His classic definition of feudalism is the most widely known today and also the easiest to understand, simply put, when a lord granted a fief to a vassal, the vassal provided military service in return.

The liberal arts education ( Latin: artes liberales ) is a type of education with those subjects or skills that in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free person, in other words, a citizen, to know in order to take an active part in civic life and public debate and most importantly, military service ( slaves and resident aliens were by definition excluded from the duties and responsibilities of citizenship ).

The definition and classification of mental disorders is a key issue for researchers as well as service providers and those who may be diagnosed.

These laws, contained in sections 5311 through 5332 of Title 31 of the United States Code, require financial institutions, which under the current definition include a broad array of entities, including banks, credit card companies, life insurers, money service businesses and broker-dealers in securities, to report certain transactions to the United States Treasury.

A military academy or service academy ( in American English ) is an educational institution which prepares candidates for service in the officer corps of the army, the navy, air force or coast guard, which normally provides education in a service environment, the exact definition depending on the country concerned.

The typical dictionary definition of religion refers to a " belief in, or the worship of, a god or gods " or the " service and worship of God or the supernatural ".

Should a legal distinction be necessary between a ( location ) channel as defined above and a television channel in this sense, the terms " programming service " ( e. g. ) or " programming undertaking " ( for instance, ) may be used instead for the latter definition.

The exact term for the MFJ is given under the general definition of local access and transport area, a term used in U. S. telecommunications regulation for geographic areas in which local telephone companies are allowed to provide service, the term being used is

For purposes of regulation by the Federal Communications Commission under the U. S. Communications Act of 1934 and Telecommunications Act of 1996, the definition of telecommunications service is " the offering of telecommunications for a fee directly to the public, or to such classes of users as to be effectively available directly to the public, regardless of the facilities used.

Although the definition of an airliner can vary from country to country, an airliner is typically defined as an aircraft intended for carrying multiple passengers in commercial service.

A port of the game with enhanced high definition visuals was released on the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service on September 14th, 2011.

A high definition version of the entire song " Pardon Me " is also available for free download from the PlayStation Store, an online service for PlayStation 3 users.

Failures which occur that can be left or maintained in an unrepaired condition, and do not place the system out of service, are not considered failures under this definition.

Yeoman or gauman within the definition of both land and / or service of a young man appeared mostly settled around the border regions or remote countrysides of their districts, or kingdoms ( both modern and ancient ); thus a connection or association with pagus ( pages ), or rustics to the term yeoman.

American cryptics usually require all words in a clue to be used in service of the wordplay or definition, whereas British ones allow for more extraneous or supporting words.

By definition, a service dog is a dog that is individually trained to perform tasks that mitigate the disability of the dog's owner.

The international definition of conscientious objection officially broadened on March 8, 1995 when the United Nations Commission on Human Rights resolution 1995 / 83 stated that " persons performing military service should not be excluded from the right to have conscientious objections to military service.

" That definition was re-affirmed in 1998, when the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights document called " Conscientious objection to military service, United Nations Commission on Human Rights resolution 1998 / 77 " officially recognized that " persons performing military service may develop conscientious objections.

Key topics covered include service value definition, business-case development, service assets, market analysis, and service provider types.

:" Since a precise mathematical definition of the term effectively calculable ( effectively decidable ) has been wanting, we can take this thesis ... as a definition of it ..."

According to the what economist Nicholas Barr describes as the " classical definition of income :" the 1938 Haig-Simons definition, " income may be defined as the ... sum of ( 1 ) the market value of rights exercised in consumption and ( 2 ) the change in the value of the store of property rights ..." Since the consumption potential of non-monetary goods, such as leisure, cannot be measured, monetary income may be thought of as a proxy for full income.

:" Now if Q ( x ) is a partial recursive predicate, there is a decision procedure for Q ( x ) on its range of definition, so the law of the excluded middle or excluded " third " ( saying that, Q ( x ) is either t or f ) applies intuitionistically on the range of definition.

:" Tao can be told but any definition given is not perpetual ; the name can be named but whatever name given is not perpetual.

Merriam-Webster's online dictionary provides another example of a circular definition with the words " condescending " and " patronizing :"

" However, the New Oxford American Dictionary defines logistics as " the detailed coordination of a complex operation involving many people, facilities, or supplies " and the Oxford Dictionary online defines it as, " the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation :" Another dictionary definition is " the time-related positioning of resources.

:" This definition allows numerous unproductive or pseudo root causes to be quickly eliminated.

The interpretation of " Bcc :" as " blind courtesy copy " is a backronym and not the original meaning ; the historic RFC 733 has an explicit " blind carbon " annotation in its definition of the Bcc: header field syntax.

