The term " Afroasiatic " ( often now spelled as " Afro-Asiatic ") was later coined by Maurice Delafosse ( 1914 ).

Conversely, the vowel marks of the Tigrinya abugida and the Amharic abugida ( ironically, the original source of the term " abugida ") have been so completely assimilated into their consonants that the modifications are no longer systematic and have to be learned as a syllabary rather than as a segmental script.

The term " android " can mean either one of these, while a cyborg (" cybernetic organism " or " bionic man ") would be a creature that is a combination of organic and mechanical parts.

The term Angst distinguishes itself from the word Furcht ( German for " fear ") in that Furcht is a negative anticipation regarding a concrete threat, while Angst is a ( possibly nondirectional ) emotion, though the terms are colloquially sometimes used synonymously.

In a related use, from 1975, British naturalist Sir Peter Scott coined the scientific term " Nessiteras rhombopteryx " ( Greek for " The monster ( or wonder ) of Ness with the diamond shaped fin ") for the apocryphal Loch Ness Monster.

The term " adrenal " comes from ad-( Latin, " near ") and renes ( Latin, " kidney ").

Running amok, sometimes referred to as simply amok ( also spelled amuk, from the Malay meaning " mad with uncontrollable rage ") is a term for a killing spree perpetrated by an individual out of rage or resentment over perceived mistreatment.

Acephali ( from the Greek language a -, " without ," and kephalos, " head ") is a term applied to several sects as having no head or leader.

According to Jan Nattier, the term Mahāyāna (" Great Vehicle ") was originally even an honorary synonym for Bodhisattvayāna, or the " Bodhisattva Vehicle.

The term " Bahaism " ( or " Baha ' ism ") has been used in the past, but the generally accepted name for the religion is the Bahá ' í Faith.

According to Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, the term Céad Shamhain or Cétshamhainin means " first half ", which he links to the Gaulish word samonios ( which he suggests means " half a year ") as in the end of the " first half " of the year that begins at Samhain.

From the 14th century, the term was also used for a junior member of a guild ( otherwise known as " yeomen ") or university ; hence, an ecclesiastic of an inferior grade, for example, a young monk or even recently appointed canon ( Severtius, de episcopis Lugdunen-sibus, p. 377, in du Cange ).

The use of " Χ ," derived from Chi, the Greek alphabet initial, as an abbreviation for Christ ( most commonly in the abbreviation " Χmas ") is often misinterpreted as a modern secularization of the term.

The Mexican archeologist and anthropologist Manuel Gamio reported in 1930 that the term " chicamo " ( with an " m ") was used as a derogatory term used by Hispanic Texans for recently arrived Mexican immigrants displaced during the Mexican revolution in the beginning of the early 20th century.

Since society considers so many rights as natural ( hence the term " right ") rather than man-made, what constitutes a crime also counts as natural, in contrast to laws ( seen as man-made ).

The term " filial " ( meaning " of a child ") characterizes the respect that a child, originally a son, should show to his parents.

This last term (" von Neumann machine ") is less specific and also refers to a completely unrelated computer architecture proposed by von Neumann, so its use is discouraged where accuracy is important.

Chromatography ( from Greek χρῶμα chroma " color " and γράφειν graphein " to write ") is the collective term for a set of laboratory techniques for the separation of mixtures.

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 ).

In the 2001 feature film Ocean's Eleven Don Cheadle uses the term " barney " and the claim is made that this rhyme is derived from Barney Rubble, (" trouble ") with references to a character from the Flintstones cartoon show.

Since the 1990s the term has been used ( interchangeably with " the Copernicus method ") for J. Richard Gott's Bayesian-inference-based prediction of duration of ongoing events, a generalized version of the Doomsday argument.

The term clairvoyance ( from French clair meaning " clear " and voyance meaning " vision ") is used to refer to the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses, a form of extra-sensory perception.

The term " deed ", also known in this context as a " specialty ", is common to signed written undertakings not supported by consideration: the seal ( even if not a literal wax seal but only a notional one referred to by the execution formula, " signed, sealed and delivered ", or even merely " executed as a deed ") is deemed to be the consideration necessary to support the obligation.

The term dialect ( from the ancient Greek word Διάλεκτος diálektos, " discourse ", from διά diá, " through " + λέγω legō, " I speak ") is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists.

* Norbert Wiener ( 1894 – 1964 ) co-developed the Wiener – Kolmogorov filter and coined the term cybernetics in the 1940s.

The first component of the term comes from " cybernetics ", which is derived from the Greek κυβερνήτης ( kybernētēs, steersman, governor, pilot, or rudder ), a word introduced by Norbert Wiener for his pioneering work in electronic communication and control science.

The term used to describe progressive evolution is anagenesis, though this term does not necessarily include the idea of improvement. The objective description of complexity was one of the issues addressed by cybernetics in the 1950s.

Perhaps coincidentally, the term was used in a 1967 academic volume discussing cryogenics and in a 1978 academic volume of cybernetics.

* In computer science and cybernetics, the term " discrete-time delta operator " ( δ ) is generally taken to mean a difference operator

The term " circuits " came from the first wave of cybernetics research and development in the United States in the 1970s.

* Transderivational search, a psychological and cybernetics term meaning an associative search for possible meaning

The term may have been suggested by Colin Pittendrigh in 1958 ; it grew out of cybernetics and self-organising systems.

Biorobotics is a term that loosely covers the fields of cybernetics, bionics and even genetic engineering as a collective study.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

It is of the utmost importance to the people of America and of the world how their governing President `` ends up '' during the four years of his term.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

Let us not confuse the issue by labeling the objective or the method `` psychoanalytic '', for this is a well established term of art for the specific ideas and procedures initiated by Sigmund Freud and his followers for the study and treatment of disordered personalities.

Mr. Wagner might or might not be a `` new '' Mayor in this third term, now that he is free of the pressure of those party leaders whom he calls `` bosses ''.

This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli ( a musical term meaning double strings ) to the fastest, ecstatic Karshilama ( meaning greetings or welcome ).

the term of loans for working capital is 6 years.

Interim financing of construction costs is provided by a short term loan from The Chase Manhattan Bank.

For the near term, however, it must be realized that the industrial and commercial market is somewhat more sensitive to general business conditions than is the military market, and for this reason I would expect that any gain in 1961 may be somewhat smaller than those of recent years ; ;

If you would feel happier with full collision insurance, there is a small additional charge, again varying from country to country and depending on the term of such insurance.

The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.

for, using the fact that N and N' commute Af and so when R is sufficiently large every term in this expression for Af will be 0.

The only other one I shall mention here is his use of the term capitalism.

This is not, however, the case, and development is a term which we can apply to Hardy only in a very limited sense.

`` 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.

This term refers to the ability of a material to resist bending stress and is determined by measuring the load required to cause failure by bending.

Incumbent Richard Salter seeks re-election and is opposed by Donald Huffman for the five-year term.

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

In some European countries, all cultural anthropology is known as ethnology ( a term coined and defined by Adam F. Kollár in 1783 ).

As amoebas themselves are polyphyletic and subject to some imprecision in definition, the term " amoeboid " does not provide identification of an organism, and is better understood as description of locomotion.