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- == Origin of the Term “Scholastic” == In early Christian schools, especially after the beginning of the sixth century, it was customary to ...14 KB (1,990 words) - 17:20, 25 January 2023
- Eucharistia, "thanksgiving") is the term with the earliest ... "sharing in common") is a term used, with different meanings ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 04:40, 22 March 2024
- of the mint family (Lamiaceae). In particular, the term commonly is used for the species Lavandula angustifolia (true lavender or common lavender), ...11 KB (1,715 words) - 17:55, 25 October 2022
- can help in flood mitigation, while longer term, peat is a early transition ... it can help in flood mitigation. Longer term, peat is a early transition ...14 KB (2,165 words) - 15:20, 27 April 2023
- The term "cardiac" (as in cardiology and cardiovascular ... In addition to the term heart being used in a physical sense, the ...17 KB (2,703 words) - 15:12, 25 January 2023
- opulence while the poor went hungry. The term "cartoon" stuck ... Palace" as well as the use of the term cartoon to refer to satirical ...8 KB (1,281 words) - 23:46, 2 December 2022
- The term was first coined in 1917 by Victor Shklovsky (or Shklovskij ... characteristic of all art. He invented the term defamiliarization to “distinguish ...11 KB (1,618 words) - 14:07, 8 June 2020
- or thought. Bolzano's use of the term "an sich" differs ... Instead of the more traditional copulative term "is," Bolzano prefers ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 11:18, 28 September 2023
- The term digital divide refers to the gap between those people with ... education in addressing poverty in the long term; usually with an emphasis ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 07:06, 13 June 2023
- (This is a distinctly different use of the term autochthonous than its usual ... Transcendence (paired with the term The Encompassing in later works ...13 KB (1,830 words) - 07:16, 5 October 2022
- The term nucleus is from Latin nucleus ("kernel"), derived ... The adoption of the term "nucleus" to atomic theory, however ...13 KB (1,903 words) - 06:57, 21 August 2023
- it is in the twentieth century that the term atonality began to be applied ... Atonality emerged as a pejorative term to condemn music in which chords ...18 KB (2,710 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- of air pressure, one can forecast short-term changes in the weather. Numerous ... observations, reasonably accurate short term forecasts can be made. ...9 KB (1,410 words) - 08:09, 20 September 2023
- The term jade is applied to two different types of rock, nephrite and jadeitite, that are made up of different silicate minerals. Nephrite can ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 08:35, 18 March 2024
- As a medical term, stress refers to a wide range of strong external stimuli or conditions, both physiological and psychological, impinging on ...14 KB (2,140 words) - 16:01, 23 September 2022
- Adolf Hitler brought it to prominence. The term Lebensraum, in this sense ... in general, nor was the original use of the term Lebensraum. However, under ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 18:49, 25 October 2022
- The Apostolic Fathers were a group of early Christian leaders believed to know the Apostles personally. The term also refers to the collection ...9 KB (1,377 words) - 15:52, 11 August 2023
- a fundamental component of Hinduism. The term Upanishad itself is derived ... the pupil the Vedas and Vedangas. The term of stay varies (Manu Smriti ...14 KB (2,161 words) - 07:58, 24 July 2023
- The term enthalpy was composed of the prefix en-, meaning to "put ... The term pV is the work required to displace the surrounding atmosphere ...18 KB (2,941 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- The term digital divide refers to the gap between people with effective access to digital and information technology and those with very limited ...29 KB (4,205 words) - 14:35, 29 January 2024
- encephalomyelitis (Longe 2006). While the term encephalitis also includes ... and catabolic processes. In the short term, this is often a valid trade ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 18:32, 13 February 2024
- The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare earth elements") is a trivial name applied to 16 chemical elements: scandium, yttrium ...11 KB (1,375 words) - 21:33, 4 June 2023
- drums of contrasting sizes and timbres. The term tabla is derived from an Arabic ... of tabla tradition known by the Urdu-Hindi term gharānā (ghar = "house ...11 KB (1,728 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- The term parapsychology refers to the scientific study of certain ... The term parapsychology refers to the scientific study of certain ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 11:26, 11 March 2023
- amethyst," but jewelers may use this term in referring to fine examples of ordinary amethystine quartz, even when not derived from eastern ...8 KB (1,216 words) - 06:54, 25 July 2023
- The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare earth elements") is a trivial name applied to 16 chemical elements: scandium, yttrium ...11 KB (1,419 words) - 19:19, 13 February 2024
- The principal achievement of Governor Wallace's first term was ... Alabama's state constitution prevented him from seeking a second ...23 KB (3,309 words) - 08:05, 23 January 2023
- which caused Paul to use such a strong term of endearment for him. ... "churches" as we understand the term today, but in the homes of ...9 KB (1,498 words) - 19:11, 13 February 2024
- before the Buddha's Parinirvana the term Dharmakaya was current. Dharmakaya ... disciple. Anubuddha is a rarely used term, but was used by the Buddha ...13 KB (1,936 words) - 16:53, 2 May 2023
- out the word "God," using the term "G-d" instead to ... and later "P" sources, the the term El or Elohim is used until ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 01:12, 11 November 2022
- The term regolith is a combination of two Greek words: rhegos, which ... The term lunar soil is often used interchangeably with "lunar ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 03:04, 8 December 2022
- science fiction and popular literature, the term "neutronium" is ... *** Single pulsars – general term for neutron stars that emit directed ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 16:26, 11 November 2022
- Polyethers are compounds with more than one ether group. The term ... * Luminiferous aether (or luminiferous ether): This term, meaning ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 04:31, 22 March 2024
- The term docking refers to the holding of two membranes within a bilayer ... In neuronal exocytosis, the term priming has been used to include ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 04:40, 7 April 2021
- out in criticism of it. They coined the term kosmopolites, or citizen of ... of the mind that thought them. The modern term “cynic” denotes someone ...9 KB (1,393 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- ==List of Surgical Term Roots== ===Prefixes=== * angio- : related to ... * -ectomy: surgical removal; the term 'resection' is also ...22 KB (3,284 words) - 23:38, 18 September 2021
- "Fin Amor" (Refined Love). The term "courtly love" was ... ==Origin of term== The term amour courtois ("courtly love" ...17 KB (2,718 words) - 06:12, 11 January 2024
- and the non-coding sequences of the DNA. The term was coined in 1920, by Hans Winkler, as a fusion of the words gene and chromosome (Lederberg and ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 08:02, 23 January 2023
- The term Oriental Orthodoxy refers to the communion of Eastern Christian Churches that recognize only the first four ecumenical councils—the ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 01:18, 18 November 2022
- The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species uses the term endangered species ... a high risk of extinction in the medium-term. It needs to meet any of the ...17 KB (2,530 words) - 20:34, 7 April 2024
- to assist our understanding of the past. The term was introduced into English by Daniel Wilson (1816–1892), President of Toronto University College ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 11:30, 26 June 2022
- the Whig Party. Tyler served only a single term, the nearly full term remaining ... By the end of his term, neither the Whigs nor the Democrats supported ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 07:59, 3 August 2022
- ecumenical council, which had accepted the term homoousios ("same substance ... homoousios (same substance: The Nicene term) nor homoiousos (like substance: ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 14:10, 20 May 2023
- is generally accepted to be a more neutral term covering those of similar ... The origin of the term is clouded with uncertainty, but four possibilities ...12 KB (1,874 words) - 21:01, 3 November 2022
- The term “yellow journalism” originated during the circulation ... The New York Press coined the term "yellow journalism" in ...18 KB (2,650 words) - 09:56, 23 May 2023
