By using instruments of gradually increasing size, the vagina is gently, and with minimum pain at each stage, taught to yield to an object of the appropriate shape.

Next we freeze over the oceans and cover the whole earth with peas, then we go out among the neighboring stars, collect 250 planets each the size of the earth, and also cover each of these with peas four feet deep ; ;

Balanced experiments ( those with an equal sample size for each

The relative size of each atom in the mix plays a primary role in determining which mechanism will occur.

For each round, a subkey is derived from the main key using Rijndael's key schedule ; each subkey is the same size as the state.

The focus on number speaks to the drive behind each of them: to reduce the size of the electorate by linking the franchise with property qualifications.

If each node additionally records the size of its subtree ( including itself and its descendants ), then the nodes can be retrieved by index in O ( log n ) time as well.

They have 10 – 32 trunk segments, decreasing in size from front to back, and each bears a pair of legs which also carry gills.

No modern species should be described as more " primitive " than others, strictly speaking, since each has an equally long evolutionary history — but the brains of modern hagfishes, lampreys, sharks, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals show a gradient of size and complexity that roughly follows the evolutionary sequence.

The Universe continued to grow in size and fall in temperature, hence the typical energy of each particle was decreasing.

One helpful analogy is that by creating multiple VLANs, the number of broadcast domains increases, but the size of each broadcast domain size decreases.

It had been pointed out previously by J. J. Thomson in his series of lectures at Yale University in May 1903 that the dynamic equilibrium between the velocity generated by a concentration gradient given by Fick's law and the velocity due to the variation of the partial pressure caused when ions are set in motion " gives us a method of determining Avogadro's Constant which is independent of any hypothesis as to the shape or size of molecules, or of the way in which they act upon each other ".

There has been extensive historiographical debate over the comparative strengths of the fleets, although they were ostensibly evenly matched in size, each containing 13 ships of the line.

The stitcher counts the threads in each direction so that the stitches are of uniform size and appearance.

However, if clusters are selected with probability proportionate to size, the same number of interviews should be carried out in each sampled cluster so that each unit sampled has the same probability of selection.

Because only a fraction of the cells in a tumor die with each treatment ( fractional kill ), repeated doses must be administered to continue to reduce the size of the tumor.

If each pixel on the display actually contains three rectangular subpixels of red, green, and blue, in that fixed order, then things on the screen that are smaller than one full pixel in size can be rendered by lighting only one or two of the subpixels.

" An aluminum identification tag, the size of a silver half dollar and of suitable thickness, stamped with the name, rank, company, regiment, or corps of the wearer, will be worn by each officer and enlisted man of the Army whenever the field kit is worn, the tag to be suspended from the neck, underneath the clothing, by a cord or thong passed through a small hole in the tab.

On 16 May 1968 a parachute brigade of two regiments ( each of three battalions ) was formed which eventually was to grow in size to a full division.

When the separation of scales does not hold, or when one wants to establish a continuum of a finer resolution than that of the RVE size, one employs a statistical volume element ( SVE ), which, in turn, leads to random continuum fields.

It might seem natural to divide the sets into different classes: put all the sets containing one element together ; all the sets containing two elements together ; ...; finally, put together all infinite sets and consider them as having the same size.

The above definition implies this one: the upper bound of the empty subset is any existing element of A, because A is nonempty ; furthermore, as provable with an induction argument over the size of nonempty finite subsets, the upper bound of a finite subset may be obtained by finding upper bounds of pairs iteratively.

The zone headquarters also doubled as battalion headquarters, and acted as a supervisory element for elements of company and platoon size assigned to each of the country's twenty-nine administrative regions.

In computer science, random access ( sometimes called direct access ) is the ability to access an element at an arbitrary position in a sequence in equal time, independent of sequence size.

Counting in the everyday sense typically starts from one, so it assigns to each object the size of the initial segment with that object as last element.

where s is the size of each element.

At the extremely heavy end of element production, these heavier elements can produce energy in the process of being split again back toward the size of iron, in the process of nuclear fission.

