The tree was chosen as a symbol of the French Revolution because it is a symbol of fertility in French folklore, which provided a simple transition from revering it for one reason to another.

* Flags of Native American nations in the United States are common and many tribes have chosen a flag as their symbol of choice.

The Totenkopf ( death's head ) symbol, used by German military units for hundreds of years, had been chosen for the SS by Schreck.

If the symbol < tt >/</ tt > is chosen, for example, then the number seven would be represented by < tt >///////</ tt >.

The torr ( symbol: Torr ) is a non-SI unit of pressure with the ratio of 760 to 1 standard atmosphere, chosen to be roughly equal to the fluid pressure exerted by a millimeter of mercury, i. e., a pressure of 1 torr is approximately equal to one millimeter of mercury.

It is the simplest numeral system to represent natural numbers: in order to represent a number N, an arbitrarily chosen symbol representing 1 is repeated N times.

The oak is a common symbol of strength and endurance and has been chosen as the national tree of many countries.

When in the 1930s the city wanted to adopt a coat-of-arms and the birds were chosen as a possible symbol.

The symbol chosen is simply appended to the end of the move notation, for example: 1. d4 e5?

Unlike a graph, however, the number of semitones represented by a vertical step from a line to an adjacent space depends on the key, and the exact timing of the beginning of each note is not directly proportional to its horizontal position ; rather, exact timing is encoded by the musical symbol chosen for each note in addition to the tempo.

* The sunflower was chosen as the symbol of the Spiritualist Church for many reasons, but mostly because it turns toward the sun as " Spiritualism turns toward the light of truth ".

Their winning sculpture, the " Bull Market Rocket " was chosen as the modern, 21st century symbol of the up-trending Bull Market.

However Clemenceau did not intend to campaign for the post, instead he wished to be chosen by acclaim as a national symbol.

Corwin's symbol, a silver rose, echoes the House of York's symbol, a white rose, and Eric's chosen color, red, echoes the House of Lancaster's symbol, a red rose.

The Cross of Lorraine | Croix de Lorraine, chosen by General Charles de Gaulle as the symbol of the Résistance

Lambda was chosen because people might confuse it for a college symbol and not recognize it as a gay community symbol unless one was actually involved in the community.

The symbol of the Alliance is the " Starbird ", the symbol of the Marek Family chosen by Leia Organa and Murad Aydamirov in dedication of Galen Marek and also because it appeared as a " symbol of hope ".

In digital modulation, the changes in the signal are chosen from a fixed list ( the modulation alphabet ) each entry of which conveys a different possible piece of information ( a symbol ).

The magic circle is, in fact, a symbol of and preparation for the metaphysical orgasm ''.

Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).

Whatever the psychological truth in the Oedipus myth, an Oedipus who is drawn to his fate by irresistible external forces can carry the symbol of humanity and its archaic crime, and the incest that is unknowing renews the mystery of the eternal dream of childhood and absorbs us in the secret.

We know that much is made of the multiplicity and ambiguity of the identities that cluster around the key symbol of the Jew.

The formal position of Americans who identify themselves with one or more of the several identities of the Jewish symbol is already clear ; ;

The symposium provides an opportunity to confront the self with specific statements which were made at particular times by identifiable communicators who were addressing definite audiences -- and throughout several hundred pages everyone is talking about the same key symbol of identification.

More than that, Sam Rayburn is the very living symbol of an iron-clad integrity so powerful in his nature and so constantly demonstrated that he can count some of his best friends in the opposition.

The symbol for division is a straight line that separates two numbers placed one above the other.

The symbol for multiplication is `` **b ''.

The symbol for subtraction is the standard minus sign.

The number on the right of the symbol is always subtracted from the number on the left of the symbol.

Addition is indicated by the + symbol.

The symbol is used to separate two or more numbers.

To simplify the formulas a representative symbol is substituted for each of the factors.

That he mastered every aspect of his medium according to his own great talents and contemporary judgments, is a good and solid symbol of his people under the tremendous pressures of proclaiming and practising the rigors of a new culture ; ;

The order of this congruence is Af, since Af secants of a curve of symbol ( B ) on a quadric surface pass through an arbitrary point.

This curve is of symbol Af since it meets **yl, and hence every line of Af in the Af invariant points on **yl and since it obviously meets every line of Af in a single point.

He often spoke of them as his `` ecumenical '' glasses and used them as a symbol of the kind of vision that is required in the church.

His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.

To appreciate the nature of the gamble, it should be realized that while college teaching is almost a public symbol of security, that security does not come as quickly or as automatically as it does in an elementary school system or in the Civil Service.

The biblical symbol for this affirmation is expressed in the words: `` So God created man in his own image ; ;

His addle-brained knight-errant, self-appointed to the ridiculous position in an age when armor had already been relegated to museums and the chivalrous code of knight-errantry had become a joke, is, as Cervantes no doubt intended, a gaunt but gracious symbol of good, moving soberly and sincerely in a world of cynics, hypocrites and rogues.

An alkyl group, generally abbreviated with the symbol R, is a functional group or side-chain that, like an alkane, consists solely of single-bonded carbon and hydrogen atoms, for example a methyl or ethyl group.