While all modern variants of the acre contain 4, 840 square yards, there are alternative definitions of a yard, so the exact size of an acre depends on which yard it is based on.

While an exact number has not been determined, thousands of Canadians have purchased and used what they contend to be grey market radio and television services, licensed in the United States but not in Canada.

While most small corporations do not have a 2 / 3 vote requirement, in the exact opposite, most large corporations especially those incorporated in Delaware, do have a 2 / 3 vote requirement.

While historians disagree over the exact authorship of the work, the writing contains clear indications of Allen's style.

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

While the exact location of the grave is unknown, a stone was added in the 19th century to mark a grave traditionally thought to be Calvin's.

While the exact cause of primary lymphedema is still unknown, it generally occurs due to poorly developed or missing lymph nodes and / or channels in the body.

While the exact relationship of the short and apparently primitive text of Q1 to the later published texts is not resolved, Hardin Craig among others has suggested that it may represent an earlier draft of the play and hence would confirm that the play referred to in 1589 is in fact merely an earlier draft of Shakespeare's play.

While the exact cause of this behavior is unknown, springbok exhibit this activity when they are nervous or otherwise excited.

While her exact route is unknown, Tubman made use of the network known as the Underground Railroad.

While the exact style of the wine will vary from producer, some of the terroir characteristics associated with California Chardonnay include " flinty " notes with the Russian River Valley and mango & guava from Monterey.

While this greatly reduced the bandwidth requirements for spammers at a time when Internet connections were limited, it forced each spam to be an exact copy and thus easier to detect.

While the issue of the exact theological structure and composition of the Sermon on the Mount is subject to debate among scholars, specific components within it, each associated with particular teachings, can be identified.

While his motives for founding this order are ultimately unknown, it was said to be all for his own political and personal gain and to also exact vengeance on his enemies.

While the exact origins of chess are unclear, modern rules first took form during the Middle Ages.

While the video signal can easily hide the head-switching point in the invisible vertical retrace section of the signal, so that the exact switching point is not very important, the same is obviously not possible with a continuous audio signal that has no inaudible sections.

While the exact cause of endometriosis remains unknown, many theories have been presented to better understand and explain its development.

While Widukind was considered the leader of the Saxon resistance by the Franks, his exact role in the military campaigns is unknown.

While variants turn up in other places ( for example a poem often ascribed to Virgil called Moretum contains the phrase E Pluribus Unus ), this is the oldest known use of the exact phrase.

While the exact provenance of the word " poutine " is uncertain, some of its meanings undoubtedly result at least in part from the influence of the English word pudding.

While the exact date of Crawford's break with Seymour is disputed, it was complete by 1908.

While the exact origins of the wave may be in dispute, Seattle was the first place to routinely perform it.

While there is no consensus on the exact meaning of the name Itzamna, it may be significant that itz is a root denoting all sorts of secretions ( such as dew, sap, and semen ) and also sorcery.

While the exact mechanisms have yet to be elucidated, peroxidases are known to play a part in increasing a plant's defenses against pathogens.

While the arithmetic mean is often used to report central tendencies, it is not a robust statistic, meaning that it is greatly influenced by outliers.

While the term — literally meaning " sailing the air "— originally referred solely to the science of operating the aircraft, it has since been expanded to include technology, business and other aspects related to aircraft.

While scholars suggest the marriage metaphor presented in Hosea describes the relationship between Israel and Yahweh, the metaphor itself remains controversial in its meaning and interpretation in modernity.

While folk etymology identifies it with " cape ", other suggestions suggest it to be connected to the Latin word caput (" head "), and thus explain it as meaning " chief " or " big head ".

While substantial water was detected spectroscopically, it was not as much as predicted beforehand, meaning that either the water layer thought to exist below the clouds was thinner than predicted, or that the cometary fragments did not penetrate deeply enough.

While, in general, word comprehension is preserved, meaning interpretation dependent on syntax and phrase structure is substantially impaired.

While Qoheleth clearly endorses wisdom as a means for a well-lived earthly life, he is unable to ascribe eternal meaning to it.

While going over the stolen books ( and nearly getting caught by the firehouse's Mechanical Hound ), Mildred argues with Montag that books have no meaning and questions why Montag dragged her into this.

* While the synoptics look forward to a future Kingdom of God ( using the term parousia, meaning " coming "), John presents an eschatology that has already been realized.

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 the term meaning " Treaty of Kalmar ", the pact, was known already at the time, the term " Union of Kalmar " cannot be found in any contemporary documents.

While the sound remained more or less the same when pronounced in Japanese, the literal meaning of the name changed from " Beating Dog " to " High Hero ".

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, in principle, any general-purpose lossless compression algorithm ( general-purpose meaning that they can accept any bitstring ) can be used on any type of data, many are unable to achieve significant compression on data that are not of the form for which they were designed to compress.

While the second element is certainly from the Old Norse haugr usually meaning a mound, there have been several different theories postulated for the first element, maes.

While phonemes are normally conceived of as abstractions of discrete segmental speech sounds ( vowels and consonants ), there are other features of pronunciation – principally tone and stress – which in some languages can change the meaning of words in the way that phoneme contrasts do, and are consequently called phonemic features of those languages.

" While " self-imposed alienation " was common among " drunk punks " and " gutter punks ," there was always a tension between their nihilistic outlook and the " radical leftist utopianism " of bands such as Crass, who found positive, liberating meaning in the movement.

While phonetics concerns the physical production, acoustic transmission and perception of the sounds of speech, phonology describes the way sounds function within a given language or across languages to encode meaning.

While puns are often simple wordplay for comedic or rhetorical effect, a double entendre alludes to a second meaning which is not contained within the statement or phrase itself, often one which purposefully disguises the second meaning.

While the precise meaning of this term changed over time, including free retainers of an aristocrat and small landholders, it always referred to commoners.

While nothing in this sequence literally expresses hunger — or desire — the juxtaposition of the images convey that meaning to the audience.

While Shaitan ( شيطان, from the root ) is an adjective ( meaning " astray " or " distant ", sometimes translated as " devil ") that can be applied to both man (" al-ins ", الإنس ) and Jinn, Iblis () is the personal name of the Devil who is mentioned in the Qur ' anic account of Genesis.

While living, his writings and activism attempted to empower black people, and he was famous for his slogan " black is beautiful ", which he described as meaning: " man, you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being ".

While the name Sigyn is found as a female personal name in Old Norse sources ( Old Norse sigr meaning " victory " and vina meaning " girl-friend "), and though in surviving sources she is largely restricted to a single role, she appears in the 9th century Haustlöng from pagan times, written by the skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir.