* Abstractions supporting pseudo terminals ;

Abstractions may be formed by reducing the information content of a concept or an observable phenomenon, typically to retain only information which is relevant for a particular purpose.

* Abstractions: Programming languages usually contain abstractions for defining and manipulating data structures or controlling the flow of execution.

* Modula-2: Abstractions for Data and Programming Structures ( 2004 ) ISBN 0-675-20754-1

* Five Abstractions of the Poems by Emily Dickinson for Woodwind Quartet Five Pieces for four Woodwinds

Most of his claims are found in his paintings, many of which are Lettrist Abstractions.

Abstractions and semi-abstractions by Everett McNear are being exhibited by the University Gallery of Notre Dame until Nov. 5.

** 1. 30 Knowledge of The Universals and Abstractions in a Field

These include " Free Will ", " Abstractions from Abstractions ", " The Metaphysics of Consciousness ", and " Consciousness as Identification ," " Psycho-Epistemology ," and " Philosophic Issues in Economics.

* Early Abstractions ( 1939-56 or 1941-57 or 1946-52 or 1946-57 ) ( assembled ca.

Abstractions, made by subtracting all particularity from ideas, lead to errors and difficulties.

* The Chief Abstractions of Biology, ( 1975 ), North Holland, Amsterdam.

This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

Up until now, the networks have grudgingly run half-hour tapes at 5 P.M. or sometimes 7 or 10:30 P.M..

( I sometimes feel that God, in His infinite wisdom, wants us to have these inexplicable little lapses of memory.

Linguists have not always been more enlightened than `` practical people '' and sometimes have insisted on incredibly trivial points while neglecting things of much greater significance.

Words or phrases that connoisseurs have admired as handsome or ironic or humorous must therefore lose merit and become regarded as mere inevitable time-servers, sometimes accurate and sometimes not.

Japanese fishermen have sometimes observed that sardines hauled up in their nets during a tsunami have enormously swollen stomachs ; ;

Catholic priests have frequently appeared on television programs, sometimes discussing the Christian faith on an equal footing with Protestant clergymen.

Most of them have been assimilated, but sometimes a man in Miyagi or Akita prefectures is much more hairy than the average Japanese, and occasionally a girl will be strikingly lovely, her coloring warmed and improved by a little of the tawny honey-in-the-sun tint of the invaders from the South.

It was an awkward hour, but I didn't have to punch any time clock, and it only meant that sometimes I had to stay a couple of hours later at the drawing board to finish up a job.

He had an easy masculine grace about him, the kind that kids don't have, but that I had sometimes admired in other older men.

: Explicit extrinsic rewards and punishments have been found to sometimes actually have opposite effects on behaviors.

Such cooperative behaviors have sometimes been seen as arguments for left-wing politics such by the Russian zoologist and anarchist Peter Kropotkin in his 1902 book Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution and Peter Singer in his book A Darwinian Left.

At the end of the Devonian period (), the seas, rivers and lakes were teeming with life but the land was the realm of early plants and devoid of vertebrates though some, such as Ichthyostega, may have sometimes hauled themselves out of the water.

The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning ( in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used ).

Sketching is sometimes used within logs, and photographic records of observations have also been used in recent times.

After the records of the property have been traced and the title has been found clear, it is sometimes guaranteed, or insured.

Its symbol Ac is also used in abbreviations of other compounds that have nothing to do with actinium, such as acetyl, acetate and sometimes acetaldehyde.

Then, about halfway through, or sometimes even during the final act, one of the suspects usually dies, often because they have inadvertently deduced the killer's identity and need silencing.

Nontraditional churches, especially the Jehovah's Witnesses, have been subjected to harassment, sometimes violently.

A third option is to have the players portray Corwin's children, in an Amber-like city built around Corwin's pattern ; this is sometimes called an " Argent " game, since one of Corwin's heraldic colours is Silver.

Such ambiguous exercises compound confusion by making it worse compounded, and they are sometimes expanded until the cream of the jest sours.

It is clear that patterns of stress sometimes show construction unambiguously in the spoken language where without the help of context it would be ambiguous in the written.

** Terminology of the British Isles, discusses the sometimes ambiguous or contentious names for parts of the island group

Biotechnology ( see also relatedly bioengineering ) can be a somewhat ambiguous term, sometimes loosely used interchangeably with BME in general ; however, it more typically denotes specific products which use " biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof.

This convention, however, is not always followed, and not explained to the average person clearly ( and is sometimes ambiguous, such as at the beginning of a sentence ).

Usually one can count the ligands attached, but sometimes even the counting can become ambiguous.

The word Gaelic by itself is sometimes used to refer to Scottish Gaelic and is thus ambiguous.

Campbell's dwarf hamster ( Phodopus campbelli ) is the most common — they are also sometimes called " Russian dwarfs "; however, many hamsters are from Russia, so this ambiguous name does not distinguish them from other species appropriately.

Numeral systems are sometimes called number systems, but that name is ambiguous, as it could refer to different systems of numbers, such as the system of real numbers, the system of complex numbers, the system of p-adic numbers, etc.

The inverse of a function is often written, but this notation is sometimes ambiguous.

In East Asian societies the boundary between business and social lives can sometimes be ambiguous as people tend to rely heavily on their closer relations and friends.

He has an ambiguous and sometimes playful relationship with Servalan.

Since the definition of comarques is traditionally a non-official and sometimes ambiguous, many new proposals have been made since the comarques were first officially designated as different towns attempt to adjust the official comarques with what they consider to be their traditional comarca.

For example, in Dutch, u is slowly falling into disuse in the plural, and thus one could sometimes address a group as jullie ( which clearly expresses the plural ) when one would address each member individually as u ( which has the disadvantage of being ambiguous ).

Surveillance is therefore an ambiguous practice, sometimes creating positive effects, at other times negative.

Thence, however, he continued to govern his diocese, while he found leisure for the preparation of two of the most important of his contributions to dogmatic and polemical theology: the De synodis or De fide Orientalium, an epistle addressed in 358 to the Semi-Arian bishops in Gaul, Germany and Britain, expounding the true views ( sometimes veiled in ambiguous words ) of the Eastern bishops on the Nicene controversy ; and the De trinitate libri XII, composed in 359 and 360, in which, for the first time, a successful attempt was made to express in Latin the theological subtleties elaborated in the original Greek.

The scope of the terms Y ' UV, YUV, YCbCr, YPbPr, etc., is sometimes ambiguous and overlapping.

In Greek and Latin sources, Vitalian is sometimes labelled with the same ambiguous term " Scytha "; he is presented as commanding " Hunnic ", " Gothic ", " Scythian ", " Bessian " soldiers, but this information says more about the general's military endeavours, and bears little relevance to elucidating his origins.

" Chino Moreno himself have described his lyrics as ambiguous and sometimes impersonal, saying: " I like to be ambiguous when writing to a certain extent, and throwing something so brash Chi's accident against that and playing with it.

Affected persons may be identified by the finding of two populations of red cells or, if the zygotes are of opposite sex, ambiguous genitalia and hermaphroditism alone or in combination ; such persons sometimes also have patchy skin, hair, or eye pigmentation ( heterochromia ).

Known for his comic-like drawings with disturbing, ironic or ambiguous text, Pettibon's subject matter is sometimes violent and anti-authoritarian.

" Speculative fiction " is sometimes abbreviated " spec-fic ", " specfic ", " S-F ", " SF ", or " sf " but these last three abbreviations are ambiguous as they have long been used to refer to science fiction, which lies within this general range of literature, and in several other abbreviations.