Adjective : The area of a square is covariant with the length of a side.    From Dictionary.com. 

The methods of the SimpleJDBCTemplate class take advantage of the new Java 1.5 features such as covariant return types.    From Wordnik.com.  [fullasagoog.com full roast blend] Reference

So, as you say in your book, covariant derivative of is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Succumbing to LaTeX] Reference

But this really is not possible in a completely covariant manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference

The mean, the trend and the residual are orthogonal to each other or non-covariant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Ocean Temperature Trends « Climate Audit] Reference

His failure to find an admissible generally covariant theory troubled Einstein greatly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hole Argument] Reference

This type of construction has problems with the general covariant basis of general relativity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference

This equation is essentially a covariant form of the Dirac equation (or really the Weyl equation).    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Matter: Still Dark.] Reference

I am not an expert on LQG but understand its inspiration to be the manifestly covariant nature of GR.    From Wordnik.com.  [The String Theory Backlash] Reference

However, the concept of a common time at different space points does not have a relativistically covariant meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sin-Itiro Tomonaga - Nobel Lecture] Reference

An example would be a terse equation from higher mathematics, such as from Einstein's explanation of covariant tensors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simplicity and Difficulty are Orthogonal] Reference

In mid 1913 he published a compromise: a sketch of a relativistic theory of gravitation that was not generally covariant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hole Argument] Reference

Einstein's quest came to a happy close in late November 1915 with the completion of his theory in generally covariant form.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hole Argument] Reference

The reason I made that separation is because the bulk of the spatial or temperal structures we see are not covariant per se.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creationism dismissed as 'a kind of paganism' by Vatican's astronomer - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

But the Kretschmann process of making equations generally covariant usually involved introducing addi - tional physical quantities.    From Wordnik.com.  [RELATIVITY] Reference

If external magnetic fields are present, the gradient should be understood as the covariant derivative, involving the vector potential.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bohmian Mechanics] Reference

But then you take the commutator of two covariant derivatives acting on this spinor field and get a relation involving the Riemann tensor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matter v Antimatter II: Electroweak Baryogenesis] Reference

By this formulation one reduces the whole mechanics of gravitation to the solution of a single system of covariant par - tial differential equations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out Of My Later Years]

He had even considered essentially the celebrated, generally covariant equations he would settle upon in November 1915 and which now appear in all the text books.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hole Argument] Reference

As is well known, the free string is 2D gravity coupled to other fields, and as such it is natural to try to learn about quantization of general-covariant theories from it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two cheers for string theory] Reference

What's up with that? can be made covariant in T but IList cannot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Site Home] Reference

Usage of covariant fields provides solution of both problems (See 5.3.1.1).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Code Project Latest Articles] Reference

If 3D vector is not covariant then its components depend on sensor position only.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Code Project Latest Articles] Reference

In the framework of general relativity, the equations are written in covariant form.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

Extension methods ain't Trojan horses - A tale on a covariant city built in and protected by C# 4.0.    From Wordnik.com.  [B# .NET Technical Community Homepage] Reference

The extension method doesn't break safety at all, though it looks as if it does (to the trained covariant eye).    From Wordnik.com.  [B# .NET Technical Community Homepage] Reference

Let's talk about the covariant field equations that give us the observed perihelion motion of the planet Mercury.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

As IObservable is covariant in T, it (by itself) cannot have any method or member that takes in an object typed as T.    From Wordnik.com.  [B# .NET Technical Community Homepage] Reference

What this says is that Inject requires T to be contravariant (available for input positions) but it's declared to be covariant.    From Wordnik.com.  [B# .NET Technical Community Homepage] Reference

This BRST machinery - also known as the modern covariant quantization - is clearly superior over the old covariant quantization.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reference Frame] Reference

No mutability anywhere, yet if you let Function be covariant (which Scala does not do, I hasten to add), you get a runtime error.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hottest News Articles] Reference

In fact, this even correctly follows the expected change in variance, since Func is covariant in T and Action is contravariant in T.    From Wordnik.com.  [B# .NET Technical Community Homepage] Reference

The first of these is contravariant and the second is covariant (or the other way, I always get it wrong), and it's easy to write down why.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

covariant Fruit container accepts an object of subtype Banana, were not doing so.    From Wordnik.com.  [B# .NET Technical Community Homepage] Reference

Thus for a generally covariant theory, no physical reality accrues to "empty space" (or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity] Reference

(exterior forms, or, if you like, alternating covariant tensor fields) that goes well beyond what is appropriate here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

A supertype of all possible types for the purposes of covariant return type conversions from method groups to delegate types?.    From Wordnik.com.  [MSDN Blogs] Reference

σ is covariant while the 2nd Piola Kirchoff stress tensor is defined as force per unit surface in the deformed configuration while.    From Wordnik.com.  [iMechanica - Comments] Reference