An automatic number announcement circuit ( ANAC ) is a special telephone number that is meant to be used by phone company technicians and other telecommunications technicians to determine the phone number of a particular line.

The exercise was meant to determine whether a running horse ever had all four legs lifted off the ground at once.

" The passage does not give enough information to determine which cubit Pliny meant ; however, any cubit gives the same general result.

The UNRWA definition is meant solely to determine eligibility for UNRWA assistance.

It also protected the authority of the princely families, the knights and some of the cities to determine what religious uniformity meant in their territories.

That meant that if the patricians acted in concord, they could always determine the result of the voting of the people's assembly.

G-9 called for fire against the attacking ships from coastal artillery, but the mist meant the artillery were unable to determine which ships were which.

Camper invented the " facial angle ", a measure meant to determine intelligence among various species.

When an apple is sliced in half, the seeds form a pentagram-like shape, and it is thought that the manifestation of such a symbol meant that the apple could be used to determine marriages during this time of year.

As the poem uses the stream of consciousness technique, it is often difficult to determine what is meant to be interpreted literally or symbolically.

CAPTCHAs, for example, are a sort of variant on the Turing test, meant to determine whether a viewer of a Web application is a real person.

By early October 1918, the Slovene-Croat-Serb movement planned to set up a National Assembly, and one of the leaders of this movement Srđan Budisavljević was confronted by Svetozar Pribićević, the leader of the Croat-Serb Coalition, in an effort to determine whether these efforts were meant to undermine the Coalition.

SIM's new technology is meant to lead to the development of telescopes powerful enough to take images of Earth-like extrasolar planets orbiting distant stars and to determine whether those planets are able to sustain life.

This meant that the ship was navigating by using estimation of speed and heading in order to determine position based on chart work.

As god means very different things to different people, when the word is spoken, an ignostic may seek to determine if something like a child's definition of a god is meant or if a theologian's is intended instead.

Methodius of Olympus in his " Banquet of Virgins " ( Symposion sive Convivium decem Virginum ) subdivided the night office or pannychis into watches, but it is difficult to determine what he meant by these nocturns.

However, they do not precisely define what is meant by " a significant decline ," but rather determine if one has existed on a case by case basis after examining their catalogued factors which have no defined grade scale or weighting factors.

To determine whether or not a particular MoU is meant to be a legally binding document ( i. e. a treaty ), one needs to examine the intent of the parties as well as the position of the signatories ( e. g. Minister of Foreign Affairs vs Minister of Environment ).

Around the same time, he indulged a research program meant to determine the best way of cartographic projection for a particular region and presented his findings to the French Académie des Sciences.

School is meant to determine each student's proper social role.

A study was carried out into the area to determine whether conservation area status was feasible for the area, however the sparseness of the locations meant that the plan deemed infeasible.

In his June 15 letter which appointed Bush to the head of the committee, Roosevelt outlined that the NDRC was not meant to replace the research work done by the Army and Navy in their own laboratories or through industry contracts, but rather to " supplement this activity by extending the research base and enlisting the aid of the scientists who can effectively contribute to the more rapid improvement of important devices, and by study determine where new effort on new instrumentalities may be usefully employed.

Due to the limitations of VHF radio communications, and because not all vessels are equipped with AIS, the system is meant to be used primarily as a means of lookout and to determine the risk of collision rather than as an automatic collision avoidance system, in accordance with the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea.

The Court, in an opinion by Justice Stevens, applied the four-part test set forth in Cort v. Ash, 422 U. S. 66 ( 1975 ), used in order to determine whether Congress had meant for a law to be able to be privately enforced:

He was thinking that the way she had responded to his own kiss hadn't meant what he had believed it had.

Then she turned back to Wilson and smiled, and he wasn't quite sure what she meant by it.

I meant what I said about that fire.

`` Why, I meant what I said '', Lord declared.

There was no doubt that Herr Schaffner meant every word of what he said.

I really didn't know what he meant.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

This is what was meant, above, by describing history as inferential.

It is difficult to tabulate exactly what was meant in each individual situation, but the conclusion may be drawn that 21 towns do not assess movable personal property, and of the remainder only certain types are valued for tax purposes.

At first I did not know what she meant ; ;

And our question is, is such an implication consistent with what we meant??

When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.

And if we can see that what we meant to say remains the same, while the feeling varies from intensity to near zero, it is not the feeling that we primarily meant to express.

`` Range delivery '' meant that the buyer, after examinin' the seller's ranch records and considerin' his rep'tation for truthfulness, paid for what the seller claimed to own, then rode out and tried to find it.

`` But I meant what I said, Casey.

The Congolese were clamoring for their independence, even though most were unsure what it meant ; ;

Just what is meant by `` spirit '' and by `` matter ''??

He said, turning on what was meant to be charm.

Oh, that's what I meant to tell you.

She said what she meant and let it be.

Mercer stammered, not knowing what B'dikkat meant, and the two-nosed man answered for him, `` I think he has a nice baby head, but it isn't big enough for you to take yet ''.

The goal of clear concise communication is that the receiver ( s ) have no misunderstanding about what was meant to be conveyed.

In law, it is generally meant to state specifically and in detail what one did and for what reason, often in relation to commission of a crime.