More generally, one curve is a curvilinear asymptote of another ( as opposed to a linear asymptote ) if the distance between the two curves tends to zero as they tend to infinity, although usually the term asymptote by itself is reserved for linear asymptotes.

Instead, space itself expands with time everywhere and increases the physical distance between two comoving points.

This became the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde ( PAICV ) in 1980, as Cape Verde sought to distance itself from Guinea-Bissau, following unrest in that country.

Eventually, the church adopted a policy of excommunicating its members found practicing polygamy and today seeks to actively distance itself from “ fundamentalist ” groups still practicing polygamy.

That the Earth is itself an oblate spheroid, bulging at the equator where the radial distance and hence the centrifugal force is larger, is taken as one of the evidences for its absolute rotation.

The required distance ρ ( s ) at arc length s is defined in terms of the rate of rotation of the tangent to the curve, which in turn is determined by the path itself.

It is the distance from a focus of the ellipse to the ellipse itself, measured along a line perpendicular to the major axis.

The chiral pitch, p, refers to the distance over which the LC molecules undergo a full 360 ° twist ( but note that the structure of the chiral nematic phase repeats itself every half-pitch, since in this phase directors at 0 ° and ± 180 ° are equivalent ).

Eventually, the church adopted a policy of excommunicating members found practicing polygamy, and today seeks actively to distance itself from " fundamentalist " groups that continue the practice.

The LDS Church seeks to distance itself from all such polygamous groups, excommunicating their members if discovered, and a majority of Mormon fundamentalists have never been members of the LDS Church.

Seeking to distance itself from polygamy and Mormon fundamentalism, the LDS Church has taken the position that the term Mormon should only apply to the LDS Church and its members, and not other adherents who have adopted the term.

Presently, the LDS Church seeks to distance itself from other branches of Mormonism, particularly those that practice polygamy.

In 2009, CBS stopped using the Paramount name in its series and changed the name of the production arm to CBS Television Studios, eliminating the Paramount name from television, to distance itself from the latter.

The space occupied by a polymer molecule is generally expressed in terms of radius of gyration, which is an average distance from the center of mass of the chain to the chain itself.

where l is the semilatus rectum: the distance from the focus to the parabola itself, measured along a line perpendicular to the axis of symmetry.

Hence, except for projection lithography ( see below ), contact printing offers the best resolution, because its gap distance is approximately zero ( neglecting the thickness of the photoresist itself ).

No other science fiction magazine sought as consistently to distance itself from traditional science fiction as much as New Worlds.

The globular cluster 47 Tucanae ( NGC 104 ) is located within its boundaries, though not in the galaxy itself, at a distance of 15, 000 light-years.

Consider now the acceleration due to the sphere of mass M experienced by a particle in the vicinity of the body of mass m. With R as the distance from the center of M to the center of m, let ∆ r be the ( relatively small ) distance of the particle from the center of the body of mass m. For simplicity, distances are first considered only in the direction pointing towards or away from the sphere of mass M. If the body of mass m is itself a sphere of radius ∆ r, then the new particle considered may be located on its surface, at a distance ( R ± ∆ r ) from the centre of the sphere of mass M, and ∆ r may be taken as positive where the particle's distance from M is greater than R. Leaving aside whatever gravitational acceleration may be experienced by the particle towards m on account of ms own mass, we have the acceleration on the particle due to gravitational force towards M as:

For others, avoidance of the word " church " indicates a desire to distance itself from traditional Christian theology.

That is, Zeno is often said to have argued that the sum of an infinite number of terms must itself be infinite – with the result that not only the time, but also the distance to be travelled, become infinite.

I felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.

An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.

In late December, the American army moved from Whitemarsh to Valley Forge, and although the distance was only 13 miles, the journey took more than a week because of the bad weather, the barefooted and almost naked men.

But during nighttime hours the skywave radiations are reflected from the ionosphere, thereby creating the possibility of one station's rendering service, via skywave, at a much greater distance than it can through its groundwave signal, and at the same time vastly complicating the interference problem because of the still greater distance over which these skywave signals may cause interference to the signals of stations on the same and closely adjacent frequencies.

Compute this volume by measuring the distance from the top of the block to the piston head as accurately as possible with a depth micrometer or some other precision measuring device and then multiply the area of the cylinder by the depth.

This is done by measuring the distance from the surface on which the tire is resting to the center of the rear axle shaft.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

`` It consists of two divisions, separated by an island at a small distance from the southern shore.

All bottles must be kept a safe distance away from the pool and drinking glasses are banned in favor of plastic or metal cups.

My unscientific friend does not believe that human stature is measurable in terms of speed, momentum, weightlessness, or distance from earth, but is a matter of the development of the human mind.

Changes of intensity on the cell were achieved by use of a wire screen and by varying the distance of the light source from the cell.

In series 1, the relative light intensity was varied by varying the distance of the lamp from the reaction cell over the range from 14.7 to 29.2 cm..

The last column shows the rate of exchange that would have been observed at a relative intensity of 4 ( 14.7 cm. distance ) calculated on the assumptions that the incident light intensity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance of the lamp from the cell and that the rate is directly proportional to the incident light intensity.

At one astronomical unit from the sun ( the Earth's distance ) the dust orbits are probably nearly circular.

Pioneer 1, recorded a decrease in flux with distance from the Earth on the basis of 11 counts in 9 hours.

The maximum distance sampled was 23 miles from the source.

These must have been for local calls strictly, as in May 1900 the `` only long distance telephone '' in town was transferred from C. B. Carleton's to Young's shoe store.

Just as the suburban factory may be more convenient than the downtown plant to the worker with a car, the trip to the shopping center may seem far easier than to the downtown department store, though both are the same distance from home.

This theme comes to represent the outer world, the realm of battles and banquets -- seen from a distance, quite distinct from the quieter spiritual life in the monastery.

The mean-square end-to-end distance of the polyisobutylene chain has been calculated in reasonable agreement with values deduced from viscosity data.

We replace r, the number of the stage from the end of the process, by t, a continuous variable which measures the `` distance '' of the point considered from the end of the process.