Sentence examples for whole multiples of from inspiring English sources

Two magnitudes have a common measure when they are both whole multiples of some magnitude, and are incommensurable otherwise (Book X, def. 1).

Specifically, real numbers are ratios between pairs of infinite standard sequences, e.g., the sequence of lengths normally denoted by "1 meter", "2 meters" etc. and the sequence of whole multiples of the length we are trying to measure.

Some cells have an abnormal number of chromosomes that is not a whole multiple of the haploid number.

According to Euclid's Elements, a magnitude such as a line, a surface or a solid measures another when the latter is a whole multiple of the former (Book V, def. 1 & 2).

Aneuploid: chromosome content that is not a whole multiple of the haploid complement; imbalanced karyotype.

If, however, the length of a cone is close to a whole multiple of waves, some A-lines will have phase near 0 and others near 2 π.

This common pattern in chemistry suggested to Dalton that elements react in whole number multiples of discrete units—in other words, atoms.

Such waves produce harmonics at whole number multiples of their frequencies, which tend to have the greatest effect in the lower gamma bands, and can show event-related changes.

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In 1815 Prout advanced the idea that the atomic weights of elements are whole-number multiples of the atomic weight of hydrogen (Prout's hypothesis).

Through repeated application of this method, the values of the electric charge on individual oil drops are always whole-number multiples of a lowest value that value being the elementary electric charge itself (about 1.602 10−19 coulomb).