However, today the definition of the role of conservation has widened and would more accurately be described as that of ethical stewardship.

Cauchy defined infinitely small quantities in terms of variable quantities, and his definition closely parallels the infinitesimal definition used today ( see microcontinuity ).

The formal definition of ' two natures ' in Christ was understood by the critics of the council at the time, and is understood by many historians and theologians today, to side with western and Antiochene Christology and to diverge from the teaching of Cyril of Alexandria, who always stressed that Christ is ' one '.

The term " concept " is traced back to 1554 – 60 ( Latin conceptum-" something conceived "), but what is today termed " the classical theory of concepts " is the theory of Aristotle on the definition of terms.

Thus, it was not until two centuries had passed that in 1872 Karl Weierstrass presented the first definition of a function with a graph that would today be considered fractal, having the non-intuitive property of being everywhere continuous but nowhere differentiable.

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.

It remains the US definition today.

Depending on definition, hundreds of " breeds " exist today, developed for many different uses.

The current definition of software engineering is still being debated by practitioners today as they struggle to come up with ways to produce software that is " cheaper, better, faster ".

" Bain's definition remains common among scholars today, especially social scientists.

The Wessex Regionalists had used Hardy's definition of Wessex for their political Wessex Region, but today the party also includes Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire.

The appellate courts affirmed this finding ; however, today, an appellate court would likely find this definition to be flawed.

This remains the official definition of the Great Seal today.

The formal definition of a city has been disputed, in particular by inhabitants of towns that have been regarded as cities in the past but are not generally considered cities today.

( It is worth noting that in Europe today, few states conform to either definition of nation-state: many continue to have royal sovereigns, and hardly any are ethnically homogeneous.

This was later abolished by fear that many Swiss Bankers might fall under that definition today.

The success of the neoconservative movement in appropriating the label " Conservative " has brought into debate the very definition of conservatism in Canada today.

" These comments, recapitulated in a later article which called Africa “ unhistoric ”, was criticized by Africanists in various fields of academia, spurring intense debate, up to today, between historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and those in the emerging fields of postcolonial and cultural studies on the definition of “ history.

Therefore the end-of-period definition is the most common both in theory and practice today.

The above definition is common in many applications today, and prominent in lattice and domain theory.

This definition still holds today, and is interesting in the fact that his studies and description predate the use of electrocardiography.

Aside from occasional defenders of his anti-Communist and socially conservative views, defence of the Duplessis regime today comes primarily from traditionalist conservatives ( paleoconservatives in North American definition ) who view his regime as an essential reaffirmation of traditional values, and as an assertion by democratic means of the basics of church and family life with low social spending and suppression of labour unions.

As for the 1930s NBER definition quoted above, one could argue that its specificity to metal is obsolete, as it is quite common today for particular lathes, milling machines, and machining centers ( definitely machine tools ) to work exclusively on plastic cutting jobs throughout their whole working lifespan.

As such, it has to be distinguished from agricultural land, which, according to Food and Agriculture Organization's ( FAO ) definition, additionally includes land under permanent crops as well as permanent pastures.

* Brønsted-Lowry definition: Acids are proton ( H < sup >+</ sup >) donors, bases are proton acceptors ; this includes the Arrhenius definition.

* Lewis definition: Acids are electron-pair acceptors, bases are electron-pair donors ; this includes the Brønsted-Lowry definition.

However, the Russian culture has two distinct terms: Средняя Азия ( Srednjaja Azija or " Middle Asia ", the narrower definition, which includes only those traditionally non-Slavic, Central Asian lands that were incorporated within those borders of historical Russia ) and Центральная Азия ( Central ' naja Azija or " Central Asia ", the wider definition, which includes Central Asian lands that have never been part of historical Russia ).

Within this definition, it is of paramount importance that the term " file " includes directories.

This includes civil wars, however no specific definition of civil war is provided in the text of the Conventions.

Put informally, the definition includes the objects that have never crossed the orbit of Neptune.

Formally, this definition includes as classical all objects with the current orbits that

Unlike other schemes, this definition includes the objects with major semi-axis less than 39. 4 AU ( 2: 3 resonance ) – named Inner classical belt, or more than 48. 7 ( 1: 2 resonance ) – named Outer classical belt while reserving the term Main classical belt for the orbits between these two resonances.

An alcoholic beverage is a drink that contains ethanol, commonly known as alcohol ( although in chemistry the definition of " alcohol " includes many other compounds ).

Thus, an expanded definition for data warehousing includes business intelligence tools, tools to extract, transform and load data into the repository, and tools to manage and retrieve metadata.

If the XML document type declaration includes any SYSTEM identifier for the external subset, it can't be safely processed as standalone: the URI should be retrieved, otherwise there may be unknown named character entities whose definition may be needed to correctly parse the effective XML syntax in the internal subset or in the document body ( the XML syntax parsing is normally performed after the substitution of all named entities, excluding the five entities that are predefined in XML and that are implicitly substituted after parsing the XML document into lexical tokens ).

" Prior to Draper, Beauchamp & Davidson had also offered a definition which includes these elements, although they offered a somewhat longer account, and one that specifically discounts fetuses in order to distinguish between abortions and euthanasia:

There is also a broader definition, as described by Marc Bloch ( 1939 ), that includes not only warrior nobility but all three estates of the realm: the nobility, the clerics, and the peasantry bonds of manorialism ; this is sometimes referred to as a " feudal society ".

The phrase " feudal society " as defined by Marc Bloch expands on the definition proposed by Ganshof and includes within the feudal structure not only the warrior aristocracy bound by vassalage, but also the peasantry bound by manorialism, and the estates of the Church.

ISO 4217 includes codes not only for currencies, but also for precious metals ( gold, silver, palladium and platinum ; by definition expressed per one troy ounce, as compared to " 1 USD ") and certain other entities used in international finance, e. g. special drawing rights.

One argument based on incompatible properties rests on a definition of God that includes a will, plan or purpose and an existence outside of time.

Travis Jackson has also proposed a broader definition of jazz which is able to encompass all of the radically different eras: he states that it is music that includes qualities such as " swinging ", improvising, group interaction, developing an ' individual voice ', and being ' open ' to different musical possibilities ".

" The Stylebook definition of Latino includes not only persons of Spanish-speaking ancestry, but also more generally includes persons " from -- or whose ancestors were from --.