In a following deceleration unit, which will be integrated soon, the ions can be slowed down to a definite kinetic energy of a few eV.
He was described in diplomatic reports as shrewd and affable, deliberately slow of speech yet loquacious, expressing himself in an elegant Italian or Latin with learned allusions, and scrupulously refraining from tying himself down to a definite "yes" or "no" until the final settlement of an issue but then able to act with swift, uncompromising dispatch.
In a letter from Tokyo addressed to Valentin Paniagua, the new president of the Congress, Mr. Fujimori said he was stepping down "to open a definite political path that will permit an orderly transition, and no less important, preserve the solidity of our economy".
"We've narrowed it down to a few people, but there is no definite successor yet," he says, "and there are also nonfamily professional managers to consider.
A series that does settle down to some definite value, as more and more terms are added, is said to converge, and the value to which it converges is known as the limit of the partial sums; all other series are said to diverge.
Thus astrology, for example, fails to be a scientific theory because it cannot be falsified: although astrology seems to make predictions, these statements about the future are so vague, so general and abstract, that they cannot be tied down to definite claims about observations to be made at a definite time and place.
But the symptoms and severity can be wildly different for everyone, making it tricky to nail down a definite diagnosis quickly.
Despite ongoing hospital visits, no neurologist has yet been able to pin down a definite cause of her migraines or her strange accent.
The White House had him down as a definite censure vote, though he remained officially undecided.
In "Sex and Social Justice," published in 1999, she wrote that the approach resembles the "sort of moral collapse depicted by Dante, when he describes the crowd of souls who mill around in the vestibule of hell, dragging their banner now one way now another, never willing to set it down and take a definite stand on any moral or political question.
