Switch in sentence

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And right then, when that happens, that switch goes on in your head, it ripples across your whole world.

Now what I would like to do first is switch on the light, and I'll simply, only switch on the light, for a moment, and what you'll notice is that the instrument jumps to the right.

Relativity and quantum mechanics tell us that it has two natural settings, a bit like a light switch.

In reality, the Higgs field is just slightly on, not zero but 10,000 trillion times weaker than its fully on value, a bit like a light switch that's got stuck just before the off position.

We have some good reasons to completely switch over to solar power.

And each gene has a promoter, which is just an on-off switch, the gene coding region, and then a terminator, which indicates that this is the end of this gene, the next gene will start.

So what's typically done in biotech studies is that we use an inducible promoter, we know how to switch it on.

And I'm going to illustrate this very crudely for maize, where the chromosomes below the off switch represent all the genes that are required for desiccation tolerance.

So as maize seeds dried out at the end of their period of development, they switch these genes on.

Resurrection plants switch on the same genes when they dry out.

All modern crops, therefore, have these genes in their roots and leaves, they just never switch them on.

They only switch them on in seed tissues.

So what we're trying to do right now is to understand the environmental and cellular signals that switch on these genes in resurrection plants, to mimic the process in crops.

The human eye is an amazing mechanism, able to detect anywhere from a few photons to direct sunlight, or switch focus from the screen in front of you to the distant horizon in a third of a second.

Just changing the global drive, as if you are pressing the gas pedal of descending modulation to your spinal cord, makes a complete switch between two very different gaits.

If you stimulate the spinal cord of a cat, you can switch between walk, trot and gallop.

Or in birds, you can make a bird switch between walking, at a low level of stimulation, and flapping its wings at high-level stimulation.

And everytime this happens, the next person in line will switch the parity they expect to see.

When a magnetic grain volume is too small, its magnetization is easily disturbed by heat energy and can cause bits to switch unintentionally, leading to data loss.

Each of these is stored in a memory cell that can switch between two states for two possible values, 0 and 1. Files and programs consist of millions of these bits, all processed in the central processing unit, or CPU, that acts as the computer's brain.

However, this switch came too late for thirteen former colonies that had already gained independence.

And I switch the channel and I hear, "... Muslim terrorist ...," "... in the name of Islam ...," "... Middle-Eastern descent ...," "... jihad ...," "... we should bomb Mecca."

To destroy it, you must enter each contaminated room and pull its emergency self-destruct switch.

Because the security system is on lockdown, once you enter the contaminated room, you can't exit without activating the switch, and once you've done so, you won't be able to go back in to that room.

It's true that once you activate the switch in a contaminated room, it's destroyed and you can never go back.

This means that you can leave it once without pulling the switch and return there when you've destroyed either of these two rooms.

So let's switch back to that.

Every operating system has something called the scheduler that tells the CPU how long to work on each task before switching, and what to switch to.

When a computer goes from one task to another, it has to do what's called a context switch, bookmarking its place in one task, moving old data out of its memory and new data in.

With all that money to be made, are we surprised that some in the higher education business have begun to engage in false advertising, in bait and switch ... in exploiting the very ignorance that they pretend to educate?

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