(n.) A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward.
Example Sentences:
(1) The C ring of the vindoline moiety is in the boat conformation with the hydroxy group and the tertiary N in the bowsprit positions resulting in a fairly short intramolecular hydrogen-bonding interaction.
Martingale
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Martingal
Example Sentences:
(1) Asymptotic efficiency differences between the two martingale techniques are considered.
(2) The martingale theory can then be applied to obtain the desired results.
(3) The intensity of this process and the corresponding martingales were derived by Gómez and Van Ryzin (1987).
(4) Outlines of the necessary asymptotic theory are presented and for this we use the tools of martingale theory.
(5) In his first outing, 1962's Cover Her Face , he is dispatched to Martingale manor house in Essex to investigate the violent death of a young woman; in The Private Patient , published in 2008, he lights out for Cheverell Manor in Dorset to apply his brand of thoughtful, practical logic to a similar crime.
(6) Wright's model for the effects of random fluctuations in gene frequency in a population of fixed size is generalized to randomly fluctuating population size, and treated from the viewpoint of G. Malécot, using a martingale convergence theorem.
(7) Here two related martingale-based techniques are used to derive estimates and associated standard errors for the initial relative infection rate.
(8) Adoboli's reckless manner was like that of a "martingale" gambler, a reckless system of betting in which a loss on a position is followed up by a double-sized punt on the same outcome, on the assumption it will eventually recoup losses.