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  • The root of each hair on his skull felt as if it were tingling with tinuous electrical charges.

    Step into Chaos Shatner, William 1999

  • After a time, I ask Piniaz, "Will con-tinuous firing strain the converters?"

    Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985

  • The wage rate was kept at this low level because the con - tinuous introduction of machinery resulted in an

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SANFORD A. LAKOFF 1968

  • Indian innovations and a Sassanian emphasis on con - tinuous astrology.

    ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

  • This predilection manifested itself in a tendency to subsume and subordinate the discrete under the con - tinuous, even when the presence of the discrete was freely and fully acknowledged.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

  • As a result the con - tinuous nexus between cause and effect is denied by them.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR 1968

  • Con - tinuous records of lunar oppositions with or without eclipses revealed a pattern that repeated itself after approximately eighteen years.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas EDWARD ROSEN 1968

  • Thus, according to this dictionary, our adjective con - tinuous gained currency in the seventeenth century only.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

  • Another ten hours of con - tinuous operation would be needed before they had com - pleted their task and could be closed down for the rest of the voyage.

    The Sands of Mars Clarke, Arthur C. 1951

  • This mechanics is characterized by the fiction that the density of matter and speed of matter is dependent in a con - tinuous manner upon coordinates and time, and that the part of the interactions not explicitly given can be considered as surface forces (pressure forces) which again are continuous functions of location.

    Out Of My Later Years Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 1950

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