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- Part of the foundation of mathematics, Russell's paradox (also known as Russell's antinomy), discovered by Bertrand Russell in 1901, showed that the ...14 KB (2,342 words) - 18:15, 22 December 2022
- In physics, Compton scattering or the Compton effect is the decrease in energy (increase in wavelength) of an X-ray or gamma ray photon when it interacts with ...11 KB (1,638 words) - 00:23, 8 January 2024
- In chemistry, a mixture is a material made by combining two or more different chemical substances (such as chemical elements and chemical compounds) in such ...5 KB (683 words) - 19:22, 9 November 2022
- Vapor pressure (or vapour pressure) is the pressure of a vapor in equilibrium with its non-vapor phases. Under appropriate conditions of temperature and pressure ...8 KB (1,238 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
- A chemical equation is a symbolic representation of a chemical reaction, wherein one set of substances, called the reactants, is converted into another set of ...12 KB (1,989 words) - 14:40, 5 December 2023
- The continental shelf is the extended perimeter of each continent that is covered by relatively shallow seas and gulfs during interglacial periods (such as the ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 02:48, 8 January 2024
- The term xylene refers to a group of three benzene derivatives, each of which has two methyl functional groups attached to the benzene ring. The three members ...10 KB (1,443 words) - 09:56, 22 May 2023
- Category:Psychologists Janet, Pierre Pierre Marie Félix Janet (May 30, 1859 – February 24, 1947) was a French psychiatrist, a student of Jean-Martin Charcot ...12 KB (1,594 words) - 05:23, 24 November 2022
- The exponential function is one of the most important functions in mathematics. For a variable x, this function is written as exp(x) or ex, where e is a mathematical ...8 KB (1,160 words) - 23:57, 24 March 2024
- Transportation in South Korea refers to all modes of transportation that have been developed in South Korea from before the Japanese colonization of Korea in ...22 KB (2,978 words) - 16:03, 31 October 2023
- In thermodynamics and molecular chemistry, the enthalpy or heat content (denoted as H, h, or rarely as χ) is a quotient or description of thermodynamic potential ...18 KB (2,941 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- A modal logic was originally designed to describe the logical relations of modal notions. The list of the notions includes metaphysical modalities (necessities ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 19:24, 9 November 2022
- During the Goryeo and Joseon dynasties of Korea, the royal courts conducted gwageo (or kwago), the national civil service examinations. Typically quite demanding ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 06:03, 27 July 2023
- In linguistics, logic, and mathematics etc., quantification is the kind of linguistic construction that specifies the quantity of individuals in the domain of ...14 KB (2,119 words) - 04:04, 7 December 2022
- Syllogism (Greek: συλλογισμός, meaning "conclusion" or "inference"), more correctly categorical syllogism, is a kind of logical ...9 KB (1,397 words) - 01:55, 27 February 2023
- In mathematics, curvature refers to any of a number of loosely related concepts in different areas of geometry. Intuitively, curvature is the amount by which ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 06:48, 12 January 2024
- The Kama Sutra (properly called Kamasutram meaning "threads of pleasure"), is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on love ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 02:33, 5 October 2022
- In mathematics, the parabola (from the Greek word παραβολή) is a conic section generated by the intersection of a right circular conical surface and ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 11:24, 11 March 2023
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Hill, Patty Smith Patty Smith Hill (March 27, 1868 – May 25, 1946) was a American nursery school, and kindergarten ...9 KB (1,385 words) - 16:48, 21 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Ames room.svg|right|350px]] An Ames room is a distorted room used to create ...7 KB (1,155 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- In physics, there are two kinds of dipoles (from the Greek terms di(s)-, meaning "two," and polos, meaning "pivot" or "hinge"): ...20 KB (3,037 words) - 15:26, 29 January 2024
- category:image wanted John Smyth (1570 – c. August 28, 1612) was co-founder, with Thomas Helwys of the modern Baptist denomination, Ordained as an Anglican ...8 KB (1,224 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Barber-pole-01.gif|thumb|150px|A Classic Barbershop Pole]] The barberpole ...4 KB (677 words) - 02:22, 1 January 2022
- Spruce is the common name for any of the various coniferous evergreen trees comprising the genus Picea of the pine family (Pinaceae), characterized by single ...11 KB (1,545 words) - 16:15, 8 February 2023
- North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the DPRK), is an East Asian country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula, with ...72 KB (9,967 words) - 06:32, 16 November 2022
