Sentence examples for single symbols from inspiring English sources

Then the guesser tries different dictionaries: English words, names, foreign words, phonetic patterns and so on for roots; two digits, dates, single symbols and so on for appendages.

Neither the Mayan nor the Babylonian system was ideally suited to arithmetical computations, because the digits the numbers less than 20 or 60 were not represented by single symbols.

In modern printing, for instance, ligatures of the type (kta), with a conjunct form of the first consonant symbol followed by the full symbol for the second consonant, are frequently used instead of single symbols of the type.

To test whether the monkeys could add these values, the researchers began giving them a choice between a sum and a single symbol rather than two single symbols.

Phonological features are usually indicated with single symbols, though the group of features that make up a handshape is indicated collectively with a symbol.

The long vowels /iː, oː, aː/ are paired with the short vowels /i, o, a/, and are written with double symbols ii, oo, aa that correspond to the single symbols used for the short vowels i, o, a.

Although a block could consist of a single symbol, normally it is larger.

It's not about Krugman, but he in a single symbol brilliantly exemplifies the conspiracy to keep you poor and stupid, which is the name of my book".

In the 1990s there emerged a new form of graffiti, known as "tagging," which entailed the repeated use of a single symbol or series of symbols to mark territory.

In these times of financial crisis when the mega-rich are somehow getting ever richer, it's hard to choose one single symbol of mind-blowing, cash-scorching wealth and ostentation.

If there is a single symbol of these colliding perspectives, a Benton Harbor Rorschach test, it's holes 7 though 9 of Harbor Shores, which stretch out across the dunes overlooking Lake Michigan.