Sentences with phrase «number means in the context»

Be sure that, in addition to knowing its P / E ratio, you also understand what the number means in the context of the underlying business.

Not exact matches

The seasonal adjustment factors for non-farm payroll employment vary between 1.0157 and 0.9920, which doesn't mean much until you put these numbers in context.

There can be no doubt that what we identify in the Tetrateuch (Genesis - Numbers) as P employs and incorporates in the fifth century some material as old or possibly older than J. And J in the tenth century may well have had as a primary source an earlier effort to bring together coherently a wide assortment of stories deemed to have significant bearing on the life of the people Israel.2 Certainly individual units in the J corpus had been in existence for centuries before they were integrated; and beyond any doubt these units were often strikingly modified in meaning in the context of the J work.

This means that feminism necessarily must take a number of specific forms in different contexts.

In the context of this season I would have loved Chelsea to sign Messi, because that will mean a number of teams dropping points to Chelsea, including three of our title rivals.

I bring this up not only because I've been thinking a lot about talking to kids about diversity and privilege in the context of the current election but also because I have heard a number of friends talk recently about not saving for college because it means their kids will get less financial aid.

Just as letters of the alphabet on their own have no meaning, but used in concert with each other can create poetry, literature, and song, so learning the mechanics of words and numbers alone has no purpose, but placed in the context of life being lived can create wonders as yet unseen.

Let's give a little context to what these numbers mean: for every 10,000 babies born at home in the Netherlands, only 6 - 7 babies will die; for every 10,000 babies born at home in the USA, 17 - 18 babies will die.

Hyperplasia is the increase of cells in number, so in the context of muscle cells, it would mean an increase of muscle fibers.

A learner should be able to: • understand and use whole numbers in practical contexts • add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers using a range of strategies • add and subtract decimals up to two decimal places • solve problems requiring calculation, with common measures, including money, time, and length, • convert units of measure in the same system • extract and interpret information from tables, diagrams, charts and graphs find mean and range work out areas and perimeters in practical situations collect and record discrete data

About the excerpt: There are a number of words in the excerpt which can be understood in the context of the book, but still my interest was piqued to find out exactly what they meant.

That number outside of a context may mean nothing — but it was actually the second highest rate in the country that year (losing out on the dubious honor to Florida).

Since it is difficult to understand what exactly is meant by Holistic Management ® in this context, and there is no scientific literature that we are aware of that supports a significant net gain of soil carbon across environments in response to his method, we did not attempt to assess what a realistic global number might be.

In the context of loss of permafrost and ice mass, delegates discussed whether to refer to changes as «significant,» with a statistical meaning, or «considerable,» to put numbers in the right contexIn the context of loss of permafrost and ice mass, delegates discussed whether to refer to changes as «significant,» with a statistical meaning, or «considerable,» to put numbers in the right contexin the right context.

Out of context, phrases can be twisted to mean any number of things — especially if they were written as private correspondence with colleagues, rather than with public communication in mind.

While it takes many months after a claims year for the numbers to stabilize, this is certainly good news, though what it means in the broader context remains an open question.

(p. 128) He touches on the work of a number of philosophers focusing on what he calls a «post-Cartesian juncture» (p. 32) and explores the difficult task of uncovering meaning in a contemporary context where «signifiers may refer to other signifiers ad infinitum with no necessary correlation to a signified.»

That number outside of a context may mean nothing — but it was actually the second highest rate in the country that year (losing out on the dubious honor to Florida).