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The term prime time is often defined in terms of a fixed time period — for example, from 19: 00 to 22: 00 ( Central and Mountain Time ) or 20: 00 to 23: 00 ( Eastern and Pacific Time ) ( 7 p. m. to 10 p. m. or 8 p. m. to 11 p. m .).
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The term " Pacific Northwest " should not be confused with the Northwest Territory ( also known as the Great Northwest, a historic term in the United States ) or the Northwest Territories of Canada.
The term cargo cult, as an idiom, originally referred to aboriginal religions which grew up in the South Pacific after World War II.
The lack of heavy rainfall arises from high atmospheric stability caused, in term, by the combination of cool waters from semi-permanent coastal upwelling and the presence of the cold Humboldt Current ; and warm air aloft associated with the South Pacific anticyclone.
The Polynesian term kākā and its variant ʻāʻā were the generic South Pacific terms for Psittacidae.
While many writers focused primarily upon American expansionism, be it into Mexico or across the Pacific, others saw the term as a call to example.
In the eastern half of the north Pacific ocean and north Indian ocean, the older subtropical cyclone definition term is still used, which requires a weak circulation forming underneath a mid to upper-tropospheric low which has cut off from the main belt of the westerlies during the cold season ( winter ).
Basic knowledge of climate can be used within shorter term weather forecasting using analog techniques such as the El Niño – Southern Oscillation ( ENSO ), the Madden-Julian Oscillation ( MJO ), the North Atlantic Oscillation ( NAO ), the Northern Annualar Mode ( NAM ), the Arctic oscillation ( AO ), the Northern Pacific ( NP ) Index, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation ( PDO ), and the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation ( IPO ).
The term was in common usage in the mid-19th century and came to refer not just to the corduroy roads themselves, but to logging camps and mills all along the Pacific Coast.
In Guam and Northern Mariana Islands, the term " Mestizo " was borrowed from the American colonies and was formerly used to identify people of mixed Pacific Islander and Spanish ancestry ; however, as the United States gained control of these islands after the Spanish-American War in 1898, the term " Multiracial " replaced " Mestizo ".
The states shown in dark red are included in the term West Coast or Pacific Coast.
More specifically, the term refers to an area defined on the east by the Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada and Mojave Desert and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
The West can be divided into the Pacific States ; Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington, with the term West Coast usually restricted to just California, Oregon, and Washington, and the Mountain States, always Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
The anthropologist Leslie Spier used the term " prophet dances " to describe this kind of ritual during his studies of the Pacific Northwest tribes.
At the next federal election on August 1872, he was defeated by Louis-Amable Jetté while seeking a second term in Montreal East in the face of the Pacific Scandal.
" Primitive art " is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically " primitive " by Western academia, such as Native American, subsaharan African or Pacific Island art ( see Tribal art ).
The term foo fighter was used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific Theater of Operations.
Over the term of the 1999-2008 Labour government, social statistics for Maori and Pacific islanders did generally improve, however the statistics for white New Zealanders showed a greater improvement, resulting in the ' gaps ' actually increasing.
In Australia the term South Sea Islander was used in the past to describe Australian descendants of people from the more than 80 islands in the Western Pacific.
The term may still be used poetically or in certain proper nouns, such as Cathay Pacific Airways or Cathay Hotel.

term and Basin
The term Columbia Basin is used to refer not only to the entire drainage basin but also to subsets of the river's full watershed, such as the relatively flat and unforested area in eastern Washington bounded by the Cascades, the Rocky Mountains, and the Blue Mountains.
Most of these ranges have endorheic valleys between them, which belies the image portrayed by the term Great Basin.
Nevertheless " Tocharian " remains the standard term for the language of the Tarim Basin manuscripts.
Historians generally agree that the adoption of the term " Uyghur " is based on a decision from a 1921 conference in Tashkent, which was attended by Turkic Muslims from the Tarim Basin ( Xinjiang ).
( Through an accident of naming, the term " Tocharian " now commonly refers to a branch of Indo-European languages spoken in the Tarim Basin between the 3rd and 9th centuries AD, and quite distinct from the Bactrian language spoken by the Tókharoi.
" Cowboy " is a term common throughout the west and particularly in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, " Buckaroo " is used primarily in the Great Basin and California, and " cowpuncher " mostly in Texas and surrounding states.
The cowboys of the Great Basin still use the term " buckaroo ", which may be a corruption of vaquero, to describe themselves and their tradition.
Basin modelling is the term broadly applied to a group of geological disciplines that can be used to analyse the formation and evolution of sedimentary basins, often but not exclusively to aid evaluation of potential hydrocarbon reserves.
Nevertheless " Tocharian " remains the standard term for the languages of the Tarim Basin manuscripts and for the people who produced them.
Historically, the term was invented by Russian Turkologists in the 19th century to replace the term Chinese Turkestan, which referred to the Tarim Basin in the southwestern part of Xinjiang province of the Qing Dynasty.
In China, the term Western Regions (; Uyghur: Qurighar ) referred to the regions west of the Yumen Pass, and more specifically the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang that had come under the Han Dynasty's control since 60 BC.
The term " East Turkestan " was popularized in academic works, but inconsistently: at times, the term East Turkestan only referred to area in Xinjiang south of the Tian Shan mountains, corresponding to the Tarim Basin ; the areas north of the Tian Shan mountains were called Dzungaria or Zungaria.
One of the better long term examples of this process is the Basin and Range province in Nevada and Utah.
The Highland Rim is a geographic term for the area in Tennessee surrounding the Central Basin.
The term " Highland " here is relative: it is certainly higher than the Basin it surrounds, but it nonetheless is seldom at an elevation above above sea level, and never more than about above sea level except where interrupted, primarily to the southeast, by outliers of the Cumberland Plateau.
In one of various usages, the term " Columbia Basin " refers to more or less the same area as the Columbia Plateau.
Usage of the term " Columbia Basin " in British Columbia generally refers only to the immediate basins of the Columbia and Kootenay Rivers and excludes that of the Okanagan, Kettle and Similkameen Rivers.
Residents of the area surrounding the confluence of the Columbia and Snake rivers — a region centering on the Tri-Cities, Washington metropolitan area — use the term " Columbia Basin " to refer to their own, much smaller region.
This sense of the term Columbia Basin has expanded from its early focus on the land irrigated by Grand Coulee Dam and the Columbia Basin Project to include other irrigation districts such as the Yakima and Walla Walla valleys.
Some geographers also use the term Turpan-Hami Basin, which is understood as including the Turpan Depression along with the Hami Depression ( located to the east of the Turpan Depression, and to the southwest of the city of Hami ) and the Liaodong Uplift separating the two depressions.
The term thus encompasses the German state as specified in the Versailles Treaty and the Territory of the Saar Basin, which was re-integrated into Germany in 1935.

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