Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but here refers to the visual arts, which cover the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.

As had been the case on Bligh's tour 20 years before, the Australian media latched fervently onto the term, and, this time it stuck.

He argues that the term " anti-globalization " is a term coined by the media, and that radical activists are actually more in favor of globalization, in the sense of " effacement of borders and the free movement of people, possessions and ideas " than are the IMF or WTO.

However, the term ' bankruptcy ' is often used when referring to companies in the media and in general conversation.

Social critics have adopted this term to refer to how the synthesis of paranoid conspiracy theories, which were once limited to American fringe audiences, has given them mass appeal and enabled them to become commonplace in mass media, thereby inaugurating an unrivaled period of people actively preparing for apocalyptic millenarian scenarios in the United States of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Michael Parenti, in his 1996 essay which examines the role of progressive media in the use of the term, " The JFK Assassination II: Conspiracy Phobia On The Left ", states,

It is widespread practice in the media in the UK ( and elsewhere ) to use the word Europe to mean continental Europe ; that is, " Europe " excludes Britain, Iceland and Ireland ( though the term is sometimes used to refer to the European Union ).

The term is still found in use in Russia today ( for example, President Vladimir Putin has been referred to in the Russian media as a " chekist " due to his career in the KGB ).

The term also refers to the production of multiple copies of a product such as digital media or software.

A more recent Australian invention is the term " reginalds " to describe underpants ( referred to as " undies " in Australian slang ), from " Reg Grundies " after Reg Grundy, the Australian media tycoon.

While use of the term consumer is widespread among governmental, business and media organisations, many individuals and groups find the label objectionable because it assigns a limited and passive role to their activities.

Some fatwās have drawn a great deal of attention in Western media, giving rise to the term fatwā being used loosely for statements by non-Muslims that advocate an extreme religious or political position, and loosely or as slang for other sorts of decrees, for example:

The media, in an attempt to explain the ideology of Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution to a Western audience described it as a " fundamentalist version of Islam " by way of analogy to the Christian fundamentalist movement in the U. S. Thus was born the term " Islamic fundamentalist ", which would come to be one of the most common usages of the term in the following years.

Unlike their parents who challenged leaders with an intent to replace them, Gen Xers tend to ignore leaders and work for more long term institutional and systematic change through economic, media and consumer actions.

When the term was introduced to wider society by the mainstream media in 1983, even those in the computer community referred to computer intrusion as " hacking ", although not as the exclusive use of that word.

In reaction to the increasing media use of the term exclusively with the criminal connotation, the computer community began to differentiate their terminology.

However, since network news use of the term pertained primarily to the criminal activities despite this attempt by the technical community to preserve and distinguish the original meaning, the mainstream media and general public continue to describe computer criminals with all levels of technical sophistication as " hackers " and does not generally make use of the word in any of its non-criminal connotations.

Today, law enforcement agencies, popular media, the United Nations, other nations and even some medical practitioners can be observed applying the term very broadly and often pejoratively in reference to a wide range of illicit substances, regardless of the more precise definition existing in medical contexts.

Since " information " in electronic media is often used synonymously with " data ", the term information explosion is closely related to the concept of data flood also dubbed data deluge.

In genres which the non-vocal part is conceived using electronic media, the instrumental not necessarily has to be conceived by musical instruments, but is the term to refer to some composition or version that does not include vocals.

This misunderstanding of the term immaculate conception is frequently met in the mass media.

Usage has shifted again, according to Hartmann et al., since 2001 and the September 11 attacks, with the mainstream media using the term less, in order to characterize America as multicultural.

The term letterbox is sometimes used to emphasize that a widescreen motion picture or video has not been anamorphically encoded for 16: 9 screens, thus not taking full advantage of the resolution provided by DVD, high-definition television ( HDTV ), or other media.

The term " ecology " () is of a more recent origin and was first coined by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in his book Generelle Morphologie der Organismen ( 1866 ).

The term that is known as life expectancy is most often used in the context of human populations, but is also used in plant or animal ecology ; it is calculated by the analysis of life tables ( also known as actuarial tables ).

The long term effect on the ecology of the planet remains to be seen.

" " Sociobiology is now part of the core research and curriculum of virtually all biology departments, and it is a foundation of the work of almost all field biologists " Sociobiological research on nonhuman organisms has increased dramatically and appears continuously in the world's top scientific journals such as Nature and Science. The more general term behavioral ecology is commonly used as substitute for the term sociobiology in order to avoid the public controversy.

Today the term " ecology movement " is associated often with the more moral, more confrontational, and more rigorous stance taken by Greenpeace and other even more radical NGOs, e. g. Earth First, Earth Action, Sea Shepherd, in favor of the Precautionary Principle and strong fundamental preventive measures for biosafety, biosecurity and biodiversity.

The term " political ecology " was first coined by Frank Thone in an article published in 1935 (" Nature Rambling: We Fight for Grass ," The Science Newsletter 27, 717, Jan. 5: 14 ).

This turn has raised questions as to the differentiation with environmental politics as well as the field ’ s use of the term of ‘ ecology ’.

The term is often used in relation to ecology, waste management, biomedicine, and the natural environment ( bioremediation ) and is now commonly associated with environmentally friendly products that are capable of decomposing back into natural elements.

It is also sometimes referred to as human ecology, though this term is used for several disciplines.

In his book General Morphology ( 1866 ), which defines the term " ecology ", he stresses the importance of the concept of habitat as a prerequisite for an organism's existence.

Although the term " biotope " is considered to be a technical word with respect to ecology, in recent years the term is more generally used in administratitive and civic activities.

In ecology, a niche ( or ) is a term describing the way of life of a species.

To a certain degree it may be seen as a successor of physical anthropogeography ( Physische Anthropogeographie )— a term coined by the Vienna Geographer Albrecht Penck in 1924 — and geographical cultural or human ecology ( Harlan H. Barrows 1923 ).

Note also that in some fields, the terminology is different: For example, in community ecology, the term " classification " is used to refer to what is commonly known as " clustering ".

The work of Arne Næss and his collaborator Sessions also falls under the libertarian extension, although they preferred the term " deep ecology ".

The term political ecology is sometimes used in Europe and in academic circles, but in the latter has come to represent an interdisciplinary field of study.

In 1970, the American biochemist Van Rensselaer Potter also used the term with a broader meaning including solidarity towards the biosphere, thus generating a " global ethics ," a discipline representing a link between biology, ecology, medicine and human values in order to attain the survival of both human beings and other animal species.

Vernadsky's thinking significantly influenced the development of ecology in Russia, culminating in the " Russian Paradigm " ( a term first coined by Georgii A. Zavarzin in 1995 ).

Different definitions of the term agroecology can be distinguished largely by the specificity with which one defines the term “ ecology ,” as well as the term ’ s potential political connotations.

In Paul B. Hartzog's work, the term " panarchy " emerges at the intersection of three core concepts: 1 ) ecology and complex systems, 2 ) technology, and 3 ) politics.

The term landscape ecology was coined by Carl Troll, a German geographer, in 1939.