The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

In fact, at separations of 10 nm — about 100 times the typical size of an atom — the Casimir effect produces the equivalent of 1 atmosphere of pressure ( 101. 325 kPa ), the precise value depending on surface geometry and other factors.

For the purpose of quick identification in all of these, heraldry distinguishes only seven basic colors and makes no fine distinctions in the precise size or placement of charges on the field.

Determining a precise value for a particular knot is difficult because many factors can affect a knot efficiency test: the type of fiber, the style of rope, the size of rope, whether it is wet or dry, how the knot is dressed before loading, how rapidly it is loaded, whether the knot is repeatedly loaded, and so on.

In 2008 it was suggested that the Pharos was the vertical yardstick used in the first precise measurement of the size of the earth.

A measure on X is a function which assigns a real number to subsets of X ; this can be thought of as making precise a notion of " size " or " volume " for sets.

A tabloid is a newspaper with compact page size smaller than broadsheet, although there is no standard for the precise dimensions of the tabloid newspaper format.

The country's exact size is unknown because of disputed claims to several islands in the Persian Gulf, because of the lack of precise information on the size of many of these islands, and because most of its land boundaries, especially with Saudi Arabia, remain undemarcated.

The precise size relative to the Scottish forces is unclear but estimates range from as much as at least two or three times the size of the army Bruce had been able to gather, to as little as only 50 % larger.

A smaller head size offers more precise control.

The observatory and five others in Japan, Italy, Russia, and the United States gathered information that is still used by scientists today, along with information from satellites, to determine polar motion ; the size, shape, and physical properties of the earth ; and to aid the space program through the precise navigational patterns of orbiting satellites.

In Britain and the U. S. A., many proposals for type size standardization had been made by the end of 19th century ( such as Bruce Typefoundry ’ s mathematical system that was based on a precise geometric progression ).

More generally there are other differences between the studies that need to be allowed for, but the general aim of a meta-analysis is to more powerfully estimate the true effect size as opposed to a less precise effect size derived in a single study under a given single set of assumptions and conditions.

Unaware of this work, Anton van Leeuwenhoek provided another microscopic description in 1674, this time providing a more precise description of red blood cells, even approximating their size, " 25, 000 times smaller than a fine grain of sand ".

The size of an avalanche, its mass and its destructive potential are rated on a logarithmic scale, typically of 5 categories, with the precise definition of the categories depending on the observation system or geographic region in which the avalanche occurs.

" A more precise description of just what Pope Nicholas ordered constructed is found in the writings of the Viterbese chronicler Nicola della Tuccia, who, in the 1470s, described the new Bagno del Papa as a battlemented building about 30 x 20 m in size with high towers at the corners of its southern facade.

Semiconductor manufacturers would use a precise memory size such as 2048 by 8 and sometimes state the number of bits ( 16384 ).

* Molecular sieve, a material containing tiny pores of a precise and uniform size that is used as an adsorbent for gases and liquids.

Whatever the case, Hackworth was probably the first of the very few engineers throughout history to fully take into account the role of the blast in automatically realising the " perfect equilibrium between steam production and usage " in a locomotive when fitted with a firetube boiler, and to consider the blastpipe as a distinct device, paying close attention to its proportions, nozzle size, positioning and precise alignment.

The precise dates and means of formation of the lordships varied, as did their size.

Some artists have moved away from precise trimming of a single sheet of paper to the size of the printing plate when using this method.

It is a catch-all term for a heterogeneous set of words and terms that lack a precise lexical definition.

Examining prevalence data and the characteristics of juvenile sex offenders is a fundamental component to obtain a precise understanding of this heterogeneous group.

They arise in situations in which one believes that what happens depends not only on the external world, but also on the precise pattern of behavior of the individual or group.

A group homomorphism between two groups " preserves the group structure " in a precise sense – it is a " process " taking one group to another, in a way that carries along information about the structure of the first group into the second group.

There is continual argument over the precise definition of each of these periods, and one historian might group them differently, or choose different names or descriptions.

This discipline resembles a group form of ice dance with additional emphasis on precise formations of the group as a whole and complex transitions between formations.

( The precise identity of the latter group is unclear.

For instance, Radhanites were a medieval guild or group ( the precise meaning of the word is lost to history ) of Jewish merchants who traded between the Christians in Europe and the Muslims of the Near East.

While the precise definition of an inverse element varies depending on the algebraic structure involved, these definitions coincide in a group.

One such experiment aimed at determining the precise fatal dose of a poison of the alkaloid group ; according to the testimony of one doctor, four Russian POWs were administered the poison, and when it proved not to be fatal they were " strangled in the crematorium " and subsequently " dissected ".

While Ruffini and Abel established that the general quintic could not be solved, some particular quintics can be solved, such as ( x − 1 )< sup > 5 </ sup >= 0, and the precise criterion by which a given quintic or higher polynomial could be determined to be solvable or not was given by Évariste Galois, who showed that whether a polynomial was solvable or not was equivalent to whether or not the permutation group of its roots – in modern terms, its Galois group – had a certain structure – in modern terms, whether or not it was a solvable group.

These rules rely on common sense to make notions such as " connected group " and " surround " precise.

