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The specific term " singularity " as a description for a phenomenon of technological acceleration causing an eventual unpredictable outcome in society was coined by mathematician and physicist Stanislaw Ulam as early as 1958, when he wrote of a conversation with John von Neumann concerning the " ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.
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Let us not confuse the issue by labeling the objective or the method `` psychoanalytic '', for this is a well established term of art for the specific ideas and procedures initiated by Sigmund Freud and his followers for the study and treatment of disordered personalities.
The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning ( in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used ).
Later in the novel, when Tarrou tells Rieux the story of his life, he adds a new dimension to the term ” plague .“ He views it not just as a specific disease or simply as the presence of an impersonal evil external to humans.
They generally have other terms specific to U. S. nationals, such as German US-Amerikaner, French étatsunien, Japanese 米国人 beikokujin, Arabic أمريكاني amriikaanii ( as opposed to the more-common أمريكي amriikii ), and Italian statunitense, but these may be less common than the term American.
The term allomorph explains the comprehension of phonological variations for specific morphemes.
The term anthem means either a specific form of Anglican church music ( in music theory and religious contexts ), or more generally, a song ( or composition ) of celebration, usually acting as a symbol for a distinct group of people, as in the term " national anthem " or " sports anthem ".
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, alcohol dependence in general was called dipsomania, but that term now has a much more specific meaning.
( The term " reenactment " is a common misnomer ; games are contested and not meant to recreate a specific historical event.
The participation of the Bastarnae in these is likely but largely unspecified, due to Zosimus ' and other chroniclers ' tendency to lump all these tribes under the general term " Scythians "-meaning all the inhabitants of Scythia, rather than the specific people called the Scythians.
According to the theorem, it is possible to expand the power ( x + y )< sup > n </ sup > into a sum involving terms of the form ax < sup > b </ sup > y < sup > c </ sup >, where the exponents b and c are nonnegative integers with, and the coefficient a of each term is a specific positive integer depending on n and b. When an exponent is zero, the corresponding power is usually omitted from the term.
Biotechnology ( see also relatedly bioengineering ) can be a somewhat ambiguous term, sometimes loosely used interchangeably with BME in general ; however, it more typically denotes specific products which use " biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof.
Computing also has other meanings that are more specific, based on the context in which the term is used.
Category theory is an area of study in mathematics that examines in an abstract way the properties of particular mathematical concepts, by formalising them as collections of objects and arrows ( also called morphisms, although this term also has a specific, non category-theoretical meaning ), where these collections satisfy some basic conditions.
In particular, the term is not recognised as a specific disorder by the American Psychiatric Association in its latest categorisation of disorders, nor is it recognised by the World Health Organisation as a valid disorder.
This last term (" von Neumann machine ") is less specific and also refers to a completely unrelated computer architecture proposed by von Neumann, so its use is discouraged where accuracy is important.
The term transubstantiation was used by the Council, but the specific Aristotelian explanation given by Scholasticism was not cited as dogmatic.
Though conquerors, the Chaldeans were rapidly and completely assimilated into the dominant Babylonian culture, as the Amorites before them had been, and after the fall of Babylon in 539 BC the term " Chaldean " was no longer used to describe a specific race of people, but rather a " socio-Economic " class, regardless of ethnicity.
The term cistron is used to emphasize that genes exhibit a specific behavior in a cis-trans test ; distinct positions ( or loci ) within a genome are cistronic
However, the term is not specific to ( Mafia-affiliated ) organized crime.
In the modern era, the term cannon has fallen out of common usage, replaced by " guns " or " artillery " if not a more specific term such as " mortar " or " howitzer ".
Clairvoyance is related to remote viewing, although the term " remote viewing " itself is not as widely applicable to clairvoyance because it refers to a specific controlled process.
For each such specific sense, a definiens is a cluster of words that defines that term.
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In law, it is a term of art used to identify a legal classification that exists independently of other categorizations because of its singularity or due to the specific creation of an entitlement or obligation.
In fact, precession rate of the axis of symmetry approaches a finite-time singularity modeled by a power law with exponent approximately − 1 / 3 ( depending on specific conditions ).
A singularity is a weather phenomenon likely to occur with reasonable regularity around a specific approximate calendar date.
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We divided the country into five regions plus Hawaii and Alaska and in each is included a general description of the area plus specific recommendations of places and events to cover.
These test cases must each be accompanied by test case input data or a formal description of the operational activities ( or both ) to be performed — intended to thoroughly exercise the specific case — and a formal description of the expected results.
The Cahn – Ingold – Prelog rules are distinctly different from those of other naming conventions, such as general IUPAC nomenclature, since they are designed for the specific task of naming stereoisomers rather than the general classification and description of compounds.
* Denarius of L. Censorinus, for the detailed description of a specific Roman denarius
The solution to the " flavor " problem of EDIF 2 0 0 was to develop a more specific semantic description in EDIF 3 0 0 ( 1993 ).
" An English grammar " is a specific description, study or analysis of such rules.
State theorists interpret the effects of hypnotism as due primarily to a specific, abnormal, and uniform psychological or physiological state of some description, often referred to as " hypnotic trance " or an " altered state of consciousness.
The group at this time is sometimes referred to as the " Lunar circle ", though this is a later description used by historians, and the group themselves used a variety of less specific descriptions, including " Birmingham Philosophers " or simply " fellow-schemers ".
If they express much more than this, they are usually considered to be a hardware description language such as Verilog, VHDL, or any one of several specific languages designed for input to simulators.
A description using the approach of underspecification would not attempt to assign to a specific phoneme in some or all of these cases, although it might be assigned to an archiphoneme, written something like | A |, which reflects the two neutralized phonemes in this position.
Hence it has three main elements: description of the phenomena ; developing a general theory about the causes of various types of change ; and applying those theories to specific facts.
A programmer who needs to implement a specific algorithm, especially an unfamiliar one, will often start with a pseudocode description, and then " translate " that description into the target programming language and modify it to interact correctly with the rest of the program.
The terms popular music and pop music are often used interchangeably, even though the former is a description of music which is popular ( and can include any style ), whilst the latter is a specific genre containing qualities of mass appeal.
* " Use by law enforcement personnel of an individual ’ s race or ethnicity as a factor in articulating reasonable suspicion to stop, question or arrest an individual, unless race or ethnicity is part of an identifying description of a specific suspect for a specific crime.
It may appear that the description of waves is closely related to their physical origin for each specific instance of a wave process.
The activity of backcasting involves establishing the description of a very definite and very specific future situation.
They were also called 132-column printers, though this description was only true for a specific font size and type that was built into the printer's electronics.
The specific name alfredi was first used in Krefft's description of Prince Alfred's manta ray in 1868.
In the 4th century BC Aristotle wrote the Poetics, a typology and description of literary forms with many specific criticisms of contemporary works of art.
The differential equation is a general description of the application and may be adjusted appropriately for a specific situation, the solution describes exactly how the system will behave for all times after the initial conditions, and according to the boundary conditions.
Ultimately, a description of this process in a suitable way for the specific purpose at hand is what makes the EDM area such a rich field for further investigation and research.
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