For example, the shooting percentage in basketball is a descriptive statistic that summarizes the performance of a player or a team.

The descriptive terminology may have originated in the mid-1960s, when soul was a common definer used to describe African-American culture ( for example, soul music ).

With the exception of Meet – The Tiger !, chapter titles of Templar novels usually contain a descriptive phrase describing the events of the chapter ; for example, Chapter Four of Knight Templar is entitled " How Simon Templar dozed in the Green Park and discovered a new use for toothpaste ".

* Scale ( descriptive set theory ), an object defined on a set of points ( for example real numbers ) and used for a wide variety of applications

The descriptive power of the observer ’ s chosen ( or implicit ) computational model class, for example, can be an overwhelming determinant in finding regularity in data.

This meant that the name no longer need be descriptive ; for example both parts could be derived from the names of people.

For example, one speaks of " White's f-pawn " or " Black's b-pawn ", or less commonly ( using descriptive notation ), " White's king's bishop pawn " or " Black's queen's knight pawn ".

For example, a descriptive system widely adopted in Australia is based on structural characteristics based on life-form, plus the height and amount of foliage cover of the tallest layer or dominant species.

For example, terms such as " Asian ", " incorrect ", " drunk ", or " full-cheeked " are often interpreted as derogatory, when in fact they may be neutral descriptive terms or factual statements, which, at worst, would be simply inaccurate or incorrect rather than insulting.

The most that may be suggested is that some of the descriptions of Roark's buildings, in part, resemble those of Wright: a notable example being the " Heller House " – the first of Roark's designs to be built – cantilevered over the edge of a cliff in a descriptive image reminiscent of Wright's famous Fallingwater in Pennsylvania.

For example, descriptive linguists seem to claim unhesitatingly that there were no scientifically based language teaching methods before their work ( which led to the audio-lingual method developed for the U. S. Army in World War II ).

For example in some tonal languages with few tones, whistled messages typically consist of stereotyped or otherwise standardized expressions, are elaborately descriptive, and often have to be repeated.

Instrumental pieces in popular music often have a descriptive title which suggests that they could be categorized as program music, and several instrumental albums are completely devoted to some programmatic idea ( for example, China by Vangelis or The Songs of Distant Earth by Mike Oldfield ).

For example, Britt Hagarty writes of the “ many descriptive passages worthy of quotation ” ( G6 ).

Lawrence Kohlberg is one example of a psychologist working on descriptive ethics.

For example, tracking the decline of the popularity of slavery across cultures is the work of descriptive ethics, while advising that slavery be avoided is normative.

Given that metadata is a set of descriptive, structural and administrative data about a group of computer data ( for example such as a database schema ), Java Metadata Interface ( or JMI ) is a platform-neutral specification that defines the creation, storage, access, lookup and exchange of metadata in the Java programming language.

The following is an example from an unproduced screenplay which may give the reader an idea of how a scene without camera angles can be descriptive, and perhaps even poetic, so as to convey the proper time frame ( 1910 ) and / or ambiance:

An example of such a descriptive mark is ' Brand Protect ', a brand belonging to the leading intellectual property protection firm.

Eccentric is a descriptive term for ships and not a group in its own right ; for example, ROU Shoot Them Later was both Eccentric and part of the AhForgetIt Tendency of the Culture Ulterior.

It was etymological, with the vowels based on written Icelandic, rather than phonetically descriptive ( as in for example Welsh.

For example, two authors who happen to have published under the same name can be distinguished from each other by adding middle initials, birth and / or death ( or flourished, if these are unknown ) dates, or a descriptive epithet to the heading of one ( or both ) authors.

A further descriptive example appears in The prophecy of Neferti.

* For another descriptive example see http :// chrishecker. com / Rigid_Body_Dynamics # Physics_Articles, Chris Hecker, physics section, part 4.

The following is an example of the classic Hello world program, a common test employed for comparing programming languages, scripting languages and markup languages.

A well-known example of a markup language in widespread use today is HyperText Markup Language ( HTML ), one of the document formats of the World Wide Web.

The markup language used by Wikipedia is one example.

From the late ' 80s on, most substantial new markup languages have been based on SGML system, including for example TEI and DocBook.

For example, SGML made end tags ( or start-tags, or even both ) optional in certain contexts, because it was thought that markup would be done manually by overworked support staff who would appreciate saving keystrokes.

There is active research on non-hierarchical markup models, some expressed within XML and related languages ( for example, using the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines and derivatives such as the Open Scripture Information Standard and CLIX ), and some not ( for example, MECS and the Layed Markup and Annotation Language or LMNL ).

In contrast, the tag in HTML is an example of presentational markup ; it is generally used to specify a particular characteristic of the text ( in this case, the use of an italic typeface ) without specifying the reason for that appearance.

Because markup languages, and more generally data description languages ( not necessarily textual markup ), are not programming languages ( they are data without instructions ), they are more easily manipulated than programming languages – for example, web pages are presented as HTML documents, not C code, and thus can be embedded within other web pages, displayed when only partially received, and so forth.

SGML markup languages whose concrete syntax enables the SHORTTAG VALUE feature, do not require attribute values containing only alphanumeric characters to be enclosed within quotation marks — either double ( LIT ) or single ( LITA )— so that the previous markup example could be written:

One feature of SGML markup languages is the " presumptuous empty tagging ", such that the empty end tag in " inherits " its value from the nearest previous full start tag, which, in this example, is ( in other words, it closes the most recently opened item ).

In HTML, there is a standard set of 252 named character entities for characters-some common, some obscure-that are either not found in certain character encodings or are markup sensitive in some contexts ( for example angle brackets and quotation marks ).

VoiceXML, for example, includes tags related to speech recognition, dialogue management and touchtone dialing, in addition to text-to-speech markup.

A common markup is using double square brackets around the term to be wikilinked, for example, the following input: < nowiki > wiki software </ nowiki > — will be converted by wiki software to look like this: wiki software.

A very different example comes up with many familiar markup languages.

Here, a " flattened schema " defines precisely the same book markup as the previous example:

In markup languages such as XML, such groups are typically enclosed in a container ( for example, < child >), which is then repeated as necessary.

Before CSS was commonplace, web developers may have resorted to some structurally invalid markup to achieve certain presentational goals-for example, including block level elements within inline elements to obtain a particular effect.

It is an example of a compact human-readable markup language.

Normally non-ASCII typesetting is used for the mathematical equations, for example by means of TeX or MathML markup, or proprietary Formula editor formats.

* History and example markup at Typophile

This may be contrasted with, for example, user interface markup languages, which define user interfaces declaratively.