Ad hoc (lat. "“for this"”, "“for this"”) designates acts or articles, which developed and/or were done particularly for a purpose, or which developed from a situation.

In the context of the stock exchange boom of the 1990er-Jahre many Germans saw themselves confronted with the term of the Ad-hoc-message, the facts intended for the immediate publication, which affect market prices of the certified securities of an enterprise substantially.

A Ad-hoc-network designates a wireless network topology between two or more mobile terminals, which gets along without firm infrastructure in the information technology. It exists also as mobiles Ad-hoc-net.

Ad-hoc-legislation a rushed into legislative reaction under the influence of a public discussion or medium reporting is named to a certain topic. Example: Change of the social welfare assistance right as reaction to the reporting to in Florida (the USA) living person on social security "“Florida Rolf"”.

Within the range of the Ad-hoc-Workflows one speaks of procedures without planning (modelling) to be implemented. That is, changes at existing instances are at run-time made, in order to be able to react for example to unexpected events. The adaptive Workflows forms for this a sub-group, because they permit also the later adaptation of processes to a dynamically changing surrounding field, proceed however from a limited modelling in the apron.

A Ad-hoc-hypothesis is a scientific auxiliary construction with the purpose, created for the individual case to support a theory against it contradicting observations.

An Ad-hoc-orchestra is an orchestra arranged for a special project, usually either for a festival or for clay/tone photographs.

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