The reachability definition of " garbage " is not optimal, insofar as the last time a program uses an object could be long before that object falls out of the environment scope.

From his first composition to his last, he rejected the idea of musical development, in the strict definition of this term: the intertwining of different themes in a development section of a sonata form.

OCaml chooses the last matching definition of a class inheritance list to resolve which method implementation to use under ambiguities.

The historical definition differs from the length-based standard in that a minute of arc, and hence a nautical mile, is not a constant length at the surface of the Earth but gradually lengthens in the north-south direction with increasing distance from the equator, as a corollary of the Earth's oblateness, hence the need for " mean " in the last sentence of the previous paragraph.

The first explicit such occasion ( after the proclamation ), and so far the last, was the definition of the dogma of the Assumption of Mary in 1950.

Programs in the United States did not make the full conversion to high definition broadcasting until September 2011, when The Bold and the Beautiful became the last soap to convert to the format, except for One Life to Live, which remained in standard definition, albeit in a 16x9 aspect ratio, until the end of its run on ABC in January 2012.

According to the American calendar, the U. S. summer season is commonly regarded as beginning on Memorial Day weekend ( the last weekend in May ) and ending on Labor Day weekend ( the first weekend in September ), more closely in line with the meteorological definition ; the similar Canadian tradition starts summer on Victoria Day one week prior ( although summer conditions vary widely across Canada's expansive territory ) and ends, like the United States, on Labour Day.

Because the temperature lag is shorter in the oceanic temperate southern hemisphere most countries in this region, especially Australia and New Zealand, use the meteorological definition with summer starting on December 1 and ending on the last day of February.

The last part of the definition is included so as not to confuse multi-fiber connectors with a branching component, such as a coupler.

Carrying out the summation over the last two terms and using the definition of gives the formula

The Oxford English Dictionary says ( as its last definition of

The last third of the 19th century saw the arithmetization of analysis by Weierstrass, who thought that geometric reasoning was inherently misleading, and introduced the " epsilon-delta " definition of limit.

* END OF FUNCTION ( last statement in a multiple line definition )

Another elegant definition of liquidity is the probability that the next trade is executed at a price equal to the last one.

In his definition of " disarmament ", David Carlton writes in the Oxford University Press Political dictionary, " But confidence in such measures of arms control, especially when unaccompanied by extensive means of verification, has not been strengthened by the revelation that the Soviet Union in its last years successfully concealed consistent and systematic cheating on its obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention.

His logic being that Terminus ( at the time of Hari Seldon ) was the last planet to be inhabited ( one end of the metaphorical galaxy ) and, by definition, Earth was the first ( the other end of the metaphorical galaxy ).

Throughout much of the last decade, polls consistently suggest that 70 % to 80 % of all Taiwanese support maintaining the status quo ; although the definition of the status quo is an area of intense debate.

This is done by defining a sequence of value functions V < sub > 1 </ sub >, V < sub > 2 </ sub >, ..., V < sub > n </ sub >, with an argument y representing the state of the system at times i from 1 to n. The definition of V < sub > n </ sub >( y ) is the value obtained in state y at the last time n. The values V < sub > i </ sub > at earlier times i = n − 1, n − 2, ..., 2, 1 can be found by working backwards, using a recursive relationship called the Bellman equation.

with the last equality being true by the definition of conditional probability distributions.

The exact definition, giving the criteria for deciding what part of the file name is its extension, belongs to the rules of the specific filesystem used ; usually the extension is the substring which follows the last occurrence, if any, of the dot character ( example: is the extension of the filename, the extension of ).

The seminal American Yacht Designer of the first half of last century, Francis Herreshoff, reflected this traditional definition of a yawl as " a ship's boat resembling the pinnace " set up to be primarily rowed.

This last definition is favored by those who argue for a strict interpretation of the " third gender " concept.

Its usual symbols are,, σ or k, the first three used for one definition, the last for another.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

It is the last of the three tests of manhood which the women impose, to discover if a male is worthy of survival there.

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

The 140,414 Americans who gave `` the last full measure of devotion '' to prevent disunion, preserved individual freedom in the United States from the dangers of anarchy, inherent in confederations, which throughout history have proved fatal in the end to all associations composed primarily of sovereign states, and to the liberties of their people.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Other countries, some of which I visited last month, have similar needs.

but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.

I ask you to do me the last favour of reading them by 8 to-morrow evening, about which time I shall come to say my sad good-bye.

There is every reason to recognize that in the very last years of his life, as we shall see, Thompson did take the drug in carefully rationed doses to ease the pains of his illness, but the exact date at which this began has never been determined.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

The same can be said about the half-hearted Cuban invasion mounted by the administration last April, which, we trust, is not symptomatic of the methods to be invoked in holding off the felonious Khrushchev.

The U.N.-chartered plane which was flying from the conference city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun bullets last weekend and was newly repaired.

His successor, Secretary Goldberg, also has been guessing wrong on a drop in the unemployment rate which has been holding just under 7 per cent for the last 11 months.

There are some clubs which claim they learned something about pitching to him last year.

The bill which passed the Assembly last May and is now pending in the Senate should be given careful scrutiny.

It reappears, in whole or part, whenever a new crisis exposes the reality: in Cuba last spring ( with which the Dominican events of last month should be paired ) ; ;

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs.

He and Mark were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no end, stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden days of summer.