Sentence examples for definite quantity from inspiring English sources

When definite quantity is once admitted, there can be no longer a "hotter" or a "colder" (for these are always progressing, and are never in one stay); but definite quantity is at rest, and has ceased to progress.

Although the loss factor is a positive definite quantity, the first variation yields control input that maximizes the factor.

Requests 2 and 3 sought instructions that the requirements that a definite quantity of goods and a definite duration of performance be specified in an enforceable contract are satisfied if the contract is one which calls for deliveries as required on a particular project.

Note that for a fixed iso-range ring, the elevation angle is a definite quantity.

Mixture takes place when such qualities take on a definite quantity (poson) or due measure (metrion) that that delimits their variation.

The dip-coating of the catalyst on the SiC foam was done by preparing slurry of definite quantity of catalyst powder and dipping the foam into that for a particular time period in the dip-coater.

In the case of definite quantities this is obvious; thus, there is nothing that is the contrary of 'two cubits long' or of 'three cubits long', or of a surface, or of any such quantities.

From the economic standpoint psychoanalysis supposes that the mental representations of the instincts have a cathexis of definite quantities of energy, and that it is the purpose of the mental apparatus to hinder any damming-up of these energies and to keep as low as possible the total amount of the excitations to which it is subject.

For oceanic applications, the level-2 energy flux brings two new advantages over the IB flux: (i) the level-2 energy flux satisfies a no-normal-flux boundary condition at coastlines, and (ii) the wave energy is a sign-definite quantity while the IB pseudomomentum is not.

In the case N p − 2 N − 2 b − 4 ≥ 0, it follows from the last relation that J ″ ( t ) ≤ 4 ( N p − 2 N − 2 b ) E ( u 0 ), and for E ( u 0 ) < 0 the positive-definite quantity J ( t ) becomes negative over a finite time by virtue of the above inequality.

This is because of the way the latter take into explicit account the fact that entropy production rates for decaying irreversible processes inherently are positive-definite quantities.