The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

* The femtometre, a convenient unit of length in dealing with distances inside the atomic nucleus, was coined the " fermi " by Robert Hofstadter in a 1956, and is still a term widely used.

In the course of his work, Greenberg coined the term " Afroasiatic " to replace the earlier term " Hamito-Semitic ," after showing that Hamitic, widely accepted since the 19th century, is not a valid language family.

According to the OED, John Paul Scott coined the word " sociobiology " at a 1946 conference on genetics and social behaviour, and became widely used after it was popularized by Edward O. Wilson in his 1975 book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.

Sumner coined the term mores to refer to norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.

Franz Halberg of the University of Minnesota, who coined the word circadian, is widely considered the " father of American chronobiology.

It is widely believed that the term was coined by Michael Jacobson, director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, in 1972.

Under Anderson, Wired has produced some widely noted articles, including the April 2003 " Welcome to the Hydrogen Economy " story, the November 2003 " Open Source Everywhere " issue ( which put Linus Torvalds on the cover and articulated the idea that the open source method was taking off outside of software, including encyclopedias as evidenced by Wikipedia ), the February 2004 " Kiss Your Cubicle Goodbye " issue ( which presented the outsourcing issue from both American and Indian perspectives ), and an October 2004 article by Chris Anderson, which coined the popular term " Long Tail.

The term " unschooling " was coined in the 1970s and used by educator John Holt, widely regarded as the " father " of unschooling.

Although it is widely reported that the term " anchor " was coined to describe Cronkite's role at both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, marking the first nationally televised convention coverage, other news presenters bore the title before him.

Although coined in the 1960s, and used as early as 1973 in reference to Sweet, the term " power pop " was not widely used until around 1978.

His lectures on the history of the Industrial Revolution in 18th and 19th century Britain proved widely influential ; in fact, Toynbee coined, or at least effectively popularised, the term " Industrial Revolution " in the Anglophone world — in Germany and elsewhere it had been brought into circulation earlier by Friedrich Engels, also under the impression of the industrial changes in Britain.

There are reasons to think that De resurrectione is not by Athenagoras but by some 4th-century author, e. g. the use of at least one term ( ἀγαλματοφορέω ) coined by Philo of Alexandria and not widely known before the time of Origen.

The name of the commemorative day was changed to " Hangullal " in 1928, soon after the term " hangul ", coined originally in 1913 by Ju Si-gyeong, became widely accepted as the new name for the alphabet.

He coined the terms " pot sticker " and " stir fry " for the book, terms which are now widely accepted.

The term “ brutalism ” was coined in 1953 and comes from the French béton brut meaning " raw concrete .” Concrete is the material most widely associated with Brutalist architecture.

Two years later, in 1869, the Austrian writer Karl-Maria Kertbeny coined the word " homosexual ", and from the 1870s the subject of sexual orientation ( as we would now say ) began to be widely discussed.

Neoglaciation in the range culminated during the " Little Ice Age ," a term originally coined by Francois Matthes in the Sierra Nevada, but now widely accepted as referring to a period of global glacial expansion between about AD 1250 to 1900.

Wilson coined the San Diego slogan that is still widely used today: " San Diego: America's finest city "

The term was coined to distinguish the sequence from the younger New Red Sandstone which also occurs widely throughout Britain.

The term was coined recently by ecologist Eugene F. Stoermer, but has been widely popularized by the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist, Paul Crutzen, who regards the influence of human behavior on the Earth's atmosphere in recent centuries as so significant as to constitute a new geological era for its lithosphere.

The phrase was coined in 1903 by Andrew Ingraham but became more widely known through its quotation in 1923 by C. K. Ogden and I.

Although originally coined and created to describe this type of Democratic delegate, the term has become widely used to describe these delegates in both parties, even though it is not an official term used by either party.

The family is widely accepted by linguists, and the term " Japonic languages " was coined by Leon Serafim.

The term antimatter was first used by Arthur Schuster in two rather whimsical letters to Nature in 1898, in which he coined the term.

The term is the Old Norse / Icelandic translation of, a neologism coined in the context of 19th century romantic nationalism, used by Edvard Grieg in his 1870 opera Olaf Trygvason.

Burns coined the term Sasquatch, which is from the Halkomelem sásq ’ ets (), and used it in his articles to describe a hypothetical single type of creature reflected in these various stories.

The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

Other terms were coined by the Japanese by giving new senses to existing Chinese terms or by referring to expressions used in classical Chinese literature.

The term is of recent use but is not commonly used in psychology, and according to one analyst, " has been coined more on the Internet than in printed form because it does not appear in any previously published, psychiatric, unabridged, or abridged dictionary ".

The word “ frooglepoopillion ” is occasionally used for an extremely large number, a word coined by the marketing department at the company where Dilbert works, in a strip where it was revealed that the company owed so much money that no word existed to describe the number.

The term was coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in April 1860, and was used to describe evolutionary concepts in general, including earlier concepts such as Spencerism.

The name East Coast Swing was coined initially to distinguish the dance from the street form and the new variant used in the competitive ballroom arena ( as well as separating the dance from West Coast Swing, which was developed in California ).

The adjective feudal was coined in the 17th century, and the noun feudalism, often used in a political and propaganda context, was not coined until the 19th century.

In Germany, the term was used mainly by proponents of closer adaptation to US policies, chiefly Franz Josef Strauss, but was initially coined in scholarly debate, and made known by the German political scientists Walter Hallstein and Richard Löwenthal, reflecting feared effects of withdrawal of US troops from Germany.

The term " Gnosticism " does not appear in ancient sources, and was first coined by Henry More in a commentary on the seven letters of the Book of Revelation, where More used the term " Gnosticisme " to describe the heresy in Thyatira.

The show's name was coined by show business talent manager and producer Bernie Brillstein and derives from a common English onomatopoeia used to describe the braying sound that a donkey makes.

In 1992, author Ted Nelson – who coined both terms in 1963 – wrote: By now the word " hypertext " has become generally accepted for branching and responding text, but the corresponding word " hypermedia ", meaning complexes of branching and responding graphics, movies and sound – as well as text – is much less used.

Some words were shortened ( győzedelem > győzelem, ' triumph ' or ' victory '); a number of dialectal words spread nationally ( e. g. cselleng ' dawdle '); extinct words were reintroduced ( dísz ' décor '); a wide range of expressions was coined using the various derivative suffixes ; and some other, less frequently used methods of expanding the language were utilized.

Indeed, the term " raga rock " was coined by The Byrds ' publicist in the press releases for the single and was first used in print by journalist Sally Kempton in her review of " Eight Miles High " for The Village Voice.

Bonewits also coined much of the modern terminology used to define and articulate many of the conceptual themes and issues which affect the North American Neopagan community.

The Mozilla brand name is originally coined by Netscape Communications Corporation for use in reference to the company's application software, and later used to refer to various open source software initiatives originating at Netscape.

However, this distribution of meanings between the two terms used to be precisely inverse at the time they were coined: The Oxford English Dictionary defined “ racialism ” as “ belief in the superiority of a particular race ” and gives a 1907 quote as the first recorded use.

The technique is common in superhero comics, where it has been used so frequently that the term comic book death has been coined for it.