The adjective " generalized " is a holdover from a period when Cartesian coordinates were the standard.

* As an adjective, Austin refers to the Augustinian Order

Bavarian is the adjective form of the German state of Bavaria, and refers to people of ancestry from Bavaria.

Derivatively, the adjective continental refers to the social practices or fashion of continental Europe, as opposed to those in Britain.

The adjective " Runyonesque " refers to this type of character as well as to the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicted.

French is the adjective form of France and usually refers to:

** Genetic, used as an adjective, refers to heredity of traits

" Single grain " does not mean that only a single type of grain was used to produce the whisky — rather, the adjective " single " refers only to the use of a single distillery ( and making a " single grain " requires using a mixture of grains, as barley is a type of grain and some malted barley must be used in all Scotch whisky ).

The related term " bandpass " is an adjective that describes a type of filter or filtering process ; it is frequently confused with " passband ", which refers to the actual portion of affected spectrum.

In this process, an adjective that refers to or has referred to a disfavored group has adopted a more generic sense of negativity, sometimes not even referring to a person.

From the 19th century, the settlement grew to be an important coal mining center, and its name was supplemented by the adjective Górnicza ( which refers to mining ) in 1919, to distinguish it from such towns, as Dąbrowa Tarnowska and Dąbrowa Białostocka.

Although ternary most often refers to a system in which the three digits,, and are all whole numbers, the adjective also lends its name to the balanced ternary system, used in comparison logic and ternary computers.

( The adjective is Rohirric, which also refers to their language.

# In syntax, the term adjectival phrase or adjective phrase refers to a phrase built upon an adjective, which functions as the head of that phrase.

The adjective " paternal " refers to a father and comparatively to " maternal " for a mother.

When used as an adjective, Thai refers to anything that originates from Thailand.

The adjective Orwellian refers to these behaviours of The Party, especially when the Party is the State:

Similarly, Eleanor Harz Jorden considers this class of words a kind of nominal, not adjective, and refers to them as na-nominals in her textbook Japanese: The Spoken Language.

The adjective wind-up refers to mainspring-powered clockwork devices, which include clocks and watches, kitchen timers, music boxes, and wind-up toys.

Note that the adjective ' hidden ' refers to the state sequence through which the model passes, not to the parameters of the model ; even if the model parameters are known exactly, the model is still ' hidden '.

The adjective " Venetian " refers to the Republic of Venice, which held the area when the name was coined.

Natural is an adjective that refers to Nature.

In poetry, accent refers to the stressed syllable of a polysyllabic word, or a monosyllabic word that receives stress because it belongs to an " open class " of words ( noun, verb, adjective, adverb ) or because of " contrastive " or " rhetorical " stress.

The adjective personal refers to the fact that, in contrast with previous canonical use for ecclesiastical institutions, the jurisdiction of the prelate is not linked to a territory but over persons wherever they be.

In French, étasunien, from États-Unis d ' Amérique, distinguishes U. S. things and persons from the adjective américain, which denotes persons and things from the United States but may also refer to ' the Americas '; likewise, the German usages U. S .- amerikanisch and U. S .- Amerikaner observe said cultural distinction, solely denoting U. S. things and people.

It is said by some that Bayonne is the birthplace of mayonnaise, supposedly a corruption of Bayonnaise, the French adjective describing the city's people and produce.

The name most likely corresponds to the word Breton, the French adjective referring to the Atlantic province of Brittany.

The French name Îles Malouines was given to the islands – malouin being the adjective for the Breton port of Saint-Malo.

In French, the term " frigate " became a verb, meaning ' to build long and low ', and an adjective, adding further confusion.

It is unlikely that the Germans named the lake so for being shallow since the adjective is a Greek loanword that was borrowed via French and entered the general German vocabulary in the 17th century.

It may also be used, with an upper or lower case initial, as an adjective relating to Quebec, or to the French culture of Quebec.

* adjective: French

Leiden: E. J. Brill, Old French adjective maleüré ( from Latin male auguratus ) meaning ill-omened or unfortunate

Through late 14th century Old French magique, the word " magic " derives via Latin magicus from the Greek adjective magikos ( μαγικός ) used in reference to the " magical " arts of the Persian Magicians ( Greek: magoi, singular mágos, μάγος ), the Zoroastrian astrologer priests of the ancient Persian Empire.

" wintry " ( French hiver, Romansh ( Engadine ) inviern, Italian inverno, Occitan ivèrn, Catalan hivern, Spanish invierno, Portuguese inverno, Romanian iarnă, adjective of hiems )

Definite articles formerly were demonstrative pronouns or adjectives ; compare the fate of the Latin demonstrative adjective ille, illa, ( illud ), in the Romance languages, becoming French le and la, Catalan and Spanish el and la, and Italian il and la.

Meanwhile the French mouaire had mutated into a verb, moirer, meaning ' to produce a watered textile by weaving or pressing ', which by 1823 had spawned the adjective moiré.

Avant-garde (); from French, " advance guard " or " vanguard ") is a French term used in English as a noun or adjective to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.

The phrase is one of the few cases in the English language where the adjective is a postmodifier — some other phrases, such as the legal terms attorney general and court martial, also follow that pattern, largely due to the influence of Norman French.

In French, the adjective derived from the river is rhodanien, as in le sillon rhodanien ( literally " the furrow of the Rhone "), which is the name of the long, straight Saône and Rhone river valleys, a deep cleft running due south to the Mediterranean and separating the Alps from the Massif Central.

The word malapropos is an adjective or adverb meaning " inappropriate " or " inappropriately ", derived from the French phrase mal à propos ( literally " ill-suited ").

: Origin: < Middle French, French paradoxe ( 1495 as noun ; 1372 – 4 in plural paradoxesas the title of a work by Cicero ; paradoxon ( noun ) philosophical paradox in post-classical Latin also a figure of speech < ancient Greek παράδοξον, especially in plural παράδοξαStoical paradoxes, use as noun of neuter singular of παράδοξος ( adjective ) contrary to received opinion or expectation < παρα-para-prefix1 + δόξαopinion ( see doxology n .), after ancient Greek παρὰ δόξανcontrary to expectation.

The English synonyms palate and palatum, and also the related adjective palatine ( as in palatine bone ), are all from the Latin palatum via Old French palat, words which, like their English derivatives, refer to the " roof of the mouth.

It is from this adjective that are derived French jaloux, Provençal gelos, Italian geloso, and Spanish celoso.

Colt historian Herbert Houze wrote that Colt championed the concept of modernism before the word was coined, he pioneered the use of celebrity endorsements to promote his products, he introduced the adjective " new and improved " to advertising and demonstrated the commercial value of brand-name recognition as the word for " revolver " in French is Le Colt.