Political participation is one of those concepts in the social science that have been defined in several ways and giving different meanings. Nie and Verba have defined political participation as consisting of those nerve activities by private citizens which are more or less directly aimed at influencing the selection of government personnel and/or the action they take.

The difference between heat and temperature is that heat is defined as the movement or exchange of energy between bodies, while temperature is the measure of the agitation of the molecules of a body.