ad hoc's Usage Examples:

On May 21 he appeared before an ad hoc court and was acquitted.

For example, test collections were created for known-item web search which found improvements from the use of anchor text, title weighting and url length, which were not useful techniques on the older ad hoc test collections.

Technology Like many other free community-driven networks, Freifunk uses mesh technology to bring up ad hoc networks by interconnecting multiple Wireless LANs.

History and profileThe airline was established in 2003 and operated ad hoc charter flights.

groups for temporary activities that might have once been performed by ad hoc (designated purpose) committees.

of ad hoc air charters on behalf of other airline, freight brokers and forwarders.

Non-abelian gauge theory Thanks to the somewhat brute-force, ad hoc and heuristic early methods of Feynman, and the abstract methods of Tomonaga and Schwinger, elegantly synthesized by Freeman Dyson, from the period of early renormalization, the modern theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED) has established itself.

NatureThe Kampfgruppe was an ad hoc combined arms formation, usually employing a combination of tanks, infantry, and artillery (including anti-tank) elements, generally organised for a particular task or operation.

(1781–1793), a 74-gun ship of the lineDuguay Trouin (1793–1794) was the East Indiaman Princess Royal that the French captured in the Indian Ocean on 27 September 1793 and took into service as an ad hoc 36-gun frigate that they named Duguay Trouin; the British recaptured her on 5 May 1794.

As an ad hoc measure in 1952, an RASC officer devised a bolt-on recovery jib that could be fitted to one Antar to make it capable of the suspended towing of another, although this modification was never approved for mass production.

Common examples are ad hoc committees and commissions created at the national or international level for a specific task.

The Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reforms—another ad hoc policy coordination body led by Xi—was also formed to oversee the implementation of the reform agenda.

During the early years of the college, Benedictines served as librarians on an ad hoc basis, but by 1929, Saint Anselm had its first official librarian, Cuthbert Redmond.

Synonyms:

unplanned,

Antonyms:

planned, particularity,