His classic definition of feudalism is the most widely known today and also the easiest to understand, simply put, when a lord granted a fief to a vassal, the vassal provided military service in return.

The play does put forth less destructive definition of manhood towards the end.

Indeed, Stevens's definition of measurement was put forward in response to the British Ferguson Committee, whose chair, A. Ferguson, was a physicist.

In 1981 Edward Shils in his book Tradition put forward a definition of tradition that became universally accepted.

One further modification of the genus classification system came when an IMC commission for the study of clouds put forward a refined and more restricted definition of the genus nimbus.

Under this definition, if Apple purchases optical drives from Toshiba to put in its computers, Apple is the OEM, and Toshiba would classify the transaction as an " OEM sale ".

With the definition of elliptic functions given above ( which is due to Weierstrass ) the Weierstrass elliptic function is constructed in the most obvious way: given a lattice as above, put

But since it was thought that 6 + would be the definition of how hard humans could climb, no climber wanted to put up this grade, leaving the entire scale very sand-bagged compared to the UIAA scale.

" B. H. Liddell Hart's definition put less emphasis on battles, defining strategy as " the art of distributing and applying military means to fulfill the ends of policy ".

The basic definition of a price trend was originally put forward by Dow Theory.

Prefect ( from the Latin praefectus, perfect participle of praeficere: " make in front ", i. e., put in charge ) is a magisterial title of varying definition.

Among the artists who considered themselves Nabis was Maurice Denis, whose journalism put the aims of the group in the eye of a progressive audience, and whose definition of painting — " a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order " — expressed the Nabis approach.

Most other estimates put a much lower figure on the proportion ( although it should be remembered that other estimates may not use the same definition of ' working class ' as Class War ).

Gettier's article refuted this account, though some would say that the validity of this definition had already been put into question in a general way by the work of Wittgenstein.

or to put it another way, the definition of can be extended to all real values of n.

For Kelsen, " sovereignty " was a loaded concept: " We can derive from the concept of sovereignty nothing else other than what we have purposely put into its definition.

According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Universe has an infinite area ( as far as anyone can make out ), no imports whatsoever ( because the Universe has no outside from which to import anything ), exports ( ditto ), art ( because " the function of art is to hold a mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough "), or population ( because its population, by definition, must be finite, and the number of planets is infinite, as there is infinite space to put them in ; not all planets are inhabited, and any finite number divided by infinity is zero, or as near to it as makes no odds ), or sex ( well, there is an awful lot of this, largely because of the total lack of anything else that might keep the non-existent people of the universe occupied ).

Various ideas about the definition, development, and best ways of identifying intellectual giftedness have been put forward.

During the passage of the London Government Bill an amendment was put forward to create a central borough corresponding to the definition used at the 1961 census.

Another definition of transformative learning was put forward by O ' Sullivan:

By breaking down rigid categories in the mind ( according to a definition of genius put forward by Arthur Koestler ), the disease makes the thought process both faster and more flexible ; it also causes physical breakdown and, within nine months, death.

Galtung and Ruge, in their seminal study in the area put forward a system of twelve factors describing events that together are used as a definition of ' newsworthiness '.

Chi Psi also embraces the idea of being a true gentleman, by following the definition of a gentleman as put forward by John Walter Wayland's ' The True Gentleman ':

" This definition has been adopted by the World Health Organization from a definition put forward by Action on Elder Abuse in the UK.

His work, as important as it was in its own right, was a part of a continuum of progress in communications and electronics that since his time has brought forward color television, the personal computer, the Internet, cable and satellite radio and TV, personal mobile phones, audio, video and computing, digital stereo radio on both the medium wave and VHF-FM bands, and digital high definition television on VHF, UHF, cable and satellite.

While it is one of the most commonly used concepts in logic it must not be mistaken for a logical law ; rather, it is one of the accepted mechanisms for the construction of deductive proofs that includes the " rule of definition " and the " rule of substitution " Modus ponens allows one to eliminate a conditional statement from a logical proof or argument ( the antecedents ) and thereby not carry these antecedents forward in an ever-lengthening string of symbols ; for this reason modus ponens is sometimes called the rule of detachment.

