Western astrology is founded on the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies such as the Sun, Moon, planets, which are analyzed by their movement through signs of the zodiac ( spatial divisions of the ecliptic ) and by their aspects ( angles ) relative to one another.

Continental drift is the movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other by appearing to drift across the ocean bed.

As the beam interacts with the material, some electrons change their properties, such as movement direction, angle, relative phase and energy.

He is described in the Gospel of Luke as a relative of Jesus who led a movement of baptism at the Jordan River.

The relative rise in popularity of the Evangelical movement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was due to a number of reasons: the on-set of the Industrial Revolution and the subsequent break up of, particularly, rural communities, was an unsettling influence on a parish like Olney ; Methodism had seen a significant growth in popularity in the same period ; and Evangelicalism was gradually finding its way into the established Church of England.

The lack of strobe ( as opposed to flicker ) is due to the higher sampling rate of the camera relative to the speed of movement of the image across the film plane.

Smaller changes in tension can be effected by contraction of the thyroarytenoid muscle or changes in the relative position of the thyroid and cricoid cartilages, as may occur when the larynx is lowered or raised, either volitionally or through movement of the tongue to which the larynx is attached via the hyoid bone.

For example, ketchup can have its viscosity reduced by shaking ( or other forms of mechanical agitation, where the relative movement of different layers in the material actually causes the reduction in viscosity ) but water cannot.

These uncertainties can be caused by internal movement ( for example, respiration and bladder filling ) and movement of external skin marks relative to the tumor position.

Some aspects of the obligatory synergy patterns however, can be cleverly used to increase function relative to the movement available to the individual.

The energy that drives a sailboat is harnessed by manipulating the relative movement of wind and water speed: if there is no difference in movement, such as on a calm day or when the wind and water current are moving in the same direction at the same speed, there is no energy to be extracted and the sailboat will not be able to do anything but drift.

A typical way to classify data storage media is to consider its shape and type of movement ( or non-movement ) relative to the read / write device ( s ) of the storage apparatus as listed:

The rider controls forward and backward movement by leaning the Segway relative to the combined center of mass of the rider and Segway, by holding the control bar closer to or farther from their body.

These factors included the continuing Baptist movement in England, English language publications about the Sabbath in the early 1600s, and a relative freedom of religion from state interference in Oliver Cromwell's commonwealth.

However, the relative position of the two images will remain steady, and as long as the user can determine when the celestial object touches the horizon the accuracy of the measurement will remain high compared to the magnitude of the movement.

The proper motion of a star is its amount of movement across the celestial sphere, determined by comparing its position relative to more distant background objects.

Although this is a relatively fast movement, perhaps a second or so while transmission is in neutral, it allows the engine speed to drop and synchronize engine and transmission revolutions relative to the road speed.

Aristarchus thus believed the stars to be very far away, and saw this as the reason why there was no visible parallax, that is, an observed movement of the stars relative to each other as the Earth moved around the Sun.

Some of Mozart's early symphonies are Italian overtures, with three movements running into each other ; many are homotonal ( all three movements having the same key signature, with the slow middle movement being in the relative minor ).

The aircraft's horizontal and vertical movement is tracked via radar, and the controller tells the pilot his position relative to the approach slope.

This is analogous to both the seat sliding on the boat, and the boat sliding relative to the rower, on the water.

The seat always remains stationary relative to the body.

In 1877 an act was passed repealing that section of the law relative to the town, and another law was enacted whereby the qualified voters were to vote on the question of moving the county seat to South Washington or any other place which the majority of the voters designated.

* Despite its relative small size, Columbia was once the county seat of Henry County ( before the county was divided to form Houston county.

It is the region ’ s largest trading center due to its relative distance from the county seat of Antlers, Oklahoma — 36 miles.

The ejection seat was removed and two seats were added, ( at a 90-degree angle relative to the Vostok crew seats position ).

With the rebel forces clearly an imminent threat to the imperial seat of Chang ' an, and with conflicting advice from his advisers, Tang emperor Xuanzong determined to flee to the relative sanctuary of Sichuan, with its natural protection of ranges of mountains, which would allow for the Tang forces to reorganize and regroup.

The trainsets, of which two can be coupled together, consist of two traction heads and eight articulated passenger cars, and seat 363 passengers in two classes, with enhanced comfort relative to the KTX-I.

Federal electoral districts in Canada are re-adjusted every ten years based on the Canadian census and proscribed by various constitutional seat guarantees, including the use of a Grandfather clause, for Quebec, the Central Prairies and the Maritime provinces, with the essential proportions between the remaining provinces being " locked " no matter any further changes in relative population as have already occurred.

Traveling through Bhutan to the Panchen Lama's seat at Tashilhunpo in 1775 Bogle established friendly relations with the 3rd Panchen Lama, Lobsang Palden Yeshe, so friendly that he took a close relative of the Panchen Lama as his wife.

