Informally, he may have been known as " Dickon ", according to a sixteenth-century legend of a note, warning of treachery, that was sent to the Duke of Norfolk on the eve of Bosworth: " Jack of Norffolke be not to bolde ,/ For Dyckon thy maister is bought and solde ".

Informally, however, scientists may still take advantage of the pathetic fallacy for quick and convenient metaphoric explanations of complex scientific concepts in a readily understood way.

Informally, free abelian groups or formal sums may also be seen as signed multisets with elements in B.

Informally, dogs may be studied by those with no specific scientific training, such as publicists and authors, breeders, trainers, police dog handlers, animal communicators and others, through literature, history, and personal experience.

Informally, software developers may also use zeroise to mean any overwriting of sensitive data, not necessarily of a cryptographic nature.

Informally, other members of the higher hierarchic echelons of the Catholic Church are in recent times also occasionally called " Princes of the church ", in which case this title may occasionally carry ironic connotations.

Informally, it says that all sufficiently long words in a regular language may be pumped — that is, have a middle section of the word repeated an arbitrary number of times — to produce a new word which also lies within the same language.

Informally, a flow may be viewed as a continuous motion of points over time.

Informally, the expression " infinitesimal calculus " became commonly used to refer to Weierstrass ' approach but has become something of a dead metaphor.

Informally, the term measure word is also sometimes used to refer to numeral classifiers, which are used with nouns that are countable in some languages.

* Informally, it sometimes is used to refer to the Webby Awards

Informally, asphalt concrete is also referred to as " blacktop ", particularly in North America.

Informally, G has the above presentation if it is the " freest group " generated by S subject only to the relations R. Formally, the group G is said to have the above presentation if it is isomorphic to the quotient of a free group on S by the normal subgroup generated by the relations R.

Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

** Informally, the name often used for the entire West Coast Region, of which the Westland District is a part

Informally the name also refers to a larger district, the Monte Carlo Quarter ( corresponding to the former municipality of Monte Carlo ), which besides Monte Carlo / Spélagues also includes the wards of La Rousse / Saint Roman, Larvotto / Bas Moulins, and Saint Michel.

Informally, many Mechlinians ( in Dutch Mechelaars and locally pronounced Mecheleirs, people from this city ) daily speak Mechlinian ( in Dutch as well as locally Mechels ), a dialect by Dutch-speakers of Belgium pin-pointingly distincted from other Brabantic dialects by three different vowels of Dutch ( as in zout or rauw, in kei or bijl, in nu ) being typically pronounced as a same vowel – close to the one in English ' raw ' which does not appear in other dialects of the Flemish Region or in standard Dutch.

Informally, a skein relation gives a linear relation between the values of a knot polynomial on a collection of three links which differ from each other only in a small region.

Informally, such an object can be thought of as an assemblage of one or more chunks of rubber ( cells ), each shaped like a convex polytope, which are glued to each other by their facets — possibly with much stretching and twisting.

Informally, this type of graph is a set of objects called vertices ( or nodes ) connected by links called edges ( or arcs ), which can also have associated directions.

Informally, a path expression is a sequence of steps separated by the "" operator, for example ( which is short for ).

Informally, a weakly simple polygon is a polygon in which some sides can " touch " but cannot " cross over ".

Informally, to estimate the area of a domain D, first pick a simple domain E whose area is easily calculated and which contains D. Now pick a sequence of random points that fall within E. Some fraction of these points will also fall within D. The area of D is then estimated as this fraction multiplied by the area of E.

Informally, the term " evening " is used in place of " night ", especially in the context of an event which takes place over the course of said " evening ".

Informally, the non-commissioned officers with portepee are often called " the Feldwebel ranks " or even altogether Feldwebel, which creates a similar confusion as exists already with the word Unteroffizier.

Informally, in attempting to estimate the causal effect of some variable x on another y, an instrument is a third variable z which affects y only through its effect on x.

Informally, given a problem, the Turing jump returns the set of Turing machines which halt when given access to an oracle that solves that problem.

Informally, the lemma immediately gives a precise sense in which finitely generated modules over a commutative ring behave like vector spaces over a field.

Informally, lowness means that problems in B are not only solvable by machines which can solve problems in A, but are " easy to solve.

Informally, a strategy for a player is a way of playing in which his plays are entirely determined by the foregoing plays.

Informally put, the axiom of choice says that given any collection of bins, each containing at least one object, it is possible to make a selection of exactly one object from each bin.

Informally, it is a permutation of the group elements such that the structure remains unchanged.

Informally, it is the similarity between observations as a function of the time separation between them.

Informally, this is true because polynomial time algorithms are closed under composition.

Informally, an object is reachable if it is referenced by at least one variable in the program, either directly or through references from other reachable objects.

Informally, a relational database table is often described as " normalized " if it is in the Third Normal Form.

Informally, a graph is a good expander if it has low degree and high expansion parameters.

Informally, Kajang is known as the " Satay Town ", and is famous among tourists and locals alike.

Informally we can think of elements of the Lie algebra as elements of the group that are " infinitesimally close " to the identity, and the Lie bracket is something to do with the commutator of two such infinitesimal elements.

Informally, a measure has the property of being monotone function | monotone in the sense that if A is a subset of B, the measure of A is less than or equal to the measure of B.

Informally, word formation rules form " new words " ( that is, new lexemes ), while inflection rules yield variant forms of the " same " word ( lexeme ).

Informally speaking, the prime number theorem states that if a random integer is selected in the range of zero to some large integer N, the probability that the selected integer is prime is about 1 / ln ( N ), where ln ( N ) is the natural logarithm of N. For example, among the positive integers up to and including N = 10 < sup > 3 </ sup > about one in seven numbers is prime, whereas up to and including N = 10 < sup > 10 </ sup > about one in 23 numbers is prime ( where ln ( 10 < sup > 3 </ sup >)= 6. 90775528. and ln ( 10 < sup > 10 </ sup >)= 23. 0258509 ).

Informally the word is also used to describe a procedure or process with a specific purpose.

Informally, a permutation of a set of objects is an arrangement of those objects into a particular order.

Informally, a set of strategies is a Nash equilibrium if no player can do better by unilaterally changing his or her strategy.