Furthermore, it is clear that even the basic meaning of the term " art " has changed several times over the centuries, and has continued to evolve during the 20th century as well.

There is no clear end to the ironclad period, but towards the end of the 1890s the term ironclad dropped out of use.

The term " alter-globalization " has been used to make this distinction clear.

The intent is usually clear from the context, although the term " official at bat " is sometimes used to explicitly refer to an at bat as distinguished from a plate appearance.

Often, the term Celtic music is applied to the music of Ireland and Scotland because both lands have produced well-known distinctive styles which actually have genuine commonality and clear mutual influences.

However, the term " German " in the title was interpreted in the broadest possible sense, and its initial royal patronage made the connection clear between a perceived unity of Germanness in history and 19th century Germanness.

Therefore, it is clear there is no real consensus of what the term crannog actually implies, although the modern adoption in the English language broadly refers to a partially or completely artificial islet which saw use from the prehistoric to the Post-Medieval period in Ireland and Scotland.

An example occurs that involves the term " barney ", which has been used to mean an altercation or fight since the late 19th century, although without a clear derivation.

The term clairvoyance ( from French clair meaning " clear " and voyance meaning " vision ") is used to refer to the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses, a form of extra-sensory perception.

The purpose of a definition is to explain the meaning of a term which may be obscure or difficult, by the use of terms that are commonly understood and whose meaning is clear.

He was also the first to draw a clear distinction between magnetism and static electricity and is credited with establishing the term electricity.

He referred to the amoeba he observed microscopically as ' Amoeba coli '; however it is not clear whether he was using this as a descriptive term or intended it as a formal taxonomic name.

Second, Caesar uses the term Germani, for a very specific tribal grouping in northeastern Belgic Gaul, west of the Rhine, the largest part of which were the Eburones, making clear that he was using the name in the local way.

It is not clear whether the Irish-born are considered " Irish Australians " or if the term only refers to their Australian-born descendants.

However, the term lucid was used by van Eeden in its sense of " having insight ", as in the phrase a lucid interval applied to someone in temporary remission from a psychosis, rather than as a reference to the perceptual quality of the experience, which may or may not be clear and vivid.

Some scientific materialists have been criticized, for example by Noam Chomsky, for failing to provide clear definitions for what constitutes matter, leaving the term ' materialism ' without any definite meaning.

By extension, the term " manichean " is widely applied ( often disparagingly ) as an adjective to a philosophy or attitude of moral dualism, according to which a moral course of action involves a clear ( or simplistic ) choice between good and evil, or as a noun to people who hold such a view.

There is no clear distinction between norns, fylgjas, hamingjas and valkyries, nor with the generic term dísir.

In addition, the authors of the 2007 study above state that " because of the use of the term ' nuclear autumn ' by Thompson and Schneider, even though the authors made clear that the climatic consequences would be large, in policy circles the theory of nuclear winter is considered by some to have been exaggerated and disproved Martin, 1988.

After the Kargil, Musharraf did not wished to be the Chairman Joint Chiefs but, in clear terms, he mentioned to Shahbaz Sharif that he would not agree to relieved from the post of chief of army staff and promoted to chairman joint chiefs before his term was up.

However, the term " political science " was not always distinguished from political philosophy, and the modern discipline has a clear set of antecedents including also moral philosophy, political economy, political theology, history, and other fields concerned with normative determinations of what ought to be and with deducing the characteristics and functions of the ideal state.

The term " Cuthim " applied by Jews to the Samaritans had clear pejorative connotations, implying that they were interlopers brought in from Kutha in Mesopotamia and rejecting their claim of descent from the ancient Tribes of Israel.

Due to the complex history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed upon definition of the Third World and the term is now less popular than it was during the 1970s and 1980s.

Although Newtonian physics made a clear distinction between weight and mass, the term weight continued to be commonly used when people meant mass.

The term describes a general new attitude of Americans towards atomized individualism and away from communitarianism in clear contrast with the 1960s.

See List of music radio formats for further details, and note that there is a great deal of format evolution ( or, to borrow a television term, channel drift ) as music tastes and commercial conditions change.

This usage isn't consistent, as sometimes the term channel refers to an individual measured item, with parameter referring to the setup information about that channel.

Commonly, the term " television channel " is used to refer to either a terrestrial television station or its cable / satellite counterpart ( both outlined below ).

Cross-culturally, when people have a word for red, they agree with other cultures on which wavelengths of light best fit the term " red " ( the same wavelengths that primarily excite the cone cells which detect red, and the red / green channel to the brain ).

Channel utilization is instead a term related to the use of the channel disregarding the throughput.

The term " enhancement mode " refers to the increase of conductivity with increase in oxide field that adds carriers to the channel, also referred to as the inversion layer.

* Stream channel, a hydrologic scientific term for physical confine of a stream ( river ) consisting of stream bed and stream banks

In telecommunications, the term channel noise level has the following meanings:

In telecommunication, the term primary channel has the following meanings:

In radio or wireless telephony, Private Line is a term trademarked by Motorola to describe their implementation of a Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System ( CTCSS ), a method of using low frequency subaudible tones to share a single radio channel among multiple users.

When they work well, the capital markets channel the wealth of savers to those who can put it to long term productive use, such as companies or governments making long term investments.

The term of " Alania " quickly became popular in Ossetian daily life through the names of various enterprises, a TV channel, political and civic organizations, publishing house, soccer team, etc.

If the attenuation term is complex it also describes the relative time a signal takes to get through the channel.

A serving channel ( sometimes called a depot channel ) is a slang term for a file sharing channel found on an IRC network.

The term " Roads " as applied to a water channel is used elsewhere.

* The factual, lifestyle and arts channel Now was replaced in the most part with Sky News, although as some arts programming was still to be shown, a short term opt-out service called Sky Arts was launched for broadcast on the Marco Polo transponders at weekends.

Note: The term stereo, although popularised in reference to two channel audio, can also be properly used to refer to surround sound, as it strictly means " solid " ( actually meaning 3 dimensional sound ) sound.

In 1687, Lahontan called it Lake Taronto, an Iroquoian term meaning gateway or pass ; Taronto had originally referred to The Narrows, a channel of water through which Lake Simcoe discharges into Lake Couchiching.

The term host channel adapter ( HCA ) is usually used to describe InfiniBand interface cards.

*" Talking Points " ( USC US-China Newsletter ), July 22, 2011, looks at the fortieth anniversary of ping pong diplomacy, notes that the term was first used in 1901, and discusses how it was a bold bit of public diplomacy on China's part while China and the United States were engaged in back channel discussions.