Oxford Dictionaries defines a "word" variously as a "single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing" or "conceptual unit of language", allowing emoji to take their place among more conventional communicative forms.
Figure 4(a) presents a representative pixel with a single distinct return.
In the first case, the bent ether fits the trigonal geometry, and a single distinct alternate position is available.
These schemes work based on the assumption that each identity is bound by a single distinct location at any particular time.
The important functions our brain carries out are not farmed out to single distinct brain regions, but instead supported by multiple regions, often in similar but slightly different ways.
From 26 October 2013 to 23 April 2014, 32 cases of listeriosis infected with an Listeria monocytogenes strain serovar 4b, sequence type 4 and belonging to a single distinct PFGE pulsotype were registered in patients from several cantons of Switzerland.
These SIPN blends exhibited tan δ peak temperatures and single distinct loss modulus, E″, peaks at temperatures lower than those of PVC which had been exposed to the same processing temperatures.
There, between Luzon and Taiwan, the plate boundary is not a single distinct unit because the eastward-dipping Manila Trench overlaps the westward-dipping Philippine Trench at the latitude of Luzon island and the northward-dipping Ryukyu Trench at the latitude of Taiwan.
But Malebranche thinks this doctrine has an air of mystery to it, and fails to capture the magnitude and character of our dependence: 'that general and confused term concourse, by means of which we would explain creatures' dependence on God, rouses not a single distinct idea in an attentive mind' (OC 1 440, LO 231).
The trajectories show that protein separation does not follow a single distinct pathway, but suggest that the mechanism of dissociation is common in that it initially involves transitions to surfaces with fewer, less favorable contacts compared with those seen in the fully formed complex.
It produces small, white fruit bodies up to 9 mm in height, each with a single distinct "head" and "stem".
