In particular, keeping a shape parameter from Y can add more flexibility to the new distribution.
The courts and the Patent and Trademark Office have authorized for use as a mark a particular shape (of a Coca-Cola bottle), a particular sound (of NBC's three chimes), and even a particular scent (of plumeria blossoms on sewing thread).
Diamond requires cutting to achieve brilliance and sparkle it is famous for, while some other gemstones need cutting to be molded into a particular shape or a particular jewelry design.
Each type of phage has a particular shape, a different capacity for loading cargo, a specific production time, and their own mechanisms of supramolecular assembly, that have enabled them to act as tunable carriers.
It is thought that stimulation occurs when a molecule with a particular shape fits into a corresponding "pocket" in the receptor molecule, rather as a key fits into a lock.
"It was really a great lesson," Mr. Scogin said, "in how architects can be liberated from the relentless insistence that form follows acoustical function -- that you have to do a particular shape to achieve a particular sound".
Liquidity is defined as having a particular shape in particular circumstances.
It could be a letter, a particular color or a shape.
How long such feelings of unanimity can last under the strains of a genuinely democratic system — or the struggle to give such a system a particular shape — is one of the great unknowns, of course.
Ewald says that the quantum computer will be able to learn the key characteristics of a particular shape, say a car, by showing it lots of pictures of cars.
