Here there may be an analogy with cancer: we can detect cancers by their rapidly accelerating growth, determinable only when related to the more normal rate of healthy growth.

Perhaps it is only an analogy, but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation.

Although the Af calculation is obvious by analogy with that for gravitational field and osmotic pressure, it is interesting to confirm it by a method which can be generalized to include related effects.

This has an interesting analogy with the assumption stated by Philippoff that `` the deformational mechanics of elastic solids can be applied to flowing solutions ''.

The term was coined by Fanya Montalvo by analogy with NP-complete and NP-hard in complexity theory, which formally describes the most famous class of difficult problems.

It has been called the Archimedean honeycombs by analogy with the convex uniform ( non-regular ) polyhedra, commonly called Archimedean solids.

The chromatographic separation behavior was then unknown for the element 97, but was anticipated by analogy with terbium ( see elution curves ).

A common analogy explains that space itself is expanding, carrying galaxy | galaxies with it, like spots on an inflating balloon.

The analogy was completed when Hawking, in 1974, showed that quantum field theory predicts that black holes should radiate like a black body with a temperature proportional to the surface gravity of the black hole.

The analogy in the case of rotating bucket is that the element of water surface will " slide " up or down the surface unless the normal to the surface aligns with the vector resultant formed by the vector addition F < sub > g </ sub > + F < sub > Cfgl </ sub >.

On human nature, Boethius says that humans are essentially good and only when they give in to “ wickedness ” do they “ sink to the level of being an animal .” On justice, he says criminals are not to be abused, rather treated with sympathy and respect, using the analogy of doctor and patient to illustrate the ideal relationship between prosecutor and criminal.

An expanding universe generally has a cosmological horizon which, by analogy with the more familiar horizon caused by the curvature of the Earth's surface, marks the boundary of the part of the universe that an observer can see.

The magnitudes ( but, not the natures ) of these three velocities can be illustrated by an analogy with the three similar velocities associated with gases.

The term " rendering " may be by analogy with an " artist's rendering " of a scene.

The analogy with a stack of paper is apt: if a half a piece of paper is inserted in a stack of paper, the defect in the stack is only noticeable at the edge of the half sheet.

The current Dalai Lama is often called " His Holiness " ( HH ) by Westerners ( by analogy with the Pope ), although this does not translate to a Tibetan title.

Apart from the commonly cited example of water turning to steam with increased temperature, Gould and Eldredge noted another analogy in information theory, " with its jargon of equilibrium, steady state, and homeostasis maintained by negative feedback ," and " extremely rapid transitions that occur with positive feedback.

The derivation of the word " Edda " as the name of Snorri Sturluson ’ s treatise on poetry from the Latin " edo ", " I compose ( poetry )" by analogy with " kredda ", " superstition " from Latin " credo ", " creed " is now widely accepted.

When Portuguese explorers first came into contact with the Japanese ( see Nanban period ), they described Japanese conditions in analogy, likening the Emperor, with great symbolic authority but little political power, to the Pope, and the Shogun to secular European rulers, e. g. the Holy Roman Emperor.

In keeping with the analogy, they even used the term " Emperor " in reference to the shogun / regent, e. g. in the case of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who missionaries called " Emperor Taicosama " ( from Taiko and the honorific sama ).

Kaisertum might literally be translated as " emperordom " ( on analogy with " kingdom ") or " emperor-ship "; the term denotes specifically " the territory ruled by an emperor ", and is thus somewhat more general than Reich, which in 1804 carried connotations of universal rule.

The point of the egg analogy is simply to stress that the earth is completely enclosed by heaven, rather than merely covered from above as the Kai Tian describes.

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.

Raeder wanted to see the replacement of democracy with an authoritarian, militaristic regime that in Raeder's analogy ensure that Germany would become " one family " united behind the same goals of world power, or as Raeder put it in 1932 Germany needed a " unified Volk " led by one strong leader to win the next war.

His perception of the analogy between it and ammonia led to his famous work on the amines and ammonium bases and the allied organic phosphorus compounds, while his researches on rosaniline, which he first prepared, formed the first of a series of investigations on coloring matter which only ended with quinoline red in 1887.

" Lloyd, for example, proposed an alternative explanation for all apparent instances of a-mutation of */ i /; he suggested that " the partial overlapping in Germanic of the two phonemes / i / ( represented in all environments by ) and / e / ( with the allophones and ) led to the occasional development of an e-allophone of i by systemic analogy ".

