The latter term is an extension of " henotheism ", from ( kath ' hena theon ) —" one god at a time ".

Rand stated that she chose the name because her preferred term for a philosophy based on the primacy of existence —" existentialism "— had already been taken.

Author John Leland describes an etymology, writing that the term is a modern survival of an English verb —" to dozen "— dating back at least to the fourteenth century and meaning " to stun, stupefy, daze " or " to make insensible, torpid, powerless ".

That tradition has been multiple and discontinuous, yet the term has often been used to invoke a powerful effect of cultural identity and historical continuity —" the Greeks and the Elizabethans, in one cultural form ; Hellenes and Christians, in a common activity ," as Raymond Williams puts it.

Thus the term trompe l ' oeil —" fool the eye ".

Originally, the term may have been intended literally —" a boy who tends cows.

There is also the West African word " Bogi ", which means " to dance ", and the Bantu term " Mbuki Mvuki ", which means, " Mbuki — to take off in flight " and Mvuki —" to dance wildly, as if to shake off ones clothes ".

The German term sozialstaat (" social state ") has been used since 1870 to describe state support programs being developed by the German Sozialpolitiker —" Social Politicians " and implemented through Bismarck's conservative reforms.

The earliest known use of the term Hallamshire —" Halumsire "— is found in a deed of the house of Saint Wandrille in Ecclesfield dating from 1161.

Sarah " Saartjie " Baartman ( before 1790 – 29 December 1815 ) ( also spelled Bartman, Bartmann, Baartmen ) was the most famous of at least two Khoikhoi women who were exhibited as freak show attractions in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus —" Hottentot " as the then-current name for the Khoi people, now considered an offensive term, and " Venus " in reference to the Roman goddess of love.

It is certain, however, that instruments of this type, descended from the Middle Eastern zurna, were introduced into Eastern Europe by the Turks in the Middle Ages, as evidenced by the term töröksip —" Turkish pipe "— which was used as a synonym for tárogató.

The paṇḍaka in these Tibetan works is translated with the term ma ning —" genderless " or " without genitals ".

James Seehafer who is credited with coining the term in 1992 said that he was prompted to do so because there was no extant definition to accurately characterize the type of work he was doing, which combined elements of surrealism and mass media, the latter consisting of technology and pop art —" a form of technology art.

The term can also apply to errors in the other direction —" errors of impunity ", and to civil cases.

Current usage within the Metropolitan Police Service uses the term " panda car " to refer specifically to a marked car driven by a basic driver ( i. e., one constrained to drive within normal traffic rules, and who may not use the vehicle's siren ), as opposed to an IRV —" immediate response vehicle "— which could be exactly the same vehicle but driven by a response driver ( i. e., one trained and permitted to disregard certain traffic laws and use the siren, as one would normally expect from police vehicles ).

As the name implies —" gag " being a show business term for a comedic idea — these cartoons are most often intended to provoke laughter.

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

However, it is the Jewish artists, Gustav Mahler and Franz Kafka in music and literature that have embraced the theme of angst so highly in their work that they have become synonymous with the term to the point of popular joking and cartoons today.

From a strictly aerodynamic point of view, the term should refer only to those side-effects arising as a result of the changes in airflow from an incompressible fluid ( similar in effect to water ) to a compressible fluid ( acting as a gas ) as the speed of sound is approached.

However, it has been strongly argued that this was a point made out of mis-translation, as pointed out by Amin Malouf, and that the origin of the term in Middle Eastern culture comes from phrase Asasiyun, meaning those who follow the Asas ; believers in the foundation of faith.

Shortly after, in 1869, Irish chemist Thomas Andrews studied the phase transition from a liquid to a gas and coined the term critical point to describe the instant at which a gas and a liquid were indistinguishable as phases, and Dutch physicist Johannes van der Waals supplied the theoretical framework which allowed the prediction of critical behavior based on measurements at much higher temperatures.

The historian Tacitus suggests that Claudius's ongoing term as Censor may have prevented him from noticing the affair before it reached such a critical point.

Napier goes on to point out that many Japanese commentators refer to anime with the term " mukokuseki ", meaning " stateless ".

