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, flak jacket may refer to a ballistic vest, particularly Type III and above, which is reinforced with either steel, titanium, ceramic, or polyethylene plates.

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.

Such a definition can be formulated in terms of equivalence classes of smooth functions on M. Informally, we will say that two smooth functions f and g are equivalent at a point x if they have the same first-order behavior near x.

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, they require human practices to sustain their existence, but they have an effect that is ( basically ) universally agreed upon.

Informally, two crystals tend to be in the same crystal system if they have similar symmetries, though there are many exceptions to this.

Informally, given the prime factorization of m, take b to be the product of the prime factors of m that have an odd exponent ( if there are none, then take b to be 1 ).

Informally, a thick object in our space is simply connected if it consists of one piece and does not have any " holes " that pass all the way through it.

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, the Houston Cougars have also been referred to as the Coogs, UH, or simply Houston.

Informally this has been called the " Step Boundary ", although the step-like shape of the boundary was not apparent for several decades — the source of the Arkansas, believed to be near the 42nd parallel, was not known until John C. Frémont located it in the 1840s, hundreds of miles south of the 42nd parallel.

Informally, the market spilled into the surrounding neighborhood, both in terms of street vendors and in terms of the nearby Magazin Universal (" Universal Store ") named Bucur Obor, a large commercial building that has been parcelled up into hundreds of small, independent retail stores.

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 known as FORTRAN 66.

* Informally known as Fortran 90.

* Informally known as Fortran 95.

* Informally known as Fortran 2003.

* Informally known as Fortran 2008.

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

Informally, it was known as the Dewitt Colony.

Informally known as LaGuardia Arts, or LaGuardia High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts is the only school among the nine specialized high schools in New York City that receives special funding from the New York State legislature through the Hecht Calandra Act.

Informally, this nation was also simply known as Germany.

Informally known as " The Country Club of the South ," Furman was named one of the 362 most beautiful places in America by the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Informally, it is still also known as ARD among viewers.

Informally known as " Ronchamp ", the chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp (), completed in 1954, is one of the finest examples of the architecture of Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier and one of the most important examples of twentieth-century religious architecture.

Informally it was known as the Wang Jingwei regime (), the Nanjing Nationalist Government (), the Republic of China-Nanjing, the Nanjing regime, or New China.

Informally it is known as the neck of the tooth.

Informally, the creole is known by the term dialect, as the creole is often perceived by locals as a dialect variety of English instead of an English creole language.

Informally known as " Friends ' Central ," the school encompasses three divisions: lower school ( nursery through 4th grades ), middle school ( 5th through 8th ) and upper school ( 9th through 12th ).

Informally basis vectors are like " building blocks of a vector ", they are added together to make a vector, and the coordinates are the number of basis vectors in each direction.

Informally, eigenfaces can be considered a set of " standardized face ingredients ", derived from statistical analysis of many pictures of faces.

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

Informally speaking, continuations can account for the similarity between such sentences as " Alice sees Bob "— formally, — and " Alice sees everyone ", i. 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, this means that if G acts unitarily on a Hilbert space and has " almost invariant vectors ", then it has a nonzero invariant vector.

Informally the portion of the Torah read by or to the maftir is called the " maftir portion ", or the " maftir " for short: in a Chumash the word " maftir " is printed in the margin at the beginning of that portion.