A volume descriptor describes the characteristics of the file system information present on a given CD-ROM, or volume.

It is divided into two parts: the type of volume descriptor, and the characteristics of the descriptor.

The primary volume descriptor acts much like the superblock of the Unix File System, providing details on the ISO 9660 compliant portion of the disk.

Contained within the primary volume descriptor is the root directory record describing the location of the contiguous root directory.

In addition, since ISO 9660 works by segmenting the CD-ROM into logical blocks, the size of these blocks is found in the primary volume descriptor as well.

SUSP provides a generic way of including additional properties for any directory entry reachable from the primary volume descriptor ( PVD ).

A " Secondary " volume descriptor with type 2 contains the same information as the Primary one ( sector 16 offset 40 bytes ), but in UCS-2 in sector 17, offset 40 bytes.

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

Of the longer pieces of the volume none is so memorable as `` Nameless And Immortal '', which at once took rank among the finest poems ever written in the Swedish language.

The short poems grouped at the end of the volume as `` Thoughts in Loneliness '' is, as Professor Book indicated, in sharp contrast with the others.

It is different with his volume The Swedes And Their Chieftains ( Svenskarna och deras Hovdingar ), a history intended for the general reader and particularly suited for high school students.

Undoubtedly, however, the significance of the volume is greater than the foregoing paragraphs suggest.

The discussion is therefore limited to a suggested procedure for realizing at least some of the potential importance of this volume for future policy.

The volume is a piece of passionate special pleading, written with the heat -- and often with the wisdom, it must be said -- of a Liberal damning the shortsightedness of politicians from 1782 to 1832.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

Displacement is sometimes referred to as `` swept volume ''.

Actually, the engine displacement formula is the standard formula for computing the volume of a cylinder of any type with an added factor that represents the number of cylinders in the engine.

The cross-sectional area of the cylinders is determined and then the volume of the individual cylinders is computed by multiplying the area by the stroke length, which is the equivalent of the length of the cylinders.

A cylinder's compression ratio is computed by comparing the cylinder's volume, or its displacement, with the total volume of the cylinder and its combustion chamber.

Cylinder volume is determined in exactly the same manner as for the displacement formula: Af.

To measure the volume of one of the combustion chambers in the cylinder head, install the valves and spark plug in the chamber and support the head so that its gasket surface is level.

The volume of the opening is added to the combustion chamber volume.

Another thing that must be taken into consideration is the volume of the area between the top of the piston and the top of the cylinder block when the piston is in top dead center position.

This volume is added to the total volume of the combustion chamber and head gasket opening.

The total of these three volumes is the `` final combustion chamber volume ''.

The only way to determine the final combustion chamber volume when such pistons are used is by measuring it with liquid while the cylinder head is bolted to the cylinder block and the piston is in top dead center position.

This means that in a suitably constructed calorimeter, the increment of volume can be made to vanish,.

The original acoustic archtop guitars were designed to enhance volume: for that reason they were constructed for use with relatively heavy guitar strings.

A 3 dimensional POV display is often constructed using a 2D grid of LEDs which is swept or rotated through a volume.

The timbre and volume of the sound produced by a pipe depends on the volume of air delivered to the pipe and the manner in which it is constructed and voiced, the latter adjusted by the builder to produce the desired tone and volume.

One common theme was the decision to fund local infrastructure by guaranteeing a minimum volume of business for privately constructed landfills, incinerators, composters or other costly disposal sites.

He was noted for a thermometer he constructed on the principle of taking the freezing point of water as 0 °, and graduating the tube into degrees each of which was one-thousandth of the volume contained by the bulb and tube up to the zero mark.

These sequences of fluid volcanic rock cover about of the Interior Plateau and have a volume of about, forming a large volcanic plateau constructed atop of the Interior Plateau.

There are also marching B ♭ horns with a bell-front configuration ; mellophones also are usually constructed with a smaller bore for louder volume than marching horns.

Réaumur ’ s thermometer contained diluted alcohol and was constructed on the principle of taking the freezing point of water as 0 °, and graduating the tube into degrees each of which was one-thousandth of the volume contained by the bulb and tube up to the zero mark.

As Morshead pointed out on the publication of the second volume, the classification wasn't a properly constructed taxonomy, as it lacked a systemic rationale of construction.

As the width of the engine increases, both the volume of fuel to be heated and the available thermal energy increase linearly, allowing arbitrarily wide engines to be constructed.

For volume segments < big >(< small > Σ1 / x < sup > 2 </ sup ></ small >)</ big > however, and in fact for any generally constructed higher degree curve ( e. g. y = 1 / x < sup > 1. 001 </ sup >), the same is not true and the rate of decrease in the associated series is sufficiently rapid for convergence to a ( finite ) limiting sum.

Over the run of the decade, world markets never broke through the haphazardly constructed nationally motivated and imposed barriers and restricts on international trade and investment volume.

Later hollow-bodied guitars ( constructed out of Masonite and plywood to save costs and increase production speed ), distinguished by Silvertone's maroon vinyl covering, Danelectro's light tweed covering, the concentric stacked tone / volume knobs used on the two-pickup models of both series, and the " lipstick-tube " pickups — invented by placing the entire mechanism into spare lipstick tubes — aimed to produce no-frills guitars of reasonably good tone at low cost.

The volume of the skirt is not as great as during the Victorian era, so modern crinolines are most often constructed of several layers of stiff net, with flounces to extend the skirt.

The final version of JP Aerospace ’ s first-stage Ascender airship will be among the largest airships ever constructed, with an expected volume ( 57 million cubic feet ) greater than seven times that of the Hindenburg.

A second ( proposed ) tunnel was to be constructed only if the volume of traffic rose above one million vehicles a year.

In 1898, filter beds were constructed as the volume of sewage was becoming too much with the rest of the land becoming farmland or swamp, surrounded by forest.

It has a foundation with an area of 280x260m, the total constructed surface is and it has a volume of 735, 000 m³.

An example would be providing a suitable design for a home which is to be constructed close to a high volume roadway, or under the flight path of a major airport, or of the airport itself.

The original acoustic archtop guitars were designed to enhance volume ; for that reason they were constructed for use with relatively heavy strings.