In 1826 Thomas Seebeck discovered thermo-electricity, and six years subsequently Peltier made an observation which comes with singular felicity to our aid in determining the material used up in the formation of the thermo-electric current.
I hearkened to the summons, taking the liberty, however, of determining for myself the direction which effort was to take.
Radiant heat may indeed be employed as a means of determining practically the amount of carbonic acid expired from the lungs.
There are other methods of determiningthe velocities of the ions, but as these depend on the theory of the conduction of electricity through a gas containing charged ions, we shall consider them in our discussion of that theory.
Thus, with the discharge for an arc of given length and current, the nature of the terminals is the most important factor in determining the potential difference.
Another method of determining the charge carried by an ion has been employed by Rutherford (Proc.
Perhaps the simplest of these consists in determining the relation between the current passing between two parallel plates immersed in ionized gas and the potential difference between the plates.
All suits are tried before a judge and a jury, the jury determining the facts in the case and the judge applying the law.
But in determining the meaning of certain laws and of constitutional provisions they may determine what the law is, and thus they may be said to make law indirectly.
The whole time system was, of course, a mingling of time as it had been known to their remote, surface-dwelling ancestors, and the peculiar determining factors in the vast cavern.
Whether a bond, legally executed, shall be paid, does not depend upon determining whether the payer is fondest of boiled mutton or roast beef.
The views which I had formed, for determining the fate and affording assistance to Clemenza, were recalled.
The means of determining this question are found in the authentic tables published from time to time in Reports of the Treasury, and especially in the report to Congress at this session, which I have in my hand.
If a State has no Legislature, it cannot be counted in determining this quorum, as it is not counted in determining the quorum of either House of Congress, where precisely the same question occurs.
Such an edition ought to be useful in determining the text, for there must be numerous manuscripts in the Paris libraries.
Being without a Legislature, it cannot be counted in determining the quorum.
The census of the United States and of the British provinces shows an increase of population which must not be disregarded in determining the origin of this increase of commerce.
For in those letters were contained almost all the objections that a sensitive mind and heart had had to grapple with before determining on the course to which the Rector of Upcote was now committed.
I was annoyed at my servant having friends in at that hour, and in the room next mine, and determining to have it out with him in the morning, I fell asleep.
There was something about her so intensely sinister that he felt chilled; but, determining to find out who she was, he followed her, and catching her up, demanded her name.
But if the nature of the site is such as to forbid this, then the principle of determining the quarter should be changed, so that the widest possible view of the city may be had from the sanctuaries of the gods.
For the doorways of temples and their casings the rules are as follows, first determining of what style they are to be.
But who will venture to affirm that foreknowledge is a determining cause?
What should drive us upon determining whether faith or repentance goes first?
Is it not sufficient for us to declare that both are necessary, without determining the nice point of priority and posterority?
The Scripture sufficiently discovers those restrictions and rules, which God himself has prescribed and laid down, for directing and determining of his people's procedure about the erection of magistrates.
Habit plays its part in determining the boundaries in a rough and ready manner, but the congenital basis, which is to be found in the behaviour adapted to a particular environment, is an important factor in the situation.
Let us see how this may have operated in determining the limits of the area acquired, and for this purpose let us suppose that we are observing a male Reed-Bunting recently established in some secluded piece of marsh land.
The abundance of aquatic invertebrates may be more important than nesting cavities in determining distribution (Johnsgard 1975).
They received the most gracious reception at Carlton House, but they incurred the implacable enmity of William Pitt, and created a second determining cause in his mind in favour of an early legislative union.
The morning after the arrival of these stores, King Richard again set forward for Dublin, determining to penetrate Wicklow by the valleys that lead from the Meeting of the Waters to Bray.
Great importance was attached to the intelligence and good faith of the guides, who accompanied every army, and were personally consulted by the leaders in determining their march.
No definite commercial treaty between the two kingdoms was entered into until the Union, and there can be little doubt that the miscarriage of the Convention of 1785 was one of the determiningcauses of that Union.
This, my third visit, is for the purpose of determining if Lenora is well enough to accompany me to our home in Dakota.
Positive Philosophy maintains that within the existing order of the universe, or rather of the part of it known to us, the direct determining cause of every phaenomenon is not supernatural but natural.
Practically, the popular character and the social state determine what ideas shall be current; instead of the current ideas determining the social state and the character.
The simplest way of determining what elements make up the different nutrients is by heating them and studying the products of decomposition, as follows: To show that Carbohydrates contain Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen.
Much experimenting has been done with a view to determining these proportions, but the results so far are not entirely satisfactory.
For this reason it is important to carefully test the eyes in determining the cause of nervousness (page 385).
The chief problem in the study of sight is that of determining how light waves enable us to become conscious of objects.
This expansion, known as the "pulse," is the chief means employed by the physician in determining the force and rapidity of the heart’s action.
Many experiments have been performed with a view to determining whether the entire cerebrum is concerned in each of its several activities or whether special functions belong to its different parts.
We must begin by glancing briefly at some of the general determining changes and conditions to which reference has just been made, and we may naturally begin with the merely material ones.
Judging is, as it were, balancing an account, and determining on which side the odds lie.
This is the great motive that works on the mind to put it upon action, which for shortness' sake we will call determining of the will, which I shall more at large explain.
But we being in this world beset with sundry uneasinesses, distracted with different desires, the next inquiry naturally will be,--Which of them has the precedency in determining the will to the next action?
This noise which I attribute as a firecracker, when this occurred and I am in the process of determining where it comes because I am sure it came off my right rear somewhere; the voice broke in right then.
Was the failure to get his passport a determining factor in their not accepting his desires?
The elevation of the State over other portions of the great valley south of it adds something probably in determining the outline of the Iowa basin of precipitation.
These mountains have a determining influence on the climate, both of the coast and of that in the interior.
Since these matters are of vital character in determining the salubrity of the climate of this State, we append the following table, both for the purpose of comparison with other places and definiteness concerning this.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "determining" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
