Originally formulated for two-player zero-sum game theory, covering both the cases where players take alternate moves and those where they make simultaneous moves, it has also been extended to more complex games and to general decision making in the presence of uncertainty.

Originally, Traveller had no established setting, and was promoted as a rules system for running general science fiction role-playing games.

Originally the term was used literally, for a matrix switch controlled by a grid of crossing metal bars, and later was broadened to matrix switches in general.

Originally taking part in Kommune 1, his comical take on revolutionary activity had him dubbed “ fun guerilla ” by the general public.

Originally E3 was almost entirely dominated by print games journalists, the event eventually came to include general and specialist TV crews, newspaper journalists, website journalists.

Originally to be named Orange, it was named Corbin Town ( for Francis Corbin, a member of the governor's council and one of Granville's land agents ), and renamed Childsburgh ( in honor of Thomas Child, the attorney general for North Carolina from 1751 – 1760 and another one of Granville's land agents ) in 1759.

Mont Vernon's general history follows that of many towns in this region: Originally settled for agriculture, its farms were hard hit after the Civil War when railroads opened up better farming land in the Midwest.

Originally called Paquiack (" open plain " or " cleared land ") by local American Indians, the settlers chose the name Swampfield for their town, but in October 1687, the general court decreed the name Danbury.

Originally developed in order to quantize vacuum general relativity in 3 + 1 dimensions, the formalism can accommodate arbitrary spacetime dimensionalities, fermions, an arbitrary gauge group ( or even quantum group ), and supersymmetry, and results in a quantization of the kinematics of the corresponding diffeomorphism-invariant gauge theory.

Originally, IKE had numerous configuration options but lacked a general facility for automatic negotiation of a well-known default case that is universally implemented.

Originally introduced by the United States Navy, the term has now caught on for general usage and is a standard part of NATO terminology.

Originally, only 3000 – 3500 students were anticipated, but the post WWII baby boom led to the designation of general campus in 1958, along with a name change from " Santa Barbara College " to " University of California, Santa Barbara ," and the discontinuation of the industrial arts program for which the State college was famous.

Originally, ministers were politically responsible solely to the King who appointed and dismissed them, although they were legally responsible to the Riksdag and a special court ( Riksrätten ) according to a special statute and to law in general if they committed legal offences ( articles 106 and 101-102 ).

Originally arising from dynastic disputes over the Duchy of Milan and the Kingdom of Naples, the wars rapidly became a general struggle for power and territory among their various participants, and were marked with an increasing number of alliances, counter-alliances, and betrayals.

Originally created as a training facility, Ellington Airport is currently used by military, commercial, NASA aircraft and general aviation sectors.

Originally, most of the art in Rideau Hall was the personal property of the incumbent governor general and, as with much of the furnishings, was removed upon the end of the viceroy's commission.

Originally named Marble Falls Dam, the dam was renamed in 1962 for Max Starcke, the second general director of the LCRA.

Originally a specialist guild for musicians, its role became an anachronism in the 18th century, when the centre of music making in London moved from the City to the West End, and for more than a century it was a general guild for figures in the City, with no specific musical role.

Originally intended for taking attendance, Roll Call is now a general assembly where daily announcements are made.

Originally, " Distant Drums " had been recorded merely as a " demo " for its composer, Cindy Walker, believing it was for her personal use and had been deemed " unsuitable " for general release by Chet Atkins and RCA Victor.

Originally thought for the quantum harmonic oscillator, these operators are the most general form of describe the quantum fields.

Originally founded in 1949 the party has formed the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador since the 2003 general election.

Originally the name Scafell referred to the whole of the massif from Great End south to Slight Side ; only more recently has the general term become applied solely to the part of the fell south of Mickledore.

Originally, the KGB general set up by Koskov was to be General Gogol ; however, Walter Gotell was too sick to handle the major role, and the character of Leonid Pushkin replaced Gogol, who appears briefly at the end of the film, having transferred to the Soviet diplomatic service.

Originally, in general film-making usage, the " money shot " was simply the scene that cost the most money to produce.

Originally used to refer to the presiding officer of a committee or governing body in Great Britain the usage was also applied to political leaders, including the leaders of some of the Thirteen Colonies ( originally Virginia in 1608 ); in full, the " President of the Council.

Originally intended as a badge of shame, the pink triangle ( often inverted from its Nazi usage ) has been reclaimed as an international symbol of gay pride and the gay rights movement, and is second in popularity only to the rainbow flag.