- In population genetics, genetic drift is the phenomenon of change in the frequency of alleles (variants of a gene) in a population of organisms due to chance ...10 KB (1,609 words) - 11:31, 3 August 2021
- Panthera is a genus of large, wild cats in the mammalian family, Felidae, and includes the four, well-known living species of the lion (Panthera leo), the tiger ...14 KB (1,964 words) - 11:21, 11 March 2023
- Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. (May 23, 1875 – February 17, 1966) was a long-time president and chairman of General Motors. New York Times "Alfred P. Sloan ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- Eugene Paul Wigner (usually E. P. Wigner among physicists) (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician. He received the ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 04:15, 23 March 2024
- Lev Davidovich Landau (January 22, 1908 – April 1, 1968) was a prominent Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics ...7 KB (1,038 words) - 22:05, 25 October 2022
- Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. (February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884) was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became ...11 KB (1,731 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- Category:Economists Category:Biography Enfantin, Barthélemy Prosper [[Image:Enfantin.gif|thumb| Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin]] Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin ...10 KB (1,464 words) - 10:59, 20 September 2023
- The Second Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament attributed to Saint Peter, the Apostle, although scholars doubt this attribution. The main emphasis ...14 KB (2,173 words) - 17:41, 25 January 2023
- Category:Public Category:Psychologists Bleuler, Eugen [[Image:Eugen Bleuler.jpg|thumb|right|Photograph of Eugen Bleuler.]] Paul Eugen Bleuler (April 30, 1857 ...8 KB (1,200 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- Transfer RNA (tRNA) is a class of short-chain, non-coding ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules in which each variety attaches to and transfers a specific amino acid ...13 KB (1,936 words) - 01:34, 2 May 2023
- In chemistry, a carbene is a highly reactive organic compound with the general molecular formula "R1R2C:." This formula indicates that each molecule ...12 KB (1,686 words) - 07:11, 24 April 2023
- Ribozyme (from ribonucleic acid enzyme) is a ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecule that can catalyze biochemical reactions, just as as certain protein enzymes act ...13 KB (1,885 words) - 20:53, 16 April 2023
- In logic, two sentences (either in a formal language or a natural language) may be joined by means of a logical connective to form a compound sentence. The truth ...27 KB (3,934 words) - 20:59, 3 November 2022
- In the Standard Model of particle physics, a meson is a composite subatomic particle comprising one quark and one antiquark. Mesons are part of the hadron particle ...20 KB (3,017 words) - 16:16, 9 November 2022
- A photoresistor is an electronic component whose electrical resistance changes as the intensity of light shining on it varies. Usually, when it is exposed to ...5 KB (694 words) - 05:04, 24 November 2022
- Vaisheshika, also Vaisesika (Sanskrit: वैशॆषिक, IAST Vaiśeṣika), is one of the six Hindu schools of philosophy (orthodox Vedic systems) of India ...19 KB (2,996 words) - 14:10, 3 May 2023
- Determinism is the philosophical view that past events and the laws of nature fix or set future events. The interest of determinism in analytic philosophy primarily ...14 KB (2,077 words) - 10:05, 29 January 2024
- Marin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus, or le Père Mersenne (September 8, 1588 – September 1, 1648) was a French theologian, philosopher, mathematician, and music ...8 KB (1,231 words) - 15:57, 6 November 2022
- Mayfly is the common name for any of the insects that belong to the Order Ephemeroptera, characterized by a short-lived adult stage and fragile wings. The longer ...14 KB (2,120 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- The Battle of Yorktown or Siege of Yorktown was fought from April 5 to May 4, 1862, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. Marching from ...15 KB (2,213 words) - 01:43, 26 September 2023
- Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (November 23, 1919 – February 13, 2006) was an English philosopher, and a leading member of the group of twentieth century Anglo ...11 KB (1,580 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- In physics, wavelength is the distance between repeating units of a propagating wave at a given frequency. It is commonly designated by the Greek letter lambda ...6 KB (857 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
- Situational ethics, or situation ethics, is a teleological and consequential theory of ethics concerned with the outcome of an action as opposed to an action ...14 KB (2,274 words) - 22:41, 29 January 2023
- A metalloid is a chemical element with properties that are intermediate between those of metals and nonmetals. The following elements are generally classified ...7 KB (910 words) - 16:19, 9 November 2022
