Mean minimum temperatures of about, and somewhat below, freezing occur in the northern portion of the district, and in the more continental localities minima a good deal lower have been observed.
The minima are also unsymmetrically developed, and the so-called "dry seasons" are seldom wholly rainless.
Within a few degrees of the equator, and when not interfered with by other controls, the annual curve of temperature has two maxima following the two zenithal positions of the sun, and two minima at about the time of the solstices.
This rainfall type with double maxima and minima has been called the equatorial type, and is illustrated in the following curves for South Africa and Quito (fig.
Thus far no minima as low as those of north-eastern Siberia have been recorded in the Arctic.
At the equator, where the day is always twelve hours long, there are two maxima of insolation at the equinoxes, when the sun is vertical at noon, and two minima at the solstices when the sun is farthest off the equator.
Towards the margins of the zone, however, the minima on the continents fall to or even below 32 deg.
The Siberian cold pole becomes a maximum of temperature during the summer, but the Greenland and polar minima remain throughout the year.
Pars minima est ipsa puella sui=--The girl herself is the least part of herself.
Pars minima sui=--The smallest part of himself 50 or itself.
Linguam compescere, virtus non minima est=--To restrain the tongue is not the least of the virtues.
He was a teacher of science in Delhi College, and the work to which De Morgan refers is A Treatise on problems of Maxima and Minima solved by Algebra, which appeared at Calcutta in 1850.
Pascal relates that de Beaugrand sent all of Roberval's theorems on the cycloid and Fermat's on maxima and minima to Galileo in 1638, pretending that they were his own.
This class of functions includes all those which have a finite number of maxima and minima in a finite-interval, and some which have an infinite number.
The breezes of early night have died away into a cold and frosty calm; the thermometer sinks to its lowest point, and even the barometer, as though in sympathy, reaches one of its diurnal minima at this untimely hour.
Hence we are able to draw up the two following Tables, which will suffice to give all the minima conveniently observable during the next two years.
August 27; and there are no other conveniently observable minima during the fortnight in question.
It will be found easy to watch the variations of this singular object, though, of course, many of the minimaare attained in the daytime.
The canyon of the Patia through the Western Cordillera is known as the "Minima gorge," and has been cut to a depth of 1676 ft.
The general formula gives the position of the maxima and minima for any distances whatever of the luminous point from the screen, and from the screen to the micrometer, when the length of the undulation of the light employed is known.
The values of V for the maxima and minima of intensity, and the magnitudes of the latter, were calculated by Fresnel.
It is hence apparent that the investigation of relative maxima and minima is constantly and necessarily more complicated than that of absolute maxima and minima.
These investigations must, in fact, be divided into two general classes, according as the maxima and minima demanded are absolute or relative, to employ the abridged expressions of geometers.
In singulisque rebus: the word rebus must mean subjects, not things, to which the words in minima dispertiunt would hardly apply.
Mean difference of temperature between Terai and Calcutta, from 31 observations in March, as above, excluding minima Terai--6.
The maxima andminima of the other colours fall between these extremes.
The maxima and minima of violet light must therefore fall nearer to the centre than the maxima and minima of red light.
As I went into the ticket-office, Minima caught me by the dress and whispered earnestly into my ear.
Martin, I almost wish our little Minima were with us.
He was the little son of Jean, our driver, and the sacristan of the church; and his father had brought him into the ward the evening of the day after Minima had been taken ill.
For a moment I fancied that Minima and I had passed the night under the shelter of the solitary image, which we had left alone in the dark and rainy evening.
John sat by holdingMinima in his arm, though she was gazing wistfully across to Martin and me.
I helped Minima to undress, and tucked her up in bed, trying not to see the thin little face and sharp eyes which wanted to meet mine, and look into them.
Minima was so much worse that night, that Monsieur Laurentie gave me permission to sit up with Mademoiselle Thérèse, to watch beside her.
It was probably these lamentations of Minima which made me sometimes look forward with dread to the time when this season of my life should be ended.
Mademoiselle Thérèse was making up the bed with homespun linen, scented with rosemary and lavender, and the curé laid Minima down upon it with all the skill of a woman.
Minima and Mademoiselle Thérèse were my only companions.
John tookMinima beside him, chattering with her as the child loved to chatter.
Toleration of Thermal Maxima and Minima The foregoing remarks on basking indicate the approximate, normal, thermal tolerances of ornate box turtles.
The diurnal variation of the barometer is the name given to a slight double oscillation of pressure, with two maxima and two minima occurring during the 24 hours.
Contains brief accounts of individual hot and cold waves, hurricanes, blizzards and tornadoes, and gives specific data concerning maxima and minima of temperature, precipitation, etc.
He also gave in his Fluxions, for the first time, the correct theory for distinguishing between maxima and minima in general, and pointed out the importance of the distinction in the theory of the multiple points of curves.
At St Helena there are two similar minima in May and September, while a third apparently exists in December.
Not infrequently the mean departure gives the better idea of the importance of an inequality, especially when as in the present case two maxima and minima occur in the day.
Even in central Europe, the magnetic curves for individual days of an ordinary month often differ widely amongst themselves, and show maxima and minima at different times of the day.
Batavia and Greenwich agree in showing maximum frequency of beginnings about the time of minimum frequency of endings and conversely; but the hours at which the respective maxima and minima occur at the two places differ rather notably.
Today, as is shown in Earth and Sun, a difference of perhaps 10 per cent in the average storminess during periods of sunspot maxima and minima is correlated with a difference of 3 deg.
It is almost certain, however, that the most that these would do would be to raise, but not obliterate, the minima on either side of the main maximum.
If the conditions which now prevail at times of sunspot minima were magnified, they would give the mild conditions of inter-glacial epochs and similar periods.
Minima of solubility have also been found in other cases.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minima" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
