Sentence examples for term elements from inspiring English sources

Directly after rejecting atomic theories, he says "if we apply the term elements, or principles of bodies, to express our idea of the last point which analysis is capable of reaching, we must admit, as elements, all the substances into which we are capable, by any means, to reduce bodies by decomposition" (1789, p. xxiv).

As he noted towards the end of the next century, "… if, by the term elements, we mean to express those simple and indivisible atoms of which matter is composed, it is extremely probable we know nothing at all about them" (1789, p. xxiv).

The bonuses are split into two: a long term element worth 100% of their annual salary and an annual element worth up to 60% of their salary.

In this paper, the term "element" will be used more often than "object", since it is directly related to the FE analysis.

However, participants reported this group was no longer meeting regularly and lacked a longer term element of continuity that could be provided by a fixed meeting chair.

Even before the terrorist attacks, Mr. Rubin's was a leading voice among Democrats seeking to roll back some longer-term elements of the tax cut Mr. Bush signed into law in June, warning that it imperiled the nation's fiscal health and risked driving rates up.

Jan Smutny-Jones, thexecutiveve director of the Independent Energy Producers Association, a trade group, said he liked the longer-term elements of the plan, but thought an even greater emphasis on conservation would have been appropriate as the only tool for helping California this summer.

Since the transfer function is equal to a product of such terms, we can interpret the approximating system as a sequential cascade of single-term elements of this form.

In a process called discretization, this mesh was divided into a number of subunits termed elements, which were connected at a finite number of points called nodes.

But there are deeper, underlying and long-term elements at play.

The terms elements and objects are used to reference XML constructs, or alternatively, to reference objects and properties of those objects.