Commitment
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, searchCommitment means to show loyalty, duty or pledge to something or someone, and can refer to:
- Personal commitment In the law of contract, an exchange of promises is usually held to be legally enforceable, according to the Latin maxim pacta sunt servanda, interaction dominated by obligations. These obligations may be mutual, or self-imposed, or explicitly stated, or may not. Distinction is often made between commitment as a member of an organization (such as a sporting team, a religion, or as an employee), and a personal commitment, which is often a pledge or promise to ones' self for personal growth.
- Brand A brand is the identity of a specific product, service, or business[page needed]. A brand can take many forms, including a name, sign, symbol, color combination or slogan. The word brand began simply as a way to tell one person's cattle from another by means of a hot iron stamp. A legally protected brand name is called a trademark. The word brand commitment refers to the strength of the relationship between consumers (or customers) and a particular brand (or service).
- Involuntary commitment Involuntary commitment is the practice of using legal means or forms as part of a mental health law to commit a person to a psychiatric hospital or ward against their will and/or over their protests, the practice of using legal means or forms to commit a person to a mental hospital, insane asylum or psychiatric ward against the will or over the protests of that person.
- Ontological commitment, belief in an ontology Ontology (from the Greek ὄν, genitive ὄντος: of being and -λογία, -logia: science, study, theory) is the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence or reality in general, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, in philosophy.
- Cell commitment, the molecular event that leads to cellular differentiation.
- Organizational commitment can mean something pledged by an organization as opposed to its members.
- Commitment (computer science Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems. It is frequently described as the systematic study of algorithmic processes that create, describe, and transform information. Computer science) - the concept of commitment is studied in several branches of computer science around the notion of something pledged.
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- Physical commitment is information pledged about physical systems In physics the word system has a technical meaning, namely, it is the portion of the physical universe chosen for analysis. Everything outside the system is known as the environment, which in analysis is ignored except for its effects on the system. The cut between system and environment is a free choice, generally made to simplify the analysis as (that are situated at a particular place and time).
- Social commitment, in a multi-agent system A multi-agent system is a system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents. Multi-agent systems can be used to solve problems which are difficult or impossible for an individual agent or monolithic system to solve. Examples of problems which are appropriate to multi-agent systems research include online trading, disaster response, and a directed obligation from one agent to another to perform certain actions so as to bring about a certain state of affairs.
- Commitment scheme, in cryptography
- Commit (data management), to make changes permanent in data management. For example,
COMMITis a statement in SQL. The opposite is to rollback (data management).
- Kingsbury Commitment, the beginning of AT&T's monopoly in the telephone industry
- Climate commitment, a model of climate change.
- LBC Commitment, the second major-label album from the band Lucky Boys Confusion
- Commitment (Guang Liang album), or 約定, an album by a Malaysian Taiwanese singer Guang Liang.
- "Commitment," a song by LeAnn Rimes Margaret LeAnn Rimes, known simply as LeAnn Rimes, is an American singer-songwriter and actress, best known for her work in country music. She is best known for her rich vocals similar to country music singer Patsy Cline, and her rise to fame at the age of 13, becoming the youngest country music star since Tanya Tucker in 1972 on her album entitled Sittin' on Top of the World.
- In poker Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown (in some games, the pot is split between the high and low hands), limits on bets and how many rounds of betting are allowed. In most, it means that someone will do better by staying in a hand no matter what (even if he probably doesn't have the best hand, he would still win more money by betting all his chips), rather than folding
See also
- Committed
- Commit charge
- Commitment contract
- The Commitments (disambiguation)
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Committee s are formed to achieve an objective needed for the obtainment of a larger goal In order to have an effective committee with a productive experience all members should be committed
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