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This might appear to be a bad question to some but i can't figure out the answer. While reading about an electric circuit, i found this on the web: Over the course of time, one could think of positive charges moving from the positive plate through the charge pipe (wire) to the negative plate. That is, positive charge w... | 1 |
Very soft question I admit, but it's something that's been bothering me for a while. I've been thinking that being self taught has the problem of accreditation. You can't evaluate a mathematician in a vacuum. You need an accredited mathematician to decide whether or not someone else is also a mathematician worthy of ac... | 1 |
In English, a vector is said to have two properties: a length and a direction. The possible directions correspond to half-lines out of the origin (so that, eg, up and down are different directions). In many other languages, a vector is said to have three properties: directions correspond to lines (so that a vector poin... | 1 |
I saw on wikipedia that the shape of a raindrop is explained by using Laplace pressure. But why? Since the drop is in motion, we shouldn't be able to use an hydrostatic law, am I wrong? The bigger a drop of mercury is, the lesser spherical its shape is. Ideally, if we consider only the surface tension, the drop should ... | 1 |
I was pondering about EM Waves and fields and felt that there is an inconsistency in the physical picture of EM waves that I have in my mind. For example let us consider a charge at rest . Now lets say we want to test the electric field due to this charge Q at a point P. So to do this we need to place another charge at... | 1 |
After a period in a .tex file, within a paragraph, should I use a space or a new line? I.e. like this: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec rhoncus vestibulum metus ut suscipit. Sed suscipit sem ligula, iaculis dignissim turpis ultricies vitae. Curabitur interdum lorem fermentum tellus blandit... | 1 |
'George hasn't turned up,' said Nick. 'A nuisance his having to go back to Plymouth last night. He'll get over this evening sometime or other, I expect. In time for the dance anyway. I've got a man for Maggie. Presentable, if not passionately interesting.' A faint roaring sound drifted in through the window. 'Oh! curse... | 1 |
Can anyone explain the essential difference between situations where nouns are used in a general sense and where they are used to indicate a specific type or instance of something? Specifically, I want to understand when to use a definite article and when to use no article at all. Murphy (fourth edition) give as an exa... | 1 |
I've just gone through every google search I can think of without success. Is there an archive, database, list, or other compilation of LaTeX style files? I've found plenty of style files specific to certain journals or conferences, but are there any 'generic' themes out there? I'd like to make my document look a littl... | 1 |
This is a phonetics question. I am teaching English as a Second Language. In phonetics, we all know the "i" in "think" is a "short i" sound. Additionally, the "i" in "bit" is a "short i" sound. However, when many of my students pronounce "think", "link", "stink", and so on - they pronounce the "i" in those words in an ... | 1 |
We know that neutrino eigenstates are not mass eigenstate and this therefore produces neutrino oscillations. This is, however, deduced from the fact that the neutrino of one flavor produces the corresponding partner lepton of the same flavor (electron neutrino only produces electrons, etc.). My question is : how do we ... | 1 |
"You just won the lottery? Chapeau!" This is the first time I have seen such usage in English. Literally 'Chapeau' means 'hat', but the intention (that I get from the internet) is something like 'My hat is off to you' or 'Hats off!' or 'Congratulations!' or 'Mad props!' or 'Good for you' or 'Cheers'. The primary questi... | 1 |
A different question about truly spherical objects in nature (Do spheres exist in nature?) made me think of a lecture I had been at where, as I recall, it was mentioned that the most perfectly spherical object in nature is in fact (the event horizon of) a black hole. In the comments of the aforementioned question, I wa... | 1 |
Does speed of pressurized gas escaping through a narrow nozzle into vacuum depend on the pressure? I've asked a question on Space.SE regarding utilizing gas at extreme pressures for propulsion. My idea was that the higher the pressure of the gas, the higher specific impulse would be achieved, because it would increase ... | 1 |
Heat can be evolved or absorbed when two dissimilar liquids are mixed together at constant temperature and pressure. This is called the heat of mixing of the mixture. I'm trying to understand the molecular "picture" associated with this process. Here is my current attempt: Initially, there are two pure substances each ... | 1 |
If we have a perfect Schwarzschild black hole (uncharged and stationary), and we "perturb" the black hole by dropping in a some small object. For simplicity "dropping" means sending the object on straight inward trajectory near the speed of light. Clearly the falling object will cause some small (time dependent) curvat... | 1 |
Recently I was told of a job offer to analyse astronomical data. The job offer states that they want somebody with knowledge of astronomical data analysis software and it will be a plus somebody who has experience with programming languages, giving as examples: IDL and Fortran. My first question is: Is Matlab a good pr... | 1 |
