(n.) An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.
(n.) A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet.
(n.) Miraculous power of transmuting something common into something precious.
Example Sentences:
(1) The surface channelling effect has been observed in GaAs (110) with REELS, which may provide a basis for localizing surface foreign atoms with ALCHEMI.
(2) Coûteaux, who eventually fell out with both Le Pen and Philippot, described their meeting as pure alchemy.
(3) A drug of longevity, prior to alchemy, was peach, from which the god of longevity has emerged.
(4) But as many coaches have learned before, managing that alchemy within MLS and its rolling state of exception, involves an almost parodic version of standard managerial practices.
(5) They know about alchemy in Aswan, for it is a place that has always shifted from one thing into another.
(6) Johnson, holding the press conference in the Foreign Office, said: “We can spend an awfully long time going over lots of stuff that I’ve written over the last 30 years … All of which, in my view, have been taken out of context, through what alchemy I do not know – somehow misconstrued that it would really take me too long to engage in a full global itinerary of apology to all concerned.
(7) The alchemy is, as we have seen, extraordinarily powerful.
(8) Greek alchemy, the earliest record of which dated about 200 A.D., presents a similar version, was originally Chinese and was introduced by the Arabs who brought herbal drugs of longevity to Alexandria.
(9) With gorgeously savoury ribs, a rib-sticking Italian soup, and a creamy Keralan fish curry on the menu, it was particularly tough to pick a favourite, but for sheer alchemy, James Connery's magically melting ox cheek ragu took some beating.
(10) In China the development of alchemy has been ruled by two theories: first, as like makes like, a perennial plant can make human life perennial: likewise, certain substances can prolong human life as they are rich in Life-force or Soul-content.
(11) This glorious reverse alchemy was at play outside Buckingham Palace today, as Gordon Brown made his historic – and historically uneventful – journey to see Her Majesty.
(12) Jon Moulton, founder, Alchemy Partners "An iceberg is definitely awaiting a victim - one day.
(13) Koolhaas describes the elevator as “the product of technological alchemy: a fusion of several boring existing innovations which had a dramatic impact on the shape of our cities and the shape of our bodies alike”.
(14) "Those plans are being worked through right now – the alchemy of that will be very exciting."
(15) There is another theory that Alchemy arose in China.
(16) The theory generally accepted maintains that Alchemy arose at Alexandria as a child of Greek culture.
(17) Few have pulled off this alchemy quite as effectively as Angelina Jolie and William Hague in their joint campaign for international action against mass rape in conflicts.
(18) And we’ve got more weapons of our own: Solidarity, Wit, the remarkable alchemy that is Nonviolence.
(19) The Radio 1 and BBC Asian Network DJ Nihal has curated the event as part of the centre's Alchemy festival , which celebrates art from the Indian subcontinent.
(20) The Europeans must do more to share their military capabilities – co-operating more effectively rather than cutting across the board or, as he put it, indulging "in some reductionist alchemy which leaves everyone doing less of the same".
Algorithm
Definition:
(n.) The art of calculating by nine figures and zero.
(n.) The art of calculating with any species of notation; as, the algorithms of fractions, proportions, surds, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this paper we present a robust algorithm to determine automatically contours with elliptical shapes.
(2) The methodology, in algorithm form, should assist health planners in developing objectives and actions related to the occurrence of selected health status indicators and should be amenable to health care interventions.
(3) The second algorithm finds all subsequence alignments between the pattern and the test with at most k differences.
(4) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
(5) We present the analysis both formally and in geometric terms and show how it leads to a general algorithm for the optimization of NMR excitation schemes.
(6) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
(7) We are now conducting prospective clinical trials with one service using the algorithm and the others acting as the control group.
(8) Classic technics of digital image analysis and new algorithms were used to improve the contrast on the full image or a portion of it, contrast a skin lesion with statistical information deduced from another lesion, evaluate the shape of the lesion, the roughness of the surface, and the transition region from the lesion to the normal skin, and analyze a lesion from the chromatic point of view.
(9) With the algorithm, conserved regions of one sequence are located by doing pairwise comparisons with other sequences, which is advantageous in planning site-directed mutagenesis studies.
(10) In this article we analyze the nature of the correspondence computation and derive a cooperative algorithm that implements it.
(11) An algorithm for the treatment of cryptococcosis complicating AIDS may shorten the duration of primary intravenous AB therapy.
(12) On the basis of this limited experience, we conclude that the use of such objective standards, in a computer-operated algorithm, is more accurate than routine radiographic assessment.
(13) [In therapy] I gradually came to the view that there isn't an algorithm for these things and that even if there was, what would be the point?
(14) The signals were processed digitally using three different algorithms: 1) simple linear regression (LR); 2) linear regression with drift correction achieved by adding to, or subtracting from the plethysmographic signal a term proportional to time (LRC); 3) Fourier analysis (FFT).
(15) We used a published algorithm to assess the suspected reactions for drug causation with the following results: 40 (14%) unlikely; 193 (66%) possible; 56 (19%) probable; and 3 (1%) definite.
(16) Thus the anomalous behaviour of the ICA1 and the Nova 8 was due to a discrepancy between the standard built-in algorithm and the characteristics of our serum pools.
(17) The algorithms involved are simple and a microprocessor-based automatic PCG analysis system using the proposed technique is being contemplated.
(18) To eliminate pacing stimulus afterpotential and detect an evoked response, a hardware feedback circuit and a software template matching algorithm were used to produce a triphasic charge-balanced pacing pulse.
(19) Our results show that although kriging is a statistically optimal method, it is not markedly better than simpler interpolation algorithms, though it is considerably more complex to use.
(20) The algorithm is an improvement over the sphere model in that it considers two distinct surfaces: an ellipsoid, to model the region of the skull on which the sensors are placed, and a sphere as the medium in which the current dipole model is considered.