In the following 𝜎 and 𝜏 will denote finite partial functions from N to N , i.e. partial functions which are defined on a finite domain. A partial function which is everywhere undefined is denoted by ⟨⟩, whereas a partial function defined only at position k (with value n) is denoted by ⟨k,n⟩.

In Zhengyang county in May 1923, for instance, local gentry in the southern district built a county militia in response to rampant banditry.

She becomes immensely excited, emotionally as well as motorically, many times a day, and her excitement, at such times, will assume any form which suggests itself or is appropriate […]

The pinnacle of the effort to fix restrictive meanings to a set of terminology can be found in two papers in American Speech by Feinsilver (1979, 1980).