- Classical antiquity, era, or period is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, which begins roughly ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- of a cardiovascular disease, an umbrella term for grouping diseases that ... Cardiac arrhythmia (also dysrhythmia) is a term for any of a large ...11 KB (1,487 words) - 15:13, 25 January 2023
- organisms. The main role of DNA is the long-term storage of information and ... DNA in classical biology, as the term "clone" refers to ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 21:12, 23 July 2022
- from the Medieval Latin sparagus. This term itself derives from the Greek ... Another known colloquial variation of the term, most common in parts of Texas ...14 KB (2,081 words) - 04:48, 18 August 2023
- pitch, because of its black color, and blende, a term used by German miners to denote minerals whose weight suggested metal content, but whose exploitation ...4 KB (526 words) - 13:35, 3 May 2023
- new terminology, with the exception of the term "mental hygiene," ... It was Meyer who suggested the term "mental hygiene" to ...9 KB (1,247 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- One. "Kalki" is also an important term in the Buddhist tradition ... quot; of God into physical form. The term is most ubiquitously related ...12 KB (1,915 words) - 02:29, 5 October 2022
- A hieroglyph is a character used in a pictorial writing system. The ... quot; or "to write," as in the term "glyph." This was ...20 KB (3,009 words) - 15:47, 25 January 2023
- to other females. Hence the use of the term "Lesbian" to refer ... sexologists are mentioned along with the term "invert." Freud ...16 KB (2,335 words) - 00:47, 7 March 2023
- above ground on soil or on its food source. The term "mushroom" also is used to designate the entire fungus with a fruiting body. ...22 KB (3,256 words) - 19:06, 10 November 2022
- ==Usage of the term "engine"== to as "siege engines." The term "gin" as in cotton ...16 KB (2,420 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- Casuistry (ˈkæʒuːɨstri) is an applied ethics term referring to ... Critics use the term pejoratively for the use of clever but unsound ...15 KB (2,220 words) - 14:26, 29 November 2023
- to many religious traditions; yet, the term's usage is somewhat problematic ... quot; is Iman (Arabic: إيمان). This term literally means “to fully ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- A Gentile is a non-Jew, the term being a common English translation of the Hebrew words goy (גוי) and nochri (נכרי). The word "Gentile ...20 KB (3,103 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- 000 species). Some individuals only use the term fish when referring to the ... preference among biologists is to use the term "fishes" when speaking ...18 KB (2,549 words) - 06:51, 17 May 2021
- harried out of office twice in his six year term as Patriarch, and died the ... At the beginning of his term in Constantinople, Nestorius had promised ...12 KB (1,909 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- teachings concerning Jesus Christ, the term antichrist attached itself ... 1 John and 2 John. In these verses, the term does not refer to a single ...17 KB (2,693 words) - 06:20, 31 July 2023
- United States, serving from 1921 to 1923, his term ending when he died from a heart attack at 57. A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- sometimes used as a loan of money. The term derives from a root word meaning ... The term "charter" is also used when referring to a contract ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 07:42, 13 January 2023
- Codependency is a descriptive term that attempts to explain imbalanced relationships where one person enables another person's self-destructive ...25 KB (3,378 words) - 22:22, 7 January 2024
- Political correctness (adjectivally: politically correct; commonly abbreviated PC) is a term used by proponents, usually on the political left ...38 KB (4,999 words) - 19:46, 31 October 2022
- quot;kind." While the etymology of the term is not pejorative, historically ... The term "interracial marriage" may be more common in contemporary ...21 KB (3,025 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- A Rabbi, in Judaism, is a religious teacher and, in modern times, the leader of a synagogue. The term was first applied in Jewish sources to ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 16:07, 7 December 2022
- House, Inc. Retrieved July 10, 2008. The term graphy, the combining form ... The term icon is used for pictograms on computers and other electronic ...12 KB (1,772 words) - 05:12, 24 November 2022
- In its traditional, non-geologic use, the term "porphyry" refers ... The word "porphyry" is derived from a Latin term that means ...8 KB (1,217 words) - 05:39, 30 November 2022
