The set of all binomial distributions is called the family of binomial distributions, but in general discussions this expression is often shortened to `` the binomial distribution '', or even `` the binomial '' when the context is clear.

Equivalents could be assigned to the paradigm either at the time it is added to the dictionary or after the word has been studied in context.

What is new in the context is likely to be made more prominent than what is not.

Thus in a context in which there has been discussion of snow but mention of local conditions is new, dominant stress will probably be on here in it rarely snows here, but in a context in which there has been discussion of local weather but no mention of snow, dominant stress will probably be on snows.

The personal pronouns and substitute one are normally unstressed because they refer to what is prominent in the immediate context.

If both George and a piece of information George does not have are prominent in the context, but the idea of telling George is new, then dominant stress will probably be on tell in why not tell George??

But when what is new in a particular context is also fairly obvious, there is normally only light stress or no stress at all.

Here again, in the written language it is possible to help the reader get his stresses right by using underlining or italics, but much of the time there is simply reliance on his understanding in the light of context.

It is clear that patterns of stress sometimes show construction unambiguously in the spoken language where without the help of context it would be ambiguous in the written.

In the Steiners have busy lives without visiting relatives only context can indicate whether visiting relatives is equivalent in meaning to paying visits to relatives or to relatives who are visiting them, and in I looked up the number and I looked up the chimney only the meanings of number and chimney make it clear that up is syntactically a second complement in the first sentence and a preposition followed by its object in the second.

Yet in the contemporary context this is precisely what one must not do.

In the context of larger ethical discussions on moral action and judgment, Buddhism is characterized by the belief that negative ( unhappy ) consequences of our actions derive not from punishment or correction based on moral judgment, but from the law of karma, which functions like a natural law of cause and effect.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

In mathematics and statistics, the arithmetic mean, or simply the mean or average when the context is clear, is the central tendency of a collection of numbers taken as the sum of the numbers divided by the size of the collection.

Power analysis is often applied in the context of ANOVA in order to assess the probability of successfully rejecting the null hypothesis if we assume a certain ANOVA design, effect size in the population, sample size and significance level.

Lexical ambiguity can be addressed by algorithmic methods that automatically associate the appropriate meaning with a word in context, a task referred to as word sense disambiguation.

Anchored crosses are occasionally a feature of coats of arms in which context they are referred to by the heraldic terms anchry or ancre.

In the Gospel of John and in Revelation, Jesus is referred to as " the Word of God " (), although the context in Revelation is very different from John.

It was in this context that the prophet commonly referred to as Malachi delivered his prophecy.

In a British context, it is sometimes referred to as the " Old Commonwealth.

The term " deed ", also known in this context as a " specialty ", is common to signed written undertakings not supported by consideration: the seal ( even if not a literal wax seal but only a notional one referred to by the execution formula, " signed, sealed and delivered ", or even merely " executed as a deed ") is deemed to be the consideration necessary to support the obligation.

In this context, the ⟨ e ⟩ is not pronounced, and is referred to as " silent e ".

A home page can also be used outside the context of web sites, such as to refer to the principal screen of a user interface, which is also referred to as a home screen on mobile devices such as cell phones.

Such simplification has sometimes led to confusion if the character is not understood in the context of the sentence or paragraph as a whole, for it poses difficulty to the reader to know which particular word was referred to by the use of the one simple ideogram.

Speaking of homosexuality in any context was socially forbidden, and women rarely discussed lesbianism even amongst themselves ; they referred to openly gay people as " in the Life ".

It was referred to, in that context, during a parliamentary session in 1984.

From the context, it is clear that he referred to reproduction related structures of protists.

The Paleogene is notable in the context of offshore oil drilling, and especially in Gulf of Mexico oil exploration, where it is usually referred to as the " Lower Tertiary ".

In the context of these functional rearrangements, these tertiary or quaternary structures are usually referred to as " conformations ", and transitions between them are called conformational changes.

* In the context of communication waveforms, the time-variant angle, or its modulo value, is referred to as instantaneous phase, often just phase.

" The word " Puritan " thus always referred to a type of religious belief, rather than a particular religious sect, and the attribution has been determined, generally, by a polemical context.

In this context, it should be noted that pankration was also referred to as pammachon or pammachion ( πάμμαχον or παμμάχιον ), meaning " total combat ", from πᾶν -, pān -, " all -" or " total ", and μάχη, machē, " combat ".

Subtype polymorphism, often referred to as simply polymorphism in the context of object-oriented programming, is the ability to create a variable, a function, or an object that has more than one form.

The first reference to " secular humanism " in a US legal context was in 1961, although church-state separation lawyer Leo Pfeffer had referred to it in his 1958 book, Creeds in Competition.

According to Christian belief, salvation is made possible by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, which in the context of salvation is referred to as the " atonement ".

Within the context of traditional Chinese philosophy and religion, Tao is a metaphysical concept originating with Laozi that gave rise to a religion ( Wade – Giles, Tao Chiao ; Pinyin, Daojiao ) and philosophy ( Wade – Giles, Tao chia ; Pinyin, Daojia ) referred to in English with the single term Taoism.

Rather confusingly the publishers themselves are sometimes referred to as third-party developers in the context of their relationships with the console manufacturers ( Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo ).

The vagina is often typically referred to as the birth canal in the context of pregnancy and childbirth, though the term is, by definition, the area between the outside of the vagina and the fully dilated uterus.

In the context of signal processing it is often referred to as the unit impulse symbol ( or function ).

Diabetes mellitus type 2formerly non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus ( NIDDM ) or adult-onset diabetesis a metabolic disorder that is characterized by high blood glucose in the context of insulin resistance and relative insulin deficiency.

Other tests that are relevant in this context are electrolytes ( including chloride ), glucose, renal function and a full blood count.