Standard terminology means that whatever the circumstances of an outbreak and wherever in the world they happen, epidemiologists have a common language for talking about them.
By the end of the 1600s, autumn, from the French word autompne and the Latin autumnus, had overtaken fall as the standard British term for the third season.
Notice this means the matrix encoding our transformation has three rows and two columns, which, to use standard terminology, makes it a three by two matrix.
But owing to his lack of education, he was often flummoxed by the questions put to him at his trials, as when he failed to understand such standard theological vocabulary as justification and predestination.