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- as the basis of an entire song. Neither the term "riff" or "lick ... The term riff entered musical slang in the 1920s (Rooksby, Ibid), ...6 KB (949 words) - 01:36, 15 December 2022
- Bridge of Asses or Pons Asinorum (Latin for "Bridge of Asses") is a term used to refer to a problem that severely tests the ability ...8 KB (1,319 words) - 23:03, 20 November 2023
- Regarding the income sense, when the difference is negative, the term loss is preferred. Negative profit does appear in microeconomics. Profit ...1 KB (171 words) - 22:44, 21 July 2023
- immanence, is a common philosophical term and is used by many philosophers ... of experience. While Kant's use of the term is unique to him, Husserl ...11 KB (1,539 words) - 00:39, 2 May 2023
- Anisotropy is a term used in various scientific disciplines to indicate that certain properties of matter (such as a material or radiation) vary ...8 KB (1,148 words) - 06:28, 28 July 2023
- ongoing. Hence, there is a serious danger of long-term consequences. Binge drinking is especially common on college campuses, often found among fraternities ...2 KB (224 words) - 16:25, 27 April 2022
- | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | movement = ...3 KB (241 words) - 16:26, 31 January 2024
- Monad is an English term meaning "one," "single," or "unit," especially in technical contexts. It comes from the ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 19:53, 9 November 2022
- # (archaic) A generic term for a cow or bull (plural beeves). #: Do you want to raise beeves? # (slang, countable) a grudge, complaint, or disagreement ...1 KB (198 words) - 23:47, 25 June 2023
- Brass is the term used for alloys of copper and zinc. It has a yellow color, somewhat similar to gold. The proportions of zinc and copper can ...6 KB (938 words) - 13:23, 11 February 2022
- A definition is a statement of the meaning of a term, word or phrase. The term to be defined is known as the definiendum (Latin: that which is ...17 KB (2,616 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- Fauna is all of the animals of any particular region or time period, considered as as group. The term is contrasted with flora, which refers ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 23:37, 1 November 2023
- In Judaism, the term Bar Mitzvah (Hebrew: בר מצוה) refers to a boy's coming-of-age ceremony held upon (or shortly after) his thirteenth ...10 KB (1,502 words) - 07:59, 20 September 2023
- "Apathy" or apatheia (Greek απάθεια, "absence of feeling"), is a philosophical term originally used by the Stoics ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 05:58, 11 August 2023
- S. agenda, which may have cost him a second term. He is the only U.N. secretary ... Boutros-Ghali began his term in the top post of the United Nations ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 19:59, 20 November 2023
- The term metalloid is derived from the Greek words metallon, meaning ... not all semiconductors are metalloids. The term "metalloid" refers ...7 KB (910 words) - 16:19, 9 November 2022
- {| class="infobox" style="width: 13em; text-align: center;" | Part of a series onLibertarianism |- ! style="font-size: ...2 KB (249 words) - 16:22, 29 March 2023
- the first philosopher who used the term is Heraclitus. By using the ... Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He used the term logos to describe the universal ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- Weed is a term for any plant growing in a setting where it is not wanted, such as undesirable plants in a garden, lawn, or agricultural field ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 22:25, 11 June 2020
- illness, to specialized care, to ongoing long-term care of the elderly or chronically ill. In accordance with the original meaning of the word ...2 KB (271 words) - 16:00, 25 April 2020
