Alchemists developed a framework of theory, terminology, experimental process and basic laboratory techniques that are still recognizable today.

In Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs novels human colonies on distant planets maintain contact with earth and each other via hyperspatial needlecast, a technology which moves information "... so close to instantaneously that scientists are still arguing about the terminology ...".

Perhaps most importantly, he formulated the terminology still in use for various complex chess strategies.

It was not until 1922 that Alfred W. Porter proposed the symbol " H " as the accepted standard, thus finalizing the terminology still in use today.

has thus not been used in official terminology since 1945, though it is still found in the name of the Reichstag building, which since 1999 has housed the German federal parliament, the Bundestag.

( When we use words such as fellatio we are still using the terminology of Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis ).

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.

Social rights were included, most articles were reformulated ( the main exception being article 23 about the still sensitive freedom of education ) using a new uniform legal terminology and their sequence was changed.

This is a comparatively recent development however, as can be seen from the fact that modern geometry textbooks still use distinct terminology and notation for ratios and quotients.

However, in British legal terminology, a distinction was drawn ( and still is, in one or two colonial territories ) between " flogging " ( with a cat-o '- nine-tails ) and " whipping " ( formerly with a whip, but since the early 19th century with a birch ).

Differences in terminology remain a problem that, to some extent, still separates the fields of zoological anatomy ( sometimes called zootomy ) and human ( medical ) anatomy ( sometimes called androtomy ).

Historic terminology still exists across the English-speaking world, especially in vernacular usage.

This resulted in the common terminology " the MSF signal ", which is still used by the NPL.

Regardless of whether the blended whiskey is made from combining grain whiskey with either single malt whiskey or with single pot still whiskey, it is labelled with the same terminology.

In German, the unit was formerly also called Neugrad ( new degree ), and a similar terminology is still used in Danish and Icelandic.

The terminology for such unions is still evolving, and the exact level of rights and responsibilities conferred by a domestic partnership varies widely from place to place.

This term is now considered archaic in modern automobile terminology, since most forced-induction vehicles have single-stage superchargers or turbochargers, although " aftercooler " is still in common use in the piston-engined aircraft industry.

The austrian-hungarian empire ( eastern Europe ) had its own terminology for the coffees being served in coffee houses, while in german homes it was still called ' milchkaffee '.

During Newton's lifetime the study of chemistry was still in its infancy, so many of his experimental studies used esoteric language and vague terminology more typically associated with alchemy and occultism.

The decision was met with strong protest and in November 2011 an IAAF council member reported that Radcliffe's original mark would be allowed to stand with terminology for " side-by-side " still to be worked out.

People who passed the baccalauréat before this reform still use this terminology when they mention their diploma.

In standards terminology still used by some organisations, " normative " means " considered to be a prescriptive part of the standard ".

In equal pay claims based on gender, instead of " objective justification ", the old terminology still used is that there must be a " genuine material factor ", found in EA 2010 section 69.

In Lawrence's day, the terminology Primitive Baptist was not in common usage, and the preferred term was usually Old School Baptist, which still retains a strong usage among Primitive Baptists on the east coast.

: See the terminology section below for information regarding inconsistent use of the terms assembly and assembler.

He also notes that activists use the terms " globalization movement " and " anti-globalization movement " interchangeably, indicating the confusion of the terminology.

In modern and ancient usage, even within secular terminology, Christ usually refers to Jesus, building on the centuries old tradition of such use.

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.

Nevertheless, most grading systems use similar terminology and values and remain mutually intelligible.

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 ).

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.

As noted above, this terminology is not universal: Some authors use countable to mean what is here called " countably infinite ," and to not include finite sets.

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 ).

Criticisms of existentialist philosophers include the assertions that they confuse their use of terminology and contradict themselves.

The use of tabernacle terminology in Hebrews has been used to date the epistle before the destruction of the temple, the idea being that knowing about the destruction of both Jerusalem and the temple would have influenced the development of the author's overall argument to include such evidence.

Simple additive mixers use Kirchhoff's circuit laws to add the currents of two or more signals together, and this terminology (" mixer ") is only used in the realm of audio electronics where audio mixers are used to add together audio signals such as voice signals, music signals, and sound effects.

Because the group is diverse, not all of them use the same terminology for beliefs.

In the preface to the 1977 English translation Murray Rothbard called " The Production of Security " the " first presentation anywhere in human history of what is now called anarcho-capitalism " though admitting that " Molinari did not use the terminology, and probably would have balked at the name.

Latin terminology is often used to describe modern languages, at times erroneously, as in the application of the term " pluperfect " to the English " past perfect ", the application of " perfect " to what in English more often than not is not " perfective ", or where the German simple and perfect pasts are called respectively " Imperfektum " and " Perfektum ", despite the fact that neither has any real relationship to the aspects implied by the use of the Latin terms.

In reaction to the increasing media use of the term exclusively with the criminal connotation, the computer community began to differentiate their terminology.

Donald Knuth notes that Hans Peter Luhn of IBM appears to have been the first to use the concept, in a memo dated January 1953, and that Robert Morris used the term in a survey paper in CACM which elevated the term from technical jargon to formal terminology.

The complicated terminology distinguishing between ` the song, the name of the song, and what the name of the song is called ' entails the use – mention distinction.

Modern scholarship dating from the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement of 19th century Germany, as well as textual analysis influenced by the 20th Century discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, suggests that dating from this period there existed " liturgical formulations of a communal nature designated for particular occasions and conducted in a centre totally independent of Jerusalem and the Temple, making use of terminology and theological concepts that were later to become dominant in Jewish and, in some cases, Christian prayer.

Indeed, the name " Supreme Soviet ", by which the parliament was called ; and that of the Soviet Union itself make use of this terminology, but they do not imply any decentralization.

Other terminology was in use, too.

A Spanish scholar, Alfonso Moure, says in this regard :" In the terminology of prehistoric archeology, the most widespread trend is to use the term ' Epipaleolithic ' for the industrial complexes of post-glacial hunter-gatherer groups.