- Category:Economists Cournot, Antoine Augustin [[Image:Antoine Augustin Cournot.jpg|thumb|Antoine Augustin Cournot]] Antoine Augustin Cournot (August 28, 1801 ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 12:00, 30 October 2021
- Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-size mineral or rock grains. Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar, because these are ...7 KB (1,047 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2023
- Dvaita (Devanagari:द्बैत, Kannada:ದ್ವೈತ) is a dualist school of Vedanta Hindu philosophy. For definition of Dvaita as a dualistic school of ...14 KB (2,041 words) - 17:24, 12 February 2024
- A centriole is a small, barrel-shaped, sub-cellular structure typically consisting of nine triplet microtubules (nine groups of three fused microtubules) arranged ...11 KB (1,624 words) - 01:44, 13 January 2023
- Distance is a numerical description of the separation between objects or points at a given moment in time. In physics or everyday discussion, distance may refer ...18 KB (2,703 words) - 15:29, 29 January 2024
- The Ancient City of Vijayanagara refers to the urban core of the imperial city and the surrounding principalities of the capital of the Vijayanagar empire during ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 19:11, 26 July 2023
- Gibbons are apes that are highly adapted to arboreal life and are found in tropical and subtropical rainforests in Southeast Asia. Also called the lesser apes ...12 KB (1,751 words) - 23:18, 10 December 2022
- François Hemsterhuis (December 27, 1721 – July 7, 1790), was a Dutch philosopher on aesthetics and moral philosophy. Sometimes referred to as the "Dutch ...8 KB (1,207 words) - 04:59, 9 April 2024
- category:image wanted Casuistry (ˈkæʒuːɨstri) is an applied ethics term referring to case-based reasoning. Casuistry is used in juridical and ethical discussions ...15 KB (2,220 words) - 14:26, 29 November 2023
- Monocotyledons or monocots are a major group of flowering plants (angiosperms) whose members typically have one cotyledon, or embryonic leaf, in their seeds ...8 KB (1,275 words) - 13:12, 10 March 2023
- Category:Image wanted Alexander Gordon Laing (December 27, 1793 – September 26, 1826) was a Scottish explorer and army officer who contributed to mapping the ...15 KB (2,435 words) - 09:08, 18 July 2023
- Coral snake, or coralsnake, is the common name for often colorful venomous snakes belonging to several genera of the Elapidae family. Traditionally, six genera ...24 KB (3,201 words) - 19:02, 14 January 2023
- Embryophyta is a major grouping of plants, sometimes known as "land plants," that includes both the non-vascular bryophytes (mosses, hornworts, and ...11 KB (1,564 words) - 10:22, 21 January 2023
- The periodic table of the chemical elements is a tabular display of the chemical elements. It is perhaps the icon of Chemistry and expresses much about the physical ...13 KB (1,942 words) - 00:40, 24 November 2022
- Boyle's law (sometimes called the Boyle-Mariotte law) is one of several gas laws and a special case of the ideal gas law. Boyle's law describes the ...8 KB (1,241 words) - 14:53, 28 April 2020
- Aspens are trees of the willow family (Salicaceae) and comprise one group (section) of the poplar genus—Populus section Populus—with six species. The poplar ...9 KB (1,368 words) - 04:51, 18 August 2023
- The Albigensian Crusade, or Cathar Crusade (1209–1229), was a twenty year military campaign initiated by the Roman Catholic Church to eliminate the heresy ...18 KB (2,843 words) - 05:04, 17 June 2023
- *For the history of the Korea before its division, see History of Korea. The History of South Korea formally begins with the establishment of South Korea in 1948 ...21 KB (3,199 words) - 11:47, 1 February 2024
- Parsley is the common name for a bright green, biennial herb of European origin, Petroselinum crispum, which is extensively cultivated for its leaves, which ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 08:53, 18 November 2022
- Bhedābheda Vedānta (dvaitadvaita) is one of the several traditions of Vedānta philosophy in India. “Bhedābheda” is a Sanskrit word meaning “difference ...15 KB (2,341 words) - 03:36, 1 October 2023
- Wade-Giles ( ˌweɪdˈʤaɪlz ; s=威妥玛拼音 or 韦氏拼音|t=威妥瑪拼音 or 韋氏拼音|p=wēituǒmǎ pīnyīn ), sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the ...17 KB (2,706 words) - 07:08, 13 June 2023
- In nuclear physics, beta decay is a type of radioactive decay involving the emission of beta particles. Beta particles are high-energy, high-speed electrons ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:45, 29 September 2023
- Agostino Nifo (c. 1473 - 1538 or 1545) Latin Augustinus Niphus, or Niphus Suessanus, Niphus also spelled Nyphus, was an Italian philosopher and commentator. ...8 KB (1,200 words) - 06:47, 16 June 2023
- Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi (c. 1506 – February 21, 1543) was an Imam and General of Adal who defeated Emperor Lebna Dengel of Ethiopia. Nicknamed Gurey in ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- Toluene, also known as methylbenzene or phenylmethane, is a clear, water-insoluble liquid with the typical smell of paint thinners, redolent of the sweet smell ...10 KB (1,406 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2023
