What is "involves"

Usage examples of "involves".

But my main point is not where precisely to draw this linedraw it wherever you feel comfortablebut that the line itself involves preeminently the distinction between inferiority and exteriority.

Developmentalists from Loevinger to Kohlberg to Piaget have long pointed out that every stage involves various types of reworkings of previous patterns, taken up, enfolded, and reassimilated into the new structures.

It is this procedure, which involves turning a reductionist methodology into a reductionist philosophy, that is the manoeuvre so popular among molecular biologists and some geneticists, but, fortunately, is rather rarer among psychologists or neurobiologists.

And second, having made the bold leap in the 1970s and early 1980s from zero-dimensional point particles to one-dimensional strings, and having now seen that string theory actually involves two-dimensional membranes, might it be that there are even higher-dimensional ingredients in the theory as well?

Sure, one can devise a program that can calculate the odds of drawing a flush against three of a kind, but poker involves a type of competitive psychology, of bluff, and it requires the appreciation and assessment of non-cognitive inputs for which, I believe, there can be no effective machine analogy.

This involves studying interactions in the microscopic world of atomic structures and looking for ways to harness individual atoms to perform a variety of different tasks, thereby speeding up computer operations to an unthinkable scale.

Mahayana Buddhism maintains that literally all sentient beings possess Buddha Mind, and liberation involves a realization of that all-pervading consciousness.

Any vibrational pattern that remains on the surface involves some combination of vibrations in these two directions.

Remembering involves in the first place experiencing and learning something, and subsequently recalling it.

For whilst we might have difficulties defining precisely what is meant by learning, it is obvious that day-to-day life, for anything from amoebae to rose bushes and humans, involves experience, and that one definition of life itself must involve the capacity to adapt to experience by changing behaviour.

The assay involves using a radioactive drug which binds quantitatively to the acetylcholine receptor, the amount of radioactivity bound being proportional to the amount of receptor present.