Informally, a set of natural numbers A is Turing reducible to a set B if there is an oracle machine that correctly tells whether numbers are in A when run with B as the oracle set ( in this case, the set A is also said to be ( relatively ) computable from B and recursive in B ).

Informally it can be considered more widely: from a post-colonial form of amical protection, or protectorate, to confederation of unequal members when the lesser partner ( s ) delegate to the major one ( often the former colonial power ) some authority normally exclusively retained by a self-governing state, often in such fields as defence and foreign relations, while often enjoying favorable economic terms such as market access.

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, Indonesians also use the word " perak " (' silver ' in Indonesian ) in referring to rupiah.

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, and primarily in fiction, a detective is any licensed or unlicensed person who solves crimes, including historical crimes, or looks into records.

Informally, the Condorcet winner is the person who would win a two-candidate election against each of the other candidates.

** 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, the name " NFL Europe " continued to be used in the United States, including for the league's English-language Web site, nfleurope. com.

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, 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 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.

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, the terms C standard library or C library or libc are also used to designate a particular implementation on a given system.

Informally the island was used by fishermen from Cuba and from the British Bahamas, who were later joined by others from the United States after the latter nation's independence.

Informally, a superkey is a set of attributes within a table whose values can be used to uniquely identify a tuple.

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 gold fixing provides a recognized rate that is used as a benchmark for pricing the majority of gold products and derivatives throughout the world's markets.

Informally, the term " graph invariant " is used for properties expressed quantitatively, while " property " usually refers to descriptive characterizations of graphs.

Informally, the word is sometimes used as a verb to describe making or receiving such correspondence.

Informally, it is the amount of wasted " space " used to transmit certain data.

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

Informally, this nation was also simply known as Germany.

Informally, subvarieties are in general position if they cannot be described more simply than others.

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, " a simply connected h-cobordism is a cylinder ".

Informally called " fudging the data ," this practice includes selective reporting ( see also publication bias ) and even simply making up false data.

Informally, the Chief Mate will often simply be called " The Mate.

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

Informally, they could simply spend less until utility was exactly.