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In geology, a sill is a tabular sheet intrusion that has intruded between older layers of sedimentary rock, beds of volcanic lava or tuff, or along the direction of foliation in metamorphic rock. A sill is a concordant intrusive sheet , meaning that it does not cut across preexisting rock beds.
Sill (geostatistics) Sill (river), a river in Austria; Sill plate, a construction element Window sill, a more specific construction element than above; Automotive sill, also known as a rocker panel; see Glossary of automotive design#R; Fort Sill, a United States Army post near Lawton, Oklahoma; Mount Sill, a California mountain
Point of reference is the intentional use of one thing to indicate something else, and may refer to: Reference point (disambiguation), general usage;
a touches b, they have at least one boundary point in common, but no interior points. Contains: a ∩ b = b: Covers: a ο ∩ b = b b lies in the interior of a (extends Contains). Other definitions: "no points of b lie in the exterior of a", or "Every point of b is a point of (the interior of) a". CoveredBy Covers(b,a) Within: a ∩ b = a
The particular location of a point on Earth's surface that can be expressed by a grid reference such as latitude and longitude. [1] accessibility A locational characteristic that permits a place to be reached by the efforts of those at other places. [2] accessibility resource A naturally emergent landscape form that eases communication between ...
An example in literature is the character of Touchstone in Shakespeare's As You Like It, described as "a wise fool who acts as a kind of guide or point of reference throughout the play, putting everyone, including himself, to the comic test". [3] Dante's "In la sua volontade è nostra pace" ("In his will is our peace"; Paradiso, III.85) [4]
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Another example is that the value people place on a change in probability (e.g., of winning something) depends on the reference point: people seem to place greater value on a change from 0% to 10% (going from impossibility to possibility) than from, say, 45% to 55%, and they place the greatest value of all on a change from 90% to 100% (going ...