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  • First came the Mayor in a dress coat and white cravat -- the "Adjoint" and one of the municipal council just behind, then the banner -- rather a heavy one, four men carried it.

    Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

  • Adjoint functors can be thought of as being conceptual inverses.

    Category Theory Marquis, Jean-Pierre 2007

  • We walked down to the Mairie, where the Mayor and his Adjoint were waiting for us; they conducted us to a large room upstairs where there was a table with champagne bottles, glasses and a big brioche.

    Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

  • I made a sign to the school-master, who was also the Adjoint, and he explained to me in a low voice that he thought it would give great pleasure if I would shake hands and trinquer with all the Pompiers.

    Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

  • There was a nice old Adjoint at the Mairie who wasn't for doing any business at all, with the English or anyone else, until a certain formality had been observed.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917 Various

  • Adjoint, leading citizens -- who also bowed to us; but not with a bow like his!

    The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881

  • Darmesteter/Docteur ès-Lettres/Directeur-Adjoint à l'École des Hautes

    The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • In 1995 CU-Boulder Distinguished Professor Carl Wieman and Adjoint Professor Eric Cornell of the physics department led a team of physicists that created the world's first Bose-Einstein condensate -- a new form of matter.

    innovations-report 2010

  • "We are observing a new fundamental aspect of chemistry -- it gives us a new 'knob' to understand and control reactions," adds NIST physicist and CU-Boulder Adjoint Professor Jun Ye, leader of the second JILA group involved in the research.

    Top Headlines at CU Boulder 2010

  • "It's perfectly reasonable to expect that when you go to the ultracold regime there would be no chemistry to speak of," says NIST physicist and CU-Boulder Adjoint Professor Deborah Jin, leader of one JILA group involved in the experiments.

    Top Headlines at CU Boulder 2010

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