- In physics, mechanical work is the amount of energy transferred by a force. Like energy, it is a scalar quantity, with SI units of joules. Heat conduction is ...9 KB (1,470 words) - 03:50, 9 November 2022
- Wilella Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) is among the most eminent American authors. She is known for her depictions of life in the United ...10 KB (1,563 words) - 12:02, 5 May 2023
- The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve British North American colonies that met in 1774, early in the American Revolution. ...14 KB (1,859 words) - 19:55, 26 March 2024
- The Battle of Borodino ( Бородинская битва Borodinskaja bitva, Bataille de la Moskowa ), fought on September 7, 1812, was the largest and bloodiest ...24 KB (3,590 words) - 11:34, 20 September 2023
- In physics, force is defined as the rate of change of momentum of an object. This definition was given by Isaac Newton in the seventeenth century. In simpler ...15 KB (2,438 words) - 01:41, 6 September 2022
- Carbonic acid (ancient name acid of air or aerial acid) is a weak acid with the formula H2CO3. It is formed in small amounts when carbon dioxide is dissolved ...13 KB (2,013 words) - 19:10, 26 November 2023
- Upāsaka (masculine) or Upāsikā (feminine) (from Sanskrit: meaning "attendant") refers to Buddhists who are not monks, nuns or novices belonging ...9 KB (1,341 words) - 02:11, 18 April 2023
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, also known as pseudo-Denys, is the name scholars have given to an anonymous theologian and philosopher of the fifth or sixth ...7 KB (1,028 words) - 08:24, 2 December 2022
- Orangutan (also written orang-utan, orang utan, and orangutang) is any member of two species of great apes with long arms and reddish, sometimes brown, hair ...14 KB (1,986 words) - 10:40, 11 March 2023
- Pope Clement V (1264 – April 20, 1314), born Bertrand de Goth (also occasionally spelled "Gouth" and "Got"), was Pope from 1305 to his ...17 KB (2,612 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- |- | align="center" colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff" | [[Image:Phosphoric-acid-2D-dimensions.png|160px|Phosphoric acid]] ...23 KB (3,466 words) - 04:24, 24 November 2022
- Hippocrates of Cos II or Hippokrates of Kos (ca. 460 B.C.E. – ca. 370 B.C.E.) Greek: Ἱπποκράτης Hippokrátēs, was an ancient Greek physician of ...33 KB (4,488 words) - 14:32, 13 July 2023
- The categorical proposition is a basic concept in Aristotelian or traditional logic (also sometimes called syllogistic or categorical logic). Aristotelian logic ...12 KB (1,791 words) - 18:00, 30 November 2023
- Diah Permata Megawati Setiawati Soekarnoputri (January 23, 1947 - ), was President of Indonesia from July 2001 to October 20, 2004. She was the country's ...23 KB (3,414 words) - 09:38, 10 March 2023
- A spring is a flexible, elastic device used to store mechanical energy. When a force is applied to a spring, it expands or contracts to a certain extent, and ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 16:14, 8 February 2023
- In biblical scholarship, the documentary hypothesis proposes that the Pentateuch (also called the Torah, or first five books of the Hebrew Bible) was not literally ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 16:34, 29 January 2024
- Hoolock gibbon is the common name for any of the arboreal, tailless, Asian apes belonging to the gibbon genus Hoolock, characterized by long limbs, thick and ...12 KB (1,738 words) - 16:17, 25 January 2023
- Populus is a genus of deciduous trees in the flowering plants family Salicaceae, characterized by flowers in the form of long, drooping catkins and by spirally ...14 KB (1,964 words) - 00:24, 12 April 2023
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (July 17, 1714 – May 26, 1762) was a German philosopher. He was a follower of Leibniz and Christian Wolff, and gave the term ...8 KB (1,198 words) - 09:10, 18 July 2023
- The Trent Affair, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War. On November ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 16:44, 2 May 2023
- Crantor (ca. 330 – 270 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher of the Old Academy, a pupil of Xenocrates and fellow student of Polemo. Crantor was known for his poetic ...6 KB (970 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- Flamingo (plural: flamingos or flamingoes) is the common name for any of the large, gregarious, wading birds comprising the family Phoenicopteridae, characterized ...17 KB (2,382 words) - 17:35, 28 March 2024
- Angioplasty is the mechanical widening of blood vessel that is abnormally narrowed (stenosis) or totally obstructed (occlusion). Angioplasty has come to include ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 18:06, 27 July 2023
- The kinetic energy of an object is the extra energy it possesses due to its motion. It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass from ...22 KB (3,694 words) - 14:17, 5 October 2022
- Robert Morrison (born January 5, 1782 in Bullers Green, near Morpeth, Northumberland; died August 1, 1834 in Canton) was a Scottish missionary, and the first ...15 KB (2,249 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