Held the Court, through Laurel :" The Constitution is a definition of the powers of government.

:" This definition sees youth work primarily in terms of the development of the young person.

:" If developments in the Parliament of Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada result in the definition of marriage being broadened, we will respect the law and comply with that.

:" I am glad the CIA is investigating the cases that they are aware of, but by definition you are not going to be aware of all such cases, when you have a process designed to avoid judicial safeguards.

:" I used common, functional objects-such as a chair-and to the left of the object would be a full-scale photograph of it and to the right of the object would be a photostat of a definition of the object from the dictionary.

:" I do not propose to attempt a more precise definition of a public nuisance than those which emerge from the textbooks and authorities to which I have referred.

:" Throughout his adult life Elmer Berger ’ s definition of Judaism did not vary.

The definition is further complicated by the fact that Irish independence has allowed Ireland to promote ' Celtic ' music as a specifically Irish product.

The modern legal definition of " assault rifle " is of significance in states like California, where according to state law, certain weapons that cosmetically resemble true assault rifles, but are only capable of semi-automatic ( or autoloading ), are categorized as " assault weapons " and are illegal to purchase or own by civilian residents of the state, even after a less restrictive ban by the federal government was allowed to lapse after having no impact on these weapons ' use in crime.

Pack sold separately ) was not a product but a feature which it was allowed to add to Windows, although the DOJ did not agree with this definition.

While the actual numbers behind this definition were never firm, the concept allowed customers to share access to expensive resources like disk drives and printers, send e-mail, and access the Internet.

Free software and open-source are two similar categories of software licensing but which criteria of inclusion has open source including a few more licenses than is allowed under the free software definition.

Under NFL rules, if a quarterback lines up under center, he is by definition ineligible and not allowed to receive a forward pass.

It was precisely the harmony of the reign that allowed a consensus on the definition of this controversial crime.

It has allowed for the definition of a new practical standard for electrical resistance, based on the resistance quantum given by the von Klitzing constant R < sub > K </ sub >

W-VHS allowed recording of MUSE Hi-Vision analog high definition television, which was broadcast in Japan from 1989 until 2007.

A broadened definition of right-wing perils has allowed them to ban other than genuine Nazis as " threats to the democratic-liberal order ".

It was clear that “ the September 11 attacks led to increased U. S. demands for Japanese security cooperation .” On October 29, 2001 the Anti-Terrorism Special Measures Law was passed, which “ further broadened the definition of Japan ’ s self-defense .” The law allowed Japan to support the U. S. military on foreign territory.

In American cryptics, a clue is only allowed to have one subsidiary indication, but in British cryptics the occasional clue may have more than one ; e. g., a triple definition clue would be considered an amusing variation in the UK but unsound in the US.

would give the answer ; in the cryptic sense, spoil works as an anagram indicator for vote, while the whole clue is, with a certain amount of licence allowed to crossword setters, a definition.

The definition of economic neoliberalism which has been presented focuses heavily on economic policies and has little to say about non-economic policy ( other than that they should not be allowed to interfere with the running of the free market ).

Participatory democracy, by Fiskin's definition, allows inclusive participation and deliberation, but at a cost of sacrificing equality – because widespread participation is allowed there will rarely be sufficient resources to compensate people who give up their time to take part in the deliberation, and so the participants tend to be those with a strong interest in the issue to be decided, and therefore will often not be representative of the overall population.

) In other words, Minkowski space is a pseudo-Euclidean space with and ( in a broader definition any is allowed ).

0. 235420 ( exactly: 1320 / 5607 ) troy ounces or 113. 0016 grains ( original definition ; actual gold content may differ due to allowed tolerances and abrasion, see Reminting worn coins below.

The most common definition is the one above: simple Lie groups have to be connected, they are allowed to have non-trivial centers ( possibly infinite ), they need not be representable by finite matrices, and they must be non-abelian.

The first three ID pins, attached to resistors to pull one or more of them to ground ( GND ), allowed for the definition of up to seven monitor types, with all open ( floating or NC, No Connection )-meaning " no monitor ".

This definition has given rise to litigation in cases where a worker can stay at home but must answer phone calls, is allowed to rest or sleep during shifts, or must make herself available " on call " over a long period.

In September 2010 Tom attempted to introduce a bill to " to amend the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to remove provisions permitting Ministers to overrule decisions of the Information Commissioner and Information Tribunal ; to limit the time allowed for public authorities to respond to requests involving consideration of the public interest ; to amend the definition of public authorities ; and for connected purposes.

The classification of traditional coupled-cluster methods rests on the highest number of excitations allowed in the definition of.

Whilst this is allowed within the definition of the law, it may be perceived as being against the spirit, particularly within the Islamic community.