The modern infant car seat is a relative latecomer.

Mini Mokes can still be seen around the town of Victoria, Seychelles as it is still a popular mode of transport for tourists and can seat 4 people in relative comfort from island point to island point.

Wyre Forest was held with relative ease by the Conservatives ' Anthony Coombs in the 1987 and 1992 general elections ; however the 1997 Labour landslide saw that party gain the seat with David Lock securing a majority of almost 7, 000.

It presently has a capacity of approximately 18, 500 all seated, which is quite large relative to the population of Monaco ( about 30, 500 ); it can seat almost two-thirds of the country's population, a feat no other stadium can boast.

* 1780 Sep 1: loses Liskeard seat in Parliament when patron and relative Edward Eliot defects to the opposition.

A geologist and geophysicist by training, Williams entered Parliament in 1995 when he won the Port of Spain South seat formerly held by PNM founder Dr. Eric E. Williams ( no relative ).

Instead, Extant was teleported by Hourman and Metron, at Atom Smasher's behest, into the seat of an airplane whose crash Kobra had caused earlier ( in his relative timestream ).

* Smooth running: Rotaries delivered power very smoothly because ( relative to the engine mounting point ) there are no reciprocating parts, and the relatively large rotating mass of the cylinders acted as a flywheel.

Notable in this category are the Jupiter and Thor intermediate range ballistic missiles, which have been successfully developed, produced, and deployed, but the relative importance of which has diminished with the increasing availability of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile.

These stores are still there, but the volume of the `` downtown store '' has been on a relative decline, while in many cities the suburban `` branch '' sells more and more dry goods.

The concept of unity, in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force, in which good and evil are relative, ever-changing, and always joined to the same phenomenon -- such a concept is still reserved to the physical sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas.

Now that Israel enjoys relative prosperity and a reduction of tensions, the secularists are less disposed to compromise.

To understand American politics is, simply, to know people, to know the relative weight of names -- who are heroes, who are straw men, who controls, who does not.

In the Pollard script, an abugida, vowels are indicated by diacritics, but the placement of the diacritic relative to the consonant is modified to indicate the tone.

Melzak's and Lambek's primitive models reduced this notion to four elements: ( i ) discrete, distinguishable locations, ( ii ) discrete, indistinguishable counters ( iii ) an agent, and ( iv ) a list of instructions that are effective relative to the capability of the agent.

Since all energies are measured relative to the vacuum, H is positive definite.

Class V resins are considered to be produced by a pine or pine relative.

The philosophical works, occupying the first six and the last of the twenty-one volumes, are generally divided according to the Aristotelian scheme of the sciences, and consist of interpretations and condensations of Aristotle's relative works, with supplementary discussions upon contemporary topics, and occasional divergences from the opinions of the master.

" The black race of Africa are inferior to the white man in point of intellect – better calculated in physical structure to undergo drudgery and hardship – standing, as they do, many degrees lower in the scale of gradation that expresses the relative relation between God and all that he has created than the white man.

Strings whose Kolmogorov complexity is small relative to the string's size are not considered to be complex.

Theorem: If K < sub > 1 </ sub > and K < sub > 2 </ sub > are the complexity functions relative to description languages L < sub > 1 </ sub > and L < sub > 2 </ sub >, then there is a constant c – which depends only on the languages L < sub > 1 </ sub > and L < sub > 2 </ sub > chosen – such that

The first major application was the relative version of Serre's theorem showing that the cohomology of a coherent sheaf on a complete variety is finite dimensional ; Grothendieck's theorem shows that the higher direct images of coherent sheaves under a proper map are coherent ; this reduces to Serre's theorem over a one-point space.

The adrenal glands are named for their location relative to the kidneys.

Internally the positively charged cations are flowing away from the anode ( even though it is negative and therefore would be expected to attract them, this is due to electrode potential relative to the electrolyte solution being different for the anode and cathode metal / electrolyte systems ); but, external to the cell in the circuit, electrons are being pushed out through the negative contact and thus through the circuit by the voltage potential as would be expected.

Math., 1858 ) and Ernst Abbe showed that the properties of these reproductions, i. e. the relative position and magnitude of the images, are not special properties of optical systems, but necessary consequences of the supposition ( in Abbe ) of the reproduction of all points of a space in image points ( Maxwell assumes a less general hypothesis ), and are independent of the manner in which the reproduction is effected.

In the United States there is a proportionally limited tax on alcopops relative to those sold in Europe, although some states are considering legislation to bring their tax levels closer to the European model, which is credited with limiting consumption by youth.

Arbitrage tends to reduce price discrimination by encouraging people to buy an item where the price is low and resell it where the price is high ( as long as the buyers are not prohibited from reselling and the transaction costs of buying, holding and reselling are small relative to the difference in prices in the different markets ).