The phoneme is defined by the International Phonetic Association as " the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances ".

Dynamic range, abbreviated DR or DNR, is the ratio between the largest and smallest possible values of a changeable quantity, such as in signals like sound and light.

The smallest of these, the A-7, used a medium-sized sectoral metal horn for high frequencies which featured dividers ( sectors ) to provide control sound dispersion, plus a medium-sized wooden low-frequency enclosure, which functioned as a hybrid bass-horn / bass-reflex enclosure.

Phonemic awareness is a subset of phonological awareness in which listeners are able to hear, identify and manipulate phonemes, the smallest units of sound that can differentiate meaning.

Phonemic awareness is a subset of phonological awareness that focuses specifically on recognizing and manipulating phonemes, the smallest units of sound.

To touch the smallest particle of the host or the smallest droplet from the chalice is to touch Jesus Christ himself, as when one person touches another on the back of the hand with only a fingertip and in so doing touches not merely a few skin cells but touches the whole person: " Christ is present whole and entire in each of the species and whole and entire in each of their parts, in such a way that the breaking of the bread does not divide Christ.

* Cathie Jung, owner of the smallest waist on a living person ( measuring just 15 in.

* Microvascular disease – Disease of the smallest blood vessels that sometimes occurs when a person has had diabetes for a long time.

After 1998, the category changed to " smallest waist on a living person " and Cathie Jung took the title with a waist measuring.

Although ringing up certainly involves some physical exertion, actual ringing should rely more on practised skill than mere brute force ; after all, even the smallest bell to be encountered in a tower will be much heavier than the person ringing it.

Man-portable air-defense systems ( MANPADS ) are the smallest of SAMs and are capable of being carried and launched by a single person and thus suitable for local air defence, such as against attack helicopters.

His journey toward Rome was made in company of an artist named Carter, described as " a captious, cross-grained and self conceited person who kept a regular journal of his tour in which he set down the smallest trifle that could bear a construction unfavorable to the American's character.

According to the “ one-drop rule ," even the smallest amount of African ancestry ( or a drop of African blood ) legally defined a person as black.

Being the smallest person on Sesamstraat, she often hangs out with Pino.

This line, designated 20 / 20, is the smallest line that a person with normal acuity can read at a distance of twenty feet.

If this is the smallest line a person can read, the person's acuity is " 20 / 40 ," meaning, in a very rough kind of way, that this person needs to approach to a distance of twenty feet to read letters that a person with normal acuity could read at forty feet.

His shoulders are 28 metres wide and his smallest toenail is large enough to easily accommodate a seated person.

Mary was described as the smallest person at court, crooked backed and " very ugly ".

This is the smallest level within ICS and usually refers to a single person or piece of equipment.

Contrast sensitivity is the reciprocal of the smallest contrast for which a person can see a sine-wave grating.

Cathie Jung ( born 1937 ) is an American Victorian dress and corset enthusiast residing in Old Mystic, Connecticut, USA, who currently holds the Guinness World Record for the smallest waist on a living person.

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In the smallest productions, all three of these functions are done by one person.

The smallest provinces appoint only one person, preferably from among the laity.

is less than twice the smallest standard deviation, we can use methods

Every such subset has a smallest element, so to specify our choice function we can simply say that it maps each set to the least element of that set.

In addition, i ) d is the smallest positive integer that can be written as

Aspects of combinatorics include counting the structures of a given kind and size ( enumerative combinatorics ), deciding when certain criteria can be met, and constructing and analyzing objects meeting the criteria ( as in combinatorial designs and matroid theory ), finding " largest ", " smallest ", or " optimal " objects ( extremal combinatorics and combinatorial optimization ), and studying combinatorial structures arising in an algebraic context, or applying algebraic techniques to combinatorial problems ( algebraic combinatorics ).

The atom is also the smallest entity that can be envisaged to retain the chemical properties of the element, such as electronegativity, ionization potential, preferred oxidation state ( s ), coordination number, and preferred types of bonds to form ( e. g., metallic, ionic, covalent ).

The elementary reaction is the smallest division into which a chemical reaction can be decomposed to, it has no intermediate products.

The set of constructible numbers can be completely characterized in the language of field theory: the constructible numbers form the quadratic closure of the rational numbers: the smallest field extension of which is closed under square root and complex conjugation.

For a convex shape in the plane, the diameter is defined to be the largest distance that can be formed between two opposite parallel lines tangent to its boundary, and the width is defined to be the smallest such distance.

Most side effects are mild and " dose-related " and can often be avoided or minimized by the use of the smallest effective amount.

Buckminsterfullerene is the smallest fullerene molecule containing pentagonal and hexagonal rings in which no two pentagons share an edge ( which can be destabilizing, as in pentalene ).

One of the smallest is the Black-footed Cat, measuring long, while the largest in the wild is the tiger, which can attain up to in length and weigh.

* gcd ( a, b ), where a and b are not both zero, may be defined alternatively and equivalently as the smallest positive integer d which can be written in the form d = a · p + b · q where p and q are integers.

Second and third generation designs dramatically improved accuracy to the point where even the smallest point targets can be successfully attacked.

A mural artist is only limited by the fee and therefore the time spent on the painting ; dictating the level of detail ; a simple mural can be added to the smallest of walls.

The word Mishnah can also indicate a single paragraph or verse of the work itself, i. e. the smallest unit of structure in the Mishnah.

The word Mishnah can also indicate a single paragraph or verse of the work itself, i. e. the smallest unit of structure in the Mishnah.

M. genitalium is the smallest known genome that can constitute a cell, and the second-smallest bacterium after the endosymbiont Carsonella ruddii.

The waterway can be used by the smallest barges that are still in use commercially ( almost 40 metres long and just over 5 metres wide ).

While words are generally accepted as being ( with clitics ) the smallest units of syntax, it is clear that in most languages, if not all, words can be related to other words by rules ( grammars ).

* The subpixels can be ignored, with full-color pixels being treated as the smallest addressable imaging element ; or

The smallest Pelton wheels are only a few inches across, and can be used to tap power from mountain streams having flows of a few gallons per minute.

In abstract algebra, the field of fractions or field of quotients of an integral domain is the smallest field in which it can be embedded.

So we can conclude that the original proposition, ¬ p, must be true — " there is no smallest rational number greater than 0 ".

The smallest can be defeated with one sword strike, the medium-sized need to be hit multiple times and the largest ones can be split to two smaller ones with a vertical slash.