What's the difference between bowsprit and martingale?

Bowsprit


Definition:

  • (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.