To learn technical military terms, Lincoln borrowed and studied Henry Halleck's book, Elements of Military Art and Science from the Library of Congress.

Among later writers, ambrosia has been so often used with generic meanings of " delightful liquid " that such late writers as Athenaeus, Paulus and Dioscurides employ it as a technical terms in contexts of cookery, medicine, and botany.

However, it is important to understand the precise technical definition of these terms.

Verbatim translations were sent solely to the Naval Intelligence Division ( NID ) of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre ( OIC ) supplemented by information from indexes as to the meaning of technical terms and abbreviations, and cross-referenced information from a store of knowledge of German naval technology.

In other terms: " Application of scientific and technical advances in life science to develop commercial products " is biotechnology.

This may reopen classic debates of normative ethics framed in new ( highly technical ) terms.

In addition to words derived naturally from the language's roots ( without any known intentional invention ), English allows new words to be formed by coinage and construction ; place names may be considered words ; technical terms may be arbitrarily long.

In technical terms, each " game server " is actually a cluster of server machines.

Forward Line of Own Troops ( FLOT ), or Forward Edge of Battle Area ( FEBA ) are technical terms used by all branches of the U. S. armed services.

In terms of applications, a 4GL could be business oriented or it could deal with some technical domain.

Attempts to extend the Standard Model or other quantum field theories by adding gravitons run into serious theoretical difficulties at high energies ( processes involving energies close to or above the Planck scale ) because of infinities arising due to quantum effects ( in technical terms, gravitation is nonrenormalizable ).

The work contains, in an appendix, the German equivalents for the technical terms used in the Latin text.

In technical terms, they are vector gauge bosons that mediate strong interactions of quarks in quantum chromodynamics ( QCD ).

The Joint Technical Language Service ( JTLS ) was established in 1955, drawing on members of the small Ministry of Defence technical language team and others, initially to provide standard English translations for organisational expressions in any foreign language, discover the correct English equivalents of technical terms in foreign languages and discover the correct expansions of abbreviations in any language.

After some consolidation, six companies controlled monopolies of their regions, subject to close control by the government in terms of fares, finances, and even minute technical details.

It is also used for emphasis, to represent onomatopoeia, and to write certain Japanese language words, such as technical and scientific terms, and the names of plants, animals, and minerals.

About this issue ( in admittedly very technical terms ) Reichenbach observes:

Most scholars see chapters 1 – 16 ( the Priestly code ) and chapters 17 – 26 ( the Holiness code ) as the work of two related schools, but while the Holiness material employs the same technical terms as the Priestly code, it broadens their meaning from pure ritual to the theological and moral, turning the ritual of the Priestly code into a model for the relationship of Israel to God: as the tabernacle is made holy by the presence of the Lord and kept apart from uncleanliness, so He will dwell among Israel when Israel is purified ( made holy ) and separated from other peoples.

With all technological endeavours a number of technical terms and slang are developed please see the list of broadcasting terms for a glossary of terms used.

In more technical terms, they are described by quantum state vectors in a Hilbert space, which is also treated in quantum field theory.

In technical terms, QED can be described as a perturbation theory of the electromagnetic quantum vacuum.

In more technical terms, Krugman argues that the private sector savings curve is elastic even during a balance sheet recession ( responsive to changes in real interest rates ) disagreeing with Koo's view that it is inelastic ( non-responsive to changes in real interest rates ).

The precise differences in theology that caused the split with the Coptic Christians are still disputed, highly technical and mainly concerned with the nature of Christ.

Rising costs and falling profits, exacerbated by the lack of new products in 1988 and technical issues with its MS-DOS products, caused Activision finally to pull the plug on Infocom in 1989.

Its mission is to provide comprehensive scientific assessments of current scientific, technical and socio-economic information worldwide about the risk of climate change caused by human activity, its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences, and possible options for adapting to these consequences or mitigating the effects.

