With those three there's a kind of soft obscuring, indistinctness, or lack of clarity—but smoke is something else.
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The visual indistinctness of much of the imagery that at times moves in and out of abstraction only emphasizes this rhizomatic quality.
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Its leaders were fine with "an indistinctness about goals," Jon Gertner writes in The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation.
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That indistinctness is one of the selling points: This music would be at home in a jazz club on a bill with some virtuoso, in a DIY space alongside an instrumental rock group, or even on the jam band festival circuit.
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A "Hello World" example in the Beatnik language. Soars, larkspurs, rains. Indistinctness. Mario snarl (nurses, natures, rules...) sensuously retries goal. Agribusinesses' costs par lain ropes (mopes) autos' cores.
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Oxford: Oxford University, 1984, , pp. 24-25.Kyösti Julku, Kvenland - Kainuunmaa, Studia historica septentrionalia 11, Oulu, 1986, , p. 51, writes that "there is no indistinctness whatsoever about the geographical location of the Sitones" and places them in Kvenland - areas north and northeast of the Suiones (later Sveas, Swedes) - as Kven ancestors.
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KL-ONE (pronounced "kay ell won") is a well known knowledge representation system in the tradition of semantic networks and frames; that is, it is a frame language. The system is an attempt to overcome semantic indistinctness in semantic network representations and to explicitly represent conceptual information as a structured inheritance network.
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In 1828, the North American Review reviewed the work, generally praising it. The Review commented "he has, in this instance, done more and better things for his name, than upon any former occasion", also comparing the text and style to that of Sir Walter Scott.North American Review 139-130 The Review also was very critical of the use of the Indian native in wilderness novels and was pleased that Cooper had returned to "his own element" of the Sea from the misuse of the Indian which he was prone to in other novels.North American Review 144-145 However, the reviewer did note, the "Indistinctness" which happens at the closing of scenes, but left that as his only criticism.
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Diagram showing circles of confusion for point source too close, in focus, and too far In optics, a circle of confusion is an optical spot caused by a cone of light rays from a lens not coming to a perfect focus when imaging a point source. It is also known as disk of confusion, circle of indistinctness, blur circle, or blur spot. In photography, the circle of confusion (CoC) is used to determine the depth of field, the part of an image that is acceptably sharp. A standard value of CoC is often associated with each image format, but the most appropriate value depends on visual acuity, viewing conditions, and the amount of enlargement.
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By extension, this sense could be applied to sculpture, pottery, or other objects of great antiquity. It was in this sense of "indistinctness due to wear or through long use" that the great French internist Armand Trousseau (1801–67) first employed the term in connection with an obscured form of Graves' disease, which he described as a "…maladie dite fruste par l’absence du goitre et de l’exophthalmie" ("…disease said to be crude [i.e., indistinct] for its absence of goiter and exophthalmia")Eulenberg, A., (1910), “The Present Status of Graves' Disease (Exophthalmic Goiter. Basedow’s Disease)”; In: Church, Archibald, editor (1910), Diseases of the Nervous System (Series: Modern Clinical Medicine); Translation of German original; New York City and London: D. Appleton and Company, pp 961-962.
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The term 'pandaka' can be used to trace the history of third gender back to the awakening of the Buddha and the arrival of Buddhism to Sri Lanka over two millennia ago. Buddhaghosa, a monk in Anurādhapura, Sri Lanka, wrote about pandaka; they "are full of defiling passions (ussanakilesa); their lusts are unquenchable (avupasantaparilaha); and they are dominated by their libido (parilahavegabhibhuta) and the desire for lovers just like prostitutes (vesiya) and coarse young girls (thulakumarika)". He also stated that they are “whose sexual burning is assuaged by taking another man’s member in his mouth and being sprayed by semen” and usuya (“jealous”) pandakas as those “whose sexual burning is assuaged by watching other people having sex”. The Pali Tipitaka, the form of Buddhism followed in Thailand and Sri Lanka, and the most complete transmission being held custodian in Sri Lanka, "mentions several different types of transgendered states and individuals – the man-like woman (vepurisikā), sexual indistinctness (sambhinna), one having the characteristics of both genders (ubhatovyañjanaka), etc.".
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