Thus the term asteroid has come increasingly to refer specifically to the small bodies of the inner Solar System out to the orbit of Jupiter, which are usually rocky or metallic.

The term analog signal usually refers to electrical signals ; however, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and other systems may also convey analog signals.

These states are labeled by a set of quantum numbers summarized in the term symbol and usually associated with particular electron configurations, i. e., by occupation schemes of atomic orbitals ( e. g., 1s < sup > 2 </ sup > 2s < sup > 2 </ sup > 2p < sup > 6 </ sup > for the ground state of neon -- term symbol: < sup > 1 </ sup > S < sub > 0 </ sub >).

Cryptic crossword puzzles frequently use anagrammatic clues, usually indicating that they are anagrams by the inclusion of a descriptive term like " confused " or " in disarray ".

The term is not usually used for black residents of other countries in the Americas.

Nowadays, " Afghan " is usually not used as an ethnic term, but as a national demonym for all citizens of Afghanistan, while " Pashtun "-the native ethnonym of this people-is largely used in a linguistic sense to refer to native speakers of Pashto.

The term anthem means either a specific form of Anglican church music ( in music theory and religious contexts ), or more generally, a song ( or composition ) of celebration, usually acting as a symbol for a distinct group of people, as in the term " national anthem " or " sports anthem ".

Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, and is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages, usually to the detriment of the drinker's health, personal relationships, and social standing.

Before the 16th century, harvest was the term usually used to refer to the season, as it is common in other West Germanic languages to this day ( cf.

More generally, one curve is a curvilinear asymptote of another ( as opposed to a linear asymptote ) if the distance between the two curves tends to zero as they tend to infinity, although usually the term asymptote by itself is reserved for linear asymptotes.

The term " aspiration " is sometimes also used for the replacement of a ( usually fricative ) consonant with an sound, but that process is more accurately termed debuccalization.

* whiff rate: a term, usually used in reference to pitchers, that divides the number of pitches swung at and missed by the total number of swings in a given sample.

The intent is usually clear from the context, although the term " official at bat " is sometimes used to explicitly refer to an at bat as distinguished from a plate appearance.

In byte-oriented systems ( i. e. most modern computers ), the term uncompressed BCD usually implies a full byte for each digit ( often including a sign ), whereas packed BCD typically encodes two decimal digits within a single byte by taking advantage of the fact that four bits are enough to represent the range 0 to 9.

The term BIOS ( Basic Input / Output System ) was invented by Gary Kildall and first appeared in the CP / M operating system in 1975, describing the machine-specific part of CP / M loaded during boot time that interfaces directly with the hardware ( a CP / M machine usually has only a simple boot loader in its ROM ).

Bean is sometimes used as a synonym of pulse, an edible legume, though the term pulses is usually reserved for leguminous crops harvested for their dry grain.

The term bean usually excludes crops used mainly for oil extraction ( such as soybeans and peanuts ), as well as those used exclusively for sowing purposes ( such as clover and alfalfa ).

The term " baryon " usually refers to triquarks – baryons made of three quarks ( B = + + = 1 ).

According to the theorem, it is possible to expand the power ( x + y )< sup > n </ sup > into a sum involving terms of the form ax < sup > b </ sup > y < sup > c </ sup >, where the exponents b and c are nonnegative integers with, and the coefficient a of each term is a specific positive integer depending on n and b. When an exponent is zero, the corresponding power is usually omitted from the term.

The term coming-of-age novel is sometimes used interchangeably with Bildungsroman, but its use is usually wider and less technical.

The term usually refers to relatively simple programs such as compilers, debuggers, interpreters, linkers, and text editors,

The term community has two distinct commutive meanings: 1 ) Community usually refers to a social unit larger than a small village that shares common values.

In statistics, the term central tendency relates to the way in which quantitative data tend to cluster around some value.

Citizenship most usually relates to membership of the nation state, but the term can also apply at the subnational level.

The term " maturity " relates to the degree of formality and optimization of processes, from ad hoc practices, to formally defined steps, to managed result metrics, to active optimization of the processes.

: The term step recovery relates to the form of the reverse recovery characteristic of these devices.

The term restaurant is credited to the French from the 19th century, as it relates to the restorative nature of the bouillons that were once served in them.

Short term financial management is often termed " working capital management ", and relates to cash -, inventory-and debtors management.

The term " frigate " implied a long hull design, which relates directly to speed ( see hull speed ) and also, in turn, helped the development of the broadside tactic in naval warfare.

Mega knitting is a term recently coined and relates to the use of knitting needles greater than or equal to half an inch in diameter.

The term identité sexuelle was proposed for " gender " or " gender identity ," although it can be confused with " sexual identity " ( one's identity as it relates to one's sexual life ).

The third-order intercept point relates nonlinear products caused by the third-order nonlinear term to the linearly amplified signal, in contrast to the second-order intercept point that uses second order terms.

It also relates to the term shinobu, which means to hide.

The term itself relates to Japanese speakers ' tendency to inadvertently substitute the English phonemes " R " and " L " for one another, because the Japanese language has one alveolar consonant in place for both.

It has since been used as a derogatory term that relates to English people.

" The term " Paschal " comes from the word Pesach, which in Hebrew means Passover, and relates to the Paschal mystery of salvation.

It is more useful to think of this higher or lower term as it relates to the contexts position in a Harris matrix, which is a two-dimensional representation of a site's formation in space and time.

Variable bitrate ( VBR ) is a term used in telecommunications and computing that relates to the bitrate used in sound or video encoding.

In all documentation, the term " Jasenovac " relates to either the complex at large or, when referring to a specific camp, to camp nr.

* The English term Herostratic fame, likewise, relates to Herostratus, and means, roughly, " fame at any cost ".

In English, the term Spanish relates both to the language and to the nation.

The most usual use of the term, fine, relates to a financial punishment for the commission of crimes, especially minor crimes, or as the settlement of a claim.

The term then relates to structural as well as visual aspects.

In this context, it must be clearly understood that the term " voltage difference " always relates to differences in electrochemical potential that occur inside conductors.

It relates to a long term decline in the available supply of petroleum.

In this situation, F is called the lower adjoint of G and G is called the upper adjoint of F. Mnemonically, the upper / lower terminology refers to where the function application appears relative to ≤; the term adjoint relates the Galois connections to the notion with the same name from category theory as discussed further below.

The term proprietary relates to property or ownership.