Sentence examples for geometric quantity from inspiring English sources

It's a purely geometric quantity that can be calculated directly from a map.

Another form of geometric quantity is bearing (AOA), and such a quantity, singly or in conjunction with distance, can contribute to network localization.

The main objective in this study is to establish a framework for automating the generation of construction schedules by using data (e.g. spatial, geometric, quantity, relationship and material layer set information) stored in BIM.

Some physical and geometric quantities, called scalars, can be fully defined by specifying their magnitude in suitable units of measure.

Newton avoided analytic processes in the Principia by expressing magnitudes and ratios directly in terms of geometric quantities, both finite and infinitesimal.

"Humans are very susceptible in slight variations in the human face — as I understand it, the psychologists claim that a different part of the brain processes faces than those that process other geometric quantities," said Dr. Chernoff, who introduced his method in 1973 and has seen it applied in fields like economics and psychology.

The contradiction between rationals and reals was finally resolved by Eudoxus of Cnidus, a disciple of Plato, who pointed out that two ratios of geometric quantities are equal if and only if they partition the set of (positive) rationals in the same way, thus anticipating the German mathematician Richard Dedekind (1831 1916), who defined real numbers as such partitions.

Early Greek philosophy was dominated by a dispute as to which is more basic, arithmetic or geometry, and thus whether mathematics should be concerned primarily with the (positive) integers or the (positive) reals, the latter then being conceived as ratios of geometric quantities.

Finally, the inherent relationship between physical and geometric quantities of irrotational flows is explored.

These parameters are dimensionless measures of the geometric quantities of a cross-section.

The geometric quantities of CNT, needed for evaluating the scaling parameter θ in Equation 4, are schematically shown.