Such etymologies often have the feel of urban legends, and can be much more colorful than the typical etymologies found in dictionaries, often involving stories of unusual practices in particular subcultures ( e. g. Oxford students from non-noble families being forced to write sine nobilitate by their name, soon abbreviated to s. nob., hence the word snob ).

For instance, the inverse of the sine function is typically called the arcsine function, written as arcsin, which is, like sin, conventionally denoted in roman type and not in italics ( note that software libraries of mathematical functions often use the name < tt > asin </ tt >):

The RAF Cranwell Apprentices Association says that the image came from a diagram of how to approximate a square wave using sine waves, also at RAF Yatesbury and with an instructor named Chadwick, and was initially called Domie or Doomie, the latter name also being noted by Life as used by the RAF.

Records released under his own name include Cathode ( 1999 ), which includes pieces that are sine wave-based or made from samples, and Anode ( 2001 ), a group improvisation where the players are constrained by certain pre-determined rules ( similar in some respects to John Zorn's game pieces ).

He began recording under his own name in 1928 and made what are believed to be his final recordings two years later, although there is now reason to believe ( via sine wave recording research, aka Smith / Westbrook Method ) that he appeared on unidentified recordings as late as 1930.

The term " sinc " is a contraction of the function's full Latin name, the sinus cardinalis ( cardinal sine ).

When the Akademi effectively chose to abandon Idiom Neutral in favor of Latino sine flexione in 1908, it elected Peano as its director, and the name of the group was changed to Academia pro Interlingua since Interlingua was an alternative name for Peano's language.

# Missa sine nomine 1 ( without a name )

# Missa sine nomine 2 ( without a name )

Each meridian except the central meridian is also half of a sine wave with only the amplitude differing, giving the projection its name.

* Missa sine nomine ( mass without a name )

The oldest known name for Anatolia, " Land of the Hatti " was found for the first time on Mesopotamic cuneiform tablets from the period of the Akkadian dynasty ( 2350 – 2150 BC ).

* 1812 – The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U. S. state under the name Louisiana.

* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā ( Persian پور سينا Pur-e Sina " son of Sina "; c. 980 – 1037 ), commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived.

Michael Praetorius mentions an alphorn-like instrument under the name of Hölzern Trummet ( wooden trumpet ) in Syntagma Musicum ( Wittenberg, 1615 – 1619 ; Pl.

2285 – 2250 BC, is the first poet in history whom we know by name.

* 1784 – Western North Carolina ( now eastern Tennessee ) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin ; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.

In the list of popes given in the Holy See's annual directory, Annuario Pontificio, the following note is attached to the name of Pope Leo VIII ( 963 – 965 ): At this point, as again in the mid-eleventh century, we come across elections in which problems of harmonising historical criteria and those of theology and canon law make it impossible to decide clearly which side possessed the legitimacy whose factual existence guarantees the unbroken lawful succession of the successors of Saint Peter.

There has not been a monarch known as Alphonso or Alfonso I of Spain, the first king of that name of the unified Spain being Alfonso XII of Spain ( 1874 – 1885 ).

Agathocles ( 361 – 289 BC ), ( Greek name Ἀγαθοκλῆς ( Agathokles ): derived from αγαθός ( agathos ) good and κλέος ( kleos ) glory ), was a Greek tyrant of Syracuse ( 317 – 289 BC ) and king of Sicily ( 304 – 289 BC ).

Ælfheah (, " elf-high "; 954 – 19 April 1012 ), officially remembered by the name Alphege within some churches, and also called Elphege, Alfege, or Godwine, was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester, later Archbishop of Canterbury.

* A " Dreadnought ", arguably the most common body style, incorporates a deeper soundbox, but a smaller and less-pronounced upper bout ( the area of the soundbox between the waist and neck ) than most styles, giving a somewhat wedge-shaped appearance – hence its name, relating to a class of warship.

* 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.

* 1984 – The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.

* Alexandra ( singer ) ( 1942 – 1969 ), German singer ( stage name ; real name Doris Nefedov )

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Abd al-Rahman I, or, his full name by patronymic record, Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu ' awiya ibn Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan ( 731 – 788 ) ( Arabic: عبد الرحمن الداخل ) was the founder of the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba ( 755 ), a Muslim dynasty that ruled the greater part of Iberia for nearly three centuries ( including the succeeding Caliphate of Córdoba ).

