks ; when a proportion of the British ordinary wagon fleet was fitted with vacuum brakes in the 1950's, the physical dimensions of the brake cylinder prevented the wagons from operating in some private sidings that had tight clearances ;

As such, it provides one way of measuring the degree to which the geometry determined by a given Riemannian metric might differ from that of ordinary Euclidean n-space.

In addition, in The Fellowship of the Ring, both Gandalf and Frodo express frustration with hobbits ' staidness and dislike of anything foreign or out of the ordinary, and even in Concerning Hobbits the narrator shows a certain degree of impatience with hobbits ' general narrow-mindedness.

But there are many substances in the Pharmacopoeia which are not only employed in medicine, but have other uses, such as sulphur, gum benzoin, tragacanth, gum arabic, ammonium carbonate, beeswax, oil of turpentine, linseed oil, and for these a commercial standard of purity as distinct from a medicinal one is needed, since the preparations used in medicine should be of the highest possible degree of purity obtainable, and this standard would be too high and too expensive for ordinary purposes.

Algy, for instance, seems to be younger than Biggles to a degree that is impossible, at least by the ordinary calendar.

It was at the same level as the ordinary Bachelor's degree and below the honours Bachelor's degree, whilst the Higher Diploma is taken after the Bachelor's degree.

If requested to do so by a petition signed by a majority of the membership of the Seanad, and one-third of the membership of the Dáil, the President may, after consultation with the Council of State, decline to sign into law a bill ( other than a bill to amend the constitution ) he / she considers to be of great " national importance " until it has been approved by either the people in an ordinary referendum or the Dáil reassembling after a general election, held within eight months.

If the world is reflected in a mirror which switches the left and right side of the car, the " reflection " of this angular momentum " vector " ( viewed as an ordinary vector ) points to the right, but the actual angular momentum vector of the wheel still points to the left, corresponding to the extra minus sign in the reflection of a pseudovector.

He disbursed these sums, by his own hands or by Deputy Paymasters ; these payments being made under the authority of sign manual warrants as far as related to the ordinary expenses of the army, and under Treasury warrants in the case of extraordinary expenses ( the expenses which were unforeseen and unprovided for by Parliament ).

As the Soviet Union did not sign any international convention on rules of war, they were denied the status of prisoners of war and instead almost all of the captured officers and a large number of ordinary soldiers were then murdered ( see Katyn massacre ) or sent to Gulag.

The President can thus refuse to sign it until it has been approved either in an ordinary referendum or by the Dáil after it has reassembled after a general election.

Since the grave lacks any rich funeral offerings or any sign of opulence, the archaeologists conclude the grave is that of a simple ordinary peasant.

However, due to the immense popularity of Mikhail Gorbachev with ordinary East Germans disillusioned with their own hardline Communist leaders, the DSF's membership grew massively in the last years of the regime which many interpret as a sign of support of Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika by the East German people.

It is this sign change which distinguishes the split-complex numbers from the ordinary complex ones.

* An unnamed parameter cannot contain an ordinary equals sign, as this would be interpreted as setting off a named parameter.

To generalize this concept, we define an anticommutator, which relates operators the same way as an ordinary commutator, but with the opposite sign:

The President can thus refuse to sign it until it has been approved either in an ordinary referendum or by the Dáil after it has reassembled after a general election.

In many countries, such as the U. S. A. and Canada, income from dividends is taxed, albeit at a lower rate than ordinary income.

Amidst an ordinary tour for VIPs at the U. S. headquarters of the Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) in Omaha, Nebraska, an alert is initiated when SAC radar indicates an intrusion into American airspace of an unidentified flying object.

When criticized, the U. S. military's response was to point out that these men were no ordinary combatants, and to express hope that confirmation of the deaths would bring closure to the Iraqi people.

* November 27: U. S. President George W. Bush makes a stealthy Thanksgiving Day visit to Baghdad ( the White House having announced that he would be at home with his family ) in an attempt to boost morale among the troops and ordinary Iraqis.

It must be ( 1 ) ordinary and ( 2 ) necessary ( Welch v. Helvering, 290 U. S. 111, defines this as necessary for the development of the business at least in that they were appropriate and helpful ).

This power to regulate navigation confers upon the United States a dominant servitude, FPC v. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., 347 U. S. 239, 249 ( 1954 ), which extends to the entire stream and the stream bed below ordinary high-water mark.

By contrast, the U. S. allows as a deduction “ all the ordinary and necessary expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year in carrying on any trade or business ...” subject to qualifications, enhancements, and limitations.

The coffin of U Thant was then snatched by a group of students just before it was scheduled to leave for burial in an ordinary Rangoon cemetery.

But, because treaty limitations with the U. S. limited both countries ' naval power on the Great Lakes, two British armed topsail schooners, HMS Tecumseth and HMS Newash were laid up " in ordinary ", and eventually reported to have sunk at their moorings in the harbour in 1828.

A first model of trailer license plate consists of a combination of 3 letters starting with " U " and 3 digits, all red, on white reflecting background with red frame ( so the only difference with ordinary plates is the first letter U ).

Parents and teachers who opposed the New Math in the U. S. complained that the new curriculum was too far outside of students ' ordinary experience and was not worth taking time away from more traditional topics, such as arithmetic.

Blackhawk and Chuck are the least stereotypical, both speaking in ordinary U. S. English.

Writing U ( z )= q ( z ) u ( z ) for a suitable choice of q ( z ), the ordinary differential equation takes the form

* Welch v. Helvering, 290 U. S. 111 ( 1933 ) which concerns Internal Revenue Code Section 162 and the meaning of " ordinary " business deductions.

The British Royal Flying Corps and the U. S. Army Air Service saw " trench strafing " as another task for ordinary pursuit or fighter aircraft, such as the Airco DH. 5 and Sopwith Camel, and did not seek out specialized units or equipment until the late months of the war.

These scholars argue that much language in Trans-Missouri Freight was dicta, and also emphasized the Court's decision in United States v. Joint Traffic Association, 171 U. S. 505 ( 1898 ), in which the Court announced that " ordinary contracts and combinations " did not offend the Sherman Act, because they merely restrained trade " indirectly.

Most of the ordinary people there never have an opportunity to open an offshore account or to get their hands on more than a few bills of a stable currency like U. S. dollars.

* Relax ( U. S .: REST ) The only parade instruction given in an ordinary voice, rather than the raised, emphatic parade voice.

Super ultra-low emission vehicle ( SULEV ) is a U. S. classification for conventionally powered, natural gas powered, or gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle designed to produce minimal emissions of certain categories of air pollution at their exhaust, typically 90 % less than that of an equivalent ordinary full gasoline vehicle for the controlled pollution categories.

It is called a " U-turn " because the maneuver looks like the letter U. In some areas, the maneuver is illegal, while in others it is treated as a more ordinary turn, merely extended.

Adlai Stevenson II | Adlai Stevenson was called an " egghead " by Richard Nixon during the U. S. presidential election, 1952 | 1952 US presidential race. In the slang of the United States, egghead is an anti-intellectual epithet, directed at people considered too out-of-touch with ordinary people and too lacking in realism, common sense, virility, etc.