Definitions of evil vary, as does the analysis of its root motives and causes ; however, evil is commonly associated with conscious and deliberate wrongdoing, discrimination designed to harm others, humiliation of people designed to diminish their psychological well-being and dignity, destructiveness, motives of causing pain or suffering for selfish or malicious intentions, and acts of unnecessary or indiscriminate violence.

* POSIX. 1-2008: POSIX Base Definitions, System Interfaces, and Commands and Utilities ( which include POSIX. 1, extensions for POSIX. 1, Real-time Services, Threads Interface, Real-time Extensions, Security Interface, Network File Access and Network Process-to-Process Communications, User Portability Extensions, Corrections and Extensions, Protection and Control Utilities and Batch System Utilities )

Definitions and licensing requirements in the United States vary among jurisdictions, as each state has enacted its own physical therapy practice act defining the profession within its jurisdiction, but the American Physical Therapy Association ( APTA ) has also drafted a model definition in order to limit this variation, and the APTA is also responsible for accrediting physical therapy education curricula throughout the United States of America.

Definitions based on the percent of the stride during which a foot is in contact with the ground ( averaged across all feet ) of greater than 50 % contact corresponds well with identification of ' inverted pendulum ' mechanics and are indicative of walking for animals with any number of limbs, although this definition is incomplete.

Each defines the primitive operations and permissible responses required to exchange information between peer processes in communicating systems to carry out all or a subset of the services defined within the OSI -- Service Definitions for that layer.

The VMCID OMGVMCID ( Section 3. 17. 1, “ Standard Exception Definitions ,” on page 3-52 ) and 1 through 0xf are reserved for OMG use.

design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources for learning ," according to the Association for Educational Communications and Technology ( AECT ) Definitions and Terminology Committee.

Definitions for the most widely used terms are listed below.

Definitions of infertility differ, with demographers tending to define infertility as childlessness in a population of women of reproductive age, while the epidemiological definition is based on " trying for " or " time to " a pregnancy, generally in a population of women exposed to a probability of conception.

Title VII applies to and covers an employer " who has fifteen ( 15 ) or more employees for each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year " as written in the Definitions section under 42 U. S. C.

According to the handbook, Definitions of Rural: A Handbook for Health Policy Makers and Researchers, “ Residents of metropolitan counties are generally thought to have easy access to the relatively concentrated health services of the county ’ s central areas.

Wood, Proposed Terms and Definitions for Flexible AC Transmission System ( FACTS ), IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol.

Definitions for pseudocode:

* RFC 5890 " Internationalized Domain Names for Applications ( IDNA ): Definitions and Document Framework "

The emerging church, sometimes wrongly equated with the emergent movement or emergent conversation, ( see " Definitions and terminology " and " Similar labels " below for clarification ) is a Christian movement of the late 20th and early 21st centuries that crosses a number of theological boundaries: participants can be described as Protestant, post-Protestant, catholic, evangelical, post-evangelical, liberal, post-liberal, conservative, post-conservative, anabaptist, adventist, reformed, charismatic, neocharismatic, and post-charismatic.

An example is the 1999 ISDA Credit Derivatives Definitions, which provide basic definitions for credit default swaps, total return swaps, credit linked notes and other credit derivative transactions.

Definitions using gauge, rather than scale, was used more common in the early days with the four gauges for which standards were adopted being No. 0 ( commonly called O gauge nowadays ), No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3.

In his papers " The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms " ( 1937 ) and " Persuasive Definitions " ( 1938 ), and his book Ethics and Language ( 1944 ), he developed a theory of emotive meaning ; which he then used to provide a foundation for his theory of a persuasive definition.

Definitions which are open to human interpretation cause much ill-will at conformation shows when exhibitors disagree with the decision of the judge, despite the fact that the fanciers hire the judges and pay entry fees for the judge's opinion of their breeding stock.

