The great resemblance between electrical and magnetic attractions and repulsions and the similarity of their laws necessarily would bring about this comparison.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

The actual mean of 1.07 being about halfway between 0 of complete correlation and 2.0 of no correlation, it is evident that there is a pretty fair degree of similarity in the behavior even of particular individual items of meaning as regards long-term stem displacement.

It is the similarity between Estella's hands and Molly's ( `` The action of her fingers was like the action of knitting '' ) that provides Pip with a vital clue to the real identity of both and establishes a symbolic connection between the underworld of crime and the genteel cruelty of Satis House.

The similarity of the Roman abacus to the Chinese one suggests that one could have inspired the other, as there is some evidence of a trade relationship between the Roman Empire and China.

In agreement with Johnson, Donald C. Baker points out the similarity between both authors ' tones and use of irony.

Current opinion holds that the closer cultural similarity between the Mogollon and Ancient Pueblos and their greater differences from the Hohokam and Patayan is due to both the geography and the variety of climate zones in the Southwest.

* Angle-Side-Angle, a shortcut for showing either congruency or similarity between two triangles

His conclusion is based on his research on the similarity between the languages of the Achaeans and pre-historic Arcadians.

John V. Luce notes that when he writes about the genealogy of Atlantis's kings, Plato writes in the same style as Hellanicus and suggests a similarity between a fragment of Hellanicus's work and an account in the Critias.

Informally, it is the similarity between observations as a function of the time separation between them.

However, the similarity between the central concerns of Job and those of certain ancient Babylonian and Egyptian texts reveals a shared interest in the question of why the innocent suffer.

Proteins with the same three-dimensional structure need not have identical amino acid sequences ; any irrelevant similarity between the sequences is evidence for common descent.

Genetic distance calculations have indicated red wolves are intermediate between coyotes and gray wolves, and they bear great similarity to wolf / coyote hybrids in southern Quebec and Minnesota.

In his 2006 homily for Corpus Christi, Pope Benedict XVI noted the similarity between the Christian story of the resurrection and pagan myths of dead and resurrected gods: " In these myths, the soul of the human person, in a certain way, reached out toward that God made man, who, humiliated unto death on a cross, in this way opened the door of life to all of us.

Though both substances are high explosives, there is little similarity between them.

The similarity between a déjà-vu-eliciting stimulus and an existing, but different, memory trace may lead to the sensation.

This virtual reality investigation suggested that similarity between a new scene's spatial layout and the layout of a previously experienced scene in memory ( but which fails to be recalled ) may contribute to the deja vu experience.

The similarity between this epistle and that to the Romans has led to the conclusion that they were both written at roughly the same time, during Paul's stay in Macedonia in roughly 56-57.

In addition, having been close to him in their youth, she now showed excessive affection towards her uncle – whilst many historians today dismiss this as familial affection ( noting their early friendship, and his similarity to her father and grandfather ), many of Eleanor's adversaries mistook the generous displays of affection between uncle and niece for an incestuous affair.

Von Baer ’ s laws state that general features of animals appear earlier in the embryo than special features, where less general features stem from the most general, each embryo of a species departs more and more from a predetermined passage through the stages of other animals, and there is never a complete morphological similarity between an embryo and a lower adult.

The underlying debate between Haeckel and His derives from differing viewpoints regarding the similarity or dissimilarity of vertebrate embryos.

With the sequencing of both the human and chimpanzee genome, current estimates of the similarity between their DNA sequences range between 95 % and 99 %.

Due to their similarity in appearance, translucent nanoemulsions and microemulsions are frequently confused.

The taxonomic structure of the true finch family, Fringillidae, has been fairly disputed in the past, with some upranking the Hawaiian honeycreepers ( Drepanidinae ) as family Drepanididae and / or uniting the cardueline and fringilline finches as tribes ( Carduelini and Fringillini ) in one subfamily ; the euphonious finches ( Euphoniinae ) were thought to be tanagers due to general similarity in appearance and mode of life until their real affinities were realized.

