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 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.

For example, the multiplication symbol,, is sometimes replaced with a dot, or even omitted completely, because its context makes its use obvious ( e. g. 3 a may be written 3a ).

Many programming languages, and calculators use a single asterisk to represent the multiplication symbol, and it must be explicitly used, for example, is written " 3 * x ".

Kilo-( symbol: k, lowercase ) is a unit prefix in the metric system denoting multiplication of the unit by one thousand.

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.

The cross symbol generally denotes a vector multiplication, while the dot denotes a scalar multiplication.

If the subsets of X in Σ correspond to numbers in elementary algebra, then the two set operations union ( symbol ∪) and intersection (∩) correspond to addition and multiplication.

In mathematics, an " italicized x " () is often used to avoid potential confusion with the multiplication symbol.

Many programming languages and calculators use the asterisk as a symbol for multiplication.

The binary operation can be indicated by any symbol, or with no symbol ( juxtaposition ) as is done for ordinary multiplication of real numbers.

We use the symbol · to multiply two vectors together, which we use complex multiplication to define: ( a, b ) · ( c, d )

The multiplication sign or times sign is the symbol ×.

The × symbol for multiplication was introduced by William Oughtred in 1631.

In computers, the * symbol is often used for multiplication since the ⨯ symbol does not exist on most keyboards.

The original logo for the CSX Corporation, emphasizing the " multiplication symbol " X

* Times-x ( multiplication symbol )

The species name was then modified to include the multiplication symbol to indicate its suspected hybrid parentage.

Oughtred also introduced the "×" symbol for multiplication as well as the abbreviations " sin " and " cos " for the sine and cosine functions.

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It can be used to represent a variable x in mathematics, or a multiplication symbol in an equation.

The 0 element can be seen as an " error symbol " for when multiplication fails ; the first rule implies that errors propagate through an entire product containing a single incompatible combination.

For example, players could choose a nine, a multiplication symbol, and a seven, followed by an addition symbol and a three to reach the number 66.