International Atomic Time ( TAI, from the French name Temps atomique international ) is a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard based on the notional passage of proper time on Earth's geoid.

In Italian, possibly following a tradition of antiquity, the Arcipelago ( from medieval Greek * ἀρχιπέλαγος ) was the proper name for the Aegean Sea and, later, usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands ( since the sea is remarkable for its large number of islands ).

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

Green quartz is sometimes incorrectly called green amethyst, which is an actual misnomer and not an acceptable name for the material, the proper terminology being Prasiolite.

The proper form of the name is evidently Abrasax, as with the Greek writers, Hippolytus, Epiphanias, Didymus ( De Trin.

A person who participates in archery is typically known as an " archer " or " bowman ", and one who is fond of or an expert at archery can be referred to as a " toxophilite ".< ref > The noun " toxophilite ", meaning " a lover or devotee of archery, an archer ", is derived from Toxophilus by Roger Ascham —" imaginary proper name invented by Ascham, and hence title of his book ( 1545 ), intended to mean ' lover of the bow '.

The difference occurs for all nouns of multitude, both general terms such as team and company and proper nouns ( for example where a place name is used to refer to a sports team ).

When writing the scientific name of an organism, it is proper to capitalize the first letter in the genus and put all of the specific epithet in lowercase.

Although the appellation Malachi has frequently been understood as a proper name, its Hebrew meaning is simply " My God's messenger " ( or ' His messenger ' in the Septuagint ) and may not be the author's name at all.

According to the editors of the 1897 Easton's Bible Dictionary, some scholars believe the name " Malachi " is not a proper noun but rather an abbreviation of " messenger of YHWH ".

Avro began work proper in 1955, with the assigned Rainbow Code name of " Blue Steel " which it would keep in service.

Since the Apostolic Age, the use of the definite article before the word Christ and its development into a proper name signifies its identification with Jesus as the promised Jewish messiah.

The use of the definite article before the word " Christ " and its gradual development into a proper name show the Christians identified the bearer with the promised Messiah of the Jews who fulfilled all the Messianic predictions in a fuller and a higher sense than had been given them by the Rabbis.

Of these ten stars, seven have a proper name, viz.

According to IUPAC, chemical elements are not proper nouns in English ; consequently, the full name of an element is not routinely capitalized in English, even if derived from a proper noun, as in californium and einsteinium.

Though the name came to be commonly used to refer to the whole of southern Mesopotamia, Chaldea proper was in fact the vast plain in the far south east formed by the deposits of the Euphrates and the Tigris, extending to about four hundred miles along the course of these rivers, and about a hundred miles in average width.

It was announced in February 2011 that the company name would revert to Meritor, Inc. Cummins, Inc. is by far the region's largest employer, and the Infotech Park accounts for a sizable number of research jobs in Columbus proper.

Russell offered his theory of descriptions in part as a way of defining a proper name, the definition being given by a definite description that " picks out " exactly one individual.

The name diamond is derived from the ancient Greek αδάμας ( adámas ), " proper ", " unalterable ", " unbreakable ", " untamed ", from ἀ-( a -), " un -" + δαμάω ( damáō ), " I overpower ", " I tame ".

Often the word takes the definite article and is capitalized — " the Divinity " — as though it were a proper name or definitive honorific.

Even though the name Dorado is not Latin but Spanish, astronomers give it the Latin genitive form Doradus when naming its stars ; they are treating it ( like the adjacent constellation Argo Navis ) as if it were a feminine proper name of Greek origin ending in-ō ( like Io or Callisto or Argo ), names that have a genitive ending in-ūs.

With this precedent, in February of the following year, the Government legitimized residency in the city of Hebron proper.

According to the great Biblical commentator Rashi, Kiryat Arba (" Town of Arba ") means either the town ( kirya ) of Arba, the giant who had three sons, or the town of the four giants: Anak ( the son of Arba ) and his three sons-Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmi-who are described as being the sons of a " giant " in: " On the way through the Negev, they ( Joshua and Caleb ) came to Hebron where saw Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmi, descendants of the Giant ( ha-anak )..." Some say that Anak (" Giant ", see Anak ) is a proper name ( Targum Jonathan and the Septuagint ), and that he, Anak, may have been the father of the three others mentioned in the Book of Numbers as living in Hebron, previously known as " Kiryat Arba.

