The race follows a straight course from a standing start over a measured distance, most commonly ¼ mile () for most cars, with a shorter for some

A stage is a shorter section of a much longer course or a time trial.

For example, the first race, titled " Practice ", is a simple course that is much shorter than the others, while the fifth race, named " Silly ", features polka-dot patterns and is oriented in a direction opposite from the other courses.

He proposed a rather shorter course, from Stockwith in a straight line to Bawtry and then by Scrooby, Blyth and Carlton, to join Brindley's line at Shire Oaks.

If the river breaches its natural levees ( i. e., during a flood ), it will spill out onto a new course with a shorter route to the ocean, thereby obtaining a more stable steeper slope.

The series was based on a similar structure to the adult version, but with simpler intelligence tasks and a shorter obstacle course ( located at The American Adventure Theme Park near Nottingham, owned by the Granada Group at the time ) in place of the Physical Ability round.

Of course, having shorter routes requires higher maximum degree.

During a lecture in a course on Money & Banking, Hoppe hypothesized that homosexuals will generally display shorter time preference for capital consumption because they tend not to have biological heirs, and thus have a lesser incentive to engage in long-term saving.

Boot was originally drawn with a short tail ( on one occasion he met a bob-tailed sheepdog, and on hearing the name decided to call his own tail Fred ), but Maurice Dodd later discovered that real Old English Sheepdogs ' tails are docked, and so over the course of several years Collins drew his tail shorter and shorter until it vanished altogether-Boot still appears completely white, rare for the breed.

A shorter course was laid out, but due to the short notice, most European teams were not able to make the trip.

This, of course, puts players who played for a shorter time in both leagues, and had success in both ( such as Gilchrist and Doug Flutie ), at a significant disadvantage, and only one player is in both Halls: Warren Moon.

HDR brachytherapy as a boost for prostate cancer also means that the EBRT course can be shorter than when EBRT is used alone.

Some racetracks incorporate a short course and a longer course which uses part of the shorter one, usually the main straight, such as Brands Hatch.

The standard high school cross country race distance is, though some states run a shorter, 3-to 4-kilometer course for girls.

Also, there have been accusations that the same courses have been simply redefined e. g. 1. 5 times shorter when the local credits were converted to ECTS, with no change in course content or requirements.

There may even be a practice course ( often shorter and easier to play than a full-scale course ), where players may measure the distance they can obtain with a specific club, or in order to improve their swing technique.

The Re-Círio marks the end of the celebrations, with a shorter course, but with no less emotion, for the Saint's farewell, with tears, waving with white handkerchiefs, hope and thanks, to the Gentil Bittencourt chapel, bringing a feeling of lightness and renovation to expect for another year.

Covering the same themes as Alpha, the course is cut down to seven weeks with shorter thirty-minute talks with a greater use of multimedia elements.

This benefited the crew on the Berkshire side of the course not only because they raced a shorter distance but also because they avoided the worst of the river ’ s current.

For the 1923 regatta, the Stewards therefore decided to try a shorter experimental straight course which started at the top of the island.

In 1982, a Single Sculls Event was added and the start was moved to Fawley so that the course was closer to 1000 m. As the intermediate start installations were required for the shorter distance, the races had to take place during intervals in the normal racing programme ( the lunch or tea breaks ) which meant that only the dedicated stayed to watch.

The flowers are catkins with elongate male catkins on the same plant as shorter female catkins, often before leaves appear ; they are mainly wind-pollinated, but also visited by bees to a small extent.

Whilst at Monmouth he was later, for a shorter period, also the Archbishop of Wales.

This double bond is stronger than a single covalent bond ( 611 kJ / mol for C = C vs. 347 kJ / mol for C — C ) and also shorter with an average bond length of 1. 33 Angstroms ( 133 pm ).

He also wrote several shorter letters and essays discussing specific aspects of computus.

