The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

Else Christensen's Odinism, which is sometimes identified with the term Ásatrú, originated around the same period.

The term originated in the 19th century but is often applied to music that is older than that.

The term " chicano " may have come from Mexican immigrants to the U. S. during the 1920s and 1930s, but by those originated from Chihuahua ( not the term " Chi -" hua-hua " when they came into Texas where the locals made fun of the way the Chihuahuan Mexicans, primarily indigenous rural peasants, spoke a " less common " dialect of Spanish ).

The term was originated by Georg Cantor.

The term originated in the Middle Ages and first described a preparatory drawing for a piece of art, such as a painting, fresco, tapestry, or stained glass window.

" Shag " itself ( when used in reference to American social dances ) is a very broad term used to denote a number of swing dances that originated during the early part of the 20th century.

Today the term " Collegiate Shag " is most often used in reference to a kind of double shag ( see explanation below ) that is believed to have originated in New York or New Jersey during the 1930s.

As a term, critical theory has two meanings with different origins and histories: the first originated in sociology and the second originated in literary criticism, whereby it is used and applied as an umbrella term that can describe a theory founded upon critique ; thus, the theorist Max Horkheimer described a theory as critical in so far as it seeks " to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them.

Compare the ingredients listed ( spirits, sugar, water, and bitters ) with the ingredients of an Old Fashioned, which originated as a term used by late 19th century bar patrons to distinguish cocktails made the “ old-fashioned ” way from newer, more complex cocktails.

Historically, the term originated in the mainframe field, where it had a well-defined meaning, very close to contemporary computer file.

The term originated with the industrial designing of chemical processes.

It originated in sociology under the term " social constructionism " and has been given the name " constructivism " when referring to philosophical epistemology, though " constructionism " and " constructivism " are often used interchangeably.

The term originated in the 19th century but is often applied to music that is older than that.

The International Folk Music Council definition allows that the term " can also be applied to music which has originated with an individual composer and has subsequently been absorbed into the unwritten, living tradition of a community.

The term fair use originated in the United States.

The English term fugue originated in the 16th century and is derived from the French word fugue or the Italian fuga.

The term " frigate " ( Italian: fregata ; Spanish / Catalan / Portuguese / Sicilian: fragata ; Dutch: fregat ; French: fregate ) originated in the Mediterranean in the late 15th century, referring to a lighter galleass type ship with oars, sails and a light armament, built for speed and maneuverability.

The term " folk dance " is sometimes applied to dances of historical importance in European culture and history ; typically originated before 20th century.

The term " folk dance " is reserved for dances which are to a significant degree bound by tradition and originated in the times when the distinction existed between the

It is most commonly believed that the term grimoire originated from the Old French word grammaire, which had initially been used to refer to all books written in Latin.

By the 1940s, the term commonly was capitalized, Negro, but by the mid 1960s it was considered disparaging.

Others believe it was a corrupted term of " Chilango ", meaning an inhabitant from Mexico City or Central Mexico ( i. e. the highland states of Mexico ( state ), Jalisco, Puebla ( state ) and Michoacán ); and even from the term " Chileno " by the Chilean presence in mid 19th-century California, when miners from Chile arrived in the California Gold Rush ( 1848 – 51 ).

Convergence theory is a broad term which includes a viewpoint popular among non-Marxist Chinese intellectuals of the mid 20th century.

The term became more widely assimilated into English by the mid 1950s, with long-term expatriates in significant numbers from other particular countries or regions also being referred to as a diaspora.

The term midwife is derived from, literally " with-woman ", i. e. " the woman with ( the mother at birth ), the woman assisting " ( in Middle English and Old English, mid

Since the mid 1990s, the term Militia has all but vanished in favour of the term Primary Reserve.

" His spokesman then outlined a plan in which a referendum could be held in mid 2009, not to amend the 1999 constitution, but to scrap it and begin work on a constitution of the Sixth Republic of Niger, which would contain no term limits for the President, and create a fully Presidential republic.

The term began taking a pejorative connotation in mid 19th century, when it was appropriated from religion to the political sphere.

In British oval racing, the term Production car racing has been used as an alternative for hot rods, as run in the West Country during the late 1960s to the mid 1970s, and a Production car world championship race was held twice in the 1970s, won by Spence Morgan in 1974 and Ralph Sanders in 1975, both driving Ford Anglias.

When introducing the hardware description language KARL in the mid ' 1970s, Reiner Hartenstein coined the term " structured VLSI design " ( originally as " structured LSI design "), echoing Edsger Dijkstra's structured programming approach by procedure nesting to avoid chaotic spaghetti-structured programs.

Even though many Danish nationalists, such as the National Liberal ideologue and agitator Orla Lehmann, used the name " Schleswig ", it began to assume a clear German nationalist character in the mid 19th century – especially when included in the combined term " Schleswig-Holstein ".

Although the term “ software architecture ” is relatively new to the industry, the fundamental principles of the field have been applied sporadically by software engineering pioneers since the mid 1980s.

The term hooligan has been used since at least the mid 1890s at approximately the same time as Manchester's street gangs, known as the " Scuttlers " were gaining notoriety.

The term was already being thrown around in Australia in the mid -' 80s to describe bands like King Snake Roost, The Scientists, Salamander Jim, and Beasts of Bourbon.

The term Wu Hu meaning the " Five Hu " was first used in the Shiliuguo Chunqiu ( 501-522 ), which recorded the history of the five tribes ravaging Northern China from the early fourth century to the mid fifth century.

The term first came into use in England during the mid 17th century, and was in wide use by the late 17th century.

By the early 20th century, the term " Ukraine " had replaced " Ruthenia " in Galicia / Halychyna and by the mid 1920s also in the Ukrainian diaspora in North America.

Byrd became a State senator in the upper house of the Virginia General Assembly, served a term as a Governor of Virginia, and was a United States Senator for over 30 years, heading the powerful Byrd Organization which dominated state politics between the mid 1920s and 1960s.

In the eastern half of the north Pacific ocean and north Indian ocean, the older subtropical cyclone definition term is still used, which requires a weak circulation forming underneath a mid to upper-tropospheric low which has cut off from the main belt of the westerlies during the cold season ( winter ).

* In Australia, the term " Howard battler " was used to refer to suburban, working class and traditionally Labor voters who shifted to the John Howard led Liberal Party in the mid 90s and carried the conservatives into victory for the first time since Malcolm Fraser.

The term was used by the U. S. Post Office in magazine advertising in the mid to late 1960s to encourage use of zip codes.

The Dinaric race ( or Adriatic race or Epirotic race ) is an archaic term historically used to describe the perceived predominant phenotype of the contemporary ethnic groups of South-Eastern Europe ( a sub-category of Europid Caucasians ), by physical anthropologists and scientific racists in the early to mid 20th century.

The term dates back to the mid twentieth century years of broadcasting when headquarters stations produced programs for their networks.