The term " Low Fantasy " is used to represent other types of fantasy, however, so while comic fantasies may also correctly be classified as low fantasy, many examples of low fantasy are not comic in nature.

In the Early modern period, the term Flanders was associated with the southern part of the Low Countries: the Southern Netherlands.

The English term has cognates in the other Germanic languages: Old Saxon heƀan " sky, heaven ", Middle Low German heven " sky ", Old Icelandic himinn " sky, heaven ", Gothic himins ; and those with a variant final-l: Old Frisian himel, himul " sky, heaven ", Old Saxon / Old High German himil, Dutch hemel, and modern German Himmel.

The term " Merovingian " comes from medieval Latin Merovingi or Merohingi (" sons of Merovech "), an alteration of an unattested Old West Low Franconian form, akin to their dynasty's Old English name Merewīowing, with the final-ing being a typical patronymic suffix.

Historically, the term “ priest ” has been more associated with the “ High Church ” or Anglo-Catholic wing, whereas the term “ minister ” has been more commonly used in “ Low Church ” or Evangelical circles.

Low investment has been a long term problem in Fiji and property rights are sometimes thought to be part of this problem because, by law, five sixths of the land is owned communally by indigenous Fijians and may only be leased, not purchased outright.

* Low – A term referring to the state of having low blood sugar.

Sometimes, Tatras is a term used either for the Tatras and for the Low Tatras.

Many state LIHEAP ( Low Income Home Energy Assistance ) programs work side by side with WAP to provide both immediate and long term solutions to energy poverty.

The Dutch term specifically refers to the wave of disorderly attacks in the summer of 1566 that spread rapidly through the Low Countries from south to north, but similar outbreaks of iconoclasm took place in other parts of Europe, especially in Switzerland and the Holy Roman Empire in the period between 1522 and 1566, notably Zürich ( in 1523 ), Copenhagen ( 1530 ), Münster ( 1534 ), Geneva ( 1535 ), and Augsburg ( 1537 ).

Magnetometers used in the Earth sciences are called geophysical surveys, a term that also embraces a wide range of other geophysical techniques including gravity, seismic refraction, seismic reflection, electromagnetics ( EM ), induced polarisation ( IP ), magneto-tellurics ( MT ), controlled source magneto-tellurics ( CSAMT ), sub-audio magnetics ( SAM ), mise-a-la-masse, resistivity, self Potential ( SP ) and Very Low Frequency ( VLF ).

* " Chinese ace ," an inept pilot, derived from the term One Wing Low ( which was said to sound like a Chinese name ), an aeronautical technique

In the German language, the term " Weißer Sonntag " ( literally: " White Sunday ") does not refer to Whitsunday but rather to the first Sunday after Easter, known in English as either " Octave Day of Easter " or " Low Sunday ".

* Low Mass daily during full term, with a BCP celebration on Saturdays

Occasionally, the term Hamburgisch is also used for Hamburg Missingsch, a variety of standard German with Low Saxon substrates.

* the term " Low on Mana ", used in role playing games in which a magician needs to replenish mana reserves, the power required to cast magic spells.

(" high ") in the term for the standard language refers to " high " in a cultural or educational sense, while in the linguistic term it simply refers to the geography of the German speaking regions in Central Europe ; High German of the southern uplands and the Alps ( including Austria, Switzerland and parts of northern Italy as well as southern Germany ) contrasting with Low German spoken in the lowlands stretching towards the North Sea.

General term used to refer to a series of late Neolithic communities of the 3rd millennium BC living in Scandinavia, northern Germany, and the Low Countries that share the practice of single burial under barrows, the deceased usually being accompanied by a battle-axe, amber beads, and pottery vessels.

The term Coast Range is used by the United States Geological Survey to refer only to the ranges south from the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Washington to the California-Mexico border ; and only the ranges west of Puget Sound, the Willamette valley, the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys or ' California Central Valley ' ( thereby excluding the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges ), and the Mojave ( High ) and Sonoran ( Low ) Deserts.

* The term can-toi ( that is, ' children of the desert ') is used in the Dark Tower series to describe the Low Men in Yellow Coats, which are strange animal-human hybrids.

The Middle Low German term " Schönbrot " meaning fine bread may also have played a role in the origination of this word.

In 1961 Flynt coined the term concept art in the Neo-Dada, proto-Fluxus book An Anthology of Chance Operations ( published by Jackson Mac Low and La Monte Young ) that was released in 1963.

