`` Only a relative handful of such reports was received '', the jury said, `` considering the widespread interest in the election, the number of voters and the size of this city ''.

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

Amdahl's law is a model for the relationship between the expected speedup of parallelized implementations of an algorithm relative to the serial algorithm, under the assumption that the problem size remains the same when parallelized.

Predators tend to have larger brains than their prey, relative to body size.

About 90 % of women's breasts are asymmetrical to some degree, either in size, volume, or relative position upon the chest.

Nearly all the descriptive words used to justify the genus division were relative terms without a reference measure, and the argument did not take into account the size differences between the species, which can be considerable.

Quantitative symbols give a visual measure of the relative size / importance / number that a symbol represents and to symbolize this data on a map, there are two major classes of symbols used for portraying quantitative properties.

Sometimes the space savings is given instead, which is defined as the reduction in size relative to the uncompressed size:

Taiko are also characterized by a high amount of tension on the drums heads, with a correspondingly high pitch relative to body size.

The double bass's large size and relative fragility make it cumbersome to handle and transport.

Elton defined ecological relations using concepts of food chains, food cycles, and food size, and described numerical relations among different functional groups and their relative abundance.

The hallmarks of a fighter are its speed, maneuverability, and small size relative to other combat aircraft.

After the American Civil War, the federal government increased greatly in influence on everyday life and in size relative to the state governments.

The engineering properties of soils are affected by four main factors: the predominant size of the mineral particles, the type of mineral particles, the grain size distribution, and the relative quantities of mineral, water and air present in the soil matrix.

Because of the greater size and relative efficiency of the Salvadoran and Guatemalan industrial sectors, however, Honduras bought far more manufactured products from its neighbors than it sold to them.

Ebbinghaus is also credited with discovering an optical illusion now known after its discoverer — the Ebbinghaus illusion, which is an illusion of relative size perception.

Stating it this way allows the relative toxicity of different substances to be compared, and normalizes for the variation in the size of the animals exposed ( although toxicity does not always scale simply with body mass ).

Furthermore, the size of the industry relative to the minimum efficient scale may limit the number of companies that can effectively compete within the industry.

:* Rat ( Rattus norvegicus )-particularly useful as a toxicology model ; also particularly useful as a neurological model and source of primary cell cultures, owing to the larger size of organs and suborganellar structures relative to the mouse.

Slightly expanded they are called buttons, once again because of the relative size and shape.

Mergers are generally differentiated from acquisitions partly by the way in which they are financed and partly by the relative size of the companies.

The French Navy won some important victories near the end of the 17th century but a focus upon land forces led to the French Navy's relative neglect, which allowed the Royal Navy to emerge with an ever-growing advantage in size and quality, especially in tactics and experience, from 1695.

This is the notion that particular cultures should not be judged by one culture's values or viewpoints, but that all cultures should be viewed as relative to each other.

Following each individual brick should be a layer of adobe mortar, recommended to be at least an inch thick to make certain there is ample strength between the brick ’ s edges and also to provide a relative moisture barrier during the seasons where the arid climate does produce rain.

Similarly, arbitrage affects the difference in interest rates paid on government bonds issued by the various countries, given the expected depreciations in the currencies relative to each other ( see interest rate parity ).

In duplicate bridge, the cards held by each player in each deal are preserved so that each partnership plays the same set of hands as their East-West or North-South counterparts at other tables and with the scoring based upon relative performance, thus emphasizing skill over chance.

Within each magnitude class, Bayer made no attempt to arrange stars by relative brightness.

A backplane ( or " backplane system ") is a group of electrical connectors in parallel with each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors forming a computer bus.

Except in the case of the isotopes of hydrogen ( which differ greatly from each other in relative mass — enough to cause chemical effects ), the isotopes of the various elements are typically chemically nearly indistinguishable from each other.

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

The area of study examines issues such as how each major form of business entity may be formed, operated, and dissolved ; the degree to which limited liability protects investors ; the extent to which a business can be held liable for the acts of an agent of the business ; the relative advantages and disadvantages of different types of business organizations, and the structures established by governments to monitor the buying and selling of ownership interests in large corporations.

Note, however, that it is acceptable to define two relative terms in respect of each other.

* Docking ( molecular ), a research technique for predicting the relative orientation of two molecules to each other in a bimolecular complex

In one opinion, this pattern is clearly present among the modern Romance tongues, with Italian and Spanish having a high degree of mutual comprehensibility, which neither language shares with French, despite some claiming that both languages are genetically closer to French than to each other: In fact, French-Italian and French-Spanish relative mutual incomprehensibility is due to French having undergone more rapid and more pervasive phonological change than have Spanish and Italian, not to real or imagined distance in genetic relationship.

Another form of measurement is to compare the relative sizes of different parts of the subject with each other.

Light incident at a given point in the space downstream of the slit is made up of contributions from each of these point sources and if the relative phases of these contributions vary by 2π or more, we may expect to find minima and maxima in the diffracted light.

For example, Duncan Kennedy, in explicit reference to semiotics and deconstruction procedures, maintains that various legal doctrines are constructed around the binary pairs of opposed concepts, each of which with a claim upon intuitive and formal forms of reasoning that must be made explicit, not only in their meaning but also its relative value, and criticized.

Thus, ecosystem processes are driven by the number of species in an ecosystem, the exact nature of each individual species, and the relative abundance organisms within these species.

At the accession of Charles I in 1625, England and Scotland had both experienced relative peace, both internally and in their relations with each other, for as long as anyone could remember.

Friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other.

* Fluid friction describes the friction between layers within a viscous fluid that are moving relative to each other.