Although the koala is not a bear, English-speaking settlers from the late 18th century first called it koala bear due to its similarity in appearance to bears.

This is reinforced for some by the alleged similarity of Locksley to the area of Loxley, South Yorkshire, in Sheffield, where in nearby Tideswell, which was the " Kings Larder " in the Royal Forest of the Peak, a record of the appearance of a " Robert de Lockesly " in court is found, dated 1245.

The word hornblende is derived from the German horn and blenden, to ' deceive ' in allusion to its similarity in appearance to metal bearing ore minerals.

Given the biogeography and appearance of the subgenus Olor it seems likely that these are of a more recent origin, as evidence shows by their modern ranges ( which were mostly uninhabitable during the last ice age ) and great similarity between the taxa.

Each " civilizing " project defined the aborigines based on the " civilizer "' s cultural understandings of difference and similarity, behavior, location, appearance and prior contact with other groups of people.

* A talking duck with an alarming similarity to Pukko also made a brief appearance in Episode 26 of Astro Boy ( 1980 ).

The few surviving Betazoids attempt to pass themselves off as Earth humans, since most species are unaware of the similarity in appearance between Betazoids and Humans.

Spiders in this genus are also called ogre-faced spiders, due to the similarity between their appearance and that of the mythological creature, the ogre.

The film was inspired by the noted similarity between Chaplin's appearance ( most notably his small mustache ) and that of German dictator Adolf Hitler.

Whilst they were resting in the area Flinders named the river the Derwent River ( the name John Hayes had given only to the upper part of the river ), Flinders referred to the mountain as ‘ Table Mountain ’ ( the name given to it by Bond and Bligh-young Matthew Flinders was with them in 1791 ) for its similarity in appearance to Table Mountain in South Africa.

In 1882 Maunder ( and some other European astronomers ) observed what he called an " auroral beam "; as yet unexplained, it had some similarity in appearance to either a noctilucent cloud or an upper tangent arc.

Brisson re-applied the name to the New World birds because of their similarity in appearance.

To the similarity of the historical vicissitudes through which they passed, their common political allegiance, and the early appearance of a national sentiment, the Churches of France owed it that they very soon formed an individual, compact, and homogeneous body.

Although the common names of P. laurocerasus refer to the similarity of foliage and appearance to bay laurel ( Laurus nobilis, the true laurel, in the Lauraceae family ), the two plants are in fact unrelated, being not only in different genera but also different families ( P. laurocerasus is in the rose family, Rosaceae ).

Its common name comes from its similarity in appearance to the olive ( Olea europaea ), in a different botanical family, Oleaceae.

endangered or threatened due to similarity of appearance ( Sec. 4. e )-a species not endagered or threatened, but so closely resembles in appearance a species which has been listed as endangered or threatened, that enforcement personnel would have substantial difficulty in attempting to differentiate between the listed and unlisted species.

The 511 trade name, slogan, logo design symbol and any combination, including its similarity in sound, appearance or meaning, all provide the identify for the nation's travel information number and distinguish its goods / services.

Of these, xylitol is perhaps the most popular due to its similarity to sucrose in visual appearance and sweetness.

The Master Gunnery Sergeant insignia consists of a bursting bomb ( colloquially referred to as a " pineapple " due to the similarity of its appearance as stylized ) centered vertically between three chevrons and four rockers.

This name refers to the purported similarity in appearance of the trunked species to an Aboriginal boy holding an upright spear.

They got a response in 2005 when Vault was brought to market, and while Coca-Cola has yet to confirm the similarity in taste and appearance, the members of the movement took the inception of Vault as the fruit of their labors.

Likewise, credit card companies usually have a " gold card " and a " platinum card " ( many formerly had a " silver card " then followed by a " gold card ", but due to similarity in appearance between silver and platinum these were often discontinued with the rise in popularity of platinum as a precious metal ); Standard Chartered Bank has introduced a " titanium card " as a grade higher than platinum.