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- Weed is a term for any plant growing in a setting where it is not wanted, such as undesirable plants in a garden, lawn, or agricultural field ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 22:25, 11 June 2020
- present, but in the indefinite future. The term has prompted a global recognition ... development is not a precisely defined term, and a wide array of views ...14 KB (1,869 words) - 00:30, 27 February 2023
- of Leibniz and Christian Wolff, and gave the term aesthetics its modern meaning. While Baumgarten saw himself as only a modest developer of the ...8 KB (1,198 words) - 09:10, 18 July 2023
- The term potash has more than one meaning. In a narrow sense, it refers to the salt potassium carbonate (K2CO3). In a broader sense, it is a ...6 KB (830 words) - 05:51, 30 November 2022
- into the canon by some. Note that the term does not mean non-canonical; ... Deuterocanonical is a term first coined in 1566 by the converted Jew ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- In Hinduism, the term Isvara (ईश्वर in Devanagari script, also variously transliterated as Ishvara and Īśvara), is a generic name ...11 KB (1,693 words) - 06:19, 11 March 2024
- ==Coining the term "Blue Law"== The term blue law may have been first used by Reverend Samuel Peters ...11 KB (1,685 words) - 23:53, 11 January 2023
- water (lake, sea, etc.). Some uses of the term keep this meaning, but in ... The term watershed comes from an old term shedding, meaning "splitting ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- used by certain Native American tribes. The term wickiup is generally used ... and use. In the twenty-first century, the term "wickiup" became ...11 KB (1,808 words) - 18:44, 4 May 2023
- Following his term as governor, Adair served one term in the United ... and he lost the election for a full term in the next year. He immediately ...12 KB (1,815 words) - 04:05, 3 August 2022
- policies, procedures, and methodologies of term assignments and clarification ... #Consistency: Promote uniformity in term format and in the assignment ...17 KB (2,446 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
- the Antichrist, but 1 and 2 John used the term in a different sense.]] ... other again being 1 John—where the term antichrist is used. In these ...8 KB (1,363 words) - 17:41, 25 January 2023
- Kenosis (from the Greek κένωσις: meaning "emptying") is an ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] term found primarily in Christian ...8 KB (1,166 words) - 17:24, 5 October 2022
- a hatchet-shaped anchor (Towle 1989). The term clam often is applied generally ... The term clam can be more precisely equated to any bivalve other than ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 22:30, 10 December 2023
- The term barrel is also used for the volume that a barrel of a standard ... In the United States, the term "keg" commonly means a ...10 KB (1,477 words) - 10:53, 20 September 2023
- == First term as Governor-general of India == After the war Cornwallis ... == Second term as governor-general of India == He was reappointed governor ...9 KB (1,361 words) - 01:57, 4 December 2023
- literature. Later historians expanded the term to include not only the lack ... with severe qualification, as a term of periodization. This usage ...17 KB (2,782 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- In a broad sense of the term, an organism is an embryo between the ... In general, for vertebrates, the term embryo may correspond variously ...8 KB (1,283 words) - 18:00, 13 February 2024
- the Russian Revolution of 1917), and a term often used in modern art today ... Gabo, Tatlin and Rodchenko began to use the term "Productivism." ...9 KB (1,167 words) - 18:57, 19 May 2020
- The term supersonic is used to define a speed that exceeds the speed of sound—a speed that is referred to as Mach 1. However, supersonic airflow ...7 KB (968 words) - 23:49, 26 February 2023
- American colonies. Another frequently used term is "Black Belt," ... ==Usage of the term== The term "Deep South" is defined in ...16 KB (2,381 words) - 08:36, 15 January 2023
- In medicine, the term "etiology" refers to the causes of ... are similarly based on folk etymology (the term "Amazon," for example ...11 KB (1,616 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- In meteorology, the term vapor pressure is used to mean the partial ... as such. Meteorologists also use the term saturation vapor pressure ...8 KB (1,238 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
- The use of the term hominid, which is the designation for members ... and thus affecting the consensus of the term "Hominid." Certain ...9 KB (1,225 words) - 11:38, 2 February 2024
- Gaucho (gaúcho in Portuguese) is a term commonly used to describe the nomadic and colorful horsemen and cowhands of the South American pampas ...11 KB (1,764 words) - 04:47, 18 April 2024
- The term Absolute denotes unconditioned and/or independence in the strongest sense. It can include or overlap with meanings implied by other ...15 KB (2,179 words) - 06:35, 14 June 2023
- The term bard (бард) refers to popular poets who put their verses to song. It came to be used in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s (and ...11 KB (1,802 words) - 08:06, 20 September 2023
- The term is employed extensively in tantric literature: the term for ... sceptre," which is how the term is sometimes translated. The ...7 KB (1,107 words) - 14:11, 3 May 2023
