Sentence examples for the definite quantity from inspiring English sources

Whereas the definite sum 3+4 evaluates to the definite quantity 7, the indefinite sum x+y has no definite value, yet we can still say that it is always equal to y+x, or to x²−y² if and only if x is either −y or y+1.

Although the loss factor is a positive definite quantity, the first variation yields control input that maximizes the factor.

Note that for a fixed iso-range ring, the elevation angle is a definite quantity.

The dip-coating of the catalyst on the SiC foam was done by preparing slurry of definite quantity of catalyst powder and dipping the foam into that for a particular time period in the dip-coater.

Specific oxygen uptake rate (SOUR) measures the rate of dissolved oxygen (DO) consumption by definite quantity of activated sludge which represents the activity of activated sludge notably in the presence of organic substrate (Yoong et al. 2000; Archibald et al. 2001).

After studying the phenomenon of electrolysis in 1874, Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney suggested that there existed a "single definite quantity of electricity", the charge of a monovalent ion.

The value of (eta _{d}) is assumed to be small, so that we may set its value as (eta _{d}=varepsilon ^{frac{1}{4}} eta ), with (eta ) is a definite quantity.

Mixture takes place when such qualities take on a definite quantity (poson) or due measure (metrion) that that delimits their variation.

The porosity of dried SPHC particles was determined from pore volume and bulk volume, by immersing a definite quantity of SPHC particles in hexane overnight.

In the case N p − 2 N − 2 b − 4 ≥ 0, it follows from the last relation that J ″ ( t ) ≤ 4 ( N p − 2 N − 2 b ) E ( u 0 ), and for E ( u 0 ) < 0 the positive-definite quantity J ( t ) becomes negative over a finite time by virtue of the above inequality.

From the economic standpoint psychoanalysis supposes that the mental representations of the instincts have a cathexis of definite quantities of energy, and that it is the purpose of the mental apparatus to hinder any damming-up of these energies and to keep as low as possible the total amount of the excitations to which it is subject.