(We use cross-parenting in preference to cross-breeding, the term common in biology, as it has a greater connotation of voluntary choice. Note too that the term population mixing in our context differs from its definition in epidemiology where it refers to contacts among people as a result of spatial movement; see Law et al. 2008).
(The term corn is confusing outside of the United States, where it refers to cereals in general).
The term is used by analogy in such expressions as the Industrial Revolution, where it refers to a radical and profound change in economic relationships and technological conditions.
The word Mormon is taken from the book, where it refers both to a geographical area and also to a prophet of that name.
Such pieces of urban architecture and visual life are more like what the scientists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin called spandrels, a term borrowed from architecture, where it refers to the inevitable V-shaped expanses between rounded arches.
HousingMaps instantly attracted a crowd and has since been visited by more than 850,000 people.The term mash-up is borrowed from the world of music, where it refers to the unauthorised combination of the vocal from one song with the musical backing of another, usually from a completely different genre.
All the way through, there are quotes from the movie that come flying out of the screen to try and subliminally attract us: "The wait is over," says a voice, undoubtedly ripped from somewhere in the film where it refers to something incongruous, like someone walking in with a nice hot cup of tea.
In the television industry, such digressive scripts are generally called non-canonical or canon discontinuity – a term borrowed from academia, where it refers to disputed or late-discovered works by a particular writer – or, in a metaphor taken from the improvised individual flourish that a star instrumentalist will sometimes add within an established piece of music, as cadenza episodes.
(The name mashup comes from popular music, where it refers to a song constructed from parts of other songs).
4. Note that this usage of the term 'causal' by Bohr differs from his usage of that term in earlier texts, where it refers only to the applicability of dynamical conservation laws, and not to the union of a space-time description with these conservation laws.
