In repetitions of the experiment from couple to couple, the votes of the two persons in a couple probably agree more often than independence would imply, because couples who visit the museum together are more likely to have similar tastes than are a random pair of people drawn from the entire population of visitors.

Pond-type larvae often have a pair of balancers, rod-like structures on either side of the head which perhaps prevent the gills from getting clogged up with bottom sediment.

The Iranian mathematician Muhammad Baqir Yazdi ( 16th century ) discovered the pair ( 9363584, 9437056 ), though this has often been attributed to Descartes.

* The case n = 2 is often illustrated by saying that at any moment there is always a pair of antipodal points on the Earth's surface with equal temperatures and equal barometric pressures.

In molecular biology and genetics, the linking between two nitrogenous bases on opposite complementary DNA or certain types of RNA strands that are connected via hydrogen bonds is called a base pair ( often abbreviated bp ).

The GU pairing, with two hydrogen bonds, does occur fairly often in RNA ( see wobble base pair ).

In the simplest view of a so-called ' covalent ' bond, one or more electrons ( often a pair of electrons ) are drawn into the space between the two atomic nuclei.

* A nearby pair of a vacancy and an interstitial is often called a Frenkel defect or Frenkel pair.

Australian doors are a pair of plywood swinging doors often found in Australian public houses.

At the other extreme, many entry level kits are sold complete with two cymbal stands, most often one straight and one boom, and some even with a standard cymbal pack, a stool and a pair of drum sticks.

A PCI device has often an ID pair for the main chip of the device, and also a subsystem ID pair which identifies the vendor, which may be different from the chip manufacturer.

Such a play is " insured " against all lower pairs, but far too often player with a lower pair calls at expensive times only to make sure he or she is not bluffed.

Such aspects of one god as male god ( Shaktiman ) and female energy ( Shakti ), working as a pair are often envisioned as male gods and their wives or consorts and provide many analogues between passive male ground and dynamic female energy.

Hack reported that, during the 1940s and 1950s, Hoover so often attended social events with Lela Rogers, the divorced mother of dancer and actress Ginger Rogers, that many of their mutual friends assumed the pair would eventually marry.

The binary operation of a semigroup is most often denoted multiplicatively:, or simply, denotes the result of applying the semigroup operation to the ordered pair.

For example, if a closed string splits, its worldsheet will look like a single pipe splitting ( or connected ) to two pipes ( often referred to as a pair of pants — see drawing at right ).

Pitching was often inconsistent or the offense was non-existent ( such as during a pair of 1 – 0 losses for losing pitcher Matt Cain ).

They have eight legs and are easily recognized by the pair of grasping claws and the narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back, ending with a venomous stinger.

In the preceding years there was a deluge of Spaghetti Westerns with a pair of heroes with ( most often ) conflicting motives.

The pair is often played with Irish accents, as in the Beckett on Film project.

Although both authors ' later work often elaborated on concepts first discussed in Illuminatus !, the pair never collaborated again.

Sometimes the vein will actually pass tangent to the notch, but often it will pass by at a small distance, and when that happens a spur vein ( occasionally a pair of such spur veins ) branches off and joins the leaf margin at the deepest point of the notch.

Singles and pair skaters more often skate to the melody and phrasing of their music, rather than its beat ; this is severely penalized in ice dance.

Therefore, a pair of words whose earlier forms are distinct, yet similar, as far back as they have been traced, could in theory have come from a common root in an even earlier language, making them real cognates.

As with the larvae, the pupae of most species must come to the surface frequently to breathe, which they do through a pair of respiratory trumpets on the cephalothorax.

Oscar nominations would come Matthau's way again for 1972's Kotch, directed by Lemmon, and 1975's The Sunshine Boys, another Simon vehicle transferred from the stage, this one about a pair of former vaudeville stars.

In the city itself, wine spurted freely from sculpted archers and artificial pelicans in artificial trees ; the canals were decorated with torches, and the bridges decked with flowers ; the arms of the happy couple were displayed everywhere, accompanied by the mottoes of the pair: Charles ' Je l ' ay emprins (" I have undertaken it ") and Margaret's Bien en aviengne (" May good come of it ").

She falls in love with him, and she and her handmaid come to Ireland in search of him in the form of a pair of swans.

Now if you move the vernier by a small amount, say, one tenth of its fixed main scale, the only pair of marks which come into alignment will be the first pair since these were the only ones originally misaligned by one tenth.

As long as the entries of the matrix come from a ring that has an identity, and n > 1 there is a pair of n × n noncommuting matrices over the ring.

The conservation of both relativistic and invariant mass applies even to systems of particles created by pair production, where energy for new particles may come from kinetic energy of other particles, or from a photon as part of a system.

A head-related transfer function ( HRTF ) is a response that characterizes how an ear receives a sound from a point in space ; a pair of HRTFs for two ears can be used to synthesize a binaural sound that seems to come from a particular point in space.

Stamps that are perforated on one pair of opposite sides and imperforate on the other have most often been produced in coils instead of sheets, but they can sometimes come from booklet panes.

Some of Sniffles ' films pair him with a bookworm character who accompanies the mouse into a sort of fantasyland where books and toys come to life, such as Toy Trouble.

: While the Kalevide and his cousin Alevide are walking through the country they come across a pair of demons arguing over the ownership of a pool.

There are also more subtle references, such as an apartment hidden within the game with blood on the bathroom walls and a chainsaw ( in a nod to the film's " chainsaw torture " scene ), or the pair of detectives which come chasing Vercetti in a car resembling the Ferrari Testarossa after a three-star wanted level is attained, which look like characters portrayed by Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas in Miami Vice.

I commissioned something about seventy pair of shoes and brogues, which might come to 3 shillngs or three shillings and sixpence each, one with the other.

Rorschach is also shown to openly disapprove of Dan and Laurie's relationship, mockingly stating " Should have known all it would have taken you to come back was nice pair of legs " and being condescending toward Laurie for " being unfaithful to Jon ", asking if she " just got tired of being patriotic or did somebody put you up to it?

He and the townsfolk request the ka-tet's assistance in battling against the Wolves of Thunderclap, who come once a generation to take one child from each pair of the town's twins.

An alternate way of receiving all the cards is snapping when there is not actually any kind of matching pair ; however, in order for this to come into effect the player must touch the deck in the middle.

As with the larvae, pupae must come to the surface frequently to breathe, which they do through a pair of respiratory trumpets on their cephalothoraces.

If the female stays, the pair will enter the nest and come to rest in the middle.

After having come this far, he thought he might as well await the next transit of Venus, which would come in another eight years ( they are relatively infrequent, occurring in pairs 8 years apart, but each such pair is separated from the previous and next pairs by more than a century.

The names Castor and Pollux come from a pair of brothers in Greek mythology that make up the Gemini constellation.

If one of the last pair of batsmen is out, a retired batsman may come in and resume his innings.