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 ).

How did it happen, for example, that the state university, that great symbol of American democracy, failed to flourish in New England as it did in other parts of the country??

They could not guess that from their concepts of liberty and freedom would some day be born a new nation that for years would be the symbol of hope to the oppressed countries of the world.

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.

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

The pain became thus the symbol for food and elicited salivary secretion ( conditioned reflex ).

Yet, in summarizing a series of careful essays on the Yalta Conference, Forrest Pogue could find no basis for Yalta becoming `` a symbol for betrayal and a shibboleth for the opponents of Roosevelt and international cooperation ''.

Such mannerisms would be less worthy of remark, were it not that in Great Expectations, as in no other of Dickens' novels, hands serve as a leitmotif of plot and theme -- a kind of unifying symbol or natural metaphor for the book's complex of human interrelationships and the values and attitudes that motivate them.

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

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.

Its name is Latin for " water-carrier " or " cup-carrier ", and its symbol is 20px (), a representation of water.

An abjad is a type of writing system where each symbol always or usually stands for a consonant, leaving the reader to supply the appropriate vowel.

The symbol for argon is now Ar, but up until 1957 it was A.

This led to americium being located right below its twin lanthanide element europium ; it was thus by analogy named after another continent, America: " The name americium ( after the Americas ) and the symbol Am are suggested for the element on the basis of its position as the sixth member of the actinide rare-earth series, analogous to europium, Eu, of the lanthanide series.

In Art and Artist ( 1932 ), the psychologist Otto Rank wrote that the psychological trauma of birth was the pre-eminent human symbol of existential anxiety and encompasses the creative person's simultaneous fear of – and desire for – separation, individuation and differentiation.

* APL, United States Navy hull classification symbol for barracks craft

These states are labeled by a set of quantum numbers summarized in the term symbol and usually associated with particular electron configurations, i. e., by occupation schemes of atomic orbitals ( e. g., 1s < sup > 2 </ sup > 2s < sup > 2 </ sup > 2p < sup > 6 </ sup > for the ground state of neon -- term symbol: < sup > 1 </ sup > S < sub > 0 </ sub >).

The circle symbol for aromaticity was introduced by Sir Robert Robinson and his student James Armit in 1925 and popularized starting in 1959 by the Morrison & Boyd textbook on organic chemistry.

In this way the circle symbol for a 6c – 6e bond can be compared to the Y symbol for a 3c – 2e bond.

IEEE 1541 specifies the lower case character b as the symbol for bit ; however, the IEC 60027 and Metric-Interchange-Format specify bit ( e. g., Mbit for megabit ) for the symbol, a sufficient disambiguation from byte.

* Game piece ( gamepiece, counter, token, bit, meeple, mover, pawn, man, playing piece, player piece )— a player's representative on the gameboard made of a piece of material made to look like a known object ( such as a scale model of a person, animal, or inanimate object ) or otherwise general symbol.

In calculations of the maximum symbol rate, the Nyquist sampling rate, and maximum bit rate according to the Hartley formula, the bandwidth refers to the frequency range within which the gain is non-zero, or the gain in dB is below a very large value.

The code table initially contains codes that are one bit longer than the symbol size in order to accommodate the two special codes clr and end and codes for strings that are added during the process.

The International Electrotechnical Commission ( IEC ) therefore recommends the symbol bit instead of b. The prefix kilo is often used in fields of computer science and information technology with a meaning of multiplication by 1024 instead of 1000, contrary to international standards, in conjunction with the base unit byte and bit, in which case it is often written with a capital letter K, e. g., Kbit and KB.

If there are four alternative symbols ( corresponding to a musical instrument that can generate four different tones, one at a time ), the first symbol may represent the bit sequence 00, the second 01, the third 10 and the fourth 11.

Since each tone ( i. e., symbol ) represents a message consisting of two digital bits in this example, the bit rate is twice the symbol rate, i. e. 2000 bits per second.

If the symbol rate ( also known as the baud rate ) is symbols / second ( or baud ), the data rate is bit / second.

The symbol rate is related to but should not be confused with gross bit rate expressed in bit / s.

The term baud rate has sometimes incorrectly been used to mean bit rate, since these rates are the same in old modems as well as in the simplest digital communication links using only one bit per symbol, such that binary " 0 " is represented by one symbol, and binary " 1 " by another symbol.

In more advanced modems and data transmission techniques, a symbol may have more than two states, so it may represent more than one bit ( a bit ( binary digit ) always represents one of exactly two states ).

The declarative statement EQU permits the programmer to equate symbolic names to actual index words, electronic switches, arm and file numbers, tape channel and unit numbers, alteration switches, etc., and to equate a symbol to another symbol or to an actual address.

The ampere ( SI unit symbol: A ), often shortened to amp, is the SI unit of electric current ( quantity symbol: I, i ) and is one of the seven SI base units.

The astronomical constant whose value is one astronomical unit is referred to as unit distance and is given the symbol A.

The unit symbol for the byte is specified in IEC80000-13, IEEE 1541 and the Metric Interchange Format as the upper-case character B.

In the International System of Units ( SI ), B is the symbol of the bel, a unit of logarithmic power ratios named after Alexander Graham Bell.

The unit symbol kB is commonly used for kilobyte, but may be confused with the common meaning of kb for kilobit.

The British thermal unit ( symbol Btu or sometimes BTU ) is a traditional unit of energy equal to about 1. 055 KJoules.

The candela ( or ; symbol: cd ) is the SI base unit of luminous intensity ; that is, power emitted by a light source in a particular direction, weighted by the luminosity function ( a standardized model of the sensitivity of the human eye to different wavelengths, also known as the luminous efficiency function ).

The symbol was used by André-Marie Ampère, after whom the unit of electric current is named, in formulating the eponymous Ampère's force law which he discovered in 1820.

Color temperature is conventionally stated in the unit of absolute temperature, the kelvin, having the unit symbol K.

In physics, the dyne ( symbol " dyn ", from Greek δύναμις ( dynamis ) meaning power, force ) is a unit of force specified in the centimetre-gram-second ( CGS ) system of units, a predecessor of the modern SI.

* Dalton ( unit ), the atomic mass unit ( symbol Da )

The unit of capacitance is the farad, named after Michael Faraday, and given the symbol F: one farad is the capacitance that develops a potential difference of one volt when it stores a charge of one coulomb.

In physics, the electron volt ( symbol eV ; also written electronvolt ) is a unit of energy equal to approximately joule ( symbol J ).

The unit symbol for the exabyte is EB.