The initial of the two points has a forward light cone and the final of them has a backward light cone ; the intersection of these two light cones can be used as the extensive definition of an occasion of experience as an open set.

Under NFL rules, if a quarterback lines up under center, he is by definition ineligible and not allowed to receive a forward pass.

His next famous case was Chudleigh's Case, a dispute over the interpretation of the Statute of Uses, while his third was Slade's Case, a dispute between the Common Pleas and King's Bench over assumpsit now regarded as a classic example of the friction between the two courts and the forward movement of contract law ; Coke's argument in the case formed the first definition of consideration.

If the same table is employed for the forward and reverse reactions, without switching signs, care must be taken to apply the correct definition to the corresponding direction, attachment -( release ) or detachment -( require ).

If α and β are chosen so that the right hand side yields ê < sub > 1 </ sub > or ê < sub > n </ sub >, then the quantity in the parentheses will fulfill the definition of the n < sup > th </ sup > forward or backward vector, respectively.

The connection speed of a technology that involves forward error correction typically refers to the physical layer net bit rate in accordance with the above definition.

It gives a new definition of a derivative such that if one differentiates a function which acts on the real numbers then the definition is equivalent to standard differentiation, but if one uses a function acting on the integers then it is equivalent to the forward difference operator.

An important property of the exponential map is the following lemma of Gauss ( yet another Gauss's lemma ): given any tangent vector v in the domain of definition of exp < sub > p </ sub >, and another vector w based at the tip of v ( hence w is actually in the double-tangent space T < sub > v </ sub >( T < sub > p </ sub > M )) and orthogonal to v, remains orthogonal to v when pushed forward via the exponential map.

This leads to an alternative definition of a gyrator: a device which transmits a signal unchanged in the forward ( arrow ) direction, but reverses the polarity of the signal travelling in the backward direction ( or equivalently, 180 ° phase-shifts the backward travelling signal ).

A tragedy, by his definition, is an imitation of an action that is serious, of a certain magnitude, and complete in itself.

Throughout the rest of the Poetics, Aristotle continues to discuss the characteristics of these six parts and their interrelationship, and he refers frequently to the standards suggested by his definition of tragedy.

The poet was by definition a realist, his imaginings and parables being natural organizations of reality.

First, we can encourage responsibility by establishing as conditions for assistance on a substantial and sustained scale the definition of objectives and the assessment of costs.

But contest definition -- that dramatic muscular separation of every muscle group that seems as though it must have been carved by a sculptor's chisel -- is something quite different.

If Af is the operator induced on Af by T, then evidently Af, because by definition Af is 0 on the subspace Af.

Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.

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.

It has to, by virtue of the very dictionary definition of the word `` few ''.

these, almost by definition, are spokesmen for an alienated ideology.

Finally, when the accelerometer output is zero, the entire system remains stationary, and the platform is, by definition, leveled.

If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.

According to the definition by IUPAC, the former two are alkanes, whereas the third group is called cycloalkanes.

The appellate court will typically be deferential to the lower court's findings of fact ( such as whether a defendant committed a particular act ), unless clearly erroneous, and so will focus on the court's application of the law to those facts ( such as whether the act found by the court to have occurred fits a legal definition at issue ).

In the narrowest definition, the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto is characterized by an umbellate inflorescence with an inferior ovary.

Under this definition, Anatolia is bounded to the East by the Armenian Highland, and the Euphrates before that river bends to the southeast to enter Mesopotamia.

This wider definition of Anatolia has gained widespread currency outside of Turkey and has, for instance, been adopted by Encyclopedia Britannica and other encyclopedic and general reference publications.

* Identity: the identity is the identity morphism from an object to itself which exists by definition.

* Inverses: by definition every isomorphism has an inverse which is also an isomorphism, and since the inverse is also an endomorphism of the same object it is an automorphism.

Partial and total orders are antisymmetric by definition.

The latter definition ignores the direction of the vectors and thus describes the angle between one-dimensional subspaces and spanned by the vectors and correspondingly.

The definition of the angle between one-dimensional subspaces and given by

This definition was adopted by the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in The Despouy Report on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty.