Sentence examples for mean and imperfect from inspiring English sources

Under the original conditions, a modest level of plasticity (i.e., an intermediate slope of the reaction norm) is favored in a slightly fluctuating environment with constant mean and imperfect cues.

The genus name Ateles means "imperfect", a reference to the vestigial thumb.

Fidel is not an "imperfect democrat," whatever that means (and anyway, by definition, there are no other kinds; democracy's imperfect, and intolerance for imperfection is a hallmark of the totalitarian mind).

And how vulnerable does that mean any imperfect woman is?

However, some vaccines produced by conventional means are imperfect in many respects including virulence, safety and efficacy.

It means understanding the impermanence and imperfect nature of worldly objects and ideas, and to understand the law of karma.

The robustness of the demapper to imperfect mean and covariance estimates is investigated by varying the number of pilot symbols.

This objective defines the inequality in time-series due to three sources: unequal tendency (mean), unequal variation (variance) and imperfect co-variation (co-variance) (Born 2001).

But operating on a shoestring has meant releasing imperfect products -- a dating Web site, an application that serves as an online suggestion box for businesses, and a goal-sharing message board.

This means that imperfect but functional novelties can provide important selective advantages before micro-evolutionary processes have had an opportunity to fine-tune them.

Mr. Zuckerberg describes Facebook's "hacker culture," which he says means the company favors fast and imperfect products and lives by the mottos "Done is better than perfect" and "Move fast and break things".