Commercially, the term filter is applied to membranes where the separation lattice is so thin that the surface becomes the main zone of particle separation, even though these products might be described as sieves.

Devices with the capabilities of computer terminals, such as the WebTV thin client, also fall into the grey area that could invite the term " NTB ".

The term thin client was coined in 1993 by Tim Negris, VP of Server Marketing at Oracle Corp., while working with company founder Larry Ellison on the launch of Oracle 7.

The term thin client was also not well-established among IT professionals, most of whom had been working on fat-client systems.

* Label, an older term for a long thin device, in particular, a ruler as on an astrolabe, circumferentor, or similar instrument

More recently the term is applied to a board of thin insulating material with holes at standard 0. 1-inch pitch ; components are pushed through the holes to anchor them, and point-to-point wired on the other side of the board.

Some use the term patli ( thin ) saunf or velayati ( foreign ) saunf to distinguish anise from fennel, although Gujarati has the term anisi.

An MCD study of Fe ( CN )< sub > 6 </ sub >< sup > 3 -</ sup > embedded in a thin polyvinyl alcohol ( PVA ) film revealed a temperature dependence of the C term.

In areas with thin soil and high erosion there is a strong case against digging, which argues that in the long term it can be detrimental to the food web in the fragile topsoil.

In physics, the term solenoid refers to a long, thin loop of wire, often wrapped around a metallic core, which produces a magnetic field when an electric current is passed through it.

The term Nanocrystalline silicon refers to a range of materials around the transition region from amorphous to microcrystalline phase in the silicon thin film.

According to Katherine Charlton, the " term Tin Pan Alley referred to the thin, tinny tone quality of cheap upright pianos used in music publisher's offices.

The modern term for graphical terminal is " thin client ".

The term, today, is also used somewhat interchangeably to describe a diskless desktop computer or a thin client.

* sfumato-The term sfumato was coined by Italian Renaissance artist, Leonardo da Vinci, and refers to a fine art painting technique of blurring or softening of sharp outlines by subtle and gradual blending of one tone into another through the use of thin glazes to give the illusion of depth or three-dimensionality.

The Texas Hill Country is a vernacular term applied to a region of Central Texas featuring tall rugged hills consisting of thin layers of soil atop limestone or granite.

Many of the greatest paintings in Europe, like Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling are executed in fresco, meaning they are painted on a thin layer of wet plaster, called intonaco ( in fact the general term for plaster in Italian ); the pigments sink into this layer so that the plaster itself becomes the medium holding them, which accounts for the excellent durability of fresco.

The term gilding covers a number of decorative techniques for applying fine gold leaf or powder to solid surfaces such as wood, stone, or metal to give a thin coating of gold.

The term was coined by writers Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, satirizing what they believed to be an era of serious social problems hidden by a thin layer of gold.

The term originates from the Italian for " thin metal plate ".

Though he was considered a reformer who won election promising a " revolution in Louisiana ," he supposedly compiled a thin record of lasting accomplishments during his gubernatorial term.

In Flannery O ' Connor's " A Good Man is Hard to Find ", the grandmother uses the term: "' In my time ,' said the grandmother, folding her thin veined fingers, ' children were more respectful of their native states and their parents and everything else.

The term itself may refer to a crumpled or curled-up cake, or have Celtic origins relating to the Breton krampoez meaning a " thin, flat cake " and the Welsh crempog or crempot, a type of pancake.

While the term " liberal " had been used to describe all political forces in Colombia, the conservatives began describing themselves as " conservative liberals " and their opponents as " red liberals ".

The exact derivation of the term is unknown, but it has been thought that in early Canadian football, the scoring of a single was signalled with a red flag.

In its second term, the red green coalition lost several very important state elections, for example in Lower Saxony where Schröder was the prime minister from 1990 to 1998.

The term Aappalaartoq ( meaning " the red ") is also used for both the Greenlandic flag and the flag of Denmark.

In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, especially those of the genus Macropus, red kangaroo, antilopine kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo and western grey kangaroo.

This term can be dated to the late Middle Ages as quoted here c1400 Femina ( Trin-C B. 14. 40 ) 27: " He eteþ no ffyssh But heryng red.

Recent extreme droughts ( 2000 – 2007 ) have put significant stress on river red gum forests, with mounting concern over their long term survival.

Another cause of manatee deaths is the red tide, a term used for the proliferation, or " blooms ", of the microscopic marine algae of the species Karenia brevis, a member of the dinoflagellates that produces brevetoxins that can have toxic effects on the central nervous systems of creatures in the area of the algae bloom.

A major criticism of the term stems from critics ' claims of how it has been used by conservatives for political gain, considering it to play to voters ' fears as a red herring as well as an attack on the political left.

Additionally, red tides are not typically associated with tidal movement of water, hence the preference among scientists to use the term algal bloom.

The term red tide specifically refers to blooms of a species of dinoflagellate known as Karenia brevis.

The term red tide is being phased out among researchers for the following reasons:

The term red tide is most often used in the United States of America to refer to Karenia brevis blooms in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, also called the Florida red tide.

The term red tide is also sometimes used to describe harmful algal blooms on the northern east coast of the United States, particularly in the Gulf of Maine.

The term originates with fans of Star Trek television series ( 1966 – 1969 ), from the red shirts worn by Starfleet security officers who frequently die during episodes.

In other media, the term " redshirt " and images of characters wearing red shirts represent characters destined for suffering or death.

In colloquial usage, the term is applied to red oxides, formed by the reaction of iron and oxygen in the presence of water or air moisture.

The term " safe love " has also been used, notably by the French Sidaction in the promotion of men's underpants incorporating a condom pocket and including the red ribbon symbol in the design, which were sold to support the charity.

Cross-culturally, when people have a word for red, they agree with other cultures on which wavelengths of light best fit the term " red " ( the same wavelengths that primarily excite the cone cells which detect red, and the red / green channel to the brain ).

Red top tabloids are so named due to their tendency, in British and Commonwealth usage, to have their mastheads printed in red ink ; the term compact was coined to avoid the connotation of the word tabloid, which implies a red top tabloid, and has lent its name to tabloid journalism, which is journalism after the fashion of red top reporters.