Originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth ′ s equator to the North Pole ( at sea level ), its definition has been periodically refined to reflect growing knowledge of metrology.

Originally, this definition said that the elbow joint must not straighten out during the bowling action.

Originally, fiber was defined to be the components of plants that resist human digestive enzymes, a definition that includes lignin and polysaccharides.

Originally, this definition agreed with the first definition above, since members of groups were always bijections from a set into itself ; i. e., group was taken to mean permutation group.

Originally the definition required control by a single entity, typically an Internet service provider or a very large organization with independent connections to multiple networks, that adhere to a single and clearly defined routing policy, as originally defined in RFC 1771.

Originally branded as ESPN2HD, the channel airs at least 8. 5 hours per day of high definition programming ( not including live event coverage ).

Originally defined by the Swedish physicist Manne Siegbahn ( 1886 – 1978 ) in 1925, the x unit could not at that time be measured directly ; the definition was instead made in terms of the spacing between planes of the calcite crystals used in the measuring apparatus.

Originally, the layout and graphics were reworked specifically for viewing on a HDTV, offering additional content not available on the standard definition ESPNEWS feed.

Originally its members studied a great variety of texts and languages, but as disciplines such as linguistics and modern languages have created their own societies, the APA has come to be concerned with classical antiquity and fields closely related to the study of antiquity, while the definition of " philology " has broadened to include many approaches to understanding the ancient world.

Originally, the Church of England was self-contained and relied for its unity and identity on its own history, its traditional legal and episcopal structure and its status as an established church of the state.

Originally designed as a lightweight anchor for seaplanes, this design consists of two plow-like blades mounted to a shank, with a folding stock crossing through the crown of the anchor.

Originally referred to as Baby for several months, she was eventually named Abby May after her mother.

Originally a cupbearer ( Rabshaqe ) to a king of Kish with a Semitic name, Ur-Zababa, Sargon thus became a gardener, responsible for the task of clearing out irrigation canals.

Originally based on the date used to calculate the age of fruit trees for tithing as mandated in Leviticus 19: 23 – 25, the holiday now is most often observed by planting trees, or raising money to plant trees.

Originally released for the IBM 6150 RISC workstation, AIX now supports or has supported a wide variety of hardware platforms, including the IBM RS / 6000 series and later IBM POWER and PowerPC-based systems, IBM System i, System / 370 mainframes, PS / 2 personal computers, and the Apple Network Server.

Originally known as Buckingham House, the building which forms the core of today's palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1705 on a site which had been in private ownership for at least 150 years.

Originally intended for writing compilers for other languages, BCPL is no longer in common use.

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 hired as an easel painter, in 1935 Alston became the first African American supervisor to work for the WPA's Federal Art Project in New York, which would also serve as his first mural work.

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, computer monitors were used for data processing while television receivers were used for entertainment.

Originally, it was a summer program for disadvantaged youth, although it has grown into an AmeriCorps-sponsored non-profit organization with six regional offices that serve Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota.

Originally released for PC DOS, the games have later been ported to numerous other platforms.

Originally, these privileges and immunities were granted on a bilateral, ad hoc basis, which led to misunderstandings and conflict, pressure on weaker states, and an inability for other states to judge which party was at fault.

Originally much of the west shore of Upper New York Bay consisted of large tidal flats which hosted vast oyster banks, a major source of food for the Lenape population who lived in the area prior to the arrival of Dutch settlers.

Originally employed by the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam, he held a professorship at the Eindhoven University of Technology, worked as a research fellow for Burroughs Corporation in the early 1980s, and later held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, in the United States.

Originally researched by Dr. Jon Parmentola for the U. S. Army, it has grown into a very plausible successor to a standard solid propellant tank gun.

Originally, the event was for amateurs only, however, since the 1984 Summer Olympics professional players have been permitted, albeit with certain restrictions which prevent countries from fielding their strongest sides.

Originally developed on IRIX, Freeciv has been ported to many different operating systems: it is distributed with many Linux distributions, offers installers for Microsoft Windows, and has been known to run on Mac OS X, Solaris, Ultrix, QNX, OS / 2, Cygwin, AmigaOS, RISC OS, Maemo, ZETA, SkyOS and various BSDs.

Originally developed by IBM at their campus in south San Jose, California in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, Fortran came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continual use for over half a century in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, computational physics and computational chemistry.

