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Greenwich mean time
Greenwich mean time or Greenwich meridian time (GMT), the former name for mean solar time at the original site of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, which is located on the prime meridian . In 1925 the numbering system was changed to make GMT equivalent to civil time at the prime... Read more |
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generation time
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relaxation time
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time zone
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residence time
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turnover time
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real time
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time signature
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response time
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newspapers
...stayed until 1735. At the same time the provincial press made its...prodigious success was that of The Times, started in 1785 as the Daily Universal Register, changing its name in 1788, and forging...By 1850 it was selling four times the number of the ... |
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peatlands and bogs
...landforms and can cover large areas, completely changing the pre-existing ecology and hydrology. They...plant remains we can therefore reconstruct the changing bog water-table through time, and this is a proxy for past climate. A number... |
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accommodation
...focus or ‘accommodates’ largely by changing the curvature of one of them — the front...accommodation is produced partly by changing the curvature of the cornea itself. Animals...of focusing all wavelengths at the same time. Stuart JudgeSee also atropine; autonomic... |
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autonomic nervous system
...switches on the digestive system at the time of a meal, and orchestrates the whole...of nutrients according to the body's changing requirements. It also makes sure that...to airflow in and out of the lungs by changing the diameter of the branches of the bronchial... |
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Quaternary oxygen isotope chronology
...lighter 16O is, on average, about 500 times more common than the heavier 18O. There...isotopic changes which are caused by the changing volumes of continental ice sheets.The...dominance of the signal caused by the changing isotopic composition of the oceans in... |
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veins
...repeated opening and reflecting the changing composition of the fluids with time. The walls are the nucleating...regional scale, their mineralogy changing both laterally and vertically...the growing minerals at the time of formation. The origin of... |
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cybernetics
...mainly visually, and corrected from time to time during the movement, until the...the mill operating optimally in changing conditions. Servo-systems using...too weak to correct the output. Changing the ‘loop gain’ (i.e... |
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Twenties, The
...decade—went to leisure‐time pursuits. Americans enjoyed...consumer goods and leisure‐time pursuits was stimulated by...from the products they bought.Changing Women's Roles and Urbanization...highly sexualized relationships, changing notions about equality ... |
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ice ages
...initially thought to have occurred only four times, interrupted by widespread interglacial...and they are assumed to be related to changing ocean–atmosphere and ocean–land interactions...years ago. In addition to dramatically changing a vast range of continental ... |
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rates and trends in evolution
...Evolution is change through time, and hence it is convenient...amount of change over a period of time. In graphical terms, this...is curved, then the rate is changing. Direction is the tendency...their range has been reduced by changing environmental ... |
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sequential circuit
...outputs at a specified time are a function of the inputs at that time, and also at a finite number of preceding times. In practice, any physically...will have a finite transit time, or delay, between the inputs changing and the outputs ... |
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counterpoint
...proceeds at twice (or 3 times) the pace of the cantus firmus...v. proceeds at 4 (or 6) times the pace of the cantus firmus...is such as permits of vv. changing places (the higher becoming...concerned, which are capable of changing places with one another, ... |
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ship
...was a tax raised in England in medieval times to provide ships for the navy; originally...regarded as being subject to adverse or changing circumstances; a ship is taken here as the type of something subject to adverse or changing weather. The phrase (as ship of the... |
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Charles II
...learnt how to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances, and trust...bed in 1685. For the first time no parliamentary session...dissolve Parliament. At the same time ‘revelations’ broke of a...exclusion of the rightful heir as changing the monarchy from a ... |
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combinational circuit
...circuit whose outputs at a specified time are a function only of the inputs at that time. In practice, any physically realizable...time, or delay, between the inputs changing and the outputs changing; the intention of the term ... |
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rhythm