- that "everything has a soul." The term has been further extended ... While the term "animism" refers to a broad range of spiritual ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 06:15, 28 July 2023
- may be known collectively as weasels. The term weasels also is used more ... however, as in American usage, the term "weasel" can refer ...13 KB (1,923 words) - 18:44, 17 April 2023
- monks were often referred to by the term bonze, particularly when describing ... discipline. In Mahayana Buddhism, the term "sangha" is, in ...18 KB (2,886 words) - 03:36, 1 October 2023
- from the classical understanding of the term, which predated Charles Darwin ... ομολογειν, “to agree.” The term homology is also used in a ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 16:13, 25 January 2023
- Michael Bergman mentioned that Jill Ellsworth used the term "invisible ... Another early use of the term invisible Web was by Bruce Mount (Director ...16 KB (2,418 words) - 18:13, 4 June 2020
- spices, sugar, or other flavorings. The term pickle is also used in a broader ... made from the West Indian cucumber, but the term gherkin has become loosely ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 22:47, 28 March 2023
- theorist. He is best known for his long-term ethnographic work among the ... In 1949, Kluckhohn began a long-term study of what he and his colleagues ...10 KB (1,350 words) - 22:13, 7 January 2024
- logic) and metamathematics. The former term is still used (as in the Association for Symbolic Logic), but the latter term is now used for certain ...11 KB (1,513 words) - 16:50, 7 November 2022
- A eunuch is a castrated man; the term usually refers to those deliberately castrated in order to perform specific social duties that were once ...18 KB (2,792 words) - 18:55, 11 September 2023
- The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare earth elements") is a trivial name applied to 16 chemical elements: scandium, yttrium ...12 KB (1,535 words) - 22:14, 30 November 2022
- The term "protocol sentence" itself is most closely related ... event" was an "undefined term which becomes sufficiently ...18 KB (2,743 words) - 08:18, 2 December 2022
- without need of official certification. The term is often mistakenly understood ... Since the mid-1990s, the term "common-law marriage" has ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 00:09, 8 January 2024
- roles in church governance. Derived from the Latin term cardo (meaning "hinge"), their title and position is indicative of the pivotal role ...9 KB (1,483 words) - 19:13, 26 November 2023
- of Soviet power. Zinoviev coined the term Homo Sovieticus, a satirical ... by the governments of the Soviet bloc. The term was coined by Zinoviev as ...15 KB (2,070 words) - 15:29, 18 July 2023
- A line can be described as an ideal zero-width, infinitely long, perfectly straight curve (the term curve in mathematics includes "straight ...5 KB (796 words) - 04:15, 29 October 2022
- The term "the Continent" (capitalized)—used predominantly ... edge of the continent. In this sense the term continental Europe is used ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- Even though Ely initially used the term “socialism” in his works, he refrained from using the term, coming under attack from his more conservative ...15 KB (2,225 words) - 20:55, 16 April 2023
- The British academic Beatrice Potter Webb reputedly coined the term ... one employer, although on occasion a short-term collaborative agreement (for ...10 KB (1,423 words) - 22:33, 7 January 2024
- The term Holy Orders comes from the Latin Ordo (order) and the word holy referring to the church. Historically, an order refers to an established ...19 KB (2,961 words) - 11:04, 2 February 2024
- In addition to these biblical references, the term "Lazarus" ... "; 'Moses' being a metonymic term for the Hebrew Bible, and ...15 KB (2,333 words) - 17:59, 25 October 2022
- words are corrupted into "jargoon," a term applied to light-colored zircons. Yellow zircon is called "hyacinth," from a word of ...9 KB (1,181 words) - 06:08, 13 June 2023
- or cholesterol synthesis. Thus, a long-term increase in fructose or sucrose ... vomiting and hypoglycemia will result; long-term effects include a decline ...12 KB (1,703 words) - 09:20, 21 June 2021
- became so dominant that today, when the term "positivism" is ... as the "received view"—that term was introduced by Hilary Putnam. ...11 KB (1,561 words) - 05:45, 30 November 2022
- Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders and diseases of the nervous system. In the past the term has been used more generally ...20 KB (2,815 words) - 04:35, 11 March 2023
