A broad division may be drawn between " imperative " and " functional " definition styles.

This broad use of the term is likely to have come about because alkalis were the first bases known to obey the Arrhenius definition of a base and are still among the more common bases.

Because this range of non-zero amplitude may be very broad or infinite, this definition is typically relaxed so that the bandwidth is defined as the range of frequencies in which the signal's spectral density is above a certain threshold relative to its maximum.

Although not normally thought of as biotechnology, agriculture clearly fits the broad definition of " using a biotechnological system to make products " such that the cultivation of plants may be viewed as the earliest biotechnological enterprise.

Sensing danger to Boyd's broad definition of individual rights, Justice McKenna dissented in Wilson, declaring that Hughes's distinction between personal and corporate papers was " a limitation by construction " on an important " constitutional security for personal liberty.

The varieties of Arabic are considerably different from each other-especially those spoken in North Africa ( Maghreb ) from those of the Middle East ( the Mashriq in the broad definition including Egypt and Sudan )-and had there been the political will in the different Arab countries to cut themselves off from each other, the case could have been made to declare these varieties as separate languages.

:: The definition of a distributed database is broad, and may be utilized in different meanings.

Some subsequent comments criticized the definition as overly broad in failing to limit its subject matter to analysis of markets.

Darwin did not use the term in Origin of Species until its sixth edition in 1872, ( though earlier editions did use the word " evolved ") by which time Herbert Spencer had given it scientific currency with a broad definition of progression in complexity in 1862.

According to the WHO, some practices regarded as legal in countries that have outlawed FGM do fall under the category of Type IV ( see below ), but the organization decided to maintain a broad definition to avoid loopholes that could allow FGM to continue.

These laws, contained in sections 5311 through 5332 of Title 31 of the United States Code, require financial institutions, which under the current definition include a broad array of entities, including banks, credit card companies, life insurers, money service businesses and broker-dealers in securities, to report certain transactions to the United States Treasury.

This broad definition includes both UHF and EHF ( millimeter waves ), and various sources use different boundaries.

In the broad definition, the parent disciplines of musicology include history ; cultural studies and gender studies ; philosophy, aesthetics and semiotics ; ethnology and cultural anthropology ; archeology and prehistory ; psychology and sociology ; physiology and neuroscience ; acoustics and psychoacoustics ; and computer / information sciences and mathematics.

Under this definition, there would only be two broad classes of organelles ( i. e. those that contain their own DNA, and have originated from endosymbiotic bacteria ):

A broad definition is offered by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke:

This definition is very broad, listing 6 primary components: Support, Operability, Accessibility, Retainability, Integrity and Security.

A broad definition of research is given by Martin Shuttleworth-" In the broadest sense of the word, the definition of research includes any gathering of data, information and facts for the advancement of knowledge.

This broad definition includes both UHF and EHF ( millimeter waves ), and various sources use different boundaries.

* " In the literature to date, there appear to be at least two clearly distinguishable definitions of the term ' racial profiling ': a narrow definition and a broad definition ...

For some editors, magic realism is considered to be within the broad definition of speculative fiction.

According to a broad definition of slavery used by Kevin Bales of Free the Slaves ( FTS ), an advocacy group linked with Anti-Slavery International, there were 27 million people in slavery in 1999, spread all over the world.

Its Citizenship Clause provides a broad definition of citizenship that overruled the Supreme Court's ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford ( 1857 ) that had held that black people could not be citizens of the United States.

his broad but little used investigative powers are confirmed.

It's so romantic up there, she used to say, with the broad river gleaming in its moontrack like an enormous dark mirror and all the sounds of the night, so poetic.

These snails cling solidly with their broad muscular foot to rocky surfaces at sublittoral depths, although some species such as Haliotis cracherodii used to be common in the intertidal zone.

When they are realized without much allophonic variation, a simple ( i. e. ' broad ') transcription is used.

It can be used to describe a broad variety of phenomena, including Psychokinesis, Faith healing and reality shifts.

In this case, a separate source ( a deuterium lamp ) with broad emission is used to measure the background absorption over the entire width of the exit slit of the spectrometer.

Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, and is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages, usually to the detriment of the drinker's health, personal relationships, and social standing.

British English ( or BrEn, BrE, BE, en-UK or en-GB )< ref > is the language code for British English, as defined by ISO standards ( see ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ) and Internet standards ( see IETF language tag ).</ ref > is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere.

Beta-lactam antibiotics are typically used to treat a broad spectrum of Gram-positive bacteria, as well as a few Gram-negative bacteria.

The principles of the doctrine were so broad that the Soviets even used it to justify their military intervention in the non-Warsaw Pact nation of Afghanistan in 1979.

Cultural Christian is a broad term used to describe people with either ethnic or religious Christian heritage who may not believe in the religious claims of Christianity, but who retain an affinity for the culture, art, music, and so on related to it.

It is a broad category, and encompasses software of many kinds, including the internet browser being used to display this page.

The term " conspiracy theory " is used to indicate a narrative genre that includes a broad selection of ( not necessarily related ) arguments for the existence of grand conspiracies.

This conceptualization is very broad, and should not be confused with how " cognitive " is used in some traditions of analytic philosophy, where " cognitive " has to do only with formal rules and truth conditional semantics.

This may indicate a co-owner as in a legal partnership or may be used in a general way to refer to a broad class of employees or temporary / contract workers who are often assigned field or customer service work.

" Shag " itself ( when used in reference to American social dances ) is a very broad term used to denote a number of swing dances that originated during the early part of the 20th century.

Literary scholars first used this term in the 1960s and 1970s, and the term has only come into broad use since the 1980s, especially as theory used in literary studies has increasingly been influenced by European philosophy and social theory.

However, according to the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, the models used to investigate remote responses to tropical deforestation showed a broad but mild temperature increase all through the tropical atmosphere.

In particular, it has remained in broad use in the embedded computing world, though the recently developed EEMBC benchmark suite, HINT, Stream, and even Bytemark are widely quoted and used, as well as more specific benchmarks for the memory subsystem ( Cachebench ), TCP / IP ( TTCP ), and many others.

Alternative education, also known as non-traditional education or educational alternative, is a broad term that may be used to refer to all forms of education outside of traditional education ( for all age groups and levels of education ).