When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.

When the word for onion, chung, is used, it is understood that one is referring to " green onions " ( otherwise known to English-speakers as scallions or spring onions, green onions ).

When referring to total energy output, the proper term is bolometric magnitude.

When animators or interface designers talk about the " physics " or " feel " of an operation, they may be referring to the particular Bézier curve used to control the velocity over time of the move in question.

When referring to parallelism in CPUs, two terms are generally used to classify these design techniques.

When referring to cannon, the term gun is often used incorrectly.

When referring to relatives with the same surname the form " The Doctors Smith " can be used.

When the police use search warrants in connection with a vandalism investigation they are often seeking judicial approval to look for items such as cans of spray paint and nozzles from other kinds of aerosol sprays, etching tools or other sharp or pointed objects used to etch or scratch glass and other hard surfaces, and permanent marking pens, such as markers or paint sticks ; evidence of membership or affiliation with any gang or tagging crew, paraphernalia to include any reference to “( tagger ’ s name ),” and any drawings, writings, objects or graffiti depicting taggers ’ names, initials, logos, monikers, slogans, or mention of tagging crew membership ; any newspaper clippings relating details of or referring to any graffiti crime.

When people say that the genome of a sexually reproducing species has been " sequenced ", typically they are referring to a determination of the sequences of one set of autosomes and one of each type of sex chromosome, which together represent both of the possible sexes.

When referring to RAM sizes it most often ( see binary prefix adoption ) has a binary interpretation of 1024 < sup > 3 </ sup > bytes, i. e. as an alias for gibibyte.

When referring to hydrography and nautical charting in Conventions and similar Instruments, it is the IHO standards and specifications that are normally used.

When Harnad wanted to write about all-rights-reserved gratis articles, he was faced with the option of referring to them as " open access " ( in contravention of the BBB definitions ) or redefining " open access " to include non-libre works.

When he said property is theft, he was referring to the capitalist who he believed stole profit from laborers.

When referring to the territory, the word concelho is used, when referring to the organ of State, the word município is used.

When referring to an n-dimensional generalization, the term n-polytope is used.

When Hutchinson claimed all materials were property of the British Crown, a French scholar, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, said to Clarke and Hamilton that they would rather burn all their discoveries — referring ominously to the destruction of the Library of Alexandria — than turn them over.

When Dorian is telling Lord Henry Wotton about his new ' love ', Sibyl Vane, he refers to all of the Shakespearean plays she has been in, referring to her as the heroine of each play.

When referring to other publications that include locations in their names, it uses italics only for the " non-location " portion of the name, such as the Los Angeles Times or the Chicago Tribune.

" When referring to the ideas related to Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society, the word " Theosophy " is capitalized ; otherwise it is not.

When referring to those who made their service as a courtesan as their main source of income, success was based solely on financial management and longevity.

When referring to government control of private corporations such as Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae, conservatorship implies a more temporary control than does nationalization.

When questioned by his captain, Spender replies " We'll rip it up, rip the skin off, and change it to fit ourselves ... We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things ", referring to Earth.

When referring to residents of the US, norðurríkjamaður, or more commonly bandaríkjamaður, is used.

When cutting the pieces, dress the ends smooth, and square with a smooth file or sanding disk.

When the whole bottom has hardened, use a disk sander to feather the edges of the cloth at the keel line and near the spray rail.

When the PC starts up, the first job for the BIOS is the power-on self-test, which initializes and identifies system devices such as the CPU, RAM, video display card, keyboard and mouse, hard disk drive, optical disc drive and other hardware.

When the amount of RAM is not sufficient to run all the current programs, it can result in a situation where the computer spends more time moving memory from RAM to disk and back than it does accomplishing tasks ; this is known as thrashing.

When microcomputers rarely had expensive disk drives of any kind, the need to have software to manage such devices ( the disks ) carried much status.

When an XFS filesystem is used on a logical device provided by a hardware RAID controller with battery backed cache, this feature can cause significant performance degradation, as the filesystem code is not aware that the cache is nonvolatile, and if the controller honors the flush requests, data will be written to physical disk more often than necessary.

:* When one types a command to the OS-9 shell, it will look first in the current module directory for a module of the specified name and will use it ( and increase its link count ) if found, or it will look on disk for an appropriately named file if not.

When viewed edge-on, prominent dust-lanes are sometimes visible in absorption against the light of stars in the disk.

When the process is in the Blocked State, it is eligible for swapping to disk, but this is transparent in a virtual memory system, where blocks of memory values may be really on disk and not in main memory at any time.

When disks were small, this was of little consequence, because the individual allocation block size was trivial, but as disks started to approach the 1 GB mark, the smallest amount of space that any file could occupy ( a single allocation block ) became excessively large, wasting significant amounts of disk space.

When counting the moves starting from 1, the ordinal of the disk to be moved during move m is the number of times m can be divided by 2.

When it is positive, the power series converges absolutely and uniformly on compact sets inside the open disk of radius equal to the radius of convergence, and it is the Taylor series of the analytic function to which it converges.

When the disk is turned, the plane of oscillation changes just like the one of a Foucault pendulum at latitude.

When the disk undergoes a full clockwise revolution, the bicycle wheel will not return to its original position, but will have undergone a net rotation of.

When the disk was turned, this induced an electric current radially outward from the center toward the rim.

When you enter the disk's password, the disk image is " mounted ", and made available as a new drive letter on your PC.

When the program initializes its use of the disk, it provides the kernel with a function that the kernel can use to determine which blocks the program controls.

When the disk was depicted on his head with his horns below and the triangle on his forehead, an ankh was suggested.

When Steve Wozniak developed the first disk drives for the Apple II, Raskin went back to his contacts at UCSD and encouraged them to port the UCSD P-System operating system ( incorporating a version of the Pascal programming language ) to it, which Apple later licensed and shipped as Apple Pascal.

When dealing with large media files, the expansion or contraction of the INFO chunk during tag-editing can result in the following " data " section of the file having to be read and rewritten back to disk to accommodate the new header size.

When aliens intercept the disk, they capture Pinky and Brain as pets, thinking them to be the leaders of Earth.

When memory is near full, the MCP examines the working set, trying compaction ( since the system is segmented, not paged ), deallocating read-only segments ( such as code-segments which can be restored from their original copy ), and as a last resort, rolling dirty data segments out to disk.

When data needed to be written, it was moved into the buffer, and then written from the buffer to the disk.