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21Displacement–length ratio — The displacement–length ratio (DLR or D/L ratio) is a calculation used to express how heavy a boat is relative to its waterline length. (Rousmaniere, 1999) A DLR is calculated by dividing a boat s displacement in long tons (2,240 pounds) by one… …
22Orders of magnitude (length) — Contents 1 Detailed list 1.1 Subatomic 1.2 Atomic to cellular 1.3 Human scale 1.4 …
23Minimum description length — The minimum description length (MDL) principle is a formalization of Occam s Razor in which the best hypothesis for a given set of data is the one that leads to the best compression of the data. MDL was introduced by Jorma Rissanen in 1978. It is …
24Instruction path length — is a term frequently used to simply describe the number of machine code instructions required to execute a section of a computer program. The total path length for the entire program could be deemed a measure of the algorithms performance on a… …
25Bjerrum length — The Bjerrum length is the separation at which the electrostatic interaction between two elementary charges is comparable in magnitude to the thermal energy scale,k B T, where k B is the Boltzmann constant and T is theabsolute temperature in… …
26arm's length — The act of dealing with a person who is not a relative but an independent third party. (Dictionary of Canadian Bankruptcy Terms) United Glossary of Bankruptcy Terms 2012 …
27alphabet length — noun : the total width of the 26 single lower case unspaced letters of the alphabet in a particular font usually given in points and used as an indicator of relative face width …
28Palmistry — Chirology redirects here. For other uses, see Fingerspelling. The Fortune Teller, by Caravaggio (1594–95; Canvas; Louvre), depicting a palm reading Palmistry or chiromancy (also spelled cheiromancy, Greek kheir (χεῖρ, ός), “hand”; manteia… …
29human development — ▪ biology Introduction the process of growth and change that takes place between birth and maturity. Human growth is far from being a simple and uniform process of becoming taller or larger. As a child (child development) gets bigger,… …
30passeriform — /pas euhr euh fawrm , peuh ser euh /, adj. of or pertaining to the order Passeriformes; passerine. [ < NL Passeriformes, equiv. to L passer sparrow + iformes IFORMES] * * * ▪ bird Introduction also called passerine or perching bird any… …
