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  • noun Plural form of accordance.

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Examples

  • The selection committee is to compile a shortlist of candidates in accordances with the provisions of the Act. This shortlist will then be submitted to the Secretary to Parliament for submission to the

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Time modules work in accordances with the principle of making and breaking delay.

    4. Relays and control devices Ernst-Otto Balding 1991

  • Hence its importance in nature and painting is almost as great as that of black; it divides the office of clothing the face of creation with green and blue; with both which, as with black and grey, it enters into innumerable compounds and accordances, changing its name as either hue prevails, into green, gray, ashen, slate, &c.

    Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

  • These are often beautifully opposed in nature, being medial accordances or in equal relation to light, shade and other colours, and among the most agreeable to sense.

    Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

  • It is therefore a following, or shading, colour of red and its derivatives; and hence its accordances, contrasts, and expressions agree with those of red degraded; consequently red added to dark brown converts it into marrone if in sufficient quantity to prevail.

    Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

  • Some artists have produced pictures in the above hot and cold colours only; which, although captivating to the eye, and true in theory with respect to colour, light and shade, are generally false in practice with regard to nature, which rarely employs such extreme accordances.

    Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

  • Extreme acuteness of vision will, in individual instances, lead to success of abnormal character, and certainly in Mr. Ward's case the remarkable accordances in the observed and calculated positions appear to be conclusive evidence that he was not mistaken.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 Various

  • With harmonies and accordances lost to the untutored gaze, colour meets him in every stone he treads on -- in the mineral, vegetable, and animal creation -- in the heavens, sea, and earth.

    Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

  • Schiaparelli announced in 1866 that the August shooting-stars, or Perseids, pursue the same orbit with a bright comet visible in 1862; and equally striking accordances of movement between three other comets and the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • It is points of view which reveal qualities, tendencies, and innate differences, or accordances of thought, and the points of view of each interested the other.

    The Shuttle 1907

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