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movable feast

An event or occurrence that does not happen on a predictable schedule. Since Easter does not fall on the same calendar date each year, it's often called a movable feast.
See also: feast, movable
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movable feast

 
1. Lit. a religious holiday that is on a different date from year to year. Easter is the best known movable feast.
2. Fig. a meal that is served in motion or with different portions of the meal served at different locations. (Jocular or a complete misunderstanding of {1} but in wide use.) We enjoyed a real movable feast on the train from Washington to Maimi.
See also: feast, movable
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

a movable feast

If an event is a movable feast, it can happen at different times or in different places. Held about 29 May, the festival was a movable feast. Working parents wish to spend time with their children after they get home, so bedtime has become a movable feast. Note: This expression originally referred to religious holidays that are always celebrated at about the same time of year, but not always on exactly the same day.
See also: feast, movable
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012

a movable feast

an event which takes place at no regular time.
In a religious context a movable feast is a feast day (especially Easter Day and the other Christian holy days whose dates are related to it) which does not occur on the same calendar date each year.
See also: feast, movable
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[K.sub.X], [K.sub.Y], [K.sub.[phi]] are the corresponding constraint rigidities, illustrating the movably based part's ability to displace/turn along the corresponding direction; [MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] is the deformation
To express the dimensionless equations of the movably based part motion the following notations have been used
Due to positioning errors, initially coordinates of the points [B.sub.1] and [B.sub.2] of the movably based part are displaced relative to the points [A.sub.1] and [A.sub.2] of the base.
Depending on parameters of the dynamic system and excitation and on their matching, displacement of the movably based body may be of more intensive or rather slow character.
As initial pressing force increases, the turn of the movably based part is more intensive, but changes in alignment duration not always are positive.
Simulation of the part-to-part vibratory alignment under impact mode displacement/Vibracinio detaliu tarpusavio centravimo, esant smuginiam poslinkiui, modeliavimas
It has been determined that the range of turn angle of the movably based part depends on stiffness coefficient [v.sub.[phi]] of the turn in respect to connecting surfaces.
Vibratory displacement and turn of the movably based body, controlling dry friction by high frequency vibrations, was analyzed.
Mutual positioning of automatically assembled noncylindrical parts/ Necilindriniu automatiskai renkamu detaliu tarpusavio pozicionavimas
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