The discovery of this negative analogy led to further advancement, including the unification of electro-magnetic theory with optics, and the eventual creation of new and more informative models of light.

In some situations where 4NT is a quantitative invitation, especially where 4 is a jump, many partnerships use the Gerber convention by some analogy to the Blackwood family: 4 asks for the number of aces or key cards.

" Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.

However, some have taken the feudalism analogy further, seeing it in places as diverse as ancient Egypt, the Parthian empire, the Indian subcontinent, and the antebellum American South.

The FET is said to be in saturation mode ; some authors refer to it as active mode, for a better analogy with bipolar transistor operating regions.

More broadly the term is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation ; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy, as in semiotics ; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern culture, in the general sense of symbol — i. e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities: one thing, an image or depiction, that represents something else of greater significance through literal or figurative meaning, usually associated with religious, cultural, political, or economic standing.

In a push button analogy applied to computer systems, the term doorbell or doorbell interrupt is often used to describe a mechanism whereby a software system can signal or notify a computer hardware device that there is some work to be done.

The closest analogy with the modern Web browser would be to create a list of bookmarks to articles relevant to a topic, and then to have some mechanism for automatically scrolling through the articles ( for example, use Google to search for a keyword, obtain a list of matches, repeatedly use the " open in new tab " feature of the Web browser, and then visit each tab sequentially ).

The exposure to light causes a chemical change that allows some of the photoresist to be removed by a special solution, called " developer " by analogy with photographic developer.

Members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science had been complaining about the lack of a good term at recent meetings, Whewell reported in his review ; alluding to himself, he noted that " some ingenious gentleman proposed that, by analogy with artist, they might form word scientist, and added that there could be no scruple in making free with this term since we already have such words as economist, and atheist — but this was not generally palatable ".

Consider the analogy between the sentence " Snow is white " and the character named Snow White, both of which can be true in some sense.

While some, like Spencer, used analogy from natural selection as an argument against government intervention in the economy to benefit the poor, others, including Alfred Russel Wallace, argued that action was needed to correct social and economic inequities to level the playing field before natural selection could improve humanity further.

Drawing an analogy to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in physics, he argues that many interesting and relevant ecological phenomena cannot be replicated in laboratory conditions, and thus cannot be measured or observed without influencing and changing the system in some way.

Abruzzo's wealth of castles and medieval towns, especially around the town of L ' Aquila, has earned it in some quarters the nickname of " Abruzzoshire ", by analogy with the " Chiantishire ", nickname sometimes used to refer to the Chianti area of Tuscany, but Abruzzo is still off the beaten path for most visitors to Italy.

The fact that, in some of the literature concerning Gawain, his strength waxes and wanes with the rising and setting of the sun is indicative of this analogy, and suggests an Irish rather than a Welsh origin.

The poem was subjected to two lines of criticism: it was held by Oriental scholars to give a false impression of Buddhist doctrine ; while, on the other, the suggested analogy between Sakyamuni and Jesus offended the taste of some devout Christians.

Because of this, the elements are considered by some to be very important and, by analogy, can be compared as follows :-

Kuhn's version of incommensurability has an important psychological dimension ; this is apparent from his analogy between a paradigm shift and the flip-over involved in some optical illusions.

Furthermore, according to some, if as creatures our concepts are all drawn from the creation, it follows from this and divine simplicity that God's attributes can only be spoken of by analogy — since it is not true of any created thing that its properties are identical to its being.

However, the Lucernarium may have had, at that time, some analogy with the ceremony of Holy Saturday, and the hymn could thus be adapted to one or the other.

: ZEEK: The Hasidim / Misnagdim analogy is a fascinating one, though I can see how some folks in the Havurah movement might have bones to pick there.

Often, it is not the game being played itself which features, but references to it as an analogy of some plot situation.

While most avoid the tedious tasks of reading Spencer's massive volumes ( filled as they are with long passages explicating the organic analogy, with reference to cells, simple organisms, animals, humans and society ), there are some important insights that have quietly influenced many contemporary theorists, including Talcott Parsons, in his early work " The Structure of Social Action " ( 1937 ).

There is the joke, but there is also the structure of the tale that functions as an analogy or metaphor for some aspect of human nature or learning.