Word: sine
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...research that led to his Ph.D. dissertation, Holcombe developed a technique in which two Gabor patches--spinning, ridged, colorful circles made out of sine waves--are superimposed on top of each other on a computer screen...
...constructed a giant Greek pillar that occupies over 300 cubic feet of stage space. What's more impressive, the entire piece is tilted upon its axis at a five degree angle to the floor. As the geometrically inclined amongst you will recognize, creating a nonperpendicular cylinder necessitates cutting a sine wave into plywood. There are easier things to do with a table...
Recently, however, that promise of character has become more explicit. Indeed, there seems far more talk of actions that might ensue based upon the strength of a candidate's character than of prior actions that imply them. Boasting of one's character has become the sine qua non of American political campaigns, in part because the President has provided a stunning example of one with all the makings of greatness who has been undone by a fatal flaw, his character...
Hence the sine qua non for peace: a Palestinian declaration to the world that the new accommodation signed at Camp David satisfies--and ends--the Palestinian grievance...
When bribery fails, oenophiles turn to auctions and rare-wine dealers. Clark Gibson not only paid $600 for a $59 Sine Qua Non 1997 Imposter McCoy Syrah, he also drove from Chicago to pick it up. At the 20th annual Napa Valley Wine Auction for charity last month, collector Chase Bailey bid $500,000 for a single six-liter bottle of a 1992 Screaming Eagle Cabernet, the highest auction price ever paid for a bottle of wine. Under what circumstances do you imbibe a half-million-dollar bottle of wine? "I haven't the slightest idea," says Bailey. "Maybe...