(n.) An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
(n.) A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
(n.) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thanks to the utterly useless Gordon Brown, we're apparently all going to be so broke we'll have to drive a Fiat 500.
(2) Car sales are expected to drop across the industry this year: Fiat Chrysler has canceled all of its compact and midsize sedans and American automakers are bracing for a leaner 2017 after setting records in 2016.
(3) There is talk of putting Corbynistas into some of the key positions on the national executive: that would do nothing but give a veneer of accountability to leadership fiat.
(4) Starbucks and Fiat Chrysler's tax avoidance deals to be ruled illegal Read more It comes a week after Facebook revealed it paid £4,327 corporation tax in the UK in 2014 .
(5) The tickets are only €10, yet the first prize is a brand spanking new Fiat Panda 4x4 – with all optional extras.
(6) Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Fiat Chrysler, objected to comparisons of Volkswagen and Fiat Chrysler, suggesting that conflating the two was evidence of a different kind of unlawful emission: Anyone who compares Fiat to VW “is smoking illegal material,” Marchionne told Reuters.
(7) Ultimately it depends on the funder whether they are content with the transaction, yet it is undeniably part of a music culture using a decreasing amount of fiat money, and could further casualise music-making.
(8) Stringent adherence to US money-laundering regulations (though based in Tokyo, it belonged to a US company, Mutum Sigillum LLC) meant it was significantly harder to sell bitcoins on the site (that is, converting them into a “fiat”currency such as dollars) than to buy them (swapping dollars for bitcoins).
(9) But a decade later, buffeted by oil shocks and rising industrial militancy, and weakened by strategic errors, Fiat stood on the verge of bankruptcy.
(10) In charge of brand production at Fiat, he has been in the headlines in recent months as the carmaker tries to revamp its line of models and turn around its sagging fortunes.
(11) It is clear that the Volkswagen diesel debacle prompted regulators to more closely scrutinize all diesels and obviously they noticed some issues with Fiat Chrysler.” The EPA is working in conjunction with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) on its citation of Fiat Chrysler.
(12) The ruling has sweeping implications, because documented compliance with a tax system no longer guarantees a corporation that it is safe if that system is not operating properly: both Fiat and Starbucks will now likely face bills for past underpayments.
(13) They require, unusually, the fiat of the attorney general.
(14) New diesel cars from Renault , Nissan, Hyundai, Citroen, Fiat, Volvo and other manufacturers have been found to emit substantially higher levels of pollution when tested in more realistic driving conditions, according to new data seen by the Guardian.
(15) In 1975 a worker at the car firm Fiat went to an auction of lost property organised by the Italian national railway in Turin.
(16) Newer restaurants worth checking out for an expert take on traditional ingredients include Ristorante Consorzio , while cultural attractions range from the Museo Egizio – for one of the biggest collection of Egyptian artefacts in Europe – to the converted Lingotto Fiat Factory , which featured in the Italian Job.
(17) Fiat made a valiant attempt to export cars to China, but the excursion stalled once Beijing's newly rich spotted the showrooms for Audi, BMW and Mercedes.
(18) Another critic pointed out that the mayor’s agenda lacked any mention of industry, even though Turin is the longtime home of carmakers Fiat and Alfa Romeo and is considered Italy’s industrial heartland.
(19) The European commission is investigating Luxembourg following allegations it effectively subsidised Amazon and a subsidiary of Fiat.
(20) He turned up at Kettering in his Fiat Punto, played out of position on the right of midfield and worked tirelessly.
Fitt
Definition:
(n.) See 2d Fit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subjects were interviewed using the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (Fitts, 1965), the Personal Stress Inventory, and a causal explanations questionnaire.
(2) The general conclusion drawn from the two experiments was that motor capacity, as assessed by Fitts' tapping task, is not an extremely useful measure.
(3) For experimental data generated from five Ss, (a) the distribution tended to be unimodal and more peaked than a normal distribution, (b) the skewness of the distribution was predominantly positive and (c) the standard deviation, in addition to the mean, of movement time was significantly affected by the complexity of the task as measured by Fitts' index of difficulty, while the skewness and the kurtosis were not.
(4) When interaction among variables exists, the dual-task paradigm can not simply be modeled as a Sternberg memory task plus a Fitts target acquisition, rather, new performance metrics for the memory search and target acquisition tasks require that all the significant variables in the MWPE protocol be modeled.
(5) In this article, the relative fittnesses of heterozygotes (with both electromorphs active) and homozygotes (with activity demonstrable for only one or the other electromorph) for the Zw locus are described.
(6) Eighty-eight undergraduate students completed the Jenkins Activity Survey, which measures the Type A personality; the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (TSCS; Fitts, 1965); the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale; the A-Trait Scale (Spielberger, Gorsuch, & Lushene, 1970), and the Eysenck Personality Inventory.
(7) Serial tapping by 5-, 7- and 9-yr.-old boys and girls, as measured by Fitts' Law, was recorded.
(8) All Ss were given Fitt's test of attitude towards school.
(9) On a modification of the Fitts Reciprocal Tapping task children moved a stylus (held in the hand or attached to a special shoe worn on the foot) between two metal targets separated by different distances.
(10) However, evidence of severe nonlinearities in the measured humam movement responses did not support the use of linear control models in explaining the empirical validity of Fitts' law in predicting human motor performance.
(11) The classic finding for relatively long movements is that movement time, measured from leaving the initial position until contact with the target, depends on both distance and target size according to a relationship known as "Fitts' law."
(12) Subjects performed a spatially constrained stylus-to-hole Fitts reciprocal movement task designed to simulate high-incentive manual assembly operations while providing basic information regarding changes in human move and positioning capabilities.
(13) These included the Fitts law psychomotor task, the Stroop colour-word test, the Sternberg short term memory scanning test, the short term memory span test, and the continuous recognition memory test.
(14) Movements performed with closed eyes were characterized with higher peak speeds and unchanged variability in seeming violation of the Fitt's law and in a good correspondence to the model.
(15) In the Fitts paradigm the subject moves a stylus to the left or right of an initial rest position to reach targets that vary in size and in distance from the initial position.
(16) Self-concept was measured by Fitts' Tennessee Self-concept Scale and scored using both Clinical and Counselling forms.
(17) The effects of task complexity on movement ipsilateral to lesion were examined using the Fitts tapping task [Fitts, P.M., J. exp.
(18) Ireland's foreign minister and deputy premier Eamon Gilmore tonight congratulated McDonnell on becoming leader of the party founded by John Hume and Gerry Fitt.
(19) The violation of Fitts' Law was confined to the easy target hand.
(20) Results supported Fitts' original theory that various limb segments may show different maximum information processing rates.