It was of the hunter-killer type, designed to seek out ships and other submarines with its most advanced gear and destroy them with torpedoes.

Conjecture on the type of evidence likely to be found often focuses on the types of activities that humans have performed, or likely would perform given more advanced technology.

The alien character of Prot in the book trilogy by Gene Brewer and played by Kevin Spacey in the movie K-PAX, like Proteus was said to embody, was a modernized " shape shifter " and magical type of advanced mystical ET who " walked in " to humanoid bodies, and shared wisdom and insights into the human condition.

The first and often most desirable type among advanced collectors is a cover sent through the mail in the course of everyday usage, without the intention of the envelope and stamp ever being retrieved and collected.

When the object of study happens to be some type of discourse ( a speech, a poem, a joke, a newspaper article ), the aim of rhetorical analysis is not simply to describe the claims and arguments advanced within the disourse, but ( more important ) to identify the specific semiotic strategies employed by the speaker to accomplish specific persuasive goals.

SNOBOL4's programmer-defined data type facility was advanced at the time — it is similar to the earlier Cobol's and the later Pascal's records.

The clay tokens were used to represent commodities, and perhaps even units of time spent in labour, and their number and type became more complex as civilization advanced.

Windows 2000 Explorer introduces customizable Windows Explorer toolbars, auto-complete in Windows Explorer address bar and Run box, advanced file type association features, displaying comments in shortcuts as tooltips, extensible columns in Details view ( IColumnProvider interface ), icon overlays, integrated search pane in Windows Explorer, sort by name function for menus, and Places bar in common dialogs for Open and Save.

These clocks differ from the ‘ impulse ’ type, which are electrically advanced each minute by the master clock.

It is important to keep in mind that it is beyond the scope of this article to list every single type of known advanced fee fraud or Nigerian 419 schemes.

Advancements in this type of warfare have been dramatically amplified with the evolution of advanced weaponry.

These basic values are modified by other factors such as the position of the pieces ( e. g. advanced pawns are usually more valuable than those on their starting squares ), coordination between pieces ( e. g. a bishop pair usually coordinates better than a bishop plus a knight ), and the type of position ( knights are generally better in closed positions with many pawns, while bishops are more powerful in open positions ).

The exact orientation and position of the next object of work and ( in the more advanced factories ) even the type of object and the required task must be determined.

The concept that insulin resistance may be the underlying cause of diabetes mellitus type 2 was first advanced by Prof. Wilhelm Falta and published in Vienna in 1931, and confirmed as contributary by Sir Harold Percival Himsworth of the University College Hospital Medical Centre in London in 1936.

The sieve-tube cells, also known as sieve-tube members, are the more advanced type of conducting cell, and are the only sieve element found in the phloem of angiosperms.

** Gymnasium ( Russia )-a type of advanced secondary school.

Windows Me featured the shell enhancements inherited from Windows 2000 such as personalized menus, customizable Windows Explorer toolbars, auto-complete in Windows Explorer address bar and Run box, Windows 2000 advanced file type association features, displaying comments in shortcuts as tooltips, extensible columns in Details view ( IColumnProvider interface ), icon overlays, integrated search pane in Windows Explorer, sort by name function for menus, Places bar in common dialogs for Open and Save, cascading Start menu special folders, some Plus!

As print and display technology has advanced, the traditional term " blueprint " has continued to be used informally to refer to each type of image.

An advanced gas-cooled reactor ( AGR ) is a type of nuclear reactor.

The type has become largely obsolete ; some stations were replaced by lighthouses as the construction techniques for the latter advanced, while others were replaced by large automated buoys.

The Church – Rosser theorem also holds for many variants of the lambda calculus, such as the simply-typed lambda calculus, many calculi with advanced type systems, and Gordon Plotkin's beta-value calculus.

This locomotive was an advanced 2-2-2 engine of the Jenny Lind type with 6 ' 6 " driving wheel, heating surface and some use of welding in the boiler construction.

