Active monitoring and deliberate protection may mitigate further rapid destruction making in situ preservation an option, but long term survival can never be guaranteed.

The term In situ is often used to describe ancient sculpture that was carved in place such as the Sphinx or Petra.

In designing user interfaces, the term in situ means that a particular user action can be performed without going to another window, for example, if a word processor displays an image and allows you to edit the image without launching a separate image editor, this is called in situ editing.

* Bank Cubic Metre ( mining term ), a cubic metre of rock or material in situ before it is extracted

" In Latin, the term " in situ " means " in place ", so carcinoma in situ refers to an uncontrolled growth of cells that remains in the original location and has not shown invasion into other tissues.

Old Norse Forn Siðr, Anglo-Saxon Fyrnsidu, Old High German Firner situ and its modern Scandinavian ( Forn Sed ) and modern German ( Firne Sitte ) analogues, all meaning " old custom ", is used as a term for pre-Christian Germanic culture in general, and for Germanic Neopaganism in particular, mostly by groups in Scandinavia and Germany.

The term was inherited in Russia, and other former CIS countries.

In the context of Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and CIS states, the term is sometimes used to denote a small semi-urban, sometimes industrial, settlement and used to translate the terms &# 1087 ;&# 1086 ;&# 1089 ;&# 1077 ;&# 1083 ;&# 1086 ;&# 1082 ; &# 1075 ;&# 1086 ;&# 1088 ;&# 1086 ;&# 1076 ;&# 1089 ;&# 1082 ;&# 1086 ;&# 1075 ;&# 1086 ; &# 1090 ;&# 1080 ;&# 1087 ;&# 1072 ; ( townlet ), &# 1087 ;&# 1086 ;&# 1089 ;&# 1072 ;&# 1076 ; ( posad ), &# 1084 ;&# 1077 ;&# 1089 ;&# 1090 ;&# 1077 ;&# 1095 ;&# 1082 ;&# 1086 ; ( mestechko, from Polish " miasteczko ", a small town ; in the cases of predominant Jewish population the latter is sometimes translated as shtetl ).

The term Huskie Athletics is defined as those student athletes from the University of Saskatchewan that compete in elite interuniversity competition administered by Canadian Interuniversity Sport ( CIS ) and its members, both as regions and as individual institutions.

It changed its name to Canadian Interuniversity Sport ( CIS ) in June 2001 due to growing misconceptions about the name of the organization since the term " athletic " was associated with track and field and " union " with labour movements.

Taken together, the PA, routing, DVA, passenger displays and PIS interface are referred to as the customer information system ( CIS ), a term which itself is often used interchangeably with passenger information system.

The term CIS is not used for the cervix.

The term idea refers to our more reflective or thoughtful consciousness as opposed to the immediacies of sensuous or emotional experience.

This term refers to the ability of a material to resist bending stress and is determined by measuring the load required to cause failure by bending.

The term Afroasiatic Urheimat ( Urheimat meaning " original homeland " in German ) refers to the ' hypothetical ' place where Proto-Afroasiatic speakers lived in a single linguistic community, or complex of communities, before this original language dispersed geographically and divided into distinct languages.

The term also broadly refers to any enterprise that is potentially fraught with physical, financial or psychological risk, such as a business venture, a love affair, or other major life undertakings.

While not entirely synonymous with Anatolia, the term Asia Minor, derived from the Latin Asia Minores, refers to Asia inside the Roman Empire, versus Asia Magna, all of Asia beyond the borders.

Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but here refers to the visual arts, which cover the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.

The term " pure " abjad refers to scripts entirely lacking in vowel indicators.

The term alp, alm, albe or alpe refers to a grazing pastures in the alpine regions below the glaciers, not the peaks.

An alp refers to a high mountain pasture where cows are taken to be grazed during the summer months and where hay barns can be found, and the term " the Alps ", referring to the mountains, is a misnomer.

The term analog signal usually refers to electrical signals ; however, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and other systems may also convey analog signals.

Some scholars favor the unhyphenated form antisemitism to avoid possible confusion involving whether the term refers specifically to Jews, or to Semitic-language speakers as a whole.

The term Rococo was derived from the French word " rocaille ", which means pebbles and refers to the stones and shells used to decorate the interiors of caves.

In modern English, " Americans " generally refers to residents of the United States, and among native speakers of English this usage is almost universal, with any other use of the term requiring specification of the subject under discussion.

The term amide refers both to classes of compounds and to the functional group ( R < sub > n </ sub > E ( O )< sub > x </ sub > NR '< sub > 2 </ sub >) within those compounds.

