The phrase "akin in terms" is not standard and may sound awkward in written English.
It can be used when comparing two concepts or ideas that share similarities in specific aspects, but it is better to use it with more clarity.
Example: "The two theories are akin in terms of their approach to understanding human behavior."
Alternatives: "similar in terms" or "comparable in terms".
Numerous publications have 'validated' the RIFLE and AKIN classifications in terms of patient outcome prominently in the ICU arena.
Parts of town that were monocultures, he says, gradually become "fine-grained mixed-use neighbourhoods" more akin in human terms to pre-industrial villages than to modern suburbs.Ms Moritz at Jones Lang LaSalle is already counting more offices leaving suburbs entirely and moving back into downtowns, which tend to be younger and hipper.
Nor does this hypothesis suggest that the stack or buffer represents all of the relevant data or computations: the idea is that it can activate and link representations generated in other brain regions (akin in computer terms to storing a pointer, rather than all of the data).
"Much of Iran is akin to Afghanistan in terms of topography and flight mapping — a pretty tough target," the military official said.
Such global loss of animal species, or defaunation, is increasingly recognized as a problem akin to deforestation in terms of scale and impact.
Some discounts are almost akin to soap-powders in terms of "buy one, get one free".
According to network theorists - those who believe that society can be analysed in terms akin to a computer network - all this should be to the good.
A nation that knew next to nothing about Chechens last week might now view them in terms akin to those of a man who prosecuted two brutal wars against them.
The title of the movie that kept coming back to me was his last one (to date), "Cracking Up"; Sherman shows herself cracking up, shows an art star cracking up, and she does it in terms akin to those of Lewis's great testamentary film: as failed attempts at suicide.
We should probably note right off the bat that a "green gaming PC" is a sort of contradiction in terms, akin to the world's "smallest giant panda".
