A tangent point Q in the C-plane occurs when C and Af are tangent to one another.

Neoteny occurs when the animal's growth rate is very low.

; Lack-of-fit error: Error that occurs when the analysis omits one or more important terms or factors from the process model.

When scratched with a sharp implement, an exothermic reaction occurs and white fumes are given off as metallic antimony is formed ; when rubbed with a pestle in a mortar, a strong detonation occurs.

In The Plague, a key description of Oran occurs early, when it is explained that the town is built in such a way that it " turns its back on the bay, with the result that it's impossible to see the sea, you always have to go to look for it.

A significant episode occurs near the end of part IV, when Tarrou and Rieux sit on the terrace of a house, from which they can see far into the horizon.

In analog systems, it is difficult to detect when such degradation occurs.

Adiabatic heating occurs when the pressure of a gas is increased from work done on it by its surroundings, e. g. a piston.

Adiabatic heating also occurs in the Earth's atmosphere when an air mass descends, for example, in a katabatic wind or Foehn or chinook wind flowing downhill over a mountain range.

Adiabatic cooling occurs when the pressure of a substance is decreased as it does work on its surroundings.

Generally, an assault occurs when a person directly or indirectly applies force intentionally to another person without their consent.

The second fight between Ajax and Hector occurs when the latter breaks into the Mycenaean camp, and fights with the Greeks among the ships.

The concept occurs when a unit of meaning can vary in sound without changing meaning.

It occurs in several allomorphs depending on its phonological environment, assimilating voicing of the previous segment or inserting a schwa when following an alveolar stop:

In Hindu astrology the equinox occurs when the Sun is 6 degrees in Pisces.

* prevent overmodulation, and minimize it when it occurs

If, conversely, tin is used to coat steel, when a breach of the coating occurs it actually accelerates oxidation of the iron.

The fracture is adhesive or interfacial when debonding occurs between the adhesive and the adherent.

Shot noise is a type of electronic noise that occurs when the finite number of particles ( such as electrons in an electronic circuit or photons in an optical device ) is small enough to give rise to statistical fluctuations in a signal.

Viral induction of apoptosis occurs when one or several cells of a living organism is infected with a virus leading to cell death.

One of the most significant differences between the adversarial system and the inquisitorial system occurs when a criminal defendant admits to the crime.

** Spherical aberration, which occurs when light rays strike a lens or mirror near its edge

** Defocus aberration, which occurs when a system is out of focus

The subjects are mythological, and chiefly grotesque, with various inscriptions, in which ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ often occurs, alone or with other words.

Although colour change in leaves occurs wherever deciduous trees are found, coloured autumn foliage is noted in various regions of the world: most of Anglo-America, Eastern Asia ( including China, Korea, and Japan ), Europe, parts of Australia and New Zealand.

B. thuringiensis also occurs naturally in the gut of caterpillars of various types of moths and butterflies, as well on leaf surfaces, aquatic environments, animal feces, insect rich environments, flour mills and grain storage facilities.

This occurs in the context of Irenaeus ' work On the Detection and Overthrow of Knowledge Falsely So Called, ( Greek: elenchos kai anatrope tes pseudonymou gnoseos genitive case, ἔλεγχος καὶ ἀνατροπὴ τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως ) where the term " knowledge falsely so-called " ( nominative case pseudonymos gnosis ) covers various groups, not just Valentinus, and is a quotation of the apostle Paul's warning against " knowledge falsely so-called " in 1 Timothy 6: 20.

The term ruach ha-kodesh ( Hebrew: רוח הקודש, " holy spirit " also transliterated ruah ha-qodesh ) occurs once in Psalm 51: 11 and also twice in the Book of Isaiah Those are the only three times that the precise phrase " ruach hakodesh " is used in the Hebrew Scriptures, although the noun ruach ( רוח, literally " breath " or " wind ") in various combinations, some referring to God's " spirit ", is used often.

Most intelligent design advocates accept that evolution occurs through mutation and natural selection at the " micro level ", such as changing the relative frequency of various beak lengths in finches, but assert that it cannot account for irreducible complexity, because none of the parts of an irreducible system would be functional or advantageous until the entire system is in place.

Lutetium usually occurs in association with the element yttrium and is sometimes used in metal alloys and as a catalyst in various chemical reactions.

This occurs most notably among the fungi and slime moulds, but is found in various groups.

Lutein, for example, occurs in many yellow and orange fruits and vegetables and protects the eyes against various diseases.

Vertical gene transfer is the passage of genes from parent to offspring, and horizontal ( also called lateral ) gene transfer occurs when genes jump between unrelated organisms, a common phenomenon especially in prokaryotes ; a good example of this is the acquired antibiotic resistance as a result of gene exchange between various bacteria leading to multi-drug-resistant bacterial species.

Rayleigh scattering is a good approximation of the manner in which light scattering occurs within various media for which scattering particles have a small size parameter.

While far from universal, ancestor veneration occurs in societies with every degree of social, political, and technological complexity, and it remains an important component of various religious practices in modern times.

Gravitation is responsible for keeping the Earth and the other planets in their orbits around the Sun ; for keeping the Moon in its orbit around the Earth ; for the formation of tides ; for natural convection, by which fluid flow occurs under the influence of a density gradient and gravity ; for heating the interiors of forming stars and planets to very high temperatures ; and for various other phenomena observed on Earth.

It occurs principally in combination as oxides, of which the chief are silica, alumina, iron oxides, and various carbonates ( calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate, sodium carbonate, and potassium carbonate ).

Incomplete combustion occurs when there is insufficient oxygen ; the inputs are fuels containing various contaminants and the outputs are the harmful by-products, most dangerously carbon monoxide which is a tasteless and odorless gas that has serious adverse health effects when inhaled.

Infection occurs through ingestion of eggs ( which are usually found in dry goods such as beans, rice, and various grains ) and is more common in warmer areas.

Tarshish also occurs in various places in the Hebrew Bible with various meanings:

One example occurs when the character Karen Green is interviewing various academics on their interpretations of the short film " Exploration # 4 "; she consults a " Poet ," but there is a space between the " Poe " and the " t ," possibly suggesting that Poe at one point commented on the book.

In Classic Maya iconography, the Bacab occurs in various stereotypical situations:

It can be used to solve various equations involving exponentials ( e. g. the maxima of the Planck, Bose-Einstein, and Fermi-Dirac distributions ) and also occurs in the solution of delay differential equations, such as y ( t ) = a y ( t − 1 ).

* Death ( occurs at various ages, depending on person )

It mostly occurs in disorders of the central nervous system ( CNS ) impacting the upper motor neuron in the form of a lesion, such as spastic diplegia, but it can also present in various types of multiple sclerosis, where it occurs as a symptom of the progressively-worsening attacks on myelin sheaths and is thus unrelated to the types of spasticity present in neuromuscular cerebral palsy rooted spasticity disorders.