Under Â§ 1505, however, a defendant can be convicted of obstruction of justice by obstructing a pending proceeding before Congress or a federal agency. A pending proceeding could include an informal investigation by an executive agency.
Piecewise is actually a way of expressing the function, rather than a characteristic of the function itself, but with additional qualification, it can describe the nature of the function.
Image Source. The crosswise grain is a description of the grain that runs at a 45 degree angle to the warp and weft threads in our patchwork fabric. Bias edges that sit on the Crosswise Grain are made when a template is cut at a 45 degree angle to the weft and warp.