Search results for "Term" - New World Encyclopedia

From New World Encyclopedia
  • 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

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)