Virgil coined the term Ultima Thule ( Georgics, 1.

* Ultima Thule, the term given to unknown northern lands in ancient European geography

The term originated with Ultima Online and refers to the Nerf brand of toys which are soft and less likely to cause serious injury.

The term Ultima Thule was given by medieval cartographers to denote any distant northern place located beyond the " borders of the known world.

Later games in the Ultima series use the term in the same sense as Habitat and introduce Habitat-style customization of avatars.

In its early years it was commonly conceived of as a graphical MUD, though this term, and M59s preferred " MMPRPG ", was eventually displaced by the now-ubiquitous Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, a term coined by Richard Garriott of Ultima Online in 1997.

The first established use of the term was in Ultima Online, as a reference to the NERF brand of toys which are soft and less likely to cause serious injury.

The term " griefing " dates to the late 1990s, when it was used to describe the willfully antisocial behaviors seen in early massively multiplayer online games like Ultima Online and first-person shooters such as Counter-Strike.

The term ultima Thule in medieval geographies denotes any distant place located beyond the " borders of the known world ".

By the time these sources were recorded, Skræling was the common term Norse Greenlanders used for the Thule people, the ancestors to the modern Inuit.

(: O = Formal prefix,: E = picture,: KAKI = to draw ) is the Japanese term to describe the act of drawing, meaning " doodle or scribble ".

is a historical term referring to the Japanese Shinto shrines with the highest shrine rank (: ja: 社格 ) in an area.

or Arbait (: 아르바이트 ) is a common term used in East Asia to refer to a part-time job.

Being a Turkic Mameluke he was appointed governor of Syria and Egypt in 935, and was given the title of Ikhshid (: title in area of Osrūshana where he thought his origins are ) in 937, the name he gave to his dynasty, hence the last term in his name.

They like it and would supply most of the capital because of the long term leases by strong oil companies.

In the United States the most common terms used are ALS ( both specifically for ALS and as a blanket term ) or " Lou Gehrig's disease ".

Alpha, both as a symbol and term, is used to refer to or describe a variety of things, including the first or most significant occurrence of something.

The term is most commonly used with reference to:

For referring specifically to a U. S. national and things, the words used are estadunidense ( also spelled estado-unidense ) ( United States person ), from Estados Unidos da América, and ianque ( Yankee ), but the term most often used is norte-americano, even though it could, as with its Spanish equivalent, in theory apply to Canadians, Mexicans, etc., as well.

In his first term in the House, he soon articulated his own brand of Jeffersonian – Jacksonian principles he would steadfastly promote throughout most of his political career ; he advocated for the interests of the poor, while maintaining an anti-abolitionist stance, insisted on limited spending by the government and opposed protective tariffs.

This term means to focus on a goal so as to lose sight of the " means-whereby " the goal could be most appropriately achieved.

The term array is often used to mean array data type, a kind of data type provided by most high-level programming languages that consists of a collection of values or variables that can be selected by one or more indices computed at run-time.

It is this latter version, which has some syntax differences from the first as well as support for the Apple II high-resolution graphics modes, that most people mean by the term " Applesoft.

Drugs including the monoamine oxidase inhibitors ( MAOIs ), tricyclic antidepressants ( TCAs ), tetracyclic antidepressants ( TeCAs ), selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors ( SSRIs ), and serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors ( SNRIs ) are most commonly associated with the term.

In 1978, the term Barassi Line was used to describe the dichotomy that existed in Australia's football culture, where Australian Football was most popular in all states bar New South Wales and Queensland.

" We are most grateful to Professor James Cormack of the Department of Greek, University of Aberdeen, for suggesting this term.

The most common use of the term is in the case of English peerage dignities.

The term was coined by Fanya Montalvo by analogy with NP-complete and NP-hard in complexity theory, which formally describes the most famous class of difficult problems.

Until the 1970s there was considerable debate within psychiatry on the most appropriate term to use to describe the new drugs.

In the late 1950s the most widely used term was " neuroleptic ", followed by " major tranquilizer " and then " ataraxic ".

Being a monarchical state, with its roots invested in Colonial England, black letter law is that which is a term used to describe basic principles of law that are accepted by the majority of judges in most provinces and territories.

The disputed books, included in one canon but not in others, are often called the Biblical apocrypha, a term that is sometimes used specifically ( and possibly pejoratively in English ) to describe the books in the Catholic and Orthodox canons that are absent from the Jewish Masoretic Text ( also called the Tanakh or Miqra ) and most modern Protestant Bibles.

