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 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 " the thin red line " later referred to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and their job to defend the Empire and the United Kingdom after the incorporation of the Argylls and Sutherlands into a single regiment Now the Argyll and Sutherland battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.

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.

Each computer acts as both the client and the server which means all the computers on the network are equals, that is where the term peer-to-peer comes from.

Fidler warned that according to California law, the Board of Prison Terms could later change the sentence to a lesser term ; at the time, Olson's lawyers asserted that due to discrepancies between 1970s laws and current California laws, their client would most likely serve only five years, which could turn into two years for good behavior.

Psychotherapy is a general term referring to therapeutic interaction or treatment contracted between a trained professional and a client, patient, family, couple, or group.

The term telnet may also refer to the software that implements the client part of the protocol.

The term web design is normally used to describe the design process relating to the front-end ( client side ) design of a website including writing mark up, but this is a grey area as this is also covered by web development.

The term server highlights the role of the machine in the client – server scheme, where the clients are the workstations using the storage.

A satellite state ( sometimes referred to as a client state ) is a political term that refers to a country that is formally independent, but under heavy political and economic influence or control by another country.

Major foreign policy events during his term of office included the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China ( and the severing of ties with the Republic of China ); the signing of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty ( SALT II ); the brokering of the Camp David Accords ; the transition of Iran from an important U. S. client state to an anti-Western Islamic Republic, encouraging dissidents in Eastern Europe and emphasizing human rights in order to undermine the influence of the Soviet Union ; the financing of the mujahideen in Afghanistan in response to the Soviet deployment of forces there and the arming of these rebels to counter the Soviet invasion ; and the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties relinquishing overt U. S. control of the Panama Canal after 1999.

The term may be used by a lawyer posting comments on a message board to indicate that the commentator is, in fact, a lawyer, but to emphasize that the commentator does not represent the reader, and to indicate that the comments are not protected by attorney – client privilege and that the commenter disclaims any malpractice or other tort liability should the suggestion be followed with undesirable results.

The term " urban survival syndrome " was first used in 1994 in a Fort Worth, Texas murder case in which two defense attorneys, David Bays and Bill Lane, defended Daimion Osby, their 17-year-old black client, who had shot and killed two unarmed men in a parking lot and was on trial on two counts of first degree murder.

" No win no fee " is the term used to describe the conditional fee agreement between a law firm and its client.

* Mail user agent, another term for an email client

The expression " happy ending " is a colloquial term for the practice of a masseuse to offer sexual release to a client.

The term Soulseek might refer to ( 1 ) one of the two networks, or ( 2 ) one of the three official user client interfaces.

In most modern economies, the term " employee " refers to a specific defined relationship between an individual and a corporation, which differs from those of customer or client.

The supplicant is a client device ( such as a laptop ) that wishes to attach to the LAN / WLAN-though the term ' supplicant ' is also used interchangeably to refer to the software running on the client that provides credentials to the authenticator.

The term SFTP can also refer to Secure file transfer program, a command-line program that implements the client part of this protocol, such as that supplied with OpenSSH.

* Pre Delivery Inspection, term used to describe final inspection by the client of bespoke machinery and systems taken place just prior to delivering to the endures / customer

The term " palimony " is not a legal or historical term, but rather a colloquial portmanteau of the words pal and alimony coined by celebrity divorce attorney Marvin Mitchelson coined in 1977 when his client Michelle Triola Marvin filed an unsuccessful suit against the actor Lee Marvin.