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The rule of three can refer to a collection of three words, phrases, sentences, lines, paragraphs/stanzas, chapters/sections of writing and even whole books. The three elements together are known as a triad. The technique is used not just in prose, but also in poetry, oral storytelling, films, and advertising.
The ellipsis ... ( / əˈlɪpsɪs / ), a.k.a. suspension point, suspension, points of ellipsis, periods of ellipsis, or colloquially dot-dot-dot, [1] [2] is a punctuation mark consisting of a series of three dots. An ellipsis is used to many ways including intentional omission of text or to imply a concept without using words.
Context-free grammar. Simplified excerpt of the formal grammar [1] for the C programming language (left), and a derivation of a piece of C code (right) from the nonterminal symbol . Nonterminal symbols are blue and terminal symbols are red. In formal language theory, a context-free grammar ( CFG) is a formal grammar whose production rules can ...
Indeterminate sentencing. In some states, a judge will sentence criminals to an indeterminate amount of time in prison for certain crimes. This period is often between 1 and 3 years (on the short end) and 5–50 years on the upper end.
Example 1. p = 7, in this case p ≡ 3 (mod 4) and we have: ( 7 5 ) = − 1 : 1 2 ( 5 ( 7 5 ) + 3 ) = − 1 , 1 2 ( 5 ( 7 5 ) − 3 ) = − 4. {\displaystyle ({\tfrac {7}{5}})=-1:\qquad {\tfrac {1}{2}}\left(5({\tfrac {7}{5}})+3\right)=-1,\quad {\tfrac {1}{2}}\left(5({\tfrac {7}{5}})-3\right)=-4.}
Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).
Various sentences using the syllables mā, má, mǎ, mà, and ma are often used to illustrate the importance of tones to foreign learners. One example: Chinese: 妈妈骑马马慢妈妈骂马; pinyin: māma qí mǎ, mǎ màn, māma mà mǎ; lit. 'Mother is riding a horse', 'the horse is slow', 'mother scolds the horse'.
Enjambment. In poetry, enjambment ( / ɛnˈdʒæmbmənt / or / ɪnˈdʒæmmənt /; from the French enjamber) [1] [2] [3] is incomplete syntax at the end of a line; [4] the meaning 'runs over' or 'steps over' from one poetic line to the next, without punctuation. [5] Lines without enjambment are end-stopped. [6]
A natural disaster is the negative impact following an actual occurrence of natural hazard in the event that it significantly harms a community. [1] An example of the distinction between a natural hazard and a disaster is that an earthquake is the hazard which caused the 1906 San Francisco earthquake disaster.
Some well-known examples are (3, 4, 5) and (5, 12, 13). A primitive Pythagorean triple is one in which a , b and c are coprime (the greatest common divisor of a , b and c is 1). The following is a list of primitive Pythagorean triples with values less than 100: