Indeed, the most elementary definition of bipolar disorder is an often " violent " or " jarring " state of essentially uncontrollable oscillation between hyperthymia and dysthymia.

) In reliance on this assumption, modern statutes often leave a number of terms and fine distinctions unstated — for example, a statute might be very brief, leaving the precise definition of terms unstated, under the assumption that these fine distinctions will be inherited from pre-existing common law.

There is no consensus definition of this film style, and it is often loosely applied to slapstick or romantic comedy films.

Because most common ceramics are crystalline, the definition of ceramic is often restricted to inorganic crystalline materials, as opposed to the noncrystalline glasses.

This definition was also often used outside the USSR during this period.

While in popular usage the term " myth " is often thought to refer to false or fanciful stories, creation myths are by definition those stories which a culture accepts as both a true and foundational account of their human identity.

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.

Although most often used for matrices whose entries are real or complex numbers, the definition of the determinant only involves addition, subtraction and multiplication, and so it can be defined for square matrices with entries taken from any commutative ring.

The widespread adoption of digital video has also drastically reduced the bandwidth needed for a high-definition video signal ( with HDV and AVCHD, as well as several commercial variants such as DVCPRO-HD, all using less bandwidth than a standard definition analog signal ) and tapeless camcorders based on flash memory and often a variant of MPEG-4.

In contrast with most other OO languages, other methods applicable to the class are often defined outside of the class, and thus class definitions in Dylan typically include the definition of the storage only.

This axiom is often omitted because a binary operation is closed by definition.

An often quoted example is Samuel Johnson's definition for oats: " Oats: a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland, supports the people ", to which his Scots friend, Lord Elibank, retorted, " Yes, and where else will you see such horses and such men?

The word moiety () is often used synonymously with " functional group ," but, according to the IUPAC definition, a moiety is a part of a molecule that may include either whole functional groups or parts of functional groups as substructures.

By an abuse of the definition, a particular formal language is often thought of as being equipped with a formal grammar that describes it.

The first is that the epistle often uses a demonstrative pronoun at the beginning of a sentence, then a particle or conjunction, followed by an explanation or definition of the demonstrative at the end of the sentence, a stylistic technique which is not used in the gospel.

This operation is useful in many fields ( see discrete Fourier transform for properties and applications of the transform ) but computing it directly from the definition is often too slow to be practical.

More recently, however, different classes of spontaneous magnetization have been identified when there is more than one magnetic ion per primitive cell of the material, leading to a stricter definition of " ferromagnetism " that is often used to distinguish it from ferrimagnetism.

Today, law enforcement agencies, popular media, the United Nations, other nations and even some medical practitioners can be observed applying the term very broadly and often pejoratively in reference to a wide range of illicit substances, regardless of the more precise definition existing in medical contexts.

In the case of a word, it is often implied by the word's definition.

This definition is more rigorous and expandable than a simpler one involving common divisors, and it is often necessary to use it to determine the rationality or reducibility of numbers that are expressed in terms of variables.

Kilns are an essential part of the manufacture of all ceramics, which, by definition, require heat treatment, often at high temperatures.

However, as a vague term, the definition of a technicality varies from person to person, and often is simply used to denote any portion of the law which interferes with the user of the term's desired outcome.

Although there is no strict size definition, a small loch is often known as a lochan ( so spelled also in Scottish Gaelic ; in Irish it is spelled lochán ).

Given the definition of morpheme as " the smallest meaningful unit " Nanosyntax aims to account for idioms where it is often an entire syntactic tree which contributes " the smallest meaningful unit.

This definition breaks from the established use of the term libre to refer to free content and free software, where a specific threshold of permission must be reached.

Conservative Judaism holds that both Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism have made major and unjustifiable breaks with historic Judaism, both by their rejection of Jewish law and tradition as normative, and by their unilateral acts in creating a separate definition of Jewishness ( i. e. the latter movement's acceptance of patrilineal descent as an additional way of defining Jewishness.

Already in this example whole sets have ill-defined mappings: taking a point P on Q as origin, we can use lines through P, intersecting Q at one other point, to project to a plane — but this definition breaks down with all lines tangent to Q at P, which in a certain sense ' blow up ' P into the intersection of the tangent plane with the plane to which we project.

Dean's main contribution to the definition of the term, however, comes from the way he breaks the term up into ‘ govern ’ ‘ mentality ’, or mentalities of governing — mentality being a mental disposition or outlook.

Prominence parentage is the only definition used in the British Isles because encirclement parentage breaks down when the key col approaches sea level.

) When either or is negative, this naive definition breaks down and programming languages differ in how these values are defined.

Even where good quality archaeological research is carried out by archaeologists working with treasure hunters, concerns remain that treasure hunting, by definition, ignores the principle that in-situ preservation of cultural heritage should always be considered first, and that the sale of recovered artifacts breaks up the assemblage of cultural heritage material, resulting in a loss of opportunity to study the whole picture.

The largest tornado outbreak on record, depending on the definition applied and time elapsed between breaks in tornadic activity, was the April 25 – 28, 2011 tornado outbreak, with as many as 358 tornadoes.

Once the poetic arts are separated from the other forms, he lays down his famous definition of tragedy, which sets up standards and so lends direction to the remainder of the work.

* In stem-based definition, A refers to the most inclusive clade containing X, Y, etc., and their common ancestor, down to where Z branches off below A. Taxa are included between the node of A and down to ( but not including ) the branching point to Z ; that is, the stem of A.

A precising definition extends the descriptive dictionary definition ( lexical definition ) of a term for a specific purpose by including additional criteria that narrow down the set of things meeting the definition.

If ' beauty ' is defined as ' aesthetically successful ', one must continue to break down and define the following definition.

* EU definition original source-scroll down to paras: 20 nand 21 of Annex II-Spirit Drinks

One common definition of up and down uses gravity and the planet Earth as a frame of reference.

If the future was given the definition of Physics, it can be drawn down to this.

Most fear that the focus on achievement by all students will result in " dumbing down " the definition of academic competence to a level that is achievable by even the weakest students.

: To construct U is to write down the definition of a general-recursive function U ( n, x ) that correctly interprets the number n and computes the appropriate function of x. to construct U directly would involve essentially the same amount of effort, and essentially the same ideas, as we have invested in constructing the universal Turing machine.

In fact, he shot down only four aircraft ; the definition of " ace " is five or more victories.

Chapter ( 32 ) sūrat l-sajdah ( The Prostration ), the verse " prostration " definition " face-down " to bow down to somebody, someone, something else first, with modesty, humility, humble, good manners & courtesy, to bow down with respect.

A 1914 encyclopedic definition: " the different forms of earth on the surface of the rocks, formed by the breaking down or weathering of rocks ".

Paragraphs ( a ) to ( d ) of the definition of ‘ de facto financial cause ’, in the Family Law Act 1975 therefore, limit the proceedings within each of those sections to proceedings taken once the relevant de facto relationship has broken down.

All other players then write down a definition, which may be an honest attempt to supply the correct definition, or, if they do not know or for tactical reasons decide not to, a fictitious definition for the word designed to sound convincing.

NR's standard definition operations shut down in the week before the revised digital television transition mandated by the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) on June 12.

In addition, units that are taken down for routine scheduled maintenance or inventory control, are not considered within the definition of failure.

One usage has antonym referring to both gradable opposites, such as long: short, and ( non-gradable ) complementary opposites, such as male: female, while opposites of the types up: down and precede: follow are excluded from the definition.