The term shmoo has also entered the lexicon, defining highly technical concepts in no less than four separate fields of science, including the variations shmooing ( a microbiological term for the " budding " process in yeast reproduction ), and shmoo plot ( a technical term in the field of electrical engineering ).

It was intended specifically for the new class of users that time-sharing systems allowed — that is, a less technical user who did not have the mathematical background of the more traditional users and was not interested in acquiring it.

The term coming-of-age novel is sometimes used interchangeably with Bildungsroman, but its use is usually wider and less technical.

*" Fine-grained ", designating a more finely differentiated form of a technical or abstract system, in contrast to " coarse-grained ", a less differentiated one

On a national level, this is controversial in many countries due to technical mistrust of the security of the escrow arrangement ( due to a long history of less than adequate protection of others ' information by assorted organizations, public and private, even when the information is held only under an affirmative legal obligation to protect it from unauthorized access ), and to a mistrust of the entire system even if it functions as designed.

Open standards are less strictly defined, but by some definitions the term describes technical standards without legal restrictions.

* MP3 More ( less technical ) detail about MPEG-1 Layer III audio

The middle four ( sometimes called the " engine room " or " power house ") are usually the less technical, but more powerful rowers in the crew, whilst the bow pair are the more technical and generally regarded as the pair to set up the balance of the boat.

However, it was less popular when commercial radio broadcasting began in the 1920s, mostly due to the need for an extra tube ( for the oscillator ), the generally higher cost of the receiver, and the level of technical skill required to operate it.

In addition to the main school system, Ireland has a parallel system of vocational schools, which place less focus on academic subjects and more on vocational and technical skills-around 25 % of students attend these.

John Dewey, less broadly than James but more broadly than Peirce, held that inquiry, whether scientific, technical, sociological, philosophical or cultural, is self-corrective over time if openly submitted for testing by a community of inquirers in order to clarify, justify, refine and / or refute proposed truths.

Multilinear algebra can be developed in greater generality than for scalars coming from a field, but the theory is then certainly less geometric, and computations more technical and less algorithmic.

Furthermore, arcades gradually became less profitable throughout the 1990s due to the increased technical power and popularity of home consoles.

The book served to demystify the subject, making it more accessible to less technical researchers and enthusiasts, with an impact similar to that which his book The Virtual Community had on virtual community research lines closely related to VR.

However, it is a moderated list, considerably less zany and somewhat more technical.

One journal to precede Nature was titled Recreative Science: A Record and Remembrancer of Intellectual Observation, which, created in 1859, began as a natural history magazine and progressed to include more physical observational science and technical subjects and less natural history.

The strategic balance between the United States and Russia is becoming less stable, and the objective, technical possibility of a first strike by the United States is increasing.

The main purpose of technical illustration is to describe or explain these items to a more or less nontechnical audience.

In 1974, David Bell and Leonard LaPadula of MITRE, working under the close technical guidance and economic sponsorship of Maj. Roger Schell, Ph. D., of the U. S. Army Electronic Systems Command ( Ft. Hanscom, MA ), devised what is known as the Bell-LaPadula model, in which a more or less trustworthy computer system is modeled in terms of objects ( passive repositories or destinations for data, such as files, disks, printers ) and subjects ( active entities — perhaps users, or system processes or threads operating on behalf of those users — that cause information to flow among objects ).

Rapids on the Groundhog tend to be bigger and more technical than those on the Missinaibi, but the campsites are few and poor, because the volume of travel is so much less.

Ranchera, Mexico's country music, differs from mariachi in that it is less technical and its lyrics are not sang in prose.

Use of the term to describe writers, for example, is certainly valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism.

Although still used in general contexts, it is now often replaced by other words which are less emotionally charged, such as populations, people ( s ), ethnic groups or communities depending on context.

Due to the complex history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed upon definition of the Third World and the term is now less popular than it was during the 1970s and 1980s.

It is seen by some to be a term only appropriate to the study of religions that worship a deity ( a theos ), and to presuppose belief in the ability to speak and reason about this deity ( in logia )— and so to be less appropriate in religious contexts that are organized differently ( religions without a deity, or that deny that such subjects can be studied logically ).

" The aim of appeals to simplicity in such contexts seem to be more about shifting the burden of proof, and less about refuting the less simple theory outright.

However, suppletive use of less and least with count nouns is common in many contexts, some of which attract criticism as nonstandard or low-prestige.

By extension, the term seat is often used in less formal contexts to refer to an electoral district itself, as for example in the phrases " safe seat " and " marginal seat ".

The proper name of the pueblo is " at red willow canyon mouth " ( or " at the red willows " for short ); however, this name is more commonly used in ceremonial contexts and is less common in everyday speech.

However, results in relation to primates, particularly humans, are less clear cut and are at best only suggestive of a positive association in some contexts.

A less rigorously defined combination of one or more contexts is sometimes called a feature.

** Outer London describing the remaining area surrounding Inner London although of less certain meaning in contexts not related to the current Greater London authority

In a system of phonetic spelling, these semantic units become less distinct, as various allomorphs can be pronounced differently in different contexts.

* The word Emir is also used less formally for leaders in certain contexts.

Food calories are thereby referred to less ambiguously in some formal contexts as kilocalories ( kcal ) or kilogram calories.

Especially in less formal contexts, it is often abbreviated as " senior ( s )", which is also used as an adjective.

In many contexts, the issue is less about determining if there is or is not a difference but rather with getting a more refined estimate of the population effect size.

A further disadvantage in less technical contexts is that narrow transcription involves a larger number of symbols that may be unfamiliar to non-specialists.

First, alternative characters were used to avoid using the characters of the formal name of an important person in less formal contexts as a way of showing respect to the said person by preserving the characters of the person's name.

In less formal contexts the abbreviations " b / s " or " bps " are often used, though this risks confusion with " bytes per second " (" B / s ", " Bps ").

" Beyond this scriptural authority, Quakers place importance on being truthful at all times, so the testimony opposing oaths springs from a view that " taking legal oaths implies a double standard of truthfulness " Faith and Practice of Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends ( 1988 ) p. 19 suggesting that truthfulness in legal contexts is somehow more important than truthfulness in non-legal contexts and that truthfulness in those other contexts is therefore somehow less important.

The emblem is often used as a symbol of authority by the Swedish government and by Swedish embassies around the world, but also appears in other less formal contexts, such as the Swedish national men's ice hockey team, who wear the symbol on their sweaters and hence are called " Three Crowns " ( usually blue crowns on yellow shirt ), and atop the Stockholm City Hall built 1911-1923.