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The word tradition comes from the Latin word traditio which means "to hand down" or "to hand over." It is used in a number of ways in the English language:
- A meme; beliefs or customs taught by one generation to the next, often orally. For example, we can speak of the tradition of sending birth announcements.
- A set of customs or practices. For example, we can speak of Christmas traditions.
- A broad religious movement made up of religious denominations or church bodies that have a common history, customs, culture, and, to some extent, body of teachings. For example, we can speak of Islam's Sufi tradition or Christianity's Lutheran tradition.
However, on a more basic theoretical level, tradition(s) can be seen as information or composed of information. For that which is brought into the present from the past, in a particular societal context, is information. This is even more fundamental than particular acts or practices even if repeated over a long sequence of time. For such acts or practices, once performed, disappear unless they have been transformed into some manner of communicable information.
The shores of the Aral Sea were once dotted with fishing boats, providing a livelihood for countless generations of Central Asians along what was once the world's fourth-largest lake. Today the surface area of the Aral Sea is only 40 percent of its traditional size, and its total water volume a mere 20 percent of what it once held.
The process of education is no longer limited to the confines of the classroom or local geography and increasingly students are anxious to combine elements of a traditional university education with electronically delivered curriculum and international travel..
The bill is part of the Democrat leadership’s innovative “Symbolic Governance Plan” which employs the traditional legislative process to make bold political statements instead of laws.
Taken from the Zulu word for tree, the term is a South African word for traditional medicine.
"Apple traditionally commands around 3% - 5% of the market for computers, depending on who you talk to, and if it was to do the same in the infinitely smaller tablet market, it would indeed be barely worth the effort. However, in the success of the iPod, Apple has shown that it can dominate and all but own a market should it choose to do."