For example, Pyrethrum ( refers to several Old World plants of the genus Chrysanthemum ) is a natural insecticide with minimal environmental impact.

However, since Paul was from Cilicia and refers to himself using this name ( see Acts 21: 39, 22: 3 ), it seems very natural that the name Cilicia would have continued to be in colloquial use among its residents despite its hiatus in official Roman nomenclature.

The acronym refers to its deuterium-oxide ( heavy water ) moderator and its use of ( originally, natural ) uranium fuel.

Notice that the second condition in the definition itself refers to natural numbers, and hence involves self-reference.

In natural science, there is need for another time perspective, independent from human activity, and indeed spanning a far longer period ( mainly prehistoric ), where geologic era refers to well-defined time spans.

The " subject of labor " refers to natural resources and raw materials, including land.

Glossolalia also sometimes refers to xenoglossy, which is speaking in a natural language that was previously unknown to the speaker.

In computing as well as typography, the term " character " refers to a grapheme or grapheme-like unit of text, as found in natural language writing systems ( scripts ).

* Full-grain leather refers to hides that have not been sanded, buffed, or snuffed ( as opposed to top-grain or corrected leather ) to remove imperfections ( or natural marks ) on the surface of the hide.

* Sino-Burma pipelines refers to planned oil and natural gas pipelines linking the Burma's deep-water port of Kyaukphyu ( Sittwe ) in the Bay of Bengal with Kunming in Yunnan province, China.

The Polish chronicles clearly stated that he died of natural causes ; the information that he was murdered by a sword-bearer ( Miecznik ), given by the chronicles of Gottfried of Viterbo, refers to Bezprym.

So Mill's initial use of the term concerned natural abilities, in contrast to the common contemporary usage, which refers solely to market failure in a particular type of industry, such as rail, post or electricity.

The term natural language refers to actual linguistic behavior, and is aligned with descriptive linguistics rather than linguistic prescription.

Classically, natural law refers to the use of reason to analyze human nature — both social and personal — and deduce binding rules of moral behavior.

The scientific name refers to the four large teeth, fused into an upper and lower plate, which are used for crushing the shells of crustaceans and mollusks, their natural prey.

The chemical abbreviation for sodium was first published by Jöns Jakob Berzelius in his system of atomic symbols, and is a contraction of the element's new Latin name natrium, which refers to the Egyptian natron, a natural mineral salt primarily made of hydrated sodium carbonate.

Hence literature seeking to explain quantification in natural language ( λx in Montague grammar ) often refers to distributive constructions, and vice versa.

Self-reference occurs in natural or formal languages when a sentence, idea or formula refers to itself.

Stalactites are first mentioned ( though not by name ) by the Roman natural historian Pliny in a text which also mentions stalagmites and columns and refers to their creation by the dripping of water.

The Introduction establishes Darwin's credentials as a naturalist and author, then refers to John Herschel's letter suggesting that the origin of species " would be found to be a natural in contradistinction to a miraculous process ":

In science, the term " theory " refers to " a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment.

Stephen Harper, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, and the Prime Minister as a result of the January 2006 election, regularly refers to himself as a Tory and has suggested that the new party is a natural evolution of the conservative political movement in Canada.

The Unknowable One ( literally written as the Miniature Presence ) refers to events on earth when events can be understood as natural happenings instead of God's act, although it is actually the act of God.

In this view, evolution is the process describing the growth of complexity in the natural world and in speaking of the emergence of complex living beings and life-forms, this view refers therefore to processes of sudden changes in evolution.

Unlike the facts studied in natural sciences, a " social " fact thus refers to a specific category of phenomena:

The dysphonetic / dyseidetic distinction refers to two different mechanisms ; one that relates to a speech discrimination deficit, and another that relates to a visual perception impairment.

In the field of computer networking and other packet-switched telecommunication networks, the traffic engineering term refers to resource reservation control mechanisms rather than the achieved service quality.

Although the term commonly refers to wireless data transfer mechanisms ( e. g. using radio, hypersonic or infrared systems ), it also encompasses data transferred over other media such as a telephone or computer network, optical link or other wired communications like phase line carriers.

Social control refers generally to societal and political mechanisms or processes that regulate individual and group behavior, leading to conformity and compliance to the rules of a given society, state, or social group.

Justification refers to mechanisms commonly required in expert and decision systems in which, at its simplest, the system reports each of the inner decisions used to reach some final conclusion.

In the United States and other countries organized as federations of states, the term usually refers to the process and mechanisms of self-government as exercised by municipalities, counties, or other units of local government at the level below that of a federal state ( e. g., U. S. state, in which context see special legislation ).

QoS ( Quality of Service ) refers to control mechanisms that can provide different priority to different users or data flows, or guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow in accordance with requests from the application program.

Unlike neo-Darwinism, the term neo-Lamarckism refers more to a loose grouping of largely heterodox theories and mechanisms that emerged after Lamarck's time, than to any coherent body of theoretical work.

In a linotype machine, the term escapements refers to the mechanisms at the bottom of the magazine that releases matrices one at a time as keys are pressed on the keyboard.

The term refers to a group of syndromes caused by different mechanisms all resulting in vascular lesions in the brain.

Lysis ( Greek λύσις, lýsis from lýein " to separate ") refers to the breaking down of a cell, often by viral, enzymic, or osmotic mechanisms that compromise its integrity.

In psychology, the term refers to the inability to maintain defense mechanisms in response to stress, resulting in personality disturbance or psychological imbalance.

Control of ventilation refers to the physiological mechanisms involved in the control of physiologic ventilation.

Participation in social science refers to different mechanisms for the public to express opinions-and ideally exert influence-regarding political, economic, management or other social decisions.

* Quality of service in computer network trafficking refers to resource reservation control mechanisms

In cellular biology the term membrane transport refers to the collection of mechanisms that regulate the passage of solutes such as ions and small molecules through biological membranes nain proteins embedded in them.

e-Administration, or electronic administration, refers to any of a number of mechanisms which convert what in a traditional office are paper processes into electronic processes, with the goal being to create a paperless office.

The word affect, as used in Tomkins theory, specifically refers to the " biological portion of emotion ," that is, to " hard-wired, preprogrammed, genetically transmitted mechanisms that exist in each of us " which, when triggered, precipitates a " known pattern of biological events ," although it is also acknowledged that, in adults, the affective experience is a result of both the innate mechanism and a " complex matrix of nested and interacting ideo-affective formations.

The distinction between " step-growth polymerization " and " chain-growth polymerization " was introduced by Paul Flory in 1953, and refers to the reaction mechanisms, respectively:

Evolutionary epistemology refers to two distinct topics-on the one hand, the biological evolution of cognitive mechanisms in animals and humans, and on the other hand, a theory in that knowledge itself evolves by natural selection.

Millikan refers to the intertwined selection histories of these mechanisms to explain the hallmarks of mentality and to offer a wide range of positions on various matters of dispute in the philosophy of mind and language.

Speech delay, also known as alalia, refers to a delay in the development or use of the mechanisms that produce speech.

Emotional cutoff refers to the mechanisms people use to reduce anxiety from their unresolved emotional issues with parents, siblings, and other members from the family of origin.

The term Southeast Ceremonial Complex refers to a complex, highly variable set of religious mechanisms that supported the authority of local chiefs.