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 conventionally viewed as small metal shards moving at super-to hypersonic speeds, fragmentation can occur in epic proportions and travel for extensive distances.

While working for NACA at Langley, Faget worked on the design of the X-15 hypersonic spacecraft.

While they are being held hostage Vilno brags to the boys about his " sonic trap " which can trap objects inside using " hypersonic vibrations " and he explains how he used his " hypersonic generator " to glaze the windshields of the race cars.

While all real fluids are compressible, a flow problem is often considered incompressible if the density changes in the problem have a small effect on the outputs of interest.

While slopes along channels of 1: 100 have been recommended, in practice it is difficult to build a base for channels that is sufficiently true to enable nutrient films to flow without ponding in locally depressed areas.

While appearing or even feeling solid, it will continue to flow at very slow rates.

While these two causes have not been proven they ’ re likely suspects as they cause issues with both the blood flow and nervous systems.

While the government still regulates many of the country's cultural interactions with others, it is very open to the concept of an open market and competition with other countries, allowing the flow of technological innovations to flow in and out of its borders freely.

While the common meaning of the word " lift " assumes that lift opposes gravity, lift in its technical sense can be in any direction since it is defined with respect to the direction of flow rather than to the direction of gravity.

While static gauge pressure is of primary importance to determining net loads on pipe walls, dynamic pressure is used to measure flow rates and airspeed.

While thermodynamic equilibrium determines the theoretical extent of a given mass transfer operation, the actual rate of mass transfer will depend on additional factors including the flow patterns within the system and the diffusivities of the species in each phase.

While quantum mechanics primarily applies to the atomic regimes of matter and energy, some systems exhibit quantum mechanical effects on a large scale-superfluidity, the frictionless flow of a liquid at temperatures near absolute zero, is one well-known example.

While a flow can shrink in the vertical dimension without fracturing, it can't easily accommodate shrinking in the horizontal direction unless cracks form ; the extensive fracture network that develops results in the formation of columns.

While in standard Russian it represents, in many Ukrainian dialects it denotes ( following a vowel and preceding a consonant ( cluster ), either within a word or at a word boundary, it denotes the allophone, and like the off-glide of in the English words " flow " and " cow ", it forms a diphthong with the preceding vowel ).

While crossing the Deccan Plateau and then turns to flow in a southeast direction until it empties into the Bay of Bengal through two mouths.

While individual fluid particles are indeed experiencing time dependent acceleration, the convective acceleration of the flow field is a spatial effect, one example being fluid speeding up in a nozzle.

While the circulating energy flow may seem nonsensical or paradoxical, it proves to be absolutely necessary to maintain conservation of momentum.

While his and others ' attacks brought home a great deal of money, they hardly dented the flow of gold and silver from Mexico to Spain.

While flowing from the sluices, coarse material is deposited first and then finer material is deposited ( fine material has a slower terminal velocity thus takes longer to settle, see Stoke's Law ) as the flow velocity is reduced towards the center of the dam.

While the Horseshoe Falls absorbed the extra flow, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers studied the riverbed and mechanically bolted and strengthened any faults they found ; faults which would, if left untreated, have hastened the retreat of the American Falls.

While most women may have some retrograde menstrual flow, typically their immune system is able to clear the debris and prevent implantation and growth of cells from this occurrence.

While most thunderstorms move with the mean wind flow through the layer of the troposphere that they occupy, vertical wind shear causes a deviation in their course at a right angle to the wind shear direction.

While the tidal components are readily realizable, the residual flow is more difficult to model.

While the whale is diving, its heart rate slows and blood flow changes.