Sentence examples for definite meaning from inspiring English sources

Now, Mr. Smythe, I will ask you to state what is known in railroading as 'proportional rates,' what does that expression mean, if it has any fixed or definite meaning? A. Proportional rates are rates established in a great many centers—grain centers, if you please—on grain coming from any territory which may be shipped there for reshipment...

It is not important that these words bear any relation to reality or even that they have any definite meaning.

Peirce also demonstrated that a sign can never have a definite meaning, for the meaning must be continuously qualified.

The second problem is the design of an intelligible representation for 1D- and 2D- signals with peaks and troughs that have a definite meaning for experts.

This "Japanese flavor" has a more definite meaning than, say, "the American way," or "the French touch," if only because Japan remains so intensely conscious of its Japaneseness.

That the word 'employees' is not treated by Congress as a word of art having a definite meaning is apparent from an examination of recent legislation.

These poems are built for definite meanings but do not insist on a direct or uniform apprehension of them.

It is found that the model parameters have definite meanings and are strongly related to the particle properties, fluidization conditions and fluidized bed structure.

The statement that "every particle in the universe attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the mass of the attracting particle and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the two" is devoid of meaning --- the human mind can give no definite meanings to the words "mass," "attract," and "force," which do not overlap and stultify each other.

Al-, Arabic definite article, meaning "the".

Parameters obtained in classical approach should have a definite physical meaning.