In that apparently simple shift Porter opened the way to the sensitive use of the camera as an instrument of art as well as a mechanical recording device.

As a simple, cheap and reliable device, the Russian abacus was in use in all shops and markets throughout the former Soviet Union, and the usage of it was taught in most schools until the 1990s.

Intended for use in both training and daily activities like walking or performing chores, this simple measuring device may offer a solution for reducing obesity.

Gray also built a simple loudspeaker device into later models, which consisted of a diaphragm vibrating in a magnetic field.

Another recent theory ( see EPR paradox above ) resulting from the analysis of an EPR communication set up, has the simple device based on removing the effective retarded time terms in the Lorentz transform to yield a preferred absolute reference frame.

It was a simple device consisting of a cotton hood with two hoses which hung down to the floor, allowing the wearer to breathe the safer air found there.

The full-scale device built on this basis established the effectiveness of the mechanism's design, even with the simple materials and techniques available to the Byzantines.

This led Haldon and Byrne to theorize that the device was fundamentally different, " a simple syringe squirted both liquid fire ( presumably unignited ) and noxious juices to repel enemy troops.

This includes people who do simple modifications to graphing calculators, video game consoles, electronic musical keyboards or other device ( see CueCat for a notorious example ) to expose or add functionality to a device that was unintended for use by end users by the company who created it.

In a device that does not display text, a simple program to produce a signal, such as turning on an LED, is often substituted for " Hello world " as the introductory program.

The Liquid Crystal Display is intrinsically a “ passive ” device, it is a simple light valve.

The episode intertwined characters FBI agents Mulder and Scully, a simple apartment super, Henry Weems ( Willie Garson ) and an ailing young boy, Ritchie Lupone ( Shia LaBeouf ) in a real-life Goldberg device.

The nod to retroactive continuity is a joke meant to be shared between the writers and the viewers as a way of pointing out that anything done throughout the course of the series can easily be undone with a simple plot device ; it also points to parent show Doctor Whos frequent use of the device in its several-decade run.

A simple machine is a mechanical device that changes the direction or magnitude of a force.

A simple machine is an elementary device that has a specific movement ( often called a mechanism ), which can be combined with other devices and movements to form a machine.

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This device was installed in penny arcades, where people could watch short, simple films.

Initially, two major types of fission bombs were built: a relatively simple device that uses uranium-235 and a more complicated mechanism that uses plutonium-239 derived from uranium-238.

One popular program for converting Spectrum files from tape is Taper ; it allows connecting a cassette tape player to the line in port of a sound card, or — through a simple home-built device — to the parallel port of a PC.

A network hub, or repeater, is a simple network device.

In communications systems, a device that can sense an abnormal condition within the system and provide a signal indicating the presence or nature of the abnormality to either a local or remote alarm indicator, and ( b ) may detect events ranging from a simple contact opening or closure to a time-phased automatic shutdown and restart cycle.

Other systems may send hardware commands directly to peripheral devices or I / O controllers that cause an extremely simple input operation ( such as " read sector zero of the system device into memory starting at location 1000 ") to be carried out, effectively loading a small number of boot loader instructions into memory ; a completion signal from the I / O device may then be used to start execution of the instructions by the CPU.

This understanding provides a very simple example of the fact that one can eliminate fear without instituting any controls.

Yet the attitude that the fate of the Presidency demands in such a situation is quite distinct from the simple courage that can proceed with battles to be fought, regardless of the consequences.

I can hardly think of this simple fare without exclaiming, oh, what a luxury.

Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.

He can often make the complex ridiculously simple, and vice versa.

We can vote in the UN against South African apartheid or Portuguese rule in Angola, but we cannot even introduce a motion on the Berlin Wall -- much less, give the simple order to push the Wall down.

You'll find, once your technique is perfected, that you can cook on a boat with a simple Bernz-O-Matic.

Fairing is always a tedious job but the work can be cut down considerably with a Skill planer and a simple jig.

Martin and Stendler present evidence that infants and young children can and do solve many problems at a relatively simple perceptual level simply by combining objects and counting them.

( Along the way there, about one hundred yards on your right, you pass a simple restaurant, La Sacrestia, where you can have the best pizza in Rome.

The simple mechanical strain of overweight, says New York's Dr. Norman Jolliffe, can overburden and damage the heart `` for much the same reason that a Chevrolet engine in a Cadillac body would wear out sooner than if it were in a body for which it was built ''.

Comparisons, which are most commonly planned, can be either simple or compound.

Assistive technology devices can be simple, or " low-tech ", or they may use highly advanced technology, with some even using computers.

These can range from simple spelling changes and word forms to switching the entire writing system itself, as when Turkey switched from the Arabic alphabet to a Turkish alphabet of Latin origin.

The builders can make an adobe chimney by stacking simple adobe bricks in a similar fashion as the surrounding walls.

that any procedure which could " naturally " be called effective, can in fact be realized by a ( simple ) machine.

From this follows a simple algorithm, which can be stated in a high-level description English prose, as:

After four years of war-torn London, Christie hoped she can return some day to Syria, which she described as " gentle fertile country and its simple people, who know how to laugh and how to enjoy life ; who are idle and gay, and who have dignity, good manners, and a great sense of humor, and to whom death is not terrible.

The algorithm can be extended to handle unequal sample weights, replacing the simple counter n with the sum of weights seen so far.

100 cc and P = 2. 50E6 pascals, so we can solve for temperature by simple algebra:

The violation of one's personal space or touching in a way the victim deemed inappropriate can be simple assault.

These can be as simple as a searchlight for a police helicopter or as complicated as the tactical system for an airborne early warning platform.

In some situations simple ablative can have a ” because of ” meaning, in these situations ablative can be optionally followed by ” dolayı ” ( because of ) preposition.

Many find aberration to be counter-intuitive, and a simple thought experiment based on everyday experience can help in its understanding.