Due to logging and land use changes the forest proper is only a fraction of its original size.

Pre-1960 vehicles remain the property of their original owners and descendents, and can be sold to other Cubans providing the proper traspaso certificate is in place.

It is also possible for a proper subset of an infinite set to have the same cardinality as the original set, something that cannot happen with proper subsets of finite sets.

The crusaders investigated the eastern ruins on the site, occasionally excavating through the rubble, and while attempting to reach the cistern, they discovered part of the original ground level of Hadrian's temple enclosure ; they decided to transform this space into a chapel dedicated to Helena ( the Chapel of Saint Helena ), widening their original excavation tunnel into a proper staircase.

One might write the kanji for " blue ", but use katakana to write the pronunciation of the English word " blue "; this may be done, for example, in Japanese subtitles on foreign films, where it can help associate the written Japanese with the sounds actually being spoken by the actors, or it may be used in a translation of a work of fiction to enable the translator to preserve the original sound of a proper name ( such as " Firebolt " in the Harry Potter series ) in furigana, while simultaneously indicating its meaning with kanji.

In addition to Prussia proper the original territory of the Old Prussians may also have included eastern parts of Pomerelia ( some parts of the region east of the Vistula River ).

The original completeness proof applies to all classical models, not some special proper subclass of intended ones.

Princes and nobles were initiated ; and in 1429 even the emperor Sigismund himself became “ a true and proper Freischöffe of the Holy Roman Empire .” There is a manuscript in the Town Hall of the Westphalian town of Soest, which consists of an original Vehmic Court Regulation document, along with illustrations.

Decades later, percussionist Howard Van Hyning of the New York City Opera had been searching for a proper set of gongs and obtained the original set from the Stivanello Costume Company, which had acquired the gongs as the result of winning a bet.

The human studies carried out in Holmesburg failed to follow Dow's original protocol and lacked proper informed consent by the participants.

The London underground is nicknamed " The Tube " A nickname is " a usually familiar or humorous but sometimes pointed or cruel name given to a person or place, as a supposedly appropriate replacement for or addition to the proper name ", or a name similar in origin and pronunciation from the original name.

According to the original Foundation Trilogy ( 1951 ), Asimov states ( by way of the Encyclopedia Galactica ), "... the impossibility of proper administration ... under the uninspired leadership of the later Emperors was a considerable factor in the Fall.

A more technically proper blazon would have been argent, six pallets gules ... ( six red stripes on a white field ), but the phrase used was chosen to preserve the reference to the 13 original states.

Historically, coal-tar creosote has been distinguished from what was thought of as creosote proper — the original substance of Reichenbach's discovery — and referred to specifically as " creosote oil ".

The fragments are sufficient to show that the poem was composed in twenty-six line triads, of strophe, antistrophe and epode, repeated in columns along the original scroll, facts that aided Page in placing many of the fragments, sometimes of no more than a word, in what he believed to be their proper positions.

Clayborne early on debates Saxifrage Russell over the proper role of humanity on Mars and though initially apolitical, this stance marks her as the original " Red ," while Russell's hands-on terraforming reflects the antithesis of these views.

Although called ' Tongan ', his home was Ata, and he was better known by the original Tongans on the Lau Islands than in the kingdom of Tonga proper.

The regulations prohibit businesses with more than two employees, restrict the construction of multi-family dwellings, and forbid any annexation of outlying parcels into the original town proper.

While North Utica is the proper name for the city, advertising on nearby Interstates 80 and 39 refers to the village by its original name, Utica.

Without a proper connection to the New Jersey Turnpike, the bypass has not lived up to its original expectations and congestion through Hightstown still largely remains.

Stiles believed, as did many Christian scholars of the time, that facility with the text in its original language was advantageous for proper interpretation.

Now, with all the sound sources used in the original mono mix present, a proper stereo remix could be accomplished.