Search results for "Term" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Cork is a term variously used for a lightweight, elastic, water-resistant, natural material of commercial importance and for the common names ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 20:36, 23 May 2020
- " Proponents of the former use the term in contrast with the initial ... German politicians carefully avoided the term "reunification" ...20 KB (3,005 words) - 18:19, 21 May 2024
- The term "Ivy League" is now most commonly used to refer ... |left|250px|The term "Ivy League" came from the ivy plants ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 01:07, 8 February 2023
- Satyagraha (Sanskrit, meaning "Truth-force") was a term coined by Mahatma Gandhi to express his philosophy that non-violence is a power ...17 KB (2,735 words) - 22:38, 3 April 2020
- The term "basic law" is used in some places as an alternative to "constitutional law." A Basic Law is either a codified constitution ...11 KB (1,572 words) - 16:59, 21 April 2021
- In regular usage, the term sound is applied to any stimulus that excites our sense of hearing. The cause of sound is vibratory movement from ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 15:34, 4 February 2023
- excuse…. National economic planning--the term used by this Administration ... Following his defeat, Landon finished out his term as governor of ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 16:52, 20 July 2023
- Cybercrime is a term used broadly to describe activity in which computers ... Although the term cybercrime is usually restricted to describing criminal ...24 KB (3,483 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
- to use the more encompassing and abstract term of "formalism." The term "formalism" was first used by the adversaries of ...22 KB (3,136 words) - 18:18, 22 December 2022
- ==Meaning of the term== sun"). This is the opposite of the term Occident. In terms of the ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- word of the title is the first sort term. The importance of a word ... first word of the title is the first sort term. Most new catalogs use this ...14 KB (2,172 words) - 22:33, 25 October 2022
- Monroe was a popular president who ran unopposed for a second term ... of Delegates and was elected to another term as governor of Virginia in ...18 KB (2,572 words) - 16:07, 8 February 2023
- universe and humanity. In modern usage, the term can also mean stories that ... ==Evolution of the Term== The term mythology, meaning "the study ...26 KB (3,852 words) - 22:45, 10 November 2022
- often faces funding challenges such as long-term financial viability, the aging ... be the most important determinant of long-term trends in federal spending ...24 KB (3,461 words) - 03:58, 9 November 2022
- be at least 20 stories tall (although the term "skyscraper" was ... == Origin of the term == Originally, the term skyscraper was a nautical ...21 KB (3,158 words) - 22:48, 29 January 2023
- The term alveolus also is used for anatomical structures connected ... individual grapes within a bunch. The term comes from the Latin alveolus ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 14:17, 2 July 2022
- instances, children may be placed in a long-term foster placement. For older ... children may be enrolled in long-term foster care which ultimately ...21 KB (3,334 words) - 06:37, 1 April 2024
- ) is a term used in a variety of different contexts. Originally, the ... For most Protestants, the term apocrypha refers to scriptural texts ...29 KB (4,388 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- clear whether they are using the term proposition in sense of the words or the "meaning" expressed by the words. To avoid the controversies ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
- called by a bewildering array of names. The term "quartz" comes from ... macrocrystalline. Chalcedony is a generic term for cryptocrystalline quartz. ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 15:39, 7 December 2022
