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 ''.

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.

The obelus was also occasionally used as a mathematical symbol for subtraction.

These formulas remain true with our conventions with the symbol, with the caveat that subtraction by is undefined.

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 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.

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.

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.

The symbol ua is recommended by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, and the international standard ISO 80000, while au is recommended by the International Astronomical Union, and is more common in Anglosphere countries.

The standard symbol for marking the arcminute is the prime (′) ( U + 2032 ), though a single quote (') ( U + 0027 ) is commonly used where only ASCII characters are permitted.

The standard symbol for the arcsecond is the double prime (″) ( U + 2033 ), though a double quote (") ( U + 0022 ) is commonly used where only ASCII characters are permitted.

The symbol for bit, as a unit of information, is either simply " bit " ( recommended by the ISO / IEC standard 80000-13 ( 2008 )) or lowercase " b " ( recommended by the IEEE 1541 Standard ( 2002 )).

* The small calorie or gram calorie ( symbol: cal ) approximates the energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 ° C at standard atmospheric pressure ().

However, using a standard encoding such as ASCII is problematic if a symbol such as ' ß ' needs to be converted but is not in the standard.

It was not until 1922 that Alfred W. Porter proposed the symbol " H " as the accepted standard, thus finalizing the terminology still in use today.

The Rankine temperature scale was created to use degree intervals the same size as those of the Fahrenheit scale, such that a temperature difference of one degree Rankine ( 1 R ) is equal to a difference of 1 ° F, except that absolute zero is 0 R – the same way that the Kelvin temperature scale matches the Celsius scale, except that absolute zero is 0 K. The Fahrenheit scale uses ( in the same manner as the later Celsius scale ) the symbol ° to denote a point on the temperature scale and the letter F to indicate the use of the Fahrenheit scale ( e. g. " Gallium melts at 85. 5763 ° F "), as well as to denote a difference between temperatures or an uncertainty in temperature ( e. g. " The output of the heat exchanger experiences an increase of 72 ° F " and " Our standard uncertainty is ± 5 ° F ").

These are, however, shown in ANSI / IEEE 91 ( and 91a ) with this note: " The distinctive-shape symbol is, according to IEC Publication 617, Part 12, not preferred, but is not considered to be in contradiction to that standard.

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 ).

The symbol used for a resistor in a circuit diagram varies from standard to standard and country to country.

From 104 BC onwards, each legion used an aquila ( eagle ) as its standard symbol.

When a service mark is federally registered, the standard registration symbol ® or " Reg U. S. Pat & TM Off " may be used ( the same symbol is used to mark registered trademarks ).

In statistics and probability theory, standard deviation ( represented by the symbol sigma, σ ) shows how much variation or " dispersion " exists from the average ( mean, or expected value ).

The upside-down A is a standard symbol for the universal quantifier — for all, for each or for every in natural language.

* While SignWriting has a standardized symbol set and a defined character encoding model, SignWriting is not yet part of the Unicode standard.

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.

In introductory physics textbooks, the standard basis vectors are often instead denoted ( or, in which the hat symbol ^ typically denotes unit vectors ).

In Italian, while the letter " W " isn't considered part of the standard Italian alphabet, the character is often used in place of Viva ( hooray for ...), while the same symbol written upside down indicates abbasso ( down with ...).

The standard circulating coinage of the United Kingdom is denominated in pounds sterling ( symbol "£"), and, since the introduction of the two-pound coin in 1998, ranges in value from one penny to two pounds.

ANSI and International Electrotechnical Commission | IEC standard electronic symbol | schematic symbol for a circulator ( with each waveguide or transmission line port drawn as a single line, rather than as a pair of conductors ) A circulator is a passive non-reciprocal three-or four-port device, in which a microwave or radio frequency signal entering any port is transmitted to the next port in rotation ( only ).