The most common definition of continental Europe excludes Cyprus, Iceland, Ireland, Malta and the United Kingdom and its dependencies.

The law primarily uses the notion of the consumer in relation to consumer protection laws, and the definition of consumer is often restricted to living persons ( i. e. not corporations or businesses ) and excludes commercial users.

Rummel explicitly excludes battle deaths in his definition.

The " C-H " definition excludes compounds that are historically and practically considered to be organic.

This definition has been both praised and criticized, and remains disputed by some scientists since it excludes many objects of planetary mass based on where or what they orbit.

There is even disagreement about the term " ragtime " itself ; experts such as David Jasen and Trebor Tichenor choose to exclude ragtime songs from the definition but include novelty piano and stride piano ( a modern perspective ), while Edward A. Berlin includes ragtime songs and excludes the later styles ( which is closer to how ragtime was viewed originally ).

To be sure, as to not misinterpret Gutierrez ’ s definition of the term " preferential option ," he stresses, “ Preference implies the universality of God ’ s love, which excludes no one.

This stronger definition excludes every power of three ( 9, 27, 81, 243, ...), and many even integers from the base-2 Fermat pseudoprimes.

This definition excludes bismuth, the densest of approximately stable elements, because of its low toxicity.

The definition of " dhimmi " always excludes followers of the Bahá ' í Faith.

By way of an example, the narrower definition excludes storks and gulls, which can eat quite large fish, partly because these birds catch and kill prey entirely with their beaks, and similarly bird-eating skuas, fish-eating penguins, and vertebrate-eating kookaburras are excluded.

Such a definition arbitrarily excludes disciplines other than history, cultures other than Western, and forms of music other than " classical " (" art ", " serious ", " high culture ") or notated (" artificial ")-implying that the omitted disciplines, cultures, and musical styles / genres are somehow inferior.

A somewhat broader definition incorporating all musical humanities is still problematic, because it arbitrarily excludes the relevant ( natural ) sciences ( acoustics, psychology, physiology, neurosciences, information and computer sciences, empirical sociology and aesthetics ) as well as musical practice.

The definition now excludes works of art not created by the debtor or a relative of the debtor, jewelry worth more than $ 500 ( except wedding rings ), and motor vehicles (§ 522 ( f )( 1 )( B )).

The most widely accepted definition is: “ a semi-enclosed coastal body of water, which has a free connection with the open sea, and within sea water is measurably diluted with freshwater derived from land drainage .” However, this definition excludes a number of coastal water bodies such as coastal lagoons and brackish seas.

( Euclid's original definition and some English dictionaries ' definition of rhombus excludes squares, but modern mathematicians prefer the inclusive definition.

This definition excludes the fistulas arising from the colon or the appendix.

Second, the definition of " any other weapon " in § 5845 ( a ) and ( e ) expressly excludes weapons with a rifled bore which this handgun / pistol had.

The “ any other weapon ” definition excludes weapons designed to be fired from the shoulder that are not capable of firing fixed ammunition or a pistol or revolver having a rifled bore.

The exact definition of exports includes and excludes specific " borderline " cases.

This definition excludes behaviour not related to environment, as well as behaviour related to the social and cultural environment, and genetics.

Professor McNeill thinks that at Yalta, Stalin did not fully realize the dilemma which faced him, that he thought the exclusion of the anti-Soviet voters from East European elections would not be greatly resented by his allies, while neither Roosevelt nor Churchill frankly faced `` the fact that, in Poland at least, genuinely free democratic elections would return governments unfriendly to Russia '', by any definition of international friendliness.

By the Brønsted-Lowry definition, any compound which can easily be deprotonated can be considered an acid.

Its domain is the powerset of A ( with the empty set removed ), and so makes sense for any set A, whereas with the definition used elsewhere in this article, the domain of a choice function on a collection of sets is that collection, and so only makes sense for sets of sets.

The same definition holds in any unital ring or algebra where a is any invertible element.

William Camden provided a definition of " Anagrammatisme " as " a dissolution of a name truly written into his letters, as his elements, and a new connection of it by artificial transposition, without addition, subtraction or change of any letter, into different words, making some perfect sense applyable ( i. e., applicable ) to the person named.

The traditional definition of the role of the conservator involves the examination, conservation, and preservation of cultural heritage using " any methods that prove effective in keeping that property in as close to its original condition as possible for as long as possible.

The light beam from a distant object cannot itself have any transverse velocity component, or it could not ( by definition ) be seen by the observer, since it would miss the observer.

The Shakespearean English form of the word ' brass ' can mean any bronze alloy, or copper, rather than the strict modern definition of brass.

As with any definition of the width of a function, many definitions are suitable for different purposes.

The definition works without any changes if instead of vector spaces over a field F, we use modules over a commutative ring R. It also can be easily generalized to n-ary functions, where the proper term is multilinear.

This number can be seen as equal to the one of the first definition, independently of any of the formulas below to compute it: if in each of the n factors of the power one temporarily labels the term X with an index i ( running from 1 to n ), then each subset of k indices gives after expansion a contribution X < sup > k </ sup >, and the coefficient of that monomial in the result will be the number of such subsets.

This deficit exists as it is matched by investment coming in to the United States-purely by the definition of the balance of payments, any current account deficit that exists is matched by an inflow of foreign investment.

Jacobs does not lend her theory to any reasonably strict definition of a city, but her account suggestively or vaguely contrasts what could be thought of as primitive city-like activity to the activity occurring in neighboring hunter-gatherer settlements.

An operational definition proposed in 2012 states " consciousness is the sum of the electrical discharges occurring throughout the nervous system of a being at any given instant ".

This view entails the problem that it makes any moral criticism of the law impossible: if conformity with natural law forms a necessary condition for legal validity, all valid law must, by definition, count as morally just.

These categories surely have some objects that are " special " in a certain way, such as the empty set or the product of two topologies, yet in the definition of a category, objects are considered to be atomic, i. e., we do not know whether an object A is a set, a topology, or any other abstract concept – hence, the challenge is to define special objects without referring to the internal structure of those objects.

Essentially by definition, only one dictator could serve at a time, and no dictator could ever be held legally responsible for any action during his time in office for any reason.

The key notions in the definition are ( 1 ) that some n is specified at the start, ( 2 ) for any n the computation only takes a finite number of steps, after which the machine produces the desired output and terminates.

This is however not the modern definition which only requires the result be accurate to within any given accuracy.

This reflects a realist approach to measurement, acknowledging that under any definition of residence there is a true value of the population but this can never be measured with complete accuracy.

The same definition is used for any consistent norm, i. e. one that satisfies

However, the general definition of a file does not require that its instant size has any real meaning, unless the data within the file happens to correspond to data within a pool of persistent storage.

Locke supposes in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding that the names of simple concepts do not admit of any definition.