Sentences with phrase «usual definition»

Pregnancy, however, falls comfortably into none of the usual definitions of disease: it is not a state inimical to the way one is supposed to feel; it is not a condition in which body components and systems are acting inharmoniously (to the contrary, infertility would more likely fall within that definition); it is not a state of abnormality — for the pregnant woman functions satisfactorily within society, and the social and physical environment tolerates the pregnant woman perfectly.

Yet Lincoln's words and conduct as war leader and definer of the conflict runs against the usual definition of the American character.

Of course the usual definition is cash frow from operations less capital maintenance expenditures.

But if the market is down 20 % from its peak — the usual definition of a bear market — that's when you might consider catching up with a loan of $ 20,000, $ 30,000, perhaps even more.

Organized by Mark D. Mitchell, a curator at the Yale University Art Gallery, the exhibition somewhat stretches the usual definition of the genre.

It goes without saying that this is not the usual definition of climate sensitivity.

After all, unless you make your own furniture, it is all prefabricated under the usual definition.

In terms of the usual definition of KE (for which the average KE of a molecule = (3/2) kT), the straightforward result of applying the Virial Theorem to a homogeneous gravitational field is: (2/3)[KE] = [PE], as I have demonstrated previously (and also I have updated the text to recover a Word version, in the last few days).

Geoengineering modelling is strange that way, because there are multiple definitions of «control run»: a non-geoengineered climate that is allowed to warm unabated, as well as preindustrial conditions (the usual definition in climate modelling).

In Norway, the director general of taxation, Hans Christian Holte, said the currency «doesn't fall under the usual definition of money.»