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Discover LudwigThe phrase "an obsolete term" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a word or phrase that is no longer in common use or has fallen out of favor.
Example: "The term 'floppy disk' is considered an obsolete term in today's digital age."
Alternatives: "an outdated term" or "a dated term".
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An example for an obsolete term is for instance: [Term] id: MS:1001849 name: sum of MatchedFeature values def: "OBSOLETE Peptide quantification value calculated as sum of MatchedFeature quantification values".
Trump has railed against the practice, tweeting in November that it was over: "Catch and Release is an obsolete term.
Cis-trans isomers belong to a class of stereoisomers known as diastereomers and are often referred to as geometric isomers, although this is an obsolete term.
The title "Soldier's Heart" refers to an obsolete term ascribing actual cardiac disorder to what was later known as shell shock, then battle fatigue and then post-traumatic stress disorder.
But what's becoming clearest in this fight isn't anything about Hagel, but the derangement of the Republican Party, to use what may soon be an obsolete term for a movement in a state of sour disorder.
The resulting two substances are different compounds, each having its own properties such as boiling point (abbreviated bp here): Cis-trans isomers belong to a class of stereoisomers known as diastereomers and are often referred to as geometric isomers, although this is an obsolete term.
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In 1912 Vesto Slipher measured the first Doppler shift of a "spiral nebula" (spiral nebula is the obsolete term for spiral galaxies), and soon discovered that almost all such nebulae were receding from Earth.
Obsolete term.
(Even the obsolete term "New World" is newer).
But the O.E.D. says the obsolete term means "suppression of truth or fact for the purpose of obtaining something; fraudulent misrepresentation".
Non-standard and obsolete term descriptions no longer supported by the PSI-MI controlled vocabulary were manually removed or remapped to new terms.
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