When heavy metals or radionuclides form their own pure colloids, the term " Eigencolloid " is used to designate pure phases, e. g., Tc ( OH )< sub > 4 </ sub >, U ( OH )< sub > 4 </ sub >, Am ( OH )< sub > 3 </ sub >.

It should be noted that while the term " armoured engineer vehicle " is used specifically to describe these multi-purpose tank based engineering vehicles, that term is also used more generically in British and Commonwealth militaries to describe all heavy tank based engineering vehicles used in the support of mechanized forces.

Gothic fashion is often confused with Heavy Metal fashion and Emo fashion: outsiders often mistake fans of heavy metal for goth, particularly those who wear black trench coats or wear " corpse paint " ( a term associated with the black metal music scene ).

The term is also used as a collective term for the approach to classical, computational and relativistic geometry that makes heavy use of such algebras.

Raga rock is a term used to describe rock or pop music with a heavy Indian influence, either in its construction, its timbre, or its use of instrumentation, such as the sitar and tabla.

Because the " middle term " of this syllogism is not one term, but two separate ones masquerading as one ( all feathers are indeed " not heavy ", but it is not true that all feathers are " bright "), this type of equivocation is actually an example of the fallacy of four terms.

Nowadays the term is restricted to relatively heavy weapons fired from some sort of support rather than hand-held, able to provide continuous or frequent bursts of automatic fire for as long as ammunition lasts.

The term " malt " refers to several products of the process: the grains to which this process has been applied, for example malted barley ; the sugar, heavy in maltose, derived from such grains, such as the baker's malt used in various cereals ; or a product based on malted milk, similar to a malted milkshake ( i. e., " malts ").

The term was popularized in the 1970s by its heavy use in the sitcom Happy Days.

The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when " urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat " was becoming more popular.

The term electronic sputtering can mean either sputtering induced by energetic electrons ( for example in a transmission electron microscope ), or sputtering due to very high-energy or highly charged heavy ions which lose energy to the solid mostly by electronic stopping power, where the electronic excitations cause sputtering.

The term is used today to indicate the heavy building speculations that filled the city with poor buildings.

* Killer ( philately ), term for a heavy stamp cancellation mark

As part of the disagreement about whether natural selection alone was sufficient to explain speciation, George Romanes coined the term neo-Darwinism to refer to the version of evolution advocated by Alfred Russel Wallace and August Weismann with its heavy dependence on natural selection.

A satellite state ( sometimes referred to as a client state ) is a political term that refers to a country that is formally independent, but under heavy political and economic influence or control by another country.

With the increased use of personal computers and the relative decline in societal awareness of heavy machinery, the term user interface is generally assumed to mean the graphical user interface, while industrial control panel and machinery control design discussions more commonly refer to human-machine interfaces.

The term heavy metal has been called a " misinterpretation " in an IUPAC technical report due to the contradictory definitions and its lack of a " coherent scientific basis ".

The term from the 17th century came to refer specifically to spears not thrown, used for thrusting by heavy cavalry, and especially in jousting.

Since the settlement is a heavy tax on the profits of the tobacco industry in the US, regressive against smokers, and further settlements being made only add to the financial burden of these companies, it is debatable if the industry has a money-producing long term outlook.

The long term implications of the battle of Adrianople have often been overstated, with many Twentieth Century writers repeating Sir Charles Oman's idea that the battle represented a turning point in military history, with heavy cavalry triumphing over Roman infantry and ushering in the age of the Medieval knight.

The term was first used in English in British India ( now India, Bangladesh and Pakistan ) and neighbouring countries to refer to the big seasonal winds blowing from the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea in the southwest bringing heavy rainfall to the area.

A more correct term should be " mounted infantry " instead of " cavalry ", as horses were primarily used as a means of transportation, for which they were very suitable in view of the very poor road conditions in pre-war Poland.

The cynical attitude toward recruited infantry in the face of ever more powerful field artillery is the source of the term cannon fodder, first used by François-René de Chateaubriand, in 1814 ; however, the concept of regarding soldiers as nothing more than " food for powder " was mentioned by William Shakespeare as early as 1598, in Henry IV, Part 1.

In later texts, the term hoplite is used to denote any armoured infantry, regardless of armament or ethnicity.

Although the use of the term infantry in English dates from the 15th century ( from French Infanterie, itself from the Italian Infanteria ), the foot troops of the previous eras in history who fought with a variety of weapons before the introduction of the firearms are also referred to as infantry.

Small arms is a term of art used by armed forces to denote infantry weapons an individual soldier may carry.

By the 15th century, the term had become mostly detached from its military origins, not least because the rise of infantry in the 14th century had essentially confined knightly horsemanship to the tournament grounds, and essentially expressed a literary ideal of moral and courteous behavior.

The term grenadier was retained or adopted by various elite infantry units, including Potsdam Grenadiers, the Granatieri di Sardegna ( Grenadiers of Sardinia ) in Italy, the Foot Grenadiers, Fusilier-Grenadiers, Tirailleur-Grenadiers and Horse Grenadiers of the French Imperial Guard, the Imperial Russian Grenadier Leib Guards Regiment, Britain's Grenadier Guards and the 101st Grenadiers.

The term Panzergrenadier was adopted in the German Wehrmacht to describe mechanized heavy infantry elements whose greater protection and mobility allowed them to keep pace with ( and provide intimate protection to ) armoured units and formations.

The term in today's Bundeswehr refer to mechanized infantry.

A long established foreign corps in the Egyptian forces were the Medjay – a generic term given to tribal scouts and light infantry recruited from Nubia serving from the late period of the Old Kingdom through that of the New Kingdom.

The term battalion is used in the infantry, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, and Intelligence Corps only.

The term " human wave attack " has been used to describe the infantry assault tactics used by several armed forces around the world.

Heavy weapons platoon is a term from military science which refers to an infantry platoon equipped with machine guns, mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, flamethrowers, grenade-launchers, anti-tank weapons, and / or other portable crew-served weapons.

In Russia and the former Soviet Union the term motostrelki ( Мотострелки in Russian ) is used to indicate mechanized infantry, and during the Korean War this usage prevailed in all Warsaw Pact countries.

Eckert. Jäger ( plural also Jäger, ) is a term that was adopted in the Enlightenment era in German-speaking states and others influenced by German military practice to describe a kind of light infantry, and it has continued in that use since then.

At first, Fallschirmjäger was applied only to genuine airborne-qualified troops, but the term was retained for Fallschirmjäger regiments and divisions even after they began operating as regular infantry.

A number of Luftwaffe Feld-Divisionen (" field divisions "), regular ground combat units raised by the Luftwaffe, also used the term Luftwaffen-Jäger-Regiment for their infantry regiments.

In the Austrian Bundesheer, Jäger is used as the generic term for most infantry soldiers ( armored infantrymen are known as Panzergrenadiere, as in the German Bundeswehr ).

The term schiltron is also used by Barbour to describe English infantry at Bannockburn.

The first British use of the term was around 1680 and was applied to the senior sergeant in the colonel's company of an infantry regiment, but it wasn't formalised until 1797, when the sergeant major was added to the battalion or regimental staff.

The dragon became so associated with cavalry and mounted infantry that the term dragoon became synonymous with mounted infantry.