The word calculus has continued to be used for various methods of calculation, as in ``differential calculus,'' or simply to emphasize the mathematical quality of a reasoning process, as in ``moral calculus.'' I really didn't want to write this much, but as long as I'm on this I'll...
I used to have the expansion with Interational -- interesting thought. CII Confederation of Indian Industry. ``Building Business Leadership.'' Founded in the last years of the nineteenth century, it is non-governmental, nonprofit, industry-led and industry-managed. French news sources describe ...
Used in medical literature to stand for probability ratio; statistical results might be stated ``RR=1.31, 95% confidence interval 0.92--1.86.'' R&R Rest and Relaxation. RR Reverse Recovery (diode). RR Rolls Royce. Erwin Panofsky, in one of Three Essays on Style (1995), argued ...
Maybe what used to be called common-law marriage. Hence the blend. Usually, this kind of blend is made possible by the fact that past participles of -ar verbs like amar (`to love') take an -ado ending, while other (-er, -ir) verbs take an -ido ending. In this case, however,...
Term used primarily in the UK, not quite equivalent to secretary. In some contexts, the term is distinguished from a ``team secretary'' who does secretarial work for more than one boss; in others it refers to a higher level of competence and responsibility, even though the PA may answer ...
International Association for Hydraulic Engineering and Research. As the initialism suggests, it used to be the International Association for Hydraulic Research. The organization used, and still uses the symbol IAHR/AIRH also. The impression I get from searching the web with ``Association International...
Today it is used to cover gaming and pool tables. The word comes from the French baies, the plural feminine form of the bai, `bay-colored,' from Latin badius. Bay, in case you forgot, or in case you couldn't forget, is a reddish or golden brown. Presumably that was the original...
and that was used by, Altec Lansing. As this suggests, and as the decline of his first company after Decker's death is also supposed to show, he was a much better engineer than businessman; for this reason, or simply because of poor economic conditions, the new company did not prosper...
Her grandparents used a version of Arabic script adapted to the same language (Serbo-Croatian, called ``Bosnian'' in this context). But Arabic script is a challenge even for Arabic. Even though the whole family speaks the same language, the Arabic script was practically a secret code; ...