- real or apparent, of two laws. It is a term often used in logic and epistemology, when describing a paradox or unresolvable contradiction. The ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 06:35, 31 July 2023
- (Marxism), as interpreted by Lenin. The term Marxism-Leninism was most ... ==History of the term== [[Image:Karl Marx.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Karl Marx]] ...15 KB (2,166 words) - 08:40, 10 March 2023
- direction and is considered cliched. The term 'chromatic' is understood ... fixed outer strings. However, the closest term used by the Greeks to our ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- embedded processors and controllers. The term originates in science fiction ... == Origins of the term == [[Image:Hacking the Gibson in Wagamamas.jpg ...14 KB (2,094 words) - 02:18, 15 January 2023
- performed almost entirely by computer. The term, Computer Based Learning ... The term, "Learning Design"[http://www.epiclearning.com/exchange/design ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 08:09, 14 January 2023
- Although the term is generally reserved for professional space travelers ... Federal Space Agency agreed to use the term "spaceflight participant ...15 KB (2,112 words) - 18:25, 19 August 2023
- Dread or Angst as a philosophical term originated primarily through the work of the nineteenth century Danish existential philosopher and theologian ...8 KB (1,159 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- Shellfish is a a broad term for various aquatic mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms that are used as food. A culinary and fisheries term, ...11 KB (1,582 words) - 19:57, 21 April 2023
- The term traces to the Ancient Greek word entelecheia, from the combination ... metaphysician Leibniz (1646-1716) used the term to refer to unextended thinking ...6 KB (836 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- However, the term nut also is used in less restrictive culinary terms ... types of fruit (with seeds) and not another term for seeds. A nut is a compound ...9 KB (1,485 words) - 10:12, 11 March 2023
- in a given discipline. The original Greek term "paradeigma" was ... Kuhn initially used the term "paradigm" in the contexts ...16 KB (2,327 words) - 07:43, 18 November 2022
- 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
- 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
- Depth psychology is a broad term that refers to any psychological ... Depth psychology, from the German term (Tiefenpsychologie) coined ...6 KB (829 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- In the Hindu tradition, the term gandharva is used in both the singular ... The term gandharva also came to denote an entire race of male nature ...9 KB (1,445 words) - 07:26, 2 April 2008
- Free verse (occasionally referred to as vers libre) is a term describing ... An early usage of the term appears in 1915 in the anonymous preface ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 14:59, 8 October 2022
- the fowl clade Galloanserae. However, the term fowl is not a formal taxonomic ... of Galliformes and Anseriformes, the term poultry typically is used ...11 KB (1,511 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- was a Scottish neurosurgeon who coined the term and invented the procedure ... as monoideism, but it was too late—the term “hypnosis” was already ...8 KB (1,149 words) - 08:55, 18 March 2024
- of religious antiquity. This blanket term or umbrella concept is usually ... This term is a convention that does not truly or accurately define ...12 KB (1,717 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- " a specific end-of times deceiver. The term Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal (Arabic for "The False Messiah") is a literal translation of the ...8 KB (1,233 words) - 16:34, 21 January 2024
- In the West, the term “teriyaki’ is used for any dish made with ... In other cultures, the term teriyaki is often used for any dish made ...6 KB (957 words) - 14:46, 30 April 2023
- originally by Thomas Huxley who coined the term, it involves a serious philosophical ... The term agnosticism comes from a conjunction of the Greek prefix ...18 KB (2,675 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- Meninges (singular meninx) is the collective term for the fibrous membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord, providing protection to the ...12 KB (1,800 words) - 10:31, 10 March 2023
- Many dance teachers criticize the use of the term "syncopation" and abandon it in favor of the term "double-time." This is ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
- Freud defined the term libido psychoanalytically in his Three Essays ... The term eros, understood as a life instinct antagonistic to the death ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 11:03, 7 March 2023
- Theft is often used as a blanket term consisting of all crimes against ... a punishment of a $1,000 fine and a prison term to be determined. A city, ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 17:59, 13 February 2024
- Nations. A patient, constructive long-term use of its potentialities ... Over objections from the Soviet Union, his term of office was extended ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 18:30, 2 May 2023
- Swedish political scientist Rudolf Kjellén coined the term "geopolitics ... the significance of navies (he coined the term sea power) in world conflict ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 12:53, 5 November 2022
