The term synergy comes from the Greek word from,, meaning " working together ".

The NBC sitcom 30 Rock often shows the power of synergy, while also poking fun at the use of the term in the corporate world.

These authors use the term “ additive effect ” for additive synergy and they reserve use of the term “ synergistic effect ” for enhanced synergy.

He coined the term " synergy " to explain how design science could create rich returns, such as how " energy income " could be harvested from the environment.

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.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

Bang-Jensen said you told correspondents that you had checked in advance to make sure the term ' aberrant conduct ' was not libelous.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

His teacher and his school principal were conferred with and everyone agreed that, if he kept up with a certain amount of work at home, there was little danger of his losing a term.

The term enquetes demographiques, previously used for the supplementary investigations carried out in connection with the administrative censuses, was used for the new investigations.

This term was also used by the cowboy in the sense of a human showin' fight, as one cowhand was heard to say, `` He arches his back like a mule in a hailstorm ''.

the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.

Engages must be loyal to the concessionaires, and must serve until the term provided in the engagement was ended.

The September-October term jury had been charged by Fulton Superior Court Judge Durwood Pye to investigate reports of possible `` irregularities '' in the hard-fought primary which was won by Mayor-nominate Ivan Allen Jr..

When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no -- and there were no dissents.

Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.

Friday afternoon the Rev. T. F. Zimmerman was reelected for his second consecutive two-year term as general superintendent of Assemblies of God.

Commenting on the earlier stage, the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University Professors ( in a recent report on the question of faculty participation in administrative decision-making ) noted that the term `` teacher-employee '' ( as opposed to, e.g., `` maintenance employee '' ) was a not inapt description.

The Unitarian clergy were an exclusive club of cultivated gentlemen -- as the term was then understood in the Back Bay -- and Parker was definitely not a gentleman, either in theology or in manners.

or `` Carmine Theater, 1912 '', the only canvas with an ash can ( and foraging dog ), although Sloan was a member of the famous `` Eight '', and of the so-called `` Ash-Can School '', a term he resented.

The term was introduced into optics by Johann Heinrich Lambert in his 1760 work Photometria.

In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.

He later refined the term, describing it as " The whole system, ... including not only the organism-complex, but also the whole complex of physical factors forming what we call the environment ".

Universal Time ( UT ), a term introduced in 1928, initially represented mean time at Greenwich determined in the traditional way to accord with the originally-defined universal day ; then from 1 January 1956 ( as decided by the IAU at Dublin, 1955, at the initiative of William Markowitz ) this " raw " form of UT was re-labeled UT0 and effectively superseded by refined forms UT1 ( UT0 equalized for the effects of polar wandering ) and UT2 ( UT1 further equalized for annual seasonal variations in earth rotation rate ).

In the 19th century, the term " petroleum " was frequently used to refer to mineral oils produced by distillation from mined organic solids such as cannel coal ( and later oil shale ), and refined oils produced from them ; in the United Kingdom, storage ( and later transport ) of these oils were regulated by a series of Petroleum Acts, from the Petroleum Act 1862 c. 66 onward.

In the context of alternative medicine the term is often used to refer to any substance claimed to cause ill health, ranging anywhere from trace amounts of pesticides to common food items like refined sugar or additives such as monosodium glutamate ( MSG ).

As a term for " refined or elaborated speech " the adjective appears only in Epic and Classical Sanskrit, in the Manusmriti and in the Mahabharata.

The term Rococo may also be interpreted as a combination of the word " barocco " ( an irregularly shaped pearl, possibly the source of the word " baroque ") and the French " rocaille " ( a popular form of garden or interior ornamentation using shells and pebbles ), and may be used to describe the refined and fanciful style that became fashionable in parts of Europe during the eighteenth century.

The term " classical architecture " also applies to any mode of architecture that has evolved to a highly refined state, such as classical Chinese architecture, or classical Mayan architecture.

The cardinal principle of phenomenology, the term intentionality originated with the Scholastics in the medieval period and was resurrected by Brentano who in turn influenced Husserl ’ s conception of phenomenology, who refined the term and made it the cornerstone of his theory of consciousness.

The term distinguishes these horses from both heavy draft horses (" cold bloods ") and refined light saddle horses such as the Thoroughbred and Arabian (" hot bloods ").

The actual term was promoted and refined by Californian artist Robert Irwin, but it was actually first used in the mid-1970s by young sculptors, such as Patricia Johanson, Dennis Oppenheim, and Athena Tacha, who had started executing public commissions for large urban sites ( see Peter Frank, “ Site Sculpture ”, Art News, Oct. 1975 ).

This style was initially referred to as Jungle but later, as it progressed and rhythmic elements were refined, the term drum and bass became more common.

More recent advances have included smaller and more refined instruments for use in the eye, the injection of various medications at the time of surgery to manipulate a detached retina into its proper position and mark the location of tissue layers to allow their removal, and for long term protection against scar tissue formation.

The term was further refined into mental and moral imbecility.

In mathematical physics, analytical mechanics is a term used for a refined, mathematical form of classical mechanics, constructed from the 18th century onwards as a formulation of the subject as founded by Isaac Newton and Galileo Galilei.

Shennong is among the group of variously named heroic persons / deities ) who have been traditionally given credit for various inventions: these include, the hoe, plow ( both leisi style and the plowshare ), axe, digging wells, agricultural irrigation, preserving stored seeds by using boiled horse urine, the weekly farmers market, the Chinese calendar ( especially the 24 jieqi ( solar term ) divisions ), and to have refined the therapeutic understanding of taking pulse measurements, acupuncture, and moxibustion, and to have instituted the harvest thanksgiving ceremony ( Zhaji Sacrificial Rite, later known as the Laji Rite ).

The term guncotton was also used ; although some references identify guncotton as a more extensively nitrated and refined product used in torpedo and mine warheads prior to use of TNT.

Adams is credited with coining the term " aptronym " for last names that fit a person's career or job title, although it was later refined to " aptonym " by Frank Nuessel in 1992.

However, the meaning of the term was continually refined throughout Kuhn's work, he first placed it within the field of semantics and applied a narrow definition, but later he redefined it in a taxonomic sense, wherein changes are found in the relationships between similarities and differences that the subjects of a defining matrix draw over the world.

The term and its associated practices are usually used positively to describe people of refined taste and passion.

The term gourmet may refer to a person with refined or discriminating taste who is knowledgeable in the craft and art of food and food preparation.

While the songwriting is reminiscent of the purity and simplicity of the Ramones, the sound is much more multi-layered and refined with ingredients such as pompous string arrangements, utterly harmonic backing vocals, unexpected leaps in frenetic arena rock as well as psychedelic undertones which results in the introduction of the new term " Rainbow Rock ": deathpunk with a pop sensibility if you will.

The term has also been modified to describe Top 50 ; Top 30 ; Top 20 ; Top 10 ; Hot 100 ( each with its number of songs ) and Hot Hits radio formats, but carrying more or less the same meaning and having the same creative point of origin with Todd Storz as further refined by Gordon McLendon as well as Bill Drake.