The term foobar was propagated through computer science circles in the 1960s and early 1970s by system manuals from Digital Equipment Corporation.

The name ' PDP ' intentionally avoided the use of the term ' computer ' because, at the time of the first PDPs, computers had a reputation of being large, complicated, and expensive machines, and the venture capitalists behind Digital ( especially Georges Doriot ) would not support Digital's attempting to build a " computer "; the word " minicomputer " had not yet been coined.

Digital never made a PDP-20, although the term was sometimes used for a PDP-10 running TOPS-20 ( officially known as a DECSYSTEM-20 ).

In 1988, Silicon Beach Software included plug-in functionality in Digital Darkroom and SuperPaint, and Ed Bomke coined the term plug-in.

Reciprocally, a Narrower Term ( NT ) or hyponym is a more specific term, e. g. “ Digital Computer ” is a specialization of “ Computer ”.

This was because the United States Congress passed both the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which enacts copyright term extension during the same week and used the same method using voice vote to make it less likely that the news media would report on the bills.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

Digital signatures are often used to implement electronic signatures, a broader term that refers to any electronic data that carries the intent of a signature, but not all electronic signatures use digital signatures.

Digital photography, web access to stock photography and Non-linear editing programs have had a marked impact on this way of film making also leading to the term ' digimatic '.

The term " nonlinear editing " or " non-linear editing " was formalized in 1991 with the publication of Michael Rubin's Nonlinear: A Guide to Digital Film and Video Editing ( Triad, 1991 ) -- which popularized this terminology over other language common at the time, including " real time " editing, " random-access " or " RA " editing, " virtual " editing, " electronic film " editing, and so on.

* Digital cable, Digital Cable Terminal, the generic term for the set-top box required to receive digital cable

His term lasted two years, and from June 2002 to June 2004, he operated as an honorary board member of the European Digital Rights Institution ( EDRI ), an umbrella organization for European NGOs which campaigns for human rights in the digital age.

* Digital Photonic Processor, a term used in the opto-electronics and MEMs industries

The Government of Canada Digital Collections website describes Atkinson as " a ‘ radical ’ in the best sense of that term ….

In the late 1980s, the Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network ( B-ISDN ) used the term to refer to a broad range of bit rates, independent of physical modulation details.

Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and / or presentation process.

Another term used for the process of ripping Audio-CDs is Digital Audio Extraction ( DAE ).

The term " copyright protection " is occasionally seen in this usage, but is an error ; copy protection or Digital Rights Management is the usual term.

* Digital surface model, another term for digital elevation model, used to digitally map topography

* HD Radio, an abbreviation from the term Hybrid Digital / analog radio

This has caused some disparity in the usage of the term " cordless ", for example in Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications.

* Elevation ( kinesiology ), an anatomical term of motion

Dark energy in its simplest formulation takes the form of the cosmological constant term in Einstein's field equations of general relativity, but its composition and mechanism are unknown and, more generally, the details of its equation of state and relationship with the Standard Model of particle physics continue to be investigated both observationally and theoretically.

Dynamic HTML, or DHTML, is an umbrella term for a collection of technologies used together to create interactive and animated web sites by using a combination of a static markup language ( such as HTML ), a client-side scripting language ( such as JavaScript ), a presentation definition language ( such as CSS ), and the Document Object Model.

According to Dr. Vitalii Nikolaevich Tsygichko, a Senior Analyst at the Academy of Sciences, the author of the study, Mathematical Model of Soviet Strategic Operations on the Continental Theater, and a former member of the General Staff, military analysts discussed the idea of a " nuclear winter " ( although they did not use that exact term ) years before U. S. scientists wrote about it in the 1980s .< REF > http :// www. gwu. edu /~ nsarchiv // nukevault / ebb285 /</ REF >

Skinner put forward a " three term contingency model " which helped promote analysis of behavior based on the " Stimulus-Response-Consequence Model " in which the critical question is: " Under which circumstances or antecedent ' stimuli ' does the organism engage in a particular behavior or ' response ', which in turn produces a particular ' consequence '?

Lieberman and Jackson argued that while advocates of both the Multiregional Model and the Out of Africa Model use the word race and make racial assumptions, none define the term.

As a political movement, the term first referred to a faction of New Model Army Agitators and their London supporters who were allegedly plotting to assassinate the king.

Later in 1943, an agent named Clyde Matthew Dessner used the term in a " how-to " book about modeling entitled So You Want to Be a Model!

According to Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women by Michael Gross, Gross stated the term " supermodel " was first used by Dessner.

In May 1967, the Salisbury Daily Times referred to Twiggy as a supermodel ; the February 1968 article of Glamour magazine listed all 19 " supermodels "; the Chicago Daily Defender wrote " New York Designer Turns Super Model " in January 1970 ; The Washington Post and Mansfield News Journal used the term in 1971 ; and in 1974 both the Chicago Tribune and The Advocate also used the term " supermodel " in their articles.

Model Janice Dickinson states that she coined the term " supermodel " in 1979 as a compound of Superman and model.

He created the Dell Hymes Model of Speaking and coined the term communicative competence within language education.

During the war and for a time afterwards Roundhead was a term of derision — in the New Model Army it was a punishable offence to call a fellow soldier a Roundhead.

Another use of the term, " integrity " is found in the work of Michael Jensen and Werner Erhard in their academic paper, " Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomenon of Morality, Ethics, and Legality ".

* Capability Maturity Model, a software engineering term indicating to which extent it is planned how to do things when developing, testing, documenting, maintaining software etc.

This model was originally discovered by Derek J. de Solla Price in 1965 under the term cumulative advantage, but did not reach popularity until Barabási rediscovered the results under its current name ( BA Model ).

Model railways originally used the term " gauge ", which refers to the distance between the rails, just as full-size railways do.

The original Winchester rifle-the Winchester Model 1866-was famous for its rugged construction and lever-action mechanism that allowed the rifleman to fire a number of shots before having to reload: hence the term " repeating rifle.

Together with effects generated by the weak interactions, the effective strong CP violating term,, appears as a Standard Model input parameter — it is not predicted by the theory, but must be measured.

In modern usage, the term " Springfield rifle " most commonly refers to the Springfield Model 1903.

A scram or SCRAM is an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor – though the term has been extended to cover shutdowns of other complex operations, such as server farms and even large model railroads ( see Tech Model Railroad Club ).

Later American Flyer was purchased by A. C. Gilbert Co., and the term S gauge was adopted by the National Model Railroading Association ( NMRA ) in 1943 to represent that gauge that was half of # 1 gauge ( 1 / 32 ).