The adoption of international standards results in the creation of equivalent, national standards that are substantially the same as international standards in technical content, but may have ( i ) editorial differences as to appearance, use of symbols and measurement units, substitution of a point for a comma as the decimal marker, and ( ii ) differences resulting from conflicts in governmental regulations or industry-specific requirements caused by fundamental climatic, geographical, technological, or infrastructural factors, or the stringency of safety requirements that a given standard authority considers appropriate.

International standards are one way of overcoming technical barriers in international commerce caused by differences among technical regulations and standards developed independently and separately by each nation, national standards organisation, or company.

Spin-offs include a script-book The Life of Brian of Nazareth, which is backed by MONTYPYTHONSCRAPBOOK ... ( The printing of this book also caused problems, since there are rarely used technical laws in the UK against " blasphemy " dictating what can and cannot be written about religion – the publisher refused to print both halves of the book, and original prints were by two companies ).

The National Research Council was organized in 1916 in response to the increased need for scientific and technical services caused by World War I.

Blind transmissions may occur or be necessary when security constraints, such as radio silence, are imposed, when technical difficulties with a sender's receiver or receiver's transmitter occur, or when lack of time precludes the delay caused by waiting for receipts.

Additional problems for ONdigital were caused by the choice of 64QAM broadcast mode, coupled with far weaker than expected broadcast power, ( meaning that the signal was weak in many areas ), a complex pricing structure ( comprising many menu options ), a poor quality subscriber management system ( badly adapted from Canal +), a paper magazine TV guide whereas BSkyB had provided an electronic programme guide ( EPG ), insufficient technical customer services, and much signal piracy.

* 9 June 1973: a Varig cargo Boeing 707-327C registration PP-VJL flying from Campinas-Viracopos to Rio de Janeiro-Galeão while making an instrument approach to Rio de Janeiro-Galeão had technical problems with the spoilers which eventually caused the aircraft to pitch down, descended fast, struck approach lights and ditch.

The tunnels grew infamous during the first weeks when numerous closures due to technical problems caused constant traffic jams.

Betfair claimed that the bet, which resulted in a maximum liability of close to £ 600M, was caused by a " technical glitch " and the customer only had £ 1000 in their account.

In addition, the transatlantic broadcast from Wembley Stadium suffered technical problems and failed during The Who's performance of their song " My Generation ", immediately after Roger Daltrey sang " Why don't you all fade ..." ( the last word was cut off when a blown fuse caused the Wembley stage TV feed to temporarily fail ).

Since the cut had been ruled to be caused by a punch, Backus was declared winner by a technical knockout, and he had realized a dream that many fans never thought he would: he had become the world's Welterweight champion.

The last two lawsuits occurred after the disclosure of the technical report “ Evaluation of social, environmental and health impacts caused by the setup and operation of TKCSA in Santa Cruz ”.

Perhaps the best example of the inefficiencies caused by these rivalries is Worcester Bar in Birmingham, a point where the Worcester and Birmingham Canal and the Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line were only seven feet apart, with no technical reasons why the canals could not be connected.

The absence of the 707s was likely caused by technical rather than policy reasons: the RAAF has only four second-hand 707 tankers ; all are at the end of their service lives, very difficult to maintain and soon to be replaced.

In Mexico, Argentina and Sardinia Petter struggled with his Impreza — technical problems caused two retirements and a plummet down the leaderboard in Italy.

The Sm3 has received a lot of bad publicity in Finland for its reliability issues, mostly caused by technical problems with the tilting system and couplers.

American consumer electronics also suffered from poor quality and a relative lack of technical innovation compared to Japanese electronics, in part because the Cold War had caused most American scientific and engineering effort to go into the defense sector rather than the consumer one.

Prime was released in three versions: the original North American version ; a second version, released in North America and Japan, with resolved technical issues ( such as a glitch that occasionally caused the game to freeze when navigating through three specific rooms in the Chozo Ruins ); and the European version, with resolved glitches and altered certain elements of the gameplay to prevent sequence breaking.

Another case was BBC Radio 4's failure to broadcast Big Ben's midnight chimes on New Year's Day 2003 ; after the chimes were announced, a technical error caused the station to fall silent for a minute.

After many delays caused by technical and legal issues, the terminal became fully operational in mid-2008.