Originally the term FAQ referred to the Frequently Answered Question itself, and the compilation of questions and answers was known as a FAQ list or some similar expression.

* What is the term used for the third derivative of position ?, description of jerk in the Usenet Physics FAQ.

The first UDP software was written by Karl Kleinpaste in 1990, though there is disagreement when the term itself was coined: the Net Abuse FAQ claims 1993, but a message posted on 18 August of that year claims that it was coined " years earlier " by Eliot Lear.

The term used in the Call for Votes and in the FAQ is " Cancel-Index ".

According to the National Severe Storms Laboratory FAQ, " Tornado Alley " is a term created by the media as a reference to areas that have higher numbers of tornadoes.

The South Park Studios FAQ also notes it as a play on a Japanese term for penis ( Chin Chin ).

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

The term alphasyllabary was suggested for the Indic scripts in 1997 by William Bright, following South Asian linguistic usage, to convey the idea that " they share features of both alphabet and syllabary ".

The President had measurable support to run for a full term and he was amenable to the idea.

The term baccalaureus is a pun combining the prosaic baccalarius with bacca lauri ' " laurel berry "— according to the American Heritage Dictionary, " bacca " is the Old Irish word for " farmer " + laureus, " laurel berry ," the idea being that a " baccalaureate " had farmed ( cultivated ) his mind.

In popular usage, this term is often used to refer to unfounded or weakly based speculation, leading to the idea that " It's not a conspiracy theory if it's actually true ".

" The criticism is that the idea of " traditional society " is simply a catch all term for early non-Western society and implies that all such societies are similar.

As Barlow, and the EFF, continued public education efforts to promote the idea of " digital rights ", the term was increasingly used during the internet boom of the late 1990s.

He rejected the very idea that every explanation of the meaning of a term needed itself to be explained: " As though an explanation hung in the air unless supported by another one ", claiming instead that explanation of a term is only needed when we need to avoid misunderstanding.

While Safran's definitions were influenced by the idea of the Jewish diaspora, he recognised the expanding use of the term.

The stronger term " congruent " refers to the idea that an entire figure is the same size and shape as another figure.

In the 1970s the term Neo-Evolutionism was used to describe the idea " that human beings sought to preserve a familiar style of life unless change was forced on them by factors that were beyond their control ".

The BioLogos Foundation, an organization that promotes the idea of theistic evolution, uses the term " evolutionism " to describe " the atheistic worldview that so often accompanies the acceptance of biological evolution in public discourse.

From his first composition to his last, he rejected the idea of musical development, in the strict definition of this term: the intertwining of different themes in a development section of a sonata form.

He is widely known for use of the term " central dogma " to summarize an idea that genetic information flow in cells is essentially one-way, from DNA to RNA to protein.

Instead they use the strange term " interactive multimedia ": this is four syllables longer, and does not express the idea of extending hypertext.

In this sense, the term has no real positive connotations, except for the idea that the hacker is capable of doing modifications that allow a system to work in the short term, and so has some sort of marketable skills.

A term originally coined by Ivan Turgenev in his 1862 novel Fathers and Sons, Nihilists favoured the destruction of human institutions and laws, based on the idea that such institutions and laws are artificial and corrupt.

This idea suggests the term was a greeting.

Later, in his The Physiology of Fascination ( 1855 ), Braid conceded that his original terminology was misleading, and argued that the term " hypnotism " or " nervous sleep " should be reserved for the minority ( 10 %) of subjects who exhibit amnesia, substituting the term " monoideism ", meaning concentration upon a single idea, as a description for the more alert state experienced by the others.

When James Braid first described hypnotism, he did not use the term " suggestion " but referred instead to the act of focusing the conscious mind of the subject upon a single dominant idea.

Braid, therefore, adopted the term " ideo-dynamic ", meaning " by the power of an idea " to explain a broad range of " psycho-physiological " ( mind-body ) phenomena.

Metal carbonates generally decompose on heating, liberating carbon dioxide from the long term carbon cycle to the short term carbon cycle and leaving behind an oxide of the metal.

Heidegger's term referred to a process of exploring the categories and concepts that tradition has imposed on a word, and the history behind them.

This was the only cabinet of the Second Republic to run its full four-year term, and the work it left behind was considerable.

In the context of the age and period it held the meaning of seeking or forming part of a cultural entity, that of iudea, the Greek derivative of Persian Yehud, and can be compared with hellenismos, meaning acceptance of Hellenic cultural norms ( the conflict between iudaismos and hellenismos lay behind the Maccabeean revolt and hence the invention of the term iudaismos ).

" Because the Democratic Party was splintered into bitter factions, Polk promised to serve only one term if elected, hoping that his disappointed rival Democrats would unite behind him with the knowledge that another candidate would be chosen in four years.

People who suspected that the Liberals had learned nothing from their term out of office soon had proof: a peace treaty signed with Bolivia on July 21, 1938, fixed the final boundaries behind the Paraguayan battle lines.

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.

In turn, this leaves behind a localized positively-charged hole ( holes actually don't exist, the term is an abstraction for the location from which an electron was moved ; they have no charge in and of themselves ).

Dewey's third term as governor of New York expired in 1955, after which he retired from public service and returned to his law practice, Dewey Ballantine, although he remained a power broker behind the scenes in the Republican Party.

" Riding bitch " is a slang term for riding pillion, sitting behind the driver on a motorcycle.

The difference is that divination is the term used for predictions considered part of a religious ritual, invoking deities or spirits, while the term fortune-telling implies a less serious or formal setting, even one of popular culture, where belief in occult workings behind the prediction is less prominent than the concept of suggestion, spiritual or practical advisory or affirmation.

Although scientists and literary people who worked on different art-related subjects had already done some sort of work, real application of the concept behind this term was in a book on gas turbines published in 1910.

Dinghy is also a term given to a small car, truck or suv towed behind a motor home.

It ’ s become a broad term, but that does not diminish the explanatory power behind it.

The first mention in the historical record of the concepts behind surface-effect vehicles that used the term hovering was by Swedish scientist Emanuel Swedenborg in 1716.

Throughout the first term of the fourth Labour government, the cabinet remained largely unified behind the radical financial, economic and policy reforms that were enacted.

The technical term for the science behind psychological testing is psychometrics.

The term Afghan was originally used to refer to the Pashtuns in the Middle Ages, and the intention behind the creation of the Afghan state was originally to be a Pashtun state, but later this policy changed, leading to the inclusion of non-Pashtuns in the state as Afghans.

The term is most often used in reference to the system behind the military of the United States, where it gained popularity after its use in the farewell address of President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 17, 1961, though the term is applicable to any country with a similarly developed infrastructure.

( Notice WHO's use of the term serous to denote a bacterial process, whereas the same term is generally used by ear physicians in the United States to denote simple fluid collection within the middle ear behind an intact eardrum.