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The term " trap ", used in geology for such rock formations, is derived from the Swedish word for stairs and refers to the step-like hills forming the landscape of the region.
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Perfect multicollinearity will occur in a " dummy variable trap " when a base dummy variable is not omitted resulting in perfect correlation between the dummy variables and the constant term.
This term originated from a type of trap traditionally used to catch rays that has a form resembling a blanket.
Fireforce counter-insurgency missions were designed to trap and eliminate terrorists ( to use the contemporary term ) before they could flee.
* The term " heffalump trap " has been used in political journalism for a trap that is set up to catch an opponent but ends up trapping the person who set the trap ( as happens to Winnie the Pooh in The House at Pooh Corner ).
* Grease interceptor, another term for a grease trap
Thus, the term " booby trap " gives rise to the idea that an individual with the misfortune to be caught in the trap does so because the individual is a " booby ", or that an individual who is caught in the trap thereby becomes a " booby ".
The term ' pen register ' is often used to describe both pen registers and trap and trace devices.
Although the term's provenance rests in African folklore ( i. e., the gum doll Anansi created to trap Mmoatia, the dwarf ), some Americans consider " tar baby " to be a pejorative term for African Americans.
# Make sure you have not fallen into the dummy variable trap ; including a dummy variable for every category ( e. g., summer, autumn, winter, and spring ) and including a constant term in the regression together guarantee perfect multicollinearity.
The use of the term " fall " implies that the process is in some way inevitable, uncontrollable, risky, irreversible, and that it puts the lover in a state of vulnerability, in the same way the word " fall " is used in the phrase " to fall ill " or " to fall into a trap ".
It was later confirmed that a high-ranking member of the inner-circle of the ShadowCrew, CumbaJohnny ( Albert Gonzalez ) was a long term police informant who was responsible for teaching the USSS how to monitor, trap and arrest the ShadowCrew.
Oral tradition, however, has it that the name of the town originated from the ilocano term for fish trap, " sigay ".
Wright uses the term " progress trap " to refer to innovations that create new problems for which the society is unable or unwilling to solve, or inadvertently create conditions that are worse than what existed before the innovation.
Wright coins the term " progress trap " to describe the phenomenon of turning " cleverness into recklessness.
Thinking only of preventing Oliver from winning the Presidency for a second term, little does she know that she is about to fall into her own trap.
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The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.
The Afroasiatic language family was originally referred to as " Hamito-Semitic ", a term introduced in the 1860s by the German scholar Karl Richard Lepsius.
In lieu of " Hamito-Semitic ", the Russian linguist Igor Diakonoff later suggested the term " Afrasian ", meaning " half African, half Asiatic ", in reference to the geographic distribution of the phylum's constituent languages.
Amphibian is derived from the Ancient Greek term ἀμφίβιος ( amphíbios ), which means " both kinds of life ", amphi meaning " of both kinds " and bio meaning " life ".
The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.
The term " Altaic ", as the name for a language family, was introduced in 1844 by Matthias Castrén, a pioneering Finnish philologist who made major contributions to the study of the Uralic languages.
( The reason for the term " colloquially ", is that the sum or product of a " sequence " of cardinals cannot be defined without some aspect of the axiom of choice.
It is a term suggested by Peter T. Daniels to replace the common terms " consonantary ", " consonantal alphabet " or " syllabary " to refer to the family of scripts called West Semitic.
In the lingo of the poker variation Texas Hold ' em, the hole cards Ace – King ( unsuited ) are sometimes referred to as an " Anna Kournikova ", a term introduced by the poker commentator Vince van Patten during a WPT tournament because it " looks great but never wins ".
As for the term " Compositae ", more ancient but still valid, it obviously makes reference to the fact that the family is one of the few angiosperms that have composite flowers.
An alp refers to a high mountain pasture where cows are taken to be grazed during the summer months and where hay barns can be found, and the term " the Alps ", referring to the mountains, is a misnomer.
David Roberts, in his book " In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest ", explained his reason for using the term " Anasazi " over a term using " Puebloan ", noting that the latter term " derives from the language of an oppressor who treated the indigenes of the Southwest far more brutally than the Navajo ever did.
The term Rococo was derived from the French word " rocaille ", which means pebbles and refers to the stones and shells used to decorate the interiors of caves.
The Latin synonym is " sonic ", after which the term sonics used to be a synonym for acoustics and later a branch of acoustics.
The term apocrypha is used with various meanings, including " hidden ", " esoteric ", " spurious ", " of questionable authenticity ", ancient Chinese " revealed texts and objects " and " Christian texts that are not canonical ".
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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.
As used in this Act, the term ' saline water ' includes sea water, brackish water, and other mineralized or chemically charged water, and the term ' United States ' extends to and includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories and possessions of the United States.
The term enquetes demographiques, previously used for the supplementary investigations carried out in connection with the administrative censuses, was used for the new investigations.
`` 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.
The K factor, a term used to denote the rate of heat transmission through a material ( B.t.u./sq. ft. of material/hr./*0F./in. of thickness ) ranges from 0.24 to 0.28 for flexible urethane foams and from 0.12 to 0.16 for rigid urethane foams, depending upon the formulation, density, cell size, and nature of blowing agents used.
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 term soon became used and applied to all stolen animals.
The term " the United States " has historically been used, sometimes in the plural (" these United States "), and other times in the singular, without any particular grammatical consistency.
When used in the broader sense, the term can include many different groups.
The term was initially used generally as an adjective for animals that could live on land or in water, including seals and otters.
Many songs have used this term, including the American patriotic songs " America, The Beautiful " and " God Bless the USA ".
Assistive technology or adaptive technology ( AT ) is an umbrella term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities and also includes the process used in selecting, locating, and using them.
Hindu texts used the term shunya ( zero ) to indicate the empty column on the abacus.
Until the 20th century, the term asphaltum was also used.
The term " alphabet " is used by linguists and paleographers in both a wide and a narrow sense.
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 ).
The term is often used to refer to activities with some potential for physical danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing and or participating in extreme sports.
The term android was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam in his work Tomorrow's Eve ( 1886 ).
Authors have used the term android in more diverse ways than robot or cyborg.
While current mouthwash treatments must be used with a degree of frequency to prevent this bacteria from regrowing, future treatments could provide a viable long term solution.
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