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- Zhonghua minzu (Chinese: 中华民族; Pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínzú), is a Chinese term that refers to the modern notion of a Chinese nationality ...15 KB (2,210 words) - 06:01, 13 June 2023
- The term military-industrial complex (MIC) refers to the combination ... The term, often used pejoratively, refers to the institutionalized ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 16:24, 13 September 2023
- A bulldozer is a very powerful crawler (caterpillar tracked tractor) equipped with a blade. The term "bulldozer" is often used to mean ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 18:42, 22 November 2023
- Linguistic scholar Roland De Vaux wrote that the term cherubim is ... In some regions the Assyro-Babylonian term came to refer in particular ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 18:30, 8 December 2023
- A muckraker is an American English term for one who investigates and ... President Theodore Roosevelt is attributed as the source of the term ...11 KB (1,585 words) - 17:31, 11 May 2020
- The term “catharsis” was used in a philosophical sense by Aristotle ... The Greek philosopher Aristotle used the term “catharsis” twice ...14 KB (2,260 words) - 00:10, 1 December 2023
- and across the world's cultures. The term was first coined by Friedrich ... "Henotheism" as a term is not widely used by the general ...15 KB (2,313 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- The term “eclectic” was first used in the first century B.C.E ... The term "eclectics" comes from the Greek eklektikos: “choosing ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- further divided into embryo and fetus. The term embryo sometimes is used for ... However, in humans, the term embryo is precisely defined. It is reserved ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 18:44, 21 May 2024
- The term inheritance refers to something, physical or otherwise, that one receives from another. Receivers have no say in whether an inheritance ...3 KB (403 words) - 15:38, 2 August 2022
- Tuber is a botanical term for an enlarged, fleshy, generally underground stem of certain seed plants, in which the typical stem parts are represented ...10 KB (1,640 words) - 18:40, 2 May 2023
- or an engineering design. More generally, the term "blueprint" has come to be used to refer to any detailed plan. == History == ...5 KB (743 words) - 05:41, 16 November 2023
- The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare earth elements ... Terbium is classified as a rare earth element. The term "rare ...9 KB (1,141 words) - 03:47, 30 April 2023
- The term baryon usually refers to a subatomic particle composed of three quarks. The Particle Adventure, [http://www.particleadventure.org/frameless/hadrons ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 11:02, 20 September 2023
- The outback, also known as the Great Australian Desert, is the remote and arid interior (and north) of Australia. The term "outback" ...7 KB (1,078 words) - 20:04, 20 January 2023
- original shape when the stress is removed. The term is a contraction of the words "elastic polymer." There are many types of elastomers, most ...7 KB (1,017 words) - 07:38, 10 August 2023
- Information explosion is a term used to describe the rapidly increasing amount of published information and the effects of this abundance of ...13 KB (1,868 words) - 22:50, 5 February 2023
- English suffix "-itis," and the term arthritis comes from the Greek ... and catabolic processes. In the short term, this is often a valid trade ...8 KB (1,133 words) - 11:01, 16 August 2023
- The term common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective, commonsense, common-sense or commonsensical), based on a strict deconstruction ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- a particularly simple form, and the order-1 term in the multipole expansion ... the given configuration. This is simply one term in the multipole expansion; ...20 KB (3,037 words) - 15:26, 29 January 2024
