In an ordinary auction (also known as a forward auction), buyers compete to obtain a good or service by offering increasingly higher prices.

The visible spectrum is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to (can be detected by) the human eye.

In a typical auction the seller offers an item which they wish to sell.

Eight publishers competed for the rights to publish Twilight in a 2003 auction.

This was the first indication of the existence of the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

There are no definitions of the terms electronic , reverse , and auction provided for in the draft articles of the Model Law.

because my job is spectroscopy.

And all you need is time and money to make your spectrograph.

Cognitive radio technology, also known as smart radio allowing different radio technologies to share the same spectrum efficiently by adaptively finding unused spectrum and adapting the transmission scheme to the requirements of the technologies currently sharing the spectrum.

In business, the term most commonly refers to a specific type of auction process (also called procurement auction, e auction, sourcing event, e sourcing or eRA, eRFP, e RFO, e procurement, B2B Auction) used in government or private sector procurement.

So, what I thought I'd do is in honor of Emmanuel is, what I can do is to launch today the first TED Global auction.

Just in time, a set of economists got there and said, Why not try an auction? It'll reveal the value.

The entire Israeli political spectrum was thrown into confusion.

Those pieces not retained by the museum are included in a Rejection Collection that may be sold at auction.

The analysis of these methods is hard, depending on a complicated function of the spectrum of the operator.

Also, they help us to achieve greater heights across a broader spectrum of human endeavour.

Garik Israelian is a spectroscopist, studying the spectrum emitted by a star to figure out what it's made of and how it might behave. It's a rare and accessible look at this discipline, which may be coming close to finding a planet friendly to life.

But I'll try to convince you that spectroscopy is actually something which can change this world.

These polarization detectors are sensitive in the ultraviolet region of the light spectrum.

The spectrum does not, however, contain all the colors that the human eyes and brain can distinguish.

His father worked for a company that developed mass spectrometers and his mother was a homemaker.

The radio spectrum is the part of the electromagnetic spectrum from 8.3 kHz to 3000 GHz allocated to some 40 Radiocommunication services in line to the Radio Regulations (RR) of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

This type of auction is convenient when it is important to auction goods quickly, since a sale never requires more than one bid.

So not only do we have this huge amount of spectrum, let's compare that with a number I've just mentioned.

The modern political spectrum is an artifact of the seating arrangements at the French National Assembly after the revolution of 1789.

At the other end of the spectrum, you could rent baby clothes for three months at a time.

Electromagnetic radiation in this range of wavelengths is called visible light or simply light.

It was noted that the emerging nature of the digital divide provided new possibilities for computer related crime.

The real drama, however, occurred not among the country s main parties but on the boundaries of the political spectrum.

The whole range of issues falling within the mandate of the Working Group are of great importance to us.

On May 12, 2008, a foreclosure auction for the ranch was canceled after an investment company, Colony Capital LLC, purchased the loan, which was in default.

They actually said that one of the stars you see in the spectra is an alien. It comes from a different galaxy.

At the same time he was trying to explain experimental results of the Zeeman effect in atomic spectroscopy and in ferromagnetism.

Furthermore, the visual perception of many animals is influenced by a different visible spectrum than humans.

Maneuver warfare doctrine sees styles of warfare as a spectrum with attrition warfare and maneuver warfare on opposite ends.

In recent years, many commentators have seen Schwarzenegger as moving away from the right and towards the center of the political spectrum.

The Schumann resonance is a set of spectrum peaks in the ELF portion of the Earth's electromagnetic field spectrum.

This part of the radio spectrum ranges across frequencies of roughly 1.0 gigahertz (GHz) to 30 GHz.

The particulate is sent for analysis, using alpha, beta and gamma spectroscopy, together with mass spectroscopy techniques.

But suppose you take some dirt and dig through it and then put it into these spectrometers, because there's bacteria all over the place or you take water anywhere on Earth, because it's teaming with life, and you make the same analysis the spectrum looks completely different.

Support for reform comes from across the political spectrum, whereas opponents of reform paid a high price.

This combination of birth defects is referred to as pseudovaginal perineoscrotal hypospadias and is part of the spectrum of ambiguous genitalia.

The extent to which the entire political spectrum and population supports the dialogue is unclear.

They come there, many times their parents you can't see it, but there's a church pew that I bought in a Berkeley auction right there the parents will sometimes watch while their kids are being tutored.

The eurozone is at the opposite end of the spectrum, with Japan accounting for less than 2 of its exports.