In byte-oriented systems ( i. e. most modern computers ), the term uncompressed BCD usually implies a full byte for each digit ( often including a sign ), whereas packed BCD typically encodes two decimal digits within a single byte by taking advantage of the fact that four bits are enough to represent the range 0 to 9.

The term " bagpipe " is equally correct in the singular or plural, although in the English language, pipers most commonly talk of " the pipes ", " a set of pipes ", or " a stand of pipes ".

The most usual shabi term for the geographic area of a bishop's authority and ministry, the diocese, began as part of the structure of the Roman Empire under Diocletian.

The " cow " derivation depends most immediately on the Old Irish legal term for " outsider :" amboue, from proto-Celtic * ambouios, " not a cattle owner.

Now the most commonly understood meaning of the term ballad, sentimental ballads, sometimes called " tear-jerkers " or " drawing-room ballads " owing to their popularity with the middle classes, had their origins in the early ‘ Tin Pan Alley ’ music industry of the later 19th century.

The most common use of the term ballad in modern pop music is for an emotional love song.

Withdrawal from long term benzodiazepines is beneficial for most individuals.

In 1755, Immanuel Kant introduced the term " island universe " for these distant nebulae.

Since the early 20th century, the term is used almost exclusively in conjunction with the modern development of hydro-electric power, which allowed use of distant energy sources.

The term DXing, in the context of listening to radio signals of any user of the shortwave band, is the activity of monitoring distant stations.

In the context of amateur radio operators, the term " DXing " refers to the two-way communications with a distant station, using shortwave radio frequencies.

The " heat " portion of the term is a folk association between locally experienced warmth and the distant lightning flashes.

For many years, it had been one of his favourite schemes to secure, by means of simultaneous observations at distant points, a thorough investigation of the nature and law of " magnetic storms " ( a term invented by him to designate abnormal disturbances of Earth's magnetism ).

This term is sometimes used for more distant descendants of Atreus.

Kotler and Singh ( 1981 ) coined the term marketing hyperopia, by which they mean a better vision of distant issues than of near ones.

Unlike the term biracial, which often is only used to refer to having parents or grandparents of two different races, the term multiracial may encompass biracial people but can also include people with more than two races in their heritage, or also may refer to the origin of more generationally distant genetic admixtures of more than one race in a person's DNA.

A constitutional amendment in May 2005 changed the presidential election to a multicandidate popular vote rather than a popular validation of a candidate nominated by the People ’ s Assembly and on 7 September Mubarak was elected for another six-year term with 87 percent of the popular vote, followed by a distant but strong showing by Ayman Nour, leader of the opposition Ghad Party and a well-known rights activist.

The second was called for by the preference which the common law gave to a distant collateral over the brother of the half-blood of the first purchaser ; the fourth conferred an indefeasible title on adverse possession for twenty years ( a term shortened by Lord Cairns in 1875 to twelve years ); the fifth reduced the number of witnesses required by law to attest wills, and removed the distinction which existed in this respect between freeholds and copyholds ; the last freed an innocent debtor from imprisonment only before final judgment ( or on what was termed mesne process ), but the principle stated by Campbell that only fraudulent debtors should be imprisoned was ultimately given effect to for England and Wales in 1869.

The short term loss involves making frequent search trips to distant work centers.

This explanation depends on the notion that the economy faces more uncertainties in the distant future than in the near term.

This term was used most often in the context of early theories of gravity and electromagnetism to describe how an object responds to the influence of distant massive or charged bodies.

Telehaptic is the term for computer generated tactile ( tangible or touch ) sensations ( haptics ) over a network, between physically distant human beings, or between a local user and a remote location, using sensors and effectors.

While still part of the area code, the term does not refer to areas more distant from Toronto, such as Hamilton and the Niagara Region.

The term the 416 is also used to describe the area within Toronto proper, while the suburbs are referred to as the 905 or the 905 belt ( in this use the term does not include the more distant parts of area code 905, such as Niagara Falls ).

Power projection ( or force projection ) is a term used in military and political science to refer to the capacity of a state to conduct expeditionary warfare, i. e. to intimidate other nations and implement policy by means of force, or the threat thereof, in an area distant from its own territory.

The term is also applied to brain and spinal cord neurons whose axons connect only with nearby neurons, to distinguish them from " projection " neurons, whose axons ( projection fibers ) project to more distant regions of the brain or spinal cord.

" I know not whether the ( Punishment ) which we are promised is near, or whether my Lord will appoint for it a distant term.