Alternate history is related to but distinct from counterfactual history — the term used by some professional historians when using thoroughly researched and carefully reasoned speculations on " what might have happened if ..." as a tool of academic historical research.

In a related use, from 1975, British naturalist Sir Peter Scott coined the scientific term " Nessiteras rhombopteryx " ( Greek for " The monster ( or wonder ) of Ness with the diamond shaped fin ") for the apocryphal Loch Ness Monster.

The second suggestion is " vine ", which is reached through * Ambilō, which may be related to the Greek term ámpelos, itself meaning " vine, liana ".

The term is related to the notion of Ribat, a frontier monastery-fortress, through the root r-b-t ( " Rabat ": to tie or " Raabat ": to encamp ).

While the term — literally meaning " sailing the air "— originally referred solely to the science of operating the aircraft, it has since been expanded to include technology, business and other aspects related to aircraft.

While the term " Afghani " is typically used in reference to the unit of Afghan currency, some use the term to indicate a person or thing of, from, or related to Afghanistan, e. g., a citizen of Afghanistan.

Previously, as related in the first reference cited above, Faraday had used the more straightforward term " eisode " ( the doorway where the current enters ).

Professional mathematicians sometimes use the term ( higher ) arithmetic when referring to more advanced results related to number theory, but this should not be confused with elementary arithmetic.

The change was brought on because internationally, the term Bishop is more commonly related to religious leaders than the previous title.

The first syllable of the term bretwalda may be related to ' Briton ' or ' Britain ' and would thus mean ' sovereign of Britain ' or ' wielder of Britain '.

The term ' bootstrapping ' is related to building a security relation with a previously unknown device first and to allow installing security elements ( keys ) in the device and the BSF afterwards.

Since the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the term " Big Brother " has entered the lexicon as a synonym for abuse of government power, particularly in respect to civil liberties, often specifically related to mass surveillance.

The term bean originally referred to the seed of the broad or fava bean, but was later expanded to include members of the New World genus Phaseolus, such as the common bean and the runner bean, and the related genus Vigna.

The term is now applied generally to many other related plants such as Old World soybeans, peas, chickpeas ( garbanzos ), vetches, and lupins.

As a result, in North America, the term " black people " is not an indicator of skin color but of socially based racial classification related to being African American, with a history related to institutionalized slavery.

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.

Similarly, the somewhat related term " bank " refers to the land alongside or sloping down to a river ( riverbank ) or to a body of water smaller than a lake.

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.

Civilization ( or civilisation ) is a sometimes controversial term that has been used in several related ways.

Previously, as related in the first reference cited above, Faraday had used the more straightforward term " exode " ( the doorway where the current exits ).

The term carotene ( also carotin, from the Latin carota, or carrot ) is used for several related unsaturated hydrocarbon substances having the formula C < sub > 40 </ sub > H < sub > x </ sub >, which are synthesized by plants but cannot be made by animals.

The modern sense of the term first appears sometime around the 12th century ; its popularity spread in the medieval period along with the terms isle, ylle, inis, eilean, oileán There is some confusion on what the term crannog originally referred to, the structure atop the island or the island itself The additional meanings of crannog can be variously related as " structure / piece of wood ; wooden pin ; crow's nest ; pulpit ; driver's box on a coach and vessel / box / chest " for crannóg.

Regions as defined in this context are merely for statistical, geographical, geological and climate related purposes and do not refer to an administrative division.

It has been said that twelve cases related in The Labours of Hercules ( 1947 ) must refer to a different retirement, but the fact that Poirot specifically says that he intends to grow marrows indicates that these stories also take place before Roger Ackroyd, and presumably Poirot closed his agency once he had completed them.

The term " total DDT " is often used to refer to the sum of all DDT related compounds ( p, p '- DDT, o, p '- DDT, DDE, and DDD ) in a sample.

English may refer to something of, from, or related to England, especially:

" Lipids " is used to refer to both liquid and solid fats, along with other related substances, usually in a medical or biochemical context.

The term is used to refer to a number of related instruments that were developed and used across Europe beginning in the 12th century and, later, in the Americas.

Greek may refer to anything related to:

The Latin ethnonym " Germani " seems to be attested in the Fasti Capitolini inscription for the year 222 BCE-de Galleis Insvbribvs et Germ ( aneis )-where it may simply refer to " related " peoples, namely related to the Gauls.

The term ' Hong Konger ' or ' Hongkonger ' is used to refer to the Hong Kong people, while ' Hong Kong ' ( or ' Hongkongese ') is an adjective for people or things related to Hong Kong.

Sometimes, " international English " and the related terms above refer to a desired standardisation, i. e. Standard English ; however, there is no consensus on the path to this goal.

It may also refer to the Muslim scholars who created the analytical sciences related to Hadith or it may refer to the heads of the Prophet Muhammad's family in their generational times.

However, the term is frequently used to refer to a practice in which an insider or a related party trades based on material non-public information obtained during the performance of the insider's duties at the corporation, or otherwise in breach of a fiduciary or other relationship of trust and confidence or where the non-public information was misappropriated from the company.

* Abrahamism – an umbrella term used to refer to the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as well as sometimes indicating smaller, related religions such as Bahá ' í Faith and Samaritans

The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an adjective, to describe characteristics of an object or activity related to female same-sex desire.

The related quantities LD < sub > 50 </ sub >/ 30 or an LD < sub > 50 </ sub >/ 60 are used to refer to a dose that without treatment will be lethal to 50 % of the population within ( respectively ) 30 or 60 days.

Metaphor and analogy both work by bringing together two concepts from different conceptual domains, whereas metonymy works by using one element from a given domain to refer to another closely related element.

Scottish may refer to something of, from, or related to Scotland, a country in northern Europe, part of the United Kingdom since 1707.

Many verlan words refer either to sex or drugs, related to the original purpose of keeping communication secret from institutions of social control.

There are two separate but closely related fields to which the name " magnetic field " can refer, denoted by the symbols and.

Reductionism can refer to one of several philosophical positions related to this approach.

“ Political ” is used by AI to refer to aspects of human relations related to “ politics ”: the mechanisms of society and civil order, the principles, organization, or conduct of government or public affairs, and the relation of all these to questions of language, ethnic origin, sex or religion, status or influence ( among other factors ).

Georges Braque's 1908 Houses at L ’ Estaque ( and related works ) prompted the critic Louis Vauxcelles to refer to bizarreries cubiques ( cubic oddities ).

The related terms data dredging, data fishing, and data snooping refer to the use of data mining methods to sample parts of a larger population data set that are ( or may be ) too small for reliable statistical inferences to be made about the validity of any patterns discovered.