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.

He extended the summer court session, as well as the winter term, by shortening the traditional breaks.

His Tàichū (, " Grand Inception ") calendar of 104 BC had a year with the winter solstice in the 11th month and designated as intercalary any calendar month ( a month of 29 or 30 whole days ) during which the sun does not pass a principal term ( that is, remained within the same sign of the zodiac throughout ).

The Christian Bible refers to Jesus being at the Jerusalem Temple during " the Feast of Dedication and it was winter " in John 10: 22-23, the Greek term used is " the renewals " ( Greek ta engkainia τὰ ἐγκαίνια ).

All undergraduates are required to be in residence for the fall, winter, and spring terms of their freshman and senior years, as well as the summer term of their sophomore year.

Winter term is celebrated by Winter Carnival, a tradition started in 1911 by the Dartmouth Outing Club to promote winter sports.

In the winter term 2008 / 09, approximately 4600 students studied there.

In the winter term 2011 / 12 there were approximately 5500 enrolled students.

In Denmark, Norway, Sweden and other Nordic countries, the term fimbulvinter is still used to refer to an unusually cold and harsh winter.

Historical names for January include its original Roman designation, Ianuarius, the Saxon term Wulf-monath ( meaning wolf month ) and Charlemagne's designation Wintarmanoth ( winter / cold month ).

According to Dr. Vitalii Nikolaevich Tsygichko, a Senior Analyst at the Academy of Sciences, the author of the study, Mathematical Model of Soviet Strategic Operations on the Continental Theater, and a former member of the General Staff, military analysts discussed the idea of a " nuclear winter " ( although they did not use that exact term ) years before U. S. scientists wrote about it in the 1980s .< REF > http :// www. gwu. edu /~ nsarchiv // nukevault / ebb285 /</ REF >

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.

It is also rumored that these historical games were played only in the winter, and therefore, the nuts that were placed on the table were " stone cold ", hence coining the term " stone-cold-nuts ".

Dōngzhì or Tōji () is the 22nd solar term, and marks the winter solstice.

The academic year follows a 4 – 1 – 4 schedule of two four-course semesters plus a one-course " winter study " term in January.

After his term as tutor ended, Gibbs travelled to Europe with his sisters, spending the winter of 1866 – 67 in Paris, where he attended lectures at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France.

Since the prevailing winter winds tend to be colder than the water for much of the winter, the southeastern shores of the lakes are almost constantly overcast, leading to the use of the term The Great Gray Funk as a synonym for winter.

In the winter of 1867, he was elected to fill the unexpired term, but a Democratic majority in the New Jersey Legislature prevented his re-election in 1869.

Lysenko coined the term " Jarovization " to describe a chilling process he used to make the seeds of winter cereals behave like spring cereals (" Jarovoe "); this term was translated as " vernalization " from the Latin " vernum " for western texts.

( Note: Although the term " winter squash " is used here to differentiate from " summer squash ", it is also commonly used as a synonym for Cucurbita maxima.

Mulroney neglected his studies, then fell seriously ill during the winter term, was hospitalized, and, despite getting extensions for several courses because of his illness, flunked out of Dalhousie his first year.

In the popular culture, sometimes the term " seasonal affective disorder " is applied inaccurately to the normal shift to lower energy levels in winter, leading people to believe they have a physical problem that should be addressed with various therapies or drugs.

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

The Afroasiatic language family was originally referred to as " Hamito-Semitic ", a term introduced in the 1860s by the German scholar Karl Richard Lepsius.

In lieu of " Hamito-Semitic ", the Russian linguist Igor Diakonoff later suggested the term " Afrasian ", meaning " half African, half Asiatic ", in reference to the geographic distribution of the phylum's constituent languages.

Amphibian is derived from the Ancient Greek term ἀμφίβιος ( amphíbios ), which means " both kinds of life ", amphi meaning " of both kinds " and bio meaning " life ".

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.

The term " Altaic ", as the name for a language family, was introduced in 1844 by Matthias Castrén, a pioneering Finnish philologist who made major contributions to the study of the Uralic languages.

