Sentences with phrase «function as a single»

We are on the cusp of a global economy that requires humans to function as a single interdependent family.

But unless one puts the pieces back together to see the car functioning as a single, integral whole, one can hardly claim to have understood the car as a car.

To fit inside its rocket, the JWST's 6.5 - metre - high reflector, six times larger than Hubble's, is folded into 18 hexagonal pieces, which will assemble to function as a single giant mirror once the telescope is in orbit.

Searches are powered by millions of computers packed into warehouses, all wired together to function as a single system.

«Most of the other studies created single - molecule devices that functioned as single - electron transistors at four degrees Kelvin, but for any real - world application, these devices need to work at room temperature.

A combination approach In a study published yesterday in the journal Applied Physics Letters, the researchers presented a device that combines the two materials but functions as a single, monolithic cell.

But instead of looking at individual bees, the researchers assessed each colony as a single «superorganism» that functions as a single, cohesive unit.

The main technical challenge with the EHT is getting all the telescopes in the network to function as a single, well - oiled machine.

Adds Wheeler, «It's a way to integrate the colony,» to ensure it functions as a single entity.

These networks of radio telescopes use sophisticated computer and communication technology called very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) to function as single continent spanning telescopes - the greatest eyes - on - the - sky ever created.

The Informatics Coordination and Service Center (ICSC) at the UC Davis Mouse Biology Program provides centralized processing and infrastructure that allows the separate MMRRC facilities to function as a single resource to the biomedical research community.

chemical bonds Attractive forces between atoms that are strong enough to make the linked elements function as a single unit.

The NHGRI Division of Intramural Research will be developing a «portal» that will function as a single point of entry from which users can search and retrieve data from the ENCODE Project.

«Using cutting - edge supercomputers and clever mathematics, all of the stations can be used in conjunction to function as a single large telescope.»

For this exercise it's extremely important that your whole body functions as a single unit.

Some people who are separated are so heavily burdened with relationship baggage that they can't function as single, others cut the cord with ease.

This is true of every major ally in your plot against Satan, of whom there are only four (five if you count both of The Twins, but they function as a single entity mission-wise).

Giving their first joint interview, on an afternoon in early November, Platt and Feldstein almost seem to function as a single person.

Research has documented that charter schools often struggle to amass adequate capacity to provide quality special education programs and must navigate complex systems that did not anticipate the creation of schools that function as single school districts or semi-autonomous schools within a district.

Compound words are a combination of two words that function as a single word.

An all - new 3.7 - liter V - 6 engine develops 300 horsepower and 271 lb - ft of torque thanks to an innovative new VTEC ™ valvetrain system for both the intake and exhaust valves, a higher compression ratio, along with a special dual - stage magnesium intake manifold that enables the intake to function as a single - or dual - plenum manifold design based on engine operating parameters.

The top half — the actual tablet — swings up and down like a lid and closes to form what functions as a single - piece unit.

In addition to supporting the sleek - looking Nintendo Pro Controller, the Nintendo Switch will feature new «Joy - Con Grip» controllers capable of functioning as a single game controller, while also having the ability to slide onto either side of the Nintendo Switch tablet.

Will they function as a single character?

Will they technically function as a single character?

Curated by Justine Ludwig, Assistant Curator of the CAC, Versoza's first solo museum show presents a new body of work that will function as a single installation.

From this array of media he creates a new body of work that functions as a single installation.

This arrangement of freestanding facades signals a migration from two - dimensional collage into three - dimensions, and yields a collection of distinct vignettes, which also function as a single sculpture.

We've seen a lot of interesting stackable chairs, but what's especially cool about Menand's design is that even when all three are stacked, they still function as a single chair.

It is the case, of course, that we don't always have a single word in English that serves the same function as the single word in the exotic language, so sometimes it takes us a few words to express pretty much... [more]

Previously, adding these accounts would function as a single sign - on for other apps that might require them.

They are also responsible for coordinating the operations of each department and ensuring that they function as a single entity.

Not exact matches

The ATF defines a machine gun as «any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.»

The room is about the size of my childhood bedroom, a single row of seats functioning as an audience for the two chefs.

More than an engrossing collection of historical true - crime stories, though, the book functions as an unlikely financial history of the young United States, as it grew «from a patchwork of largely self - governing colonies to a loosely assembled union of states and, finally, to a single nation under firm federal control.»

Enter Anchor, which functions as a social network for people within a single company.

A high - performance culture means identifying the right goals, setting them at the appropriate times, recruiting and empowering the right people to execute them and establishing transparency across the company to enable different functions to operate as a single, united team.

How can we function as a country if a single province can do whatever they like on federal matters regardless of how it affects the other provinces?

Behe defined ID as»... a single system composed of several well - matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning.»

According to this account, the human being is a single total organism with many specialized functions, amongst which are thinking and feeling (generally regarded as operations of the soul in the traditional view).

It is a history, and it has functioned — as history tends to function — as a binding agent, melding disparate individuals together into a single people by giving them a common past.

For, without doing violence to a single organic doctrine, we could avoid the embarrassment of saying that an occasion qua subject is not an entity by the simple expedient of redefining «entity» to signify whatever functions, or is destined to function, as a potential for processes of becoming.

The single least expected and most significant finding of our study of junior faculty was that their success — defined as tenure or extension of contract — is a function not of how well they perform but of decisions the institution makes before they arrive.

In industrial production, each person performs a single repetitive function instead of working as a craftsman.

We have learned, then, to think of death as a single phenomenon whose presence is indicated either by irreversible loss of heart and lung function (the traditional criterion) or by irreversible loss of all brain function.

In fact, in Newtonian physics we would expect that the image of a single substantial object would be identifiable not only by the continuity of its first three factors as an implicit function of the fourth, but also by the constancy of the fifth.

Wherever it is reasonable to posit a single center of experience playing a decisive role in the functioning of the organism as a whole, there it is reasonable to posit a soul.

To an increasing extent every machine comes into being as a function of every other machine; and, again to an increasing extent, all the machines on earth, taken together, tend to form a single, vast, organized mechanism.

The implication of this is that parts functioning like a machine can be described as a machine even though these parts may be single molecules; and machines are understood in terms of elementary physical laws.

Just as it must be all - inclusive both of self and the world and, therefore, strictly universal in scope and function, it must also be genuinely individual in that it is a single center of interaction, both acting on and being acted on by itself and all others.