From the 4th century Christianization of the Roman Empire onwards such shrines, or the framework enclosing them, are often called by the Biblical term tabernacle, which becomes extended to any elaborated framework for a niche, window or picture.

In calculus, this picture also gives a geometric proof of the derivative if one sets and interpreting b as an infinitesimal change in a, then this picture shows the infinitesimal change in the volume of an n-dimensional hypercube, where the coefficient of the linear term ( in ) is the area of the n faces, each of dimension

The term is derived from the purely classical picture of ( a large number of ) point-like projectiles directed to an area that includes a solid target.

More broadly the term is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation ; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy, as in semiotics ; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern culture, in the general sense of symbol — i. e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities: one thing, an image or depiction, that represents something else of greater significance through literal or figurative meaning, usually associated with religious, cultural, political, or economic standing.

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.

According to various etymologies, the earliest publication of the term picture element itself was in Wireless World magazine in 1927, though it had been used earlier in various U. S. patents filed as early as 1911.

The evolution operator is obtained in the interaction picture where time evolution is given by the interaction Hamiltonian, which is the integral over space of the second term in the Lagrangian density given above:

In motion picture terminology, the term tracking shot may refer to a shot in which the camera is mounted on a camera dolly, a wheeled platform that is pushed on rails while the picture is being taken ; in this case the shot is also known as a dolly shot or trucking shot.

Computer displays are made up from grids of small rectangular cells called pixels ; the term comes from " picture elements ".

: A term used to describe a postcard which has the name of a place shown as a series of very large letters, inside of each of which is a picture of that locale ( see also Big Letter ).

It is not clear that the term B movie ( or B film or B picture ) was in general use before the 1930s, but a similar concept was already well established.

While Mary, the Mother of Jesus, may be referred to as " the Madonna " in other contexts, in art the term is applied specifically to an artwork in which Mary, with or without the infant Jesus, is the focus, and central figure of the picture.

The term " made-for-TV movie " was coined in the United States in the early 1960s as an incentive for movie audiences to stay home and watch what was promoted as the equivalent of a first-run theatrical motion picture.

Leo Steinberg uses the term postmodernism in 1969 to describe Rauschenberg's " flatbed " picture plane, containing a range of cultural images and artifacts that had not been compatible with the pictorial field of premodernist and modernist painting.

Some use the term to refer to a bowler who is simply not a " picture perfect " example of either a stroker or a cranker.

While it met with great acclaim in the short term, poorly trained operators had trouble keeping picture in synchronization with sound and, like other sound-film systems of the era, the Kinetophone had not solved the issues of insufficient amplification and unpleasant audio quality.

Regardless, the name and logo were roundly criticized by advocates for the rights of the mentally ill, believing that they were derived from a derisive term for a person suffering from mental illness, " maniac ", and / or a depiction of a deranged axe-wielding murderer, despite that there was no picture of an axe in the logo.

English photographer Eadweard Muybridge pioneered motion picture, while pioneering Scottish documentary maker John Grierson coined the term " documentary " to describe a non-fiction film in 1926.

that defines a free picture as we are trying to eliminate the interaction term.

During her first term, however, Akerman chose to leave and make Saute ma ville, a thirteen-minute black-and-white picture in 35mm.

In mathematics, the term local analysis has at least two meanings-both derived from the idea of looking at a problem relative to each prime number p first, and then later trying to integrate the information gained at each prime into a ' global ' picture.

The term may also be applied more specifically to the primary motion picture business subsidiary of each respective conglomerate.

The term bride appears in combination with many words, some of which are obsolete.

* Bride kidnapping is a term often applied loosely, to include any bride ' abducted ' against the will of her parents, even if she is willing to marry the ' abductor '.

The term " mail-order bride " is both criticized by owners ( and customers ) of international marriage agencies and used by them as an easily-recognizable term.

However, many consider the term " mail-order bride " derogatory and feel it demeans foreign women by comparing them to commodities for sale and by falsely implying that ( unlike local women ), they exercise no judgment over the men they meet and would marry anyone from a relatively-wealthy country.

In Thailand, bride price ( Thai: ส ิ นสอด, pronounced sòt and often erroneously referred to by the English term " dowry ") is common in both Thai-Thai and Thai-foreign marriages.

It is important not to confuse the meaning and usage of the Yoruba term iyawò ( bride in Yoruba ) with other African derived religions that use the same term with different meanings.

The term is derived from a Russian folk custom to make a gift of a hollow thing – a pitted pumpkin, a kettle, or a teapot, for example – to unsuccessful matchmakers of an aspiring groom rejected by a bride.

The term for this is " bride burning " and is criticized within India itself.

** the term for bride kidnapping in Catholic canon law ; specifically, it is an impediment to marriage

War bride is a term used in reference to wartime marriages between soldiers and foreigners, especially – but not exclusively – during World War I and World War II.

The term idea refers to our more reflective or thoughtful consciousness as opposed to the immediacies of sensuous or emotional experience.

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.

The term Afroasiatic Urheimat ( Urheimat meaning " original homeland " in German ) refers to the ' hypothetical ' place where Proto-Afroasiatic speakers lived in a single linguistic community, or complex of communities, before this original language dispersed geographically and divided into distinct languages.

The term also broadly refers to any enterprise that is potentially fraught with physical, financial or psychological risk, such as a business venture, a love affair, or other major life undertakings.

While not entirely synonymous with Anatolia, the term Asia Minor, derived from the Latin Asia Minores, refers to Asia inside the Roman Empire, versus Asia Magna, all of Asia beyond the borders.

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.

The term " pure " abjad refers to scripts entirely lacking in vowel indicators.

The term alp, alm, albe or alpe refers to a grazing pastures in the alpine regions below the glaciers, not the peaks.

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.

The term analog signal usually refers to electrical signals ; however, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and other systems may also convey analog signals.

Some scholars favor the unhyphenated form antisemitism to avoid possible confusion involving whether the term refers specifically to Jews, or to Semitic-language speakers as a whole.

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.

In modern English, " Americans " generally refers to residents of the United States, and among native speakers of English this usage is almost universal, with any other use of the term requiring specification of the subject under discussion.

The term amide refers both to classes of compounds and to the functional group ( R < sub > n </ sub > E ( O )< sub > x </ sub > NR '< sub > 2 </ sub >) within those compounds.

Alternative medicine is frequently grouped with complementary medicine or integrative medicine, which, in general, refers to the same interventions when used in conjunction with mainstream techniques, under the umbrella term complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM.

The term originally came from antibody generator and was a molecule that binds specifically to an antibody, but the term now also refers to any molecule or molecular fragment that can be bound by a major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) and presented to a T-cell receptor.

The term " Islamic " refers not only to the religion, but to any form of art created in an Islamic culture or in an Islamic context.

Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.

The term " last rites " refers to administration to a dying person not only of this sacrament but also of Penance and Holy Communion, the last of which, when administered in such circumstances, is known as " Viaticum ", a word whose original meaning in Latin was " provision for the journey ".

: Science of the mind, or cultural or spiritual science ), a term generally used in German to refer to the humanities and social sciences ; in fact, the term " science " is used more broadly in Europe as a general term that refers to any exact knowledge.

The term ahimsa appears in the text Taittiriya Shakha of the Yajurveda ( TS 5. 2. 8. 7 ), where it refers to non-injury to the sacrificer himself.

The term Transonic refers to a range of velocities just below and above the local speed of sound ( generally taken as Mach 0. 8 – 1. 2 ).