This computer meaning was quickly transferred to neuroscience and applied to the workings of the brain.
The word was in widespread use, applied to plenty of contexts other than the workings of the Holy Roman Empire long before the American constitution was written.
The Lunar Society typified the period of the Enlightenment in central England and Scotland, where scientific ideas were freed from religious orthodoxy and were applied to improving society, including, for instance, the workings of the Wedgwood potteries.
Circuit/model identification is applied to impedance spectroscopy when there is no prior knowledge of the inner workings of the sensor or process under analysis.
The questions raised by Stephen Benkovic and Dagmar Ringe both arise from the immense power of the technology that can now be applied to biological systems and the depth of understanding that can be reached of the workings of macromolecules.
The principles applied to the turning of a wheel in a clock were seen as mirroring, in some way, the workings of cosmic spheres.
The same probably applies to the workings of the Parliament itself, whose by-laws, all agree, are in bad need of reform.
In forthcoming columns, I will examine the workings of this concept as it applies to ground zero and to the agencies, private firms and civic and professional groups involved with the decisionmaking process.
These mistakes are primarily, but not completely, the result of a complex federal tax system and widespread confusion about the workings of marginal tax rates, which by definition do not apply to every dollar of income.
In a brilliant essay of 1978, "The Power of the Powerless", Havel analyzed the workings of a repressive state in a way that could to some extent apply to any large and impersonal human society.
