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- A retronym is a newer name for something that differentiates it from something else that is newer and similar; thus, avoiding confusion between the two...
- A retronym is a newer name for an existing subject, that differentiates the original form or version from a subsequent one. Retronyms are typically used...
- to electric or electronic means. While all music was once acoustic, the retronym "acoustic music" appeared after the advent of electric instruments, such...
- around 50% of mobile telephony. Feature phone is a term typically used as a retronym to describe mobile phones which are limited in capabilities in contrast...
- music-only soundtrack in place of dialogue. The term silent film is a retronym—a term created to retroactively distinguish something from later developments...
- rectal tenesmus is simply called tenesmus. The term rectal tenesmus is a retronym to distinguish defecation-related tenesmus from vesical tenesmus. Vesical...
- in mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. "Traditional" as such is a retronym applied to non-simplified character sets in the wake of widespread use...
- S. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS), including: SHA-0: A retronym applied to the original version of the 160-bit hash function published...
- with the dramatically increased use of precision-guided munitions, a retronym was needed to separate "smart bombs" from free-fall bombs. "Dumb bomb"...
- reintegration of Self with Universal Self (Brahman)". The term became a modern retronym in the 19th-century when Swami Vivekananda equated raja yoga with the Yoga...