(1) He thought for a moment, stroking his well-defined jaw.

(2) Without well-defined goals, it is likely that efforts will be misdirected.

(3) Today's pawnbrokers operate within well-defined financial regulations.

(4) Scientists follow several well-defined steps in investigating unexpected outbreaks of disease.

(5) The well-defined features of the photograph had vanished, the face had swollen in death as had the exposed arms.

(6) Upon those sturdy, well-defined bones the clear, even tint seemed translucent.

(7) Without well-defined melodic periods phrases become inconclusive, merging into one another.

(8) Nor would these, together with electrons, form separate, well-defined atoms.

(9) In most cases, however, such well-defined features do not remain and only vague areas of earthworks are visible.

(10) The conventions featured a well-defined schedule of events so that the networks' coverage could be planned.

(11) Good classification should have well-defined categories into which empirical evidence can be organized.

(12) Computer Science has emerged as a well-defined discipline with a solid theoretical foundation.

(13) All we require is a well-defined concept that makes R determinate and is consistent with symmetry.

(14) They also have the well-defined approach to semantic processing and have led to theoretically clean and fairly efficient computational representations. 3.2.2.

(15) We were not expecting Mr Levy to give us a clear or well-defined answer.

(16) However, it clearly performs a much less crucial or well-defined function than is the case in the Western capitalist economies.

(17) These systems may have to be restricted to passive use based on the extraction of information in well-defined forms.

(18) It is now generally accepted that the universe evolves according to well-defined laws.

(19) The resulting system could have a huge angular momentum with a very well-defined direction.

(20) Imaginary time may sound like something out of science fiction, but it is a well-defined mathematical concept.

(21) We never write words without using punctuation to form them into well-defined sentences.

(22) Moreover, a prominent feature in the gel retardation experiments is the presence of a smear between the two well-defined bands.

(23) There are clearly people who are more talented as innovators than others but their talents lie in well-defined areas.

(24) He had dogged determination and was of undeviating rectitude, although this did not relate to any well-defined religious beliefs.

(25) These plasma cells produce a homogeneous immunoglobulin protein which stains as a well-defined peak in the gamma region.

(26) In general, we have been writing about those melodies which are complete and have a well-defined entirety.

(27) If the world had been created without the exclusion principle, quarks would not form separate, well-defined protons and neutrons.

(28) Formal organisations have an explicit hierarchy in a well- defined structure; job specifications and communication channels are also well-defined.

(29) Secondly the standard routes to chaos imply the existence of a well-defined onset of chaotic behaviour.

(30) This indicates the sandstones can be over 30 m thick and are separated by well-defined shale beds.

(1) He thought for a moment, stroking his well-defined jaw.

(2) We were not expecting Mr Levy to give us a clear or well-defined answer.

(3) Without well-defined goals, it is likely that efforts will be misdirected.

(31) This is quite different to a group portrait, which is a well-defined, discrete entity that we can adopt unilaterally.

(32) Authority is top down, and utilizes formal communication channels, usually vertical, and well-defined policies and procedures.

(33) The river basin is a well-defined spatial unit that is of great interest to hydrologists, geomorphologists and geographers.

(34) To find Dornoch you just kept sliding your finger up the well-defined northeastern coast until you crossed the Dornoch Firth.

(35) Sometimes a well-defined job becomes cluttered with self-imposed tasks.

(36) If a build keeps breaking at a particular point, for instance, you can readily identify what discipline to look to for the cause, because your process is consistent and well-defined.

(37) The wine has impressive texture, with pronounced, well-defined powdery tannins and oak totally absorbed in wash of liquorice and berried fruits.

(38) The computer is regarded as a hierarchy of levels, each one performing some well-defined functions from the device level (hardware) to the problem-oriented language level.

(39) And the temperature scale that turns out to be well-defined and ends up giving us the concept of an absolute zero is the ideal gas thermometer.

