Damascus steel was a term used by several Western cultures from the Medieval period onward to describe a type of steel created in India and used in swordmaking from about 300 BC to 1700 AD.

Today, the term is used to describe steel that mimics the appearance and performance of Damascus steel, usually that which is produced by either crucible forging or pattern welding.

Several theories on the origins of the term " Damascus steel " exist, but none of them may be confirmed definitively.

Corrosion is the term applied to steel rust caused by an electrochemical process.

In current use, the term refers to the coating of steel or iron with zinc.

Rusting is the common term for corrosion of iron and its alloys, such as steel.

The term steel guitar is often mistakenly used to describe any metal body resophonic guitar.

The term Hawaiian guitar is often used for various types of steel guitar, but in Hawaiian music Hawaiian guitar means slack-key guitar, a way of tuning a steel stringed acoustic guitar which is then played in the conventional position.

The term " skyscraper " was first applied to buildings of steel framed construction of at least 10 storeys in the late 19th century, a result of public amazement at the tall buildings being built in major cities like Chicago, New York City, Detroit, and St. Louis.

Some industries, such as semiconductor and steel manufacturers use the term fabrication instead.

Hardware cloth ( US term only ) is a coarse weave of steel wire, used in construction.

* Later, the term was used for an L-shaped instrument like a steel square used to draw right angles.

During his first term several government-owned enterprises in areas such as steel milling, telecommunications and mining, such as Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional, Telebras and Companhia Vale do Rio Doce were sold to the private sector, marking the deepest process of denationalisation in Brazilian history amidst a polarized political debate between " neoliberals " and " developmentalists ".

Rock and roll has often been seen as a combination of rhythm and blues with country music, a fusion particularly evident in 1950s rockabilly, and there has been cross-pollination throughout the history of both genres, however, the term country-rock is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians of the late 1960s and early 1970s who began to record rock records using country themes, vocal styles and additional instrumentation, most characteristically pedal steel guitar.

The term was borrowed from an earlier stage of the Troubles when the centre of Belfast was fortified against attacks ; this fortified perimeter was known as the ring of steel.

Despite the term " ring of steel ", the roadblocks and chicanes are actually created with concrete blocks, sometimes plastic coated, that are wedged together.

The term came about in the mid-to late-nineteenth-century as factories such as steel or iron sprung up around the newly industrialized world.

A mono string staircase is a term used for a steel spine staircase with treads.

However, the term has usually been limited to those used for smelting iron ore to produce pig iron, an intermediate material used in the production of commercial iron and steel.

* Strumming is a less common technique in classical guitar, and is often referred to by the Spanish term " rasgueo ," or for strumming patterns " rasgueado ," and uses the backs of the fingernails.

The term " battente ," which means " to beat " in Italian, has do with the style the guitar is generally played in, which is principally as a rhythm instrument.

" The latter two terms led stompbox manufacturers to use the term whammy in coming up with a pitch raising effect introduced by popular guitar effects pedal brand Digitech.

The tremolo arm is common enough that there is a technical term, hard tail, for a guitar without one.

The term jazz guitar may refer to either a type of guitar or to the variety of guitar playing styles used in the various genres which are commonly termed " jazz ".

The original use of an adjective to describe a particular variant of an object is typically purely compositional, as in " acoustic guitar ", but gradually over time it becomes a collocation, a name or technical term in its own right with additional nuances, greater specificity and general but implicit agreement on it as the appropriate term versus alternative descriptions of the original type.

Although the term is now most commonly used in reference to modern electronic devices such as a monome, the piano and guitar may also be said to be early examples of music technology.

Among his most well-known accomplishments are the creation of Tommy, for which the term " rock opera " was coined, and a second pioneering rock opera, Quadrophenia ; his dramatic stage persona ; his use of guitar feedback as sonic technique ; and the introduction of the synthesiser as a rock instrument.

Blind Lemon Jefferson used the term " Booga Rooga " to refer to a guitar bass figure that he used in " Match Box Blues ".

The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning ( in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used ).

In strict analysis, abbreviations should not be confused with contractions or acronyms ( including initialisms ), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term " abbreviation " in loose parlance. An abbreviation is a shortening by any method ; a contraction is a reduction of size by the drawing together of the parts.

This includes ions as well as neutral atoms and, unless otherwise stated, for the purposes of this discussion it should be assumed that the term atom includes ions.

author Debra Dickerson has argued that the term " black " should refer strictly to the descendents of Africans brought to America as slaves, and not the sons and daughters of black immigrants who lack that ancestry.

From a strictly aerodynamic point of view, the term should refer only to those side-effects arising as a result of the changes in airflow from an incompressible fluid ( similar in effect to water ) to a compressible fluid ( acting as a gas ) as the speed of sound is approached.

Professional mathematicians sometimes use the term ( higher ) arithmetic when referring to more advanced results related to number theory, but this should not be confused with elementary arithmetic.

Bede wrote in Latin and never used the term and his list of kings holding imperium should be treated with caution, not least in that he overlooks kings such as Penda of Mercia, who clearly held some kind of dominance during his reign.

According to United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization the term bean should include only species of Phaseolus ; however, a strict consensus definition has proven difficult because in the past, several species such as Vigna ( angularis ( azuki bean ), mungo ( black gram ), radiata ( mung bean ), aconitifolia ( moth bean )) were classified as Phaseolus and later reclassified.

The views range from those that hold that benzodiazepines are not effective long-term and that they should be reserved for treatment-resistant cases to that they are as effective in the long term as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

The view of most scholars ( see organology ) is that the term " brass instrument " should be defined by the way the sound is made, as above, and not by whether the instrument is actually made of brass.

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

The term conservative was meant to signify that Jews should attempt to conserve Jewish tradition, rather than reform or abandon it, and does not imply the movement's adherents are politically conservative.

Concrete should not be confused with cement, because the term cement refers to the material used to bind the aggregate materials of concrete.

A more correct term should be " mounted infantry " instead of " cavalry ", as horses were primarily used as a means of transportation, for which they were very suitable in view of the very poor road conditions in pre-war Poland.

It should be noted that while the term " armoured engineer vehicle " is used specifically to describe these multi-purpose tank based engineering vehicles, that term is also used more generically in British and Commonwealth militaries to describe all heavy tank based engineering vehicles used in the support of mechanized forces.

While cyberspace should not be confused with the Internet, the term is often used to refer to objects and identities that exist largely within the communication network itself, so that a Website, for example, might be metaphorically said to " exist in cyberspace.

If every term of every definiens must itself be defined, " where at last should we stop?

The term ‘ docetic ’ should be used with caution, since its use is rather nebulous.

The guiding principle for the qualification of Dublin Core elements, colloquially known as the Dumb-Down Principle, states that an application that does not understand a specific element refinement term should be able to ignore the qualifier and treat the metadata value as if it were an unqualified ( broader ) element.

It should be noted that the term " lifestyle " to signify BDSM is occasionally a contention topic in the BDSM community and that some dominatrices may dislike the term.

R ' Nachman Krochmal suggests that the term " son of David " should be interpreted to mean " descendant of David ".

The Czech President Václav Klaus rejected the term " euroscepticism ", with its purported negative undertones, saying ( at a meeting in April 2012 ) that the expressions for a eurosceptic and his opponent should be " a Euro-realist " and someone who is " Euro-naïve " ( respectively ).

It should, however, be emphasized that Faivre's definition is one of several divergent understandings of the most appropriate use of the term.