Today, the term " utility knife " also includes small folding or retractable-blade knives suited for use in the modern workplace or in the construction industry.

A term for this is ' constrained utility maximization ' ( with income and wealth as the constraints on demand ).

Other commentators place the Holocene – Anthropocene boundary at the industrial revolution while also saying that " Formal adoption of this term in the near future will largely depend on its utility, particularly to earth scientists working on late Holocene successions.

The term insulator is also used more specifically to refer to insulating supports used to attach electric power distribution or transmission lines to utility poles and transmission towers.

Neoclassical economics is a term variously used for approaches to economics focusing on the determination of prices, outputs, and income distributions in markets through supply and demand, often mediated through a hypothesized maximization of utility by income-constrained individuals and of profits by cost-constrained firms employing available information and factors of production, in accordance with rational choice theory.

( Historical Note: Prior to the coining of the term " consequentialism " by Anscombe in 1958 and the adoption of that term in the literature that followed, " utilitarianism " was the generic term for consequentialism, referring to all theories that promoted maximizing any form of utility, not just those that promoted maximizing happiness.

Since plug-ins and extensions both increase the utility of the original application, Mozilla uses the term " add-on " as an inclusive category of augmentation modules that consists of plug-ins, themes, and search engines.

The term SUV normally refers to sport utility vehicles.

In Australia and New Zealand, the term ute ( short for coupé utility ) is used to describe a pickup truck with an open cargo carrying space but a front similar to a passenger car, and which requires only a passenger car license to drive.

* Cover is a United States Marine Corps term for any type of uniform hat, as in utility cover and campaign cover

Although the term finds its primary utility in the later half of the 20th century, it has been used in various places and eras, such as the post-Civil War era in North America and globally during the time between the World Wars.

The actual term " sport utility vehicle " did not come into wide popular usage until the late 1980s ; many of these vehicles were marketed during their era as station wagons.

According to the transportation curator at the Henry Ford Museum, Robert Casey, the Jeep Cherokee ( XJ ) was the first true sport utility vehicle in the modern understanding of the term.

With the introduction of more luxurious models and a much more powerful 4-liter engine, sales of the Cherokee increased even higher as the price of gasoline fell, and the term " sport utility vehicle " began to be used in the national press for the first time.

In North America, the term pickup is used only for light trucks, while in other parts of the world it includes coupé utility vehicles, based on car chassis.

The rapid growth of deep sea research efforts, especially the widespread use of echosounders in the 1950s and 1960s confirmed the morphological utility of the term.

* Furniture zone, also planter / furniture zone or landscape / furniture zone: a term used by urban planners, indicating its suitability for " street furniture " such as utility poles and fire hydrants, as well as trees or planters.

The term " retailer " is also applied where a service provider services the needs of a large number of individuals, such as a public utility, like electric power.

Obviously the amount of work done on a group is one source of this variation, but another source is the perceived utility and standing of the term itself.

In the 20th century, the significant improvement of the standard of living of a society, and the consequent emergence of the middle class, broadly applied the term “ conspicuous consumption ” to the men, women, and households who possessed the discretionary income that allowed them to practice the patterns of economic consumption — of goods and services — which were motivated by the desire for prestige, the public display of social status, rather than by the intrinsic, practical utility of the goods and the services proper.

Opaque tights are worn by both sexes for athletic activities or as utility clothing, and can also be referred to as " leggings ", a term that also includes other garments.

Although in concept, these approaches are in a sense nothing more than the traditional, commonsense idea of " profit ", the utility of having a separate and more precisely defined term such as EVA is that it makes a clear separation from dubious accounting adjustments that have enabled businesses such as Enron to report profits while actually approaching insolvency.

The term dagger appears only in the Late Middle Ages, reflecting the fact that while the dagger had been known in antiquity, it had disappeared during the Early Middle Ages, replaced by the hewing knife or seax.

The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched ( the original meaning of graffiti ) as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a waxed tablet ( the way Romans made notes ), or are in cuneiform writing, impressed with a pointed stylus in a flat tablet of unbaked clay.

