The term "carbon footprint" is a specialized term commonly used in environmental studies.
Because so much weight is placed on each word in poetry, a single specialized term can shift the tone.
Another finalist, netwit, was also judged to be a specialized term: someone on the Internet who thinks he's funny and is not.
Though not a specialized term, it should be noted that the client frequently uses the word "patriarchy" when describing why she doesn't have a boyfriend.
Context is a specialized term in SFL, a theoretical metaphor, like the term 'choice', among others.
The ontologies of the GO database are structured as directed acyclic graphs, which are similar to hierarchies but different in that a more specialized term (child) can be related to more than one less specialized term (parent).
This is expected because Gene Ontology is structured in such a way that a gene annotated to a child term (more specific term) is also annotated to all its parent terms (less specialized term).
Traditional legal or constitutional analysis, using the first definition, has produced a huge body of literature on governmental structures, many of the specialized terms that are a part of the traditional vocabulary of political science, and several instructive classifying schemes.
Charles Fried, a noted professor of contracts at Harvard Law School, told me that the law is well settled that contracts should be interpreted according to the plain meaning of their words and should reflect the intent of the parties, and that technical or specialized terms should be interpreted according to trade usage.
These derivations raise the possibility that the ancestor language lacked specialized terms for "unhulled rice" and "cooked rice".
The project depends on contributors who are graduate students or Ph.D.-level scientists with a solid understanding of the scientific method and a talent for translating specialized terms into language that is accessible to pre-college and college students.
In reality, scientific seminars usually consist of quasi-related PowerPoint slides cobbled together from prior seminars and lab meetings, thoroughly and precariously dependent on an impossible quantity of specialized terms, assembled in a hotel room at 2 00 a.m. or covertly in the back of the lecture hall during the previous seminar.
