Definitions of famines are based on three different categories – these include food supply-based, food consumption-based and mortality-based definitions.

Definitions based on the historic Oregon Country reach east to the Continental Divide, thus including nearly all of Idaho and parts of western Montana and western Wyoming.

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.

Definitions format was loosely based on the word game Hangman.

Definitions vary, however all are based on the Victorian distribution of mallee eucalypts.

Definitions should not refer to terms or concepts that might be misinterpreted by others or that have different meanings based on the context of a situation.

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 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.

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.

The minor exception codes associated with the standard exceptions that are found in Table 3-13 on page 3-58 are or-ed with OMGVMCID to get the minor code value that is returned in the ex_body structure ( see Section 3. 17. 1, “ Standard Exception Definitions ,” on page 3-52 and Section 3. 17. 2, “ Standard Minor Exception Codes ,” on page 3-58 ).

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

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 that focus on a systems approach tend to reach further back in history, while those definitions focused on sensory devices are more recent.

Definitions of professionalism differ among news agencies ; their reputations, according to professional standards, and depending on what the reader wants, are often tied to the appearance of objectivity.

Augustine wrote four letters specifically on Pelagianism, " De peccatorum meritis et remissione libri III " ( Three Books on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins ) in 412, " De spiritu et litera " ( On the Spirit and the Letter ) and " Definitiones Caelestii " ( Caelestius's Definitions ) in 414, and " De natura et gratia " ( On Nature and Grace ) in 415.

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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.

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 of trust typically refer to a situation characterised by the following aspects: One party ( trustor ) is willing to rely on the actions of another party ( trustee ); the situation is directed to the future.

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

After the third round, the player in the lead won the game and advanced to the Double Definitions bonus round while the losing player received parting gifts and whatever they had earned during the game.

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.

* 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 )

* 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.

Definitions of agroecology, therefore, may be first grouped according to the specific contexts within which they situate agriculture.

The complete work comprises five major sections: the seventeen levels ( bāhu-bhūmi ) which covers the entire range of mental and spiritual levels in Buddhism according to Mahāyāna ; the Compendium of Definitions ( viniścaya-samgraha ) which discusses and explicates aspects of the bāhu-bhūmi portion ; the Compendium of Exegesis ( vivarana-samgraha ), a manual of hermeneutical and exegetical techniques ; the Compendium of Synonyms ( paryāya-samgraha ) defining many of the various strings of quasi-synonymical expressions found in the Agamas ; the Compendium of Topics ( vastu-samgraha ) summarizing and explaining the key topics of each sūtra contained in the Samyukta-āgama ; and the Compendium of the Vinaya ( vinaya-samgraha ).

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.

Definitions of the term vary among the disciplines: in social and information sciences, heterarchies are networks of elements in which each element shares the same " horizontal " position of power and authority, each playing a theoretically equal role.

In 2001, the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the American Pain Society, and the American Society of Addiction Medicine jointly issued " Definitions Related to the Use of Opioids for the Treatment of Pain ", which defined the following terms:

Definitions of " economic rent " are much disputed in economic theory, but basically they refer to an " unearnt income " ( which may be conceptualized as being not a " factor-income ", but an income in excess of factor-income ) which derives from a favorable trading position or from the monopolization of a resource.

* 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 ).

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.

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.

The meaning of the synsets is further clarified with short defining glosses ( Definitions and / or example sentences ).

His manifesto is called Never Whistle While You're Pissing, containing his Definitions and Distinctions, an anarchist interpretation of capitalist concepts.

Definitions of the Pacific Northwest region vary and there is no commonly agreed upon boundary, even among Pacific Northwesterners.

Definitions regarding what is considered noise, relative to music, have changed over time.

Definitions 9 and 10 apply this, saying that if p, q and r are in proportion then p: r is the duplicate ratio of p: q and if p, q, r and s are in proportion then p: s is the triplicate ratio of p: q.

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Definitions vary, but generally the East Village is considered to be the area east of Broadway and the Bowery to the East River, between 14th Street and Houston Street.

Fielder's choice is defined in MLB Rule 2, " Definitions ", as " the act of a fielder who handles a fair grounder and, instead of throwing to first base to put out the batter-runner, throws to another base in an attempt to put out a preceding runner.

The Act lists, in the Definitions ( Section 2 ), what is meant by insured services-in general, this retains the restriction to hospital and physician services arising from the earlier legislation.

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.

Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk.

Under the Official Baseball Rules used in Major League Baseball and many lower leagues, " Infield Fly " is explained by rule 2. 00 ( Definitions of terms ), and rule 6. 05e ( Batter is out ).