Weak Form and Strong Form

Weak form and strong form may refer to:

  • Weaker and stronger versions of a hypothesis, theorem or physical law
  • Weak formulations and strong formulations of differential equations in mathematics
  • Differing pronunciations of words depending on emphasis; see Weak and strong forms in English
  • Weak and strong pronouns

Famous quotes containing the words weak, form and/or strong:

    “Sensuality often accelerates the growth of love so much that its roots remain weak and are easily pulled up.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “During the long ages of class rule, which are just beginning to cease, only one form of sovereignty has been assigned to all men—that, namely, over all women. Upon these feeble and inferior companions all men were permitted to avenge the indignities they suffered from so many men to whom they were forced to submit.”
    —Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906)

    “Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are qualities that characterize the “establishment” which regulates modern society: pragmatism, materialism, mechanization, and gadgetry. Woman, on the other hand, is a practical idealist, a humanitarian with a strong sense of noblesse oblige, an altruist rather than a capitalist.”
    —Elizabeth Gould Davis (b. 1910)