Sentence examples for excess and defect from inspiring English sources

For instance, bird differs from bird by gradation, or by excess and defect; some birds have long feathers, others short ones, but all are feathered.

For number qua number has peculiar attributes, such as oddness and evenness, commensurability and equality, excess and defect, and these belong to numbers either in themselves or in relation to one another.

We must grasp, then, the kinds of differentiae (for these will be the principles of the being of things), e.g. the things characterized by the more and the less, or by the dense and the rare, and by other such qualities; for all these are forms of excess and defect.

The wise person will find the moderate path between excess and defect.

A virtue is a kind of mean between excess and defect in the exercise of a power.

Aristotle defines ethical virtue as lying in a mean between excess and defect, and the mean is determined by the person of practical wisdom (actually the male, since Aristotle is sexist on this point).

The changes in the dss and Tg, consequently, modify the silicon excess and defects in the non-stoichiometric SiO x films.

These changes in the dss and Tg, consequently, have modified the silicon excess and defects in the non-stoichiometric SiO x films.

Oberdorfer, B. et al. Grain boundary excess volume and defect annealing of copper after high-pressure torsion.

With regard to giving and taking of money the mean is liberality, the excess and the defect prodigality and meanness.

Herein, we report a visible-light-driven photocatalyst based on valance band edge control induced by oxygen excess defects and modification with a CuxO electron transfer co-catalyst.