The term argot is also used to refer to the informal specialized vocabulary from a particular field of study, hobby, job, sport, etc.

In common law, black letter legal doctrine is an informal term indicating the basic principles of law generally accepted by the courts and / or embodied in the statutes of a particular jurisdiction.

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai ( formerly known as Bombay ), Maharashtra, India.

However, the term naive set theory is also used in some literature to refer to the set theories studied by Frege and Cantor, rather than to the informal counterparts of modern axiomatic set theory ; care is required to tell which sense is intended.

In the northern latitudes, the informal term equatorial constellation has sometimes used for constellations that lie to the south of the circumpolar constellations.

In food science and in many informal contexts, the term carbohydrate often means any food that is particularly rich in the complex carbohydrate starch ( such as cereals, bread, and pasta ) or simple carbohydrates, such as sugar ( found in candy, jams, and desserts ).

The term clanking replicator was used by Drexler, is informal and is rarely used by others in popular or technical discussions.

A more secular meaning can denote that the term Christendom refers to Christians considered as a group, the " Political Christian World ", as an informal cultural hegemony that Christianity has traditionally enjoyed in the West.

In most cases the roadway is flat, so when the weight of the cable is negligible compared with the weight being supported, the force exerted is uniform with respect to horizontal distance, and the result is a parabola, as discussed below ( although the term " catenary " is often still used, in an informal sense ).

The informal term static electricity refers to the net presence ( or ' imbalance ') of charge on a body, usually caused when dissimilar materials are rubbed together, transferring charge from one to the other.

To this day, shinny ( or shinney ) ( derived from Shinty ) is a popular Canadian term for an informal type of hockey, either on ice or as street hockey.

" Lunatic " is an informal term referring to people who are considered mentally ill, dangerous, foolish or unpredictable ; conditions once called lunacy.

The term " Lay Midwife " has been used to designate an uncertified or unlicensed traditional midwife who was educated through informal routes such as self-study or apprenticeship rather than through a formal program.

The term " metasyntactic variable " is primarily found in informal literature.

Although the term is often used to refer to any puppet that resembles the distinctive style of The Muppet Show, the term is both an informal name and legal trademark owned by the Walt Disney Company in reference to the original characters created by Henson.

While Nomic is traditionally capitalized as the proper name of the game it describes, it has also sometimes been used in a more informal way as a lowercased generic term, nomic, referring to anything with Nomic-like characteristics, including games where the rules may be changed during play as well as non-gaming situations where it can be alleged that " rules lawyers " are tinkering with the process used to amend rules and policies ( in an organization or community ) in a manner akin to a game of Nomic.

Another term of endearment, often spoken by older generations, is me ducky, used when addressing a female in an informal manner, and usually placed at the end of a sentence which is often a question ( Example: How's she goin ', me ducky?

Though the term has fallen into disfavor among botanists as a formal way to categorize " useless " plants, the informal use of the word " weeds " to describe those plants that are deemed worthy of elimination is illustrative of the general tendency of people and societies to seek to alter or shape the course of nature.

A modern use developed from the term is to describe informal exclusion from a group through social rejection.

By analogy the same term is used in politics and public affairs to refer to the informal process by which statements, designed to refute or negate specific arguments put forward by opponents, are deployed in the media.

* Red shift, in solution spectroscopy is an informal term for bathochromic shift

The word is also used as an informal shorthand term for some crimes against property, such as burglary, embezzlement, larceny, looting, robbery, shoplifting and fraud.

In many states of the US, the term town does not have any specific meaning ; it is simply an informal term applied to populated places ( both incorporated and unincorporated municipalities ).

" His first doctoral student, Murray Vernon King, pinned the label on him, and it was quickly adopted by other students, who wanted to use an appellation that showed informal respect.

Roman cursive or informal handwriting started out as a derivative of the capital letters, though the tendency to write quickly and efficiently made the letters less precise.

The family quickly realised that Henri's talent lay in drawing and painting, and a friend of his father, Rene Princeteau visited sometimes to give informal lessons.

The small, informal, Tuesday luncheon meetings were much more to Johnson's liking than formal NSC meetings and quickly gained a prominent place in the decision-making process.

Costeños tend to speak more quickly and louder than serranos, and most of them do so in a very informal way.

In the 19th century as well as the established clubs there were many ' scratch ' teams populating most towns, informal pub or social teams that would form and disband quickly.

All languages have various registers or levels of formality, the most formal of which, usually that of learning and religion, changes slowly while the most informal registers change much more quickly, but in most cases are prevented from developing into mutually unintelligible dialects by the existence of the more formal register.

LaPaz's informal scientific study for the Air Force quickly became formal, being called the " Conference on Aerial Phenomena ", convening at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in mid-February to review the data.

Initial informal talks quickly led to a formal merger committee.

It has been argued that the name " Titus " in 2 Corinthians and Galatians is nothing more than an informal name used by Timothy, implied already by the fact that even though both are said to be long-term close companions of Paul, they never appear in common scenes.

Many other terms, some of them insulting or informal, have been used throughout history.

This is a feature of African American Vernacular English but is also used by a variety of English speakers in informal contexts.

The Romans used precursors made of reusable wax-covered tablets of wood for taking notes and other informal writings.

The first is an informal definition of community as a place where people used to live.

* He / Tim will be a good manager ( in this case the word will can be stressed, and this is likely the intention in speech and informal writing, where'll would have been used if no stress had been intended )

Basileus appears not to have been used exclusively in the meaning of " emperor " ( and specifically, the Roman / Byzantine emperor ) before the 7th century, although it was a standard informal designation of the Emperor in the Greek-speaking East.

During the course of the next thirty years, these same numbers were combined with filing codes used by the Navy's clerks to create an informal version of the system that was put in place in 1920.

In America the phrase could be used as slang describing the act of getting married legally, rather than as one specifying an informal union not recognised by church or state.

The word " jurisdiction " is also used, especially in informal writing, to refer to a state or political subdivision generally, or to its government, rather than to its legal authority.

The name " Wizards " is still used as an informal nickname for the club.

The informal chemical symbol Ln is used in general discussions of lanthanide chemistry to refer to any lanthanide.

They receive some informal training that is used to help with before, during, and after pregnancy care of villagers.

Since these concepts are formally defined in the article on structures, the present article can content itself with an informal introduction which consists in examples of how these terms are used.

( Within linguistics, " prosody " is used in a more general sense that includes not only poetical metre but also the rhythmic aspects of prose, whether formal or informal, which vary from language to language, and sometimes between poetic traditions.