Sentence examples for mean an object from inspiring English sources

By that, they mean an object of beauty.

Already by the late 17th century the word 'model' could mean an object that shows the form, not of real-world objects, but of mathematical constructs.

So 'model' comes to mean an object in hand that expresses the design of some other objects in the world: the artist's model carries the form that the artist depicts, and Christopher Wren's 'module' of St Paul's Cathedral serves to guide the builders.

Lower specific heats mean an object gets hot faster.

This is conducive to the idea that, whereas presentations are defined in terms of experiences that give intuitive access to the object, meaning acts are "blind" (1911a, 119): if one means an object, no intuitive aspect of the object becomes present simply due to the fact of this object having been meant.

There's an expression in psychoanalysis called "body syntonic," which means an object should feel like it's a part of your body.

(Tsongkhapa 1984b:176)[4] This means that the two truths relate to "two objects of knowledge," the idea it takes from the statement of the Buddha from Discourse on Meeting of the Father and the Son (Pitāputrasamāgama Sūtra)[5] By object of knowledge Gelug means an object that is cognizable (blo'i yul du bya rung ba).

More exactly, a particular instance of the obtaining of the sign relation is degenerate if and only if the fact that a sign s means an object o to an interpretant i can be analyzed into a conjunction of facts of the form P s) & Q o) & R(i) & T s,o) & U o,i) & W i,s) (where not all the conjuncts have to be present).

It could also mean a land-bound object, like a stone and a bomb, paradoxically appearing where it shouldn't —  a tree or the sky.

An SNR value < 1 means that an object cannot be distinguished from the background.

That means a heavy object such as a star, or even an entire galaxy, can act like a lens, bending light from things behind it to a focal point in front of it.