As an example of someone who has discovered maths at a later point in my life than average, and who has (perhaps unusually?) proven the point that it is perfectly possible to study undergraduate mathematics with almost no prerequisites, I am now having to accept that fluency in mathematical techniques is in the end ext... | 1 |
Consider these two sentences, one with a contraction, one without: I didn't check my voicemail. I did not check my voicemail. didn't is expanded to did not. Now consider: Why didn't you check your voicemail? If you want to write this without a contraction, you must write it as: Why did you not check your voicemail? The... | 1 |
So I was trying to figure out the reason why my old (and probably sufficiently damaged) needle on my phonograph (turntable) was not working like it was a little while ago. With my headphones on, I was playing around with it and happened to touch two of the leads on the underbody of the needle. All of a sudden, a man's ... | 1 |
In Texmaker, I like using the shortcut to enter math mode. This shortcut creates two dollar signs, and allows you to immediately type text in between the two. My problem is that I would like to be able to continue typing outside of this block immediately upon finishing with my math text. I would like to, say, hit "tab"... | 1 |
Let's suppose you go to Ikea to buy a wardrobe, but you have to make sure it fits in your room. You find two that are really nice and since you like them so much you decide to buy both of them. So you measure their length, width and height (just to be sure they fit in your room). For the width you have no problem: They... | 1 |
According to the current Big Bang with inflation cosmological model? I was under the mistaken impression that there was very low volume, very high temperature/pressure, very low entropy and the Big Bang (perhaps prompted by the high pressure) resulted in an expansion of volume where energy didn't change much so tempera... | 1 |
You can obviously move a solid at a different speed along the surface of another solid, so how come the velocity of the fluid at the fluid-solid interface must be equal to that of the solid? What physical property dictates that the no-slip is valid for fluids but not solids? The Wikipedia page has the following: Partic... | 1 |
A long time ago I was thinking about how the Imperial system of measurements is arbitrary and annoying, and I decided to design the best system of units ever (I wasn't very old then). I worked on this idea occasionally for years without making any progress. When I finally got serious about it, I discovered Planck Units... | 1 |
My friend has a tendency to wear mismatched socks, because he "Can't be bothered wasting time matching them, so he just pairs them up at random". One day I noticed he was wearing matching socks, which was apparently not on purpose. This got me thinking, if you have N different pairs of socks and you start matching them... | 1 |
I'm currently writing a simulation in python with scipy and matplotlib to reproduce an one dimensional driven diffusive system described in this paper from M.R. Evans et al. The system consists of positive, negative and hole particles. On the left side of the system the positive (negative) particles are produced on the... | 1 |
Sorry if this question is naive. It is just a curiosity that I have. Are there theoretical or experimental reasons why gravity should not be an emergent property of nature? Assume a standard model view of the world in the very small. Is it possible that gravity only applies to systems with a scale large enough to encom... | 1 |
Reading about intellectual history and the history of natural science, I have very often come across the expression to come-to-be as a synonym for to come into being, to start to exist, to originate, and so on. I also see commonly used such verbal expressions as to come to know (for to learn, to acquire knowledge of) o... | 1 |
Feynman Path Integrals are a way of calculating the wave function of quantum mechanics. It usually integrates every possible path through all of space. I wonder if there is any study of Feynman path integrals through a space with holes in it - with regions of space excluded from the integration process. More specifical... | 1 |
I think the wave function of a free electron is nonzero almost everywhere. In particular there are regions of space arbitrarily far away where the electron has positive probability of being found. If I prepare an electron in a particular position, then wait a small amount of time and then check to see if it has appeare... | 1 |
I'm working on ray tracing and I'm trying to understand the impact of the angle at which a light-path intersects the surface of a light source on the amount of light that source delivers to the path (per unit time, of course). My assumption for an ideal diffuse light source is that light rays leaving a particular point... | 1 |
Is there a game which is perfect, that is: always provides a decisive victor, and involves no component of luck Possible games which would be perfect or near-perfect might involve the pie rule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_rule For the purposes of this question, a 'decisive victor' means that there is no tie, draw... | 1 |
