The first documented definition of the word " cocktail " was in response to a reader's letter asking to define the word in the May 6, 1806, issue of The Balance and Columbia Repository in Hudson, New York.

The use of the word " cocktail " in the name does not mean that it contains alcohol, but refers to the secondary definition " An appetizer made by combining pieces of food, such as fruit or seafood ".

Although the phrase " perfect game " appeared in record books as early as 1922, and was a common expression years before that, Major League Baseball did not formalize the definition of a " perfect game " until 1991, long after Young's death.

Turing adds another definition, Rosser equates all three: Within just a short time, Turing's 1936 – 37 paper " On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem " appeared.

" This appeared to some to be incompatible with Leo's definition of two natures hypostatically joined.

According to Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: " a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him.

The Oxford English Dictionary ( 2nd ed., 1989 ) kludge entry cites one source for this word's earliest recorded usage, definition, and etymology: Jackson W. Granholm's 1962 " How to Design a Kludge " article, which appeared in the American computer magazine Datamation.

The definition of total order appeared first historically and is a first-order axiomatization of the ordering ≤ as a binary predicate.

The first definition appeared in April 1964.

In 1993, Charlotte Caron's definition of thealogy as " reflection on the divine in feminine and feminist terms " appeared in " To Make and Make Again " ( Russell & Clarkson 1996 ).

A very influential article that helped to frame the 20th century's definition of mass production appeared in a 1926 Encyclopædia Britannica supplement.

The Georgian poets were, by the strictest definition, those whose works appeared in a series of five anthologies named Georgian Poetry, published by Harold Monro and edited by Edward Marsh.

Yeoman or gauman within the definition of both land and / or service of a young man appeared mostly settled around the border regions or remote countrysides of their districts, or kingdoms ( both modern and ancient ); thus a connection or association with pagus ( pages ), or rustics to the term yeoman.

It's almost certainly the oldest kind of cryptic clue: cryptic definitions appeared in the UK newspaper puzzles in the late 1920s and early 1930s that mixed cryptic and plain definition clues and evolved into fully cryptic crosswords.

According to the historian Doris Bergen, Adolf Hitler is reputed to have coined the definition of " Volksdeutsche " which appeared in a 1938 memorandum of the German Reich Chancellery.

Larger number in Buddhism works up to Bukeshuo bukeshuo zhuan ( 不可說不可說轉 ) or 10 < sup > 37218383881977644441306597687849648128 </ sup >, which appeared as Bodhisattva's maths in the Avataṃsaka Sūtra., though chapter 30 ( the Asamkyeyas ) in Thomas Cleary's translation of it we find the definition of the number " untold " as exactly 10 < sup > 10 * 2 < sup > 122 </ sup ></ sup >, expanded in the 2nd verses to 10 < sup > 45 * 2 < sup > 121 </ sup ></ sup > and continuing a similar expansion indeterminately.

Since the sixth episode of season 7, it has appeared in letterbox format when in standard definition.

The definition of " rightists " was not always consistent, sometimes including critics to the left of the government, but officially referred to those intellectuals who appeared to favour capitalism and class divisions and against collectivization.

The topos definition first appeared somewhat obliquely, in or about 1960.

About 1845 we have the first of that long series of half-page and quarter-page pictures of life and manners, executed with a hand as gentle as it was skilful, containing, as Ruskin has said, " admittedly the finest definition and natural history of the classes of our society, the kindest and subtlest analysis of its foibles, the tenderest flattery of its pretty and well-bred ways ", which has yet appeared.

Although it formally appeared in Bobbitt's definition, curriculum as a course of formative experience also pervades John Dewey's work ( who disagreed with Bobbitt on important matters ).

Sereno offered a revised definition of the sub-group containing Microraptor to ensure that it would fall within Dromaeosauridae, and erected the subfamily Microraptorinae, attributing it to Senter et al., though this usage has only appeared on his online TaxonSearch database and has not been formally published.

Some appeared in the interpretation of terms, as when the words ' white person ' were inserted in the definition of banksman, onsetter, ganger and mine manager.

" The Ordiances, Al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyya w ' al-Wilayat al-Diniyya, provide a detailed a definition of the functions of caliphate government which, under the Buyids appeared to be rather indefinite and ambiguous.