The United Kingdom also developed a " Jungle Carbine " version of their Lee-Enfield service rifle, featuring a shorter barrel, flash suppressor, and manufacturing modifications designed to decrease the rifle's weight.

A shorter weapon was more convenient when riding in a truck, armored personnel carrier, helicopter or aircraft, and also when engaged in close-range combat.

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Jones also directed animated sequences various features such as a lengthy sequence in the 1992 film Stay Tuned and a shorter one seen at the start of the 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire.

Political economy was the earlier name for the subject, but economists in the latter 19th century suggested ' economics ' as a shorter term for ' economic science ' that also avoided a narrow political-interest connotation and as similar in form to ' mathematics ', ' ethics ', and so forth.

The much shorter Atbara River, which also originates in Ethiopia, joins the main Nile north of Khartoum between the fifth and sixth cataracts ( areas of steep rapids ) and provides about 14 % of the Nile's waters in Egypt.

Other wavelengths, especially nearby infrared ( longer than 700 nm ) and ultraviolet ( shorter than 400 nm ) are also sometimes referred to as light, especially when visibility to humans is not relevant.

Inspection of the formulae above shows that the ( ideally constant ) unit of ephemeris time such as the ephemeris second has been for the whole of the twentieth century very slightly shorter than the corresponding ( but not precisely constant ) unit of mean solar time ( which besides its irregular fluctuations tends gradually to increase ), consistently also with the modern results of Morrison and Stephenson ( see article ΔT ).

This form of floorball is also slightly shorter, with only two periods of 15 to 20 minutes each played.

They also began to exhibit other traits seen in some dog breeds, such as color pattern, curled tails, floppy ears, and shorter legs and tails.

Shotguns are sometimes preferred for defending a home or business due to their wide impact area, multiple wound tracks ( when using buckshot ), shorter range, and reduced penetration of walls ( when using lighter shot ), which significantly reduces the likelihood of unintended harm, although the handgun is also common.

" A separate reference also identifies the geographic mile as being identical to these international nautical miles ( and slightly shorter than British nautical miles, which were identified as being equivalent to 1853. 184 meters ).

* Category B-Weapons requiring permission: Semi automatic long weapons for sporting and hunting, repeating ( non-pump action ) and semi automatic shotguns and weapons shorter than 60 cm in overall length ( for example pistols and revolvers, but also bolt / lever / pump action rifles under 60 cm overall length ).

Unlike cellulose, hemicellulose ( also a polysaccharide ) consists of shorter chains – 500 – 3, 000 sugar units as opposed to 7, 000 – 15, 000 glucose molecules per polymer seen in cellulose.

However, it also has some features of covalent bonding: it is directional, stronger than a van der Waals interaction, produces interatomic distances shorter than sum of van der Waals radii, and usually involves a limited number of interaction partners, which can be interpreted as a kind of valence.

Their legs are also short, considerably shorter when compared to a small tiger or lion in a similar weight range, but are thick and powerful.

Jaguars also have rounder heads and shorter, stockier limbs compared to leopards.

They also usually have a shorter total key travel distance ( 2 mm instead of 3. 5 – 4 mm for standard dome-switch keyswitches ).

However, the situation is not always so simple ; in cartilaginous fish and some amphibians, there is also a shorter duct, similar to the amniote ureter, which drains the posterior ( metanephric ) parts of the kidney, and joins with the archinephric duct at the bladder or cloaca.

Older animals will also retreat from humans from a shorter distance away.

The absence of a strategic bomber force for the Luftwaffe, following General Wever's accidental death in 1936 and the end of the Ural bomber program he fostered before the invasion of Poland, would not be addressed again until the authorization of the Bomber B design competition in July 1939, which sought to replace the medium bomber force with which the Luftwaffe was to begin the war, with more advanced, twin-engined high speed bomber aircraft fitted with pairs of relatively " high-power " engines of 1, 500 kW ( 2, 000 hp ) output levels and upwards each, that would also be able to function as shorter range heavy bombers.