defining

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By defining these perceptual attributes more rigorously, the researchers have supplied a missing piece in Schrödinger's long standing vision for a closed mathematical model of color.

From Science Daily • Jun. 7, 2026

In the 1920s, Schrödinger built on that idea by defining hue, saturation, and lightness within a Riemannian model of color perception, using a metric that describes how people perceive color differences.

From Science Daily • Jun. 7, 2026

“Compressing the sensor-to-shooter cycle is the defining trend of this war at the tactical level,” said Franz-Stefan Gady, a military analyst and founder of defense advisory firm Gady Consulting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Yet audiences in the thousands were turning up nightly to see Gibbard reanimate the peak-millennial classics that made him one of indie rock’s defining stars.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Where the Aristotelian universe had one centre, there were now potentially five different ways of defining the centre of the universe.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton