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  • text=The term enemy of the people or enemy of the nation, is a term used against political or class opponents of the person or group in power ...
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  • Enemy of the People is a term frequently used against political opponents to denote that they are not simply against the ruler but against the ...
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  • # Continuing over a long period of time, long-term. #: The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most ...
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  • text=Codependency is a descriptive term that attempts to explain imbalanced relationships where one person enables another person's self ...
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  • correct; commonly abbreviated PC) is a term used by proponents, usually on the political left, to describe language, policies, or measures that ...
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  • # A term used to characterize a person or thing. # (mythology) A term used as a qualifier of the name of a deity in ...
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  • as inappropriate and censored. The term has roots in Marxist-Leninist ideology where it has a positive connotation, since Marxism views their ...
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  • # The long-term manifestations of weather and other atmospheric conditions ... # A shortening of the term "climate change." ===Derived terms=== ...
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  • of religious antiquity. This blanket term or umbrella concept is usually contrasted with Western Christianity that developed in Western Europe ...
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  • text=Mass media is a term denoting that section of the media specifically designed to reach a very large audience (typically at least as large ...
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  • text=Critical theory is a term applied to a wide variety of critical approaches Western political society and culture. It emerged from the Western ...
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  • between individuals of the same gender. The term "gay" is used predominantly to refer to self-identified homosexual people of either ...
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  • tsar (царь (carʹ)), but the latter term is still commonly applied to them. # The term sometimes refers to other emperors, besides those of Russia ...
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  • Combahee River Collective, who coined the term "identity politics"| that are based upon these identities. The term is used in a variety of ways ...
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  • text=fr|Fin de siècle is a French term meaning "end of century,” a phrase which typically encompasses both the meaning of the similar ...
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  • Codependency is a descriptive term that attempts to explain imbalanced ... criteria risks inappropriate overuse of the term and excessive focus on the ...
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  • Arabic. Generally it is associated with the Islamic term for the deity, although use of the term predates the advent of Islam. Pre-Islamic Arabs worshipped ...
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  • Latin) literature. Later historians expanded the term to include not only the lack of Latin literature, but a lack of contemporary written history ...
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  • #:Giving your children a good education is a wise long-term investment. ... * term investment investment|78414977 ...
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  • Since the middle of the twentieth century, the term science is normally used to indicate the natural sciences (e.g., chemistry), the social sciences ...
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  • by immediate gratification (short-term reward), coupled with delayed deleterious effects (long-term costs). Instead of being intoxicated with ...
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  • * Economic depression, a sustained, long-term downturn in economic ... * Depression (kinesiology), an anatomical term of motion, refers to ...
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  • (dress). Doublet of the dialectal English term cleading, from Middle English ... used, with clothing being a more formal term. This word is also used as ...
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  • text=The United States Electoral College is a term used to describe the 538 Presidential electors who meet every four years to cast the official ...
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  • many Indigenous North Americans disfavor the term "costume" to refer to their traditional and ritual garments and prefer the term regalia. ...
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  • text=The term Mass Media applies to several distinct categories: Traditional Media, Print Media, Electronic Broadcasting Media, Outdoor Media ...
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  • In international statistics the less ambiguous term gross national income (GNI) has gradually replaced gross national product (GNP). ...
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  • ), Russian language term for all citizens and people of Russia, regardless of ethnicity *Russophone, Russian-speaking person ( ru|русскоговорящий ...
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  • before copyright existed, or by their copyright term having expired. }} ...
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  • text=The term nuclear family refers to the family group consisting of parents and children, as opposed to the extended family which includes ...
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  • of the Republic of India thereafter. In India, the term "tricolour" [Tirangā – तिरंगा (in Hindi)] almost always refers to the ...
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  • text=Russian Futurism is the broad term for a movement of Russian poets and artists who adopted the principles of the Italian futurism, especially ...
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  • text=The United States Electoral College is a term used to describe the 538 Presidential electors who meet every four years to cast the official ...
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  • text=Health is a term that refers to a combination of the absence of illness, the ability to manage stress effectively, good nutrition and physical ...
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  • text=Ijtihad (Arabic اجتهاد) is a technical term of Islamic law that describes the process of making a legal decision by independent interpretation ...
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  • Thus, there is a tradition of using the term hominid to refer only to humans ... This more restricted use of the term hominid is common in anthropology ...
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  • with a sad and unfortunate outcome. However, the term also applies specifically in Western culture to a form of drama defined by Aristotle, characterized ...
