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71Residence Time Distribution — The residence time distribution (RTD) of a chemical reactor is a probability distribution function that describes the amount of time a fluid elements could spend inside the reactor. Chemical engineers use the RTD to characterize the mixing and… …
72Newtonian time in economics — Newtonian time describes an idea of time marked mainly by movements along a line (as either discrete or continuous units) in the same manner as space is made up of such units. This framing of time, while useful in physics, is also common in… …
73Markov chain mixing time — In probability theory, the mixing time of a Markov chain is the time until the Markov chain is close to its steady state distribution. More precisely, a fundamental result about Markov chains is that a finite state irreducible aperiodic chain has …
74Retarded time — According to Maxwell s Equations, electromagnetic waves in a vacuum travel at the speed of light, c . Since c is finite, a photon emitted when t = t0 takes a certain amount of time to reach an observer located at a distance r from the source, so… …
75Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time — [http://books.google.com/books?id=hrT xNaDkgQC printsec=frontcover Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time] (University of Chicago Press, 1992) is linguist Johanna Nichols s best known work, pioneering the use of linguistic typology as a tool for… …
76sands of time — noun time considered as a finite commodity that is gradually running out, as the sand in an hourglass …
77cosmos — /koz meuhs, mohs/, n., pl. cosmos, cosmoses for 2, 4. 1. the world or universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system. 2. a complete, orderly, harmonious system. 3. order; harmony. 4. any composite plant of the genus Cosmos, of tropical… …
78Zeno's paradoxes — Achilles and the Tortoise redirects here. For other uses, see Achilles and the Tortoise (disambiguation). Arrow paradox redirects here. For other uses, see Arrow paradox (disambiguation). Zeno s paradoxes are a set of problems generally thought… …
79Super-recursive algorithm — In computer science and computability theory, super recursive algorithms are algorithms that are more powerful, that is, compute more, than Turing machines. The term was introduced by Mark Burgin, whose book Super recursive algorithms develops… …
80Pythagoreans and Eleatics — Edward Hussey PYTHAGORAS AND THE EARLY PYTHAGOREANS Pythagoras, a native of Samos, emigrated to southern Italy around 520, and seems to have established himself in the city of Croton. There he founded a society of people sharing his beliefs and… …
