Higher-dimensional categories are part of the broader mathematical field of higher-dimensional algebra, a concept introduced by Ronald Brown.

Although the concept of consilience in Whewell's sense was widely discussed by philosophers of science, the term was unfamiliar to the broader public until the end of the 20th century, when it was revived in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, a 1998 book by the humanist biologist Edward Osborne Wilson, as an attempt to bridge the culture gap between the sciences and the humanities that was the subject of C. P. Snow's The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution ( 1959 ).

" Wilson's concept is a much broader notion of consilience than that of Whewell, who was merely pointing out that generalizations invented to account for one set of phenomena often account for others as well.

By contrast, a dynamic web page is a broader concept, covering any web page generated differently for each user, load occurrence, or specific variable values.

However the general concept of linear filtering is broader, also used in statistics, data analysis, and mechanical engineering among other fields and technologies.

[...] Underpinning this broader concept of universality is the Principle of the Universality of Science ( ICSU Statute 5 ) which is more narrowly focused on the freedoms and responsibilities of science.

In that year, David A. Wiley coined the term OpenContent to describe both a particular licence and the broader concept of non-software libre works.

This ties to his broader concept of rationalisation by suggesting the inevitability of a move in this direction.

This concept closes the gap between taxonomy and cladistics at a broader scale, but is difficult to apply at a species-level resolution.

Merritt Ruhlen notes that this definition is not properly taxonomic but amorphous, since there are broader and narrower degrees of relatedness, and moreover, some linguists who broadly accept the concept ( such as Greenberg and Ruhlen himself ) have criticised the name as reflecting the ethnocentrism frequent among Europeans at the time.

The preface explains that the original concept of a general system theory was " Allgemeine Systemtheorie ( or Lehre )", pointing out the fact that " Theorie " ( or " Lehre ") just as " Wissenschaft " ( translated Scholarship ), " has a much broader meaning in German than the closest English words ‘ theory ’ and ‘ science '".

However, indemnity as a legal concept has a much broader meaning than the other two terms ; namely, an indemnity is to make a party to a contract " whole " again should that contractually-specified event occur.

The concept expressed by ' is ' ( to be ) is far broader than that expressed by ' to subsist '.

The latter is a broader concept: every self-synchronizing code is a prefix code, but not all prefix codes are self-synchronizing.

Whereas the groupware or collaborative software pertains to the technological elements of computer supported cooperative work, collaborative work systems become a useful analytical tool to understand the behavioral and organizational variables that are associated to the broader concept of CSCW.

The broader concept of group therapy can be taken to include any helping process that takes place in a group, including support groups, skills training groups ( such as anger management, mindfulness, relaxation training or social skills training ), and psycho-education groups.

Quality of life is an important concept in the field of international development, since it allows development to be analyzed on a measure broader than standard of living.

A microclimate can offer an opportunity as a small growing region for crops that cannot thrive in the broader area ; this concept is often used in permaculture practiced in northern temperate climates.

In the second half of the 1990s many scholars have started to consciously use the term " informal economy " instead of " informal sector " to refer to a broader concept that includes enterprises as well as employment in developing, transition, and advanced industrialized economies.

In 1991, a four-part television documentary by ABC productions called " The Global Gardener " showed permaculture applied to a range of worldwide situations, bringing the concept to a much broader public.

Thus, by adopting this theory, studying intelligence becomes difficult, because it diffuses into the broader concept of ability or talent.

Prior to that the concept " generation " had generally referred to family relationships, not broader social groupings.

The ' Siegfried ' leitmotif from Act III of Wagner's opera, the third of his ' Ring ' cycle ; the theme is broader and more richly orchestrated than its earlier appearances ( see above ), suggesting the emergence of Siegfried's heroic character Richard Wagner is the earliest composer most specifically associated with the concept of leitmotif.

The Zhou dynasty oriented it to worshipping the broader concept of heaven.

In this respect experience is broader and full of a richer variety of potential meanings than the mind of man or any of his arts or culture are capable of making clear and distinct.

But in looking at Faulkner against his background in Mississippi and the South, it is important not to lose the broader perspective.

If a broader Atlantic community is to be formed -- and my own judgment is that it lies within the realm of both our needs and our capacity -- a ready nucleus of machinery is at hand in the NATO alliance.

Conceived as an organ of economic cooperation, there is no reason why O.E.C.D. cannot evolve into a broader instrument of union if its members so desire.

The burden of these reflections is that a broader unity among the free nations is at the core of our needs.

Until such work is done, there must remain the nagging suspicion that alienation may be little more than an expression of the malaise of the intellectual, who, rejected by and in turn rejecting the larger society, projects his own fear and despair onto the broader social screen.

Nevertheless, it is from the Selden organization that the industry inherited its institutional machinery for furthering the broader interests of the trade.

Though his character is broader and more comically rounded than the don, he gives it a firmness and toughness -- a sort of peasant dignity -- too.

*:" You may not like personally, but he's at least as great a man as Einstein-at least-because his field is broader.

The term " ataxia " is sometimes used in a broader sense to indicate lack of coordination in some physiological process.

The term Building design professional ( or Design professional ), by contrast, is a much broader term including professionals who practice independently under an alternate profession, such as engineering professionals, or those who assist in the practice architecture under the supervision of a licensed architect, such as architectural technologists and intern architects.

His work in this specific field ( based on the criss-crossing between literary criticism, bibliography, and sociocultural history ) is connected to broader historiographical and methodological interests which deal with the relation between history and other disciplines: philosophy, sociology, anthropology.

The term is often used synonymously with the term antibiotic ( s ); today, however, with increased knowledge of the causative agents of various infectious diseases, antibiotic ( s ) has come to denote a broader range of antimicrobial compounds, including anti-fungal and other compounds.

In the west the zone of high land is broader but somewhat lower.

He is rather to be treated as a biographer than as a historian of the Crusade in its broader aspects.

The scope of AA's program is much broader than just abstinence from drinking alcohol.

Algorithm analysis is an important part of a broader computational complexity theory, which provides theoretical estimates for the resources needed by any algorithm which solves a given computational problem.

Molecular absorption, in contrast, is much broader, so that it is more likely that some molecular absorption band will overlap with an atomic line.

Disraeli wrote a personal letter to Gladstone, asking him to place the good of the party above personal animosity: " Every man performs his office, and there is a Power, greater than ourselves, that disposes of all this ..." In responding to Disraeli Gladstone denied that personal feelings played any role in his decision then and previously to accept office, while acknowledging that there were differences between him and Derby " broader than you may have supposed.