Sentence examples for a form of primitive from inspiring English sources

Alchemy was once broadly dismissed as a form of primitive, pre-scientific belief -- like Aristotle's conviction that lice were spontaneously generated from flesh, or claims that human life was created in the forms of homunculi.

The SIMPLER algorithm is employed to solve the equations in a form of primitive variables.

In the Far East, silk was once used to pad armour, and in pre-revolutionary Russia a form of primitive bullet-proof clothing was made from it.

The underwater society follows a form of primitive communism where concepts like money and clothing do not exist.

He additionally presented a machine-independent characterization of the class \ \textbf{FP}\) – i.e. functions \ f:\mathbb{N}^k \rightarrow \mathbb{N}\) which are computable in polynomial time – in terms of a restricted form of primitive recursive definition known as bounded recursion on notation (see Section 4.5).

It is a form of punishment more primitive than torture …" So ruled the US supreme court in 1958 on the practice of stripping people of their citizenship and leaving them stateless.

Psychologically speaking, many of Trump's barbs appear to be a form of "projection," a primitive defense mechanism long-ago identified by Sigmund Freud, whereby a person ascribes negative feelings about themselves to others.

Forced to deal with the human reality of the terrorists along with their victims, the curators show the killers' faces at a lower level and on a smaller scale on the wall than those of their victims, sensitivity taking the form of a kind of primitive image superstition.

In an effort to combat the phenomenon, some have apparently taken to sticking Post-Its on potential hazard zones — a sort of primitive form of augmented reality. .

Traditional forms of primitive accumulation still exist abroad.

Daley notes that when amphibians regenerate their limbs, they form a cluster of primitive undifferentiated cells called a blastema.