Regional rail does not exist in this sense in the United States, so the term " regional rail " has become synonymous with commuter rail there, although the two are more clearly defined in Europe.

In Iran, SYSTRA has done a " Tehran long term urban rail study ".

As with Japanese suburban railways or Germany's and Switzerland's S-Bahns, these Australian networks have far more frequent services and far higher ridership per capita than US ' commuter rail ' in the usual sense of the term.

The term originates from joining mono ( one ) and rail, from as early as 1897, possibly from German engineer Eugen Langen who called an elevated railway system with wagons suspended the Eugen Langen One-railed Suspension Tramway ( Einschieniges Hängebahnsystem Eugen Langen ).

Colloquially, the term " monorail " is often used erroneously to describe any form of elevated rail or people mover.

So Mill's initial use of the term concerned natural abilities, in contrast to the common contemporary usage, which refers solely to market failure in a particular type of industry, such as rail, post or electricity.

National Rail is used by the Association of Train Operating Companies ( ATOC ) as a generic term to define the passenger rail services operated in Great Britain-before the adoption of National Rail, " Great Britain Passenger Railway " was used.

About 20 privately-owned Train Operating Companies, each franchised for a defined term by government, operate passenger trains on the main rail network in Great Britain.

After an interim holding period, during which Chris Bolt, Swift's chief economic adviser and effective deputy, filled the regulator's position, in July 1999 a new rail regulator began a five-year term, and a new, much tougher regulatory era began.

Tramways are now included in the wider term " light rail ", which also includes segregated systems.

The term is typically used to refer to rail systems with rapid transit-style features that usually use electric rail cars operating mostly in private rights-of-way separated from other traffic but sometimes, if necessary, mixed with other traffic in city streets.

The term light rail was devised in 1972 by the U. S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration ( UMTA ) to describe new streetcar transformations that were taking place in Europe and the United States.

In Germany the term Stadtbahn ( to be distinguished from S-Bahn, which stands for Stadtschnellbahn ) was used to describe the concept, and many in the UMTA ( now called the Federal Transit Administration ) wanted to adopt the direct translation, which is city rail ( the Norwegian term, bybane, means the same ).

However, the UMTA finally adopted the term light rail instead.

Light rail is similar to the British English term light railway, long used to distinguish railway operations carried out under a less rigorous set of regulation using lighter equipment at lower speeds from mainline railways.

The use of the generic term light rail avoids some serious incompatibilities in British and American English.

However, in Europe, the term light rail is increasingly being used to describe any rapid transit system with a fairly lower frequency or shorter trains compared to heavier mass rapid systems such as the London Underground or the Mass Rapid Transit in Singapore.

Although some traditional trolley or tram systems still exist to this day, the term " light rail " has come to mean a different type of rail system.

The term light rail transit ( LRT ) was introduced in North America in 1972 to describe this new concept of rail transportation.

Splash damage, also known as radius damage, is a term used in several types of games, most notably in first-person shooter and real-time strategy video games, to refer to damage taken by players or objects in the area surrounding a point of weapon impact.

This term still applies to most role-playing games, but is often used in the context of first-person shooter video games to specify a non-ranged attack.

The shooter received a maximum 25 year prison term.

Drawing from this related term, a shooter or shoot-fighter is not a wrestler with a reputation for being uncooperative but one who uses legit hooking skills as a gimmick.

Grossman uses blunt language that draws the ire of gamers-during the heights of video game controversy, he was interviewed on the content of his books, and repeatedly used the term " murder simulator " to describe first-person shooter games.

; Open: A rock that is not obscured by another rock from the shooter's perspective ; a skip will often ask the shooter how " open " a certain rock appears from the hack, with the rock being totally open, partially obscured ( such as " half open ") or completely covered ; also, a term for any shot not involving going around a guard: an open takeout, an open draw, etc.

The term is used in various first-person shooter ( FPS ) modes, e. g. deathmatch and games, e. g. Quake III Arena.

The first first-person shooter game to display telefragging was Doom, though the phenomenon predates the fragging video game term as it was found already in the 1985 arcade game Gauntlet.

The term hammer is sometimes used to describe a double tap in which the firearm's sights are not reacquired by the shooter between shots.

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.