Originally named Schleisingerville after the founder, state senator Baruch Schleisinger ( Weil ) in 1857, it was shortened during the 1920s to Slinger, a nickname which was already in common usage by the area residents.

Originally, the term " bath-room " referred only to the room where the bathtub was located, which was usually a separate room, but this connotation has changed in common North American usage.

Originally he used the terms usage scenarios and usage case – the latter being a direct translation of his Swedish term användningsfall – but found that neither of these terms sounded natural in English, and eventually he settled on use case.

Originally the Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories (), Alfred Rosenberg envisioned usage of the term Baltenland (" Baltic Land ") before the summer of 1941 for the area that would eventually be known as Ostland.

Originally, the Salters ' Company included individuals whose trades involved the usage of salts and the preparation of chemical mixtures for use in food.

Originally written by Bruce Perens in 1995 and declared complete for his intended usage in 1996, BusyBox's original purpose was to put a complete bootable system on a single floppy that would be both a rescue disk and an installer for the Debian distribution.

Originally a word used neutrally in both Chinese and Japanese, the word gained a derogatory tone due to its widespread usage in the context of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

" Originally the Scottish dialectical usage refers to a person who is complaining.

Originally, the word piyyut designated every type of sacred poetry, but as usage developed, the term came to designate only poems of hymn character.

Originally usage of the road was free of charge.

Originally known as Vadakkekara ( north shore ) due to its position with respect to the Kottakkal puzha, the place came to be called as Vatakara by popular usage later.

Originally, the term antioxidant specifically referred to a chemical that prevented the consumption of oxygen.

Originally the word " broadband " had a technical meaning, but became a marketing term for any kind of relatively high-speed computer network or Internet access technology.

Originally a neutral term, since the mid-1960s it has acquired a somewhat derogatory meaning, implying a paranoid tendency to see the influence of some malign covert agency in events.

Originally the term " Bronze Age " meant that either copper or bronze was being used as the chief hard substance for the manufacture of tools and weapons.

Originally the term FAQ referred to the Frequently Answered Question itself, and the compilation of questions and answers was known as a FAQ list or some similar expression.

Originally a router was called gateway, but the term was changed to avoid confusion with other types of gateways.

Originally the standard English term was " mercantile system ".

Originally, " maschinenpistole " was simply the German word for personal, automatic military weapons, while " submachine gun " was a term coined by John T. Thompson, American inventor of the Thompson submachine gun.

Originally, the term nori was generic and referred to seaweeds including hijiki.

Originally, the term referred to the presiding officer of a ceremony or meeting ( i. e., chairman ), but today it most commonly refers to an official.

Originally the penstock was the name of the valve, but the term has been extended to include all of the fluid supply hydraulics.

Originally, in the time of the Man ' yōshū, the term was used to distinguish " short " poems from the longer chōka.

Originally, a " local and popular term " first applied to the Ismailis of Syria, the label was orally transmitted to Western historians and thus found itself in their histories of the Nizaris.

Originally, therefore, the term " creole language " meant the speech of any of those creole peoples.

Originally, this term was used for all factitious disorders.

Originally the term was associated with mid-1960s white artists who performed soul and R & B that was similar to the music released by Motown Records and Stax Records.

Originally the term referred to smaller guns that could accompany a field army on the march and when in combat could be moved about the battlefield in response to changing circumstances ( field artillery ), as to opposed guns installed in a fort ( garrison artillery / coastal artillery ), or to siege cannon or mortars which were too large to be moved quickly, and would be used only in a prolonged siege.

Originally, the term was used to describe the use of waste food by second animals, like the carcass eaters that follow hunting animals, but wait until they have finished their meal.

Originally the term was used to describe a ridiculous but amusing person.

Originally a specific class of poet, contrasting with another class known as fili in Ireland and Highland Scotland, the term " bard ", with the decline of living bardic tradition in the modern period, acquired generic meanings of an epic author / singer / narrator, comparable with the terms in other cultures ( minstrel, skald, scop, rhapsode, udgatar, griot, ashik ) or any poets, especially famous ones.

Originally, the term " coarse wavelength division multiplexing " was fairly generic, and meant a number of different things.

Originally entitled Called Home ( which is the Amish term for death ), it ran 182 pages long, the equivalent of three hours of screen time.

Originally referring to the location of a venue and its productions on a street intersecting Broadway in Manhattan's Theatre District, the hub of the theatre industry in the United States, the term later became defined by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers as a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, or a specific production that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts.

Originally a lumbering town, the name derives from an Indian term meaning " place of echoes ".