octant


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a measuring instrument for measuring angles to a celestial body

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Buyer advisor: Houlihan Lokey , Credit Suisse Securities , Octant Partners , Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy
Roland Cortez before the NBI concerning the construction of the Pavilion 6-Extension which was awarded to Octant Builders in 2017.
Cortez, in the complaint, said Avila, who oversees engineering works in the NCMH, was supposedly an incorporator of Octant.
The scatterplots of the velocity perturbation components in three mutually perpendicular planes indicate that the majority of the fragments headed in one octant of space in the forward, leftward and downward directions, which is consistent with an explosion of propellant tank in the 'Clam model'.
This is a reflex of the symmetries forced upon those models by construction; in WFS a maximal CP phase implies [[theta].sub.23] = [pi]/4, and the smaller the CP violation is, the farther away from [pi]/4 the atmospheric angle is, while in BMV a maximal CP phase implies a Lower Octant atmospheric mixing and it cannot fit a [absolute value of ([[theta].sub.23] - [pi]/4)] > 0.02[pi].
Octrees are highly memory efficient; they consist of an octant which can be divided into eight leaf nodes.
As a man of the Enlightenment and unencumbered by classical whimsy, he named most of his new constellations after, as he put it, "principal figures of the arts": The Painter's Easel; the Sculptor's Workshop; Microscopium and Telescopium; Reticulum, the celestial apotheosis of his little refractor's measuring reticle; Octans, the Octant; Fornax, the Chemist's Furnace; and so on.
By breaking the surface into eight octant petals in two florets, he develops a unique projection that had by far the most isometric mapping geometry to that date (although at the cost of a set of crosscuts that split some of the continents).
The 32 items are arranged in eight 4-item "octant scales" that factor analysis suggests provide a close representation of the two-dimensional interpersonal circumplex, with its underlying orthogonal Affiliation and Dominance scales.
From the point of view to satisfy more moment conditions for integration accuracy, the even-odd moment quadrature sets (E[O.sub.N]) have the ability to accurately integrate not only even moments but also odd moments of direction cosines in one octant [12].
Taking into account the full three-plane symmetry, one octant of the body limited by positive values of Cartesian coordinate planes x [greater than or equal to] 0, y [greater than or equal to] 0, z [greater than or equal to] 0 will be considered numerically.
1-6): "Alatina with tall, narrow bell, flared at base, tapering into truncated pyramid at apex; 4 crescentric gastric phacellae at interradial corners of stomach; 3 simple to palmate branching velarial canals per octant, each with a velarial lappet bearing a row of 3 to 4 nematocyst warts; 4 long, wing-like (sensu Reynaud, 1830) pedalia, each with a pink tentacle.
Assume that O be the origin of the x, y, z axes, T be the trisector line x = y = z of the positive octant. Also, let L be the plane x + y + z = 0 passing through the origin O and perpendicular to T.
QI HAVE a four-ring York stone octant in my back garden but the slabs are covered in algae.
I have a four-ring Yorkstone octant surrounded with Astroturf in my garden.