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.

As noted above, clicks necessarily involve at least two closures, which in some cases operate partially independently: an anterior articulation which has traditionally been represented by the special click symbol in the IPA, and a posterior articulation which has been traditionally described as oral or nasal, voiced or voiceless, etc.

The initial of tao / dao 道 is a tenuis voiceless alveolar plosive, which is commonly transcribed with the IPA symbol, although some sinologists specify or with the voiceless under-ring diacritic.

Lower-case eth is used as a symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA ), again for a voiced dental fricative, and in IPA usage, the name of the symbol is pronounced with the same voiced sound, as ( the IPA symbol for the voiceless dental fricative is θ ).

There are a series of stops in Korean, sometimes written with the IPA symbol for ejectives, which are produced using " stiff voice ", meaning there is increased contraction of the glottis than for normal production of voiceless stops.

Alternatively, it is sometimes written as a t or a + sign with an added loop, resembling the phonetic symbol for a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the minuscule chi is the symbol for the voiceless uvular fricative.

* The symbol for a voiceless bilabial fricative in the International Phonetic Alphabet ( using the straight line variant character )

*, the symbol for voiceless bilabial fricative

The " ll " s in the name are pronounced as voiceless alveolar lateral fricatives ( IPA symbol ), a phoneme that does not exist in English.

The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postalveolar stops is ⟨⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is < tt > t </ tt >.

The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postalveolar fricatives is ⟨⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ⟨< tt > K </ tt >⟩.

On rare occasions the symbol is appropriated for a labialized voiceless velar fricative,, in other languages.

The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨⟩, a lowercase barred letter o, and should not be confused with the Greek letter theta, ⟨ θ ⟩, which in IPA corresponds to a consonant sound, the voiceless dental fricative.

The symbol stands for a voiceless sibilant like the " s " of English sick, while represents a voiceless interdental fricative like the " th " of English thick.

The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨⟩, the voiceless homologue of the voiced palatal approximant.

* x is a symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the voiceless velar fricative

However, in the literature the " belt " on the recognized symbol for a voiceless lateral fricative is combined with the tail of the retroflex consonants to create the ad hoc symbol.

In Araki, the same symbol encodes the alveolar trill – by contrast with r which encodes the alveolar flap.

If a trill is made with the tip of the tongue against the upper gum, it is called an apical ( tongue-tip ) alveolar trill ; the IPA symbol for this sound is.

The IPA symbol for the alveolar approximant is and the symbol for the retroflex approximant is.

The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiced dental, alveolar, and postalveolar stops is ⟨⟩ ( although the symbol ⟨⟩ can be used to distinguish the dental stop, and ⟨⟩ the postalveolar ), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is < tt > d </ tt >.

The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar flaps is ⟨⟩.

The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar nasals is ⟨⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is < tt > n </ tt >.

The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral approximants is ⟨⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is < tt > l </ tt >.

Like all the retroflex consonants, the IPA symbol is formed by adding a rightward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of an en ( the letter used for the corresponding alveolar consonant ).

* The symbol for the alveolar sibilant is ⟨⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is < tt > z </ tt >.

* The IPA symbol for the alveolar non-sibilant fricative is derived by means of diacritics ; it can be ⟨⟩ or ⟨⟩.