Sentence examples for relation less than from inspiring English sources

They satisfy various ordering properties associated with the relation less than.

The ordering relation "less than or equal to" (symbolized by ≤) is reflexive, but "less than" (symbolized by <) is not.

When R is precedes, we can intuitively regard its weak ancestral, precedes+, as the relation less-than-or-equal-to on the natural numbers.

Mr. Snowden's decision to go to Hong Kong introduces a potential complication in Chinese-American relations less than two days after President Obama and President Xi Jinping met in California for a series of wide-ranging discussions.

In 1922, he found that X-ray quanta scattered by free electrons had longer wavelengths and, in accordance with Planck's relation, less energy than the incoming X-rays, the surplus energy having been transferred to the electrons.

Table 1 Acceptable intake in relation to less-than-lifetime levels of exposure   Duration of treatment <1 month >1 12 months >1 10 years >10 years to lifetime Acceptable daily intake (μg/day) 120 20 120120.

In an effort to appear open and honest, especially in relation to less-than-perfect adherence, patients offer explanations to nurses before even being asked.

Lewis's "New Work for a Theory of Universals" (1983b) contains by far his most extensive treatment of both the nature of and need for a distinction between perfectly natural properties and relations, and less-than-perfectly natural properties and relations.

All species also exhibited a power relation between crown zone area and weight, with the slope of this relation being less than 2/3 for B. oleracea, D. carota and S. media.

When monocultural clustering newly impacts on a neighbourhood or a school, we talk of segregation, of ghettoisation and feel we are losing one of the elements that make community relations less fraught than they are in countries such as the US.

At the maximum dose of cisplatin, a sodium thiosulphate/cisplatin concentration relation of less than 6 1 still effected cytotoxic activity of >80%.