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Motte

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Attack by the troops under the French General Joseph Édouard de La Motte-Rouge, 1855 Part of the Crimean War.
Attack by the troops under the French General Joseph Édouard de La Motte-Rouge, 1855 Part of the Crimean War.
Illustrations
La Motte-Gondrin hanged in Valenciennes, April 25, 1562. Upstairs he is attacked in his house by soldiers, the house is looted and set on fire, his body is hung from the window. In the caption the legend AH in French. Numbered: 13.
La Motte-Gondrin hanged in Valenciennes, April 25, 1562. Upstairs he is attacked in his house by soldiers, the house is looted and set on fire, his body is hung from the window. In the caption the legend AH in French. Numbered: 13.
View of the Castle of Leiden. The circular structure is located on a motte, an artificial hill. There are figures on a field located in front of this castle. Print marked top left: page. 585.
View of the Castle of Leiden. The circular structure is located on a motte, an artificial hill. There are figures on a field located in front of this castle. Print marked top left: page. 585.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Motte
    A clump of trees in a prairie.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. F. motte, a clod, clump, or hillock

Usage in the news

0At Dean's First Annual Back to School Rally, Dean donated supplies to kids of all ages Sunday at Tifton's Mott-Litman Gym. fxl.com

At Dean's First Annual Back to School Rally, Dean donated supplies to kids of all ages Sunday at Tifton's Mott-Litman Gym. fxl.com

Bill Mott was basking in the Southern California sun Tuesday morning in the stable area at Santa Anita, and very glad to be here after a long and difficult travel day. dailynews.com

She was born on July 2, 1919, to the late Howard and Nina (Mott) Moore. recordpub.com

Valonda learns about the benefits of massage at The Spa at Miller-Motte College. 2.nbc17.com

ADVOCATE Christine Mott is the chairwoman of the animal- law committee of the New York City Bar Association. nytimes.com

Mott's Miller signs scholarship with Metro State. eyi.com

Miller (24) won 59 games in his two seasons at Mott College. eyi.com

He divested himself of many belongings before the move, but kept those that were most important to him, including a chair by Joseph-André Motte, purchased at auction in Munich. nytimes.com

ELM MOTT — A recent Texas State Technical College graduate was recovering at a Waco hospital Sunday, a day after he suffered second- and third-degree burns in a motor home fire. acotrib.com

Mott Takes Trophy in a Walk Off. sagharboronline.com

Search is on for missing teen at Mott Lake. eyi.com

Beverly Faye "Dolly" Mott , 71, died Friday, Oct 12, 2012, at her home. thecherawchronicle.com

Stars could be lining up again for Mott . dailygazette.com

Melissa Ann Mott and John Dixon Harris III were married at six o'clock in the evening on September 15, 2012, at Owls Eye Winery in Shelby. gastongazette.com

Usage in scientific papers

Color online) Phase diagram for the Mott transition in the paramagnetic sector obtained through finitetemperature ED with Ns = 8 and Nkept = 40, compared with previous estimates by Numerical Renormalization Group of Ref.20 and Quantum Monte Carlo of21 and22 .
Solving Dynamical Mean-Field Theory at very low temperature using Lanczos Exact Diagonalization

Numerical Renormalization Group results of Ref.20 and the QMC results of21 and22 , which are used as references of popular methods used to study the Mott transition.
Solving Dynamical Mean-Field Theory at very low temperature using Lanczos Exact Diagonalization

The reported data clearly show that our method not only reproduces the Mott transition scenario at a qualitative level, but also provides results in extremely good quantitative agreement with established methods.
Solving Dynamical Mean-Field Theory at very low temperature using Lanczos Exact Diagonalization

According to Landau Fermi-liquid theory, 1/τ has to be proportional to T 2 at low temperatures, with a coefficient which increases as we approach the Mott transition.
Solving Dynamical Mean-Field Theory at very low temperature using Lanczos Exact Diagonalization

The actual increase of total time will depend on the temperature and on the size of the system, but our results for Ns = 8, where the increase factor is around 3 for a range of temperatures that approaches the Mott transition endpoint, are quite promising.
Solving Dynamical Mean-Field Theory at very low temperature using Lanczos Exact Diagonalization

Usage in literature

Oscar Mott was born Feb. 25, 1839. "The Stephens Family" by Bascom Asbury Cecil Stephens

This led to a controversy between her and La Motte, who had spoken slightingly of Homer. "The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851" by Various

He also sent a telegram to Mayor Mott of Oakland. "Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror" by Richard Linthicum

Miss Motts, she hilt up 'er petticoats, she did, en 'low she monst'us fear'd er snakes. "Nights With Uncle Remus" by Joel Chandler Harris

Among them was the young poet Whittier, Louis Tappan, and Lucretia Mott, the Quaker. "A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year" by Edwin Emerson

Next comes "Sintram" (1883), a notable edition of De la Motte Fouque's romance, followed by "Undine" (in 1885). "Children's Books and Their Illustrators" by Gleeson White

CAPTURE OF FORT MOTTE BY LEE AND MARION, MAY, 1780. "Southern Literature From 1579-1895" by Louise Manly

We have news, which I have no reason to believe that M. de la Motte Piquet is not far distant from these coasts. "The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI" by Various

Miss Mott, for example, never uses such expressions. "In Château Land" by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton

A well-written speech was read by William C. Nell, which Mrs. Mott thought too flattering. "History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I"