Therefore, although not all languages have been investigated on this point, phoneticians have recently come to use the term lingual ( made with the tongue ) as being more accurate for this airstream mechanism than velaric ( made at the velum ).

Few philosophers are as associated with induction as David Hume ; but Hume himself rarely used the term and when he did, he used it to support a point he was arguing.

Regulation is a term used for multi-barreled firearms that indicates how close to the same point of aim the barrels will shoot.

The field of a point dipole has a particularly simple form, and the order-1 term in the multipole expansion is precisely the point dipole field.

In all cases, the term diaspora carries a sense of displacement ; that is, the population so described finds itself for whatever reason separated from its national territory, and usually its people have a hope, or at least a desire, to return to their homeland at some point, if the " homeland " still exists in any meaningful sense.

In further cases of the use of the term, " the reference to the conceptual homeland – to the ' classical ' diasporas – has become more attenuated still, to the point of being lost altogether ".

By extension, the term equinox may denote an equinoctial point.

It can be used to improve peoples ' lives in the short term, so that a society can increase its standard of living to the point that food aid is no longer required.

: The term Cinematographer has been a point of contention for some time now.

The term first past the post ( abbreviated FPTP or FPP ) was coined as an analogy to horse racing, where the winner of the race is the first to pass a particular point ( the " post ") on the track ( in this case a plurality of votes ), after which all other runners automatically and completely lose ( that is, the payoff is " winner-takes-all ").

The term FAQ, and the idea behind it, has spread offline as well, to the point where paper instructions for products may contain a FAQ.

The term floating point refers to the fact that the radix point ( decimal point, or, more commonly in computers, binary point ) can " float "; that is, it can be placed anywhere relative to the significant digits of the number.

The Iran hostage crisis of 1979 – 80 marked a major turning point in the use of the term " fundamentalism ".

Known under the term critical geography this signalled another turning point in the discipline.

`` 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.

no sort of pricing at all for any goods or services, and therefore no market in the economic sense of the term.

When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no -- and there were no dissents.

Conversely, the vowel marks of the Tigrinya abugida and the Amharic abugida ( ironically, the original source of the term " abugida ") have been so completely assimilated into their consonants that the modifications are no longer systematic and have to be learned as a syllabary rather than as a segmental script.

In the Roman Catholic Church, abbots continue to be elected by the monks of an abbey to lead them as their religious superior in those orders and monasteries that make use of the term ( some orders of monks, as the Carthusians for instance, have no abbots, only priors ).

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.

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.

There is no clear end to the ironclad period, but towards the end of the 1890s the term ironclad dropped out of use.

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.

These were not ' armored cars ' in the sense implied by the modern term, as they provided no real protection for their crews against any kind of opposing fire.

In retrospect the name change was unfortunate, not only because the Greek roots alone do not reveal the anode's function any more, but more importantly because, as we now know, the Earth's magnetic field direction on which the " anode " term is based is subject to reversals whereas the current direction convention on which the " eisode " term was based has no reason to change in the future.

There is no earlier use of the term and Adjacium is not an attested Latin word, which probably means that it is a Latinization of a word in some other language.

Ahimsa (; IAST:, Pāli: ) is a term meaning to do no harm ( literally: the avoidance of violence – himsa ).

The term shmoo has also entered the lexicon, defining highly technical concepts in no less than four separate fields of science, including the variations shmooing ( a microbiological term for the " budding " process in yeast reproduction ), and shmoo plot ( a technical term in the field of electrical engineering ).

Acephali ( from the Greek language a -, " without ," and kephalos, " head ") is a term applied to several sects as having no head or leader.

The term " ethnic cleansing " was used as an alternative to " genocide " to denote not just ethnically motivated murder but also displacement, though critics charge there is no difference.

The term " I am " has no meaning by itself ; it must have an action or relation appended to it.

All candidates must be at least eighteen years old ; there are no term limits.

There is no evidence that the term was a title that had any practical use, with implications of formal rights, powers and office, or even that it had any existence before the 9th-century.

As it is now known that all B *- algebras are C *- algebras ( and vice versa ), the term B *- algebra is no longer widely used.