A crystal structure is composed of a pattern, a set of atoms arranged in a particular way, and a lattice exhibiting long-range order and symmetry.

Sharing the same basic design, but a modified upper structure, the Sunderland was one of the most effective long-range seaplanes in use.

* Crystalline structure: whether or not the atoms or molecules exhibit the ' long-range order ' evidenced in crystalline solids.

Generally speaking, the fundamental condition needed for NBBs to self-assemble into an ordered structure is the simultaneous presence of long-range repulsive and short-range attractive forces .< ref > Figure exemplifies SA occurring from building blocks made up of two different units ( A and B ) which are covalently linked ( short-range attraction ) and repel each other by long-range interactions ( e. g. because A is hydrophobic and B is hydrophilic ).

As Governor, Daniel saw legislative fruition of his proposals to reorganize of the State Board of Insurance, passage of an ethics code for lawmakers and other state employees, regulation of lobbyists, an improved structure for state archives, and a long-range water conservation plan.

The Fortress serves as a defensive structure and produces the civilization's unique unit and an anti-jedi Bounty Hunter, as well as long-range cannons, and the massive Air cruiser.

The solid is eventually formed when dynamic arrest or glass transition occurs, but it forms into an amorphous solid — a glass, instead, as there is no long-range order in the structure.

Such performance is a great tribute to American scientists and engineers, who in the past five years have had to telescope time and technology to develop these long-range ballistic missiles, where America had none before.

Only when a concert of nations rests on the positive foundations of shared goals and values is it likely to form a viable instrument of long-range policy.

That is, will it serve the long-range public interest??

The long-range objective of habitat management is to make it fully productive so as to support fish and game populations to contribute to the need for public use and enjoyment.

The long-range objective is to hold the damage from destructive agencies below the level which would seriously interfere with intensive management of the National Forest System under principles of multiple use and high-level sustained yield of products and services.

The long-range objective of this Department is to provide and maintain a system of forest development roads and trails which will adequately service the National Forest System at the levels needed to meet expected needs and optimum production of products and services.

The long-range objective is to bring about consolidation of ownership through use of land exchange authority and through purchase on a moderate scale of inholdings which comprise key tracts for recognized National Forest programs such as recreation development, or which are a source of damage to lands in National Forests and National Grasslands.

Another example is the recent cancellation of the F-108, a long-range interceptor with a speed three times as great as the speed of sound, which was designed for use against manned bombers in the period of the mid-1960's.

The Strategic Air Command is the principal element of our long-range nuclear capability.

Nuclear weapons are fearsome, but the long-range ballistic missile gives them a stealth and merciless swiftness which is much more terrifying.

Time perspective -- the ability to plan for the future and to postpone gratifying immediate wants in order to achieve long-range objectives -- is more easily developed if, from infancy on, the individual has been able to rely on and trust people and the world in which she lives.

In Nassau, as in other systems, the long-range objective is to bring the maximum service of libraries to bear on the schools, and on adult education in general.

Whatever the long-range impact of integration, the owners of Negro-appeal radio stations these days know they have an audience and that it is loyal.

In condensed matter physics, an amorphous ( from the Greek a, without, morphé, shape, form ) or non-crystalline solid is a solid that lacks the long-range order characteristic of a crystal.

In case of a-Si: H the missing long-range order between silicon atoms is partly induced by the presence by hydrogen in the percent range.

The AIM-54 Phoenix is a radar-guided, long-range air-to-air missile ( AAM ), carried in clusters of up to six missiles on F-14 Tomcats, its only launch platform.

Perhaps the one meaningful distinction at present is the question of range: a bomber is generally a long-range aircraft capable of striking targets deep within enemy territory, whereas fighter bombers and attack aircraft are limited to ' theater ' missions in and around the immediate area of battlefield combat.

The objective is reportedly to protect another parts of US National Missile Defense from long-range missile strikes from Iran and North Korea, but Czech PM Mirek Topolánek said the main reason is to avoid Russian influence and strengthen ties to US.

The Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, often abbreviated as Air Pollution or CLRTAP, is intended to protect the human environment against air pollution and to gradually reduce and prevent air pollution, including long-range transboundary air pollution.

The aim of the Convention is that Parties shall endeavour to limit and, as far as possible, gradually reduce and prevent air pollution including long-range transboundary air pollution.

The Mage uses an assortment of long-range spells, whose reach is counterbalanced by the fact that he is the most fragile and slowest moving of the classes.

That is that heating will eventually drive them into a conventional liquid phase characterized by random and isotropic molecular ordering ( little to no long-range order ), and fluid-like flow behavior.

The system otherwise known as AMES Type 1 ( Air Ministry Experimental Station ) consisted of radar fixed on top of a radio tower mast, called a ' station ' to provide long-range detection of aircraft.

Taser International has developed a long-range wireless electro-shock projectile called XREP ( eXtended Range Electro-Muscular Projectile ), which can be fired from any 12-gauge shotgun.

The State Planning Commission, sometimes called the " Economic General Staff of the Council of Ministers ," advised the Council of Ministers on possible alternative economic strategies and their implications, translated the general targets set by the council into planning directives and more specific plan targets for each of the ministries beneath it, coordinated short -, medium -, and long-range planning, and mediated interministerial disagreements.

In the German Bundeswehr, LRRP is called Fernspäher ( long-range scouts ).

Also called a Speaking Tree, these trees are used for long-range communication.

Mr. Souter called it " the most important deal of the year in terms of our company's long-range development " and promised more.

These electrons are called backscattered electrons and have the same effect as long-range flare in optical projection systems.

As the warheads approached ( but while still in outer space ) the Safeguard long-range radar ( called the Perimeter Acquisition Radar, or PAR ) would detect them, providing filtered information to the shorter-range and more precise Missile Site Radar ( MSR ).

If the time-series is suspected to exhibit long-range dependence then the parameter may be replaced by certain non-integer values in an autoregressive fractionally integrated moving average model, which is also called a Fractional ARIMA ( FARIMA or ARFIMA ) model.

One other element was long-range nightfighters operating against the German nightfighters, using a system called " Serrate " to home in on the German nightfighter radar signals.

Broszat called for the Third Reich to be integrated into the broad stream of German history and called for a long-range view of the German past with the Nazi era seen as a stage of the broader story of German history rather than being treated as an abnormal period that was not connected to what came before or after.

The House Harkonnen superweapon is a long-range powerful but inaccurate finger of missiles called the Death Hand, whereas House Atreides may call upon the local Fremen infantry warriors, over which the player has no control, to engage enemy targets.