
	Where results make sense

Topic: Retronym

	retronym Computer Encyclopedia Enterprise Resource Directory Complete Guide to Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A term invented to distinguish a subclass of things from new members of the superclass, where the distinction was previously not necessary, since the old subclass had been all there was of the superclass.
		For example, the retronyms "{snail mail}" and "{paper mail}" were coined by those for who "mail" was likely to mean {electronic mail}.
		While the English language in general has a few retronyms ("whole milk", "snow skiing", "acoustic guitar"), hacker jargon is necessarily (at points capriciously) rich in retronyms, e.g.
	www.jaysir.com /computer-encyclopedia/r/retronym-computer-terms.htm (112 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Real number (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In mathematics, the real numbers are intuitively defined as numbers that are in one-to-one correspondence with the points on an infinite line—the number line.
		The term "real number" is a retronym coined in response to "imaginary number".
		Real numbers may be rational or irrational; algebraic or transcendental; and positive, negative, or zero.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Real_number (1976 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)