The phrase "acquaintance terms" is not commonly used in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing the language or phrases used to describe relationships between acquaintances.
Example: "In our conversation, we often used acquaintance terms to refer to people we knew casually."
Alternatives: "familiarity terms" or "casual relationship terms".
For example, the probability that an individual (termed the "ego") and his/her acquaintance (termed the "alter") are jointly obese decreases with geodesic distance (i.e., the number of sequential steps that link two nodes).
Although some prefer the more-inclusive term acquaintance rape, which does not imply any sort of romantic relationship between the rapist and the victim, both terms acknowledge the facts that the majority of women and men who are raped know their attackers and that the victim did not consent to sexual activity.
Coyle accepted and long-term acquaintance Stewart took charge for the Saints' 3-2 win against Dunfermline before joining him at Turf Moor.
The virtue of the long-form storytelling (39 episodes in all) is that even when a minor character dies it has the impact of losing, if not an old friend, then at least a long-term acquaintance.
Date rape, also called acquaintance rape, a term used largely in industrialized countries to describe the forcing or coercing of a victim into unwanted sexual activity by a friend, romantic suitor, or peer through violence, verbal pressure, misuse of authority, use of incapacitating substances, or threat of violence.
This immediate relation to individual objects is best known under Russell's term "acquaintance".
He has been a long-term acquaintance of the alleged heroin kingpin Gafur Rakhimov (who seems to have played a key role in helping Russia win the Sochi Winter Olympics), but strenuously denies any business relationship with the mysterious businessman.
One approach to identify them, considering a theoretical infection process spreading on a skewed contact network, has been termed "acquaintance immunization" [ 14, 15].
This worry is sometimes put in terms of acquaintance: the specific way in which the thinker is acquainted with the referent of her thought in using phenomenal concepts does not seem to be captured by the demonstrative account (see Levine 2007).