The Brazilian educationalist Paulo Freire, known for developing popular education, advanced dialogue as a type of pedagogy.

The origin of the Paracelsian invented word spagyrici from the Greek: Spao, to tear open, + ageiro, to collect, is a neologism coined by Paracelsus to define his spagyric type of medical-orientated alchemy ; the origins of iatrochemistry no less, being first advanced by the Swiss physician.

In the simplest type of central venous access, a catheter is inserted into a subclavian, internal jugular, or ( less commonly ) a femoral vein and advanced toward the heart until it reaches the superior vena cava or right atrium.

With more advanced equipment, but still cheap in comparison to professional setups, amateur astronomers can measure the light spectrum emitted from astronomical objects, which can yield high-quality scientific data if the measurements are performed with due care.

In Seleucid and Parthian times, the astronomical reports were thoroughly scientific ; how much earlier their advanced knowledge and methods were developed is uncertain.

In Seleucid and Parthian times, the astronomical reports were of a thoroughly scientific character ; how much earlier their advanced knowledge and methods were developed is uncertain.

Interplanetary probes and space telescopes began a golden age of planetary science and advanced a wide variety of astronomical work.

Certain researchers investigating the Dogon have reported that they seem to possess advanced astronomical knowledge, the nature and source of which have subsequently become embroiled in controversy.

James Oberg however, citing these suspicions notes their completely speculative nature, writing that: " The obviously advanced astronomical knowledge must have come from somewhere, but is it an ancient bequest or a modern graft?

During the 20th century, spectroscopy ( the study of these spectral lines ) advanced, particularly as a result of the advent of quantum physics that was necessary to understand the astronomical and experimental observations.

Earlier, other critics such as the astronomer Peter Pesch and his collaborator Roland Pesch and Ian Ridpath had attributed the supposed " advanced " astronomical knowledge of the Dogon to a mixture of over-interpretation by commentators and cultural contamination.

Other astronomical theories were advanced by Joseph Adhemar, James Croll and others, but verification was difficult due to the absence of reliably dated evidence and doubts as to exactly which periods were important.

Arp originally proposed his theories in the 1960s ; however, telescopes and astronomical instrumentation have advanced greatly since then: the Hubble Space Telescope was launched, multiple 8-10 meter telescopes ( such as those at Keck Observatory ) have become operational, and detectors such as CCDs are now more widely employed.

Although it is often believed the stone monuments were intentially aligned to serve a greater purpose, the crudeness of the stones means that they could not have been used as advanced astronomical calculators.

Their launch had been advanced by 2 weeks late in the planning stages to improve lighting conditions for the Rozhen astronomical experiment.

The novel's vision of Mars was inspired by astronomical speculations of the time, especially those of Percival Lowell, who saw the planet as a formerly Earth-like world now becoming inhospitable to life because of its advanced age.

Burroughs vision of Mars was loosely inspired by astronomical speculation of the time, especially that of Percival Lowell, who saw the planet as a formerly Earthlike world now becoming less hospitable to life due to its advanced age, whose inhabitants had built canals to bring water from the polar caps to irrigate the remaining arable land.

Although the Chinese were more focused on arithmetic and advanced algebra for astronomical uses, they were also the first to develop negative numbers, algebraic geometry ( only Chinese geometry ) and the usage of decimals.

Burroughs's vision of Mars was loosely inspired by astronomical speculation of the time, especially that of Percival Lowell, who saw the planet as a formerly Earthlike world now becoming less hospitable to life due to its advanced age, whose inhabitants had built canals to bring water from the polar caps to irrigate the remaining arable land.

Burroughs vision of Mars was loosely inspired by astronomical speculation of the time, especially that of Percival Lowell, who saw the planet as a formerly Earthlike world now becoming less hospitable to life due to its advanced age, whose inhabitants had built canals to bring water from the polar caps to irrigate the remaining arable land.

This is an important and lengthy passage of text, the techniques of which require precise astronomical detail and advanced knowledge of complex progressive techniques.