It has the same radiance because, although the emitted power from a given area element is reduced by the cosine of the emission angle, the apparent size ( solid angle ) of the observed area, as seen by a viewer, is decreased by a corresponding amount.

However, many formational and functional block parameters can be tuned ( capacity parameters, memory size, element base, block composition and interconnection structure ).

# Atoms of a given element are identical in size, mass, and other properties ; atoms of different elements differ in size, mass, and other properties.

The atomic radius of a chemical element is a measure of the size of its atoms, usually the mean or typical distance from the nucleus to the boundary of the surrounding cloud of electrons.

An interesting element of Calcutta auctions is in determining an appropriate wager for each contestant, as the payoff will directly hinge on the size of the pot and thereby the size of the bids being placed.

Many American crossword puzzles contain a " theme " consisting of a number of long entries ( generally three to five in a standard 15 × 15-square " weekday "- size puzzle ) that share some relationship, type of pun, or other element in common.

An element of is either a leaf of size zero, or a root node with two subtrees.

* If the last two heaps are of size L ( x + 1 ) and L ( x ) ( i. e.: consecutive leonardo numbers ), the new element becomes the root node of a bigger heap of size L ( x + 2 ).

* If the last two heaps of the string are not consecutive Leonardo numbers, then the rightmost element becomes a new heap of size 1.

The absolute value is defined so as to measure the change in size of a set after multiplying it by an element of K. Specifically, define |·|: K → R by

A key element of the cassette's success was its use in in-car entertainment systems, where the small size of the tape was significantly more convenient than the competing 8-track cartridge system.

The maximum reachable fluid temperature depends on the size of the flask, the quantity of solution to be heated, and the power of the heating element.

Formerly one of Custine's closest deputies, he was in his element leading the charge of a cavalry regiment, but had neither the acumen or confidence to head an army the size of the Armée du Nord.

Whipple ( 1955 ) extends the effects to include the solar-corpuscular-radiation pressure, which increases both the minimum particle size and the drag.

In states where a quantum mechanical particle is bound, it must be localized as a wave packet, and the existence of the packet and its minimum size implies a spread and minimal value in particle wavelength, and thus also momentum and energy.

Greenlip abalone have a minimum size of 145 mm, except for an area around Perkin's Bay in the north of the state where the minimum size is 132 mm.

There is a size minimum of seven inches ( 178 mm ) measured across the shell and a quantity limit of three per day and 24 per year.

For private suits the minimum jury size was 201 ( increased to 401 if a sum of over 1000 drachmas was at issue ), for public suits 501.

In many switched mode amplifiers, dynamic range is limited by the minimum output step size.

In France, a steady linking of all the river systems — Rhine, Rhône, Saône and Seine — and the North Sea was boosted in 1879 by the establishment of the Freycinet gauge, which specified the minimum size of locks so that canal traffic doubled in the first decades of the 20th century.

The Advanced Encryption Standard published in 2001 uses a key size of ( at minimum ) 128 bits.

Mira pulsates with a minimum size of 400 solar diameters and a maximum size of 500 solar diameters.

Implementations can implement a smaller virtual address space with a minimum size of 43 bits.

This test establishes the minimum physical size a charge of a specific explosive must be to sustain its own detonation wave.

This has led to the suggestion that galaxies are largely formed by dark matter, and that the minimum size may indicate a form of warm dark matter incapable of gravitational coalescence on a smaller scale.

31F: 08 8 Start of image-LZW minimum code size

The original chip measured 33 mm² and minimum feature size was 3. 2 μm.

IPv6 hosts are required to either perform path MTU discovery, perform end-to-end fragmentation, or to send packets no larger than the IPv6 default minimum MTU size of 1280 octets.

Great size, including height of shoulder and proportionate length of body is to be aimed at, and it is desired to firmly establish a breed that shall average ( minimum ) from 32-34in.

Super boats-Engines in the super boat class have no maximum size but instead have a minimum size restriction.

The size, shape, minimum weight, and center of gravity of the javelin implement itself are all defined by IAAF rules.