While all modern variants of the acre contain 4, 840 square yards, there are alternative definitions of a yard, so the exact size of an acre depends on which yard it is based on.

While an exact number has not been determined, thousands of Canadians have purchased and used what they contend to be grey market radio and television services, licensed in the United States but not in Canada.

While most small corporations do not have a 2 / 3 vote requirement, in the exact opposite, most large corporations especially those incorporated in Delaware, do have a 2 / 3 vote requirement.

While historians disagree over the exact authorship of the work, the writing contains clear indications of Allen's style.

While the exact definition and what is included as extreme sport is debatable, some attempted to make classification for extreme sports.

While the exact location of the grave is unknown, a stone was added in the 19th century to mark a grave traditionally thought to be Calvin's.

While the exact cause of primary lymphedema is still unknown, it generally occurs due to poorly developed or missing lymph nodes and / or channels in the body.

While the exact relationship of the short and apparently primitive text of Q1 to the later published texts is not resolved, Hardin Craig among others has suggested that it may represent an earlier draft of the play and hence would confirm that the play referred to in 1589 is in fact merely an earlier draft of Shakespeare's play.

While the exact cause of this behavior is unknown, springbok exhibit this activity when they are nervous or otherwise excited.

While her exact route is unknown, Tubman made use of the network known as the Underground Railroad.

While the exact style of the wine will vary from producer, some of the terroir characteristics associated with California Chardonnay include " flinty " notes with the Russian River Valley and mango & guava from Monterey.

While the exact meaning of the term layer-4 switch is vendor-dependent, it almost always starts with a capability for network address translation, but then adds some type of load distribution based on TCP sessions.

While this greatly reduced the bandwidth requirements for spammers at a time when Internet connections were limited, it forced each spam to be an exact copy and thus easier to detect.

While the issue of the exact theological structure and composition of the Sermon on the Mount is subject to debate among scholars, specific components within it, each associated with particular teachings, can be identified.

While his motives for founding this order are ultimately unknown, it was said to be all for his own political and personal gain and to also exact vengeance on his enemies.

While the exact origins of chess are unclear, modern rules first took form during the Middle Ages.

While the video signal can easily hide the head-switching point in the invisible vertical retrace section of the signal, so that the exact switching point is not very important, the same is obviously not possible with a continuous audio signal that has no inaudible sections.

While the exact cause of endometriosis remains unknown, many theories have been presented to better understand and explain its development.

While Widukind was considered the leader of the Saxon resistance by the Franks, his exact role in the military campaigns is unknown.

While variants turn up in other places ( for example a poem often ascribed to Virgil called Moretum contains the phrase E Pluribus Unus ), this is the oldest known use of the exact phrase.

While the exact provenance of the word " poutine " is uncertain, some of its meanings undoubtedly result at least in part from the influence of the English word pudding.

While the exact date of Crawford's break with Seymour is disputed, it was complete by 1908.

While the exact origins of the wave may be in dispute, Seattle was the first place to routinely perform it.

While there is no consensus on the exact meaning of the name Itzamna, it may be significant that itz is a root denoting all sorts of secretions ( such as dew, sap, and semen ) and also sorcery.

While the exact mechanisms have yet to be elucidated, peroxidases are known to play a part in increasing a plant's defenses against pathogens.

While the term's etymology might suggest that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic peoples, the term was coined in the late 19th century in Germany as a more scientific-sounding term for Judenhass (" Jew-hatred "),

While folk etymology identifies it with " cape ", other suggestions suggest it to be connected to the Latin word caput (" head "), and thus explain it as meaning " chief " or " big head ".

While this Hebrew name is not the etymology of Essaioi / Esseni, the Aramaic equivalent Hesi ' im known from Eastern Aramaic texts has been suggested.

While Delphi is actually related to the word (" womb "), many etiological myths are similarly based on folk etymology ( the term " Amazon ", for example ).

While the etymology is Greek, the oldest extant record of the word itself is the New Latin form ontologia, which appeared in 1606, in the work Ogdoas Scholastica by Jacob Lorhard ( Lorhardus ) and in 1613 in the Lexicon philosophicum by Rudolf Göckel ( Goclenius ); see classical compounds for this type of word formation.

While it is frequently thought that he was the originator of the word, he wrote a short letter in reference to an article in the Oxford English Dictionary etymology in which he named his brother, painter and writer Josef Čapek, as its actual inventor .< ref >

While he assembled the accounts of many Western travelers, the author failed to explain the etymology of the term Assassin.

While this was probably just folk etymology made popular by Pliny the Elder, it was well known by the time the term came into common use.

While Karel Čapek's play introduced the word " robot " into languages around the globe but he later wrote a letter to the Oxford English Dictionary of etymology in which he named his brother, painter and writer Josef Čapek, as its true inventor.

While the last element of the city's name comes from Danish ø which means " island " (), the etymology of the first element is uncertain.

While he assembled the accounts of many Western travelers, the author failed to explain the etymology of the term Assassin.

While the name may refer to black and white outfits once worn by European advocates or lawyers, the actual etymology is unknown.

While folk etymology sometimes assumes the name is a portmanteau of parsley and turnip, it actually comes from Middle English pasnepe, alteration ( influenced by nep, turnip ) of Old French pasnaie ( now panais ) from Latin pastinum, a kind of fork, whose ending was changed to-nip by analogy with turnip because it was assumed to be a kind of turnip.

While primarily known as a poet, he also translated Dante's Divine Comedy, wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, and directed the Bread Loaf Writers ' Conference in Vermont.

While Barton is a common English place-name, the etymology of Barton-on-Sea is unique.

While by itself the character fěn () means powder, it etymology is probably related to diàn fěn (), which means " starch " the substance from which the noodles are made.

While the term was first described in 1751 as student slang, its etymology is unknown.

While Flip is usually used inoffensively, the folk etymology of the term is that it is an acronym for " fucking little island people " which was allegedly coined by American soldiers during World War II.