As Aristotle offered the categories and the act of existence, and Aquinas the analogy of being, the rationalists also had their own system, the great chain of being, an interlocking hierarchy of beings from God to dust.

The term " international human rights law " is often used as a category of reference to describe these systems, but this can be a source of confusion as there is no separate entity as " international human rights law " but an interlocking system of non-binding conventions, international treaties, domestic law, international organisations and political bodies.

* William Chamberlin, Jr. of Sussex exhibited what may have been the world's first voting machine, which counted votes automatically and employed an interlocking system to prevent over-voting.

* Signifying chain, in semiotics, an interlocking system of signifiers

The original buildings were built using a modular system of interlocking concrete slabs, known as the CLASP system.

The institution of an interlocking convoy system on the American coast and in the Caribbean Sea in mid-1942 created an enormous drop in attacks in those areas.

Their controlling families ' assets were seized, holding companies eliminated, and interlocking directorships, essential to the old system of inter-company coordination, were outlawed.

Nonetheless, within 2 months of the Armagh disaster Parliament had enacted the Regulation of Railways Act 1889, which authorised the Board of Trade to require the use of continuous automatic brakes on passenger railways, along with the block system of signalling and the interlocking of all points and signals.

The word " megalithic " describes structures made of such large stones, utilizing an interlocking system without the use of mortar or cement.

The model of chaebol rely a lot on a complex system of interlocking ownership.

Tomes offers an indirect definition of insurgency, drawn from Trinquier's definition of counterinsurgency: " an interlocking system of actions — political, economic, psychological, military — that aims at the intended overthrow of the established authority in a country and its replacement by another regime.

Trinquier is a theorist on the style of warfare he called Modern Warfare, an " interlocking system of actions-political, economic, psychological, military-which aims at the overthrow of the established authority in a country and its replacement by another regime.

In 1975 the signal box was provided with a route setting power interlocking system.

In 1975 the signal box was provided with a new relay interlocking system.

The system uses an unusual caterpillar track which has a flexible belt rather than interlocking metal segments.

The typical pathway through the interlocking system is that a person may start in a shelter and move through transitional housing into supportive housing and finally independent housing.

His system was named after him: the Kégresse track, which used a flexible belt rather than interlocking metal segments.

The armor can interface with any system and has interlocking capabilities that integrated mechanical constructs to repair and upgrade the armor.

It has been described as being " a system of interlocking and closely interrelated religious worldviews and practices rather than as one indivisible religion " and as such consisted of " individual worshippers, family traditions and regional cults within a broadly consistent framework ".

Hutchinson RE investigated the accident and blamed the system of wire interlocking in use at the junction.

Ortona was part of the Winter Line defence system and the Germans had constructed a series of skilfully designed interlocking defensive positions in the town.

They managed to control this huge ( for the time ) system by a maze of holding companies ( including the Alleghany Corporation ) and interlocking directorships.

By 1900, 54 electro-pneumatic interlocking plants, controlling a total of 1, 864 interlocking levers, were in use on 13 North American railroads and this type system would remain one of two viable competing systems into the future, although it did have the disadvantage of needing extra single-use equipment and requiring high maintenance.

The Pinhoti Trail system weaves its way through the Talladega National Forest to Mt.

It is a small spider, about 4 mm ( 0. 2 inch ) long, that weaves a fairly complex sheet web system consisting of an inverted dome shaped web, or " bowl ", suspended above a horizontal sheet web, or " doily ", hence its common name.

In a productive research career extending over six decades, Rescher has established himself as a systematic philosopher of the old style and author of a system of pragmatic idealism which weaves together threads of thought from continental idealism and American pragmatism.

The reason for the failure of these treatments to eliminate nonspecific staining in the conjugates in our system is not known.

Over time, he developed an approach known as structural functionalism, which focused on how institutions in societies worked to balance out or create an equilibrium in the social system to keep it functioning harmoniously.

In human – computer interaction, computer accessibility ( also known as Accessible computing ) refers to the accessibility of a computer system to all people, regardless of disability or severity of impairment.

In the Middle Bronze Age an apparently " alphabetic " system known as the Proto-Sinaitic script is thought by some to have been developed in the Sinai peninsula during the 19th century BC, by Canaanite workers in the Egyptian turquoise mines.

The ampere was originally defined as one tenth of the CGS system electromagnetic unit of current ( now known as the abampere ), the amount of current that generates a force of two dynes per centimetre of length between two wires one centimetre apart.

Asteroids is also the first game to use Atari's " QuadraScan " vector-refresh system ; a full-color version known as " Color-QuadraScan " was later developed for games such as Space Duel and Tempest.

A writing system for it was devised in 1119 AD and an inscription using this system is known from 1185 ( see List of Jurchen inscriptions ).

Their beliefs and behavior are difficult to decipher from physical materials, and their languages remain unknown as they had no known writing system.

Also known as Lokāyata, it is a system of Hindu philosophy that assumes various forms of philosophical skepticism and religious indifference. It is named after its founder, Cārvāka, author of the Bārhaspatya-sūtras.

The afterlife played an important role in Ancient Egyptian religion, and its belief system is one of the earliest known.

The Romans had a similar belief system about the afterlife, with Hades becoming known as Pluto.

The numeral system came to be known to both the Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi, whose book On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals written about 825 in Arabic, and the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi, who wrote four volumes, " On the Use of the Indian Numerals " ( Ketab fi Isti ' mal al -' Adad al-Hindi ) about 830.

The numeral system employed, known as algorism, is positional decimal notation.

The U. S. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense ( GMD ; previously known as National Missile Defense – NMD ) system has recently reached initial operational capability.

The Apple II disk operating system, known simply as DOS, thus intercepted all input typed at the BASIC command prompt to determine whether it was a DOS command.

The initial concept was known as AppleBus, envisioning a system controlled by the host Macintosh polling " dumb " devices in a fashion similar to the modern Universal Serial Bus.

The addressing system allowed for expansion to 255 nodes in a LAN, and using " bridges " ( which came to be known as routers ) one could interconnect LANs into larger collections.

The best known such system was Centram's FlashTalk, which ran at 768 kbit / s, and was intended to be used with their TOPS networking system.

The concept was to allow routers to provide the information or " hardwire " the system to known addresses and names.

The 9th-10th century master of the religious system known as " the nondual Shaivism of Kashmir " ( or " Kashmir Shaivism ") and aesthetician, Abhinavagupta brought rasa theory to its pinnacle in his separate commentaries on the Dhvanyāloka, the Dhvanyāloka-locana ( translated by Ingalls, Masson and Patwardhan, 1992 ) and the Abhinavabharati, his commentary on the Nātyashāstra, portions of which are translated by Gnoli and Masson and Patwardhan.

An anti-aircraft vehicle, also known as a self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon ( SPAA ) or self-propelled air defense system ( SPAD ), is a mobile vehicle with a dedicated anti-aircraft capability.

In classical mathematics, analytic geometry, also known as coordinate geometry, or Cartesian geometry, is the study of geometry using a coordinate system and the principles of algebra and analysis.

An anti-aircraft vehicle, also known as a self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon ( SPAA ) or self-propelled air defense system ( SPAD ), is a mobile vehicle with a dedicated anti-aircraft capability.