0 used to describe a product that is available immediately and does not need to be specially made to suit a particular purpose:
Honouring our commitment to 'off-the-shelf ' proof theory, we now present the result, namely cut elimination, that provides the basis for the rest of the article.
The inclusion of reproducible activity sheets and step-by-step guides to activities provide busy teachers an off-the-shelf resource for lessons.
For this, off-the-shelf algorithms included in the robot's programming libraries are used.
This requires optical quality a little better than the human eye but much less precise than an ordinary off-the-shelf amateur telescope.
Major results of these efforts are that speech recognisers and synthesisers can now be bought as off-the-shelf software.
However, off-the-shelf placement tests rarely match the syllabus of a particular conversation school.
It was not intended to limit the technology to off-the-shelf parts, however it provided a solid, efficient base for the experiments.
It went on to protest that most contemporary architecture disguised its reliance on off-the-shelf elements.
