Buy SWM8. What is a SWM8? SWM stands for single-wire multiswitch and the SWM8 is a single-wire multiswitch that can control up to 8 DIRECTV satellite tuners. That means a single SWM8 can control up to 4 DVRs total (2 tuners per DVR), up to 8 single-tuner receivers total, or a combination (eg. 2 DVRs and 4 single-tuner receivers).
Answer. Ad hoc is a word that originally comes from Latin and means âfor thisâ or for this situation.. In current American English it is used to describe something that has been formed or used for a special and immediate purpose, without previous planning. Ad hoc can be used as an adjective or an adverb. It is used more often as an adjective, especially in these expressions: 1  ad hoc committee. 2  ad hoc group. 3  ad hoc basis.
Vaticanus then is a combination of Vatic + anus, just as Romanus is a combination of Rome + anus. Therefore, vaticanus collis or vaticanus mons mean the prophetic hill or mountain , which can be rephrased as the hill or mountain of prophecy. The word Vatican is just a shortened form of the word Vaticanus, just like Claudian is a shortened form of Claudianus, as shown above.