Alternative medicine is frequently grouped with complementary medicine or integrative medicine, which, in general, refers to the same interventions when used in conjunction with mainstream techniques, under the umbrella term complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM.

The term originally came from antibody generator and was a molecule that binds specifically to an antibody, but the term now also refers to any molecule or molecular fragment that can be bound by a major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) and presented to a T-cell receptor.

The term " Islamic " refers not only to the religion, but to any form of art created in an Islamic culture or in an Islamic context.

Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.

The term " last rites " refers to administration to a dying person not only of this sacrament but also of Penance and Holy Communion, the last of which, when administered in such circumstances, is known as " Viaticum ", a word whose original meaning in Latin was " provision for the journey ".

: Science of the mind, or cultural or spiritual science ), a term generally used in German to refer to the humanities and social sciences ; in fact, the term " science " is used more broadly in Europe as a general term that refers to any exact knowledge.

The term ahimsa appears in the text Taittiriya Shakha of the Yajurveda ( TS 5. 2. 8. 7 ), where it refers to non-injury to the sacrificer himself.

The term Transonic refers to a range of velocities just below and above the local speed of sound ( generally taken as Mach 0. 8 – 1. 2 ).

If you would feel happier with full collision insurance, there is a small additional charge, again varying from country to country and depending on the term of such insurance.

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

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.

Anatolia ( from Greek — " east " or "( sun ) rise "; also Asia Minor, from " small Asia "; in modern ) is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.

AMPS pioneers fathered the term " cellular " because of its use of small hexagonal " cells " within a system.

Today, the term " utility knife " also includes small folding or retractable-blade knives suited for use in the modern workplace or in the construction industry.

The term " utility knife " may also refer to small fixed-blade knives used for crafts, model-making and other artisanal projects.

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The term " Casino " is of Italian origin, the root word being " Casa " ( house ) and originally meant a small country villa, summerhouse or pavilion.

However, the term dot matrix printer is specifically used for impact printers that use a matrix of small pins to create precise dots.

The term also describes films that have remained popular over a long period of time amongst a small group of followers.

The term community has two distinct commutive meanings: 1 ) Community usually refers to a social unit larger than a small village that shares common values.

When used in scientific contexts, the term calorie refers to the small calorie ; it is often encountered in experimental calorimetry, and commonly used to specify bond and conformational energies in molecular modeling.

Dim sum, literally " touch your heart ", is a Cantonese term for small hearty dishes.

In the short term, CERTs perform data gathering, especially to locate mass-casualties requiring professional response, or situations requiring professional rescues, simple fire-fighting tasks ( for example, small fires, turning off gas ), light search and rescue, damage evaluation of structures, triage and first aid.

Often, in American legal and business documents that speak of governing bodies ( e. g., a board that governs small businesses in China ) these bodies are described as " creatures of statute " to inform readers of their origins and format although the national governments that created them may not term them as creatures of statute.

The term " embedded database " can be confusing because only a small subset of embedded database products is used in real-time embedded systems such as telecommunications switches and consumer electronics devices.

Some have seen it more as an aspiration, which has been successfully realised in the short term by commitment to the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity ( these being built into financially independent local cooperatives and small family businesses ), though proponents also cite such periods as the Middle Ages as examples of the historical long-term viability of distributism.

The term mechatronics is typically used to refer to macroscopic systems but futurists have predicted the emergence of very small electromechanical devices.

− 1 / 30, … are the Bernoulli numbers, and R is an error term which is normally small for suitable values of p and depends on n, m, p and f. ( The formula is often written with the subscript taking only even values, since the odd Bernoulli numbers are zero except for B < sub > 1 </ sub >.

The coefficient of the in the metric tensor is the square of the clock rate, which for small values of the potential is given by keeping only the linear term:

Self medication with small amounts of alcohol has been shown to give short term relief from tremor, although this form of self-medication is not recommended due to an increased risk of alcohol dependence or abuse.

The term was generally used for ships too small to stand in the line of battle, although early line-of-battle ships were frequently referred to as frigates when they were built for speed.

Technically, rated ships with fewer than 28 guns could not be classed as frigates but as " post ships "; however, in common parlance most post ships were often described as " frigates ", the same casual misuse of the term being extended to smaller two-decked ships that were too small to stand in the line of battle.

Under the rating system of the Royal Navy, by the middle of the 18th century, the term " frigate " was technically restricted to single-decked ships of the fifth rate, though small 28-gun frigates were classed as sixth rate.