(40) In 1985, almost all projects with a well-defined Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) used the waterfall model, shown in Figure 1.

(41) One common hybrid is a matrix organization in which secondary structures overlay line management reporting (a single, well-defined organization).

(42) Designing objects visually is a great practice, but doing it without a well-defined modeling notation can do more damage than good when you attempt to communicate design decisions.

(43) This is actually a state-transition diagram in which each valid state is well-defined, and a specific activity has to be performed in order to move from one state to the next.

(44) By "open" I mean that they need to have a well-defined API that lets other tools integrate with and extend them.

(45) Less fill light is often used for dark, "low key" style portraits with well-defined shadows.

(46) After all, each stage of the design recipe yields a well-defined, checkable product.

(47) Inheritance is a coupling mechanism: it binds two entities together with well-defined rules about visibility, method dispatch, and so on.

(48) Hard-core administrators use the command-line rather than a GUI for repetitive, well-defined tasks.

(49) These are all very simple, well-defined pieces -- they can simply be spelled out as a simple list.

(50) The domain is a well-defined subject area, described using a limited set of concepts.

(51) The problem, though, is that most people picture immediately a very simple hierarchical structure with well-defined levels, such as the master-subordinate relationship.

(52) In regard to writing rubric, with well-defined scoring rubric can increasing inter-rater consistency,[] but raters test-retest reliability still influenced by personal variables.

(53) But after you've trimmed all the extras, you should be left with a very tight, well-defined functionality statement.

(54) I can take some prepackaged aspects and look at examples that show well-defined scenarios, thereby getting much of the benefit of AOP without all the risk.

(55) Arterial compliance was calculated as the integrated area starting at the well-defined nadir of the incisura of the dicrotic notch to the end of diastole of the radial artery pulse wave .

(56) Results 4 patients had clinic symptoms but the others had not. Imaging findings were multiple asymptomatic round or oval dense nodulus within bone with well-defined margins.

(57) Chinese entrepreneurs, Hundt astutely notes, are every bit the risk-takers their American counterparts are, but they act from within a well-defined social framework.

(58) This subject area has well-defined regulations for determination of drinking-water contaminant concentrations as defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

(59) We want a well-defined set of properties for each type of node.

(60) The bounce left the U.S. dollar index .DXY up at 75.655 and off 15-mth lows of 74.774, but remains within a well-defined downtrend channel that stretches back to May.

(61) Atomic force microscopic (AFM) images clearly indicate that these polymers form unimolecular spherical nanoparticles with a well-defined core-shell structure.

(62) However, this was all "under the covers"; they didn't want to let their managers know what they were doing, because iterative efforts didn't fit into the well-defined process.

(63) This requires that users of that platform have a well-defined conceptual view of the enterprise solution and its physical realization into executing components.

(64) Can you look back and see a well-defined path, or simply an aimless series of job moves with no coherent structure?

(65) This explains why atoms emit (or absorb) light of well-defined frequency. Examples: the yellow sodium street light and the neon tube.

(66) Our teas and other herbal products are formulated according to well-defined systems of Traditional Herbal Medicine (THM).

(67) A PEAR file is actually a ZIP archive file that contains the annotator code and configuration in a well-defined directory structure.

(68) A finite ordered set of well-defined rules for the solution of a problem.

(69) In this architecture, the client also benefits from the features provided by the gateway, such as a well-defined place to insert mediations, protocol translations and security protocol translations.

(70) A join point is "a well-defined point in the program flow." 3 There are many types of join points, such as a method call or a method return, which can be either a normal return or a thrown exception.

(71) Each of these parts is distinct in its own right, and when assembled together in a certain well-defined manner they become a new entity, the car.http:///well-defined.html

(72) Co-work with hardware engineer and customer to provide well-defined API to encapsulate the hardware registers operation to a hardware abstraction layer.

(73) User Guides: A language grammar can serve as a well-defined and formal way of capturing an architecture, but it is not a good teaching tool.