Sentences with phrase «meaning of terms used»

In the United States, it is standard for the court to consider statements made by the applicant about the meaning of terms used in the claims and the scope of the invention when considering what the patent means for the purpose of validity and infringement.

A semantic search works by trying to understand the searcher's intent and the contextual meaning of terms used.

Ironically, there is no consensus on the meanings of the terms used to define this consensus.

The definition section will outline the meanings of terms used throughout the policy.

Not exact matches

In terms of color coordination (as highlighted in this KISSmetrics graphic), this would mean creating a visual structure consisting of base analogous colors and contrasting them with accent complementary colors (or you can use tertiary colors):

Half of the people who use this term likely don't even know what it means.

Even more so, Obama's leadership style in using the moment as a springboard for his message forwards his longer term agenda - meaning as he leaves office at the end of his term, he's accomplished a lot of the items in his leadership bucket list.

Under its Terms of Use, Sweatcoin specifies that users «shall not... seek to generate Sweatcoins by any means other than your genuine physical movement.»

«This might explain the awkward mistranslation of the French President describing Malcolm Turnbull's wife as delicious,» McKinnell said, attaching a picture of the Google translation for the French word, «délicieux,» which can be interpreted as «delightful» or «lovely» — as well as «delicious,» though it is unlikely Macron meant it in the way that term is traditionally used in English.

«A true leader wouldn't use the term very much, and if they did, they'd quantify what that means in terms of department size or initiatives and influence.»

You might see some shirtmakers use terms like «yarn number» (referring to the thickness of the yarn) or «ply» (meaning the number of threads comprising the yarn, e.g. «two - ply»).

The use of the term, «deep - seated,» means that something is firmly established or entrenched.

By the early 20th century, bandwagons were commonplace in political campaigns, and «jump on the bandwagon» had become a derogatory term used to describe the social phenomenon of wanting to be part of the majority even when it means going against one's principles or beliefs.

The term «emergency support services» means information or data base management services used in support of emergency services.

(Like many of you who read this blog, Ardath has a B2B focus; when she says «buyer,» «customer,» or «audience» — terms often used interchangeably here — she means people who make substantial purchasing decisions.)

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You may identify forward - looking statements by the use of words such as «believe,» «expect,» «plan,» «intend,» «anticipate,» «estimate,» «predict,» «potential,» «may,» «should,» «will» or other words or expressions of similar meaning, although not all forward - looking statements contain such terms.

Please refer to the Table of Abbreviations on page 104 for the meaning of certain terms used in this summary and the rest of this proxy statement.

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Lastly, Harper simply has no answer at all when it comes to promoting new long term economic growth in Canada and his laissez - faire ideology means that we are falling further and further behind those countries that are actually using the power and organizing capacity of the state to create sustained, modernizing economic growth.

What all of this means is that the Parkland gunman, in practical terms, had the same rifle firepower as an American grunt using a standard infantry rifle in the standard way.

Although we fundamentally disagree with this designation as the token is not a coin in the literal meaning of the term and this is not an offering in the financial meaning of the word, we have reluctantly decided to use the term ICO in order to provide as much clarity as possible to persons interested in purchasing SPRK.

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Even though individual consumers rarely have access to the prime interest rate, it should still mean something to you since it affects the cost of taking on a short - term loan and using a credit card.

First of all, using a HELOC means you tend to have a fixed interest rate and a finite term of repayment (in other words, a HELOC can't hang around for 40 years like a student loan could).

Offering, operating, or participating in, any marketing or sales plan or program wherein a participant gives or agrees to give a valuable consideration in return (1) for the opportunity to receive compensation in return for inducing other persons to become participants in the plan or program, or (2) for the opportunity to receive something of value when a person induced by the participant induces a new participant to give such valuable consideration, Provided, That the term «compensation,» as used in this paragraph only, does not mean any payment based on actually consummated sales of goods or services to persons who are not participants in the plan or program and who do not purchase such goods or services in order to participate in the plan or program.

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I mean, it's bad enough that a bunch of thieves start using a term.

The term of the cash advance is up to three months and you can opt to repay at any time, meaning you'll only pay for what you use.

For example, long - term investment also means finding stocks with consistent dividends, and using them to generate steady streams of income.

So there are lots of those long - term factors, demographics, aging population, global competition that mean that long - term interest rates may not rise at the same level, but one can't help but feel that we have seen six, seven years and in some cases, 10 years now post global financial crisis of near - zero interest rates and it's just, I suspect, there are a lot of market practitioners have gotten used to that idea and haven't really gotten their heads around the fact that we are still seeing Fed governors suggesting we have got one more rate increase this year and potentially two or three coming out next year.

That means the market has entered a so - called correction — a term used to indicate that the downward trend is more severe and lasting than simply a few days of bearish trading.

Buyer's use of digital and social communities will continue to evolve and businesses must find out what that means in terms of how they construct engagements with buyers.

However, their long - term contracts and the fact that greater use of frac sand is one way for oil and gas companies to maximize productivity from each well means that demand declines might prove smaller than those of other oil services companies.

Buy «buy silver» remains to enjoy high volume, meaning one or more of three things: that there are more buyers in the market using the search term «buy silver»; there are more sellers in the market trying to search optimize around «buy silver,» or a mixture of the both.

At Valuentum, we often use a discounted cash - flow model as a means to back into the current share price of firms in order to ascertain whether the market is unfairly pricing their stock relative to reasonable long - term growth and profitability assumptions.

This also means that triple net lease REITs, which are often used by yield - hungry investors in a low interest rate environment as bond alternatives, can be thought of as very long - term duration bond proxies.

The traditional «dry» paste cream typically uses a form of hydroxyl acid as its formulary base (the use of the term «dry» is not intended as a negative; it simply means it is sensitive to the presence of air — not water).

That Act would further restrict the Fed's 13 (3) lending operations by requiring that they be approved by at least two - thirds of the FOMC (as opposed to the present 5 - member requirement); by disallowing the use of equity as collateral for 13 (3) loans; by requiring that loans be approved not only by the Federal Reserve Board but by all Federal banking regulators having jurisdiction over the prospective borrowers; and by allowing emergency lending to be extended beyond a term of 30 days only by means of a joint resolution approved by Congress.

This is a term used to describe issue of meaning, belonging and drive in humans and has nothing at all to do with supernatural spirits.

The problem is a lack of imagination, a lack of self - reflection on what we mean when we use terms such as «random» and «intelligent.»

Philosophical and political arguments, by which we might understand the meaning of the term as it is used most commonly today, begin with Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

I know that once I hear or read one of those terms, it almost always means that the person using the term is going to tell us that their magic term means they are right and the other person is wrong because the other person is using a «straw man», they're «cherry picking» or now they're on «the slippery slope».

When they speak of overseas, mission, they do not mean at all the same thing as evangelicals who use these terms.

4 I use the term «matter of preference» to mean a situation of human choice in which there is finally no rational basis for an ethical distinction between the alternatives.

Evangelicals who speak of «overseas mission» or «world mission» mean by these terms exactly the same thing they used to mean by «foreign missions» — spreading the gospel to the unreached.

In any case, I wish to make clear that both terms are used here in a broader sense, such that the liberal view of interest (or self - interest, or happiness) is simply one of the alternatives.2 In speaking of a private view of self - interest, I mean that human community is thought to be solely instrumental to, i.e., not constitutive of, happiness.

Finally, I'm uncomfortable with your use of the term «chaos theory», but that's because it has a precise mathematical meaning in my household.