In an electric circuit, how does the excitation of the free electrons to higher energy levels translate into net forward motion of the electrons to the positive terminal? My concept of electrons being excited by the electric field is that they have a higher orbital but they are still localized around the nucleus of a f... | 1 |
For class I'm supposed to create a PDA state diagram that is capable of generating an infinite language with no state q such that q is reachable from the start state, there is no cycle within the diagram that starts at q and ends at q, and there is not path from q to and end state. Essentially, I'm trying to prove that... | 1 |
I have the following question, and given few proofs (provided by friends, professors, and my myself) which seem to work, I suspect the answer is yes: But I am still not completely sure. The question is: (A): "For any given value x, are there uncountably many (countably infinite) binary sequences (ones and zeroes) whose... | 1 |
I am struggling with the concept of tension in a rope. Below specific questions. I am understanding tension to be an elastic force between rope molecules. If so, is it fair to say the net tension on each rope molecule is zero (if rope is in rest) but there is a net tension for the rope whose direction is opposite to ap... | 1 |
Here is an old but interesting task from a math book, but I'm completely clueless: A teacher stands at the chalkboard and draws a line, starting from the left side of the board, towards the right. The line is ten centimeters long. Then he draws, without interruption, a second line with half of the length of the first l... | 1 |
I'm using LyX for writing my article. And I want to add a bibtex library to add references for it. I can do that and then add citations from that library without a problem. But the thing is, I'm writing the article and adding references as I write. I don't have a ready-made library of references beforehand. On every pa... | 1 |
I know how to use LaTeX (not an expert, but still quite some experience - wrote couple of papers and my thesis, can make TikZ pictures etc.), but I don't have the slightest idea, what XeTeX, LuaTeX, etc. are. For an invitation card I'd like to design I found this beautiful font named zapfino. But it's for XeTeX or LuaT... | 1 |
Let A and B be linearly independent subsets of a finite dimensional vector space. I want to show that if |A|>|B| then there exists an x in A s.t. B union {x} is linearly independent. My proof is ' Let |A|=n and |B|=r. Suppose B union {x} is linearly dependent for all x in A then span A is in span B. Since |B|=r , vecto... | 1 |
There're other previous questions about using a color background with fancyhdr so that you get a colored header and/or footer. However, they discuss either using a different color box for each part of the header, or working with a single part header (i.e: a header with just the center part, for example). But what if I ... | 1 |
In short, I'm hoping for some reading recommendations. I'm starting to do some work with Calabi-Yau manifolds, though my prerequisites are fairly minimal in differential geometry. I've taken a relaxed reading course on differential geometry, hopping around Spivak, and I'm taking a full course this semester. I've also t... | 1 |
Please note that I am posting this question because I'm still not sure if I understand the difference although I did a comprehensive study of a great number of answers to the "for versus to" questions. This issue turns out to be much more complicated than I expected. I chose to pick this among many and different questi... | 1 |
Consider the following sentence: I have a lot to talk about with John about his project. Since I can swap the position of the first about to make it 'I have a lot to talk with John about', then I would end up with: I have a lot to talk with John about about his project. My question is, can I consolidate the two instanc... | 1 |
I'm studying the first chapter of Hartshorne's Algebraic Geometry by myself and I found this book really hard for a beginner like me, but my advisor said to me that I had to study Algebraic Geometry by this book during my vacations. Then any part of the Hartshorne's book which I find very dry or superficial I search th... | 1 |
Notes for context: I am a native BrEng speaker. I have read "Each of these is" vs. "each of these are", How does "each" change "are" to "is"?, and What should I use between "triple" vs. "all"? and I understand the general concept of "Each of them is" and how "each" always takes the singular. Reading my daughter's bedti... | 1 |
The other day I saw this life-hack: And I was wondering how true it is. First of all, I always thought(listening to weather forecasts) that low-pressure atmosphere is what correlates with rain; although I never learned the argument behind it. Anyway, even if low atmospheric pressure correlates with storms and rain; how... | 1 |
Consider the following exchange: Alice: Did Charlotte send you that email? Bob: No, but I'm sure she'll send it eventually. In this case, there's no upper bound on the period of time in which Charlotte can send the email to Bob for his expectation to be met. Suppose I want it to be limited by some point in the past or ... | 1 |
Here's the situation: You and your spouse are talking with a third person who is of the opposite gender as yourself. e.g., my wife and I are talking with a woman named - let's call her Joan. If I'm talking to Joan about my firstborn son, I don't want to say "my son" because it may imply that he is not also my wife's so... | 1 |
