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Advances in
technology and
science are
often responsible for the
coinage of
retronyms. For example, the term
acoustic guitar was
coined with the
advent of the...
- 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...
- frameworks.[citation needed] The term
continues an
acronym pattern to coin
retronyms for
constructs that do not use
fancy new features: "Plain old JavaScript...
- in
mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. "Traditional" as such is a
retronym applied to non-simplified
character sets in the wake of
widespread use...
- with the
dramatically increased use of precision-guided munitions, a
retronym was
needed to
separate "smart bombs" from free-fall bombs. "Dumb bomb"...
- to
electric or
electronic means.
While all
music was once acoustic, the
retronym "acoustic music"
appeared after the
advent of
electric instruments, such...
-
rectal tenesmus is
simply called tenesmus. The term
rectal tenesmus is a
retronym to
distinguish defecation-related
tenesmus from
vesical tenesmus. Vesical...
-
liberalism was
called economic liberalism. Later, the term was
applied as a
retronym, to
distinguish earlier 19th-century
liberalism from
social liberalism...
- of all
mobile phone usage.
Feature phone is a term
typically used as a
retronym to
describe mobile phones which are
limited in
capabilities in contrast...
- be
called humanism instead of the
original humanities, and
later by the
retronym Renaissance humanism to
distinguish it from
later humanist developments...