The author of the Gospel of Luke, at, writes that Jesus appeared to two disciples who were walking from Jerusalem to Emmaus, which is described as being 60 stadia from Jerusalem ( 10. 4 to 12 km depending on what definition of stadia is used ), after his resurrection.

The term mundani is apparently derived from the archaic term mundify which appeared in a dictionary from 1604 with the definition " to make clean ".

Dhrystone 2. 1, released in May of the same year, had some minor changes and remains the current definition of Dhrystone.

Prior to 1947, the only definition of first-class cricket had been one in Great Britain that dated from a meeting at Lord's in May 1894 between the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) committee and the secretaries of the clubs involved in the official County Championship, which had begun in 1890.

School textbooks in Ireland follow the cultural norm of summer commencing on 1 May rather than the meteorological definition of 1 June.

According to the American calendar, the U. S. summer season is commonly regarded as beginning on Memorial Day weekend ( the last weekend in May ) and ending on Labor Day weekend ( the first weekend in September ), more closely in line with the meteorological definition ; the similar Canadian tradition starts summer on Victoria Day one week prior ( although summer conditions vary widely across Canada's expansive territory ) and ends, like the United States, on Labour Day.

Its operational definition of Palestine refugee for persons qualifying for UNRWA assistance says " whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948, and 1967 conflicts ," descendants are also eligible for registration.

At Rome, this definition was rejected in the consistory of 27 May, and Luther declared that he could accept it only provided the opposers would admit that hitherto they had taught differently from what was meant in the present instance.

* U. S. Radio and Television Corp. " Ultra-violet rays used in Television ", New York Times, 29 May 1929, p. 5: Demonstration of transmission of a low definition ( mechanically scanned ) video signal over a modulated light beam.

In consideration of Miller in May and June 1972, Burger pushed successfully for a looser definition of " obscenity " which would allow local prosecutions, while Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., who by now also believed the Roth and Memoirs tests should be abandoned, led the charge for protecting all " obscenity " unless distributed to minors or exposed offensively to unconsenting adults.

A high definition version, Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury, was released for Xbox Live Arcade in May 2011.

Sky released the high definition version of Sky News on 6 May 2010 to coincide with the 2010 election results.

On 16 May 2012, RTÉ Two HD was added to the Sky EPG on channel 294 before moving to 227 in July 2012, it swaps with the standard definition channel on channel 102 in Ireland and channel 162 in Northern Ireland for HD customers.

In May 2010 the USDA acknowledged this definition in an informational leaflet.

On May 4, 2012, the http :// www. conseil-constitutionnel. fr ( French supreme Court ) quashed the definition of the criminal code as being too vague.

Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (; 13 February 1805 – 5 May 1859 ) was a German mathematician with deep contributions to number theory ( including creating the field of analytic number theory ), and to the theory of Fourier series and other topics in mathematical analysis ; he is credited with being one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

On May 15, 2008, the Supreme Court of California issued a decision in which it effectively legalized same-sex marriage in California, holding that California's existing opposite-sex definition of marriage violated the constitutional rights of same-sex couples.

In May 2005, the first high definition video conferencing systems, produced by LifeSize Communications, were displayed at the Interop trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada, able to provide 30 frames per second at a 1280 by 720 display resolution.

35 wards of the former city were integrated into 22 on March 15, 1947 just before the legal definition of special wards was given by the Local Autonomy Law, enforced on May 3 the same year.

* May 1 – The initial case definition of Chronic fatigue syndrome ( the " Holmes definition ") is published, displacing the name Chronic Epstein-Barr virus syndrome.

The village took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, and on this day became a " Town " by common definition.

* TRT HD ( launched May 2010 )-High definition television channel of TRT broadcasting several programmes from the other TRT channels in HD format.

* TRT 1 HD ( launched May 19, 2012 )-TRT 1 simulcast channel in high definition.

The new high-definition television system was first put in place in May for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest while on 26 November 2008, RTS began airing its new channel ‘’ RTS Culture and Arts ’’ which is a DTT-only channel, transmitted in 16: 9 standard definition format, with stereo and 5. 1 digital audio.