Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but here refers to the visual arts, which cover the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.

This movement began in Italy in the 14th century and the term, literally meaning rebirth, describes the revival of interest in the artistic achievements of the Classical world.

Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ' high culture ', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music — people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value.

The term " anti-ballistic missile " describes any antimissile system designed to counter ballistic missiles.

Alexander's term, " debauched sensory appreciation " describes how the repetition of a circumstance encourages habit design as a person adapts to circumstances or builds skills.

Atomic Semantics is a term which describes the guarantees provided by a data register shared by several processors in a parallel machine or in a network of computers working together.

Even in contemporary India the term rasa denoting " flavor " or " essence " is used colloquially to describe the aesthetic experiences in films ; " māsala mix " describes popular Hindi cinema films which serve a so called balanced emotional meal for the masses, savored as rasa by these spectators.

The term was coined by Fanya Montalvo by analogy with NP-complete and NP-hard in complexity theory, which formally describes the most famous class of difficult problems.

The term also accurately describes the condition of the baseball itself.

The Latin term ultra vires describes activities of officials within an organization or polity that fall outside the constitutional or statutory authority of those officials.

The term also describes films that have remained popular over a long period of time amongst a small group of followers.

The term " instant celebrity " describes someone who becomes a celebrity in a very short period of time.

However in Daoism it refers more often to a meta-physical term that describes a force that encompasses the entire universe but which cannot be described nor felt.

The term cretin describes a person so affected, but, as with words such as spastic, idiot and lunatic, also is a word of abuse.

The term " congregationalist polity " describes a form of church governance that is based on the local congregation.

In philosophy, the term critical theory describes the neo-Marxist philosophy of the Frankfurt School, developed in Europe in the 1930s, that engaged the works of intellectuals such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.

The term medical condition is used as a synonym for medical state, where it describes a patient's current state, as seen from a medical standpoint.

Arne Garborg describes land-draugar coming fresh from the graveyards, and the term draug is even used of vampires.

The term is a modern word that describes the portrayal of the human anatomy and sexuality with high-art aspirations, differentiating such work from commercial pornography.

The term is sometimes also colloquially used to refer to acceptance of the modern evolutionary synthesis, a scientific theory that describes how biological evolution occurs.

Although the term describes events as impinging on England, from the outset the conflicts involved wars with and civil wars within both Scotland and Ireland ; see Wars of the Three Kingdoms for an overview.

In thermodynamics, the term exothermic (" outside heating ") describes a process or reaction that releases energy from the system, usually in the form of heat, but also in the form of light ( e. g. a spark, flame, or explosion ), electricity ( e. g. a battery ), or sound ( e. g. burning hydrogen ).

Environmental skepticism is an umbrella term that describes those that argue that particular claims put forward by environmentalists and environmental scientists who support the first are false or exaggerated, along with those who are critical of environmentalism in general.

The distinction between the two is subtle: " higher-order " describes a mathematical concept of functions that operate on other functions, while " first-class " is a computer science term that describes programming language entities that have no restriction on their use ( thus first-class functions can appear anywhere in the program that other first-class entities like numbers can, including as arguments to other functions and as their return values ).

This is linked to the term to weigh anchor, meaning to lift the anchor from the sea bed, allowing the ship or boat to move.

More recently the term is applied to a board of thin insulating material with holes at standard 0. 1-inch pitch ; components are pushed through the holes to anchor them, and point-to-point wired on the other side of the board.

The term " anchor man " was used to describe Walter Cronkite's role at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions.

Zimmer ( and others ) also note that the term anchor was in common use in 1952 to describe the most prominent member of a panel of reporters or experts.

Although it is widely reported that the term " anchor " was coined to describe Cronkite's role at both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, marking the first nationally televised convention coverage, other news presenters bore the title before him.

In amateur radio and computing, boat anchor is a slang term used to describe something obsolete, useless, and cumbersome-so-called because metaphorically its only productive use is to be thrown into the water as a boat mooring.

The term barnstar has been incorrectly applied to star-shaped anchor plates that were used for structural reinforcement on buildings in the 18th and 19th centuries.

* Boat anchor ( computer science ), a colloquial term for outdated equipment

* No long term issues with maintaining the integrity of the anchor / dead end.

A related term, " anchor child ", referring in this case to " very young immigrants who will later sponsor immigration for family members who are still abroad ", was used in reference to Vietnamese boat people from about 1987.

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, an organization that advocates tighter restrictions on immigration, argues that defining the term as offensive is inaccurate and is done for purposes of political rhetoric ; according to Krikorian, "' anchor baby is a child born to an illegal immigrant ,'" and the revision of the definition to state that the term is offensive was done to make a political statement.

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According to the Double-Tongued Dictionary, written by American lexicographer Grant Barrett, the term " anchor baby " means " a child born of an immigrant in the United States, said to be a device by which a family can find legal foothold in the US, since those children are automatically allowed to choose United States citizenship.

On August 17, 2006, Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn used the term " anchor baby " in reference to Saul Arellano, in a column critical of his mother, who had been given sanctuary at a Chicago church after evading a deportation order.

On August 23, 2007, the San Diego, California-area North County Times came under criticism from one of its former columnists, Raoul Lowery Contreras, in a column titled "' Anchor babies ' is hate speech ", for allowing the term " anchor baby " to be printed in letters and opinion pieces.

Mushroom anchors are not carried on a boat for use as a temporary or short term anchor.

* Anchor home: The term for when the anchor is secured for sea.

* Long stay: A description for the relative slackness of an anchor chain ; this term means taught and extended.

* Short stay: A description for the relative slackness of an anchor chain ; this term means somewhat slack, but not vertical nor fully extended.

* Up-and-down: A description for the relative slackness of an anchor chain ; this term means that the anchor chain is slack and hangs vertically down from the hawsepipe.