* In Astrophysics, auto-correlation is used to study and characterize the spatial distribution of galaxies in the Universe and in multi-wavelength observations of Low Mass X-ray Binaries.

* Low brass is a copper-zinc alloy containing 20 % zinc with a light golden color and excellent ductility ; it is used for flexible metal hoses and metal bellows.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

Low vision is sometimes used to describe visual acuities from 20 / 70 to 20 / 200.

Low serves are also used frequently, either forehand or backhand.

Leading contemporary composer Philip Glass described Low as " a work of genius " in 1992, when he used it as the basis for his Symphony No. 1 " Low "; subsequently, Glass used Bowie's next album as the basis for his 1996 Symphony No. 4 " Heroes ".

The language is called “ Old Prussian ” to avoid confusion with the German dialects Low Prussian and High Prussian, and the adjective “ Prussian ”, which is also often used to relate to the later German state.

The Pomeranian language also influenced the Low German dialects, which were used in Pomerania.

* Low intensity pulsed ultrasound is used for therapeutic tooth and bone regeneration.

It was originally defined as a light fast sailing vessel used by the Dutch navy to pursue pirates and other transgressors around and into the shallow waters of the Low Countries.

Yacht (, from Dutch / Low German jacht meaning hunting or hunt, compare Standard German / High German Jagd ) was originally defined as a light, fast sailing vessel used by the Dutch navy to pursue pirates and other transgressors around and into the shallow waters of the Low Countries.

High Malay was the official language used in the court of the Johor Sultanate and continued by the Dutch-administered territory of Riau-Lingga, while Low Malay was commonly used in marketplaces and ports in archipelago.

Batteries are typically connected to the bus via a battery charge regulator, and the batteries are used to provide electrical power during periods when primary power is not available, for example when a Low Earth Orbit ( LEO ) spacecraft is eclipsed by the Earth.

It was the first time Low Copy Number DNA was used in Northern Ireland.

Low amounts of resources plagued the state, as they used a great deal of silver for the antoninianus, which was now reduced in weight.

Low explosives must, therefore, be used in large quantities or confined in a container with a high burst pressure to be used as an effective bomb.

Fallschirmjäger were also used in the Low Countries against the Netherlands, although their use against The Hague was unsuccessful.

In Roman times in its feminine form, for example, it was used to refer to Roman Valognes in Normandy, Roman Maryport in Cumbria, Roman Alcester in Warwickshire, Roman Watercrook in Natland, Cumbria, Roman Low Learchild on the Devil's Causeway in Northumberland, Ardoch in Perthshire and the River Aln in Northumberland.

The track " Low Life " ( with its accusatory lyrics of " Egomaniac traitor ", " You fell in love with your ego " and " Bourgeoisie anarchist ") has also been regarded as an attack on McLaren, although Lydon has stated that the lyrics refer to Sid Vicious.

Low German Neghen-doer and Middle German Nünmörder were also used ; this has today evolved into Neuntöter and specifically means the Red-backed Shrike, but could in earlier times refer to any native Lanius.

New Mills can refer to the built-up area that includes Newtown and Low Leighton, or the civil parish that includes the villages and hamlets of Whitle, Thornsett, Hague Bar, Rowarth, Brookbottom, Gowhole, and most of Birch Vale.

In other cases the reverse is true ; for instance, the name of Wetherlam, in the Coniston Fells, though understood to refer to the mountain as a whole, strictly speaking refers to the summit ; the slopes have names such as Tilberthwaite High Fell, Low Fell and Above Beck Fells.

Native speakers of Low German in the Netherlands refer to their language as plat or dialect, or they call it by the name of their village or town.

The term Octave of Easter may refer either to the eight day period ( Octave ) from Easter Sunday until the Sunday following Easter, inclusive ; or it may refer only to that Sunday after Easter, the Octave Day of Easter ( sometimes known as Low Sunday ).

Low Latin is a vague and often pejorative term that might refer to any post-classical Latin from Late Latin through Renaissance Latin depending on the author.

Low or LOW may refer to:

High card by suit and Low card by suit refer to assigning relative values to playing cards of equal rank based on their suit.

Philologists often refer to Old Dutch as Old West Low Franconian.

They essentially consider the names " Old Frankish " ( when used to refer to the language spoken by the Salian Franks ), " Old West Low Franconian " and " Old Dutch " to refer to the same language ( or set of dialects ).

Low Moor may refer to:

However, the mistranslation of Olland as Altes Land has now come full circle, since most Low Saxon speakers today refer to the region as dat Ole Land ( literally the old land ).

Low Island may refer to: