As of January 2016, the rules were changed regarding the use of long putters and how they are allowed to be held to avoid having a third point of contact known as an anchor point. The R&A

noun. 1. with regard to adaptation level principle, the assigning of positioned guidelines for judgment rating systems. Based on this standard, all judgments are general to an implied measure of equiv [..]

The tendency to interpret a stimulus as a variant of a prototype. Eleanor Rosch (1975) showed that a line tilted 10 degrees to the horizontal is perceived to be similar to a horizontal line. The tilted line is mentally encoded as a slight variant of the prototypic horizontal line. The effect of anchoring has been demonstrated in melodies by Bharuch [..]

Mechanical bonding of a coating to a rough surface, as contrasted with adhesion, which is chemical bonding.

Mooring a ship to the bottom of a sea or other body of water with an Anchor.

The process of associating an internal response with some external trigger (similar to classical conditioning) so that the response may be quickly, and sometimes covertly, reaccessed.

Applying a gesture, touch, or sound just before a state peaks, either in oneself or someone else, so that the anchored state can be re-activated by reapplying that gesture, touch or sound. A smell can [..]

A stimulus or trigger paired with a specific response. Anchors may be set deliberately or inadvertently, openly, or covertly.

In NLP, an anchor is a specific stimulus delivered in a peak emotional state to link powerfully to an underlying meaning within our neurology. Based on the work of Ivan Pavlov, anchoring techniques en [..]

Manoeuvre for casting the anchor of the vessel.

The act or means by which something is anchored or made firm. * '''2012''', Professor Christian Hermansen Cordua, ''Manifestoes and Transformations in the Early Modernist City'' (page 161) *: Stri [..]