Colloquial terms such as " let's play it by the ear ", " take it as it comes ", and " make it up as we go along " are all used to describe " improvisation ".

To describe this point better, let's look at the next example:

Below we use our earlier examples to describe and illustrate these four properties.

The use of the word abacus dates before 1387 AD, when a Middle English work borrowed the word from Latin to describe a sandboard abacus.

First century sources, such as the Abhidharmakosa describe the knowledge and use of abacus in India.

It is thus a term used to describe attempts to use philosophical methods to identify the morally correct course of action in various fields of human life.

( It is important to note that in the US some states prohibit the use of the word ' Architect ' to be used in any way to describe an unlicensed person who is in the architectural profession.

The proper use of the symbol is debated ; it is used to describe any cyclic pi system in some publications, or only those pi systems that obey Hückel's rule on others.

Until the 1970s there was considerable debate within psychiatry on the most appropriate term to use to describe the new drugs.

The Bush is a term Alaskans use to describe portions of their state that are not connected to the North America road network.

Catholic Christians, following the Canon of Trent, describe these books as deuterocanonical, meaning of " the second canon ," while Greek Orthodox Christians, following the Synod of Jerusalem ( 1672 ), use the traditional name of anagignoskomena, meaning " that which is to be read.

However, its primary use since at least the late 1980s has been to describe the application of computer science and information sciences to the analysis of biological data, particularly in those areas of genomics involving large-scale DNA sequencing.

Since the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four the phrase " Big Brother " has come into common use to describe any prying or overly-controlling authority figure, and attempts by government to increase surveillance.

The word " baptism " or " christening " is sometimes used to describe the inauguration of certain objects for use.

* Blue biotechnology is a term that has been used to describe the marine and aquatic applications of biotechnology, but its use is relatively rare.

Others continue to use the word to describe the style of breakthrough warfare practised by the Axis powers of this period, even if it were not a formal doctrine.

Cyberpunk writers tend to use elements from hardboiled detective fiction, film noir, and postmodernist prose to describe the often nihilistic underground side of an electronic society.

Fans sometimes make up explanations for such errors that may or may not be integrated into canon ; this has come to be colloquially known as fanwanking ( a term originally coined by the author Craig Hinton to describe excessive use of continuity ).

The word horologia ( from the Greek ὡρα, hour, and λέγειν, to tell ) was used to describe all these devices, but the use of this word ( still used in several Romance languages ) for all timekeepers conceals from us the true nature of the mechanisms.

One form of this widespread language is used in Daniel and Ezra, but the use of the name " Chaldee " to describe it, first introduced by Jerome, is incorrect and a misnomer.

The identification of libertarianism with neo-classical liberalism primarily occurs in the United States, where some conservatives and right-libertarians use the term classical liberalism to describe their belief in the primacy of economic freedom and minimal government.

Due to the possibility of confusion between the use of the word " cytosol " to refer to both extracts of cells and the soluble part of the cytoplasm in intact cells, the phrase " aqueous cytoplasm " has been used to describe the liquid contents of the cytoplasm of living cells.

This has led to the very literal use of ' critical theory ' as an umbrella term to describe any theory founded upon critique.

The Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington, as well as hospitals use the term to describe the territory of their facilities.

These colorful, small-patterned printed fabrics gave rise to the use of the word calico to describe a cat coat color: " calico cat ".

As a result he started to use the term person-centered approach later in his life to describe his overall theory.

The use of a term for keeled sternum to describe the Ichthyornis – Neornithine group turned out to be equally inapt.

Since the same method of shaping and fitting the dogs and notches is used throughout, we will only describe the construction of one locking bar.

Merchant has found that the same basic relationships which describe the geometry and force systems in the case of the cutting mechanism can also be applied to the discontinuous chip formation provided the proper values of instantaneous shear angle and instantaneous chip thickness or cross-sectional area are used.

A consequence of using waveforms to describe particles is that it is mathematically impossible to obtain precise values for both the position and momentum of a particle at the same time ; this became known as the uncertainty principle, formulated by Werner Heisenberg in 1926.

For example, in the first editions of the collection The Mysterious Mr Quin ( 1930 ), in the short story " The Soul of the Croupier ," she described " Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery "; in later editions the passage was edited to describe " sallow men " wearing same.

The Nicene Creed's central term, used to describe the relationship between the Father and the Son, is Homoousios (), or Consubstantiality, meaning " of the same substance " or " of one being ".

To show the derivation clearly, we propose that the stress should be on the penultimate syllable, the second half of the word being pronounced like " ptosis " ( with the " p " silent ), which comes from the same root " to fall ", and is already used to describe the drooping of the upper eyelid.

Arnason and Gullberg describe the genetic distance between a blue and a fin as about the same as that between a human and a gorilla.

Terms such as " media imperialism ", " structural imperialism ", " cultural dependency and domination ", " cultural synchronization ", " electronic colonialism ", " ideological imperialism ", and " economic imperialism " have all been used to describe the same basic notion of cultural imperialism.

In British English and in the commonwealth countries, the term public company is more widely to describe the same sort of entity while the word company encompasses all incorporated entities.

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 ).

The FTC says: "§ 23. 23 ( c ) It is unfair or deceptive to use the word " laboratory-grown ," " laboratory-created ," " name-created ," or " synthetic " with the name of any natural stone to describe any industry product unless such industry product has essentially the same optical, physical, and chemical properties as the stone named.

The semantics were just loose enough that there might be several ways to describe the same data.

In Tantric yoga the same emphasis is placed on the retention and absorption of vital liquids and Sanskrit texts describe how semen must not be emitted if the yogi is to avoid falling under the law of time and death.

The fictional exploits of Jesse Livermore as chronicled in Reminiscences of a Stock Operator ( 1923 ) also describe speculative vehicles dubbed " pools " that are similar, if not the same, in form and function as what would later be called " hedge funds ".

In computer science, the term idempotent is used more comprehensively to describe an operation that will produce the same results if executed once or multiple times.

His Pure Theory of Law aims to describe law as binding norms while at the same time refusing, itself, to evaluate those norms.

The software analyzing sentences was also self-learning, so one phrase used metaphorically to describe something should not be used in the same context again.

In the same year R. T. Gould published a book, the first of many that describe the author's personal investigation and collected record of additional reports pre-dating 1933.

Essentially they describe the same process ; although evolution beyond the species level results in beginning and ending generations which could not interbreed, the intermediate generations could.

* If the molecule has some symmetry, the degenerate atomic orbitals ( with the same atomic energy ) are grouped in linear combinations ( called symmetry-adapted atomic orbitals ( SO )), which belong to the representation of the symmetry group, so the wave functions that describe the group are known as symmetry-adapted linear combinations ( SALC ).

A significant early use of the term nation, as natio, occurred at mediaeval universities to describe the colleagues in a college or students, above all at the University of Paris, who were all born within a pays, spoke the same language and expected to be ruled by their own familiar law.

When someone speaks of a mishap involving an audible arcing of electricity, the word " zap " is often used ( and has subsequently been expanded and used to describe non-auditory effects generally connoting the same sort of localized but thorough interference or destruction similar to that produced in short-circuit sparking ).

Since synthetic polymerization techniques typically yield a polymer product including a range of molecular weights, the weight is often expressed statistically to describe the distribution of chain lengths present in the same.

In this case to describe the actual color yellow and to describe the same as a wavelength, is an example of a type-type identity for they are the same thing.