One can also first convert the vectors to unit vectors by dividing by their magnitude:

The transducers convert the analog output of an instrument transformer from one magnitude to another or from one value type to another, such as from an ac current to dc voltage.

You may therefore convert the gun into a small-game and plinking arm, although the difference in the point of impact ( Jet vs. rim-fire ) can be somewhat disconcerting.

On the other hand, to greet them with delight would convert what before was neutral into something good ; ;

In 1825, the Boston house carpenters' strike for a ten-hour day was denounced by the organized employers, who declared: `` It is considered that all combinations by any classes of citizens intended to effect the value of labor tend to convert all its branches into monopolies ''.

" The small-angle formula can be used to convert such an angular measurement into a distance / size ratio.

There are many kinds of transduction process that convert energy from some other form into sonic energy, producing a sound wave.

The key size used for an AES cipher specifies the number of repetitions of transformation rounds that convert the input, called the plaintext, into the final output, called the ciphertext.

The Grand Master then journeyed to Wittenberg, where he was advised by Martin Luther to abandon the rules of his Order, to marry, and to convert Prussia into a hereditary duchy for himself.

Initial approaches relied on the results of Herbrand and Skolem to convert a first-order formula into successively larger sets of propositional formulae by instantiating variables with terms from the Herbrand universe.

Water makers are available for yachts that convert seawater and electricity into potable water and brine.

* Results may be contingent on the parameters used to convert the 2D detected data into 3D.

Both of these breeds have an increased ability to convert feed into lean muscle, which causes these particular breeds ' meat to have a reduced fat content.

To separate berkelium from the unreacted americium, this solution was added to a mixture of ammonium and ammonium sulfate and heated to convert all the dissolved americium into the oxidation state + 6.

In general, mammals convert the ammonia into urea, via the urea cycle.

It is still done by the same basic method of using malted grains ( containing enzymes ) to convert starch from grains into sugar and then adding specific yeasts to produce beer.

Although the process of fermentation was not fully understood until Pasteur's work in 1857, it is still the first use of biotechnology to convert a food source into another form.

Another approach, used by modern hardware graphics adapters with accelerated geometry, can convert exactly all Bézier and conic curves ( or surfaces ) into NURBS, that can be rendered incrementally without first splitting the curve recursively to reach the necessary flatness condition.

To encipher or encode is to convert information from plain text into code or cipher.

After gold was discovered and became a precious metal, many people were interested to find a method that could convert other substances into gold.

* Partially Convertible-Central Banks control international investments flowing in and out of the country, while most domestic trade transactions are handled without any special requirements, there are significant restrictions on international investing and special approval is often required in order to convert into other currencies.

In the Philippines, a community school functions as elementary or secondary school at daytime and towards the end of the day convert into a community college.

Grub composting uses the black soldier fly larvae ( BSFL ) to quickly convert manure or kitchen waste into an animal feed for poultry, fish, pigs, lizards, turtles, and possibly dogs.

Another large MSW composter is the Lahore Composting Facility in Lahore, Pakistan, which has a capacity to convert 1, 000 tonnes of municipal solid waste per day into compost.

It also has a capacity to convert substantial portion of the intake into Refuse-derived fuel ( RDF ) materials for further combustion use in several energy consuming industries across Pakistan e. g., in cement manufacturing companies where it is used to heat up the Cement Kiln systems.

Organically managed soils can convert carbon dioxide from a greenhouse gas into a food-producing asset.

However, this was not successful, for according to Gregory of Tours, Amalaric pressured her to forsake her Roman Catholic faith and convert to Arian Christianity, at one point beating her until she bled ; she sent to her brother Childebert I, king of Paris a towel stained with her own blood.

There is a third view that sees merit in both arguments above and attempts to bridge them, and so cannot be articulated as starkly as they can ; it sees more than one Christianity and more than one attitude towards paganism at work in the poem, separated from each other by hundreds of years ; it sees the poem as originally the product of a literate Christian author with one foot in the pagan world and one in the Christian, himself a convert perhaps or one whose forbears had been pagan, a poet who was conversant in both oral and literary milieus and was capable of a masterful " repurposing " of poetry from the oral tradition ; this early Christian poet saw virtue manifest in a willingness to sacrifice oneself in a devotion to justice and in an attempt to aid and protect those in need of help and greater safety ; good pagan men had trodden that noble path and so this poet presents pagan culture with equanimity and respect ; yet overlaid upon this early Christian poet's composition are verses from a much later reformist " fire-and-brimstone " Christian poet who vilifies pagan practice as dark and sinful and who adds satanic aspects to its monsters.

The CNO cycle ( for carbon – nitrogen – oxygen ) is one of two sets of fusion reactions by which stars convert hydrogen to helium, the other being the proton – proton chain.

One crucial sign of this is that one need not believe, or even do, anything to be Jewish ; the historic definition of ' Jewishness ' requires only that one be born of a Jewish mother, or that one convert to Judaism in accord with Jewish law.

Since Jews believe that one need not be a Jew to approach God, there is no religious pressure to convert non-Jews to their faith.

At least 70 new members entered the latter, with 20 seats going to Fatah representatives from the Gaza Strip, 11 seats filled by women ( the highest number of votes went to one woman who spent years in Israeli jails for her role in the resistance ), four seats went to Christians, and one was filled by a Jewish-born convert to Islam, Uri Davis, the first Jewish-born person to be elected to the Revolutionary Council since its founding in 1958.

Eastern Orthodox bishops would most likely re-ordain a Catholic priest if one were to convert ; that is part of the policy called church economy.

This process is able to adapt complex structures from simpler beginnings, or convert complex structures from one function to another ( see spandrel ).

" Jahangir ordered his execution, but it is unlikely that he also ordered Guru Arjun to be tortured and converted, for two reasons ; one, because we have no other examples from Jahangir's generally tolerant reign to support the idea that he forced people to convert to Islam, and two, because Jahangir makes no note of Guru Arjun's torture, yet cheerfully describes the torture of two other rebels, as well as Guru Arjun's execution.

In one of them, Abdu-r Rahmán bin Shimar invaded Kabul in the late 7th century and managed to convert 12, 000 local inhabitants to Islam before abandoning the city.

Because the body is placed in a low position in the kowtow, the idea is that one will naturally convert to his or her mind a feeling of respect.

Lutheran teachings became popular during the 16th century, and Malmö was one of the first cities in Scandinavia to fully convert ( 1527 – 29 ).

Étienne Lamotte, who translated one third of the work into French, felt that it was the work of a North Indian bhikṣu of the Sarvāstivāda school, who later became a convert to the Mahayana.

The proton – proton chain reaction is one of several fusion reactions by which stars convert hydrogen to helium, the primary alternative being the CNO cycle.

When people marry one spouse may convert to the religion of the other.

According to Christianity a convert is one who renounces sin as worthless and treasures instead the supreme worth of Jesus Christ ; the convert sees the worth of Christ in Jesus ' sacrificial death and resurrection and renounces sin.