In laser physics and engineering the term " continuous wave " or " CW " refers to a laser which produces a continuous output beam, sometimes referred to as ' free-running '.

The term antidepressant is sometimes applied to any therapy ( e. g., psychotherapy, electro-convulsive therapy, acupuncture ) or process ( e. g., sleep disruption, increased light levels, regular exercise ) found to improve a clinically depressed mood.

The term “ hypnosis ” comes from the Greek word hypnos which means sleep.

The words hypnosis and hypnotism both derive from the term neuro-hypnotism ( nervous sleep ) coined by the Scottish surgeon James Braid around 1841.

The earliest definition of hypnosis was given by Braid, who coined the term " hypnotism " as an abbreviation for " neuro-hypnotism ", or nervous sleep, which he opposed to normal sleep, and defined as: " a peculiar condition of the nervous system, induced by a fixed and abstracted attention of the mental and visual eye, on one object, not of an exciting nature.

Later, in his The Physiology of Fascination ( 1855 ), Braid conceded that his original terminology was misleading, and argued that the term " hypnotism " or " nervous sleep " should be reserved for the minority ( 10 %) of subjects who exhibit amnesia, substituting the term " monoideism ", meaning concentration upon a single idea, as a description for the more alert state experienced by the others.

It may here be requisite for me to explain, that by the term Hypnotism, or Nervous Sleep, which frequently occurs in the following pages, I mean a peculiar condition of the nervous system, into which it may be thrown by artificial contrivance, and which differs, in several respects, from common sleep or the waking condition.

In his later works, Braid reserved the term " hypnotism " for cases in which subjects entered a state of amnesia resembling sleep.

The word " hypnosis " ( from the Greek hypnos, " sleep ") is an abbreviation of James Braid's ( 1841 ) term " neuro-hypnotism ", meaning " sleep of the nervous system ".

The Latin term meconium derives from the Greek μήκων, mēkōn, poppy, in reference either to its tarry appearance that may resemble some raw opium preparations, or to Aristotle's belief that it induces sleep in the fetus.

This practice gave rise to the term bedroom community, meaning that most daytime business activity took place in the city, with the working population leaving the city at night for the purpose of going home to sleep.

An early use of the term " supermodel " appeared in 1891 in an interview with artist Henry Stacy Marks for The Strand Magazine, in which Marks told journalist Harry How, " A good many models are addicted to drink, and, after sitting a while, will suddenly go to sleep.

While the term is sometimes used in sleep literature to describe a disorder demonstrated by polysomnographic evidence of disturbed sleep, insomnia is often defined as a positive response to either of two questions: " Do you experience difficulty sleeping?

Some benzodiazepines have demonstrated effectiveness in sleep maintenance in the short term but in the longer term are associated with tolerance and dependence.

Other uses of the term appear in phrases including: body hygiene, personal hygiene, sleep hygiene, mental hygiene, dental hygiene, and occupational hygiene, used in connection with public health.

Braid adopted the term " hypnotism " as an abbreviation for " neuro-hypnotism " or nervous sleep ( that is, sleep of the nerves ), in his lectures of 1841-2, and it is from his influential work that others derived the term " hypnosis " in the 1880s.

`` 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.

It holds an equally valuable lesson for a society where the word `` intellectual '' has become a term of opprobrium to millions of well-meaning people who somehow imagine that it must be destructive of the simpler human virtues.

As he died because of a small wound on his heel, the term Achilles ' heel has come to mean one's point of weakness.

The term " the United States " has historically been used, sometimes in the plural (" these United States "), and other times in the singular, without any particular grammatical consistency.

The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.

In more modern English usage, the term " adobe " has come to include a style of architecture popular in the desert climates of North America, especially in New Mexico.

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.

Thus the term asteroid has come increasingly to refer specifically to the small bodies of the inner Solar System out to the orbit of Jupiter, which are usually rocky or metallic.

The precise reference of this term has varied over time, perhaps originally referring only to the Ionian colonies along the coast.

The precise reference of this term has varied over time, perhaps originally referring to the Ionian colonies on the Asia Minor coast.

Other terms that have been used include neosyllabary ( Février 1959 ), pseudo-alphabet ( Householder 1959 ), semisyllabary ( Diringer 1968 ; a word which has other uses ) and syllabic alphabet ( Coulmas 1996 ; this term is also a synonym for syllabary ).

