it incorporates an automatic knot-tying device on each spindle, and it will knot a break in the yarn in 10 seconds as well as tie in new bobbins as the running end is exhausted.

It is equipped with an automatic threading device to reduce waste and handling time.

Chuck a length of 1/8'' '' dia. drill rod into a drill press or some similar turning device and while it is rotating file the end square and then file a slight taper 1/8'' '' long.

It is an averaging device intended to ease the tax burden of fluctuating income ; ;

Literal flatness now tends to assert itself as the main event of the picture, and the device boomerangs: the illusion of depth is rendered even more precarious than before.

At the same time, every device that can be employed to reduce the number of variables is of the greatest value, and it is one of the attractive features of dynamic programming that room is left for ingenuity in using the special features of the problem to this end.

The medical device pirate of today, of course, is a far more sophisticated operator than his predecessor of yesteryear -- the gallus-snapping hawker of snake oil and other patent medicines.

The economic toll that the device quack extracts is important, of course.

`` Unfortunately '', says Chief Postal Inspector David H. Stephens, who has prosecuted many device quacks, `` the ghouls who trade on the hopes of the desperately ill often cannot be successfully prosecuted because the patients who are the chief witnesses die before the case is called up in court ''.

One manufacturer who held an allegedly basic patent said: `` I would readily put over $50,000 into the manufacture of the device, but it is so easy to make that we would enter immediately into a prolonged ordeal of patent litigation which would eat up all our profits ''.

In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom, and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large numbers from the simple-minded, one-minute shows.

The `` chase '' as a standard film device probably dates from The Great Train Robbery, and there is a reason for the continued popularity of the device.

The technique of reality confusion -- the use of paradox and riddles to shake the mind's grip on reality -- originated with fourth and third century B.C. Chinese Quietism: the koan is not basically a new device.

The play's device is to explore society's obsession with disaster and violence through the eyes of a group of artist's models who remain part of someone else's painting rather than just be themselves.

The device comes in variations where it is propelled by motors or by the seated occupant turning the rear wheels by hand.

A prosthesis, prosthetic, or prosthetic limb is a device that replaces a missing body part.

This is a sip-and-puff device which allows a person with substantial disability to make selections and navigate computerized interfaces by controlling inhalations and exhalations.

It is the belief of Old Babylonian scholars such as Carruccio that Old Babylonians " may have used the abacus for the operations of addition and subtraction ; however, this primitive device proved difficult to use for more complex calculations ".

Typically, when an algorithm is associated with processing information, data is read from an input source, written to an output device, and / or stored for further processing.

Computers ( and computors ), models of computation: A computer ( or human " computor ") is a restricted type of machine, a " discrete deterministic mechanical device " that blindly follows its instructions.

The device uses a magnet to bend the trajectory of a beam of ions, and the amount of deflection is determined by the ratio of an atom's mass to its charge.

There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.

However, algorithms are also implemented by other means, such as in a biological neural network ( for example, the human brain implementing arithmetic or an insect looking for food ), in an electrical circuit, or in a mechanical device.

This type of anemometer is mostly used for middle-school level instruction which most students make themselves, but a similar device was also flown on Phoenix Mars Lander.

Well-funded groups like Canada's Ballard Power Systems are also working to develop a " regenerative fuel cell ", a device that can generate hydrogen and oxygen when power is available, and combine these efficiently when power is needed.

There are also cycling specific multi-tools that combine many of these implements into a single compact device.

A boomerang is usually thought of as a wooden device cut from a tree trunk, although historically boomerang-like devices have also been made from bones.

He also argues that John's " poor " Greek is a literary device since Galileans were known to have excellent Greek.

Timecode can also be superimposed on video using a dedicated overlay device, often called a " window dub inserter ".

Clinical engineers also advise and collaborate with medical device producers regarding prospective design improvements based on clinical experiences, as well as monitor the progression of the state-of-the-art so as to redirect procurement patterns accordingly.

* Weighing scale, also known as a balance, a type of device used to measure the mass of an object.

Its purpose is to unburden the application software programmer from the often complex details of the particular computer being used, including such accessories as communications devices, printers, device readers, displays and keyboards, and also to partition the computer's resources such as memory and processor time in a safe and stable manner.

A calendar is also a physical device ( often paper ).

A calendar is also a physical device ( often paper ) ( for example, a desktop calendar or a wall calendar ).

A keyset or chorded keyboard ( also called a chorded keyset, chord keyboard or chording keyboard ) is a computer input device that allows the user to enter characters or commands formed by pressing several keys together, like playing a " chord " on a piano.

The Wu Xing, ( 五行 wŭ xíng ) also known as the Five Phases, the Five Agents, the Five Movements, and the Five Steps / Stages, are chiefly an ancient mnemonic device, in many traditional Chinese fields.

The causeways themselves may have been slightly submerged ; this has been interpreted as a device to make access difficult yet this can also simply be a by-product of loch level fluctuations over the ensuing centuries or indeed millennia.

NASCAR also made the use of the HANS device mandatory in all cars following Earnhardt's death.

In optics, an equivalent device for the diode but with laser light would be the Optical isolator, also known as an Optical Diode, that allows light to only pass in one direction.

The Doctor V64 ( also referred to simply as the V64 ) is a development and backup device made by Bung Enterprises Ltd that is used in conjunction with the Nintendo 64.

The virtual device driver can also send simulated processor-level events like interrupts into the virtual machine.

A PCI device has often an ID pair for the main chip of the device, and also a subsystem ID pair which identifies the vendor, which may be different from the chip manufacturer.

He also explained the apparently paradoxical behavior of the Leyden jar as a device for storing large amounts of electrical charge.

A multiplier ( which is a nonlinear device ) will generate ideally only the sum and difference frequencies, whereas an arbitrary nonlinear block would generate also signals at e. g. 2 · f < sub > 1 </ sub >- 3 · f < sub > 2 </ sub >, etc.

In class-AB operation, each device operates the same way as in class B over half the waveform, but also conducts a small amount on the other half.