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  • and economic practices. It was not a term originated by the group itself. While Berbers are stereotyped as nomads, and indeed some tribes are ...
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  • text=The term Greek mythology refers to the collection of tales belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their pantheon of gods as well as ...
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  • of enormous density and temperature. The term is also used in a narrower sense to describe the fundamental "fireball" that erupted ...
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  • The word "dybbuk" is derived from a Hebrew term meaning "attachment." According to kabbalistic tradition, a soul that has not been ...
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  • given through the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. The term "Divine Principle" is also used by Unificationists to refer to a metaphysical concept ...
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  • brass, woodwind, and percussion sections. The term orchestra derives from the Greek name for the semicircular area in front of the ancient Greek stage ...
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  • ==Etymology== From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”). ==Noun== larva (plural larvas or larvae or larvæ) # An early stage of growth for some ...
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  • Sea. The Aegean Sea is a sea with many islands; the term Arcipelago, originally a proper noun referring to the Aegean Sea, was first generalized to a ...
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  • can be understood as a broader or narrower term depending on the context. ===Derived terms=== * preadolescence ===Related terms=== ...
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  • text=The afterlife, or life after death, is a generic term referring to the continuation of existence after death, typically spiritual, experiential ...
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  • of clauses, phrases, and words. The term can also refer to the study of such constraints, a field that includes domains such as phonology, morphology ...
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  • responsibility for themselves. The term "death of God" originated from the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche in the nineteenth century ...
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  • support domestic British corn (in Britain, the term "corn" means "grain" (the kernel), and implies the primary grain crop of a country ...
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  • He was generally credited with coining the term "Rainbow Nation" as a metaphor to describe post-apartheid South Africa after 1994 ...
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  • pathway to liberation. Mandala has become a generic term for any plan, chart, or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically ...
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  • drawings, and animated film. Originally, the term referred to full-scale drawings for various forms of fine art, such as frescoes and tapestries. From ...
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  • text=The term drama comes from a Greek word meaning "action." The enactment of drama in theater, performed by actors on a stage before ...
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  • text=The term fraternity, often colloquially shortened to "frat," generally refers to all-male or mixed-sex student organizations at ...
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  • and not whole propositions themselves. A term picks out a set or class of ... The term of a categorical proposition picks out a group of things ...
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  • text=The term concerto (plural concerti or concertos) refers to a musical work in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra. The ...
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  • text=As a medical term, stress refers to a wide range of strong external stimuli or conditions, both physiological and psychological, impinging ...
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  • also affected other regions of the USSR, the term Holodomor is specifically applied to the events that took place in territories populated by ethnic ...
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  • The main role of DNA molecules is the long-term storage of information. DNA is often compared to a set of blueprints, since it contains the ...
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  • Europe and to the United States. The term was introduced in 1884 when Maurice Barrès referred to a particular group of writers as Decadents ...
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  • Russian character trait known as poshlost. This term is untranslatable, but contains elements of evil, banality and pettiness. It is a common theme in ...
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  • shaped by cultural and historical contexts. The term "social construction" was introduced by sociologists Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann ...
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  • text=Coral reef is the term for any fully marine, underwater ecosystem with a calcium carbonate foundation produced by the skeletons of living ...
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  • culture and was popular among early Christians. The term "Apocalypse" is from the Greek word for "revelation" which means "an ...
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  • text=Aging or ageing is the process of becoming older. The term refers especially to humans, many other animals, and fungi. Aging represents ...
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  • text=African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music and musical genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African ...
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  • The name "romantic" itself comes from the term "romance" which is a prose or poetic heroic narrative originating in the medieval. ...
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  • business and commerce. When used outside Japan, the term “manga” refers specifically to comics originally published in Japan. Japanese manga has had ...
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  • and topics. Such a thesaurus places each term in context, allowing a user ... * a list of every important term (single-word or multi-word) in a ...
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  • puberty, coming of age, marriages, or death. The term was popularized by German ethnographer Arnold van Gennep (1873-1957) in the early part of the twentieth ...
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  • 900 to 11,500 BP. In popular, current usage, the term is typically employed in the narrow sense of contemporary changes in which humans are regarded ...
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  • planet. On August 24, 2006, the IAU defined the term "planet" for the first time. This definition excluded Pluto, which was then reclassified ...
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  • system of the Han Chinese people. The term can literally be translated as "Emperor (or Sovereign) Above," "the Supreme God," ...
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  • music" is a broad, somewhat imprecise term in referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, Western art, ecclesiastical ...
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  • In popular usage, the term is often confused with dissociative identity disorder (also known as multiple personality disorder). ===Derived terms=== ...
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  • text=Evil is a term used to describe something that brings about harmful, painful, and unpleasant effects. It is understood to be of three kinds: ...
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  • text=Virginity is a term used to describe the state of never having engaged in sexual intercourse. A person who still has his or her virginity ...
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  • and wealth. Pyrrhus became famous for the term "Pyrrhic victory" which remains in usage even today. He reportedly offered the phrase ...
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  • | label23 = Term | data23 = } | label24 = Predecessor | data24 = } | label25 = Successor | data25 = } | label26 = Political pa ...
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  • working poor during the French Revolution. The term refers to the britches they wore that distinguished them from the nobility and bourgeoisie. They ...
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  • text=In spiritualism, the term Medium refers to a person with a psychic ability to produce phenomena of a mental or physical nature by "channeling ...
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  • text=The term fraternity, often colloquially shortened to "frat," generally refers to all-male or mixed-sex student organizations at ...
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  • Isotropy is a term used in various scientific disciplines to indicate that certain properties of a part of nature (such as a material or radiation ...
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  • absolute or virtually absolute authority. The term originates from the days of the Roman Republic, when at times there were dictators appointed to rule ...
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  • before copyright existed, or by their copyright term having expired. Some works, such as those created by the government, are not covered by copyright ...
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  • house in order. What was meant to be a short-term, caretaker government lasted eight years, during which he accumulated personal wealth, ordered anyone ...
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  • Within mathematics, the term statistics usually refers to mathematical statistics. ===Derived terms=== * algebraic statistics * applied statistics ...
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  • #(UK, informal, dated) Term of address to a man; guv'nor. ===Derived terms=== * centrifugal governor * governor general * lieutenant governor ...
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  • a conclusion. Each of the premises has one term in common with the conclusion ... "Being mortal" is the major term and "Socrates" ...
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  • places, about whom little is known. However, the term "Baal" in the Bible was more frequently associated with a major deity in the Canaanite ...
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  • sense of the word only applied to male actors, the term actress being used for the female counterpart. ===Derived terms=== * character actor ...
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  • medicine renamed it with a New Latin term in the mid-nineteenth century; in English it was called consumption because of the wasting away that ...
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  • quot;TNT") is sometimes proscribed, but is the term's original and more common meaning. The status of an acronym's pronunciation is not ...
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  • debate as to whether Medieval Latin acquires this term from Old English feorm (rent, provision, supplies, feast), from Proto-Germanic *fermō, *firhuma ...
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  • In common use, ethnicity is used as a euphemism for the sensitive term race, but with identical meaning: group ancestry and physical characteristics ...
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  • that it will be cared for appropriately. The term limits of copyright, such that creative works enter the public domain after a specified time period ...
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  • ==Etymology== From French kilogramme: kilo- irregularly derived from Ancient Greek χίλιοι (khílioi, “one thousand”) +‎ gramme, from ...
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  • as the basis of an entire song. Neither the term "riff" or "lick ... The term riff entered musical slang in the 1920s (Rooksby, Ibid), ...
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  • Bridge of Asses or Pons Asinorum (Latin for "Bridge of Asses") is a term used to refer to a problem that severely tests the ability ...
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  • Regarding the income sense, when the difference is negative, the term loss is preferred. Negative profit does appear in microeconomics. Profit ...
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  • immanence, is a common philosophical term and is used by many philosophers ... of experience. While Kant's use of the term is unique to him, Husserl ...
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  • Anisotropy is a term used in various scientific disciplines to indicate that certain properties of matter (such as a material or radiation) vary ...
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  • ongoing. Hence, there is a serious danger of long-term consequences. Binge drinking is especially common on college campuses, often found among fraternities ...
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  • Monad is an English term meaning "one," "single," or "unit," especially in technical contexts. It comes from the ...
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  • # (archaic) A generic term for a cow or bull (plural beeves). #: Do you want to raise beeves? # (slang, countable) a grudge, complaint, or disagreement ...
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  • Brass is the term used for alloys of copper and zinc. It has a yellow color, somewhat similar to gold. The proportions of zinc and copper can ...
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  • A definition is a statement of the meaning of a term, word or phrase. The term to be defined is known as the definiendum (Latin: that which is ...
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  • Fauna is all of the animals of any particular region or time period, considered as as group. The term is contrasted with flora, which refers ...
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  • In Judaism, the term Bar Mitzvah (Hebrew: בר מצוה) refers to a boy's coming-of-age ceremony held upon (or shortly after) his thirteenth ...
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  • "Apathy" or apatheia (Greek απάθεια, "absence of feeling"), is a philosophical term originally used by the Stoics ...
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  • S. agenda, which may have cost him a second term. He is the only U.N. secretary ... Boutros-Ghali began his term in the top post of the United Nations ...
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  • The term metalloid is derived from the Greek words metallon, meaning ... not all semiconductors are metalloids. The term "metalloid" refers ...
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  • {| class="infobox" style="width: 13em; text-align: center;" | Part of a series onLibertarianism |- ! style="font-size: ...
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  • the first philosopher who used the term is Heraclitus. By using the ... Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He used the term logos to describe the universal ...
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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 ...
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  • illness, to specialized care, to ongoing long-term care of the elderly or chronically ill. In accordance with the original meaning of the word ...
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  • * long-term memory * memory cartridge * memory cell * memory chip * memory leak * memory metal * memory span * memory stick * photographic memory ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of Leibniz and Christian Wolff, and gave the term aesthetics its modern meaning. While Baumgarten saw himself as only a modest developer of the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • feedback. Both solutions are unhealthy in the long term, for the individual and ultimately for the society. According to Unification Thought, ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • In Hinduism, the term Isvara (ईश्वर in Devanagari script, also variously transliterated as Ishvara and Īśvara), is a generic name ...
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  • ==Coining the term "Blue Law"== The term blue law may have been first used by Reverend Samuel Peters ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • used by certain Native American tribes. The term wickiup is generally used ... and use. In the twenty-first century, the term "wickiup" became ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • In some linguistic traditions, the term "dialect" is restricted to nonstandard lects. In scholarly English usage, it refers to both ...
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  • policies, procedures, and methodologies of term assignments and clarification ... #Consistency: Promote uniformity in term format and in the assignment ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Kenosis (from the Greek κένωσις: meaning "emptying") is an ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] term found primarily in Christian ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • == First term as Governor-general of India == After the war Cornwallis ... == Second term as governor-general of India == He was reappointed governor ...
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  • literature. Later historians expanded the term to include not only the lack ... with severe qualification, as a term of periodization. This usage ...
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  • In a broad sense of the term, an organism is an embryo between the ... In general, for vertebrates, the term embryo may correspond variously ...
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  • the Russian Revolution of 1917), and a term often used in modern art today ... Gabo, Tatlin and Rodchenko began to use the term "Productivism." ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • American colonies. Another frequently used term is "Black Belt," ... ==Usage of the term== The term "Deep South" is defined in ...
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  • In medicine, the term "etiology" refers to the causes of ... are similarly based on folk etymology (the term "Amazon," for example ...
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  • In meteorology, the term vapor pressure is used to mean the partial ... as such. Meteorologists also use the term saturation vapor pressure ...
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  • The use of the term hominid, which is the designation for members ... and thus affecting the consensus of the term "Hominid." Certain ...
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  • to the earlier sections on use of the term, which probably all need to ... #*We only need one section on the "Term Celt" - I put all ...
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  • Gaucho (gaúcho in Portuguese) is a term commonly used to describe the nomadic and colorful horsemen and cowhands of the South American pampas ...
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  • The term Absolute denotes unconditioned and/or independence in the strongest sense. It can include or overlap with meanings implied by other ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The term is employed extensively in tantric literature: the term for ... sceptre," which is how the term is sometimes translated. The ...
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  • real or apparent, of two laws. It is a term often used in logic and epistemology, when describing a paradox or unresolvable contradiction. The ...
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  • also eat fish (although the precise term for such a person is pescetarian). Traditionally, this sense of the word meat sometimes even excluded ...
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  • (Marxism), as interpreted by Lenin. The term Marxism-Leninism was most ... ==History of the term== [[Image:Karl Marx.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Karl Marx]] ...
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  • direction and is considered cliched. The term 'chromatic' is understood ... fixed outer strings. However, the closest term used by the Greeks to our ...
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  • embedded processors and controllers. The term originates in science fiction ... == Origins of the term == [[Image:Hacking the Gibson in Wagamamas.jpg ...