Originally, it stood for a labialized sound, while ⟨ r ⟩ without ⟨ w ⟩ was non-labialized, but this distinction was lost in most dialects, the two sounds merging into a single alveolar approximant, allophonically labialized at the start of syllables, as in red.

Originally Prototipi Bizzarrini s. r. l., the name was changed to Bizzarrini S. p. A. in 1966.

Originally called the TFT Yearbook, this was planned to be a supplement that would be updated annually, to include rule changes, expansions and new rules interpretations.

Originally from Bamberg in Franconia, now northern Bavaria, an apparent branch of the Babenbergs or Babenberger went on to rule Austria as counts of the march and dukes from 976 – 1248, before the rise of the house of Habsburg.

Originally a Swabian count, he was the first Habsburg to acquire the duchies of Austria and Styria, territories that would remain under Habsburg rule for more than 600 years and would form the core of the Habsburg Monarchy and the present-day country of Austria.

Originally based in Tunisia, the Fatimid dynasty extended their rule across the Mediterranean coast of Africa, and ultimately made Egypt the centre of their caliphate.

Originally, this amount was the network's winnings limit ; anything above that amount was forfeited, but the rule was later changed so that although champions retired after winning $ 25, 000, they kept any winnings up to $ 35, 000.

Originally occupied by the Todas, the area came under the rule of the East India Company at the end of the 18th century.

Originally, the Dauphin was personally responsible for the rule of the Dauphiné, which was legally part of the Holy Roman Empire, and which the Emperors, in gifting the rule of the province to the French heirs, had stipulated must never be united with France.

Originally inhabited by the Chiskiake Indians, under Chief Powhatans rule, this area was transferred to English speaking persons under suspicious circumstances.

Originally established outside the city walls of Dublin in the buildings of the dissolved Augustinian Priory of All Hallows, Trinity College was set up in part to consolidate the rule of the Tudor monarchy in Ireland, and it was seen as the university of the Protestant Ascendancy for much of its history.

Originally the airport had no perimeter rule ; in 1954-1960 airlines scheduled nonstop flights to California on piston-engine airliners.

Originally named Costermansville ( in French ) or Costermansstad ( in Dutch ) until 1954, it had a prominent European population under colonial rule.

Originally inhabited by the Lenape Native Americans and settled in 1623 by French Waloons in an attempt to escape puritan oppression, Flatlands was given right to local rule in 1661 by Peter Stuyvesant as one of the five Dutch Towns on Long Island.

Originally, the legal rule was that " all persons have an equal right in the highway, and that in exercising the right each shall take due care not to injure other users of the way.

* Byzantium: Originally captured from Persian forces by the Greeks in 478 BC, and subsequently taken from the control of Pausanias by the Athenians in 476, a garrison had been stationed there ever since its revolt from Athenian rule in 440-439 BC.

" Originally, the experts were given an unspecified amount of money to buy the extra item ; the rule was later changed so that the experts could only use whatever money was left of the team's £ 300 budget ( the remaining money was referred to by Wonnacott as the " leftover lolly ").

Originally built as an Imperial Japanese Navy Air Squadron base in 1938 during the Taiwan under Japanese rule era, Kaohsiung Airport retained its military purpose when the Republic of China government first took control of Taiwan.

Originally trained as an electrician, he joined the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) of Amílcar Cabral in 1960 and soon became a key player in the territory's guerrilla war against Portuguese colonial rule.

Originally appointed to the office by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Quinn was the last executive of an era of Republican rule over the Hawaiian Islands which began during the overthrow of the monarchy in 1893, and the last Republican to serve as Governor until Linda Lingle in 2002.

Originally banned by colonial authorities in the 19th century due to its sexual nature and general challenge to Spanish rule, it has since become symbolic of Mexico both in the country and abroad.

Originally the Zamindari System was introduced in the pre-colonial period to collect taxes from peasants, and it continued during colonial British rule.

Originally hired to rule panel borders, erase pencils and fill in blacks for other illustrators, he sat next the teenaged artist Frank Frazetta.

Originally settling in Asia Minor in its Hellenistic period, they were driven out in the period of Byzantine rule between the 5th and 11th centuries, resettling there only after the occupation of much of Anatolia by Muslim Seljuk forces after the Battle of Manzikert.

Originally the synod church of the Archbishopric of Ohrid, it was later converted into a mosque during the rule of the Ottoman Empire.