Sentence examples for notional type from inspiring English sources

What the team have built is known as a Turing machine, a notional type of computer first proposed in 1936 by Alan Turing.

This is because it would be a Turing machine, a notional type of computer first proposed in 1936 by a British mathematician called Alan Turing.Turing's original idea was a device that manipulated a paper tape divided into cells.

Band, in anthropology, a notional type of human social organization consisting of a small number of people (usually no more than 30 to 50 persons in all) who form a fluid, egalitarian community and cooperate in activities such as subsistence, security, ritual, and care for children and elders.

Fewer three-chord Everly Brothers-type covers (she recorded "Bowling Green" on "The Virginian") and fewer notional numbers, like Case's own "Honky-Tonk Hiccups," one of the few downright (and probably purposefully) silly songs she has written.

The double mutant control mutations were screened in order to maintain the same notional melting temperature (Tm) as the wild-type Tm.

When it filed for bankruptcy protection in September 2008, Lehman Brothers was an active participant in the derivatives market and was party to 906,000 derivative transactions of all types under 6,120 ISDA Master Agreements with an estimated notional value of $35 trillion.

It has played the role of schmuck in one of finance's most dangerous games by writing credit-default swaps (CDSs), a type of guarantee against default, with a giant notional exposure of $441 billion as of June.

A total of 896 archetypes were modelled and matched to the EHS on the basis of dwelling type (eg, detached, semidetached, terraces and flats), floor area and notional permeability.

Are notional in the sense that are intellectual constructs; they are ideal types to be used in a debate about the possible changes that could be introduced in a real-world problem situation.

It is therefore intriguing that the Voronoi tilings of all four single cone types match this distribution so closely, since these tilings are only notional epithelia and the constituent cells used to generate them are not spatially contiguous.

Then we encounter "The Invention: A Libretto for Speculative Music," which is, well surreal, and features a decisively modern, entirely notional score, sung by an inventor and his invention, which (who?) turns out to be a 40s-type piano-perched chanteuse who (which?) somehow knows all the words to the song you never knew you had in you.