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

but this grinning, broken head, not ten feet away from me, was the sharp definition of what my reality had become.

No matter how devoted a man was, no matter how fully he gave his life to the Lord, he could never extinguish that one spark of pride that gave him definition as an individual.

It might be contended, of course, that Eichmann in stubbornly denying anti-Semitic feelings was lying or insisting on a private definition of anti-Semitism.

When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

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.

Throughout European history, philosophers such as Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, among others, contemplated the possibility that souls exist in animals, plants, and people ; however, the currently accepted definition of animism was only developed in the 19th century by Sir Edward Tylor, who created it as " one of anthropology's earliest concepts, if not the first ".

Edward Burnett Tylor | Sir Edward Tylor was responsible for forming the definition of animism currently accepted in anthropology.

This slump was permanent due to the introduction of a stricter definition of citizen described below.

The cubists, dadaists, Stravinsky, and many later art movements struggled against this conception that beauty was central to the definition of art, with such success that, according to Danto, " Beauty had disappeared not only from the advanced art of the 1960 ’ s but from the advanced philosophy of art of that decade as well.

Prior to this definition, it was used by Persian-speakers ( and others influenced by Persian ) to denote the Pashtun people.

Celsius was the first to perform and publish careful experiments aiming at the definition of an international temperature scale on scientific grounds.

The Lavoisier definition was held as absolute truth for over 30 years, until the 1810 article and subsequent lectures by Sir Humphry Davy in which he proved the lack of oxygen in H < sub > 2 </ sub > S, H < sub > 2 </ sub > Te, and the hydrohalic acids.

This definition was proposed by Justus von Liebig circa 1838, based on his extensive works on the chemical composition of organic acids.

The Arrhenius definition of acid – base reactions is a development of the hydrogen theory of acids, devised by Svante Arrhenius, which was used to provide a modern definition of acids and bases that followed from his work with Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald in establishing the presence of ions in aqueous solution in 1884, and led to Arrhenius receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1903 for " recognition of the extraordinary services ... rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation ".

One of these was the property, an essential universal true of the species, but not in the definition ( in modern terms, some examples would be grammatical language, a property of man, or a spectral pattern characteristic of an element, both of which are defined in other ways ).

For example, they might interpret a tomato as a vegetable — according to the English definition of tomato — even though the ideal Blissymbol of vegetable was restricted by Bliss to just vegetables growing underground.

This was the approach that Bessel used, and from this definition he derived several properties of the function.

* 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.

He also provided an algebraic definition of fundamental groups of schemes and more generally the main structures of a categorical Galois theory.

Philosophical aesthetics has not only to speak about art and to produce judgments about art works, but has also to give a definition of what art is.

This " institutional definition of art " ( see also Institutional Critique ) has been championed by George Dickie.

Ian Hacking ( 1999, p. 84 ) also uses the same definition.

The definition of ballroom dance also depends on the era: balls have featured popular dances of the day such as the Minuet, Quadrille, Polonaise, Polka, Mazurka, and others, which are now considered to be historical dances.

" The contains a simple and brief definition for the term bodhisattva, which is also the earliest known Mahāyāna definition.

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 approach also allows preserving the curve definition under all linear or perspective 2D and 3D transforms and projections.

The difference between the two definitions is that under the former, finite sets are also considered to be countable, while under the latter definition, they are not considered to be countable.

Omnivores also consume both animal and non-animal food, and apart from the more general definition, there is no clearly defined ratio of plant to animal material that would distinguish a facultative carnivore from an omnivore, or an omnivore from a facultative herbivore, for that matter.

As Martin's definition suggests, the countercult ministries concentrate on non-traditional groups that claim to be Christian, so chief targets have been The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science and the Unification Church, but also smaller groups like the Swedenborgian Church

A troll described in this work also influenced the D & D definition of that monster.

An intensional definition, also called a coactive definition, specifies the necessary and sufficient conditions for a thing being a member of a specific set.

An extensional definition, also called a denotative definition, of a concept or term specifies its extension.

A recursive definition, sometimes also called an inductive definition, is one that defines a word in terms of itself, so to speak, albeit in a useful way.

The result, div F, is a function of p. From this definition it also becomes explicitly visible that div F can be seen as the source density of the flux of F.

However, whether this is possible depends on how the field of complex numbers is derived in the first place: it may not be possible to distinguish a complex number from its conjugate ( say, 3 + i from 3-i ), since it is impossible to find a property of one that is not also a property of the other, without falling back on the underlying set-theoretic definition.

" It also notes that "... no definition adequately specifies precise boundaries for the concept of ' mental disorder '... different situations call for different definitions ".

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.

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 often breaks down since many substances in ordinary experience, such as rocks, salts, and metals, are composed of large networks of chemically bonded atoms or ions, but are not made of discrete molecules.