The OpenStreetMap Sign Up page advises new users on its password policy: With OpenID a password is not required, but some extra tools or server [sic] may still need one. I've added [sic] immediately after the error in the middle of the sentence. When I read the sentence, I immediately thought "Which extra tools or serv... | 1 |
I was curious earlier about the use of various pronouns / possessives in English (primarily first person), so I chose a selection of them and was surprised to discover that, among other oddities, "I" has apparently undergone a rather drastic shift in use over the last century. I was wondering whether any further statis... | 1 |
Temperature is just an indication of a combined property of the masses of the molecules and their random motion. In principle, we can explain "no effective energy transfer between two conducting solid bodies in contact" via a condition in terms of the masses of the molecules and their speeds such that due to the collis... | 1 |
I always notice this weird thing and try to overcome it but cant. As shown in the image when I ride the bike by just one hand and pull the handle back say from the right side so as commonly the handle should rotate towards right and the bike should turn to right. But that doesn't happen. No matter what I do the handle ... | 1 |
What benchmarks or useful signs can be found to declassify neologisms? Obviously, inclusion in a dictionary is as likely as anything to declare a neologism a word but what happens just before that point? Note that I am not asking how long it takes to convert a neologism. I am asking if there are there any good indicati... | 1 |
I have never really found a way to comfortably comprehend the idea of time shift even though I know its not the hard part of relativity theory. In that light, can someone point out what is wrong or right about the following logic I'm thinking of here: The scenario is: There are four things in my universe: a wallclock, ... | 1 |
So a company has n available projects and k employees on the bench. Each project has a "number of hours" associated with it. Each employee has an hourly rate that the parent company gets paid gets paid if he is on a project. Not all employees can be assigned to any project i.e. each employee has a subset of the n proje... | 1 |
Imagine a situation where one sees a woman without being aware of her surroundings and concludes wrongly something about her and the group she is a part of. For example, the person sees the writings on woman's face and proceeds to conclude that the she is part of a protest group, but is soon told otherwise. Now the per... | 1 |
My problem concerns a finite set of points in a space, for example (A,B,C,D,E). The information I have on the points is the distances of separations between the points and it comes in two sets. The distance of A from all of (B,C,D,E) and the distance of B from all of (A,C,D,E). The values of these distances are impossi... | 1 |
In Russell's famous paradox ("Does the set of all sets which do not contain themselves contain itself?") he obviously makes the assumption that a set can contain itself. I do not understand how this should be possible and therefore my answer to Russell's question would simply be "No, because a set cannot contain itself... | 1 |
During my teenage years I got into arts and slowly but surely I continue to pursue different art forms (poetry, music, painting, photography, etc) but it was just recently that I got interested in mathematics. I used to hate it in high school, mostly because it was thought as formulas to memorize and the results were o... | 1 |
I understand that water boils at lower temperatures at lower pressures, but I want to know what happens when external heat is supplied to a body of water at low pressure. Suppose I have a hot object in an enclosed chamber. I then cover the hot object with water, then vacuum the air out so the pressure drops. I know tha... | 1 |
When a person is employed by a company, they are normally issued some sort of equipment or tools that they are supposed to use in a regular course of their work. If they decide to quit the job or they are laid off they will have to return the tools or equipment in proper and working condition. The tools will be inspect... | 1 |
I am a casual TeX user. Mostly I have used it to type up some reports/homeworks for class in my graduate engineering work. In the past I have used document type "article". And then kept all the defaults. I need to self publish something online. At the highest level I would like to know: How do you setup a TeX document ... | 1 |
In the definition of an algebra over a field in the wiki entry , it states that an algebra over a field is a vector space equipped with a bilinear product. Question: Does anyone know how a bilinear product is defined? Then a unital associative algebra is defined: An algebra such that the product is associative and has ... | 1 |
In ZFC, a cardinal is an isomorphism class of sets. However ZFC doesn't explicitly have classes; NBG, which is a conservative extension of ZFC does. There is no largest cardinal by Cantors Theorem There is no set of all sets - it is in fact a class. Classes do not have cardinalities, as these have been only defined for... | 1 |
Before I proceed, let me first say I have done research and understand the general idea between the two: summed up crudely reversible happens in a slower continuous manner while irreversible happens immediately due to a sudden change in conditions. Or mathematically, I suppose you could say the irreversible change isn'... | 1 |