...everything pertaining to the time aspect of mus. as distinct from the aspect of...perceptible presence of a unit of time (the beat); even in the ‘free rhythm’ of plainsong...1908–15, where constantly changing tempi and freer use of changing ... |
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accordionscheduling
ac·cor·di·on sched·ul·ing • n. the practice of continually adjusting the work schedule of part-time or temporary workers to accommodate a company’s changing labor requirements. |
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Angevin empire
...currency, and no single political centre. On the contrary, changing circumstances forced the Angevin lords to accept ever greater...comparative abilities of John and Philip II, the Capetian king at the time. Philip was much more of a match than his father Louis VII... |
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Barycentric Dynamical Time
Barycentric Dynamical Time (TDB) A time‐scale originally intended to be...relativity. Compared with Terrestrial Time, TDB exhibits small periodic variations...effects on terrestrial clocks of the changing speed and gravitational potential... |
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citizenship
...gradually identified more with rights than obligations. In modern times citizenship refers conventionally to the various organizations...liberalism, and civil society, to ask questions about the changing relationships between individuals, communities, and states... |
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fun
...recreation, diversion, leisure, relaxation; a good time, a great time; informal R and R (rest and recreation), a ball...There are signs, however, that this situation is changing, given the recent appearance in American English of... |
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phase
...in historysynonyms: stage, part, step, chapter, point, period, time, juncture. 2. going through a difficult phasesynonyms: stage, time, period, spell. 3. changing phases of the moonsynonyms: aspect, facet, shape, form. |
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time
...life span, days, time on earth, existence...professional actor in his time synonyms: heyday, day...Golden Age. 7. (the times) the times are a-changing synonyms: conditions...8. tunes in waltz time synonyms: rhythm, tempo... |
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Changing Times weathers Money and changing times
...What changed, for Changing Times, is that in 1972, Time Inc. started Money...copies compared to Changing Times' 1.3 million...changes dealt with Changing Times' television commercials...solicitation (it ... |
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Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds
...Thatcher's success in changing minds resulted from her...British policies of the time). Although these real...the factors involved in changing minds in the fields of...an extended period of time, rather than occurring...change primarily involves ... |
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Communities Adapting to Changing Family Needs: Availability of Diaper...
Expectations of men are changing. Although only a modest change...young child at some point in time. One indicator of societal...the availability of diaper changing tables for men in public facilities...the accessibility of diaper changing tables over 7 years ... |
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Macroscopic modeling of lane-changing for two-lane traffic flow.(Report)
...analyze the effects of lane-changing on the eigenvalues of the system...analytical effects of lane-changing on the stable region of traffic...boundary conditions to show the time-space evolution of the traffic...actual flow rate, the lane-changing rate, and ... |
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Mixed changing plan angers centre users.
PLANS for new changing facilities at Bo'ness Recreation...were displayed for the first time on Monday. And the Journal...Butler use the centre three times a week and are furious at plans to introduce "family changing areas". They claim there...about scrapping ... |
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Your life daily: A change for the better? SHOPPING: How do high street...
...bugbear during busy times. WINNER! NEW LOOK...store in Coventry so the changing rooms are inviting...but did not have the time to help in the changing rooms. The area itself is quite compact but the changing rooms are very clean... |
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Unisex changing causes outrage; It's a total invasion of our privacy, says...
...Davidson, who uses the pool five times a week, said she was totally...a completely open communal changing area. "I wouldn't like...your own family but I'm not changing in front of someone else...If you've got your own changing cubicle you wouldn't ... |
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Japanese Inventor Develops Visual Field Changing Method
...by the activated visual field changing operation, based on a relative...position of the pointer at a time when the visual field changing operation has been activated...outside of the visual field changing start region corresponding to... |
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1 Three kind of money changing.(On Exchanging Money (1499))(Excerpt)
...clearly an instance of money changing in name only and is really...Venice according to the money-changing rate of ten pounds of groats...value of the money is up at one time and down at another. Truly...cloaked in the name of money changing, and takes place ... |
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Recent innovations in the changing criterion design: implications for...
...combines elements of the changing criterion, multiple...prioritize, and adjust time and effort to complete multiple tasks in response to changing environmental demands...illustrated "applications of the changing criterion designs to special... |
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