This term is used pejoratively by its reputation for the introduction of errors and variations into the information transmitted, and it also describes idle chat, a rumor of personal, or trivial nature.

The term chat room, or chatroom, is primarily used by mass media to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing.

The term can thus mean any technology ranging from real-time online chat over instant messaging and online forums to fully immersive graphical social environments.

** Synchronous conferencing, a formal term for online chat

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.

Instant messaging falls under the umbrella term online chat, since it is also text-based, bi-directionally exchanged, and happens in real-time.

Participants who share the core values that have developed around the group are " ashers ", and " ashspace " is a broader term for online communities historically associated with, but distinct from the newsgroup, including the alt. suicide. methods newsgroup, other discussion and chat groups, and web pages.

While the term has traditionally referred to those communications that occur via computer-mediated formats ( e. g., instant messages, e-mails, chat rooms ), it has also been applied to other forms of text-based interaction such as text messaging.

The name of the language itself comes from papia (" to chat ", " to talk "), a word present in Portuguese ( um papo, " a chat ") and colloquial Spanish ; compare with Papiá Kristang (" Christian talk "), a Portuguese-based creole of Malaysia and Singapore, and the Cape Verdean Creole word papiâ (" to talk "), or elsewhere in the Caribbean ( Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba ) " papiar "-to talk excessively ( but also, " to eat ": " papar " is Portuguese children's term for " to eat ").

The term was used because '<><' is the single most common tag of HTML that was found in all chat transcripts naturally, and as such could not be detected or filtered by AOL staff.

For example, the computer jargon term from to chat is written as chattailla ( chat + frequentative ), even if it is pronounced sättäillä.

* Party chat, another name for cross-game chat, a term mainly used by Xbox Live

The term scrolling is also used for a type of misbehavior in an online chat room whereby one person forces the screens of others in a chat to scroll by inserting much noise or special control characters.

The term " spam " had been widely used by Monty Python fans to describe excessive torrents of verbiage on electronic chat systems and multi-user dungeons, analogous to the Vikings chanting " spam spam spam spam spam, WONDERFUL SPAM " in the legendary Python sketch.

* Synchronous conferencing, a term used to describe the technologies informally known as online chat

In recent times, the term has taken on new meanings with the advent of social networks and online chat rooms.

A computational behaviorist after the term coined by Dr. Thomas Whalen in 1995, Garner's first attempts at simulating conversation involved collections of internet chat viewed as a sequence of stimuli and responses.

* CU-SeeMe foretold the wide acceptance of videotelephony in a number of markets, and was likely the first product to be referenced using the term ' video chat ';.

In Literary Arabic, the term can be constructed, which literally mean " Arabic of chat.

Fingilish, Pinglish, Penglish or Fargelisi ( a portmanteau word formed from Persian + English, or Farsi + English ) is a term used to describe the way Persian words are written using the Latin alphabet ( as opposed to the Persian alphabet ), or generally the casual romanization of Persian words popularized after computers, emailing and online chat became ubiquitous.

In Confucianism, the term " li " (), sometimes translated into English as rituals, customs, rites, etiquette, or morals, refers to any of the secular social functions of daily life, akin to the Western term for culture.

Rules of etiquette encompass most aspects of social interaction in any society, though the term itself is not commonly used.

The term is from French étiquette " label, sticker " ( cognate to stick ), from which also English etiquette " rules of behavior ".

The term is slightly familiar and not advised in formal speech with respect to etiquette.

Men had Mr. which gave no indication of their marital status since the formal address term " master " for an unmarried man had fallen largely into disuse ; etiquette and business practices demanded that women use either Miss or Mrs. Many women did not want to be defined by their marital status and, for a growing number of women who kept their last name after marriage, neither Miss nor Mrs. was a correct title in front of that name.

Avadhuta ( अवध ू त ) is a Sanskrit term from some Indian religions or Dharmic Traditions referring to a type of mystic or saint who is beyond egoic-consciousness, duality and common worldly concerns and acts without consideration for standard social etiquette.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

It is of the utmost importance to the people of America and of the world how their governing President `` ends up '' during the four years of his term.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

Let us not confuse the issue by labeling the objective or the method `` psychoanalytic '', for this is a well established term of art for the specific ideas and procedures initiated by Sigmund Freud and his followers for the study and treatment of disordered personalities.

Mr. Wagner might or might not be a `` new '' Mayor in this third term, now that he is free of the pressure of those party leaders whom he calls `` bosses ''.

This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli ( a musical term meaning double strings ) to the fastest, ecstatic Karshilama ( meaning greetings or welcome ).

the term of loans for working capital is 6 years.

Interim financing of construction costs is provided by a short term loan from The Chase Manhattan Bank.

For the near term, however, it must be realized that the industrial and commercial market is somewhat more sensitive to general business conditions than is the military market, and for this reason I would expect that any gain in 1961 may be somewhat smaller than those of recent years ; ;

If you would feel happier with full collision insurance, there is a small additional charge, again varying from country to country and depending on the term of such insurance.

The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.

for, using the fact that N and N' commute Af and so when R is sufficiently large every term in this expression for Af will be 0.

The only other one I shall mention here is his use of the term capitalism.

This is not, however, the case, and development is a term which we can apply to Hardy only in a very limited sense.

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

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.

Incumbent Richard Salter seeks re-election and is opposed by Donald Huffman for the five-year term.

The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.

In some European countries, all cultural anthropology is known as ethnology ( a term coined and defined by Adam F. Kollár in 1783 ).

As amoebas themselves are polyphyletic and subject to some imprecision in definition, the term " amoeboid " does not provide identification of an organism, and is better understood as description of locomotion.