While there is no generally accepted formal definition of " algorithm ," an informal definition could be " a set of rules that precisely defines a sequence of operations.

While the British military historian Sir John Keegan suggested an ideal definition of battle as " something which happens between two armies leading to the moral then physical disintegration of one or the other of them ", the origins and outcomes of battles can rarely be summarized so neatly.

While many scientific experts might agree on a common definition of the term " coast ", the delineation of the extents of a coast differ according to jurisdiction, with many scientific and government authorities in various countries differing for economic and social policy reasons.

While it is always possible to directly apply the definition of the derivative to compute the derivative of a composite function, this is usually very difficult.

While many Carnivora meet the definition of being meat eaters, not all do, and even fewer are obligate carnivores ( see below ).

While the specific definition has changed over time, modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic style of such works.

While in popular usage the term " myth " is often thought to refer to false or fanciful stories, creation myths are by definition those stories which a culture accepts as both a true and foundational account of their human identity.

While there is no universally accepted definition of " democracy ," equality and freedom have both been identified as important characteristics of democracy since ancient times.

While there is no single definition of a distributed system, the following defining properties are commonly used:

While Gretchen Daily's original definition distinguished between ecosystem goods and ecosystem services, Robert Costanza and colleagues ' later work and that of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment lumped all of these together as ecosystem services.

While Eiffel does not allow direct access to the features of a class by a client of the class, it does allow for the definition of an " assigner command ", such as:

While the exact definition and what is included as extreme sport is debatable, some attempted to make classification for extreme sports.

While formal language theory usually concerns itself with formal languages that are described by some syntactical rules, the actual definition of the concept " formal language " is only as above: a ( possibly infinite ) set of finite-length strings, no more nor less.

While a precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide ( CPPCG ).

While the consecrated life is neither clerical nor lay by definition, clerics can be members of institutes of consecrated, or secular ( diocesan ), life.

While the above axioms are more mathematically economical, a compact verbal definition of an inner product is a positive-definite Hermitian form.

While undergoing stadium renovations, including the addition of a high-definition television | High definition scoreboard, the Royals introduced the " New.

While it is one of the most commonly used concepts in logic it must not be mistaken for a logical law ; rather, it is one of the accepted mechanisms for the construction of deductive proofs that includes the " rule of definition " and the " rule of substitution " Modus ponens allows one to eliminate a conditional statement from a logical proof or argument ( the antecedents ) and thereby not carry these antecedents forward in an ever-lengthening string of symbols ; for this reason modus ponens is sometimes called the rule of detachment.

While the above definition is the most general way to define a filter for arbitrary posets, it was originally defined for lattices only.

While the actual numbers behind this definition were never firm, the concept allowed customers to share access to expensive resources like disk drives and printers, send e-mail, and access the Internet.

While eight of the planetary bodies discovered before 1950 remain " planets " under modern definition, some celestial bodies, such as Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta ( each an object in the Solar asteroid belt ) and Pluto ( the first-discovered trans-Neptunian object ), that were once considered planets by the scientific community are no longer viewed as such.

While constructed languages are also artificial languages designed from the ground up with a specific purpose, they lack the precise and complete semantic definition that a programming language has.

While this perceived inauthenticity is viewed with scorn and contempt by members of the subculture, the definition of the term and to whom it should be applied is subjective.

While the Arrhenius concept is useful for describing many reactions, it is also quite limited in its scope.

While not directing or leading the class to a conclusion, the teacher may work to accurately formulate problems within the scope of the texts being studied.

While the term help desk initially implied the place where employees received technical support for the organizations IT infrastructure, that scope has broadened widely in meaning and use.

While his mentor and overlord Dingiswayo lived, Shakan methods were reined in, but the removal of this check gave the Zulu chieftain much broader scope.

While the scope of WikiWikiWeb was broad, users who strayed too far from the focus wanted to engage in discussions about the wiki itself and how it operated, referred to as WikiOnWiki discussions, were going beyond the scope of WikiWikiWeb.

While not bestowing upon the reader any singular theme or underlying purpose, it shows that despite the obviously massive advances in technology, society and scope of human civilisation, we are still fundamentally the same.

While the aims and scope of these two journals overlap in many respects, Social Epistemology is more open to science studies in addition to philosophy, while " the principal style Episteme is that of analytical philosophy ".

While a few scenes were deleted, as a whole each episode was left with a feeling of giving the viewer a great deal more information than in many anime series, and it added to the series epic scope.

While classical in scope, the opening section of the setting demonstrates Pergolesi's mastery of the Italian baroque durezze e ligature style, characterized by numerous suspensions over a faster, conjunct bassline.

While biosecurity does encompass the prevention of the intentional removal ( theft ) of biological materials from research laboratories, this definition is narrower in scope than the definition used by many experts, including the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

While Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 To Be or Not To Be dealt with similar themes ( even including another mistaken-identity Hitler figure ), after the scope of Nazi atrocities became apparent it took nearly twenty years before any other films dared to satirize the era.

While each federal republic manages this division of powers differently, national security and defense, monetary policy, and other issues of a " national " scope are handled at the " federal " level while more local issues such as road and infrastructure maintenance and education policy are handled at the local level.

While it is possible to modify the properties of drug substances ~ by particle engineering, this is usually outside the scope of the formulator, an I the formulation must be designed to accommodate the limitations imposed by the drug substance.

While this event is a sprint ( according to some ), there is more scope to use tactics in the race ; the fact that 400 m times are considerably more than four times a typical 100 m time demonstrates this.

While many barristers and solicitors choose to practise within the scope of one or the other traditional disciplines, many others choose a cross-discipline practice.

While enthusiasm for multinational federalism in Europe incrementally led, over the following decades, to the formation of the European Union, the onset of the Cold War ( 1946 – 1991 ) eliminated the prospects of any progress towards federation with a more global scope.

While it might initially seem to be suggesting that it is beneficial to have good manners, this does not really capture its full scope.

While expanding the form to a unified cycle of symphonic poems, Smetana created what Macdonald terms " one of the monuments of Czech music " and, Clapham writes, " extended the scope and purpose of the symphonic poem beyond the aims of any later composer ".

While d ' Indy called his trilogy Wallenstein ( 1873, 1879 – 81 ) " three symphonic overtures ", the cycle is similar to Smetana's Má vlast in overall scope.

While most soaps centered on extended families or large hospitals that tended to be insular in their scope, The Edge of Night was probably the only daytime serial to truly capture the dynamics of a medium-sized city.

While many church leaders in 1890 regarded the Manifesto as inspired, there were differences among them about its scope and permanence.

While the need to create a legal framework for existing bank securities activities became a dominant theme for the “ financial modernization ” legislation supported by Leach, Rubin, Volcker, and others, after the GLBA repealed Glass-Steagall Sections 20 and 32 in 1999, commentators identified four main arguments for repeal: ( 1 ) increased economies of scale and scope, ( 2 ) reduced risk through diversification of activities, ( 3 ) greater convenience and lower cost for consumers, and ( 4 ) improved ability of U. S. financial firms to compete with foreign firms.

While " the scope of the series expands to include more than 700 locations across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia ".