* – smooth ( or soft ) breathing ( spiritus lenis ): lack of aspiration

These symbols were the origin of the rough breathing and smooth breathing diacritics that became part of classical Greek orthography.

In chemistry, the letter H as symbol of enthalpy sometimes is said to be a Greek eta, but since enthalpy comes from ἐνθάλπος, which begins in a smooth breathing and epsilon, it is more likely a Latin H for ' heat '.

By the time lower case letters, iota subscripts, accent marks, rough or smooth breathing marks over letters, and punctuation appeared in written Greek in the Middle Ages, Attic Greek writings had not been produced by native speakers for some centuries.

Note: for the h sound, see rough breathing and smooth breathing.

The absence of an sound is marked by the smooth breathing.

Instead, the consonant before the contracted vowel changes to the aspirated equivalent ( i. e., π → φ, τ → θ, κ → χ ), if possible, and the contracted vowel takes the apostrophe or coronis ( identical to the smooth breathing ).

The lymph transport in the thoracic duct is mainly caused by the action of breathing, aided by the duct's smooth muscle and by internal valves which prevent the lymph from flowing back down again.

The smooth breathing ( ) is written as on top of one initial vowel, on top of the second vowel of a diphthong, or to the left of a capital, and also in certain editions on the first of a pair of rhos.

The smooth breathing was kept in the traditional polytonic orthography even after the sound had disappeared from the language in Hellenistic times.

All other Cyrillic-based modern writing systems are based on the Petrine script, so they have never had the smooth breathing.

Coronis, the symbol written over a vowel contracted by crasis, was originally an apostrophe after the letter, but today is usually written as a smooth breathing.

In Unicode, the code points assigned to the smooth breathing are for Greek and for Cyrillic.

In polytonic orthography a rho at the beginning of a word is written with a rough breathing ( equivalent to h ) — rh — and a double rho within a word is written with a smooth breathing over the first rho and a rough breathing over the second — rrh — apparently reflecting an aspirated or voiceless pronunciation in Ancient Greek, hence the various Greek-derived English words which start with rh or contain rrh.

Modern Church Slavonic orthography uses smooth breathing sign ( Greek and Church Slavonic: psili, Latin: spiritus lenis ) above the initial vowels ( just for tradition, there is no difference in pronunciation ).

Taffeta (; archaically spelled taffety ) is a crisp, smooth plain woven fabric made from silk or synthetic fibres.

* Leonid Stein vs Salo Flohr, Ukrainian Championship, Kiev 1957, Caro-Kann Defence, Flohr-Smyslov Modern Variation ( B17 ), 0-1 Another smooth positional massage from the Master of the ' Roach '.

Modern Provolone is a full-fat cow's milk cheese with a smooth skin, produced mainly in the Po River Valley regions of Lombardia and Veneto.

Modern roller-type chassis dyno systems use the " Salvisberg roller ", which improves traction and repeatability, as compared to the use of smooth or knurled drive rollers.

Modern Soviet tanks, like the ones mentioned, are typically armed with 125mm smooth bore guns.

WJZJ, along with WAVC 93. 9 in Mio and WLJZ 94. 5 in Mackinaw City, MI, launched The Zone, Northern Michigan's Modern Rock, in 1998, replacing the low-rated satellite-delivered smooth jazz format " Coast-FM ", after having been sold from Del Reynolds to Northern Star Broadcasting.

" Modern styles however continued with the smooth style and added a slight " lilt.

Lithography ( from Greek λίθος-lithos, ' stone ' + γράφειν-graphein, ' to write ') is a method for printing using a stone ( lithographic limestone ) or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface.

In the early days of lithography, a smooth piece of limestone was used ( hence the name " lithography ": " lithos " ( λιθος ) is the ancient Greek word for stone ).

In their original Greek version, Doric columns stood directly on the flat pavement ( the stylobate ) of a temple without a base ; their vertical shafts were fluted with 20 parallel concave grooves ; and they were topped by a smooth capital that flared from the column to meet a square abacus at the intersection with the horizontal beam ( entablature ) that they carried.

The name derives from the Greek for smooth amphibia.

The epithet of the genus was derived from Greek lisso, smooth, and delphis ; the specific epithet, borealis, indicates the northern distribution.

The name of the genus was derived from Greek lisso, smooth, and delphis.

The generic name is derived from the Ancient Greek psilos ( ψιλός ) (" smooth " or " bare ") and the Byzantine Greek kubê ( κύβη ) (" head ").

