Caltech is on the quarter system: the fall term starts in late September and ends before Christmas, the second term starts after New Years Day and ends in mid-March, and the third term starts in late March or early April and ends in early June.

The College functions on a quarter system, and one weekend each term is set aside as a traditional celebratory event, known on campus as " big weekends " or " party weekends ".

New members were appointed the day after Robespierre's execution, and term limits were imposed ( a quarter of the committee retired every three months ); its powers were reduced piece by piece.

Hoffman states that “ even the most cursory review of terrorist tactics and targets over the past quarter century reveals that terrorists have violated all these rules .” Hoffman also states that when states transgress these rules of war “ the term “ war crime ” is used to describe such acts .”

Each of these main semesters may be split in half by mid-term exams, and each of the halves is referred to as a " quarter " ( or " term " in some countries ).

This section requires, among other things, that the loan be for a term no longer than 5 years ( except for the purchase of a primary residence ), that a " reasonable " rate of interest be charged, and that substantially equal payments ( with payments made at least every calendar quarter ) be made over the life of the loan.

He then gathered the most disposals afield in the third quarter and was the catalyst in a dominant quarter for North, before returning to the forward line in the final term to take a spectacular one handed mark and kick the final goal of the game.

The OED in support of its explanation of the " quarter " in origin referring to the way the staff was made points to an early attestation of the term, dated to 1590,

Matriarchy has even been found where a quarter of Black families in the United States were headed by single women ; thus, families composing a substantial minority of a substantial minority could be enough for the latter to constitute a matriarchy within a larger non-matriarchal society ( though many scholars would prefer the term " matrifocal " to " matriarchal ").

A Yiddish term for a Jewish quarter or neighborhood is " Di yiddishe gas " ( ), or " The Jewish street ".

The Scottish term days, which fulfil a similar role as days on which rents are paid, correspond more nearly to the cross-quarter days than to the English quarter days.

The " Old Scottish term days " corresponded approximately to the old Celtic quarter days:

The term " count " is used as a synonym for a " beat ", usually a quarter note, of music.

According to Google Trends, searches for the term " unboxing " began to surface in the final quarter of 2006.

The term imperialism was used from the third quarter of the nineteenth century to describe various forms of political control by a greater power over less powerful territories or nationalities, although analytically the phenomena which it denotes may differ greatly from each other and from the " New " imperialism.

If enough money is raised before the full term of the tax, it may be ended at the end of an earlier calendar quarter.

* Academic quarter ( class timing ), term used by universities in various European countries for the 15 minutes between the defined start time for a lecture and the actual time it will start

Still life developed as a separate category in the Netherlands in the last quarter of the 16th century, and the English term derives from stilleven: still life, which is a calque while Romance languages ( as well as Greek and Russian ) tend to use terms meaning dead nature.

The term " kit " is believed to first have been used in the first quarter of the 16th century, in England where it was mentioned in Interlude of the Four Elements, c. 1517.

The most common horizons used in planning are one " quarter " ( a quarter year, or three months ), a year, two years, three years, four years ( especially in a representative democracy where this is a quite common term of office and election cycle ) and five years ( in corporate planning ).

Sabine Ulibarri, an author from Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, once attempted to note that " Chicano " was a politically " loaded " term, although Ulibarri has recanted that assessment.

When Orthodox theologians use the term " deuterocanonical ," it is important to note that the meaning is not identical to the Roman Catholic usage.

It is important to note that the Great Conversation is not static, which is the impression that one might obtain from some descriptions of perennialism, a confusion with religious perennialism, or even the term perennialism itself.

It is equally important to note than the American Psychological Association does not recognize that the term medical psychology has, as a prerequisite, nor should the term be equated with having, prescriptive authority.

See List of music radio formats for further details, and note that there is a great deal of format evolution ( or, to borrow a television term, channel drift ) as music tastes and commercial conditions change.

Also of note is the widespread use of the term b ' y as a common form of address.

In music, the term note has two primary meanings:

The term " note " can be used in both generic and specific senses: one might say either " the piece ' Happy Birthday to You ' begins with two notes having the same pitch ," or " the piece begins with two repetitions of the same note.

" In the former case, one uses " note " to refer to a specific musical event ; in the latter, one uses the term to refer to a class of events sharing the same pitch.

Also of note, side-swords used in conjunction with bucklers became so popular that it caused the term swashbuckler to be coined.

When a term is ambiguous, a “ scope note ” can be added to ensure consistency, and give direction on how to interpret the term.

Not every term needs a scope note, but their presence is of considerable help in using a thesaurus correctly and reaching a correct understanding of the given field of knowledge.

It is important to note that the term heritability refers only to the degree of genetic variation between people on a trait.

In Ancient Greece, the term defined the combination of contrasted elements: a higher and lower note.

On a positive note in this term, Garfield was appointed chairman of a Subcommittee on the Census ; as with other things mathematical, he threw himself into this head and shoulders.

Marx sometimes used the term " productive forces " equivalently with " factors of production ;" in Capital, he uses " factors of production ," in his famous Preface to the Critique of Political Economy, he uses " productive forces " ( note that this is in the English versions and may depend on the translation.

Christian Culas and Jean Michaud note: " In all these early accounts, then, until roughly the middle of the 19th century, there is perpetual confusion about the exact identity of the population groups designated by the term Miao.

The sagas note that aside from the significant spoils of battle he had retained, he had participated three times in polutasvarf, a term which implies either the pillaging of the palace exchequer on the death of the emperor, or perhaps the disbursement of funds to the Varangians by the new emperor in order to ensure their loyalty.

Some countries use terms like " acknowledge ", " understand ", " take note of ", while others explicitly use the term " support " or " recognize " for Beijing's position on the status of Taiwan.

Others note that Marduk was the creator in Babylonian mythology whence the term might have been understood by Jews to mean simply " of God ".

The term " mean tone ", the basis for meantone temperament, refers to the mathematical averaging of thirds, in which the middle note ( for example the D between C and E ) is in the " mean " position between the notes making the third.

Critics note that while the court said that the ABC was the first electronic digital computer, it did not define the term computer.