Suppose we are considering some fluid. As I currently understand, viscosity exists because of the following: supposing we draw one infinitesimal surface on the fluid, then the fluid parcels on either side have different momentum. Since a fluid parcel is made up of a large number of molecules and its velocity is the ave... | 1 |
Not sure where else to put this as I did not see a StackExchange for legal questions. Will gladly remove if someone can suggest a more appropriate place. We are submitting a proposal in response to a government RFP. My client thinks that any and all uses of ensure, assure, or insure, (unless specifically about insuranc... | 1 |
When a horse is being registered with the country's official registry, a clerk arrives to the stable to file the necessary paperwork. This process involves writing down the owner's data, the horse's parentage, measuring height at withers, and noting down locations of the special "fingerprinting features" that are uniqu... | 1 |
Apologies to all if this has been asked before, I searched but was unable to find one similar. This is a question that has been bugging me for a while that i haven't really been able to find a suitable answer for. I am aware that the space between an atoms nucleus and its electron cloud is teeming with virtual particle... | 1 |
This question is about how the ground state is chosen in a spontaneous symmetry breaking process. Say we have a Mexican Hat potential (e.g. the one for the Higgs field) and are sitting at the unstable equilibrium in the middle. My lecturer said that then the "state would decay into" a random one of the stable equilibri... | 1 |
I am performing a simulation involving growth of bacteria. This is an agent-based simulation where the solutes (glucose, oxygen etc.) are represented as a concentration field discretised over space, and the bacteria are discrete objects in a continuous space (spherical blobs with a size, mass and position). The concent... | 1 |
I am trying to calculate an instantaneous merger of two rotating spheres into one. Two spheres each rotating around their own axis of rotation (which are generally not aligned) and moving relative to each other. Imagine two entirely inelastically colliding planets. While I can calculate their individual spin angular mo... | 1 |
My professor of algebraic function fields class gave me a paper to make a project (give the proof details, fill some gaps, etc). As my previous question here suggests, the paper he gave me is hard for me. He says if I know another paper to work, it's ok. He is very busy and he doesn't care about me and leaves me to fin... | 1 |
I came across this question on Yahoo! Answers: Should M-theory read, M-hypothesis? It being limited evidence for further investigation, perhaps not yet a theory. I responded thus: (I realise the words "use" and "usage" are.. ahem.. overused. Please disregard this stylistic concern.) I believe this use of the word "theo... | 1 |
If you're at the wrong place at the wrong time, is this actually a bad thing? Don't the two negatives words result in a positive meaning? For instance, being at the wrong place at the right time wouldn't be good, and being at the right place at the wrong time, that too would have a negative result. As I see it, being a... | 1 |
What does it mean when a denomination or theological tradition is described to be "pietistic"? The definitions of Merriam-Webster for "pietistic" mean: of or relating to Pietism a : of or relating to religious devotion or devout persons b : marked by overly sentimental or emotional devotion to religion : RELIGIOSE I do... | 1 |
This is what I'm trying to express [Foo] can be simplifiedly characterised as [bar]. However I am unable to find references for such as word as simplifiedly. What I want to say is that the following characterisation as [bar] is to be understood as being simplified for the sake of explaining [Foo] in the first place. Ho... | 1 |
I am looking for a word or term that means something like: you are using previous results outside boundaries of the original experiment/observation earlier experience/results does not apply in all other cases you are extrapolating findings beyond original context those specific test results don't apply to every case th... | 1 |
There are a couple of idioms whose meaning is from time to time or occasionally. Every so often (Every) once in a while (Every) now and then/again Every actually is a determiner (or, broadly speaking, an adjective) specifying a noun or noun phrase and means that everybody or everything of the referred group is addresse... | 1 |
I have a list of events. A few of them may be cancelled or they may be "moved" to another date. The latter are usually postponed but not necessarily. For cancelled events I add the state "Cancelled". What is the best word (or short phrase) to describe a date change of an event? Is it "Rescheduled"? I saw some answers h... | 1 |
I am writing a dissertation and I have a two collections of data from my research which I would like to compare using graphs. I have the values for abscissa and ordinate and I am looking for some sort of tool into which I can input the values I have and which will plot and trace the graph so I can show the variations i... | 1 |
