Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.

Quantum teleportation is unrelated to the common term teleportation – it does not transport the system itself, and does not concern rearranging particles to copy the form of an object.

* Species, unrelated classification system for flora and fauna

Religious syncretism exhibits blending of two or more religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation into a religious tradition of beliefs from unrelated traditions.

Herschel's name for these objects was adopted by astronomers and has not been changed, even though planetary nebulae are now known to be completely unrelated to the planets of the solar system.

If the position of the imaging system is altered, the pattern will gradually change and will eventually be unrelated to the original speckle pattern.

It involves a number of methods, such as repeating unrelated phrases, to manipulate the relevance or prominence of resources indexed in a manner inconsistent with the purpose of the indexing system.

The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system, which was originally used to write ancient Sumerian, an unrelated language isolate.

The majority of Gundam, including the earliest series, occur in the Universal Century ( UC ) calendar, with later series set in alternate calendars or timelines mostly unrelated to the UC system ( at least three of these calendar systems were actually initially numbered after the year that the series premiered, with 1979's Mobile Suit Gundam taking place in UC 0079, 1995's Mobile Suit Gundam Wing in After Colony 195, and 2007's Mobile Suit Gundam 00 taking place in 2307 ).

The IBM 3720 is unrelated to the similarly-numbered IBM 3270 display terminal system.

This " star ranking " is unrelated to the YDS system, and varies widely from guidebook to guidebook.

It mostly occurs in disorders of the central nervous system ( CNS ) impacting the upper motor neuron in the form of a lesion, such as spastic diplegia, but it can also present in various types of multiple sclerosis, where it occurs as a symptom of the progressively-worsening attacks on myelin sheaths and is thus unrelated to the types of spasticity present in neuromuscular cerebral palsy rooted spasticity disorders.

In fact, the distinction between an adversarial and inquisitorial system is theoretically unrelated to the distinction between a civil legal and common law system.

In reality, the radar system and the class of ship it is installed on are unrelated to each other.

An unrelated type of escrow is when a purchaser of a complex system, such as bespoke process control software or a large industrial installation, may require the supplier to place the design into source code escrow, so that the purchaser remains in a position to maintain and modify the system in case of the demise of the supplier.

Deepak Chopra and Sharma wrote that pulse diagnosis can detect a variety of diseases, including those unrelated to the cardiovascular system, including asthma, cancer, and diabetes.

A system that contains more than one unrelated explanation of the same phenomenon is not as coherent as one that uses only one explanation, all other things being equal.

Most host systems are ordinary commercial computers unrelated to the CPU used for development-for example, a Linux PC might be used to develop software for a system using a Freescale 68HC11 chip, which itself could not run Linux.

The discovery of the coxsackieviruses stimulated many virologists to use this system, and ultimately resulted in the isolation of a large number of so-called " enteric " viruses from the gastrointestinal tract that were unrelated to poliovirus, and some of which were oncogenic ( cancer-causing ).

This " star ranking " is unrelated to the YDS system, and varies from guidebook to guidebook.

These are unrelated birds which have a socially polygynandrous mating system.

Optimal performance of other unrelated software running on a multi-tasking computer system is also considered when defining this requirement.

It is the most polyphetic known enzyme: six distinct classes have been described, all catalyzing the same reaction but representing unrelated gene families with no known sequence or structural homology.

It is sufficiently unrelated to any other known virus that it may belong to a new family.

The majority consensus is that Etruscan is related only to other members of what is called the Tyrsenian language family which is an isolate family, that is, unrelated to other language groups by any known relationship ( see Language isolate ).

The panda ( Ailuropoda melanoleuca, " black and white cat-foot "), also known as the giant panda to distinguish it from the unrelated red panda, is a bear native to central-western and south western China.

In Poland, nearly six hundred unrelated families are known to bear the same Jastrzębiec coat of arms.

He is perhaps best known on Usenet for his famous ( or infamous ) " Happynet Proclamation " ( 1992 ), circulated to many newsgroups, some absurdly unrelated, which satirised the endless flamewars on the network, with Parry posing as a godlike being issuing an edict full of in-jokes and humor targets that claimed to unify all news into one glorious totality, " happynet ".

Though the two scripts – Linear A and B – share some of the same symbols, using the syllables associated with Linear B in Linear A writings produces words that are unrelated to any known language.

* Oceania ( also known as " The Atlantis Project ", but unrelated to the 1970s project listed above ), another libertarian artificial island project that raised US $ 400, 000 before going bankrupt in 1994.

Many more are known in the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds — they are easier to detect in external systems than in our own galaxy because projection effects can cause unrelated clusters within the Milky Way to appear close to each other.

A larger cluster is then known as a stream, if we discover the similar velocities and ages of otherwise unrelated stars.

The most well known Coxsackie A disease is Hand, foot and mouth disease ( unrelated to hoof and mouth disease ), a common childhood illness which affects mostly children aged 5 or under, often produced by Coxsackie A16.

The Etruscans are believed to have spoken a non-Indo-European language ; the majority consensus is that Etruscan is related only to other members of what is called the Tyrsenian language family, which in itself is an isolate family, that is, unrelated directly to other known language groups.

Beggar-My-Neighbour ( alternatively Beggar-Thy-Neighbour or Beggar-Your-Neighbour, each a bowdlerization reflecting the substitution of " beggar " for " bugger "), also known by the etymologically unrelated names Jack Daniels, Beat Jack Out of Doors, Beat Your Neighbour Out of Doors, Beat your Neighbour Out of Town, Strip Jack Naked, Picture and Draw the Well Dry, is a simple card game somewhat similar in nature to War, and has spawned a more complicated variant, Egyptian Ratscrew.

Rusts ( Pucciniales, previously known as Uredinales ) at their greatest complexity produce five different types of spores on two different hosts in two unrelated host families.

The Northern Gannet, a seabird, is also known as the " Solan Goose " although it is a bird unrelated to the true geese, or any other Anseriformes for that matter.

Psychedelics are part of a wider class of psychoactive drugs known as hallucinogens, a class that also includes unrelated substances such as dissociatives and deliriants, but which are grouped together because of their ability to produce hallucinations ( as implied by the name ).

Dust that forms a faint reflection nebulosity around the brightest stars was thought at first to be left over from the formation of the cluster ( hence the alternate name Maia Nebula after the star Maia ), but is now known to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium that the stars are currently passing through.

On 19 December 2007 the project's domain name, shareaza. com, was redirected to a site claiming to be " The Official Home of Shareaza ", promoting the download of a client known as Shareaza V4 ( which had become V6 in October 2009, V7 in August 2010, and V8 ) unrelated to releases by the Shareaza development team, an iMesh clone with only small graphical modifications, and using Shareaza v1 logo ( see the picture above ).

At that time peppercorns, the fruit of Piper nigrum, an unrelated plant originating from India, were a highly prized condiment ; the name " pepper " was at that time applied in Europe to all known spices with a hot and pungent taste and so naturally extended to the newly discovered Capsicum genus.

On the other hand, there are no known affinities between South Caucasian and the northern languages, which are two unrelated phyla even in Greenberg's deep classification of the world's languages.

An unrelated plant species, Fatsia japonica, is similar in appearance and known as the false castor oil plant.

The White-throated Dipper and American Dipper are also known in Britain and America, respectively, as the Water Ouzel ( sometimes spelt " ousel ") – ouzel originally meant the unrelated but superficially similar Eurasian Blackbird ( Old English osle ).