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standard and military
* Aquila ( Roman ), a Roman military standard
The current standard of 130 at bats, 50 innings pitched or 45 days on the active roster of a Major League club ( excluding time in military service or on the disabled list ) before September 1 was adopted in 1971.
The language was an inter-service standard for British military programming, and was also widely adopted for civil purposes in the British control and automation industry.
For political reasons, analyzing these varieties as " languages " or " dialects " yields inconsistent results: British and American English, spoken by close political and military allies, are almost universally regarded as dialects of a single language, whereas the standard languages of Serbia and Croatia, which differ from each other to a similar extent as the dialects of English, are being treated by some linguists from the region as distinct languages, largely because the two countries oscillate from being brotherly to being bitter enemies.
After a 6-month period of military training, persons may work on government projects or with private enterprises, with the private company paying a charge to the government but the worker only receiving standard national service wages.
All standard military explosives may be considered to have a high degree of stability at temperatures from – 10 to + 35 ° C, but each has a high temperature at which its rate of decomposition rapidly accelerates and stability is reduced.
In order to compensate for the lack of experience, and to make use of standard land military tactics on sea, the Romans equipped their new ships with a special boarding device, the corvus.
In military use, the standard hand cannon was tremendously powerful, while also being somewhat useless due to relative inability of the gunner to aim the weapon, or control the ballistic properties of the projectile.
Muzzleloaders have to be manually reloaded after each shot ; a skilled archer could fire multiple arrows faster than most early muskets could be reloaded and fired, although by the mid-18th century, when muzzleloaders became the standard small armament of the military, a well-drilled soldier could fire six rounds in a minute using prepared cartridges in his musket.
While modern M16s and equipment are standard issue, much of the secondary equipment used by the Ghanaian military is generally older than that used in Western military forces, and Ghanaian troops frequently rely on British, Brazilian, Swiss, Swedish, Israeli, and Finnish weaponry.
In March 1982, the US Department of Defense declared TCP / IP as the standard for all military computer networking.
The reverse depicts an armed Roman soldier bearing a military standard in one hand and subduing a captive with the other, a reference to the military strength of the Roman Empire, and spells out VIRTVS EXERCITVS ROMANORVM, " the bravery / virtue of the Roman army ".
The labarum () was a vexillum ( military standard ) that displayed the " Chi-Rho " symbol < big >☧</ big >, formed from the first two Greek letters of the word " Christ " (, or Χριστός ) — Chi ( χ ) and Rho ( ρ ).
He also had difficulties with the standard infantry weapons at the time, and so he decided to construct a new rifle for the Soviet military.
Though Vegetius had no military experience, and De re militari was derived from the works of Cato and Frontinus, his books were the standard for military discourse in western Europe from their production until the 16th century.
The Ottomans made major developments in calligraphy, writing, law, architecture, and military science, and became the standard of opulence.
Kleinschmidt machines, with the military as their primary customer, used standard military designations for their machines.
Although he attained the standard succession of public offices, holding the consulship in AD 51, Vespasian became more reputed as a successful military commander, participating in the Roman invasion of Britain in 43, and subjugating Judaea during the Jewish rebellion of AD 66.
In 1968, the DoD issued " Work Breakdown Structures for Defense Materiel Items " ( MIL-STD-881 ), a military standard requiring the use of work breakdown structures across the DoD.
Although 3G ALE is more reliable and has significantly enhanced channel-time efficiency, the existence of a large installed base of 2G ALE radio systems and the wide availability of moderately priced ( often military surplus ) equipment, has made 2G the baseline standard for global interoperability.
In 1991, the “ 480 series ” was consolidated into a single standard known as the MIL – STD – 973 that was then replaced by MIL – HDBK – 61 pursuant to a general DoD goal that reduced the number of military standards in favor of industry technical standards supported by Standards Developing Organizations ( SDO ).

