You can use heat-absorbing glass to stop the sun, double glass and insulated glass to combat condensation.

Another brand of indefinite reference arises out of the use of the double verb.

It is planned to double the number of teams and to make use of improved equipment in a second demographic inquiry in 1960, so that the inquiry can be carried through in one year and the results published more expeditiously.

Anthemius assumes a property of an ellipse not found in Apollonius's work, that the equality of the angles subtended at a focus by two tangents drawn from a point, and having given the focus and a double ordinate he goes on to use the focus and directrix to obtain any number of points on a parabola — the first instance on record of the practical use of the directrix.

* Quoting: Americans begin their quotations with double quotation marks (") and use single quotation marks (') for quotations within quotations.

In journals and newspapers, quotation mark double / single use depends on the individual publication's house style.

These spectrometers use a compact double monochromator with a prism pre-monochromator and an echelle grating monochromator for high resolution.

Another notable measure is the use of a body double, a person who looks like the leader and who pretends to be the leader to draw attention away from the intended target.

Players may also use double motion, where they make an initial racquet movement in one direction before withdrawing the racquet to hit in another direction.

An alternative to double motion is to use a racquet head fake, where the initial motion is continued but the racquet is turned during the hit.

These instruments have three double courses similar to the stringing of the mandolin and often use a " guitar " tuning.

The double copula is the use of two successive copulas when only one is necessary, as in My point is, is that .... Use of the double copula is one of the disputes in English grammar.

The DCA excluded the wording " double-dapple " from the standard in 2007 and now strictly use the wording " dapple " as the double dapple gene is commonly responsible for blindness and deafness.

The names contrabass and double bass refer to the instrument's range and use in the contra octave below the cello, also called the 16 ' octave relative to the church organ.

While the violin, viola, and cello all use friction pegs for gross tuning adjustments, the double bass has metal machine heads.

Major European orchestras generally use basses with a fifth string, tuned to B three octaves and a semitone below middle C. Players with standard double basses ( E-A-D-G ) typically play the notes below " E " an octave higher.

In the United States, Canada and United Kingdom, most professional orchestral players use four-string double basses with a C extension, which extends the lowest string down as far as low C, an octave below the lowest note on the cello ( more rarely, this string may be tuned to a low B ).

Karr was given Koussevitzky's famous solo double bass by Olga Koussevitsky and played it in concerts around the world for 40 years before, in turn, giving the instrument to the International Society of Bassists for talented soloists to use in concert.

Since there is no established instrumental ensemble that includes the double bass, its use in chamber music has not been as exhaustive as the literature for ensembles such as the string quartet or piano trio.

Other examples of chamber works that use the double bass in mixed ensembles include Serge Prokofiev's Quintet in G minor, Op. 39 for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, and double bass ; Erwin Schulhoff's Concertino for flute / piccolo, viola, and double bass ; Fred Lerdahl's Waltzes for violin, viola, cello, and double bass ; Mohammed Fairouz's Litany for double bass and wind quartet ; Mario Davidovsky's Festino for guitar, viola, cello, and double bass ; and Iannis Xenakis's Morsima-Amorsima for piano, violin, cello, and double bass.

Drums are often used in music therapy, especially hand drums, because of their tactile nature and easy use by a wide variety of people.

Along with the martial use of the drums, they also held a strong foundation in the court style music called Gagaku, performed in the castles and shrines across ancient Japan.

Composer Bear McCreary made heavy use of and helped spread awareness of taiko drums and taiko groups in the soundtracks for the reimagined Battlestar Galactica TV series.

In the 1940s, Louie Bellson pioneered use of two bass drums, or the double bass drum kit.

Another versatile extension becoming increasingly common is the use of some electronic drums in a mainly conventional kit.

The use of muffled drums has been written about by such poets as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Mayne, and Theodore O ' Hara.

In some styles of music, drummers use electronic effects on drums, such as individual noise gates that mute the attached microphone when the signal is below a threshold volume.

In some styles or settings, such as country music clubs or churches, the drummer may use a perspex or plexiglass screen to dampen the onstage volume of the drums.

Exceptions include the Coptic Orthodox tradition which makes use of the sistrum, and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, which also uses drums, cymbals and other instruments on certain occasions.

Drop-clutches are also used to lock and release hi-hats while both feet are in use playing double bass drums.

For some instruments, teachers also train students in the use of the feet, as in the case of piano or other keyboard instruments that have damper or sustain pedals on the piano, the pedal keyboard on a pipe organ, and some drums and cymbals in the drum kit such as the bass drum pedal and the hi-hat cymbal pedal.

An example is Sullivan's use of two flutes, one oboe, two clarinets, one bassoon, two horns, two cornets ( a piston ), two trombones, drums and strings.

Musically, although Lee's use of sequencers and synthesizers remained the band's cornerstone, his focus on new technology was complemented by Peart's adaptation of Simmons electronic drums and percussion.

The most common failure is " brake fade ," usually caused when the drums or discs and the linings of the brakes overheat from excessive use.

The use of drums allows bulk transportation to save cost yet permits flexibility in retail distribution.

Before the time of electronic equipment the way of communicating on the battlefield was to use either drums, trumpets or flags.

In the 1960s and 1970s brake drums on the front wheels of cars were gradually replaced with disc brakes and now practically all cars use disc brakes on the front wheels, with many offering disc brakes on all wheels.

Another controversy that raged for years was over allowable instrumentation, especially the use of drums and electrically amplified instruments.

Because of the need for greater volume and midrange clarity, drums were made almost entirely from maple until recently, when advances in live sound reinforcement and drum microphones have allowed the use of birch in high-volume situations.

* The 1980s opening credits contain a re-recorded version of the original Jetsons theme song, which features the use of synthesized drums and synth lead tracks typical of 1980s music.

* Cross-cut or confetti-cut shredders use two contra-rotating drums to cut rectangular, parallelogram, or diamond-shaped ( or lozenge ) shreds.

Ghorbat men mainly made sieves, drums, and bird cages, and the women peddled these as well as other items of household and personal use ; they also worked as moneylenders to rural women.

There are many investigations about the use of peroxidase in many manufacturing processes like adhesives, computer chips, car parts, and linings of drums and cans.

Sometimes instruments are categorized according to a common use, such as signal instruments, a category which may include instruments in very different Hornbostel-Sachs categories such as trumpets, drums, and gongs.

Rhythm games generally use controllers resembling musical instruments, such as guitars ( from 5-button guitars in Guitar Freaks, the Guitar Hero series, the Rock Band series to real guitars in Rock Band 3 and Rocksmith ), keyboards ( Rock Band 3 ), drums ( Donkey Konga, Drum Mania, the Rock Band series and the Guitar Hero series ), or maracas ( Samba de Amigo ) have also seen some success in arcades and home consoles.