(1) "Check," Killion said to Chretien as they walked in to meet with Hugh Powell, an Oxford-educated diplomat who ran the reconstruction office and was supposed to be of equal rank to Nicholson and the British general in the province.
(2) Killion believed the province had been overrun by the Taliban because of British appeasement.
(3) After converting the mean data to equivalent Zwislocki-coupler-type ear simulator SPLs at each of the reported audiometric frequencies (125, 250, 500, 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 6000, and 8000 Hz), agreement within 1.5 dB was seen with the revised estimate of minimum audible pressures given by Killion [J. Acoust.
(4) The first signal processing condition was a conventional high-pass frequency response that did not change its transfer function as the input level increased; the second condition was similar to a typical adaptive frequency response (AFR) hearing aid: a high-pass frequency response that became increasingly high-pass as the input level increased; the third condition was similar to the K-Amp hearing aid recommended by Killion (1988): a high-pass frequency response that became more broadband as the input level increased.
(5) Killion was an expletive-spewing marine with a tin of snuff in his pocket who oversaw the brigade's daily combat missions.
(6) Becker's (1976, 1979, 1980, 1985; Becker & Killion, 1977; Eisenberg & Becker, 1982) verification model was used as a framework to investigate the attentional demands of word recognition.
(7) Section I was written primarily by Mead Killion and Sec.
(8) Chretien took the request to heart, and he repeated the quote to Colonel Mike Killion, Nicholson's top operations officer, before a meeting they had with the head of the reconstruction office in September 2009.
Quadrillion
Definition:
(n.) According to the French notation, which is followed also upon the Continent and in the United States, a unit with fifteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the fourth power, or the number represented by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to the US Energy Information Administration, global energy demand will increase from 524 quadrillion British thermal units in 2010 to 820 quadrillion Btu in 2040 – a 30-year increase of 56%.
(2) Now DNA is used, which can identify an individual using his DNA to one in a billion, quadrillion or greater.
(3) The exabyte, a one followed by 18 zeroes worth of bytes; the petaflop, one quadrillion calculations performed in a single second.
(4) You can't tell what an individual molecule is going to do, but if you deal with trillions and quadrillions and quintillions, you can tell very accurately what they're going to do on average.
(5) Current levels of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD) in the general population can be accounted for by an average level of 133 or 27 ppq (parts per quadrillion) in food based on an estimated half-life in humans of 1 or 5 yr, respectively.
(6) Oh, and a German "Billiarde" is a French "quadrillion" .