A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control on the Internet.

A major revision was enacted in 1905, and in 1946, Congress passed the Lanham Act (), which currently defines federal protection and registration for trademarks, and grants administrative authority to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (" USPTO ").

* Administrative law refers to the body of law which regulates bureaucratic managerial procedures and defines the powers of administrative agencies.

Paragraph 15 ( e ) of the UDRP Rules defines reverse domain name hijacking as the filing of a complaint in bad faith, resulting in the abuse of the UDRP administrative process.

HL7 version 2 defines a series of electronic messages to support administrative, logistical, financial as well as clinical processes.

The Encyclopædia Britannica defines " political machine " as, " in U. S. politics, a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state.

Given that metadata is a set of descriptive, structural and administrative data about a group of computer data ( for example such as a database schema ), Java Metadata Interface ( or JMI ) is a platform-neutral specification that defines the creation, storage, access, lookup and exchange of metadata in the Java programming language.

A parish defines a territorial unit or region that, historically, was usually an area under the pastoral care served by a local church as an ecclesiastical administrative unit ( see Parish ) and later used by map-makers to set boundaries to an area of land.

Justice Breyer defines administrative law in four parts.

In United States administrative law, an organic statute is a statute enacted by Congress that creates an administrative agency and defines its authorities and responsibilities.

This period also saw the establishment of regional councils, who form a level of administrative action more specific than a National Spiritual Assembly, but broader than the civic locality, a boundary which almost always defines the jurisdictions of Local Spiritual Assembly.

The book defines the population of a city proper as " the population living within the administrative boundaries of a city.

ISO 8583 also defines system-to-system messages for secure key exchanges, reconciliation of totals, and other administrative purposes.

To show the compatibility of necessity and liberty, Hume defines liberty as the ability to act on the basis of one's will e. g. the capacity to will one's actions but not to will one's will.

Miller ( 1992 ) defines a street gang as “ a self-formed association of peers, united by mutual interests, with identifiable leadership and internal organization, who act collectively or as individuals to achieve specific purposes, including the conduct of illegal activity and control of a particular territory, facility, or enterprise.

Nikolai Trubetzkoy in Grundzüge der Phonologie ( 1939 ) defines phonology as " the study of sound pertaining to the system of language ", as opposed to phonetics, which is " the study of sound pertaining to the act of speech " ( the distinction between language and speech being basically Saussure's distinction between langue and parole ).

The vierbein defines a local rest frame, allowing the constant Dirac matrices to act at each spacetime point.

Chapter 2 of the South African Citizenship Act, enacted on October 6, 1995, defines who is considered a naturalized citizen at the time of the act and also outlines the naturalization process for future immigrants.

To satisfy those wishing a more strict interpretation of how the power function should act, the 2008 standard defines two additional power functions ; < tt > pown ( x, n )</ tt > where the exponent must be an integer, and < tt > powr ( x, y )</ tt > which returns a NaN whenever a parameter is a NaN or the exponentiation would give an indeterminate form.

Spiteful behavior defines an act ( or acts ) that results in harm, or loss of fitness, to both the actor and the recipient.

She looks at how the computer affects the way we look at ourselves and our relationships with others, claiming that technology defines the way we think and act.

Miller ( 1992 ) defines a street gang as “ a self-formed association of peers, united by mutual interests, with identifiable leadership and internal organization, who act collectively or as individuals to achieve specific purposes, including the conduct of illegal activity and control of a particular territory, facility, or enterprise.

Wayne Jancik's book The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders ( Billboard Books, 1998 ) defines a one-hit wonder rather strictly, as " an act that has won a position on Billboard's national, pop, Top 40 just once.

A power of attorney may be special or limited to one specified act or type of act, or it may be general, and whatever it defines as its scope is what a court will enforce as being its scope.

The United States presidential line of succession defines who may become or act as President of the United States upon the incapacity, death, resignation, or removal from office ( by impeachment and subsequent conviction ) of a sitting president or a president-elect.

GM defines several Registered Parameters, which act like Controllers but are addressed in a different way.

Alpers also defines pastoral convention as the act of bringing together, and authors use this to discuss loss.

Justinian first defines an Obligation in his Institutiones, Book 3, section 13 as " a legal bond, with which we are bound by necessity of performing some act according to the laws of our state.

) defines duress as " any unlawful threat or coercion used ... to induce another to act not act in a manner otherwise would not would ".

Section 273. 1 ( 1 ) defines consent, section 273. 1 ( 2 ) outlines certain circumstances where " no consent " is obtained, while section 273. 1 ( 3 ) states that subsection ( 2 ) does not limit the circumstances where " no consent " is obtained ( i. e. subsection ( 2 ) describes some circumstances which deem the act to be non-consensual, but other circumstances, not described in this section, can also deem the act as having been committed without consent ).

