The term `` sterilization '' applies to methods involving essentially complete destruction of all microorganisms.

Later, many AMPS networks were partially converted to D-AMPS, often referred to as TDMA ( though TDMA is a generic term that applies to many cellular systems ).

Aristotle applies the term category ( perhaps not originally ) to ten highest-level classes.

In the Anglican Communion, the term applies to a bishop who is a full-time assistant to a diocesan bishop: the Bishop of Warwick is suffragan to the Bishop of Coventry ( the diocesan ), though both live in Coventry.

The Oxford English Dictionary applies the term to English " as spoken or written in the British Isles ; esp the forms of English usual in Great Britain ", reserving " Hiberno-English " for the " English language as spoken and written in Ireland ".

The sun's most southerly position, which is attained at the northern hemisphere's winter solstice, is now called the Tropic of Capricorn, a term which also applies to the line on the Earth at which the sun is directly overhead at noon on that solstice.

It must be applicable to everything to which the defined term applies ( i. e. not miss anything out ), and to nothing else ( i. e. not include any things to which the defined term would not truly apply ).

For service not related to actual war, the term " duty of a great responsibility " applies to a narrower range of positions than in time of war, and requires evidence of conspicuously significant achievement.

For service not related to actual war, the term " duty of a great responsibility " applies to a narrower range of positions than in time of war and requires evidence of a conspicuously significant achievement.

* Extensional definition, a definition that enumerates every individual a term applies to

In electromagnetic radiation ( such as microwaves from an antenna, shown here ) the term applies only to the parts of the electromagnetic field that radiate into infinite space and decrease in intensity by an inverse-square law of power, so that the total radiation energy that crosses through an imaginary spherical surface is the same, no matter how far away from the antenna the spherical surface is drawn.

The term most commonly applies to a spacewalk made outside a craft orbiting Earth ( such as the International Space Station ), but also has applied to lunar surface exploration ( commonly known as moonwalks ) performed by six pairs of American astronauts in the Apollo program from 1969 to 1972.

The term nowadays applies more to youth sports like skateboarding, snowboarding, aggressive inline skating, FMX and BMX and is closely associated with marketing aimed at the younger generation, and their favored styles of clothing and music, such as the urban baggy look associated with skateboarders and loud, fast alternative rock.

The term Edda ( Old Norse Edda, plural Eddur ) applies to the Old Norse Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, both of which were written down in Iceland during the 13th century in Icelandic, although they contain material from earlier traditional sources, reaching into the Viking Age.

Today, however, game theory applies to a wide range of class relations, and has developed into an umbrella term for the logical side of science, to include both human and non-humans, like computers.

Holiday season is, somewhat, a commercial term that applies, in the US, to the period that begins with Thanksgiving and ends with New Year's Eve.

The term is also used to denote the geographical area or subject-matter to which such authority applies.

* For service not related to actual war the term " key individual " applies to a narrower range of positions than in time of war and requires evidence of significant achievement.

Second, Miranda applies only to " testimonial " evidence as that term is defined under the Fifth Amendment.

* Muzzle-loading, a firearms-related term that commonly applies to black powder small arms

)' ( Rosen 2000 ). Today, many musicologists no longer distinguish between musicology and New Musicology, since many of the scholarly concerns that used to be associated New Musicology have now become mainstream, and the term " new " clearly no longer applies.

Whereas originally the term Navigation applies to the process of directing a ship to a destination, Navigation research deals with fundamental aspects of navigation in general.

In some theaters, the orchestra is the area of seats directly in front of the stage ( called primafila or platea ); the term more properly applies to the place in a theatre, or concert hall reserved for the musicians.

Politics ( from Greek politikos " of, for, or relating to citizens ") as a term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the corporate, academic, and religious segments of society.

His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

It holds an equally valuable lesson for a society where the word `` intellectual '' has become a term of opprobrium to millions of well-meaning people who somehow imagine that it must be destructive of the simpler human virtues.

The term acquired a special significance in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant ( 1724 – 1804 ), who used it to describe the equally rational but contradictory results of applying to the universe of pure thought the categories or criteria of reason that are proper to the universe of sensible perception or experience ( phenomena ).

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 ".

Even if he did avoid the debatable term homooussios, he expressed its sense in many passages, which exclude equally Patripassianism, Sabellianism, and the formula " there was a time when the Son was not " attributed to Arius.

The use of a term for keeled sternum to describe the Ichthyornis – Neornithine group turned out to be equally inapt.

Daughter languages are said to have a genetic or genealogical relationship ; the former term is more current in modern times, but the latter is equally as traditional.

") But, he said, " I think the term classical liberal is also equally applicable.

It is equally important to note than the American Psychological Association does not recognize that the term medical psychology has, as a prerequisite, nor should the term be equated with having, prescriptive authority.

Stephen A. Kent analyzes and summarizes the use of the brainwashing meme by non-sociologists in the period 2000-2007, finding the term useful not only in the context of " New Religions / Cults ", but equally under the headings of " Teen Behavior Modification Programs ; Terrorist Groups ; Dysfunctional Corporate Culture ; Interpersonal Violence ; and Alleged Chinese Governmental Human Rights Violations Against Falun Gong ".

Barely escaping a term of exile in Paraguay's far north, Espínola fled back to Buenos Aires and lied about the extent of porteño support in Paraguay, causing the Buenos Aires cabildo to make an equally disastrous move.

However, we may justifiably use the general term Tantra to denote all the teachings and practices found in the scriptures called or, a synonym ( hence we could equally substitute the adjective Āgamic anywhere we might use Tantric ).

The decade from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 1909 is sometimes referred to as the 1900s, " the nineteen hundreds ", although this term can equally be used for the years 1900 – 1999.

For any given term, one dictionary may enter only lowercase or only cap, whereas other dictionaries may recognize the capitalized version as a variant, either equally common as, or less common than, the first-listed styling ( marked with labels such as " or ", " also ", " often ", or " sometimes ").

Though it has been argued that the term head of state is a republican one inapplicable in a constitutional monarchy such as Canada, where the monarch is the embodiment of the state and thus cannot be head of it, the sovereign is regarded by official government sources, judges, constitutional scholars, and pollsters as the head of state, while the governor general and lieutenant governors are all only representatives of, and thus equally subordinate to, that figure.

Other feudal monarchies equally had a similar system, grouping high nobility of different rank titles under one term, with common privileges and / or in an assembly, sometimes legislative and / or judicial.

Apart from its use as a technical term in logic, equivocation can also mean the use of language that is ambiguous, i. e. equally susceptible of being understood in two different ways.

The term is more or less equally apt for characteristics chiefly caused by " nature " ( e. g. genetics ) and for those chiefly caused by " nurture " ( e. g. parenting during early childhood ).

The term " equal ultimacy " is sometimes used of the view that the two decrees are symmetrical: God works equally to keep the elect in heaven and the reprobate out of heaven.

The original Germanic term " knopp " meant strike, shape, or work, so it could theoretically have referred equally well to making a statue or dice.

While cities and districts are generally considered to be two different types of territorial authority, the area covered by a city is often known as its district — for example the term district plan is used equally in districts and cities.

The term scientism can apply in either of two equally pejorative senses:

It ignores the equally important factor of pressure, which was considered secret at the time the term became current.