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An elegant solution may solve multiple problems at once, especially problems that are not thought to be inter-related. [6] Elegance can arguably be measured for engineering problems as the ratio of problem complexity to that of solution complexity. [7] Thus a simple (low complexity) solution to a problem of high complexity is seen as elegant.
The elegant trogon (Trogon elegans), previously known as the coppery-tailed trogon, is a near passerine bird in the trogon family native to Central America. [3] The etymology of the word trogon comes from the Greek word trÅgein, meaning "to gnaw", [ 4 ] which describes how this species prepares its nests in trees.
The title poem of American poet Mark Halliday's collection Little Star (W. Morrow, 1987) is an homage to The Elegants and Vito Picone. The poem is also available in Allen Grossman (with Mark Halliday), The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers (Johns Hopkins UP, 1992), pages 25–27.
This elegant expression ties together arguably the five most important mathematical constants (e, i, , 1, and 0) with the two most common mathematical symbols (+, =). Euler's identity is a special case of Euler's formula , which the physicist Richard Feynman called "our jewel" and "the most remarkable formula in mathematics". [ 7 ]
The name is a blend of the Greek caeno-(recent), rhabditis (rod-like) [9] and Latin elegans (elegant). In 1900, Maupas initially named it Rhabditides elegans. Osche placed it in the subgenus Caenorhabditis in 1952, and in 1955, Dougherty raised Caenorhabditis to the status of genus. [10]
The English lexicographer H. W. Fowler coined "elegant variation" as an ironic criticism of this strategy. Elegant variation distracts the reader, removes clarity, and can introduce inadvertent humour or muddled metaphors. It can confuse readers who are unaware, for example, that the Pope is the Bishop of Rome.
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Elegant variation is the use of synonyms to avoid repetition or add variety. The term was introduced in 1906 by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler in The King's English . In their meaning of the term, they focus particularly on instances when the word being avoided is a noun or its pronoun .