Sentence examples for former term for from inspiring English sources

A former term for the reciprocal of the ohm is the mho (ohm spelled backward).

"The way we usually talk about this is in terms of 'good income' vs. 'bad income,' " Mr. Goldman said, with the former term used for income derived from shareholders and the latter for nonshareholder sources.

The former term was more intuitive for non-practitioner representatives in particular, who were all representing research institutions.

More than half of the residents of the city and metropolitan area are Coloured (the former official term for people of mixed race), about one-fourth are white, about one-fifth are black, and the remainder are of Asian primarily Indian origin.

The former is a term for unstructured collections of data and the latter a term for its analysis.

The former is a term for unstructured collections of data and the latter a term for its analysis, which often involves collaborative software for both phases.

At the party convention of 1880 Conkling headed the so-called Stalwart faction supporting a third term for former president Grant.

Mr. McDougal died during the same weekend that his former wife's prison term for contempt had been completed at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a Federal prison in Los Angeles.

Part of Mitchell's job was to prevent a second term for former President Bush.

Earlier in the proceedings, the judges had upheld a 25-year prison term against Jadranko Prlić, the former prime minister of a breakaway Bosnian Croat statelet, Herceg-Bosna, and a 20-year term for its former defence minister Bruno Stojić.

Three to five years: a plausible prison term for the former basketball star Jayson Williams, for shooting his chauffeur in the chest.