Some of the technological applications of superconductivity include: the production of sensitive magnetometers based on SQUIDs fast digital circuits, powerful superconducting electromagnets used in maglev trains, magnetic resonance imaging and Nuclear magnetic resonance machines, magnetic confinement fusion reactors, and the beam-steering and focusing magnets used in particle accelerators low-loss power cables RF and microwave filters fast fault current limiters high sensitivity particle detecto
An antecedent is a thing that comes before something else. You might think rap music has no historical antecedent, but earlier forms of African-American spoken verse go back for centuries. In logic, mathematics, and grammar, the word antecedent (from Latin ante-, before + cedere, to yield) has the meaning the first part of a statement.. More generally, it means something that came before, and perhaps caused, something else..
1. an event preceding or occasioning another event-setting the stage for a particular response. 2. In linguistics, the noun or pronoun to whom the phrase refers (for example, train in the sentence: the train was late tonight). 3. In a proposition, this refers to the if part that is then followed by the then part. For example, in the sentence: If John is a man, then he will eventually die, if John is a man is the antecedent. Also known as protasis. See also affirming the antecedent-denying the antecedent. ANTECEDENT: The antecedent for his or her crying behavior is the other child snatching his or her toy.