The word has an unknown origin and was originally ( c. 1440 ) used as a term for a short knife or dagger, probably related to Dutch spyd and / or the Latin " spad -" root meaning " sword "; cf.

The term ' Bayonette ' dates back to the end of the 16th century ; but it is not clear if the weapon at the time was the specialized instrument that it is today, or simply a type of knife.

The term athame derives, via a series of corruptions, from the late Latin artavus (" quill knife "), which is well attested in the oldest mansucripts of the Key of Solomon.

Gerald Gardner's use of ' athame ' probably came from modern French versions of the Key of Solomon, probably via Grillot de Givry's Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy ( 1931 ), who misinterpreted the term as applying to the main ritual knife, as shown by his index entries " arthane " or " arthame ".

In December 2010 Clarke, in a move to cut prison numbers, said that a Conservative Party election pledge that anyone caught carrying a knife illegally could expect a jail term will not be implemented.

Clarke said he would put sentencing policy in the hands of judges, not newspaper pundits but that those guilty of using a knife illegally would face a " serious " jail term.

In the language of Palau, the term for Filipino is chad ra oles which literally means " people of the knife " because of Filipinos ' reputation for carrying knives and using them in fights.

the earliest date is put around the 14th century where a copperplate inscription of Parakarama Bahu IV ( 1302-1326 ) refers to two persons who were declared exempt from certain taxes which included " gun licenses ". http :// www. island. lk / index. php? page_cat = article-details & page = article-details & code_title = 22207 many also believe that it was the Portuguese who first brought over actual muskets during their invasion of the Sri Lankan Coastline and low lands in 1505 as they regularly used short barrelled matchlocks during combat, however, P. E. P. Deraniyagala points out that the Sinhala term for gun, ‘ bondikula ’ matches the Arabic term for gun, ‘ bunduk .’ Also that certain technical aspects of the early Sinhalese matchlock were similar to the matchlocks used in the Middle East, thus forming the generally accepted theory that the musket was not entirely new to the island by the time the Portuguese came, but it was only in a short matter of time that native Sri Lankan kingdoms, most notably the kingdom of Sitawaka and the Kandyan Kingdom where Sinhalese muskets with a unique bifurcated stock, longer barrel and smaller calibre, which made it more efficient in driving out the energy from the gunpowder, where manufactured by the hundreds and mastered by soldiers to the point where according to the Portuguese invader, Queyroz, they could " fire at night to put out a match " and " by day at 60 paces would sever a knife with four or five bullets " and " send as many on the same spot in the target.

The manner in which the stamped envelope is cut out ( defined by the term " knife ") vanishes on a cut square.

Mirepoix au maigre is sometimes called a brunoise ( though strictly speaking this term more accurately merely designates the technique of cutting into small dice with a knife ).

The modern Hungarian term for this special script ( coined in the 19th century ) rovás derives from the verb róni (' to score ') which is derived from old Uralic, general Hungarian terminology describing the technique of writing ( írni ' to write ', betű ' letter ', bicska ' knife ( also: for carving letters )') derive from Turkic, which supports the theory of transmission via Turks further.

The term " Swiss Army knife " was coined by US soldiers after World War II due to the difficulty they had in pronouncing the German name.

The Swiss Army knife has been added to the collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA ) and Munich's State Museum of Applied Art for its design and the term " Swiss Army " currently is a registered trademark owned by Victorinox AG and its subsidiary Wenger SA.

The term " Swiss Army knife " has entered popular culture as a metaphor for usefulness and adaptability.

The term spear point is occasionally and confusingly used to describe small single-edged blades without a central spine, such as that of the pen knife, a small folding-blade pocket knife formerly used in sharpening quills for writing.

The manner in which the stamped envelope is cut before folding ( defined by the term knife ) vanishes on a cut square.

Tantōjutsu ( 短刀術 ) is a Japanese term for a variety of knife fighting systems.

Over the years many knives have been called Bowie knives and the term has almost become a generic term for any large sheath knife.