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ad coelum: to the sky Abbreviated from Cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelum et ad infernos which translates to "[for] whoever owns [the] soil, [it] is his all the way [up] to Heaven and [down] to Hell." The principle that the owner of a parcel of land also owns the air above and the ground below the parcel.
Ad infinitum is a Latin phrase meaning "to infinity" or "forevermore". Description. In context, it usually means "continue forever, ...
ad infinitum: to infinity: i.e., enduring forever. Used to designate a property which repeats in all cases in mathematical proof. Also used in philosophical contexts to mean "repeating in all cases". visible anchor (ad int.) for the meantime: As in the term "chargé d'affaires ad interim", denoting a diplomatic officer who acts in place of an ...
If it can be established, separately, that the chain must have a start, then a reductio ad infinitum is a valid refutation technique. reformatio in peius: change to worse: A decision from a court of appeal is amended to a worse one. With certain exceptions, this is prohibited at the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office by case law.
Ad nauseam is a Latin term for an argument or other discussion that has continued to the figurative point of nausea. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] For example, "this has been discussed ad nauseam " indicates that the topic has been discussed extensively and those involved have grown sick of it.
Roman civil laws prohibited any marriage between parents and children, either in the ascending or descending line ad infinitum. Adoption was considered the same as affinity in that an adoptive father could not marry an unemancipated daughter or granddaughter even if the adoption had been dissolved. [ 5 ]
"From harmful deceit"; dolus malus is the Latin legal term denoting "fraud". The full legal phrase is ex dolo malo non oritur actio ("an action does not arise from fraud"). When an action has its origin in fraud or deceit, it cannot be supported; thus, a court of law will not assist a man who bases his course of action on an immoral or illegal act.
Until the discovery of quantum mechanics, no distinction was made between the question of whether matter is infinitely divisible and the question of whether matter can be cut into smaller parts ad infinitum. As a result, the Greek word átomos (ἄτομος), which literally means "uncuttable", is usually translated as "indivisible".