Sentence examples for means a specific from inspiring English sources

But to geologists, Ma means "million years ago," and 90 Ma, for instance, means a specific point in the Cretaceous period.

The "cowboys full" of McManus's title means a specific poker hand of three kings plus another card paired, but it also indicates how the game has flourished in Western settings.

It means a specific set of algorithms and technology, but within three to five years it won't be "AI companies" anymore.

All outpatients with cluster headache, diagnosed according to the criteria of ICHD-II, who were, consecutively, seen from October 2010 to April 2012 at the Headache Centre, were subjected to a phone interview by means a specific standardized questionnaire (29 items), administered, always, by the same trained post-graduate medical doctor.

This means a specific way of taking notes on the debate.

The acronym stands for electronic dance music, but it's a misnomer because EDM has come to mean a specific dance music subgenre, distinct from other sounds such as techno, minimal house, disco, funk, drum'n'bass.

By a control architecture we mean a specific way of organizing the motion control and navigation functions performed by the MOB.

What most people don't get, though, is that there is always a break-even point — and I mean a specific number — when it makes more sense to kill it with technology.

Whilst any reviewer of the literature might well aim to be systematic in their reviewing, the term systematic review is used to mean a specific approach.

In a situation of great scarcity of qualified staff, a qualification does not mainly mean a specific skill, but a capacity and a way of thinking, which can be applied to several fields of expertise.

A link in such a network does not mean a specific regulatory relationship, but any possible interaction between two genes (such as protein activation, regulation of transcription, co-expression, etc).