The particular speech pattern used by an individual is termed as an idiolect.

Objectivity is a central philosophical concept, related to reality and truth, which has been variously defined by sources. Generally, objectivity means the state or quality of being true even outside of a subject's individual biases, interpretations, feelings and imaginings.

Free thought holds that individuals should not accept ideas proposed as truth without recourse to knowledge and reason.

An argot is a secret language used by various groups — e.g. schoolmates, outlaws, colleagues etc.— to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations.

In electronic systems and computing, firmware is the combination of persistent memory and program code and data stored in it.

In linguistics, code-switching occurs when a speaker alternates between two or more languages or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation. Multilinguals—speakers of more than one language—sometimes use elements of multiple languages when conversing with each other. Thus, code-switching is the use of more than one linguistic variety in a manner consistent with the syntax and phonology of each variety.

Pedology (from the Greek pedon = soil, earth), is the study of soils in its natural environment.

The terms geoponic and geoponics refer to growing plants in a normal soil.

Controlled or prescribed burning, also known as hazard reduction burning (HRB) or swailing, is a technique sometimes used in forest management, farming, prairie restoration or greenhouse gas abatement. Controlled burning stimulates the germination of some desirable forest trees, thus renewing the forest.

Topsoil is the upper, outermost layer of soil, usually the top 2 inches (5.1 cm) to 8 inches (20 cm). It has the highest concentration of organic matter and microorganisms and is where most of the Earth's biological soil activity occurs.

Keystroke logging, often referred to as keylogging or keyboard capturing, is the action of recording (or logging) the keys struck on a keyboard, typically in a covert manner so that the person using the keyboard is unaware that their actions are being monitored.

A polyseme is a word or phrase with different, but related sense.

The Uniform Resource Locator, abbreviated as URL (also known as web address, particularly when used with HTTP), is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to a resource.

Ping is a basic Internet program that allows a user to verify that a particular IP address exists and can accept requests.

Auroras are associated with the solar wind, a flow of ions continuously flowing outward from the Sun.

A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while the user is browsing that website. Every time the user loads the website, the browser sends the cookie back to the server to notify the website of the user's previous activity.

A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.

Meronymy is a semantic relation used in linguistics. A meronym denotes a constituent part of, or a member of something. A meronym means part of a whole. A word denoting a subset of what another word denotes is a hyponym.

Kindergarten is an examples of loan word in english (from German Kindergarten meaning ‘children’s garden’).

A malapropism (also called a dogberryism) is the use of an incorrect word in place of a word with a similar sound, resulting in a nonsensical, often humorous utterance.

Accidental sampling (sometimes known as grab, convenience or opportunity sampling) is a type of nonprobability sampling which involves the sample being drawn from that part of the population which is close to hand. That is, a population is selected because it is readily available and convenient. It may be through meeting the person or including a person in the sample when one meets them or chosen by finding them through technological means such as the internet or through phone.

Mythopoeia is also the act of making (creating) mythologies. Mythopoeia aims at imitating and including real-world mythology, specifically created to bring mythology to modern readers, and/or to add credibility and literary depth to fictional worlds in fantasy or science fiction books and movies.

An auto-antonym is a word that can have opposite meanings in different contexts or under separate definitions. For example : Enjoin (to prohibit, issue injunction; to order, command).

Nalanda University (also known as University of Nalanda) is a Central University in Rajgir, near Nalanda, Bihar, India. The first academic session is scheduled to start from September 1, 2014 with a batch of 40 students. The university is a plan for reviving and re-establishing Nalanda University which was one of the oldest ancient higher-learning institutions. Originally the university was established in the 5th century AD by Gupta Kings.

Petroleum is a fossil fuel derived from ancient fossilised organic materials, such as zooplankton and algae. Vast quantities of these remains settled  in sea or lake bottoms, mixing with sediments and being buried under anoxic conditions.

The word row (propel with oars) and row (argument) and row (a linear arrangement of seating) are considered homonyms. A homonym is, in the strict sense, one of a group of words that share the same spelling and pronunciation but may have different meanings.

Tacit knowledge is intuitive and unarticulated knowledge that cannot be communicated, understood or used without the ‘knowing subject’.

Saltwater intrusion is the movement of saline water into freshwater aquifers, which can lead to contamination of drinking water sources and other consequences.

Decoding, in semiotics, is the process of interpreting a message sent by an addresser to an addressee. The complementary process – creating a message for transmission to an addressee – is called encoding.

Collocations are partly or fully fixed expressions that become established through repeated context-dependent use. Such terms as 'crystal clear', 'middle management', 'nuclear family' and 'cosmetic surgery' are examples of collocated pairs of words.

A semantic network, or frame network, is a network which represents semantic relations between concepts. This is often used as a form of knowledge representation.

Bibliometrics is a set of methods to quantitatively analyze academic literature. Citation analysis and content analysis are commonly used bibliometric methods. While bibliometric methods are most often used in the field of library and information science, bibliometrics have wide applications in other areas.

Hydrogeology (hydro- meaning water, and geology meaning the study of the Earth) is the area of geology that deals with the distribution and movement of groundwater in the soil and rocks of the Earth's crust (commonly in aquifers).

Critical reading is a form of language that does not take a text at face value but involves an examination of claims put forwards well as in the text's section and selection of the information presented.

Kurtosis is any measure of the peakedness of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable. In a similar way to the concept of skewness, kurtosis is a descriptor of the shape of a probability distribution and, just as for skewness, there are different ways of quantifying it for a theoretical distribution and corresponding ways of estimating it from a sample from a population.

Aberrant decoding or aberrant reading is a concept used in fields such as communication and media studies, semiotics, and journalism about how messages can be interpreted differently from what was intended by their sender.

A data dictionary, or metadata repository, as defined in the IBM Dictionary of Computing, is a centralized repository of information about data such as meaning, relationships to other data, origin, usage and format.

A conjecture is a proposition that is unproven. Karl Popper pioneered the use of the term conjecture in scientific philosophy. Conjecture is related to hypothesis, which in science refers to a testable conjecture. In mathematics, a conjecture is an unproven proposition that appears correct.

In statistics, count data is a statistical data type, a type of data in which the observations can take only the non-negative integer values {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}, and where these integers arise from counting rather than ranking.

Ambiguity is an attribute of any concept, idea, statement or a claim whose meaning, intention or interpretation cannot be definitively resolved according to a rule or process consisting of a finite number of steps.

A paradox is a statement that apparently contradicts itself and yet might be true. Most logical paradoxes are known to be invalid arguments but are still valuable in promoting critical thinking.