This terminology simply reflects that in many applications where these distributions occur, the parameter corresponds to the degrees of freedom of an underlying random vector, as in the preceding ANOVA example.

If the volume is the molal volume, then Af is obtained on a molal basis which is the customary terminology of the chemists.

" His system, however, is based primarily on such terminology as the different " orders of abstraction ," and formulations such as " consciousness of abstracting.

Specialized terminology is also used:

This terminology is common in many countries, and originated from the " Lex Sempronia Agraria " or " agrarian laws " of Rome in 133 BC, imposed by Tiberius Gracchus, that seized public land ( ager publicus ) used by the rich and distributed it to the poor.

Green quartz is sometimes incorrectly called green amethyst, which is an actual misnomer and not an acceptable name for the material, the proper terminology being Prasiolite.

This is mostly a matter of terminology, and US Asatru may be equated with UK Odinism for practical purposes, as is evident in the short-lived International Asatru-Odinic Alliance of folkish Asatru / Odinist groups.

The theology of the creed is firmly rooted in the Augustinian tradition, using exact terminology of Augustine's On the Trinity ( published 415 AD ).

In modern firearms terminology this is often called a " New York reload " after the practice of New York Police Department officers carrying second ( and even third ) guns as backup.

In philosophical terminology, abstraction is the thought process wherein ideas are distanced from objects.

Although many board games have a jargon all their own, there is a generalized terminology to describe concepts applicable to basic game mechanics and attributes common to nearly all board games.

This ambiguous terminology is usually clarified by context.

In common terminology, the term " at bat " is sometimes used to mean " plate appearance " ( for example, " he fouled off the ball to keep the at bat alive ").

However, the distinction between BIOS and EFI is rarely made in terminology by the average computer user, making BIOS a catch-all term for both systems.

In mathematics terminology, the vector space of bras is the dual space to the vector space of kets, and corresponding bras and kets are related by the Riesz representation theorem.

Some terminology is associated with these parametric curves.

Because of this, the term B * algebra is rarely used in current terminology, and has been replaced by the ( overloading of ) the term ' C * algebra '.

From an articulatory perspective this terminology is incorrect, as breathy voice is a different type of phonation from aspiration.

Canadian federal statutes must use the terminology of both the common law and civil law for those matters ; this is referred to as legislative bijuralism.

There is no standard terminology for the name of a central bank, but many countries use the " Bank of Country " form ( for example: Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Bank of Mexico ).

The gender-neutral names " parent " and " child " have largely displaced the older " father " and " son " terminology, although the term " uncle " is still used for other nodes at the same level as the parent.

In this setting, the use of fixed-point combinators is sometimes called anonymous recursion .< ref > This terminology appear to be largely folklore, but it does appear in the following:

The terminology received international attention as a result of the 2005 Cronulla riots, where t-shirts ( especially those t-shirts that embodied the Australian flag ) and scrawlings on the beach read " 100 % Aussie Pride " and were largely seen as a display of ethnic identification.

Matroid theory borrows extensively from the terminology of linear algebra and graph theory, largely because it is the abstraction of various notions of central importance in these fields.

The book, generally considered to be his magnum opus, is largely credited with creating the terminology and shape of modern macroeconomics.

Today, the Assyrian and Roman Catholic Church view this schism as largely linguistic, due to problems of translating very delicate and precise terminology from Latin to Aramaic and vice-versa ( see Council of Ephesus ).

The terms Parkerizing, Parkerize, and Parkerized are all technically registered U. S. trademarks of Henkel Adhesives Technologies, although the terminology has largely passed into generic usage for many years.

He largely followed Aristotelian terminology and metaphysics, and wrote comprehensive commentaries on Aristotle, often affirming Aristotle's views with independent arguments.

The largest supplier of unit record equipment was IBM and this article largely reflects IBM practice and terminology.

The terminology was largely developed earlier by the neo-Kantian Johann Gottlieb Fichte, also an advocate of the philosophy identified as German idealism.

However, this use of the term has now become largely archaic due to the standardization of terminology by large fandom sites such as fanfiction. net.