The precise criterion that distinguishes between those equations that can be solved by radicals and those that cannot was given by Évariste Galois and is now part of Galois theory: a polynomial equation can be solved by radicals if and only if its Galois group ( over the rational numbers, or more generally over the base field of admitted constants ) is a solvable group.

Sometimes Hilbert's statements were not precise enough to specify a particular problem but were suggestive enough so that certain problems of more contemporary origin seem to apply, e. g. most modern number theorists would probably see the 9th problem as referring to the ( conjectural ) Langlands correspondence on representations of the absolute Galois group of a number field.

They have emphasized that, in diagnosing abnormal visual development, the more precise the developmental norms, the more sharply can the abnormal be distinguished from the normal, and to that end have documented normal visual development in a large group of infants.

The group still needed a name, so MacKaye chose the word " fugazi " from Mark Baker's Nam, a compilation of stories of Vietnam War veterans, where it was used as slang for " fucked up ", or, to be precise, an acronym for " Fucked Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In a body bag ".

The Poincaré group itself is the minimal subgroup of the affine group which includes all translations and Lorentz transformations, and, more precise, it is a semidirect product of the translations and the Lorentz group:

The precise process by which SPEWS gathered data about spam sources is unknown to the public, and it is likely that its operators used multiple techniques.

These frequencies are amplified and detected by the FM receiver after each burst of transmitted energy and, after the `` pill '' has been calibrated, precise internal pressure indications can be obtained.

Even though the registers may have an incomplete record of persons present in a particular area or include persons no longer living there, they contain precise information on ages, by date of birth, for some of the persons present ( especially children in relatively stable communities ) and supplementary information ( such as records of marital status ) for many others.

A consequence of using waveforms to describe particles is that it is mathematically impossible to obtain precise values for both the position and momentum of a particle at the same time ; this became known as the uncertainty principle, formulated by Werner Heisenberg in 1926.

While the precise identity of the author is debated, the consensus is that this work was composed by a ( Koine ) Greek speaking Gentile writing for an audience of Gentile Christians.

The arrangement of the spines is very precise, and is described by what is called the Müllerian law.

Wedge-shaped polycrystals were identified by transmission electron microscopy to grow out of the amorphous phase only after the latter has exceeded a certain thickness, the precise value of which depends on deposition temperature, background pressure and various other process parameters.

The backhand clear is considered by most players and coaches to be the most difficult basic stroke in the game, since precise technique is needed in order to muster enough power for the shuttlecock to travel the full length of the court.

To find out what the precise law is that applies to a particular set of facts, one has to locate precedential decisions on the topic, and reason from those decisions by analogy.

The discovery of the cosmic microwave background in 1965 lent strong support to the Big Bang model, and since the precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background by the Cosmic Background Explorer in the early 1990s, few cosmologists have seriously proposed other theories of the origin and evolution of the cosmos.

A context-free grammar provides a simple and mathematically precise mechanism for describing the methods by which phrases in some natural language are built from smaller blocks, capturing the " block structure " of sentences in a natural way.

The standards do require discs to meet precise requirements in order to be called Compact Discs, but the other discs may be called by other names ; if this were not true, no DVD drive could legally bear the Compact Disc logo.

With the increasingly precise data provided by WMAP, there have been a number of claims that the CMB suffers from anomalies, such as very large scale anisotropies, anomalous alignments, and non-Gaussian distributions.

Orchestral timpani can be quickly tuned to precise pitches by using a foot pedal.

These terms by themselves are not very precise, and many subtle intermediate cases exist.

The intuition that the sum of all sources minus the sum of all sinks should give the net flow outwards of a region is made precise by the divergence theorem.

The language of the DSM was described as " simultaneously precise and vague " in order to provide an aura of scientific objectivity yet not limit psychiatrists in a semantic or financial sense, and the manual itself compared to " a militia's Web page, insofar as it constitutes an alternative reality under siege " by critics.

The precise facts have been obscured by history, but modern historians believe Nerva was proclaimed Emperor solely on the initiative of the Senate, within hours after the news of the assassination broke.

A precise search area was difficult to define, as even small differences in estimates of the aircraft's speed, or the environmental conditions along the flight path ( which varied significantly by location and altitude ), changed Cooper's projected landing point considerably.

It is argued that Tryon had attempted to introduce greater independence and initiative amongst his captains, which he believed would be essential in the confusion of a real war situation, but had ironically been killed in an accident caused by captains rigorously obeying incorrect but precise orders issued by Tryon himself.

His theory of peripatric speciation ( a more precise form of allopatric speciation which he advanced ), based on his work on birds, is still considered a leading mode of speciation, and was the theoretical underpinning for the theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould.

Some were Bs in the most precise sense, produced to run on the bottom of double bills by a low-budget unit of one of the major studios or by one of the smaller, so-called Poverty Row outfits, from the relatively well-off Monogram to shakier ventures such as Producers Releasing Corporation ( PRC ).

As well as helping determine the parallax of 61 Cygni, Bessel's precise measurements allowed him to notice deviations in the motions of Sirius and Procyon, which he deduced must be caused by the gravitational attraction of unseen companions.