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jargon and high
Speech communities can be members of a profession with a specialized jargon, distinct social groups like high school students or hip hop fans, or even tight-knit groups like families and friends.
Many users boosted their signals to very high levels using imported power amplifiers ( called ' boots ' or ' burners ' in the CB jargon ) and these would often cause interference to local television reception, or cause " breakthrough " on other equipment, such as stereo systems.
Among these techniques are producing glossy material that details the quality and high retail value of the speakers, and bombarding the potential customer with technical jargon, whether correctly or incorrectly used.

jargon and physics
The book's title is in reference to the theory of everything, a physicists ' jargon term for a theory in physics which unifies the four fundamental forces of nature: gravity, the strong force, the weak force, and the electromagnetic force.
To illustrate what he believed to be the intellectual weaknesses of social constructionism and postmodernism, in 1996, physics professor Alan Sokal submitted an article to the academic journal Social Text that was written purposely to be incomprehensible, but included phrases and jargon typical of articles published in the journal.
Niedermayer suggested that the Bogdanovs ' Ph. D theses and papers were " spoof ," created by throwing together string theory and theoretical physics jargon: " The abstracts are delightfully meaningless combinations of buzzwords ... which apparently have been taken seriously.

jargon and these
There also can be a lack of determining " knowledge-appropriate " communication, as when someone uses ambiguous legal words, or medical jargon, when speaking with another person that lacks understanding in these areas.
( Unknown to Alice, these are standard terms in the jargon of rowing — and thus the Queen / Sheep, for a change, is speaking in a perfectly logical and meaningful way!
In police jargon, these writs are sometimes referred to as a writ of capias, defined as orders to " take " a person or assets.
Sometimes psychological jargon is used to dress up sales pitches, self-help programs, and New age ideas to lend these endeavors a respectable scientific appearance.
The jargon of scholastic philosophy also frequently appears in their poems, either for satirical purposes, or because these concepts were familiar parts of the writers ' working vocabulary.
1. d5 blocks the paths of both black pieces to these squares, and whichever black piece takes the pawn interferes with the other and has to defend against both threats itself ( to use chess jargon, it becomes overloaded ).
In 19th-century Tasmania, the term flash mob was used to describe a subculture consisting of female prisoners, based on the term flash language for the jargon that these women used.
However, the intrinsic complexity of topics like quantum groups and topological field theory — in addition to the extensive use of jargon by those who study these areas — makes it difficult to avoid such delegation, since often specific expertise is necessary in order to fully understand and evaluate the claims made in papers on these topics.
* Carrier, in US telephony jargon, in the sense of frequency-division multiplexing and time-division multiplexing, and the equipment or office that uses these techniques
In informal laboratory jargon the monoclonal antibodies isolated from cell culture supernatants of these hybridoma clones ( hybridoma " lines ") are simply called " monoclonals ".
This term, which entered popular jargon in 1939, stemmed from the visual connection between these streamlined residences and nautical imagery.
Goldstein has cautioned that there is a serious disconnect between the fields of nanobiotechnology and A-life based on profound differences in scientific training, experimental systems, and the different sets of terminology ( jargon ) these two fields have produced.

jargon and devices
A Scratch Monkey is a term used in hacker jargon, as in " Before testing or reconfiguring, always mount a scratch monkey ", a proverb used to advise caution when dealing with irreplaceable data or devices.
In NSA jargon, encryption devices are often called blackers, because they convert red signals to black.
(" Broken Arrow " is military jargon for an accidental nuclear event, the theft of nuclear devices depicted in the film would actually be classified as an " Empty Quiver " by the US Department of Defense.

