The word distance is used here in a rather general sense ; ;

In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.

In more general sense, each column is treated as a polynomial over GF ( 2 < sup > 8 </ sup >) and is then multiplied modulo x < sup > 4 </ sup >+ 1 with a fixed polynomial c ( x ) = 0x03 · x < sup > 3 </ sup > + x < sup > 2 </ sup > + x + 0x02.

A large part of mythology is based upon a belief in souls and spirits — that is, upon animism in its more general sense.

He compares this to the work of the historian Thucydides, who found it difficult recording speeches verbatim but instead had the speakers say what he felt was appropriate for them to say on the occasion while adhering as much as possible to the general sense.

In the general sense, frequency ranges can be emphasized or attenuated using low-pass, high-pass, band-pass or band-stop filters.

Artillery may also refer to a system of applied scientific research relating to the design, manufacture and employment of artillery weapon systems although, in general, the terms ballistics and ordnance are more commonly employed in this sense.

When the Roman Empire turned Christian during the following century, this imagery came to be used in a more metaphysical sense, and removed legal impediments to the development and public use of the Anno Domini dating system, which came into general use during the reign of Charlemagne.

In the general sense, a " brick " is a standard-sized weight-bearing building unit.

* Physical restraint in a more general sense

In the general sense many printers rely on a matrix of pixels, or dots, that together form the larger image.

In a general sense, anything that increases the rate of a process is a " catalyst ", a term derived from Greek καταλύειν, meaning " to annul ," or " to untie ," or " to pick up.

In general topological spaces, however, the different notions of compactness are not necessarily equivalent, and the most useful notion, introduced by Pavel Alexandrov and Pavel Urysohn in 1929, involves the existence of certain finite families of open sets that " cover " the space in the sense that each point of the space must lie in some set contained in the family.

In general topological spaces, however, the different notions of compactness are not equivalent, and the most useful notion of compactness — originally called bicompactness — involves families of open sets that " cover " the space in the sense that each point of the space must lie in some set contained in the family.

In a general sense a control unit ( CU ) is a central ( or sometimes distributed but clearly distinguishable

In the most general sense of the word, a cement is a binder, a substance that sets and hardens independently, and can bind other materials together.

The English noun commonwealth in the sense meaning " public welfare ; general good or advantage " dates from the 15th century.

In contrast, just as postmodernism has so far failed to take root in ethnic Chinese circles as opposed to a general sense of Chinese nationalist moral certainty, much of ethnic Chinese scholarship of Chinese history remains largely modernist or even outright traditionalist in outlook.

In a sense it is more of a research program proposal: part of the research is to find a proper formal statement that is physically reasonable and that can be proved to be true or false ( and that is sufficiently general to be interesting ).

* The strong cosmic censorship hypothesis asserts that, generically, general relativity is a deterministic theory, in the same sense that classical mechanics is a deterministic theory.

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people sustain from one generation to the next.

As a general rule a statistic of N is twice as capable as a level of N-1, where this makes sense.

Education – in the general sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual.

In its most general sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event — whether natural or caused by humans — that generates seismic waves.

A list of general order-theoretic definitions which include domain theoretic notions as well can be found in the order theory glossary.

This is a general glossary of the terminology used in the sport of cricket.

Later, he worked extensively on the Greek dialects, publishing: The Greek dialects ; grammar, selected inscriptions, glossary ( 1910 ), Comparative grammar of Greek and Latin ( 1933 ); and on more general Indo-European issues.

* White brass contains more than 50 % zinc and is too brittle for general use.

Exceptions to this general rule are when has repeated roots, or when contains no odd powers of.

* ( Note: this book contains very useful, information dense chapters on primate evolution in general, and human evolution in particular, including fossil history ).

The general idea is to start with a base field and construct in some manner a larger field which contains the base field and satisfies additional properties.

" It also contains the general statement of the Pythagorean theorem ( for the sides of a rectangle ): " The rope stretched along the length of the diagonal of a rectangle makes an area which the vertical and horizontal sides make together.

The derivation outlined in the previous section contains all the information needed to define general relativity, describe its key properties, and address a question of crucial importance in physics, namely how the theory can be used for model-building.

The Great Man approach to history was most fashionable with professional historians in the 19th century ; a popular work of this school is the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition ( 1911 ) which contains lengthy and detailed biographies about the great men of history, but very few general or social histories.

The unification of two argument graphs is defined as the most general graph ( or the computation thereof ) that is consistent with ( i. e. contains all of the information in ) the inputs, if such a graph exists ; efficient unification algorithms are known.

* The 1993 Joseph Brodsky essay Collector's Item ( published in his 1995 book On Grief and Reason ) contains a conjectured description of Philby's career, as well as speculations into his motivations and general thoughts on espionage and politics.

While Mormons believe in the general accuracy of the modern day text of the Bible, they also believe that it is incomplete and contains errors.

Though the caffeine content in a given brew of tea may vary based on the brewing method, variety of tea, and number of extractions, Oolong tea in general contains caffeine, albeit less than black tea.

The same arguments establish a more general result: suppose that a Hausdorff topological space X contains a dense subset of cardinality.

The yearbook contains scholarly articles and reviews, dealing with Inklings members in particular, but also with fantasy literature and mythopoeia in general.

For example, looking at a tree as a whole, one can talk about " the parent node " of a given node, but in general as a data structure a given node only contains the list of its children, but does not contain a reference to its parent ( if any ).

Lawyer and author Claude Duchesnay has reported in May 2003 that a document on the Quebec attorney general ’ s intranet contains the name of 58 persons who must obtain permission prior to instating proceedings before the courts.

) The country contains no major natural resources, and no known natural hazards other than those that affect Rome in general, such as earthquakes.

First Nephi contains many vital doctrines to Mormonism in general.

The SPARC processor usually contains as many as 160 general purpose registers.

The Lord's Prayer, for example, contains the line " Give us this day our daily bread "; here, " bread " is commonly understood to mean necessities in general.

The Museo Teatrale alla Scala ( La Scala Theatre Museum ), accessible from the theatre's foyer and a part of the house, contains a collection of paintings, drafts, statues, costumes, and other documents regarding La Scala's and opera history in general.

A Clifford algebra as described above always exists and can be constructed as follows: start with the most general algebra that contains V, namely the tensor algebra T ( V ), and then enforce the fundamental identity by taking a suitable quotient.

This article deals with the grammar of the Finnish language ( the article " Finnish language " discusses the language in general and contains a quick overview of the grammar ).

Section 2 contains a general prohibition on voting discrimination, enforced through federal district court litigation.

The day's champion and a celebrity of their choice played a general knowledge trivia round ( If the champion picks a square that contains more than one celebrity, he or she has to call out one of the two or three celebrities in that square ).

The Verulamium Museum is a sizeable museum run by the district council in Verulamium Park ( adjacent to St Michael's Church ) which contains much information about the town, both as a Roman and Iron Age settlement, plus Roman history in general.