This means that they were at first fragmental rocks like limestone, shale and sandstone and have never been in a molten condition nor entirely in solution, but the high temperature and pressure conditions of metamorphism have acted on them by erasing their original structures and inducing recrystallization in the solid state.

They are also noted for the ability to rise from the grave as wisps of smoke and " swim " through solid rock, which would be useful as a means of exiting their graves.

The common element of most house music is a 4 / 4 beat generated by a drum machine or other electronic means ( such as a sampler ), together with a solid ( usually also electronically generated ) synth bassline.

As well, bass guitars usually have a solid wood body, which means that their sound is produced by electronic amplification of the vibration of the strings, instead of the upright bass's acoustic reverberation.

* Elongated means that a prism has been joined to the base of the solid in question or between the bases of the solids in question.

* Gyroelongated means that an antiprism has been joined to the base of the solid in question or between the bases of the solids in question.

* Augmented means that a pyramid or cupola has been joined to a face of the solid in question.

* Diminished means that a pyramid or cupola has been removed from the solid in question.

* Gyrate means that a cupola on the solid in question has been rotated so that different edges match up, as in the difference between ortho-and gyrobicupolae.

The theme of repeated unit-cellular-structure also holds for most condensed phases with metallic bonding, which means that solid metals are also not made of molecules.

The " singlet state ", i. e. the-sign, means: the spins are antiparallel, i. e. for the solid we have antiferromagnetism, and for two-atomic molecules one has diamagnetism.

This performance was attained by means of the highly optimized yet platform independent LIBRT ray-tracing engine in BRL-CAD and by using solid implicit CSG geometry on several shared memory parallel machines over a commodity network.

That is, a ' D ' hand with a solid bullet means that it becomes an ' X ' hand, while an ' X ' hand with a hollow bullet means that it becomes a ' D ' hand.

This means that the vapor can be condensed to a liquid or to a solid by increasing its pressure without reducing the temperature.

No viable means of specularly reflecting gamma rays has been proposed ( no solid material has this property, and plasma is not sufficiently reflective to gamma rays under practically attainable conditions ).

This qualification typically means that the object is symmetrically rounded into a spheroid or ellipsoid shape, where any irregular surface features are due to a relatively thin solid crust.

Here " immediately " means that the final electron position is far from the surface on the atomic scale but still close to the solid on the macroscopic scale.

Where is negative, which means that electrons are bound in the solid.

EDXRF detector types vary in resolution, speed and the means of cooling ( a low number of free charge carriers is critical in the solid state detectors ): proportional counters with resolutions of several hundred eV cover the low end of the performance spectrum, followed by PIN diode detectors, while the Si ( Li ), Ge ( Li ) and Silicon Drift Detectors ( SDD ) occupy the high end of the performance scale.

Conduction is the most significant means of heat transfer within a solid or between solid objects in thermal contact.

For Eakins, portraiture held little interest as a means of fashionable idealization or even simple verisimilitude — it provided the opportunity to reveal the character of an individual through the modeling of solid anatomical form.

Tangibly, this means the liquid and two solid solutions all coexist at the same time and are in chemical equilibrium.

The area may also be provided with additional data during the running of the object program by means of EDMOV or move macro-instructions.

Volta also studied what we now call electrical capacitance, developing separate means to study both electrical potential ( V ) and charge ( Q ), and discovering that for a given object, they are proportional.

Eight years have passed, and the city of Genoa is still trying to recover from the many damages provoked by the rioters, mainly devoted to crash cars, setting stores on fire, robbing banks and using any heavy or pointed object as a means to provoke damage to people and objects.

As nothing cannot be known by any means or method it must mean, in the context of the question, that a specific named object is present or not present in the observer's experience of a set of objects, conditions for which English uses " is " or " is not.

This means that a legally blind individual would have to stand from an object to see it — with corrective lenses — with the same degree of clarity as a normally sighted person could from.

This means that there is no observable difference between the gravitational field of such a black hole and that of any other spherical object of the same mass.

What it means to take the category physical object seriously as a category of being is to assert that the concept of physical objecthood cannot be reduced to or explicated in any other terms-not, for example, in terms of bundles of properties but only in terms of other items in that category.

Complications occurs for terms such as UFO, which literally means " unidentified flying object " but connotes alien spacecraft, a concept also associated with some conspiracy theories, and thus possessing a certain social stigma.

If F and G are ( covariant ) functors between the categories C and D, then a natural transformation η from F to G associates to every object X in C a morphism in D such that for every morphism in C, we have ; this means that the following diagram is commutative:

However, in some operating systems, a name may include a specification of type that means a directory can contain an identical name for more than one type of object such as a directory and a file.

The term clairvoyance ( from French clair meaning " clear " and voyance meaning " vision ") is used to refer to the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses, a form of extra-sensory perception.

The full title is indicative of the tale's object, as ingenioso ( Spanish ) means " quick with inventiveness "< ref >, Real Academia Española </ ref > marking the transition of modern literature from Dramatic to thematic unity.

He used object teaching, which means when teaching the teacher should proceed gradually from the concrete objects to the abstract and complex material.

Bloch said it is related to the Frankish term * fehu-ôd, in which * fehu means " cattle " and-ôd means " goods ", implying " a moveable object of value.

More formally, a " representation " means a homomorphism from the group to the automorphism group of an object.

This choice means that, on Wikipedia, Eris, the largest known trans-Neptunian object, is not part of the Kuiper belt, and so Pluto becomes the largest Kuiper belt object.

For example " This ' a ' is ' b '" ( e. g. " This ' object a ' is ' red '") really means "' object a ' is a sense-datum " and "' red ' is a sense-datum ", and they " stand in relation " to one another and in relation to " I ".

This means length of an object is variable depending on the observer.

Computer programs typically comprise several parts or modules ; all these parts / modules need not be contained within a single object file, and in such case refer to each other by means of symbols.

Alternatively, print media use a physical object as a means of sending their information, such as a newspaper, magazines, comics, books, brochures, newsletters, leaflets, and pamphlets.

Nim can also be played as a normal play game, which means that the person who makes the last move ( i. e., who takes the last object ) wins.

* Can one give an account of what it means to say that a physical object exists?