* Common Base Event, a computing term referring to IBM's implementation of the Web Services Distributed Management Web Event Format standard.

* Distributed Computing Infrastructure, a term used in Grid computing referring to the combination of distributed computer resources

* Distributed Generation ( more general term that encompasses CHP )

Distributed knowledge is a term used in multi-agent system research that refers to all the knowledge that a community of agents possesses and might apply in solving a problem.

Some of the turning points included the use of the term " Black Power " by Kwame Toure ( Stokely Carmichael ) and the release of James Brown's song " Say It Loud-I'm Black and I'm Proud ".

( Christ 1997, 2003 ) The term " The Goddess " may also refer to the concept of The One Divine Power, or the traditionally worshipped " Great Goddess " of ancient times.

He coined the term Power Factor to describe the true power flowing in an AC power system.

Another early usage of the term, was by the American artist, mystic, and philosopher Walter Russell, who spoke of "... this New Age philosophy of the spiritual re-awakening of man ... Man's purpose in this New Age is to acquire more and more knowledge ..." in his essay " Power Through Knowledge ," which was also published in 1944.

The word " Omnipotence " derives from the Latin term " Omni Potens ", meaning " All-Powerful " instead of " Infinite Power " implied by its English counterpart.

By 1858, thermo-dynamics, as a functional term, was used in William Thomson's paper An Account of Carnot's Theory of the Motive Power of Heat.

* In the book The Ends of Power, Nixon's chief of staff H. R. Haldeman claimed that the term " Bay of Pigs ", mentioned by Nixon in a tape-recorded White House conversation as the reason the CIA should put a stop to the Watergate investigations, was used by Nixon as a coded reference to a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro during the John F. Kennedy administration.

Currently, the term is most commonly used to refer to someone so appointed under the provisions of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 to act in this manner in a Lasting Power of Attorney.

Although the term has come to prominence through its use by participants in the global justice / anti-globalization movement of the 1990s onwards, the word has been used for at least 60 years ; for instance Martin Buber's 1949 book ' Paths in Utopia ' includes the line ' Power abdicates only under counter-power '.

The Uniform Power of Attorney Act employs the term agent.

Pete Townshend of The Who coined the term " power pop " in a 1967 interview in which he said: " Power pop is what we play — what the Small Faces used to play, and the kind of pop The Beach Boys played in the days of ' Fun, Fun, Fun ' which I preferred.

* In Touhou, Sanae Kochiya uses the term " Thaumaturgy " on various of her attacks, and her special ability is the " Power to work miracles ".

" Power play " is a sporting term used in various games.

Conversational narcissism is a term used by sociologist Charles Derber in his book, The Pursuit of Attention: Power and Ego in Everyday Life.

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He popularized the term " Black Power ".

There are political writers, especially those living outside of Metro Manila, who associate the People Power Revolution with what they term as " Imperial Manila " because it was believed that Marcos was toppled from his position without the participation of Filipinos living in areas outside of the capital region.

These abilities are occasionally referred to in the novels as ' Talents ,' though, as the term is also used to refer to special abilities related to the One Power, it is avoided for clarity in this article.

In March 2004, a grand jury returned a six-count indictment against Reliant Energy Services, Inc. and four of its officers — Jackie Thomas, a former vice president of Reliant's Power Trading Division ; Reggie Howard, a former director of Reliant's West Power Trading Division ; Lisa Flowers, a term trader for Reliant's West Power Trading Division ; and Kevin Frankeny, Reliant's manager of western operations — for their alleged role in the California electricity crisis.

* Confluence, a colloquial term for the tailrace tunnels from the Toronto Power Generating Station

Need for Power ( N-Pow ) is a term that was popularized by renowned psychologist David McClelland in 1961.

Crisis management is occasionally referred to as incident management, although several industry specialists such as Peter Power argue that the term crisis management is more accurate.

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

It holds an equally valuable lesson for a society where the word `` intellectual '' has become a term of opprobrium to millions of well-meaning people who somehow imagine that it must be destructive of the simpler human virtues.

As he died because of a small wound on his heel, the term Achilles ' heel has come to mean one's point of weakness.

The term " the United States " has historically been used, sometimes in the plural (" these United States "), and other times in the singular, without any particular grammatical consistency.

The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.

In more modern English usage, the term " adobe " has come to include a style of architecture popular in the desert climates of North America, especially in New Mexico.

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

Thus the term asteroid has come increasingly to refer specifically to the small bodies of the inner Solar System out to the orbit of Jupiter, which are usually rocky or metallic.

The precise reference of this term has varied over time, perhaps originally referring only to the Ionian colonies along the coast.

The precise reference of this term has varied over time, perhaps originally referring to the Ionian colonies on the Asia Minor coast.

Other terms that have been used include neosyllabary ( Février 1959 ), pseudo-alphabet ( Householder 1959 ), semisyllabary ( Diringer 1968 ; a word which has other uses ) and syllabic alphabet ( Coulmas 1996 ; this term is also a synonym for syllabary ).

The term " absolute value " has been used in this sense since at least 1806 in French and 1857 in English.

* The modern term " style " has a bearing on how material items such as pottery or architecture can be interpreted.

The term anti-Semitic has been used on occasion to include bigotry against other Semitic-language peoples such as Arabs, but such usage is not widely accepted.

The House of Representatives has 18 members, elected for a two year term, 17 in single-seat constituencies and one by a public meeting on Swain Island.

The Senate also has 18 members, elected for a four year term by and from the chiefs of the islands.

However, this ambiguity has been the source of controversy, particularly among Latin Americans, who feel that using the term solely for the United States misappropriates it.

The term can also refer to an establishment which has long ceased to function as an abbey, in some cases for centuries ( for example, see Westminster Abbey below ).

But no attempt to identify the figures on existing gems with the personages of Gnostic mythology has had any success, and Abrasax is the only Gnostic term found in the accompanying legends which is not known to belong to other religions or mythologies.

This etymology has remained the standard derivation of the term.

The term Suebi has a double meaning in the sources.

The term has the meaning of one being crestfallen, depressed, despondent, downcast, gloomy, sullen and evidently frowning, scowling.

From the Early Modern period, their name has become a term for female warriors in general.

The term is often used synonymously with the term antibiotic ( s ); today, however, with increased knowledge of the causative agents of various infectious diseases, antibiotic ( s ) has come to denote a broader range of antimicrobial compounds, including anti-fungal and other compounds.