I have always thought that colons were used to clarify, expand, provide evidence for the preceding sentence, or show an example. I have heard that this is not true. (Truly, it is a shame if it is so: colons are my favorite punctuation.) Which of the following sentences uses the colon correctly: There are three children... | 1 |
I am a user of LaTeX for about two years and I can see that almost every package which exists for TeX is free and these packages are maintained perfectly; packages are updated regularly and new packages or classes are developed when needed. Why people do such volunteer work? How do they benefit from the time they spend... | 1 |
As space-time is distorted in a gravitational field, relativistic effects such as time dilation and length contraction take effect. Time dilation is explained simply enough: closer to the source of gravity, slower the time passage. However, space contraction gives no such clear answer. for example, a single thread on t... | 1 |
Will a machine or a technique ever be possible that allows artificial gravity in interplanetary space? And I ask out of pure curiosity. I know there is the "Vomit Comet" that allows for a non-gravity 'simulation' (for lack of a better word) on Earth, and I was thinking about if there would be a way to reverse that and ... | 1 |
I found some theoretical questions in an old test of my school, and would like some help with the ones I cant answer: It is said that the electric field is an intermediary of the electric interaction. What does this mean? Why the participation of this intermediate is necessary and can not establish direct interaction b... | 1 |
I realised, reading another Phys.SE question about balloons moving forwards in an accelerating car that I don't really understand how buoyancy works. Particularly concerning, for a SCUBA diver. The top answers to that question seem to claim that balloons get their "sense of down" from a pressure differential. They cont... | 1 |
I have a LaTeX document that works fine, but it does give a warning message every time I compile it. Here is the text of the warning message: LaTeX Warning: Label `' multiply defined. The name of the label that is multiply defined appears to be an empty string. I am confused about this, but I have had trouble searching... | 1 |
I was reading Surtees' Young Tom Hall the other day, and came across this... Sir Thomas, whose father had been a great army tailor, was a Dublin Castle knight, but, like all truly great men, condescending withal - and no feast or fete, or wedding, or christening, in Fleecyborough, or within a radius of three miles, was... | 1 |
In the U.S. when someone orders a 'well drink' they are typically intending to order a drink (i.e. "vodka tonic, well") with the cheapest of the liquor the bar has available Where did the "well" come from? It is distinct from what is called a "call drink", which is when the customer specifies the brand (i.e. Stoli toni... | 1 |
There are a few other topics I found that explore this idea from a different perspective: Is randomness deterministic? Can randomness exist? Is the universe fundamentally deterministic? My question is on similar lines but from the perspective of complexity and within the framework of classical mechanics. It would seem ... | 1 |
Consider these sentences: If you haven't got a fresh chicken, I'll take a frozen. If you haven't got a fresh chicken, I'll take the frozen. If you haven't got fresh cream, I'll take canned. If you haven't got (any) fresh cream, I'll take some canned. If you haven't got fresh cream, I'll take the canned. As you see, fro... | 1 |
I am writing a document which will contain many small (approximately a page) snippets of text, potentially organized in sections or subsections. To each such section, I would like to attach several "tags" from a predefined list. At a different place in the document, I would like to make a list of all tags and the secti... | 1 |
Suppose, sometime in the future I develop an experimental superweapon capable of blowing up the entire Moon. If I used it to break the Moon into multiple pieces of varying sizes, we would then have giant chunks of Moon rocks floating around. We all know the Moon is drifting away from us at a constant rate. But now, rat... | 1 |
I am always surprised by the subtleties that are embedded in the wave/particle dualism. That is why I read again and again the paragraph in the Dirac's classical text dealing with the single photon interference. Here, it is clearly stated that any measurement of the kick-off of a mirror would cause the photon wave func... | 1 |
First of all, English is my foreign language. I've never thought of this until the release of the film Dr. Strange the supreme sorcerer. My co-worker argued that Dr. means Doctor (as a job), while I translate it to Dr (as a title, like Master, bachelor, doctor). I think Dr is, of course, short for Doctor, which can be ... | 1 |
The class of words called 'words of comparison' includes words such as 'higher' and 'highest'. The words 'higher' and 'highest' express comparative height. The term for the class of words that includes 'higher' is 'the comparative'. The term for the class of words that includes 'highest' is 'the superlative'. Is there ... | 1 |
Is there an adjective that can express the concept of a law that supersedes other laws? I would prefer a single adjective that has legal connotations, although a present participle will suffice. The phrases supreme law and overruling law approximate this concept, but supreme merely seems to indicate significance, and o... | 1 |
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