Form (Lat. forma), in general, refers to the external shape, appearance, configuration of an object, in contrast to the matter or content or substance of which it is composed; thus a speech may contain excellent arguments (the matter may be good), whereas the style, grammar, arrangement (the form) may be bad. "Form is supposed to cover the shape or structure of the work; content its substance, meaning, ideas, or expressive effects." (Middleton 1999, p.141) The term, with its adjective forma ...

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A Hermitian form (also called a symmetric sesquilinear form), is a sesquilinear form h : V × V → C such that The standard Hermitian form on Cn is given by More generally, the inner product on any Hilbert space is a Hermitian form. If V is a finite-dimensional space, then relative to any basis {ei} of V, a Hermitian form is represented ...

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In number theory, a cusp form is a particular kind of modular form, distinguished in the case of modular forms for the modular group by the vanishing in the Fourier series expansion Σanqn of the constant coefficient a0. This Fourier expansion exists as a consequence of the presence in the modular group's action on the upper half- ...

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Binary form is a way of structuring a piece of music. Most strictly, a piece in binary form will be in two halves, roughly equal in length. The first half will start in a certain key (or on a certain tonic), and end in a different key. The second half of the piece begins in the key that the first half ended in, and ends in the original key of the piece. The second half may also be repeated. If the initial key is major, the key at the end of the first part will generally be the dominant of that initial key (a fifth above), so th ...

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The AT form factor is the first modern form factor to be widely used. AT (Advanced Technology) was released in 1984 by IBM. Unlike the PC and XT form factors that proceeded it, AT became a widely used design. IBM clones made at the time began using AT compatible designs, contributing to its popularity. To this day many computers still use AT and its variants, but current standards now favor ATX. AT form factor - Design. Main Article: AT bus architecture AT wasn't a very large te ...

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In logic, the argument form or test form of an argument results from replacing the different words, or sentences, that make up the argument with letters, along the lines of algebra; the letters represent logical variables. The sentence forms which classify argument forms of common arguments important are studied in college logic. Here is an example of an argument: A All humans are mortal. Socrates is human. Therefore, Socrates is mortal. We can rewrite ...

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The Backus-Naur form (BNF) (also known as Backus normal form) is a metasyntax used to express context-free grammars: that is, a formal way to describe formal languages. BNF is widely used as a notation for the grammars of computer programming languages, command sets and communication protocols. They can also be used as a notation for representing parts of natural language grammars. For example see the grammar for meter in Venpa poetry. Most textbooks for programming language theory and/or semantics document the programming language in BNF. Some va ...

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The 42 Form (Competition Form) T'ai Chi Ch'uan is the Wushu competition form which combines movements drawn from the Yang, Wu, Chen, and Sun styles of traditional Tai Chi Chuan (Taijiquan). It was created in 1989 by the Chinese Sports Committee to standardized the many different competition forms. In the 11th Asian Games of 1990, Wushu was included as an item for competition for the first time with the 42 Form being chosen to represent T'ai Chi. It will be the form demon ...

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24 Form (Simplified Form) T'ai Chi Ch'uan is the result of an effort by the Chinese Sports Committee which brought together four T'ai Chi experts in 1956. These experts truncated the Yang family hand form to 24 postures. They wanted to somehow retain the essential principles of T'ai Chi Ch'uan but make it less difficult to learn than longer (generally 88 to 108 posture) classical family T'ai Chi Ch'uan hand forms. Commencing (Qishi), Preparation, Beginning Part the Wild Horse's Mane (Yema Fenzong) White ...

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The Re-formed Congregation of the Goddess - International (RCG-I). It was founded in 1984 by Jade River and Lynnie Levy. It considers itself the oldest and largest religion exclusively for women. Most, but not all, of the members are in the Dianic Wicca tradition. The more than 2000 members are primarily from North America, but it has growing representation around the world, having doubled in membership in the last 5 years. Other related archivesDianic Wicca, Jade River

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The idea of Forms was explained or alluded to in several Platonic Dialogues, most notably the Republic. Various forms of evidence are given for Plato's belief in Forms. The ethical argument. Heraclitus argues that everything is in motion, thus giving rise to ethical relativism. However, by arguing that only our false material world is in motion, and that the world of forms is static, Plato could save moral universals by postulating the Form of the Good. The argument from human perception. We call both the sky ...

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The symbol: also called the Mark or Cross, is the essence of the Laws of Form. In Spencer-Brown's initimable and enigmatic fashion, the Mark symbolizes the root of cognition, i.e., the dualistic Mark indicates the capability of differentiating a "this" from a "that." In LoF, a Cross denotes the drawing of a "distinction", and can be thought of as signifying the following, all at once: The act of drawing a boundary around something, thus separating it fr ...

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The symbol: also called the Mark or Cross, is the essence of the Laws of Form. In Spencer-Brown's initimable and enigmatic fashion, the Mark symbolizes the root of cognition, i.e., the dualistic Mark indicates the capability of differentiating a "this" from a "that." In LoF, a Cross denotes the drawing of a "distinction", and can be thought of as signifying the following, all at once: The act of drawing a boundary around something, thus separa ...

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Cricket is also played in several different shortened forms, designed to pack as much action as possible into an hour or two. Such forms have evolved since the 1990s, and take cricket an additional step beyond one-day cricket. See short form cricket for details about specific types of short form cricket. ...

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The term sonata is first found in the seventeenth century, when instrumental music had just begun to separate itself from vocal music. Originally "sonata" (derived from the Italian word, suonare, to play) meant a piece for playing, in distinction to "cantata," a piece for singing. For some time the term sonata did not imply a definite type of form. Sonata form came to dominate many forms of musical composition during the Classical era, and was defined and made central to concert music in the Romantic era. It has continued to be influe ...

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The sonata form is a guide to composers as to the schematic for their works, for interpreters to understand the grammar and meaning of a work, and listeners to understand the significance of musical events. A host of musical details are determined by the harmonic meaning of a particular note, chord or phrase. The sonata form, because it describes the shape and hiearchy of a movement, tells performers what to emphasize and how to shape phrases of music. The theory of the "sonata form" begins with the description, in the 1700's, of schematics for works, and was codified in the early 19th century. This codified for ...

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An important variant on traditional sonata-allegro form is found in the first movement of the Classical concerto. Here, the orchestra usually prepares for the entrance of the soloist by playing some of the themes that will be heard during the main part of the movement, a sort of introduction but in the main tempo. The soloist then enters, sometimes with material of its own (as in Mozart's twentieth piano concerto memorably, and others), and continues with a sonata-form exposition usually, but not always, closely related to that opening orche ...

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The set of all k-forms on a manifold is a vector space. Furthermore, there are three other operations: wedge product, exterior derivative (denoted by d), and Lie derivative. One has d2 = 0, see de Rham cohomology for more details. The fundamental relationship between the exterior derivative and integration is given by the general Stokes' theorem, which also provides the duali ...

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The basic outline of a sonata-allegro movement The standard description of the sonata form is as follows: Introduction: This section is optional, or may be reduced to a minimum. If it is extended, it is generally slower than the main section, and focuses on the dominant key. It may or may not contain material which is later stated in the exposition. The introduction increases the weight of the movement, and also permits the composer to begin the exposition with a theme that would be too light to start on its own, as in Symphony No. 103 (Haydn: Drumroll Symphony). Usually, but not always, th ...

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