standard and colours
These are as standard, the same shape, type face and colours as those in the UK, however non-standard number plates have been permitted.
After its name change in 1902, the club colours were changed to red shirts, white shorts, and black socks, which has become the standard Manchester United home kit.
Cornish Rex cats come in a wide variety of coat colours and patterns, outlined in the breed standard: solids, including white, black, chocolate, orange and the dilutes blue, lilac and cream ; all forms of tabby including classic, mackerel and ticked tabbies, bicolor " tuxedo " coat in many colours, tortoiseshell, " smoke " colours and the colour-point pattern standard in the Siamese breed.
Domestic long-haireds come in all the standard cat colours including tabby, tortie, bi-coloured, smoke etc.
The colours are defined in both CIE 1931 and CIE 1976 standards, Swedish standard SS 01 91 22 and by the Pantone Matching system:
The Master Bowlers operate under a strict dress code including a standard shirt in the provincial colours with the bowler's name embroidered on the back.
To distinguish itself from contemporary colloquial language, standard language usage includes archaisms and honorific colours.
The first official tricolore italiano, or Italian tricolour, was adopted on 7 January 1797, when the XIVth Parliament of the Cispadane Republic, on the proposal of deputy Giuseppe Compagnoni of Lugo, decreed " to make universal the ... standard or flag of three colours, green, white, and red ..." This was probably because the Legione Lombarda had carried banners of red, white ( from the flag of Milan ), and green ( from the uniform of the civic guard ), and the same colours were later adopted in the banners of the Legione Italiana, which was formed by soldiers coming from Emilia and Romagna.
Radiex Records were standard lateral-cut double sided 78 rpm disc records pressed in various colours of shellac which generally stood up to wear poorly.
* Red, not the Roman-Rite green, is the standard colour of vestments from Pentecost to the third Sunday of October, and there are other differences in liturgical colours throughout the year.
It is not known whether the flat colours used in the standard Rider-Waite were Smith's idea or her publisher's, especially since the Original Rider-Waite Tarot, a facsimile edition of the deck as it first appeared in 1907, shows slightly deeper, richer colours.
The flag has four colours: blue, green, and two forms of yellow ( standard yellow for the middle band and what the Pantone system calls " sun yellow " for the sun ).
Other colours have occasionally been experimented with, such as yellow and orange for improved night visibility, but the colouring process has so far rendered such balls unsuitable for professional play because they wear differently from standard balls.
Video output was compatible with the CGA standard, with an extension allowing all 16 colours to be used in the 640 × 200 graphics mode.
The first pair of colours were the standard set of Regulation Colours, which all Regiments are presented with.
The standard interior is trimmed in hand stitched leather and alcantara available in a range of colours.
The blazers are often distinct from the standard school blazer though often colours simply take the form of embellished arms or braided cord or ribbon edging on the standard blazer.

standard and Polish
During the fighting, a Polish nobleman called Otwinowski noticed the Tatar Khan's standard, and Polish artillery was directed to fire at it.
The number of k-combinations from a given set S of n elements is often denoted in elementary combinatorics texts by C ( n, k ), or by a variation such as,, or even ( the latter form is standard in French, Russian, and Polish texts ).
Its written standard is the Polish alphabet, which has several additions to the letters of the basic Latin script.
The inhabitants of different regions of Poland speak " standard " Polish somewhat differently, although the differences between these broad " dialects " appear slight.
) However, these city dialects are mostly extinct due to assimilation with standard Polish.
Today, the standard Belarusian, Polish, Russian and Lithuanian vodkas are 40 % alcohol by volume ( ABV ) or 80 proof.
( This remains the standard reference on the Polish part in the Enigma-decryption epic.
Philologists — and the standard Finnish orthography — often prefer using it to express the sounds that in English require a digraph ( sh, ch, and zh ) because most Slavic languages use only one character to spell these sounds ( the key exceptions are Polish sz and cz ).
After the war Poland bought more of them and their number reached 11, 869, becoming a standard Polish light machine gun in the 1920s.
Its written standard is the Polish alphabet which corresponds basically to the Latin alphabet with a few additions.
Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner throughout most of Poland, though numerous languages, speeches and dialects coexist along the standard Polish language.
Instead, it was used as a mobile reserve of the Polish armies and was using mostly infantry tactics: the soldiers dismounted before the battle and fought as a standard ( yet fast ) infantry.
The HP series of graphing calculators is best known for its Reverse Polish notation interface, although the HP-49 introduced a standard expression entry interface as well.
A standard tank of the Polish Army during the Polish Defensive War of 1939, its production never exceeded 150 vehicles.
* Russian army barracks, made of red Russian bricks ( larger than standard Polish ones )
Wenedyk uses the modern standard Polish orthography, including ( for instance ) ⟨ w ⟩ for and ⟨ ł ⟩ for.
His works, disseminated in thousands of reproductions, have made him one of the most famous painters in Poland, and became almost standard illustrations of many key events in Polish history.
While most of the population of the region speaks standard Polish, some people in the upper river basin ( municipalities of Lipsk, Dąbrowa Białostocka and partly Sztabin ) speak a local dialect of Belarusian ( called by them prosty jazyk-" the simple language ").
In eastern Slovakia, a Slovakized standard Polish language is used sometimes ( besides Czech, Slovak and Latin ) for the same purposes and reasons as the Czech language is used in the remaining Slovakia.
The 1st Polish Army was very similar in organisation to other standard general purpose armies making up the bulk of Red Army's order of battle.
This is the standard localization technique on Polish television and ( as an option ) on many DVDs ; full dubbing is generally reserved for children's material.
Originally designed by Piotr Wilniewczyc and Jan Skrzypiński in 1930 at the Fabryka Broni ( Arms Factory ) in Radom under Director Kazimierz Ołdakowski, it was adopted in 1935 as the standard handgun of the Polish Army.
Production started in the state armory Fabryka Broni in Radom in late 1935, and the following year it was introduced as the standard weapon of Polish infantry and cavalry officers.

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