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- cantare, to sing), a piece sung. The term, being vague, naturally evolved ... The Baroque era applied the term sonata to a variety of works, including ...27 KB (4,193 words) - 16:32, 14 October 2022
- to the Middle French dialect (Franco-Provençal) term glace, meaning "ice," derived from the Latin term glacies, meaning "frost" ...7 KB (1,046 words) - 14:34, 22 May 2024
- Dasa (Sanskrit for "servant") is a Hindu term with two primary usages: Originally, "Dasa" denoted enemies of the ancient ...15 KB (2,317 words) - 20:43, 19 May 2020
- The oceanic crust is composed mainly of mafic rocks. The term mafic ... The continental crust consists predominantly of felsic rocks. The ...8 KB (1,174 words) - 00:35, 3 November 2022
- The term Bride of Christ is normally a metaphorical reference to the body of believers of the Christian Church, or the Ecclesia, although the ...11 KB (1,683 words) - 23:02, 20 November 2023
- spiced deriving from India. By itself, the term chai is merely the generic ... (مصالہ); मसाला) is a term used in South Asian cuisines ...16 KB (2,494 words) - 16:17, 7 November 2022
- means "the people" and the term Narodnik derives from the ... This theory also led to short-term failure; the peasantry as a whole ...11 KB (1,586 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- The term "rare earth elements" (or "rare earth metals") is a trivial name applied to 16 chemical elements: scandium, yttrium ...10 KB (1,254 words) - 04:34, 23 March 2024
- Toothed whale is the general term for any of the various aquatic mammals comprising the suborder Odontoceti, characterized in extant species ...13 KB (1,677 words) - 05:01, 4 November 2022
- of world food supplies impacts the long-term survival of human beings and ... kingdom: So-called genetic pollution. This term refers to the uncontrolled ...15 KB (2,233 words) - 06:10, 28 July 2023
- widely popular in the 1990s. It was a term that was liberally used to ... Ironically, alternative became the general term for almost all rock music ...22 KB (3,494 words) - 00:45, 9 January 2023
- Some scholars have suggested that the term refers to a particular kind of sacrifice carried out by the Phoenicians and their neighbors rather ...20 KB (3,200 words) - 21:06, 21 December 2022
- " "form," or "shape." The term became significant in Greek philosophy when Plato used it to refer to the ideal Forms or Ideas ...9 KB (1,238 words) - 00:03, 13 February 2024
- such as a cork, it allowed for the long-term aging of wine. Glass has all ... the use of the bottle. One etymology of the term codswallop is linked to beer ...10 KB (1,456 words) - 14:41, 28 April 2020
- original concept behind the random access term in RAM. Even within a hierarchy ... ===Other uses of the "RAM" term=== Other physical devices ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 17:22, 16 April 2023
- in the articulation of orthodoxy. Thus, the term "nastika" may be ... As N. N. Bhattacharyya writes, "The term Nāstika [traditionally ...8 KB (1,157 words) - 01:27, 11 November 2022
- the Security Council, to fill the unexpired term of Dag Hammarskjöld. He was ... Although he didn't seek it, Thant was appointed for a second ...14 KB (2,150 words) - 01:24, 3 May 2023
- The term fiber (or fibre The spelling "fibre" is used in Commonwealth countries and sometimes in the United States as well. ...10 KB (1,428 words) - 17:32, 26 March 2024
- such a system two years before his death. The term degrees Celsius (symbol: °C) refers to a specific temperature on the Celsius temperature scale ...23 KB (3,406 words) - 23:47, 3 December 2023
- Scientific usage of the term metamorphosis is exclusive, and is not ... and complex metamorphosis, is a term applied to those processes ...11 KB (1,565 words) - 16:21, 9 November 2022
