Search results for "Term" - New World Encyclopedia
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- support domestic British corn (in Britain, the term "corn" means "grain" (the kernel), and implies the primary grain crop of a country ...767 bytes (114 words) - 22:00, 29 January 2024
- He was generally credited with coining the term "Rainbow Nation" as a metaphor to describe post-apartheid South Africa after 1994 ...676 bytes (98 words) - 20:37, 23 April 2022
- pathway to liberation. Mandala has become a generic term for any plan, chart, or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically ...811 bytes (116 words) - 16:47, 24 October 2023
- drawings, and animated film. Originally, the term referred to full-scale drawings for various forms of fine art, such as frescoes and tapestries. From ...784 bytes (115 words) - 16:33, 17 June 2023
- text=The term drama comes from a Greek word meaning "action." The enactment of drama in theater, performed by actors on a stage before ...744 bytes (111 words) - 17:18, 16 August 2023
- text=The term fraternity, often colloquially shortened to "frat," generally refers to all-male or mixed-sex student organizations at ...809 bytes (119 words) - 18:16, 27 January 2022
- and not whole propositions themselves. A term picks out a set or class of ... The term of a categorical proposition picks out a group of things ...12 KB (1,791 words) - 18:00, 30 November 2023
- text=The term concerto (plural concerti or concertos) refers to a musical work in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra. The ...709 bytes (106 words) - 16:36, 14 November 2021
- text=As a medical term, stress refers to a wide range of strong external stimuli or conditions, both physiological and psychological, impinging ...735 bytes (112 words) - 21:37, 31 January 2023
- also affected other regions of the USSR, the term Holodomor is specifically applied to the events that took place in territories populated by ethnic ...864 bytes (133 words) - 20:52, 23 April 2022
- The main role of DNA molecules is the long-term storage of information. DNA is often compared to a set of blueprints, since it contains the ...830 bytes (129 words) - 15:47, 5 July 2023
- Europe and to the United States. The term was introduced in 1884 when Maurice Barrès referred to a particular group of writers as Decadents ...885 bytes (130 words) - 16:26, 29 April 2023
- Russian character trait known as poshlost. This term is untranslatable, but contains elements of evil, banality and pettiness. It is a common theme in ...726 bytes (118 words) - 17:24, 6 October 2021
- shaped by cultural and historical contexts. The term "social construction" was introduced by sociologists Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann ...850 bytes (116 words) - 23:58, 14 February 2022
- text=Coral reef is the term for any fully marine, underwater ecosystem with a calcium carbonate foundation produced by the skeletons of living ...761 bytes (120 words) - 14:47, 7 June 2023
- culture and was popular among early Christians. The term "Apocalypse" is from the Greek word for "revelation" which means "an ...853 bytes (123 words) - 18:21, 18 February 2023
- text=Aging or ageing is the process of becoming older. The term refers especially to humans, many other animals, and fungi. Aging represents ...817 bytes (123 words) - 16:41, 23 November 2022
- text=African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music and musical genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African ...865 bytes (126 words) - 21:50, 26 February 2023
- The name "romantic" itself comes from the term "romance" which is a prose or poetic heroic narrative originating in the medieval. ...893 bytes (129 words) - 20:21, 28 May 2022
- business and commerce. When used outside Japan, the term “manga” refers specifically to comics originally published in Japan. Japanese manga has had ...836 bytes (129 words) - 21:39, 11 January 2024
