Sentence examples for continuous substances from inspiring English sources

English speakers can conceptualise aggregates as discrete things, which are expressed as plural count nouns, such as "pebbles" or as continuous substances, which are expressed as mass nouns, such as "gravel".

Underlying this dispute was a perceived basic dichotomy, not confined to mathematics but pervading all nature: is the universe made up of discrete atoms (as the philosopher Democritus believed) which hence can be counted, or does it consist of one or more continuous substances (as Thales of Miletus is reputed to have believed) and thus can only be measured?

In general, their arguments for atomic rather than continuous substances used paradoxes involving the infinite.

In "The Ethics," his masterwork, published after his death in 1677, he argued that body and mind are not two separate entities but one continuous substance.

It may seem strange that this last observation could have surprised anyone, but in Galileo's time people assumed that the Milky Way must be some kind of continuous substance.

Dichotomous variables were created using these continuous substance use variables.

The cosmos is pervaded by a continuous invisible substance which they called pneuma (Greek: "breath").

In addition to the specific sequence of operations required to deliver the necessary chemical and physical transformations for continuous drug substance manufacture, consideration is also given to how adoption of continuous technologies may impact different manufacturing stages in development from discovery, process development, through scale-up and into full scale production.

If there exist central pipes filled with continuous Ni-containing substances and the resistivity of the Ni-containing substances is less than the CN x bodies, the resistance of the CNNCs may be reduced; if not, the influence of the central pipes on the resistance of the CNNCs will be little.

In order to survive inside the host, cysticerci need to carry out a continuous turnover of substances, for which the maintenance of an intact excretory system appears to be crucial [3].

In turn, the being permanent and continuous of material substance can be measured either from inside or from outside.