state change


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Noun1.state change - a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition
freeze, freezing - the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
liquefaction - the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid
natural action, natural process, action, activity - a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); "the action of natural forces"; "volcanic activity"
melt, melting, thaw, thawing - the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid; "the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster"; "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours"
evaporation, vaporisation, vaporization, vapour, vapor - the process of becoming a vapor
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This change in the education system, with the aid of media propagation, would definitely help the state change societal realities.
This change in education system with the aid of media propagation would definitely help the state change the societal goals and thus to make laws which would hardly be challenged or broken.
Values for maximum power were found from the leading and falling edges of the floor lighting power profile when only the individual circuit was observing a state change. Noise was removed by recording the mode of the data and verifying with the expected value from the electrical drawings.
The company intends to expand its operations as the laws for each individual State change and allow.
They explore the role of these fields and the law in context of state reformation, state change, post-conflict resolution and conciliation, and the law's challenges in these contexts.
These expatriates feel that if the consulate is pushing the onus of address change on the applicant then it clearly needs to declare this through public notice displayed at the BLS centres mentioning that applicants need to make a specific request for state change.
You may have to return to your work or meeting, but first you need a "state change." Eiere's what we mean by that: All of us have four major states during our daily lives: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
They focus on the emerging cultural politics of territoriality and indigeneity in relation to state change and globalized struggles over the country's natural resources.
Any displacement whatsoever will result in a dramatic state change whenever conditions resulting in negative synergy exist.
After each panelist provided their views, the panelists at each meeting then derived the smallest amount that a scale score could change if an individual patient improved or worsened by one response level on just one of most scale items, and labeled this amount as a state change. For example, there are ten items in the Physical Functioning scale, and each item has three response choices: not limited at all, limited a little, limited a lot.
"Degree achievement" verbs lexicalize incremental state change without an inherently specified end state (English examples include grow, dim, darken, etc.; cf.

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