When, for example, an explosion blows a hole in a rock wall, the GeoMod technology creates an " empty space " object which is the approximate size and shape of the explosion.

When ∆ r is small compared to R, the terms after the first residual term are very small and can be neglected, giving the approximate tidal acceleration ( axial ) for the distances ∆ r considered, along the axis joining the centers of m and M:

When pressure cooking at 15 psi, approximate cooking times are one minute for shredded cabbage and three minutes for fresh green beans, assuming that the pressure is immediately released after timing and not left to drop naturally.

When one of the masses is almost negligible compared to the other mass as the case for Earth and Sun, one can approximate the previous formula to get:

When the temperature is 30 ° C ( 86 ° F ) and the dew point is 15 ° C ( 59 ° F ), the humidex is 34 ( note that humidex is a dimensionless number, but that the number indicates an approximate temperature in ° C ).

When working with unfamiliar algebraic objects, one can use these to approximate with the more familiar.

When two complements of opaque paint are mixed, they approximate black.

When the statistics of the name are compared to the population statistics of America, the approximate number of people named John in the USA is 12, 328, 091 and the number of Johns in the USA is increasing by 104, 925 each year.

When the source language uses a not particularly phonetic writing system — most notably English and French — its words are typically rendered in Russian or other Cyrillic-based languages using an approximate phonetic transliteration system, which aims to allow the Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, etc.

When used in date ranges, the term " circa " is applied before each approximate date, while dates without " circa " immediately preceding them are generally assumed to be known with certainty.

When World War I began, British field guns ( 13 pounder and 18 pounder ) were equipped solely with shrapnel shells, with an approximate 3-1 ratio of field guns to field howitzers ( 5 inch and 4. 5 inch ).

When multiple rules contain multiple unknowns, the program can trigger an iterative solver which uses the Newton-Raphson algorithm to successively approximate based on initial guesses for one or more of the output variables.

When mining ends, operators must restore the land to its approximate original contour ( AOC ) or leave the land graded and suitable for a “ higher and better ” post-mining land use ( PMLU ) that has been approved as part of the original mining permit application.

When the theory of distributions was still not widely known nor used, property above was formulated by saying that the convolution of the function ' with a given function belonging to a proper Hilbert or Banach space converges as ε → 0 to this last one: this is exactly what Friedrichs did .< ref > See, properties PI, PII, PIII and their consequence PIII < sub > 0 </ sub >.</ ref > This also clarifies why mollifiers are related to approximate identities.

When the transition is to a gas phase at temperatures much lower than the critical temperature, the specific volume of the gas phase greatly exceeds that of the condensed phase, and so one may approximate.

When Mini CDs were first introduced in the United States, they were initially marketed as CD3, in reference to their approximate size in inches ; larger CDs were called CD5, despite the fact that both CD specifications are defined solely in terms of metric units.

When La Maestranza bullring in Sevilla was authorized for construction in 1730 specifically to house bullfights, the original plans called for a rectangular arena for the first three years, only later to be changed to a circular form that avoided the cornering of the action and put all viewers at the same approximate distance, the same reason for the elliptical form of amphitheatres.

When he resigned as abbot on June 16, 1433 he was seventy-eight years old, giving his approximate birthdate as 1355.

When spherical harmonics is used to approximate the light transport function, only low frequency effect can be handled with a reasonable number of parameters.

:: When chatting informally about a flight plan, approximate weights of fuel and / or aircraft may be referred to in tons.

When small deflections of a structure are to be analyzed, elastica theory is not required and an approximate solution may be found using the simpler linear elasticity theory or ( for 1-dimensional components ) beam theory.

When these are used to approximate quantum mechanics, they are called semiclassical approximations.

When instead the wild type trait is expressed, the positions are said to belong to distinct cistrons / genes.

When occupying positions in the South Dublin Union and Jacob's factory, the rebels got involved in physical confrontations with civilians trying to prevent them from taking over the buildings.

When play begins, it is common for the midfield and defensive positions to take a diagonal approach.

When Hindal withdrew from protecting the rear of Humayun's troops, Sher Shah's troop quickly reclaimed these positions, leaving Humayun surrounded.

When the entourage reached Rome in the autumn of 219, Comazon and other allies of Julia Maesa and Elagabalus were given powerful and lucrative positions, to the outrage of many senators who did not consider them worthy of such privileges.

When placed in benzylic or allylic positions, the C-H bond strength is decreased, and the reactivity of the methyl group increases.

When Franco ordered Paraguayan troops to abandon the advanced positions in the Chaco that they had held since the 1935 truce, the army revolted in August 1937 and returned the Liberals to power.

When Cranmer's promotion became known in London, it caused great surprise as Cranmer had previously held only minor positions in the Church.

When considering only the state of the board, and after taking into account board symmetries ( i. e. rotations and reflections ), there are only 138 terminal board positions.

When he returned to Poland he began applying for legal positions with little success.

When rehearsing drill, positions and maneuvers are usually learned without playing the music simultaneously – a common technique for learning drill is to have members sing their parts or march to a recording produced during a music rehearsal.

When learning positions for drill, an American football field may be divided into a 5-yard grid, with the yard lines serving as one set of guides.

When a dielectric is placed in an electric field, electric charges do not flow through the material as they do in a conductor, but only slightly shift from their average equilibrium positions causing dielectric polarization.

When copied to a digit, the three bits were placed in bit positions 0-3-4.

When the marriage became public knowledge, Edward placed many of his new queen's family in powerful positions that Warwick had hoped to control.

When the switches appear to be in position 001, the observer cannot tell if that is the " real " position 001, or a transitional state between two other positions.

When bargaining, players often bid less than they are prepared to pay in the hope of improving their positions.

When they reached Super Six Four, Gordon and Shughart extracted the pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant and the other crew members from the aircraft, and established defensive positions around the crash site.

When these organisms are in their fully matured state they need other adaptations to maintain their positions in the water column.

When the chips are down they all default to power positions and self-protection and status and the one woman who was a challenge to them, with all with her wit and intellect, they are all gleeful and relieved to see crushed.

When the Conservatives returned to power, in a coalition with the Liberal Unionists, in 1895, Balfour once again assumed the positions of Leader of the House and First Lord of the Treasury.

When The Atlantic Wire first launched in 2009, it curated op-eds from across the media spectrum and summarized significant positions in each debate.

When these troops pointed cannons at the Ellis store and other positions, Doc Scurlock and his men broke from their positions, as did Chavez's cowboys, leaving those left in the McSween house to their fate.