Unlike in Hindu and Jain sources, in ancient Buddhist texts ahimsa ( or its Pāli cognate ) is not used as a technical term.

While the term ahimsa is not officially mentioned, one passage in the Rig Veda reads, " Do not harm anything.

While the term ahimsa is not officially mentioned, one passage in the Rig Veda reads, " Do not harm anything.

The term " android " appears in US patents as early as 1863 in reference to miniature human-like toy automatons.

The term Animism appears to have been first developed as animismus by German scientist Georg Ernst Stahl, circa 1720, to refer to the " doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial soul.

Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

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 Hebrew term Abaddon (, ), an intensive form of the word " destruction ", appears as a place of destruction in the Hebrew Bible.

The term abaddon appears six times in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible ; abaddon means destruction or " place of destruction ", or the realm of the dead, and is associated with Sheol.

The term bretwalda also appears in a charter of Æthelstan.

The term or, which gives the ( unnormalised ) relative probability of a state, is called the Boltzmann factor and appears often in the study of physics and chemistry.

It appears that the particular term, with its more definite sense, was coined by Heisenberg in the 1950s, while criticizing alternate " interpretations " ( e. g., David Bohm's ) that had been developed.

The term " West Saxon " appears only in the late seventh century, after the reign of Cædwalla.

The modern sense of the term first appears sometime around the 12th century ; its popularity spread in the medieval period along with the terms isle, ylle, inis, eilean, oileán There is some confusion on what the term crannog originally referred to, the structure atop the island or the island itself The additional meanings of crannog can be variously related as " structure / piece of wood ; wooden pin ; crow's nest ; pulpit ; driver's box on a coach and vessel / box / chest " for crannóg.

Here, again, a new term appears in the record, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the first time using the word scottas, from which Scots derives, to describe the inhabitants of Constantine's kingdom in its report of these events.

The signal for formation of a regional centromere appears to be " epigenetic "-a widely used term that in this instance most likely refers to a particular set of post-translational modifications of the histone proteins, or different histone variants being present.

in which the term proportional to the square of the rate of rotation appears on the acceleration side as a " centripetal acceleration ", that is, a negative acceleration term in the direction.

This term appears as the second term in the multipole expansion of an arbitrary electrostatic potential Φ ( r ).

The term dagger appears only in the Late Middle Ages, reflecting the fact that while the dagger had been known in antiquity, it had disappeared during the Early Middle Ages, replaced by the hewing knife or seax.

The Old French term dague appears to have referred to these weapons in the 13th century, alongside other terms such as poignal and basilard.

The term English Civil War appears most commonly in the singular form, although historians often divide the conflict into two or three separate wars.

The name, which can also mean " hard cleft " in Irish, appears in the plural, caladbuilc, as a generic term for " great swords " in the 10th century Irish translation of the classical tale The Destruction of Troy, Togail Troi )

Confusion arises from the introduction of the additional term svartálfar " black elves ", which at first appears synonymous to the " dark elves "; Snorri identifies with the dvergar and has them reside in Svartálfaheim.

However, the term " the Unwashed " with the same meaning, appears in The Parisians: " He says that Paris has grown so dirty since the 4 September, that it is only fit for the feet of the Unwashed.

Although the origins of the term are not referred to in the text, the title served ( along with the general hype created in Australia ) to revive public interest in the legend.

The term usually refers to relatively simple programs such as compilers, debuggers, interpreters, linkers, and text editors,

His definition of deconstruction is that, " the term ' deconstruction ' refers in the first instance to the way in which the ' accidental ' features of a text can be seen as betraying, subverting, its purportedly ' essential ' message.

In computing as well as typography, the term " character " refers to a grapheme or grapheme-like unit of text, as found in natural language writing systems ( scripts ).

In common usage, the term refers to text adventures, a type of adventure game where the entire interface can be " text-only ".

Neither this term nor the equivalent for " eunuch " occurs in the Qur ' an, but the term does appear in the Hadith, the sayings of Muhammad, which have a secondary status to the central text.

The term markup is derived from the traditional publishing practice of " marking up " a manuscript, which involves adding handwritten annotations in the form of conventional symbolic printer's instructions in the margins and text of a paper manuscript or printed proof.

The term " computer game " also includes games which display only text ( and which can therefore theoretically be played on a teletypewriter ) or which use other methods, such as sound or vibration, as their primary feedback device, but there are very few new games in these categories.

Among the earliest evidence of the game are fragments of a pottery board and several rock cuts found in Aksumite Ethiopia in Matara ( now in Eritrea ) and Yeha ( in Ethiopia ), which are dated by archaeologists to between the 6th and 7th century AD ; the game may have been mentioned by Giyorgis of Segla in his 14th century Ge ' ez text " Mysteries of Heaven and Earth ," where he refers to a game called qarqis, a term used in Ge ' ez to refer to both Gebet ' a ( Mancala ) and Sant ' araz ( modern sent ' erazh, Ethiopian Chess ).

An accompanying proposed rule deals with cosmetics, concluding that any use of natural estrogens in a cosmetic product makes the product an unapproved new drug and that any cosmetic using the term " hormone " in the text of its labeling or in its ingredient statement makes an implied drug claim, subjecting such a product to regulatory action.

However, no actual ancient text using this term is known.

Plautus did not set out to write a play in archaic Latin ; the term archaic merely comes from later perspective on the text.

Campbell's Urology, the urologist's most authoritative reference text, identifies only about 5 % of all patients with prostatitis as having bacterial prostatitis, which can be " cured " at least in the short term by antibiotics.

The term SMS is used as a synonym for all types of short text messaging as well as the user activity itself in many parts of the world.

The term " streaming media " can apply to media other than video and audio such as live closed captioning, stock ticker, and real-time text, which are all considered " streaming text ".

It should be pointed out, however, that in the Greek text of his defense given by Plato, Socrates never actually uses that term ( viz., " gadfly " oistros

The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content ( text and graphics ) displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, which might be a printed document, web page, or slide presentation.

The word was coined as a nonsensical term with religious undertones in the Discordian religious text Principia Discordia ( 1965 ) by Kerry Thornley and Greg Hill, but was popularized by The Illuminatus!

It was not until the publication of Rameau's ' Traité de l ' harmonie ' ( Treatise on Harmony ) in 1722 that any text discussing musical practice made use of the term in the title, though that work is not the earliest record of theoretical discussion of the topic.

Software products such as email, calendaring, text chat, wiki, and bookmarking belong to this category, whenever used for group work, whereas the more general term social software applies to systems used outside the workplace, for example, online dating services and social networking sites like Friendster, Twitter and Facebook.

Some of these include determining whether the search term appears in the body text or URL of a web page.