The name has reference to this characteristic appearance, from the Greek for ( naked, smooth ) and ( black ); a Latinized form is calvonigrite, and a German name with the same meaning is Schwarzer Glaskopf.

In phonetics, a triphthong ( from Greek τρίφθογγος, " triphthongos ", literally " with three sounds ," or " with three tones ") is a monosyllabic vowel combination involving a quick but smooth movement of the articulator from one vowel quality to another that passes over a third.

Common plants with everyday usage include the smooth reddish purple leaves of the ti ( Dracaena terminalis ) plant used with coconut oil for traditional massage, fofo, and the dried root stems of Piper methysticum ( Piper Latin for " pepper ", methysticum Greek for " intoxicating ") are mixed with water for the important Ava Ceremony conducted during cultural events and gatherings.

The painter Yang Liu, for example, has incorporated smooth versions of the traditional Greek Key ( also called Sona drawing, Sand drawing, and Kolam ) in many of her paintings.,,.

The name of the genus is derived from Greek roots meaning " gland-bearing and smooth flower ".

Chryse Planitia ( Greek, " Golden Plain ") is a smooth circular plain in the northern equatorial region of Mars close to the Tharsis region to the west, centered at.

The name " Liopleurodon " ( meaning " smooth-sided tooth ") derives from Greek words: λεῖος, " smooth "; pleurá, side or rib ; and odṓn, tooth.

* Sound distinctions from foreign languages may be lost, as with the distinction between smooth rho ( ρ ) and roughly aspirated rho ( ῥ ) in Ancient Greek, represented by ⟨ r ⟩ and ⟨ rh ⟩ in Latin, but merged to the same in English.

The weekend air staff includes Dave Greek, Greg Russ, Jennifer Kajzer and Paul Cavalconte, who was the only personality rehired from the WQCD smooth jazz format.

( 1 ) When an object was placed in the patient's hand, he had no difficulty determining whether it was warm or cold, sharp or blunt, rough or smooth, flexible, soft, or hard ; ;

special equipment required for registering respiration and for recording the contraction of smooth muscles under various conditions was developed by the Instruments Section ( Victor Jackman, W. C. Barnes, J. F. Reiss ) ; ;

He who gives in charity and fears Allah And in all sincerity testifies to the Truth ; We shall indeed make smooth for him the path of Bliss

Distinct types of membranes also create intracellular organelles: endosome ; smooth and rough endoplasmic reticulum ; sarcoplasmic reticulum ; Golgi apparatus ; lysosome ; mitochondrion ( inner and outer membranes ); nucleus ( inner and outer membranes ); peroxisome ; vacuole ; cytoplasmic granules ; cell vesicles ( phagosome, autophagosome, clathrin-coated vesicles, COPI-coated and COPII-coated vesicles ) and secretory vesicles ( including synaptosome, acrosomes, melanosomes, and chromaffin granules ).

This version of rasterization has overtaken the old method as it allows the graphics to flow without complicated textures ( a rasterized image when used face by face tends to have a very block-like effect if not covered in complex textures ; the faces are not smooth because there is no gradual color change from one primitive to the next ).

The pregroove is molded into the top side of the polycarbonate disc, where the pits and lands would be molded if it were a pressed ( nonrecordable ) Red Book CD ; the bottom side, which faces the laser beam in the player or drive, is flat and smooth.

It rises from the stylobate without any base ; it is from four to six times as tall as its diameter ; it has twenty broad flutes ; the capital consists simply of a banded necking swelling out into a smooth echinus, which carries a flat square abacus ; the Doric entablature is also the heaviest, being about one-fourth the height column.

The qualitative properties of dynamical systems do not change under a smooth change of coordinates ( this is sometimes taken as a definition of qualitative ): a singular point of the vector field ( a point where v ( x ) = 0 ) will remain a singular point under smooth transformations ; a periodic orbit is a loop in phase space and smooth deformations of the phase space cannot alter it being a loop.

From a classical perspective, the electromagnetic field can be regarded as a smooth, continuous field, propagated in a wavelike manner ; whereas from the perspective of quantum field theory, the field is seen as quantized, being composed of individual particles.

Originally, the Great Pyramid was covered by casing stones that formed a smooth outer surface ; what is seen today is the underlying core structure.

Programming features such as randomization, variables, and intermap script activation enable smooth hub gameplay and are responsible for most of the special effects within the game: On-screen messages ; random sound effect and monster spawning ; sidedef texture changes ; versatile control of polyobjects ; level initialization for deathmatch ; and even complex environment changes such as earthquakes manipulating floor levels and textures.