Section 115 in The Indian Evidence Act, 1872 defines Estoppel, to mean .- When one person has, by his declaration, act or omission, intentionally caused or permitted another person to believe a thing to be true and to act upon such belief, neither he nor his representative shall be allowed, in any suit or proceeding between himself and such person or his representative, to deny the truth of that thing.

The new act, ( earlier Patent and Design Act, 1911 was repealed by this act ) now defines " design " to mean only the features of shape, configuration, pattern, ornament, or composition of lines or colours applied to any article, whether in two or three dimensional, or in both forms, by any industrial process or means, whether manual or mechanical or chemical, separate or combined, which in the finished article appeal to and are judged solely by the eye ; but does not include any mode or principle of construction.

The most widely accepted of these is that of the Princeton University Dictionary which defines it as " the process of fertile land transforming into desert typically as a result of deforestation, drought or improper / inappropriate agriculture "

With charity, the other concept that most defines the work and spirituality of the Order, study became the method most used by the Dominicans in working to defend the Church against the perils that hounded it, and also of enlarging its authority over larger areas of the known world.

The most common way to formalize this is by defining a field as a set together with two operations, usually called addition and multiplication, and denoted by + and ·, respectively, such that the following axioms hold ; subtraction and division are defined implicitly in terms of the inverse operations of addition and multiplication :< ref group =" note "> That is, the axiom for addition only assumes a binary operation The axiom of inverse allows one to define a unary operation that sends an element to its negative ( its additive inverse ); this is not taken as given, but is implicitly defined in terms of addition as " is the unique b such that ", " implicitly " because it is defined in terms of solving an equation — and one then defines the binary operation of subtraction, also denoted by "−", as in terms of addition and additive inverse.

The standards development of HTTP was coordinated by the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) and the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ), culminating in the publication of a series of Requests for Comments ( RFCs ), most notably RFC 2616 ( June 1999 ), which defines HTTP / 1. 1, the version of HTTP in common use.

* Reform Judaism, called Liberal or Progressive Judaism in many countries, defines Judaism as a religion rather than as a race or culture, rejects most of the ritual and ceremonial laws of the Torah while observing moral laws, and emphasizes the ethical call of the Prophets.

Jaynes defines " consciousness " more narrowly than most philosophers.

* Inheritance: Inheritance is often considered one of the most important features of the object database, as it clearly defines the hierarchical relationships between different types of objects at different levels and provides code reusability.

POSIX also defines a standard threading library API which is supported by most modern operating systems.

If it only defines rules and regulations for Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ( IANA ) registries it is less clear ; most of these documents are BCPs, but some are on the standards track.

According to Australian maps, South Australia's south coast is flanked by the Southern Ocean, but official international consensus defines the Southern Ocean as extending north from the pole only to 60 ° S or 55 ° S, at least 17 degrees of latitude further south than the most southern point of South Australia.

Note that none of these listed characteristics are a requirement, as seen in shōnen manga like Yotsuba &!, which features a female lead, and almost no fan service or action, and that what most defines whether or not a series is shōnen are things like the magazine ( see Weekly Shōnen Jump ) it is serialized in or the time slot it airs on T. V.

The main tenets of Whitehead's metaphysics were summarized in his most accessible work, Adventures of Ideas ( 1933 ), where he also defines his conceptions of beauty, truth, art, adventure, and peace.

The most significant for the language being that an element name uniquely defines its possible contents.

All social sciences have explicit ontology issues because they do not have hard falsification criteria like most models in physical sciences-indeed the lack of such widely accepted hard falsification criteria is what defines a social or soft science.

This is rather vague, though suggestive, and can be made precise in the language of category theory: a construction is most efficient if it satisfies a universal property, and is formulaic if it defines a functor.

The two facts that this method of turning rngs into rings is most efficient and formulaic can be expressed simultaneously by saying that it defines an adjoint functor.

Although there is no authority that defines tiers of networks participating in the Internet, the most common definition of a tier 1 network is one that can reach every other network on the Internet without purchasing IP transit or paying settlements.

Aristophanes, a comic playwright, defines and shapes the idea of comedy almost as Aeschylus had shaped tragedy as an art form — Aristophanes ' most famous plays include the Lysistrata and The Frogs.

Although denti-alveolar consonants are often described as dental, it is the rear-most point of contact that is most relevant, for this is what defines the maximum acoustic space of resonance and will give a consonant its characteristic sound.

For most of its length, it now defines the border between these two provinces.

Dawkins defines the " symptoms " of being infected by the " virus of religion ", providing examples for most of them, and tries to define a connection between the elements of religion and its survival value ( invoking Zahavi's handicap principle of sexual selection, applied to believers of a religion ).

Definition 5 is the most complex and difficult ; it defines what it means for two ratios to be equal.

Allmusic defines industrial as the " most abrasive and aggressive fusion of rock and electronic music "; " initially a blend of avant-garde electronics experiments ( tape music, musique concrète, white noise, synthesizers, sequencers, etc.