Sentence examples for bookkeeping device from inspiring English sources

Planck first regarded the quantum as a bookkeeping device with no physical meaning.

This upward force is not a mere physicist's bookkeeping device but rather a real physical force.

In fact, State Treasury Department officials said the figure was a bookkeeping device related to the complicated ways in which the program accounts for incurred medical claims and reserve funds.

The OMB explained that these trust fund "balances" are nothing more than a "bookkeeping" device.

A better alternative is to take the observed values q, q′, q″, … as the actual elements of reality, and view Ψ just as a bookkeeping device, determined by the actual values q, q′, q″, … that happened in past.

The forces it describes are real ones, not mere bookkeeping devices.

The disclosure requirements in the city's program are not just bookkeeping devices.

6 These funds are as much in need of protection from fraudulent claims as any other federal money, 7 and the statute does not make the extent of their safeguard dependent upon the bookkeeping devices used for their distribution.