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  • performed almost entirely by computer. The term, Computer Based Learning ... The term, "Learning Design"[http://www.epiclearning.com/exchange/design ...
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  • Although the term is generally reserved for professional space travelers ... Federal Space Agency agreed to use the term "spaceflight participant ...
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  • Dread or Angst as a philosophical term originated primarily through the work of the nineteenth century Danish existential philosopher and theologian ...
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  • Shellfish is a a broad term for various aquatic mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms that are used as food. A culinary and fisheries term, ...
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  • The term traces to the Ancient Greek word entelecheia, from the combination ... metaphysician Leibniz (1646-1716) used the term to refer to unextended thinking ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • in a given discipline. The original Greek term "paradeigma" was ... Kuhn initially used the term "paradigm" in the contexts ...
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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 ...
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  • The term military-industrial complex (MIC) refers to the combination ... The term, often used pejoratively, refers to the institutionalized ...
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  • A bulldozer is a very powerful crawler (caterpillar tracked tractor) equipped with a blade. The term "bulldozer" is often used to mean ...
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  • Linguistic scholar Roland De Vaux wrote that the term cherubim is ... In some regions the Assyro-Babylonian term came to refer in particular ...
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  • A muckraker is an American English term for one who investigates and ... President Theodore Roosevelt is attributed as the source of the term ...
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  • The term “catharsis” was used in a philosophical sense by Aristotle ... The Greek philosopher Aristotle used the term “catharsis” twice ...
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  • and across the world's cultures. The term was first coined by Friedrich ... "Henotheism" as a term is not widely used by the general ...
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  • The term “eclectic” was first used in the first century B.C.E ... The term "eclectics" comes from the Greek eklektikos: “choosing ...
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  • The term inheritance refers to something, physical or otherwise, that one receives from another. Receivers have no say in whether an inheritance ...
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  • Tuber is a botanical term for an enlarged, fleshy, generally underground stem of certain seed plants, in which the typical stem parts are represented ...
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  • or an engineering design. More generally, the term "blueprint" has come to be used to refer to any detailed plan. == History == ...
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  • The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare earth elements ... Terbium is classified as a rare earth element. The term "rare ...
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  • The term baryon usually refers to a subatomic particle composed of three quarks. The Particle Adventure, [http://www.particleadventure.org/frameless/hadrons ...
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  • The outback, also known as the Great Australian Desert, is the remote and arid interior (and north) of Australia. The term "outback" ...
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  • original shape when the stress is removed. The term is a contraction of the words "elastic polymer." There are many types of elastomers, most ...
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  • Information explosion is a term used to describe the rapidly increasing amount of published information and the effects of this abundance of ...
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  • | label4 = Term limits | data4 = } | header5 = }}}}} ... | label34 = Length of term | data34 = } | label35 = Authority ...
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  • English suffix "-itis," and the term arthritis comes from the Greek ... and catabolic processes. In the short term, this is often a valid trade ...
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  • The term common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective, commonsense, common-sense or commonsensical), based on a strict deconstruction ...
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  • 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; ...
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  • Depth psychology is a broad term that refers to any psychological ... Depth psychology, from the German term (Tiefenpsychologie) coined ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • the fowl clade Galloanserae. However, the term fowl is not a formal taxonomic ... of Galliformes and Anseriformes, the term poultry typically is used ...
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  • was a Scottish neurosurgeon who coined the term and invented the procedure ... as monoideism, but it was too late—the term “hypnosis” was already ...
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  • of religious antiquity. This blanket term or umbrella concept is usually ... This term is a convention that does not truly or accurately define ...
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  • " a specific end-of times deceiver. The term Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal (Arabic for "The False Messiah") is a literal translation of the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • originally by Thomas Huxley who coined the term, it involves a serious philosophical ... The term agnosticism comes from a conjunction of the Greek prefix ...
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  • Meninges (singular meninx) is the collective term for the fibrous membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord, providing protection to the ...
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  • Many dance teachers criticize the use of the term "syncopation" and abandon it in favor of the term "double-time." This is ...
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  • Freud defined the term libido psychoanalytically in his Three Essays ... The term eros, understood as a life instinct antagonistic to the death ...
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  • 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, ...
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  • Nations. A patient, constructive long-term use of its potentialities ... Over objections from the Soviet Union, his term of office was extended ...
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  • Swedish political scientist Rudolf Kjellén coined the term "geopolitics ... the significance of navies (he coined the term sea power) in world conflict ...