jargon and are
Other examples of jargon imported from the club are ' losing ' " when a piece of equipment is not working " and ' munged ' " when a piece of equipment is ruined ".
Coats of arms and their accessories are described in a concise jargon called blazon.
Negotiators overwhelm the other party with so much information that he or she has difficulty determining which facts are important, and which facts are diversions. Negotiators may also use technical language or jargon to mask a simple answer to a question asked by a non-expert.
Commonly in recent times, and especially in journalistic jargon, media are however defined as an alleged fourth power, and a difference from the others is often outlined in the fact that the power to ( eventually ) influence the public opinion using media is not much controlled, because media are so " ethereal ", and it would be hard to weight them.
Promos are performed, or " cut ", in wrestling jargon, for a variety of reasons, including to heighten interest in a wrestler, or to hype an upcoming match.
Most often called simply " fandom " within the community, it can be viewed as a distinct subculture, with its own rituals and jargon ; marriages and other relationships among fans are common, as are multi-generation fannish families.
Costume dramas and regional variations abound, and the librettos ( though often based on French originals ) are rich in Spanish idioms and popular jargon.
* Bench micrometers are tools for inspection use whose accuracy and precision are around half a micrometre ( 20 millionths of an inch, " a fifth of a tenth " in machinist jargon ) and whose repeatability is around a quarter micrometre (" a tenth of a tenth ").
From three to seven curves are generally appropriate to cover the required range of an input value, or the " universe of discourse " in fuzzy jargon.
As an example, the words RAM, bit, byte, CPU, and hexadecimal are jargon terms related to computing.
As such, war games are usually heavy on simulation elements, and while they are all " strategy games ", they can also be " strategic " or " tactical " in the military jargon sense.
Calendar spreads are known in LME jargon as " carries ".
The films and videos that have been selected for the screening list are an attempt to move beyond the cultural clichés and slogans, to look past the Central Casting costumes, props, and jargon the mass media equated with Beatness, in order to do justice to its spirit.
The output of similar file comparison utilities are also called a " diff "; like the use of the word " grep " for describing the act of searching, the word diff is used in jargon as a verb for calculating any difference.
The Unix-based screensaver XScreenSaver collects the display effects of other Unix screensavers, which are termed " display hacks " in the jargon file tradition of US computer science academics.
Plonk is a Usenet jargon term for adding a particular poster to one's kill file such that the poster's future postings are completely ignored.
Earliest uses probably date to late twentieth century U. S. military jargon, though possible precursor terms are much earlier.

jargon and called
It has held the annual World Science Fiction Convention since 1939, along with many other events each year, and has created its own jargon, sometimes called " fanspeak ".
In BCP technical jargon this is called Recovery Time Objective, or RTO.
Science fiction and fantasy fandom has its own slang or jargon, sometimes called fanspeak ( the term has been in use since at least 1962 ).
Unlike seals and other general emblems, heraldic achievements have a formal description called a blazon, expressed in a jargon that allows for consistency in heraldic depictions.
They are divided into ( or " aligned into ", to use phonology jargon ) three vowel harmony groups by a parameter called ATR ( advanced tongue root ); the groups are − ATR, + ATR, and neutral.
The basic operation of linear interpolation between two values is so commonly used in computer graphics that it is sometimes called a lerp in that field's jargon.
Delivery-only is sometimes called west chapel service in industry jargon.
In tailoring / menswear trade jargon ( and colonial English ) they are sometimes misleadingly called " knickers ".
In programmer jargon, especially Unix jargon, it may also be called the bit bucket or black hole.
), is a nonstandard punctuation mark used in various written languages and intended to combine the functions of the question mark ( also called the “ interrogative point ”) and the exclamation mark or exclamation point ( known in printers ’ and programmers ' jargon as the “ bang ”).
In espionage jargon, a mole ( also called a penetration agent, deep cover agent, or sleeper agent ) is a long-term spy ( espionage agent ) who is recruited before he has access to secret intelligence, and subsequently works his way into the target organization.
The translation is an unconscious burlesque of the original in a jargon arranged in what the writer called hexameters.
Technobabble ( a portmanteau of technology and babble ), also called technospeak, is a form of prose using jargon, buzzwords, esoteric language, specialized technical terms, or technical slang that is incomprehensible to the listener.
In the jargon of public relations, they are called thought leaders.
Language as a result is largely meaningless ( a condition sometimes called fluent or jargon aphasia ).
Planet surfaces as well as the space in star systems are realized as separate two-dimensional square game maps, called " environments " in game jargon.
These are depicted as far superior to the heavy-handed tactics of the Americans, who are called " the Cousins " in Circus jargon, and whose entry into a mission always ensures that things will get a lot rougher.
Dating back to the Dutch East India Company, sending an employee to work in another country ( sometimes called a " global assignment " in current HR jargon ) has carried considerable costs while theoretically opening the potential for financial returns for the employer.
The main rule book details character creation, skills, qualities ( positive characteristics ), drawbacks ( negative characteristics ), zombie creation rules, character archetypes and several campaign settings ( called " Deadworlds " in the jargon of the game ).

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