( The reason for the term " colloquially ", is that the sum or product of a " sequence " of cardinals cannot be defined without some aspect of the axiom of choice.

It is a term suggested by Peter T. Daniels to replace the common terms " consonantary ", " consonantal alphabet " or " syllabary " to refer to the family of scripts called West Semitic.

In the lingo of the poker variation Texas Hold ' em, the hole cards Ace – King ( unsuited ) are sometimes referred to as an " Anna Kournikova ", a term introduced by the poker commentator Vince van Patten during a WPT tournament because it " looks great but never wins ".

As for the term " Compositae ", more ancient but still valid, it obviously makes reference to the fact that the family is one of the few angiosperms that have composite flowers.

An alp refers to a high mountain pasture where cows are taken to be grazed during the summer months and where hay barns can be found, and the term " the Alps ", referring to the mountains, is a misnomer.

David Roberts, in his book " In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest ", explained his reason for using the term " Anasazi " over a term using " Puebloan ", noting that the latter term " derives from the language of an oppressor who treated the indigenes of the Southwest far more brutally than the Navajo ever did.

The term Rococo was derived from the French word " rocaille ", which means pebbles and refers to the stones and shells used to decorate the interiors of caves.

The Latin synonym is " sonic ", after which the term sonics used to be a synonym for acoustics and later a branch of acoustics.

The term apocrypha is used with various meanings, including " hidden ", " esoteric ", " spurious ", " of questionable authenticity ", ancient Chinese " revealed texts and objects " and " Christian texts that are not canonical ".

Alcopop is a colloquial term describing certain flavored alcoholic beverages, including:

Since the late nineteenth century, the South used a colloquial term, the one-drop rule, to classify as black a person of any known African ancestry.

In certain Gulf Arab countries, " bachelor " can refer to men who are single as well as immigrant men married to a spouse residing in their country of origin ( due to the high added cost of sponsoring a spouse onsite ), and a colloquial term " executive bachelor " is also used in rental and sharing accommodation advertisements to indicate availability to white-collar bachelors in particular.

The Colorado Front Range is a colloquial geographic term for the most populous region of the state of Colorado in the United States.

In Australia and South Africa, the colloquial term " China " is derived from " mate " rhyming with " China plate " ( the identical form, heard in expressions like " me old China " is also a long-established Cockney idiom ).

FFT algorithms are so commonly employed to compute DFTs that the term " FFT " is often used to mean " DFT " in colloquial settings.

Canadian rule books use the term goal area instead of end zone, but the latter term is the more common in colloquial Canadian English.

It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music.

This colloquial usage of the term is also common in medicine and in nutrition (" take plenty of fluids ").

" However the word may be used as a colloquial term of endearment or in an attempt at humorous self-deprecation ( e. g., in such phrases as " I know I'm just an old fart " or " you do like to fart about !").

The term warm-blooded is a colloquial term to describe animal species which have a relatively higher blood temperature, and maintain thermal homeostasis primarily through internal metabolic processes.

The kiwi is a national symbol of New Zealand, and the association is so strong that the term Kiwi is used all over the world as the colloquial demonym for New Zealanders.

The term legal technicality is a casual or colloquial phrase referring to a technical aspect of law.

In spoken English, the abbreviation " mL " ( for millilitre ) is often pronounced as " mil ", homophonous with the colloquial term " mil ", which is intended to mean " one thousandth of a metre ", or in the United States, a thousandth of an inch.

In commentary on the term and its usage, scholars have noted it is both a popular colloquial term, and one that has negative connotations.

The Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan describes it as a colloquial term to refer to a member of the Unification Church.

This colloquial use of the term is quite common within the scientific community and it is mostly used to dismiss a theory as questionable science.

In North America the term gasoline is often shortened in colloquial usage to gas but some people use the term petrol which is the common name in Britain.

The term " Middle Ages " and especially the adjective medieval can also have a negative ring in colloquial use (" the barbaric treatment of prisoners in such-and-such a prison is almost medieval ") but this does not carry over into academic terminology.

* A colloquial term for acceleration, particularly of vehicles

Red tide is a colloquial term used to refer to one of a variety of natural phenomena known as a harmful algal blooms or HABs.