The term abdominal surgery broadly covers surgical procedures that involve opening the abdomen.

The modern usage of the term carbine covers much the same scope as it always had, namely lighter weapons ( generally rifles ) with barrels less than 457. 2 mm ( 18 inches ).

The use of the term censorware in editorials criticizing makers of such software is widespread and covers many different varieties and applications: Xeni Jardin used the term in a 9 March 2006 editorial in the New York Times when discussing the use of American-made filtering software to suppress content in China ; in the same month a high school student used the term to discuss the deployment of such software in his school district.

This occurs in the context of Irenaeus ' work On the Detection and Overthrow of Knowledge Falsely So Called, ( Greek: elenchos kai anatrope tes pseudonymou gnoseos genitive case, ἔλεγχος καὶ ἀνατροπὴ τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως ) where the term " knowledge falsely so-called " ( nominative case pseudonymos gnosis ) covers various groups, not just Valentinus, and is a quotation of the apostle Paul's warning against " knowledge falsely so-called " in 1 Timothy 6: 20.

Grappling is a general term that covers techniques used in many disciplines, styles and martial arts that are practiced both as combat sports and for self defense.

* Long-term disability insurance covers an individual's expenses for the long term, up until such time as they are considered permanently disabled and thereafter.

The term covers organized non-theistic religions, secular humanism, and a humanistic life stance.

The term invertebrate covers several phyla.

Structural unemployment is similar to frictional unemployment since both reflect the problem of matching workers with job vacancies, but structural unemployment covers the time needed to acquire new skills not just the short term search process.

The term infrared microscope covers two main types of diffraction-limited microscopy.

Childe's recycled view prevails that the term generally covers the period between the end of the Pleistocene and the start of the Neolithic.

Generally, when the term subjective case is used, the term objective is used for the oblique case, which covers the roles of accusative, dative, and objects of a preposition.

The term polytope is a broad term that covers a wide class of objects, and different definitions are attested in mathematical literature.

For the purposes of the English law, Highways Act 1980, which covers England and Wales but not Scotland or Northern Ireland, the term road is defined to be " any length of highway or of any other road to which the public has access, and includes bridges over which a road passes.

In the north, the An Nafud — sometimes called the Great Nafud because An Nafud is the term for desert — covers about 55, 000 square kilometers at an elevation of about 1, 000 meters.

It is an umbrella term that covers the law of large numbers, all central limit theorems and ergodic theorems.

In North America, the term school can refer to any educational institution at any level, and covers all of the following: preschool ( for toddlers ), kindergarten, elementary school, middle school ( also called intermediate school or junior high school, depending on specific age groups and geographic region ), senior high school, college, university, and graduate school.

The term " stuttering ", as popularly used, covers a wide spectrum of severity: it may encompass individuals with barely perceptible impediments, for whom the disorder is largely cosmetic, as well as others with extremely severe symptoms, for whom the problem can effectively prevent most oral communication.

The term Annual Conference is often used to refer to the geographical area it covers as well as the frequency of meeting.

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.

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.

Indeed, one school superintendent in a large city objects to the use of the term comprehensive high school for the senior high schools in his city, because these schools do not offer strictly vocational programs.

However, this is not required ; endothermic reactions can proceed spontaneously if the TΔS term is large enough.

The lack of moving parts makes them appropriate for long term use in exposed automated weather stations and weather buoys where the accuracy and reliability of traditional cup-and-vane anemometers is adversely affected by salty air or large amounts of dust.

The term ' ballroom dancing ' is derived from the word ball, which in turn originates from the Latin word ballare which means ' to dance ' ( a ballroom being a large room specially designed for such dances ).

The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, thought the term was derived from the Spanish barrueco, a large, irregularly-shaped pearl, and it was for a time confined to the craft of the jeweller.

The concepts associated with the term blitzkrieg – deep penetrations by armour, large encirclements, and combined arms attacks – were largely dependent upon terrain and weather conditions.

In English the term " calf " is used by extension for the young of various other large species of mammal.

After the Roman Empire became officially Christian, see Edict of Thessalonica, the term came by extension to refer to a large and important church that has been given special ceremonial rites by the Pope.

However, a large body of work uses the term chromosome regardless of chromatin content.

Cannon is derived from the Old Italian word cannone, meaning " large tube ", which came from Latin canna, in turn originating from the Greek κάννα ( kanna ), " reed ", and then generalized to mean any hollow tube-like object ; cognate with Akkadian term qanu and Hebrew qāneh, meaning " tube " or " reed ".

Any large, smoothbore, muzzle-loading gun — used before the advent of breech-loading, rifled guns — may be referred to as a cannon, though once standardized names were assigned to different sized cannons, the term specifically referred to a gun designed to fire a shot, as opposed to a demi-cannon-, culverin-, or demi-culverin-.

* The Four Great Books of Song, a term referring to the four large compilations during the beginning of Song Dynasty.

The term is derived from the purely classical picture of ( a large number of ) point-like projectiles directed to an area that includes a solid target.

The dipole term is the dominant one at large distances: Its field falls off in proportion to 1 / r < sup > 3 </ sup >, as compared to 1 / r < sup > 4 </ sup > for the next ( quadrupole ) term and higher powers of 1 / r for higher terms, or 1 / r < sup > 2 </ sup > for the monopole term.

Due to its widespread distribution, Doom hence became the game that introduced deathmatching to a large audience ( and was also the first game to use the term " deathmatch ").

" According to Steven Pinker, EP is " not a single theory but a large set of hypotheses " and a term which " has also come to refer to a particular way of applying evolutionary theory to the mind, with an emphasis on adaptation, gene-level selection, and modularity.

This was followed by the formation of St. John Ambulance in 1877, based on the principles of the Knights Hospitaller, to teach first aid, and numerous other organization joined them with the term first aid first coined in 1878 as civilian ambulance services spread as a combination of " first treatment " and " national aid " in large railway centres and mining districts as well as with police forces.

The term can apply to a large set of software products.

Because these large planets are inferred to share more in common with Jupiter than with the other gas giant planets, some have claimed that " jovian planet " is a more accurate term for them.

In building and for countertops, the term " granite " is often applied to all igneous rocks with large crystals, and not specifically to those with a granitic composition.

The Levant is a geographical term that refers to a large area in Southwest Asia, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south, and the Zagros Mountains in the east.