Sentence examples for a symbol denoting from inspiring English sources
function designator n. a designator for a function; that is, an object that denotes a function and that is one of: a symbol (denoting the function named by that symbol in the global environment), or a function (denoting itself).
string designator n. a designator for a string; that is, an object that denotes a string and that is one of: a character (denoting a singleton string that has the character as its only element), a symbol (denoting the string that is its name), or a string (denoting itself).
Eigenvalue, one of a set of discrete values of a parameter, k, in an equation of the form Pψ = kψ, in which P is a linear operator (that is, a symbol denoting a linear operation to be performed), for which there are solutions satisfying given boundary conditions.
If we are able somehow to convert profiles to discrete values, then we can substitute an alignment column with a symbol denoting the column type.
It is a symbol denoting a quantity of two.
Each subject had been trained on left and right hearing aids, and the position of a symbol denotes the effective offsets learned in both aids.
The superscript preceding a symbol denotes the mass number of the atom: the number of protons plus the number of neutrons.
Included with the bands is a leaf symbol, denoting the leaf type of the species in each category.
Thus, while coaching the Patriots during their 1996 playoff run, Parcells even carried a Chai, the Hebrew symbol denoting life, which is considered a good-luck charm.
stream variable designator n. a designator for a stream variable; that is, a symbol that denotes a stream variable and that is one of: t (denoting *terminal-io*), nil (denoting *standard-input* for input stream variable designators or denoting *standard-output* for output stream variable designators), or some other symbol (denoting itself).
Data labeled with only a "+" symbol denotes proteins that were detected in the infected animals but not in the uninfected control under these experimental conditions.
