Sentence examples for collection of entities from inspiring English sources

WE are like a mosaic, not a collection of entities," said Michael Dowling, chief operating officer of the North Shore-Long IslaNorth Shore-Long System.

Any information entity or collection of entities could be considered a resource.

Artifacts in the wide sense form an ontologically heterogeneous collection of entities which extends across the traditional philosophical boundaries between concreta and abstracta, and substantial objects, events, and processes.

So, for example, not-being-an-electron is a kind, and being-an-electron-or-a-chair is a kind, and so is being one of some random collection of entities.

Every important information entity or collection of entities is considered a resource and is named and addressable (i.e. its content can be retrieved by its address) and supports limited number of operations (e.g. read and write).

The principal operations on the collection of entities are the addition of them to the rear terminal position, known as enqueuing, and deletion of entities from the front terminal position, known as dequeuing.

J. Baker et al., presented Megastore [8] in which data is partitioned into a collection of entity groups.

The overall approach is to view the base database as a collection of entity and relationship sets in the sense of ER model [ 31], and preserve this conceptual view across different levels of abstractions we use to facilitate mapping of natural language queries to SQL queries.

(The aggregates, as their name suggests, are themselves constantly-changing collections of entities of five categories: the physical, feelings, ideas, dispositions, and consciousness).

Another complication concerns reference to collections of entities, related entities (such as parts), propositions, and events that can become referents of pronouns (such as they, this, and that) or of definite NPs (such as this situation or the door (of the house)) without having appeared explicitly as a noun phrase.

Darden and others have argued that these 'mechanisms' specific collections of entities and their distinctive activities are the fundamental unit of scientific discovery and scientific explanation, not only in molecular biology, but in a wide range of special sciences (Machamer, Darden et al. 2000; see also Bechtel and Richardson 1993).