Two player games usually do not involve diplomacy ( cooperative games being the exception ).

Two good examples of collective nouns are " team " and " government ", which are both words referring to groups of ( usually ) people.

Two manifolds M and N are diffeomorphic ( symbol usually being ) if there is a smooth bijective map f from M to N with a smooth inverse.

The most common size has 34 strings: Two octaves below middle C and two and a half above ( ending on A ), although folk or lever harps can usually be found with anywhere from 19 to 40 strings.

The " I " in the lyrics was usually only implied, mainly because it did not quite fit the rhythm of the song, like the version on First Two 7 " s on a 12 ".

Two families of microliths are usually defined: laminar and geometric.

Two members of the core Saxifragales had sometimes been placed near Saxifragaceae, but usually elsewhere.

Two linemen, usually Niland and center Dave Manders, were assigned to block Buoniconti.

After the huge success of the show in its early evening slot on BBC Two, a prime-time edition was shown on BBC One, usually broadcast on Wednesday evenings.

Early ' modern ' wargaming, as popularised by Grant and Featherstone, usually broke down the history into " Ancients ", usually Biblical and Classical eras, " Horse and Musket ", covering the 18th and 19th centuries, and " Modern ", World war Two onwards.

Two objects being brought together by a tractor beam are usually attracted toward their common centre of gravity.

Two additional genera usually form in the low altitude range, but may be based at higher levels under conditions of very low humidity.

Two women face each other usually in a standing position and holding each other's arms.

Two Eastern Palearctic species are usually placed in the genus Erithacus, the Japanese Robin ( E. akahige ) and the Ryūkyū Robin ( E. komadori ), the latter being a restricted-range island species.

* Giggles, Goggles: Two friends riding a tandem bike ( usually Rita Moreno and Judy Graubart ) or similar transportation device conversed when one of them misused a word (" flack " as in " flap ," when the other was talking about something with the word " flap ").

The next-show teaser, which was introduced in Season Two without music, worked in the same way, and usually used a different take of the music heard during the sketch-of-the-day teaser, except that the voice said " Tune in next time, when ..." and there was no show number shown.

: Two weeks in every 18, the ' variety puzzle ' in the Sunday edition is a cryptic crossword, usually by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon, Richard Silvestri, or Fraser Simpson.

Two are elected by the liverymen of the City each year to assist the Lord Mayor, attend the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey, and present petitions to Parliament: usually one is an alderman and the other is not.

Two divisions usually compose a corps and each division consists of four maneuver brigades, an aviation brigade, an engineer brigade, and division artillery ( latter two excluded from divisional structure as of 2007 ), along with a number of smaller specialized units.

Two methods are available: the Sovereign's representatives may grant assent in the presence of both Houses of Parliament ; alternatively, each House may be notified separately, usually by the Speaker of that House.

Two are usually reprinted as his masterpieces at the end of his brother's selected works.

Two obstacles are often encountered when eating lichens: lichen polysaccharides are generally indigestible to humans, and lichens usually contain mildly toxic secondary compounds that should be removed before eating.

Two gyrators in cascade are equivalent to a transformer but the transformer is usually retained for convenience.

Two very useful ways for modifying a form-dictionary are the addition to the dictionary of complete paradigms rather than single forms and the application of a single change to more than one dictionary form.

Two Hilbert spaces V and W may form a third space by a tensor product.

Both differ substantially from the Book of Common Prayer, though the latter includes in the Order Two form of the Holy Communion a very slight revision of the prayer book service, largely along the lines proposed for the 1928 Prayer Book.

Two centuries ago, mummies were still believed to have medicinal properties against bleeding, and were sold as pharmaceuticals in powdered form ( see human mummy confection and mummia ).

Two low pitch berimbaus ( called berra-boi and médio ) form the base and a high pitch berimbau ( called viola ) makes variations and improvisations.

Two volcanoes form the island's most prominent topographic features: La Grille in the north, with an elevation of 1, 000 meters, is extinct and largely eroded ; Kartala in the south, rising to a height of 2, 361 meters, last erupted in 1977.

Charles N. Brown, the publisher of Locus, which primarily addresses the science-fiction publishing world, wrote in the July 2006 issue: " Two Charles McCarry hardcover reprints from Overlook ... aren't really SF or fantasy, but they are two of the best spy thrillers ever written and form a secret or alternate history of the 20th century.

Four of the characters in " Think Blue, Count Two " are called " Thirteen " in different languages: Tiga-belas ( both in Indonesian and Malay ), Trece ( Spanish ), Talatashar ( based on an Arabic dialect form < big > ثلاث عشر </ big >, thalāth ʿashar ) and Sh ' san ( based on Mandarin 十三, shísān, where the " í " is never pronounced ).

Rhyming slang terms for Jew have included " Chelsea Blue ", " Stick of Glue ", " Four by Two ", " Buckle my shoe ", and " Front Wheel Skid ", which is a more palatable form of the insulting term " Yid ", short for Yiddish, the language spoken by many Jewish immigrants to the UK in the early 20th century.

Cuitláhuac ( c. 1476 – 1520 ) or Cuitláhuac ( in Spanish orthography ; in, honorific form Cuitlahuatzin ) was the 10th tlatoani ( ruler ) of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan for 80 days during the year Two Flint ( 1520 ).

Two divers form a team and perform dives simultaneously.

Two liquids can form different types of emulsions.

Two of each of the core histones assemble to form one octameric nucleosome core particle, and 147 base pairs of DNA wrap around this core particle 1. 65 times in a left-handed super-helical turn.

Two, three, several or many monosaccharides thus linked form disaccharides, trisaccharides, oligosaccharides or polysaccharides, respectively.

Two ( or more ) inductors that have coupled magnetic flux form a transformer, which is a fundamental component of every electric utility power grid.

Two of the greatest of the Irish tales, Tóraigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne ( The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne ) and Oisín in Tír na nÓg form part of the cycle.

* Two or more mirrors that form an optical resonator.

Two organisms of opposing gender contribute their haploid gametes to form a diploid zygote.

Two blocks with a rope attached to one of the blocks and threaded through the two sets of pulleys form a block and tackle.

Two forefathers of project management are Henry Gantt, called the father of planning and control techniques, who is famous for his use of the Gantt chart as a project management tool ( alternatively Harmonogram first proposed by Karol Adamiecki ); and Henri Fayol for his creation of the five management functions that form the foundation of the body of knowledge associated with project and program management.

Two famous 7th century silver and enamel plaques from the hoard, one shown above, have a " Z-rod ", one of the Pictish symbols, in a particularly well-preserved and elegant form ; unfortunately few comparable pieces have survived.

Two thirds of Bessarabia were combined with a small part of the USSR to form the Moldavian SSR.

The earliest occurrence of the term " red-shift " in print ( in this hyphenated form ), appears to be by American astronomer Walter S. Adams in 1908, where he mentions " Two methods of investigating that nature of the nebular red-shift ".

Two crew members form the fork, with an elastic cord stretched between them to provide power to launch the small aircraft.

Eventually the kingdom would be united with the Kingdom of Naples to form the Two Sicilies until the Italian unification of 1860.