Relations between sequences or configurations of signs and the practical experience in which they are constituted are less intuitive.
Sequences, such as successions of sounds or verbal utterances, or configurations of signs, such as drawings, testify to a higher cognitive level.
We operate on configurations or on mixed data types (that constitute multimedia).
And again, if we look for the natural causes which tend to promote or retard association, we find in climates and continental configurations the chief agencies.
Staid old Mother Earth herself has in the hoary past repeatedly changed the configurations of her continents and oceans by great cataclysms or geological crises.
In order to bring the satellites into the positions in which he will see them, our observer has only to turn the page in the Nautical Almanac showing their configurations upside down.
The double chain of great crater-plains reaching half across the center of the moon contains some of the grandest of these strange configurations of conjoined mountain, plain, and crater.
Of course, since the motions of the satellites, particularly of the inner ones, are very rapid, their positions are continually changing, and their configurations are different every night.
I have seen the state of the atmosphere almost uniformly disturbed as often as the planets are in conjunction, or in the other configurations so celebrated among astrologers.
The formations and configurations left by the successive phases of action are to be studied primarily as the vestiges of the processes that gave them birth, and hence as their historic credentials.
The subsequent articles shew, that these animal motions or configurations of our organs of sense constitute our ideas.
It has been shewn, that our ideas are configurations of the organs of sense, produced originally in consequence of the stimulus of external bodies.
If a player be puzzled by certain configurations of notes and keys as to the best fingering for them, he ought to consult a teacher, who, if a good one, will gladly help him out.
Pn' represent two configurations of the series of particles, then [Sigma](m.
In truth, the naked eye perceives the larger configurations of the lunar surface more clearly than the most powerful telescope shows the details on the disk of Mars.
The action in the free path between two given configurations is in fact not invariably a minimum, and even when a minimum it need not be the least possible subject to the given conditions.
Two configurations such as O and O' in the general statement are called conjugate kinetic foci.
The continuous sequence of configurations assumed by the system in any actual or imagined motion (subject to the given connexions) is called the path.
We now come to a series of theorems relating to the whole motion of the system between any twoconfigurations through which it passes, viz.
Such kineticconfigurations we cannot consider to be matter.
Indeed, even in the case of old age, the statement remains essentially true, for the phenomena then displayed point to a breakdown of the functioning power of the cell, an approximation to configurations incapable of assimilation.
Southwards the range went upwards to a coastal front of some hundred feet, with a huddle of peaks and strange configurations behind soaring to an elevation from the sea-line of two or three hundred feet.
If the student will trace a few of the consequences of that correspondence, and determine what configurations of circles correspond to intersecting lines, to lines in a plane, to lines of a plane pencil, to lines cutting three skew lines, etc.
The notion of geometrical transformation led also to the very important developments in the theory of invariants, which, geometrically, are the elements and configurationswhich are not affected by the transformation.
It must not be inferred that these conceptions have any essential connection with physical facts, or that other means of picturing to ourselves the infinitely distant configurations are not possible.
All three had studied charts of nebular configurations so long and so intensely that recognition of a full-sphere identity was automatic and instantaneous.
No, in that I didn't find any duplication of nebulary configurations with the stuff I had with me.
The configurations of its mountains--its land and water areas--were plainly visible.
The configurations of its mountains, its land and water areas, were plainly visible.
If the drying and polishing be not so perfect, the configurationsof Series VII.
By following out the order dictated, he will in a few nights of observation be enabled to identify the various configurations making up the several constellations that are set apart for study in that particular season.
Considering the ease with which a knowledge of the constellations can be acquired, it seems a remarkable fact that so few are conversant with these time-honored configurations of the heavens.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "configurations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
