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

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.

The term Afroasiatic Urheimat ( Urheimat meaning " original homeland " in German ) refers to the ' hypothetical ' place where Proto-Afroasiatic speakers lived in a single linguistic community, or complex of communities, before this original language dispersed geographically and divided into distinct languages.

The term also broadly refers to any enterprise that is potentially fraught with physical, financial or psychological risk, such as a business venture, a love affair, or other major life undertakings.

While not entirely synonymous with Anatolia, the term Asia Minor, derived from the Latin Asia Minores, refers to Asia inside the Roman Empire, versus Asia Magna, all of Asia beyond the borders.

Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but here refers to the visual arts, which cover the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.

The term " pure " abjad refers to scripts entirely lacking in vowel indicators.

The term alp, alm, albe or alpe refers to a grazing pastures in the alpine regions below the glaciers, not the peaks.

An alp refers to a high mountain pasture where cows are taken to be grazed during the summer months and where hay barns can be found, and the term " the Alps ", referring to the mountains, is a misnomer.

The term analog signal usually refers to electrical signals ; however, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and other systems may also convey analog signals.

Some scholars favor the unhyphenated form antisemitism to avoid possible confusion involving whether the term refers specifically to Jews, or to Semitic-language speakers as a whole.

The term Rococo was derived from the French word " rocaille ", which means pebbles and refers to the stones and shells used to decorate the interiors of caves.

In modern English, " Americans " generally refers to residents of the United States, and among native speakers of English this usage is almost universal, with any other use of the term requiring specification of the subject under discussion.

The term amide refers both to classes of compounds and to the functional group ( R < sub > n </ sub > E ( O )< sub > x </ sub > NR '< sub > 2 </ sub >) within those compounds.

Alternative medicine is frequently grouped with complementary medicine or integrative medicine, which, in general, refers to the same interventions when used in conjunction with mainstream techniques, under the umbrella term complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM.

The term originally came from antibody generator and was a molecule that binds specifically to an antibody, but the term now also refers to any molecule or molecular fragment that can be bound by a major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) and presented to a T-cell receptor.

The term " Islamic " refers not only to the religion, but to any form of art created in an Islamic culture or in an Islamic context.

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.

The term " last rites " refers to administration to a dying person not only of this sacrament but also of Penance and Holy Communion, the last of which, when administered in such circumstances, is known as " Viaticum ", a word whose original meaning in Latin was " provision for the journey ".

: Science of the mind, or cultural or spiritual science ), a term generally used in German to refer to the humanities and social sciences ; in fact, the term " science " is used more broadly in Europe as a general term that refers to any exact knowledge.

The term ahimsa appears in the text Taittiriya Shakha of the Yajurveda ( TS 5. 2. 8. 7 ), where it refers to non-injury to the sacrificer himself.

The term Transonic refers to a range of velocities just below and above the local speed of sound ( generally taken as Mach 0. 8 – 1. 2 ).

The term Building design professional ( or Design professional ), by contrast, is a much broader term including professionals who practice independently under an alternate profession, such as engineering professionals, or those who assist in the practice architecture under the supervision of a licensed architect, such as architectural technologists and intern architects.

( plural ), the term used to identify those who practice Ásatrú is a compound with ( Old Norse ) " man ".

As with those who engage other activities such as singing or running, the term may apply broadly to anyone who engages in it even briefly, or be more narrowly limited to those for whom it is a vocation, habit or characteristic practice.

In principle, the term borough designates a self-governing township although, in practice, official use of the term varies widely.

Arias thus remained barred from a second term as president ; however, in April 2003 – by which time two of the four judges who had voted against the change in 2000 had been replaced – the Court reconsidered the issue and, with the only dissenters being the two anti-reelection judges remaining from 2000, declared the 1969 amendment null and thus opened the way to reelection for former presidents – which in practice meant Arias.

It is widespread practice in the media in the UK ( and elsewhere ) to use the word Europe to mean continental Europe ; that is, " Europe " excludes Britain, Iceland and Ireland ( though the term is sometimes used to refer to the European Union ).

In practice " chromosome " is a rather loosely defined term.

In general, outside of editorial pages as described above, traditional newspapers do not use the term censorware in their reporting, preferring instead to use terms such as content filter, content control, or web filtering ; the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both appear to follow this practice.

This practice is an application of the belief that not all who claim to be Christians are part of the Catholic Church, as Ignatius of Antioch, the earliest known writer to use the term " Catholic Church ", considered that certain heretics who called themselves Christians only seemed to be such.

The term most commonly refers to the substitution of the voices of the actors shown on the screen by those of different performers speaking a different language ; however the practice also involves the rerecording of audio segments and then synchronizing the recording with the existing footage.

In practice, this means the government remains in power for close to its full term, and choose an election date it calculates to be in its best interests ( unless something special happens, such as a motion of no-confidence ).

The third principle, the speed up principle states that long term memory encoding and retrieval operations speed up with practice, so that their speed and accuracy approach the speed and accuracy of short term memory storage and retrieval.

Because EBM is used in allied fields, including dentistry, nursing and psychology, evidence-based practice ( EBP ) is a more encompassing term.

The term " pharaonic circumcision " ( Type III ) stems from its practice in Ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs, and " fibula " ( in " infibulation ") refers to the Roman practice of piercing the outer labia with a fibula, or brooch.

Fashion is a general term for a popular style or practice, especially in clothing, footwear, accessories, makeup, or furniture.

While this new career took him away from the practice of law, it was rewarding in other ways: the fees were said to yield up to $ 40, 000 ( US $ in present terms ) over the two-year term.

After his term as sheriff ended, Cleveland returned to private practice, opening a law firm with his friends Lyman K. Bass and Wilson S. Bissell.

This standard was well intentioned but only mildly successful ; in practice, the term was widely misapplied to audio products that did not remotely approach the DIN basis specifications.

President Tubman and Vice President Tolbert on a commemorative wrap celebrating the sixth term.

Liberal strategists then chose to make the announcement before a partisan crowd assembled at Quebec's Little Coliseum as part of the Liberal party gathering celebrating the first year of Bourassa's term, on April 30, 1971.

Many of the actual C86 bands distanced themselves from the scene cultivated around them by the UK music press-in its time, C86 became a pejorative term for its associations with so-called " shambling " ( a John Peel-coined description celebrating the self-conscious primitive approach of some of the music ) and underachievement.

The term was first used by the Vice President of Bell Labs in 1957 in a paper celebrating the 10th anniversary of the invention of the transistor.

Rhenish Jeck ( e ) as a noun denotes a " fool ", " jester ", or " crazy person " ( both in a general sense, and in particular in association with the Rhenish carnival where the term describes a traditional folkloric stage figure akin to the Italian harlequin as well as merely a reveler celebrating the carnival season in a " foolish " manner due to ebriety ) and as an adjective means " crazy ", " mad ", " insane ", whereas the dated High German word Geck originally meant a " fool " as well but later transformed to particularly signify a " dandy " or " fop ".

In Week 5 of Lent Term ( term two ), the School's national and cultural societies unite for a week celebrating the international nature of the School through activities, sport, food, music and other events.

The term, employed as a style descriptor as early as the mid-1950s, was reaffirmed in 1983 by Cara Greenberg in the title of her book, Mid-Century Modern: Furniture of the 1950s ( Random House ), celebrating the style which is now recognized by scholars and museums worldwide as a significant design movement.