This article is about both Geiger counters and Ion chamber instruments, as it uses the term " Geiger counter " as a colloquial name for any hand-held radiation measuring device in Civil defense.

There is no distinction made in Scotland between assault and battery ( which is not a term used in Scots law ), although, as in England and Wales, assault can be occasioned without a physical attack on another's person, as demonstrated in Atkinson v. HM Advocate wherein the accused was found guilty of assaulting a shop assistant by simply jumping over a counter wearing a ski mask.

The term " anti-ballistic missile " describes any antimissile system designed to counter ballistic missiles.

However the term is used more commonly for systems designed to counter intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ).

A counter argument is that keeping the innards secret may improve security in the short term, but in the long run only systems that have been published and analyzed should be trusted.

Major foreign policy events during his term of office included the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China ( and the severing of ties with the Republic of China ); the signing of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty ( SALT II ); the brokering of the Camp David Accords ; the transition of Iran from an important U. S. client state to an anti-Western Islamic Republic, encouraging dissidents in Eastern Europe and emphasizing human rights in order to undermine the influence of the Soviet Union ; the financing of the mujahideen in Afghanistan in response to the Soviet deployment of forces there and the arming of these rebels to counter the Soviet invasion ; and the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties relinquishing overt U. S. control of the Panama Canal after 1999.

In a typical central processing unit ( CPU ), PC is a binary counter ( which is the origin of the term program counter ) that may be one of many registers in the CPU hardware.

To them the term ' counter e. m. f.

In the 1940s and 50s, missionaries in Israel, including the Southern Baptists, adopted the term meshichyim ( משיחיים " Messianics ") to counter negative connotations of the word notsrim ( נוצרים " Christians ", from " Nazarenes "); the term was used to designate all Jews who had converted to Protestant evangelical Christianity.

Supporters of free software often counter that the use of the term " free " in this context is primarily a reference to a lack of constraint (" libre ") rather than a lack of cost (" gratis ").

It can be construed, then, that the term paranormal is derived from the Latin use of the prefix ' para ', meaning ' against, counter, outside or beyond the norm.

Kariuki also wrote that the term Mau Mau was adopted by the rebellion in order to counter what they regarded as colonial propaganda.

The term " White Legend " refers to a counter narrative to the black legend that depicts Spanish colonial history in an idealized way as enlightened and benevolent, minimizing any negative consequences of Spanish colonialism and denying any oppression against minorities in medieaval Spain.

Starting May 30, 2004, the US Patent and Trademark Office ( USPTO ) Trademark Electronic Business Center's TDR ( Text Document Retrieval ) online record showed a USPTO " Office Action " on application # 78319880, summarily refusing registration on grounds that the proposed mark " merely describes the subject matter and nature of the applicant's goods and / or services ", and also because publishing a journal is not per se a " service " within the meaning of the term in trademark law ( SSC having not provided descriptive evidence or arguments to counter that presumption ).

This term also serves as a rhetorical counter to NIMBY.

The term " bar " is derived from the specialized counter on which drinks are served.

Compared with the term spamtrap, the term " honeypot " might better be reserved for systems and techniques used to detect or counter attacks and probes.

The term counter is often used instead of detector, when the detector counts the particles but does not resolve its energy or ionization.

The term ' Buddhist modernism ' is used to describe forms of Buddhism that suited the modern world, usually influenced by European enlightenment thinking, and often adapted by Asian Buddhists as a counter to claims of European or Christian superiority.

The term " counter " is also key to this concept.

The term inclusionary zoning indicates that these ordinances seek to counter exclusionary zoning practices, which aim to exclude low-cost housing from a municipality through the zoning code.

In software engineering, a loop counter is the term often used to refer to the variable that controls the iterations of a loop ( a computer programming language construct ).

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

It is of the utmost importance to the people of America and of the world how their governing President `` ends up '' during the four years of his term.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

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.

Mr. Wagner might or might not be a `` new '' Mayor in this third term, now that he is free of the pressure of those party leaders whom he calls `` bosses ''.

This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli ( a musical term meaning double strings ) to the fastest, ecstatic Karshilama ( meaning greetings or welcome ).

the term of loans for working capital is 6 years.

Interim financing of construction costs is provided by a short term loan from The Chase Manhattan Bank.

For the near term, however, it must be realized that the industrial and commercial market is somewhat more sensitive to general business conditions than is the military market, and for this reason I would expect that any gain in 1961 may be somewhat smaller than those of recent years ; ;

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.

The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.

for, using the fact that N and N' commute Af and so when R is sufficiently large every term in this expression for Af will be 0.

The only other one I shall mention here is his use of the term capitalism.

This is not, however, the case, and development is a term which we can apply to Hardy only in a very limited sense.

`` 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.

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.

Incumbent Richard Salter seeks re-election and is opposed by Donald Huffman for the five-year term.

The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.

In some European countries, all cultural anthropology is known as ethnology ( a term coined and defined by Adam F. Kollár in 1783 ).

As amoebas themselves are polyphyletic and subject to some imprecision in definition, the term " amoeboid " does not provide identification of an organism, and is better understood as description of locomotion.