Sentence examples for contrary to the ordinary from inspiring English sources

Spatial frequency is defined as (cycles/meter), contrary to the ordinary unit Hertz (cycles/second).

As evidence for this view, Damian enumerates a large number of miracles and miraculous phenomena that are contrary to the ordinary laws of nature (612D-614B; cf. 610D-611D).

The PA as well as Hamas' leadership know only too well the public sentiment in this regard, but for too long held onto extreme positions which run contrary to the wishes of ordinary Palestinians.

Moreover, contrary to the case of an ordinary metric d, a partial metric p need not be continuous, in the sense that x n → x and y n → y as n → ∞ does not imply that p ( x n, y n ) → p ( x, y ) as n → ∞.

Contrary to the analytical approach, the adopted numerical methods, including the ordinary differential equation (ODE) and the stiffness matrix method (SMM), treat separately the electrical and mechanical gradients.

be contrary to the national will".

Contrary to the United States.

Some ordinary ZANU cadres perceived the ZANU High Command members in Lusaka, the Zambian capital, to be following a luxurious lifestyle, contrary to the party's Maoist principles.

This is contrary to the demographic explanation.

3. Contrary to its ordinary meaning, a "catastrophe" in the mathematical sense is value-neutral.

In general, mereology is a theory of sets in the collective (mereological) sense, contrary to ordinary set theory, which describes sets in the distributive sense.