The term " absolute value " has been used in this sense since at least 1806 in French and 1857 in English.

* The modern term " style " has a bearing on how material items such as pottery or architecture can be interpreted.

The term anti-Semitic has been used on occasion to include bigotry against other Semitic-language peoples such as Arabs, but such usage is not widely accepted.

The House of Representatives has 18 members, elected for a two year term, 17 in single-seat constituencies and one by a public meeting on Swain Island.

The Senate also has 18 members, elected for a four year term by and from the chiefs of the islands.

However, this ambiguity has been the source of controversy, particularly among Latin Americans, who feel that using the term solely for the United States misappropriates it.

The term can also refer to an establishment which has long ceased to function as an abbey, in some cases for centuries ( for example, see Westminster Abbey below ).

But no attempt to identify the figures on existing gems with the personages of Gnostic mythology has had any success, and Abrasax is the only Gnostic term found in the accompanying legends which is not known to belong to other religions or mythologies.

This etymology has remained the standard derivation of the term.

The term Suebi has a double meaning in the sources.

The term has the meaning of one being crestfallen, depressed, despondent, downcast, gloomy, sullen and evidently frowning, scowling.

From the Early Modern period, their name has become a term for female warriors in general.

The term is often used synonymously with the term antibiotic ( s ); today, however, with increased knowledge of the causative agents of various infectious diseases, antibiotic ( s ) has come to denote a broader range of antimicrobial compounds, including anti-fungal and other compounds.

Another occasionally used term for the genre is " allohistory " ( literally " other history ").

Individuals who alternate between top / dominant and bottom / submissive roles – whether from relationship to relationship or within a given relationship – are known as switches, though the term is occasionally seen as derogatory or unnuanced and is rejected by many who might simplistically fit the definition.

In general, benzodiazepines are safe and effective in the short term, although cognitive impairments and paradoxical effects such as aggression or behavioral disinhibition occasionally occur.

In Australia, the term " borough " is an occasionally used term for a local government area.

Because the term " humanure " has no authoritative definition it is subject to misuse ; news reporters occasionally fail to correctly distinguish between humanure and " sewer sludge " or " biosolids ".

However, this term is occasionally used to refer specifically to the patient's personal experience of their disease.

The term Eastern Danish is occasionally used for Bornholmian, but including the dialects of Scania ( particularly in a historical context ).

It should be noted that the term " lifestyle " to signify BDSM is occasionally a contention topic in the BDSM community and that some dominatrices may dislike the term.

The term is occasionally used in English, referring to a disastrous conclusion of events.

In feminist literature and academic discourse, the term has been used occasionally as an " economical way " to describe feminist efforts against a male-centered canon.

The Indo-Iranian languages occasionally go by the term " Aryan languages ".

The term " interactive fiction " is also occasionally used to refer to addventure

A term applied to the bantam-cars, and occasionally to other motor vehicles ( U. S. A .) in the Air Corps, the Link Trainer ; in the armored forces, the ½-ton command vehicle.

The term is also occasionally employed to refer to modern or contemporary events, peoples, states or parts of states in the same region, namely Cyprus, Iraq, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria ( compare with Near East, Middle East, Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia ).

The term semilethal dose is occasionally used with the same meaning, in particular in translations from non-English-language texts, but can also refer to a sublethal dose ; because of this ambiguity, it is usually avoided.

Foodservice establishments of this class would also have long term contracts with Beijing opera troupes to perform onsite, but they did not have long term contracts with famous performers ( such as national treasure class performers ) to perform onsite on regular basis, however these topnotch performers would still perform at foodservice establishments of this category occasionally.

The term Mozilla is also occasionally used to refer to the Mozilla application framework, a cross-platform application framework for writing applications that can run on multiple operating systems.

The legal trademark on the term " Muppet " is currently held by The Muppets Studio, a wholly owned division of the Walt Disney Company, although Sesame Workshop and the Jim Henson Company continue to occasionally use the term on their characters with certain permissions from Disney.

The Malay term Tanah Melayu ( literally: ' The Malay Land ') is generally used by the Malays and occasionally used in political discourse to describe uniting all ethnic Malay people on the peninsula under one Malay nation, although this ambition was largely realised with the creation of Malaysia.

By extension, other religions ' feasts are occasionally described by the same term.