Because such studies initially found little to substantiate the terminology, phoneticians have largely ceased using them, though they are still commonly used as " phonological labels for specifying a dichotomy when used language-specifically.

This terminology is now largely abandoned.

The contrast between Western and Eastern religions largely pertains to the distinction between monotheism and polytheism, respectively, and the term Abrahamic religion is often used in lieu of using the East and West terminology.

* New Music ( 1980s music terminology ) An umbrella term used by the U. S. music industry to refer to largely British, androgynous, synthesizer based acts who came to commercial success through MTV.

Errors in technical terminology suggest that the over-all translation from the German may not convey quite everything Mr. Remarque hoped to tell us.

In 2006 four batteries ( divizions in Russian terminology ; about 6 systems each ) of S-300 anti-aircraft systems were acquired from Russia to reinforce the Joint CIS Air Defense System.

Soon, however, the terminology changed to " Bolsheviks " and " Mensheviks ", from the Russian " bolshinstvo " ( majority ) and " menshinstvo " ( minority ), based on the fact that Lenin believed that most of the party stood behind him.

One theory is the origin of such terminology is from the Mayan temple Chichen Itza in the Yucatan Peninsula, a ruin of an ancient MesoAmerican civilization about 1, 500 years ago.

As a result of this loaning, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese share a corpus of linguistic terms describing modern terminology, paralleling the similar corpus of terms built from Greco-Latin and shared among European languages.

Xun Zi chapter ( 22 ) " On the Rectification of Names " claims the ancient sage-kings chose names () that directly corresponded with actualities (), but later generations confused terminology, coined new nomenclature, and thus could no longer distinguish right from wrong.

Because of the use of computational metaphors and terminology, cognitive psychology was able to benefit greatly from the flourishing of research in artificial intelligence and other related areas in the 1960s and 1970s.

Canada's automobile industry, on the other hand, has been dominated by American firms from its inception, explaining why Canadians use the American spelling of tire ( hence, " Canadian Tire ") and American terminology for the parts of automobiles ( for example, truck instead of lorry, gasoline instead of petrol, trunk instead of boot ).

Today, scan the barcode ( usually EAN or Universal Product Code ( UPC )) for each item, retrieve the price from a database, calculate deductions for items on sale ( or, in British retail terminology, " special offer ", " multibuy " or " BOGOF "), calculate the sales tax or VAT, calculate differential rates for preferred customers, actualize inventory, time and date stamp the transaction, record the transaction in detail including each item purchased, record the method of payment, keep totals for each product or type of product sold as well as total sales for specified periods, and do other tasks as well.

The Council of Chalcedon, from the perspective of the Alexandrine Christology, has deviated from the approved Cyrillian terminology and declared that Christ was one hypostasis in two natures.

Since the 1980s theologians from the Oriental ( non-Chalcedonian ) Orthodox and Eastern ( Chalcedonian ) Orthodox churches have been meeting in a bid to resolve theological differences, and have concluded that many of the differences are caused by the two groups using different terminology to describe the same thing ( see Agreed Official Statements on Christology with the Eastern Orthodox Churches ).

In Christian terminology, docetism ( from the Greek dokein ( to seem ) / dókēsis ( apparition, phantom ), according to Norbert Brox, is defined narrowly as " the doctrine according to which the phenomenon of Christ, his historical and bodily existence, and thus above all the human form of Jesus, was altogether mere semblance without any true reality.

In Western terminology, however, drawing is distinct from painting, even though similar media often are employed in both tasks.

The FBI also coordinated an aerial search, using fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters from the Oregon Army National Guard, along the entire flight path ( known as Victor 23 in standard aviation terminology < ref >

Scholars may introduce their own terminology and make theoretical distinctions which are different from those of the believers themselves .”

In motion picture terminology, a montage ( from the French for " putting together " or " assembly ") is a film editing technique.

Therefore, the terminology fugue state may carry a slight linguistic distinction from Dissociative Fugue, the former implying a greater degree of motion.

Infallibility means protection, and, in Islamic terminology, means the spiritual grace of Allah enabling a person to abstain from sins by his own free will.

* Economics terminology that differs from common usage

This terminology comes from the manner in which logarithm tables were used before computers became commonplace.