The adoption of a standard recognizable type for a long time, is probably because nature gives preference in survival of a type which has long be adopted by the climatic conditions, and also due to the general Greek belief that nature expresses itself in ideal forms that can be imagined and represented.

The fact that the Aeginetan standard of weights and measures ( developed in the mid-7th century ) was one of the two standards in general use in the Greek world ( the other being the Euboic-Attic ) is sufficient evidence of the early commercial importance of the island.

Oreichalkos, the Ancient Greek translation of this term, was later adapted to the Latin aurichalcum meaning " golden copper " which became the standard term for brass.

Canon ( Latin canon from Greek " measuring rod, standard ") may refer to any standard or convention.

Greek kanon / κανών, Arabic Qanon / قانون, Hebrew kaneh / קנה, " straight "; a rule, code, standard, or measure ; the root meaning in all these languages is " reed " ( cf.

Potential for comedy lay in his use of ' contemporary ' characters, in his sophisticated tone, his relatively informal Greek ( see In Greek below ), and in his ingenious use of plots centred on motifs that later became standard in Menander's New Comedy, such as the ' recognition scene '.

It was the first Latin poem to adopt the dactylic hexameter metre used in Greek epic and didactic poetry, leading it to become the standard metre for these genres in Latin poetry.

The Cypriot syllabary is attested in Cyprus from the 11th century BC until its gradual abandonment in the late Classical period, in favor of the standard Greek alphabet.

The Greek word gnosis ( knowledge ) is a standard translation of the Hebrew word " knowledge " ( דעת da ` ath ) in the Septuagint, thus:

Hence, even after he ceased to be Greek king, it is still standard to refer to the deposed king as Constantine II of Greece.

Traditions which assert that he was blind may have arisen from the meaning of the word in both Ionic, where the verbal form ( homēreúō ) has the specialized meaning of " guide the blind ", and the Aeolian dialect of Cyme, where ( hómēros ) is synonymous with the standard Greek ( tuphlós ), meaning ' blind '.

It was the standard epic metre in classical Greek and Latin literature, such as in the Iliad and Aeneid.

In the early Middle Ages, following the fall of the Roman Empire, standard medical knowledge was based chiefly upon surviving Greek and Roman texts, preserved in monasteries and elsewhere.

Only in 1544 did a version of the standard Greek text become available, edited by the Dutch humanist Arnoldus Arlenius.

The standard editio maior of the various Greek manuscripts is that of Benedictus Niese, published 1885-95.

Aside from Latin, the standard written language of medieval Europe, the populace of crusader Jerusalem communicated in vernacular forms of French and Italian ; Greek, Armenian, and even Arabic were used by Frankish settlers.

He adopted Greek dactylic hexameter, which became the standard verse form for Roman epics.

The labarum () was a vexillum ( military standard ) that displayed the " Chi-Rho " symbol < big >☧</ big >, formed from the first two Greek letters of the word " Christ " (, or Χριστός ) — Chi ( χ ) and Rho ( ρ ).

Most of these translations relied ( though not always exclusively ) upon one of the printed editions of the Greek New Testament edited by Erasmus, a form of this Greek text emerged as the standard and is known as the Textus Receptus.

Thus Osiris was identified explicitly with Apis, really an aspect of Ptah, who had already been identified as Osiris by this point, and a syncretism of the two was created, known as Serapis, and depicted as a standard Greek god.

Agapetus collaborated with Cassiodorus in founding at Rome a library of ecclesiastical authors in Greek and Latin and helped Cassiodorus with the project of translating the standard Greek philosophers into Latin.

The term was popularized by G. L. Trager and Bernard Bloch in a 1941 paper on English phonology and went on to become part of standard usage within the American structuralist tradition.

When a specific allophone ( from a set of allophones that correspond to a phoneme ) must be selected in a given context ( i. e. using a different allophone for a phoneme will cause confusion or make the speaker sound non-native ), the allophones are said to be complementary ( i. e. the allophones complement each other, and one is not used in a situation where the usage of another is standard ).

The other usage refers to a language socially subordinate to a regional or national standard language, often historically cognate to the standard, but not a variety of it or in any other sense derived from it.

Linguists tend to view prescriptive grammars as having little justification beyond their authors ' aesthetic tastes, although style guides may give useful advice about standard language employment, based on descriptions of usage in contemporary writings of the same language.

This elite group of writers, popularly known as the " Immortals ," are responsible for establishing and maintaining the grammar, usage and acceptance of vocabulary into standard French.

The IEEE 802. 15 task group 4b was chartered to create a project for specific enhancements and clarifications to the IEEE 802. 15. 4-2003 standard, such as resolving ambiguities, reducing unnecessary complexity, increasing flexibility in security key usage, considerations for newly available frequency allocations, and others.

If the term has nonetheless retained a certain consistency in its use across these fields and would-be movements, it perhaps reflects the word ’ s position in general English usage: though the standard dictionary definition of irreal gives it the same meaning as unreal, irreal is very rarely used in comparison with unreal.

Similar to CREATE .. DOES usage in standard FORTH.

In historical navy usage, a long gun was the standard type of cannon mounted by a sailing vessel, called such to distinguish it from the much shorter carronades.

In European countries where the metric system was established well before the adoption of the SI standard, there is still carry-over of usage from the precursor cgs and MKS systems.

In countries where the metric system was adopted as the official measuring system after the SI standard was established, common usage more closely follow contemporary SI conventions.

The syllabary systems of Japanese ( hiragana and katakana ) are examples of almost perfectly shallow orthographies – the kana correspond with almost perfect consistency to the spoken syllables, although with a few exceptions where symbols reflect historical or morphophonemic features: notably the use of ぢ di and づ du ( rather than じ ji and ず zu, their pronunciation in standard Tokyo dialect ) when the character is a voicing of an underlying ち or つ ( see rendaku ), and the use of は, を, and へ to represent the sounds わ, お, and え, as relics of historical kana usage.

Other biological polymers such as polysaccharides can also be considered to have a primary structure, although the usage is not standard.

The term cartridges is standard usage in the United Kingdom.

Just as with the other color standards adopted for broadcast usage over the world, SECAM is a standard which permits existing monochrome television receivers predating its introduction to continue to be operated as monochrome televisions.

* In standard SI usage, 1 terabyte ( TB ) equals = 1000 < sup > 4 </ sup >, or 10 < sup > 12 </ sup > bytes.

Unicode has the explicit aim of transcending the limitations of traditional character encodings, such as those defined by the ISO 8859 standard, which find wide usage in various countries of the world, but remain largely incompatible with each other.

The principle is most helpful in cases where there is not an established or standard name of the universal in ordinary English usage: What is the name of the universal distinctive of chairs?

The Inside Intuit book, says ( page 22, 1984 ), "... in the first instance of the Usability Testing that later became standard industry practice, LeFevre recruited people off the streets ... and timed their Kwik-Chek ( Quicken ) usage with a stopwatch.

The Latin names are standard English usage.

However, in common or colloquial usage, a " hotline " often refers to a call center reachable by dialing a standard telephone number, or sometimes the phone numbers themselves.

As this usage may be confusing due to the term's other meanings, the terms " over the air " or " on the air " are more standard in the broadcasting industry.

A standard term may be given a more precise or unique usage among practitioners of a field.