In general, however, it was the busy hum of a thing happening, a properness occurring.

There is a very intuitive criterion for properness which goes back to Chevalley.

"The colonists here have treated our crew with utmost respect and properness.

It is commonly called the valuative criterion of properness.

I want properness in my communication.

Properness is essential, as it guarantees that the induced map on compactifications will be continuous.

The meanings are listed in order of properness:

Miss Conduct: An advice column focusing mainly on good manners and properness.

Subject races were manipulated genetically to produce ideal servants according to Aetryx views of place, properness, and utility.

Parallel legs: Legs together generally mean properness when it is concerning a female, this is a very unusual stance in males.

"A toy is something that is made as a play object, typically without concern for accuracy or properness of scale," Mr. Killorin said.

(valuative criterion of properness)

An additional condition called "properness" or "radial unboundedness" is required in order to conclude global asymptotic stability.)

Scott's crimson engineering tunic, pepper-black hair, weathered face, and the rough Scottish properness had become the captain's quickest sign of ship's status.

One closely related problem drops the assumption of properness of the divisor, and will be called the improper Znám problem hereafter.

"He was consulted about the properness of an attack on the U.N. Building," Mr. Bell said, relating that conversation.

If you are going to continue to dither and hesitate, and discuss the legality of this and the properness of that, then we women will act.

Such women knew that they were the worst threats to a home, for they offered ease and thought and companionship as opposed to neatness, order, and properness.

"A lot of good can come out of this, if we are brave enough to ask questions about plurality and fitness and properness to run a media organisation", he says.

The news would be greeted with mixed emotions by his people, he knew, but he was enough of a leader to make them understand the properness and usefulness of the move.

A man in a dark suit and bowler hat walks along a street, his properness at odds with the flower-festooned three-wheeled wonder he is pushing and its intent young occupant.

He added: "He was also consulted on the properness of an attack on Federal Plaza," referring to the building in lower Manhattan that houses the F.B.I.'s office.

The requirements for the training of probate practitioners should be at least as rigorous as those for licensed conveyancers - two years - and the 'fitness and properness' should also.

An intuitive justification of 'complete', in the sense of 'no missing points', can be given on the basis of the valuative criterion of properness, which goes back to Claude Chevalley.

A regular completion is unique and, by the valuative criterion of properness, any morphism from the affine curve to a complete algebraic variety extends uniquely to the regular completion.