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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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  • ), Russian language term for all citizens and people of Russia, regardless of ethnicity *Russophone, Russian-speaking person ( ru|русскоговорящий ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Monad is an English term meaning "one," "single," or "unit," especially in technical contexts. It comes from the ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • (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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • own party. Hayes refused to run for a third term as governor. He preferred ... quot;|NAME||align="left"|TERM |- !bgcolor="#000000" ...
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  • The origin of the term goes back to the ancient Greeks. The English term “substance” comes from the Latin terms sub (“under”) and stare ...
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  • that person against their will. While the term “kidnapping” originally ... in 1673. It was originally used as a term for the practice of stealing ...
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  • which sets the object into vibration. The term usually applies to an object ... to produce a sound." The usage of the term is not unique to music but ...
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  • office. Harrison died thirty days into his term; the briefest presidency in ... other tall pioneers on the Ohio frontier, a term of endearment in respect of ...
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  • The term "Bretayne the grete" was used by chroniclers as ... as well as Northern Ireland, the simple term "Britain" is often ...
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  • Congress of a territorial governor with a three-year term, a territorial secretary with a four-year term, and three judges, with no set limit to their ...
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  • cuisine, when discussing fruit as food, the term usually refers to just those ... The term false fruit (pseudocarp, accessory fruit) is sometimes applied ...
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  • Chalcedony is one of the cryptocrystalline—a term which refers to a structure that consists of tiny crystals that can be seen only at high ...
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  • example is the circle. In everyday use of the term "curve," a straight line is not curved, but in mathematical parlance curves include straight ...
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  • In Christianity, the disciples were originally the students of Jesus during his ministry, although the term can also be used to refer to anyone ...
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  • Averroism is the term applied to two philosophical trends originating among European scholastics in the late thirteenth century, after the introduction ...
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  • Often, the widespread adoption of a slang term by mainstream culture will ... people that are familiar with it and use the term. * "It is a ...
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  • The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare earth elements ... ignites in air at 150 °C. Even with long-term storage under mineral oil ...
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  • The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare earth elements") is a trivial name applied to 16 chemical elements: scandium, yttrium ...
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  • copyright existed, or by their copyright term having expired. Some works ... of works that are no longer in copyright term or were never protected by ...
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  • Lyceum is a term used to refer to an educational institution (often ... lyceums ("litsey" is the Russian term, derived from French "lycee ...
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  • The term "Eastern Europe" is often used to refer to all ... in nature and sometimes more political. The term is often used to designate ...
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  • ==Involvement in politics and first term as Minister-President== ... ==Second term== The Liberals, however, were unable to continue in government ...
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  • Intifada (also Intefadah or Intifadah; from Arabic for "shaking off") is an Arabic term for "uprising." The word was first ...
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  • The term "kairos" is used in theology to describe the qualitative ... Paul Tillich made prominent use of the term. For him, the kairoi are those ...
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  • The term "logical positivism" itself originated in the Vienna ... 1817 to 1824, and Comte popularized use of the term. The most important ...
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  • hard-shelled clam. Among Europeans, the term wampum was used to refer to ... confused for wampum by Europeans, and the term wampum came into general use ...
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  • ! !! Name !! Term began !! Term ended |- |1. ||Marshal of the Soviet ... ! !! Name !! Term began !! Term ended |- | 1.||General of the Army ...
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  • often aimed at mature audiences. The term also encompasses comic short ... The evolving term graphic novel is not strictly defined, and is sometimes ...
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  • The term "extortion" is also used metaphorically to refer ... explanations for the origin of the term "badger game." One ...
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  • The term "Dublin" came from Dublin, Ohio, U.S., and "core ... Full information on element definitions and term relationships can ...
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  • .36..281B On the Definition of the Term Meteoroid] Quarterly Journal ... Astronomers may use the term bolide when referring to an exceptionally ...
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  • The Aramaic term abba has passed via Greek and Latin into European languages as an ecclesiastical term, Abbot (Father), the head of a monastery. ...
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  • The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare earth elements") is a trivial name applied to 16 chemical elements: scandium, yttrium ...
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  • Raspberry or red raspberry is the common term for the plant Rubus idaeus in the rose family (Rosaceae). The term is also applied to the edible ...
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  • had "deliberately chosen a scientific term for the name of the book to ... für sexuelle Zwischenstufen, changing the term "anomaly" to "differentiation ...
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  • or possibly dangerous. In Europe, the term "sect" is often ... Controversy exists among sociologists of religion as to whether the ...