* 1134 – The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094.

* 2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (, also known as Karl von Österreich-Teschen ) ( Full name: Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz of Austria ) ( 5 September 1771 – 30 April 1847 ) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.

" Yokum " was a combination of yokel and hokum, although Capp established a deeper meaning for the name during a series of visits around 1965 – 1970 with comics historians George E. Turner and Michael H. Price.

Due to a false etymology, a popular belief is that they were most likely Finns – the obsolete name of Nenets people, Samoyed, has a similar meaning in Russian: " self-eater ".

The following commercial products are indicative of the style: Ayinger Maibock, Mahr ’ s Bock, Hacker-Pschorr Hubertus Bock, Capital Maibock, Einbecker Mai-Urbock, Hofbräu Maibock, Victory St. Boisterous, Gordon Biersch Blonde Bock, Smuttynose Maibock, Old Dominion Brewing Company Big Thaw Bock, and, despite the name, Rogue Ales Dead Guy Ale.

In October 2007, six Greenpeace protesters were arrested for breaking in to the Kingsnorth power station, climbing the 200 metre smokestack, painting the name Gordon on the chimney, and causing an estimated £ 30, 000 damage.

Founded as Gordon Memorial College in 1902, it was later renamed to share the name of the city in the 1930s.

His middle name, Gordon, was given to him in honour and memory of Charles George Gordon, a British army officer killed in Khartoum in 1885.

Among others, Lemmy Kilmister will invariably be referred to as " Lemmy out of Motörhead ", Bono as " Bonio " ( a brand of dog biscuit ) and Sting as " Sting ( real name Gordon Sting )", mixing the singer's birth and stage names.

They lived together for fourteen years, despite the fact that Locke remained married ( in name only ) to her gay husband, Gordon Anderson.

* Sting ( musician ) ( born 1951 ), professional name of British rock musician Gordon Sumner

His name was connected to the allegiance oath controversy when a pamphlet " pasquil " Exetasis epistolæ nomine regis under the pseudonym Bartholus Pacenius against James I was traced to Braunsberg ; but the investigation by Patrick Gordon was inconclusive.

* 4th Series ( 1975 )-29 July-16 September episodes ( Colin Sell's first appearance, Graeme mentions ' Gordon Bennett ' for the first time as a late arrival and the name ' Pick-Up Song ' is used but a different game.

Later in his life, Mantle expressed relief that his father had not known Cochrane's true first name, as he would have hated to be named Gordon.

Written and directed by Gordon Parks, the film is based upon his 1964 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name.

* Mayor LaTrivia ( Gale Gordon )-the mayor of Wistful Vista, whose name was inspired by New York's famous mayor Fiorello La Guardia.

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE ( born 2 October 1951 ), known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, activist, actor and philanthropist.

She also wrote as Gordon Daviot, under which name she wrote plays with an historical theme.

About a dozen one-act plays and another dozen full-length plays were written under the name of Gordon Daviot.

How she chose the name of Gordon is unknown, but Daviot was the name of a scenic locale near Inverness where she had spent many happy holidays with her family.

For the company's 1960s superhero efforts composer John Gart ( under the stage name John Marion ) and music supervisor Gordon Zahler created strong themes and backing cues using a large orchestra until 1968's Batman entry, which used sparser production and jazzier themes.

Batchellerville on the east side started in the late 1790s and early 1800s with the Noyes, Gordon, Batcheller and DeGolia families --- just to name a few.

Gordon is the name of some places in the U. S. state of Wisconsin:

It was designed by Owen Luder and Rodney Gordon and took its name from the site's shape which from the air resembled a Tricorne hat.

It is at this meeting that Gordon Goody claimed that when he was in the toilet, Goody checked the pockets of his suit jacket and saw the name and address of the owner, presumably the " Ulsterman ".

Founded by Steve Beckett and the late Rob Mitchell from their experiences working at the FON record shop, alongside record producer Robert Gordon, the label ( whose name was chosen because the original name, ' Warped Records ' was difficult to distinguish over the telephone ) soon became home to artists who would be influential in electronic music.