Sentence examples for mean a specific from inspiring English sources

The acronym stands for electronic dance music, but it's a misnomer because EDM has come to mean a specific dance music subgenre, distinct from other sounds such as techno, minimal house, disco, funk, drum'n'bass.

By a control architecture we mean a specific way of organizing the motion control and navigation functions performed by the MOB.

We should stop trying to lump all women together when we mean a specific section of women, and stop speaking on behalf of women who clearly want nothing to do with us.

But the Justice Department came up with a theory that the word "facility" in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which had traditionally been understood to mean a specific telephone number or e-mail address, could be "changed to encompass the gateway or cable head that foreign targets use for communications" — that is, the entire line.

What most people don't get, though, is that there is always a break-even point — and I mean a specific number — when it makes more sense to kill it with technology.

It is worth emphasizing that, since the watermark decoding problem is formulated as different hypotheses testing problem from the watermark detection problem (i.e., with H0 being the noise-only hypothesis), a specific watermark detector does not necessarily mean a specific watermark decoder.

Courier isn't a synonym for 'terrorist' as such - it means a specific kind of agent.

But to geologists, Ma means "million years ago," and 90 Ma, for instance, means a specific point in the Cretaceous period.

The "cowboys full" of McManus's title means a specific poker hand of three kings plus another card paired, but it also indicates how the game has flourished in Western settings.

Conservation practice means a specific treatment, such as a structural or vegetative measure, or management technique, commonly used to meet specific needs in planning and implementing conservation, for which standards and specifications have been developed.

It means a specific set of algorithms and technology, but within three to five years it won't be "AI companies" anymore.