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  • Mass media is a term denoting that section of the media specifically ... The term "mass media" is mainly used by academics and media ...
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  • Although the term "amillennialism" was coined in the 1930s ... The term "amillennialism" is not well compounded, as it ...
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  • and animated film. Originally, the term referred to full-scale drawings ... ==History of the Term "Cartoon"== [[Image:Leonardo - St. ...
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  • The term day care or child care refers to the care of a child during ... 2018. Retrieved March 29, 2024. A long-term NIH-funded study found that ...
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  • The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia naturalis), has several applications, according to its historical ...
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  • The term frigate has been used for warships of many sizes and roles. In the eighteenth century, the term referred to ships that were as long ...
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  • The term dakhma or dokhma (from Middle Persian dakhmag) originally ... by a dog or bird. Further, the Magi (a term that eventually came to signify ...
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  • (dwarf lemurs and mouse lemurs). The term also is used in a more restrictive ... The term "lemur" is derived from the Latin word lemures ...
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  • before the Buddha's Parinirvana the term Dharmakaya was current. Dharmakaya ... Berzin] Retrieved July 7, 2008. the lesser-known term Savakabuddha ...
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  • French art critic Louis Vauxcelles first used the term "cubism," or "bizarre cubiques," in 1908 after seeing a picture by ...
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  • The term continental philosophy originated among English-speaking ... the preceding philosophical movements. The term "continental philosophy ...
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  • "Conspicuous consumption" is the term Veblen used to describe ... Veblen used this term to depict the behavioral characteristic of the ...
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  • with galactosemia experience long-term complications. after ingesting dairy products, but no long-term effects. In contrast, galactosemic ...
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  • In botany, the term evergreen refers to a tree, shrub, or other plant having foliage that persists throughout the year. This terminology includes ...
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  • While the bare term non-cognitivism usually refers to ethics, it can ... to prove that there is no concept for the term "God:" He argues ...
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  • The term pharaoh ("الفرعون") derives from a compound ... The term therefore evolved from a word specifically referring to a ...
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  • The first term is just the angular momentum of the center of mass. It is the same angular momentum one would obtain if there were just one particle ...
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  • He is also said to have originated the term “Platonic love.” ... ==Modern Use of the Term Academy== The Renaissance drew potent intellectual ...
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  • The term apsis is derived from the Latin word apsis, meaning "arch ... some of them are used occasionally, the term -saturnium has rarely been ...
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  • most likely, or best, explanations. The term "abduction" also ... Historically, Aristotle's use of the term "epagoge" ...
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  • The term assassin, which appeared in European languages in a variety ... of Hassan's Ismaili sect with this term is not necessarily a clue ...
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  • cantare, to sing), a piece sung. The term, being vague, naturally evolved ... The Baroque era applied the term sonata to a variety of works, including ...
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  • Dasa (Sanskrit for "servant") is a Hindu term with two primary usages: Originally, "Dasa" denoted enemies of the ancient ...
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  • The oceanic crust is composed mainly of mafic rocks. The term mafic ... The continental crust consists predominantly of felsic rocks. The ...
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  • The term Bride of Christ is normally a metaphorical reference to the body of believers of the Christian Church, or the Ecclesia, although the ...
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  • spiced deriving from India. By itself, the term chai is merely the generic ... (مصالہ‏); मसाला) is a term used in South Asian cuisines ...
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  • means "the people" and the term Narodnik derives from the ... This theory also led to short-term failure; the peasantry as a whole ...
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  • The term "rare earth elements" (or "rare earth metals") is a trivial name applied to 16 chemical elements: scandium, yttrium ...
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  • Toothed whale is the general term for any of the various aquatic mammals comprising the suborder Odontoceti, characterized in extant species ...
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  • of world food supplies impacts the long-term survival of human beings and ... kingdom: So-called genetic pollution. This term refers to the uncontrolled ...
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  • widely popular in the 1990s. It was a term that was liberally used to ... Ironically, alternative became the general term for almost all rock music ...
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  • Some scholars have suggested that the term refers to a particular kind of sacrifice carried out by the Phoenicians and their neighbors rather ...
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  • " "form," or "shape." The term became significant in Greek philosophy when Plato used it to refer to the ideal Forms or Ideas ...
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  • such as a cork, it allowed for the long-term aging of wine. Glass has all ... the use of the bottle. One etymology of the term codswallop is linked to beer ...
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  • original concept behind the random access term in RAM. Even within a hierarchy ... ===Other uses of the "RAM" term=== Other physical devices ...
