This phenomenon is called monodispersity in contrast to the polydispersity encountered in synthetic polymers.

Quantum mechanics under the Copenhagen Interpretation interpreted probability as a physical phenomenon, which is what Jaynes called a Mind Projection Fallacy.

A computation can be seen as a purely physical phenomenon occurring inside a closed physical system called a computer.

Hubbard called this phenomenon an engram, and defined it as " a complete recording of a moment of unconsciousness containing physical pain or painful emotion and all perceptions.

By analogy, the phenomenon of small events causing similar events leading to eventual catastrophe is called the domino effect.

Because it demonstrates the fundamental limitation of the observer to predict experimental results, Richard Feynman called it " a phenomenon which is impossible ... to explain in any classical way, and which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics.

Hippolyte Fizeau discovered independently the same phenomenon on electromagnetic waves in 1848 ( in France, the effect is sometimes called " l ' effet Doppler-Fizeau " but that name was not adopted by the rest of the world as Fizeau's discovery was three years after Doppler's ).

Presque vu is similar to, but distinct from, the phenomenon called tip of the tongue, a situation when someone cannot recall a familiar word or name, but with effort one eventually recalls the elusive memory.

When the emission of the photon is immediate, this phenomenon is called fluorescence, a type of photoluminescence.

When the emission of the photon is delayed, the phenomenon is called phosphorescence.

This phenomenon is also called evaporative cooling.

The phenomenon is called Central Pacific ( CP ) El Niño, " dateline " El Niño ( because the anomaly arises near the dateline ), or El Niño " Modoki " ( Modoki is Japanese for " similar, but different ").

But first, enough electrons must be attracted near the gate to counter the dopant ions added to the body of the FET ; this forms a region free of mobile carriers called a depletion region, and the phenomenon is referred to as the threshold voltage of the FET.

Augustine did, however, recognise a phenomenon he called jubilation-sounds of exaltation without words ; commentators such as Richard Hogue speculate that the practice of singing in the spirit persisted in Augustine's era, although xenoglossia was no longer extant among Christian:

This phenomenon is called sieving.

As a language evolves, cases can merge ( for instance in Ancient Greek genitive and ablative have merged as genitive ), a phenomenon formally called syncretism.

In 1938, Russian physicist Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa discovered that helium-4 has almost no viscosity at temperatures near absolute zero, a phenomenon now called superfluidity.

This phenomenon, where molecule Y affects the binding of molecule X to a transport molecule Z, is called a heterotropic allosteric effect.

Although quarks also carry color charge, hadrons must have zero total color charge because of a phenomenon called color confinement.

The school of religious history called the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule was a 19th century German school of thought which was the first to systematically study religion as a socio-cultural phenomenon.

This phenomenon is called haplodiploidy.

This effect can be visualized in the phenomenon called phase separation.

Honey has the ability to absorb moisture directly from the air, a phenomenon called hygroscopy.

The average IQ scores for many populations have been rising at an average rate of three points per decade since the early 20th century, a phenomenon called the Flynn effect.

On New Year's Day 2007, and again on New Year's Eve, UK television station Channel 4 dedicated an entire evening to the Monty Python phenomenon during which an hour-long documentary was broadcast called The Secret Life of Brian about the making of The Life of Brian and the controversy that was caused by its release.

In passages of scripture such as where the Son, Father, and Holy Spirit are separated in the text, they view this phenomenon as confirming God's omnipresence, and His ability to manifest himself as he pleases.

It was the release of the album's first single " Smells Like Teen Spirit " that " marked the instigation of the grunge music phenomenon ".

However, grunge remained largely a local phenomenon until 1991, when Nirvana ‘ s Nevermind became a huge success thanks to the lead single " Smells Like Teen Spirit ".

Other names for the phenomenon are " falling over ", " falling under the Spirit's power ", " falling before the Lord ", " slain under the power " or " resting in the Spirit ".

Whether voluntary or involuntary, " falling before the Lord " as a human response to the manifestation of the Holy Spirit is seen by many charismatics as a phenomenon that is in harmony with the Scriptures.

He gives this opening statement in the book: " There is only one outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the latter days, although the streams flow through channels known as ‘ classical Pentecostalism ,’ Protestant ‘ neo-Pentecostalism ,’ and the ‘ Catholic charismatic renewal .’ In the end it adds up to one great historical phenomenon which has had a profound effect on Christianity around the world.

An example of this phenomenon was the Christian resistance group, the Holy Spirit Movement, which fought against the government of Yoweri Museveni.

Although some mystics in both the Western and Eastern churches have associated feelings of ecstasy with meditation, ( e. g. St. Teresa of Avila's legendary meditative ecstasy ), St. Gregory of Sinai, one of the originators of Hesychasm, stated that the goal of Christian meditation is " seeking guidance from the Holy Spirit, beyond the minor phenomenon of ecstasy ".

This common source may be a common source of inspiration ( e. g. a certain natural phenomenon that inspired similar myths in different cultures ) or a common " protomythology " that diverged into the various mythologies we see today.

New Wave became a catch-all term, encompassing disparate styles such as 2 Tone ska, the mod revival inspired by The Jam, the sophisticated pop-rock of Elvis Costello and XTC, the New Romantic phenomenon typified by Ultravox, synthpop groups like Tubeway Army ( which had started out as a straight-ahead punk band ) and Human League, and the sui generis subversions of Devo, who had gone " beyond punk before punk even properly existed ".

Paranormal romance, inspired by Rice but mostly dropping the open sexuality of her characters in favour of more conventional sexual roles, is a remarkable contemporary publishing phenomenon.

David Anthony notes, " About 20 % of Scythian-Sarmatian " warrior graves " on the lower Don and lower Volga contained females dressed for battle as if they were men, a phenomenon that probably inspired the Greek tales about the Amazons.

David Anthony notes, " About 20 % of Scythian-Sarmatian " warrior graves " on the lower Don and lower Volga contained females dressed for battle as if they were men, a phenomenon that probably inspired the Greek tales about the Amazons.

In addition, Dick Hyman composed a number of tunes allegedly inspired by the Zelig phenomenon, including " Leonard the Lizard ", " Reptile Eyes ", " You May Be Six People, But I Love You ", " Doin ' the Chameleon ", " The Changing Man Concerto ", and " Chameleon Days ", the latter performed by Mae Questel, the voice of Betty Boop.

The fundraising phenomenon of the Calendar Girls was inspired by the death of Angela Baker's husband John Richard Baker, an Assistant National Park Officer for the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, who died from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 54 in 1998.

In the UK, British blues became a gradually mainstream phenomenon, returning to the USA in the form of the British Invasion, a group of bands led by The Beatles and The Rolling Stones who performed blues and R & B inspired pop, with both traditional and modernized aspects.

The story was inspired by the phenomenon of popular singer Elvis Presley and his draft notice into the Army in 1957.

One of his most recognized pieces outside Lebanon is " Habbeetik ", which inspired Hatten är din, a Swedish flash animation which gained worldwide popularity as an Internet phenomenon.

Baker and Nietzel point out a popular phenomenon that began with Collins's first book: " Act of Fear ... inspired the by-now monotonous chant by critics about each new hard-boiled author being ' the best since Hammett ,' ' the new Chandler ,' and ' the heir to Ross Macdonald.

The size of the largest temple cars inspired the Anglo-Indian term Juggernaut ( from Jagganath ), signifying a tremendous, virtually unstoppable force or phenomenon.