That meant that something between the light and its reflection on the wall was moving closer to the source of the light -- in this case, the window.

The horses moved by being pulled along on a trolley which meant the viewer never saw their feet when they were moving.

There had been some talk of moving Janet to OSI protocols in the 1990s, but changes in the networking world meant this never happened.

Several out-of-place elements were included in the game, such as credit cards, a wizard turning player character Pit into an eggplant, and a large, moving nose that was meant to resemble composer Tanaka.

In knots that are meant to grip other objects, failure can be defined as the knot moving relative to the gripped object.

Ben tells his daughter that he will soon be moving on since he was not meant to stay in one place for long (" Wand ' rin ' Star ").

At the first performances of Parsifal problems with the moving scenery during the transition from Scene one to Scene two in Act 1 meant that Wagner's existing orchestral interlude finished before Parsifal and Gurnemanz arrived at the Hall of the Grail.

In the steep hill wheat country of Palouse in the Northwest of the United States, steep ground meant moving machinery around was problematic and prone to rolling.

In the 18th century, Dr. Samuel Johnson marked the change in designation of the lawyers in Glasgow with a jibe about their moving from " procuring " ( a term which traditionally meant pimping ) to " soliciting " ( which was and is used as shorthand for prostitution ).

This meant that more of the propellant went to moving the shot, rather than bypassing it.

Because of its location near the 100th Meridian, the town was surveyed eight different times, which meant that some early residents lived in both Texas and Oklahoma without ever moving.

The word originally meant a moving hospital, which follows an army in its movements.

Her father's military career meant that she spent her early life in Germany before moving to Basingstoke, Hampshire, England when she was in her early teens.

Because of the light loss due to all the filtering, Autochrome plates required much longer exposures than black-and-white plates and films, which meant that a tripod or other stand had to be used and that it was not practical to photograph moving subjects.

Perhaps his most enduring achievement is the construction of the " Lichtrequisit einer elektrischen Buehne " Prop for an Electric Stage ( completed 1930 ), a device with moving parts meant to have light projected through it in order to create mobile light reflections and shadows on nearby surfaces.

In the U. S. A., the Jones Act ( which places restrictions on the ships that can be used for moving domestic cargoes ) has meant that merchant shipbuilding has continued, but such protection has failed to penalise shipbuilding inefficiencies.

The Prussians had attempted to bring three armies together for the battle, but problems with sending orders by telegraph and moving men by railroad had meant that only two of the three armies had arrived in time.

It meant moving his family to Memphis and separation from his close friend John Wesley McKinnie and No. 638 as well, but Jones saw the move as a good one, and had bid for and got the job.

" It would have meant moving from Wales to London as a family.

He initially tried making a cabinet similar to Hammond's own, but then surmised the variation in sound a pipe organ produced because of the different location of each pipe meant he should try making a moving speaker.

The whole is usually a single, tall and heavy piece of furniture, not meant to be disassembled after manufacture, no matter what problems might be incurred in moving it from place to place.

The fact that the 1st and 10th Armoured Divisions had not broken through into the open areas west of the line as originally planned, meant that Montgomery had to change his orders – moving to an attritional World War I type of battle, which Montgomery in a semblance of a novelty – dubbed " Crumbling Actions.

That meant moving the train, and there was no siding before the line descended back into the tunnel.

The new design meant that the club had to realign Witton Lane and, as a condition of the planning permission, pay £ 600, 000 to compulsory purchase the houses along Witton Lane and upgrade the road from a B to an A road, as well as moving its utilities.

According to the Jargon File, American hackers switched to what they later discovered to be the British quotation system because placing a period inside a quotation mark can change the meaning of data strings that are meant to be typed character-for-character.

When a PAP connection was opened, each end sent the other an ATP request which basically meant " send me more data ".

To move from vendor A's to vendor B's systems usually meant a very expensive re-entry of almost all design data by hand into the new system.

This meant that a given program, with given data, would always produce the same result on any compliant computer.

It is also often used for a set of numbers whose values are meant to be multiplied together or are exponential in nature, such as data on the growth of the human population or interest rates of a financial investment.

For example CP / M machines used many different floppy disk formats, which meant that one machine could not normally read disks from another CP / M machine, and Kermit was used as part of a process to enable the transfer of applications and data between CP / M machines and other machines with different operating systems.

There are essentially three types of usage for wiki software: public-facing wikis with a potentially large community of readers and editors, private enterprise wikis for data management by corporations and other organizations, and personal wikis, meant to be used by a single person to manage notes, and usually run on a desktop.

Although this arrangement provided a neat physical coupling between the controller and the disk, single-sector internal transfers and dependence on the speed of the host machine to transfer data to memory meant that a trial-and-error approach was still needed to set the disk interleave correctly to ensure optimum transfer rates.

Moreover, because discourses are bodies of text meant to communicate specific data, information, and knowledge, there exist internal relations within a given discourse, and external relations among discourses, because a discourse does not exist in isolation ( per se ), but in relation to other discourses, which are determined and established by means of interdiscourse and interdiscursivity.

The very large words, and comparatively small amount of memory, meant that programmers would frequently economize on memory by packing data into words at the bit level.

All I / O operations, file system operations, and network operations were meant to work through this mechanism, and the data transferred was copied during message passing.

Pocket PCs running prior versions of the operating system generally stored user-installed applications and data in RAM, which meant that if the battery was depleted the device would lose all of its data.

For the Apple implementation this meant 7 bits times 6 links at 50 million times a second, for a raw data rate of 2. 1 Gbit / s.

Its products are meant to consolidate data from different sources and make the data available for analysis.

" Separation of game-specific rules and data from basic concepts like collision detection and game entity meant that teams could grow and specialize.

Modern advances in seismic data acquisition and processing have meant that seismic attributes of subsurface rocks are readily available and can be used to infer physical / sedimentary properties of the rocks themselves.

** Working spaces, the color spaces in which color data is meant to be manipulated

This meant that the program no longer required advance knowledge of the data structure, but rather could ask the data file how it was structured.

Its almost universal use has meant that experimental data can be compared easily by different laboratories around the world.

Changes in disk technology had meant that searching for data in ISAM data sets had become very inefficient.