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  • in the articulation of orthodoxy. Thus, the term "nastika" may be ... As N. N. Bhattacharyya writes, "The term Nāstika [traditionally ...
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  • the Security Council, to fill the unexpired term of Dag Hammarskjöld. He was ... Although he didn't seek it, Thant was appointed for a second ...
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  • The term fiber (or fibre The spelling "fibre" is used in Commonwealth countries and sometimes in the United States as well. ...
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  • such a system two years before his death. The term degrees Celsius (symbol: °C) refers to a specific temperature on the Celsius temperature scale ...
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  • Scientific usage of the term metamorphosis is exclusive, and is not ... and complex metamorphosis, is a term applied to those processes ...
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  • what range of animals is encompassed by the term mouse (plural mice). Mouse ... In all but the most restrictive use of the term (genus Mus), the main distinction ...
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  • obtainable vacuum. Physicists use the term "vacuum" in several ... a matter of achieving low pressure, as the term partial vacuum suggests. In ...
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  • anguish, stress, and frustration. The term is probably derived from ... In ancient times, the term duḥkha was often compared to a large potter ...
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  • during and after Renaissance, the term academy was used for a school ... ==Modern use of the term academy== [[Image:Mk01n101.jpg|thumbnail|300px ...
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  • long, narrow inlet. In eastern Norway, the term is also applied to long narrow ... navigation. These are called skerries. The term skerry is derived from the ...
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  • the hill would be called as paksha (minor term), the fire is called as sadhya ... * It must not incompatible with the minor term or Paksha. ...
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  • Metanarrative or grand narrative or mater narrative is a term developed ... kind of universal knowledge or schema. The term grand narratives can be applied ...
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  • In metaphysics, a universal is a type, a property, or a relation. The term derives from the Latin word universalia and is often considered to ...
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  • E. in what is now the nation of India. The term originally comes from the ... Treacle is the term used primarily in Great Britain for the byproduct ...
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  • given to the congress, Jones introduced the term "rationalization," ... and United States. He introduced the term “rationalization” into ...
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  • The term was coined as a pun by the Russian poet, Nikolai Glazkov ... The term became very popular, spawning related terms such as: Magnitizdat ...
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  • ==Shuyuan as a modern term== In the late Qing dynasty, schools teaching Western science and technology were established. Many such schools were ...
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  • a museum, library, archive, zoo, and others. The term originates from the from the Latin (cura), which means "care." A curator is a content ...
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  • The term "San" was historically applied to Bushmen by their ... In South Africa, the term San has become favored in official contexts ...
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  • party for the next forty years. Her first term in office ended in 1965 but ... Her second term saw a new Constitution introduced, which ended the ...
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  • One of the goals of space stations is to study the effects of long ... These stations have various issues that limit their long-term habitability ...
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  • In Indian philosophy and religion, Samadhi (Sanskrit: समाधि, lit. "establish, make firm") is a term used in a variety of ...
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  • well as their numerous varieties). In petrology the term "chert" is used to generally refer to all rocks composed primarily of microcrystalline ...
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  • that is common to all human beings. The term was originally used by Carl ... Collective unconscious is a term originally coined by Carl Jung, and ...
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  • The term is usually used in reference to music of the late Middle ... in the southern part of the country. The term iso is related to the drone ...
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  • researchers, with some restricting the term to only non-living particulate ... of living plants and their products, the term detritivory refers to the ...
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  • Maimonides sometimes used the term "Geonim" in an extended ... Maimonides sometimes used the term "Geonim" in an extended ...
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  • A paradox was originally something that was contrary to received or common opinion. The term paradox comes from the Greek para ("contrary ...
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  • and transportation engineering. The term "civil engineering" ... to as municipal engineers, though this term is usually reserved for engineers ...
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  • The term zoological garden refers to the biological discipline zoology ... Ages to modern times. Menagerie is the term for a historical form of keeping ...
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  • deposits and making mortgage loans. The term is mainly used in the United ... services, especially mortgage lending. The term "building society" ...
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  • legacies. These women, not least of all two-term Prime Minister Khaleda Zia ... ===First term=== With a unanimous vote cutting across all political ...
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  • in a large head from an edible bud. The term artichoke also refers to the ... There are two other plants for which the term artichoke is applied ...
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  • the ability to see backwards in time. The term was coined by Frederic MyersParapsy ... phenomenon, are often included under the term "precognition." ...
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  • Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "a country dweller or rustic") is a term that has been used from antiquity to derogatorily denote ...
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  • The term scientism has been used with different meanings in literature. The term is often used as a pejorative Scientism: "an exaggerated ...
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