In the wider sense, an alphabet is a script that is segmental at the phoneme level — that is, it has separate glyphs for individual sounds and not for larger units such as syllables or words.

The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).

In Germany, the term Asatru is used in the wider sense of Germanic neopaganism.

In some cases, the term admiralty is used in a wider sense, as meaning sea power or rule over the seas, rather than in strict reference to the institution exercising such power.

A Bohemian () is a resident of the former Kingdom of Bohemia, either in a narrow sense as the region of Bohemia proper or in a wider meaning as the whole country, now known as the Czech Republic.

In a wider sense, most companies in the UK are created under statute since the Companies Act 1985 specifies how a company may be created by a member of the public, but these companies are not called ' statutory corporations '.

The terms are nowadays used in a much wider sense, even referring to autonomous processes that run on the same physical computer and interact with each other by message passing.

Sometimes the word deprogramming is used in a wider ( and / or ironic or humorous sense ), to mean the freeing of someone ( often oneself ) from any previously uncritically assimilated idea.

The flag has been intended to represent Europe in its wider sense.

In science, however, the term glass is usually defined in a much wider sense, including every solid that possesses a non-crystalline ( i. e., amorphous ) structure and that exhibits a glass transition when heated towards the liquid state.

In this wider sense, glasses can be made of quite different classes of materials: metallic alloys, ionic melts, aqueous solutions, molecular liquids, and polymers.

This new identity made it possible for Scottish culture to become integrated into a wider European and North American context, not to mention tourist sites, but it also locked in a sense of " otherness " which Scotland began to shed only in the late 20th century.

The term is derived from the wider senses of the word historia in Latin and Italian, and essentially means " story painting ", rather than the painting of scenes from history in its narrower sense in modern English, for which the term historical painting may be used, especially for 19th century art.

For instance, attempts to sabotage a corporation may be considered industrial espionage ; in this sense, the term takes on the wider connotations of its parent word.

* In the wider sense, it includes all stand-up combat sports that allow both punching and kicking, including Savate, Muay Thai, Indian boxing, Burmese boxing, Sanda, styles of Karate, etc.

Arts labelled as kickboxing in the wider sense include:

In a wider sense, the Mongol people includes all people who speak a Mongolic language, such as the Kalmyks of eastern Europe.

By rationalisation, Weber understood first, the individual cost-benefit calculation, second, the wider, bureaucratic organisation of the organisations and finally, in the more general sense as the opposite of understanding the reality through mystery and magic ( disenchantment ).

Postmodernism is essentially a centralized movement that named itself, based on socio-political theory, although the term is now used in a wider sense to refer to activities from the 20th century onwards which exhibit awareness of and reinterpret the modern.

Mining in a wider sense comprises extraction of any non-renewable resource ( e. g., petroleum, natural gas, or even water ).

" Meritocracy in its wider sense can be any general act of judgment upon the basis of people's various demonstrated merits ; such acts are frequently described in sociology and psychology.

In a wider sense, extended to contemporary religions, it includes most of the Eastern religions and the indigenous traditions of the Americas, Central Asia, Australia and Africa ; as well as non-Abrahamic folk religion in general.

Kraepelin used the term ' manic depressive insanity ' to describe the whole spectrum of mood disorders, in a far wider sense than it is usually used today.

Satire in their work is much wider than in the modern sense of the word, including fantastic and highly coloured humorous writing with little or no real mocking intent.

The term Sudetenland was used in a wider sense when on 1 October 1933 Konrad Henlein founded the Sudeten German Party and in Nazi German parlance Sudetendeutsche ( Sudeten Germans ) referred to all indigenous ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia.

However, the Russian culture has two distinct terms: Средняя Азия ( Srednjaja Azija or " Middle Asia ", the narrower definition, which includes only those traditionally non-Slavic, Central Asian lands that were incorporated within those borders of historical Russia ) and Центральная Азия ( Central ' naja Azija or " Central Asia ", the wider definition, which includes Central Asian lands that have never been part of historical Russia ).

Recent historical interpretations, especially those influenced by Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ( 1962 ), portray the history of science in terms of competing paradigms or conceptual systems battling for intellectual supremacy in a wider matrix that includes intellectual, cultural, economic and political themes outside pure science.

The wider Kabul province, which also includes rural areas, has a population of around 3. 7 million people.

The urban area of the city, although most of it contained within the Larissa municipality, also includes the communities of Giannouli, Platykampos, Nikaia, Terpsithea and several other suburban settlements, which bring the wider urban area population of the city to about 220, 000 inhabitants.

( The term " Luo " is also used for a wider group of languages which includes Dholuo.

St Helena has a land area of 122 square kilometres and is part of a wider territory called Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which includes Ascension Island and the island group of Tristan da Cunha.

* Umberto Eco ( 1932 – present ) made a wider audience aware of semiotics by various publications, most notably A Theory of Semiotics and his novel, The Name of the Rose, which includes applied semiotic operations.

Tramways are now included in the wider term " light rail ", which also includes segregated systems.

In a wider definition, reality includes everything that is and has been, whether or not it is observable or comprehensible.

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 ).

If there are three readings, the first is from the Old Testament ( a term wider than " Hebrew Scriptures ", since it includes the Deuterocanonical Books ), or the Acts of the Apostles during Eastertide.

Like the RUC, the Rapid Refresh model also runs hourly out to 18 hours on a 13-km grid spacing, but also covers a wider area and includes an experimental high-resolution mode that offers 3-km resolution at 15-minute intervals A backup version of the RUC continues to run.

In a wider sense, the term Khordeh Avesta includes all material other than the Yasna, the Visparad and the Vendidad, as it is only the ceremonies contained in these three books that are reserved for the priests.

Note: The early history of historical Williamsburg Township includes a much wider area than the current Williamsburg County

This includes archaeology on land and under water, historic buildings sites and areas, designated landscapes and the historic elements of the wider landscape.

Astrium became EADS Astrium Satellites and in a wider restructuring of EADS became the major constituent of EADS Astrium, which also includes EADS Astrium Space Transportation and EADS Astrium Services.

These flows now form the bulk of the Main Range, Little Liverpool Range and Mistake Range and once covered a much wider area that includes both the Lockyer Valley and Fassifern Valley.

The new Oslo manual from 2005 takes a wider perspective to innovation, and includes marketing and organizational innovation.

( The Sortition article includes a more extensive discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of sortition in a wider range of applications.

Common vegetation of various types of pine forests includes heather, crowberry, common juniper, eared willow, lingonberry, water horsetail, bracken, graminoids ( i. e. grasses in the wider sense ) Avenella flexuosa and Carex globularis, mosses Pleurozium schreberi, Sphagnum angustifolium and S. russowii, and lichens Cladonia spp.

Pasture in a wider sense additionally includes rangelands, other unenclosed pastoral systems and land types used by wild animals for grazing or browsing.