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  • the god of a place called Zebub. The term appears in Christian texts ... If the term originally meant "Baal of Flies," it may be ...
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  • The term Barbarian does not derive from the name of any tribe or cultural ... == Origin of the term == The term "barbarian" is not derived ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The term nuclear family refers to the family group consisting of parents ... The term nuclear family was developed in the western world to distinguish ...
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  • Sometimes, especially in the sciences, the term exponential function ... The term double exponential function can have two meanings: ...
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  • :Scarlet Sages. See Salvia coccinea ← redirecting the reader to ... :shade plants ← grouping term (may not appear in the text; may be ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • usages of the terms. Historically the term "romance" did not ... has existed since before 1812. Here, the term "romantic" means ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • chemical elements. Berzelius suggested the term "protein" as the ... Berzelius is also credited with originating the term "polymer ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • This term is found in English translations of Chinese-language historical fiction, where it is used to give the work an ancient Chinese feel. ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • In the traditional definition of the term, acculturation is the process ... The term, however, needs to be differentiated from the term enculturation ...
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  • Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (January 25, 1743 – March 10, 1819) was a German philosopher who made his mark on philosophy by coining the term ...
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  • Party in the mid-nineteenth century. The term barnburner was derived from ... internal improvements, and state banks. The term hunker was derived from someone ...
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  • Zaibatsu ( 財閥, ざいばつ, property) is a Japanese term referring to the "financial cliques," “wealth cliques,” or business ...
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  • Hibernation is one of several types of dormancy, a general term used ... Torpor is normally presented as short-term lowering of the metabolic ...
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  • # The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • ==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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The term il-Khan means "subordinate khan" and refers to ... Law. He introduced the idea that the term jahilia (ignorance) could ...
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  • man-made. Such objects are often called moons. The term is normally used to identify non-artificial satellites of planets, dwarf planets, or minor planets ...
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  • system of the Han Chinese people. The term can literally be translated ... analysis showing the development of the term over time would be useful ...
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  • rabbinic writings throughout history. However, the term is often used as an exact translation of the Hebrew phrase Sifrut Hazal (ספרות חז"ל; ...
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  • The term esoteric first appeared in English in the 1701 History of ... The term "Mystery" derives from Latin mysterium, from Greek ...
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  • The term marine engineer can also refer to a designer who specializes ... The original term Engineers (on a ship) meant the technical people ...
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  • The term immunization often is used interchangeably with vaccination and inoculation, all of which use a viable infecting agent. Like active ...
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  • film, architecture and music. The term may apply to any emotional ... resemblance to those of Expressionism, the term applies mainly to twentieth ...
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  • system. It originates from the Greek term κόσμος meaning "order ... Pythagoras is said to have been the first philosopher to apply the ...
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  • abstraction," although the preferred term for it is "perceptual ... The term first appeared in print in Time magazine in October 1964, ...
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  • Parochial school is a term used (particularly in the United States ... House, Inc. Retrieved August 24, 2008. The term "parochial school" ...
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  • Drug, broadly defined, is a term used for any chemical substance that when introduced to the body of a living organism has a non-food impact ...
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  • dispersed institutions. Conversely, the term "virtual university" ... quot;correspondence courses," an older term that originated in nineteenth ...
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  • These early utilitarians believed that the moral term "good" ... According to Moore, a term is defined just in case we provide necessary ...
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  • by the scientific community, although the term Antarctic Ocean was used in ... the Third Edition, published in 1953, the term Antarctic Ocean was missing ...
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  • Many musicians prefer the term "traditional jazz" to Dixieland ... early part of the twentieth century, the term Dixieland became widely used ...
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  • Nerve cord is a term that can refer to either (1) the single, hollow, fluid-filled, dorsal tract of nervous tissue that is one of the defining ...
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  • matters. "In English, it is a term that designates a religiously ... There are several different definitions and descriptions of the term ...
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  • #Nevi'im (נביאים) meaning "Prophets." This term ... Christians count as several. However, the term Old Testament, while common ...
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  • annuum. Cultivar is a horticultural term for a group of cultivated ... The term "bell pepper" is one of the many names for some ...
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  • As a general, non-taxonomic term, insectivore is a dietary category that applies to any organism feeding chiefly on insects and similar small ...
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  • The term sophists originally meant “wise men” in Ancient Greece. By the fifth century B.C.E., the term designated a profession in or a group ...
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