- the god of a place called Zebub. The term appears in Christian texts ... If the term originally meant "Baal of Flies," it may be ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 10:24, 26 September 2023
- The term Barbarian does not derive from the name of any tribe or cultural ... == Origin of the term == The term "barbarian" is not derived ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 22:32, 10 February 2023
- Uncle Sam is a national personification of the United States, with the first usage of the term dating from the War of 1812 and the first illustration ...8 KB (1,272 words) - 01:35, 3 May 2023
- The term nuclear family refers to the family group consisting of parents ... The term nuclear family was developed in the western world to distinguish ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 19:50, 20 May 2023
- Sometimes, especially in the sciences, the term exponential function ... The term double exponential function can have two meanings: ...8 KB (1,160 words) - 23:57, 24 March 2024
- :Scarlet Sages. See Salvia coccinea ← redirecting the reader to ... :shade plants ← grouping term (may not appear in the text; may be ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- that code for a gene, but sometimes the term is used to refer to a non ... Note that with the advent of neutral genetic markers, the term 'allele ...7 KB (1,045 words) - 18:27, 21 July 2023
- the construction of the socialist system. The term Construction Art was first used as a derisive term by Kazimir Malevich to describe the work of ...8 KB (1,080 words) - 14:39, 18 July 2023
- usages of the terms. Historically the term "romance" did not ... has existed since before 1812. Here, the term "romantic" means ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 04:58, 16 December 2022
- produced by living cells or another organism. The term sometimes is used in a broader sense to refer to any substance that is poisonous to an organism ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 04:49, 1 May 2023
- The term felony is a term used in common law systems for very serious ... The term felony is a term used in common law systems for very serious ...15 KB (2,199 words) - 16:11, 5 April 2017
- chemical elements. Berzelius suggested the term "protein" as the ... Berzelius is also credited with originating the term "polymer ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 21:46, 4 October 2022
- The sacred fig is a type of fig known as a banyan. While the term ... The term "Bodhi tree" is also widely applied to currently ...10 KB (1,612 words) - 20:37, 17 April 2023
- A pagoda is the general term for a tiered tower with multiple eaves, common in China, Japan, Korea, Nepal, Vietnam, and other parts of Asia. ...11 KB (1,700 words) - 23:42, 28 April 2024
- disease, infection, or injury. In the short term, it can be helpful, but long ... and catabolic processes. In the short term, this is often a valid trade ...11 KB (1,475 words) - 22:31, 7 January 2024
- the crust, resulting in volcanic activity. The term hotspot is also used when referring to the location on the Earth's surface where such volcanism ...11 KB (1,444 words) - 16:21, 25 January 2023
- In the traditional definition of the term, acculturation is the process ... The term, however, needs to be differentiated from the term enculturation ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 01:13, 10 April 2021
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (January 25, 1743 – March 10, 1819) was a German philosopher who made his mark on philosophy by coining the term ...10 KB (1,513 words) - 11:04, 11 April 2024
- Party in the mid-nineteenth century. The term barnburner was derived from ... internal improvements, and state banks. The term hunker was derived from someone ...6 KB (913 words) - 10:35, 11 April 2024
- Zaibatsu ( 財閥, ざいばつ, property) is a Japanese term referring to the "financial cliques," “wealth cliques,” or business ...11 KB (1,482 words) - 05:20, 13 June 2023
- Hibernation is one of several types of dormancy, a general term used ... Torpor is normally presented as short-term lowering of the metabolic ...14 KB (2,055 words) - 15:45, 25 January 2023
- with larger bulbs. Shallot also is the term for the edible bulb of these ... However, the term shallot also is used for other plants. The French ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- event that has already happened before. The term was coined by a French psychic ... More recently, the term déjà vécu has been used to describe very ...17 KB (2,710 words) - 17:28, 12 February 2024
- ==History of the term== The origins of the golem are often traced back ... has been interpreted in multiple ways. The term is used in the Bible (Psalms ...13 KB (2,171 words) - 11:55, 24 January 2023
- As noted above, the term gravel is applied to rocks that range in size between 2 and 63 mm. Sometimes, however, the term is restricted to rock ...6 KB (948 words) - 18:27, 20 January 2023
- In a more general sense, the term catalyst may be applied to any agent ... The term catalysis was coined in 1835 by Jöns Jakob Berzelius, who ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 17:49, 30 November 2023
- The term il-Khan means "subordinate khan" and refers to ... Law. He introduced the idea that the term jahilia (ignorance) could ...11 KB (1,536 words) - 16:11, 12 February 2024