Management Reporter for Microsoft Dynamics ERP: a corporate performance management solution for the Microsoft Dynamics ERP systems allows easy creation and consolidation of financial statements using a " building block " approach with Rows, Columns, Trees and Report Definitions and the familiar user interface used by Microsoft Office applications.

** FIBRE-CHANNEL-FE-MIB: RFC 2837 Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fabric Element in Fibre Channel Standard

* HPR-IP-MIB: RFC 2584 — Definitions of Managed Objects for APPN / HPR in IP Networks

*, U. S. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, Definitions

* Monoclonal mast cell activation, defined by the World Health Organisation definitions 2010, also has increased mast cells but insufficient to be systemic mastocytosis ( in World Health Organisation Definitions )

He went on to write several books, including Complete Science of Wrestling ( 1909 ), Fitness and Your Self ( 1937 ), Consciousness and Character: True Definitions of Entity, Individuality, Personality, Nonentity ( 1937 ), The Way To Live In Health and Physical Fitness ( 1941 ), and The Three Memories and Forgetfulness: What They Are and What Their True Significance is in Human Life.

CSTE has worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) on Case Definitions for Public Health Surveillance and Chronic Disease Indicators.

* Case Definitions for Infectious Conditions Under Public Health Surveillance at CDC

* A person who is directed by an intelligence organization to use his position to influence public opinion or decision-making in a manner that will advance the objective of the country for which that organization operates ( Counterintelligence Glossary — Terms & Definitions of Interest for Department of Defense Counterintelligence Professionals ).

* Stephen Davies ( 1991 ), Definitions of Art.

Definitions of community as " organisms inhabiting a common environment and interacting with one another ," while scientifically accurate, do not convey the richness, diversity and complexity of human communities.

Definitions of complexity often depend on the concept of a " system "— a set of parts or elements that have relationships among them differentiated from relationships with other elements outside the relational regime.

Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social, cultural, aesthetic, artistic and moral constraints and range from functional movement ( such as folk dance ) to virtuoso techniques such as ballet.

# Definitions should avoid circularity.

Definitions of the hyper-real line within non-standard analysis ( the subject area dealing with such numbers ) overwhelmingly include the usual, uncountable set of real numbers as a subset.

Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social, cultural, aesthetic, artistic and moral constraints and range from functional movement ( such as Folk dance ) to codified, virtuoso techniques such as ballet.

" Definitions such as that offered by the House of Lords Select Committee on Medical Ethics take this path, where euthanasia is defined as " a deliberate intervention undertaken with the express intention of ending a life, to relieve intractable suffering.

Definitions of the niche date back to 1917, but G. Evelyn Hutchinson made conceptual advances in 1957 by introducing a widely adopted definition: " the set of biotic and abiotic conditions in which a species is able to persist and maintain stable population sizes.

Definitions can go wrong by using ambiguous, obscure, or figurative language.

Definitions should be defined in the most prosaic form of language to be understood.

* R. Partain, " Comparative Family Law, Korean Family Law, and the Missing Definitions of Family ", ( 2012 ) HongIk University Journal of Law, Vol.

Definitions were also added to the 1703 edition.

While Constantinople experienced a succession of councils alternately approving and condemning doctrine concerning hesychasm considered as identified with Palamism ( the last of the five senses in which, according to Kallistos Ware, the term is used ), the Western Church held no council in which to make a pronouncement on the issue, and the word " hesychasm " does not appear in the Enchiridion Symbolorum et Definitionum ( Handbook of Creeds and Definitions ), the collection of Roman Catholic teachings originally compiled by Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger.

Definitions of the term vary.

Definitions of how large a carbohydrate must be to fall into the categories polysaccharides or oligosaccharides vary according to personal opinion.

Definitions of social classes reflect a number of sociological perspectives, informed by anthropology, economics, psychology, and sociology.

* Base Definitions ( XBD )-a list of definitions and conventions used in the specifications and a list of C header files which must be provided by compliant systems.