- Matthew's version. However, since the term "Gospel of the Hebrews ... The name Gospel of the Hebrews appears to have also been a generic ...11 KB (1,737 words) - 14:45, 30 December 2022
- Cushing was also the first anthropologist to use the term “chiefdom,” referring to a prehistoric aboriginal form of social organization. ...10 KB (1,434 words) - 05:03, 9 April 2024
- mother's uterus and brought to term.Barbara Rothman, Recreating ... Note that the term "biological mother" confuses the two ...15 KB (2,303 words) - 13:57, 28 April 2023
- Strict Arians condemned the term homoousios, but also rejected "homoiousios ... himself expressed his support of the term homoousios to the council ...25 KB (3,876 words) - 06:26, 12 August 2023
- (ESP), as well as the coining of the term "ESP" itself. ... Rhine established coined the term "parapsychology" (translating ...13 KB (1,908 words) - 01:09, 8 February 2023
- In the religions of India, Maya (Sanskrit māyā, from mā "not" and yā "this") is a term denoting three interrelated concepts: ...13 KB (2,085 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- dynamic disequilibrium. He coined the term "creative destruction ... His term, "creative destruction," denotes the "process ...19 KB (2,667 words) - 04:57, 7 May 2024
- The term auteur as used and described by Truffaut was applied to directors ... originated the half-French, half-English term "auteur theory." ...12 KB (1,907 words) - 10:18, 25 November 2023
- in illegal activities. Historically, the term referred to both criminal ... of an “outlaw motorcycle club." The term "outlaw" came from ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 08:52, 23 October 2022
- The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare earth elements") is a trivial name applied to 16 chemical elements: scandium, yttrium ...12 KB (1,578 words) - 16:18, 11 November 2022
- the modern book is technically a codex, the term is used only for manuscripts ... Although technically any modern paperback is a codex, the term is ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 22:22, 7 January 2024
- The term concerto (plural is concerti or concertos) usually refers to a musical work in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra ...16 KB (2,475 words) - 16:41, 14 November 2021
- Mechanics (from the Greek term Μηχανική ) is a branch of physics involving study of the movement of physical bodies when subjected to ...11 KB (1,457 words) - 03:51, 9 November 2022
- meaning "burial ground," the term generally refers to any structurally ... covered by cairns, barrows, or earth. The term also applies to tombs cut ...18 KB (2,713 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2023
- approach from a historical perspective. The term is used both in the pejorative ... Karl Popper used the term "historicism" in The Poverty of ...14 KB (2,067 words) - 15:55, 25 January 2023
- taken Nazirite vows thus giving rise to the term "Nazarene", which ... The term "Nazirite" comes from the Hebrew nazir meaning ...20 KB (3,259 words) - 16:00, 11 November 2022
- "Carpetbagger" was a term originated to describe the luggage ... The term was mostly considered insulting, suggesting an exploiter ...18 KB (2,758 words) - 00:57, 13 January 2023
- The term bioethics was first coined by American biochemist Van Rensselaer Potter to describe a new philosophy that integrates biology, ecology ...12 KB (1,586 words) - 17:53, 31 October 2023
- is also sometimes used to refer to all Odonata. The term odonate has been coined to provide an English name for the group as a whole, but is not in common ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 00:22, 29 December 2023
- by Arnold van Gennep, and for coining the term "communitas." Turner ... I have used the term "anti-structure,"...to describe both ...16 KB (2,369 words) - 20:08, 3 May 2023
- destruction. In a more general sense, the term forensics encompasses the ... In modern-day usage, the term "forensics" in place of "forensic ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 06:30, 1 April 2024
- The term has come to be used as a warning and a criticism of any coercive ... The term has come to be used as a warning and a criticism of paying ...9 KB (1,352 words) - 15:03, 18 May 2020
- During Itō’s second term as Prime Minister, (August 8, 1892 – ... During Itō’s third term as Prime Minister (January 12, 1898 –June ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 06:30, 11 March 2024
- The term "bomb" is not usually applied to explosive devices ... βόμβος (bombos), an onomatopoetic term with approximately the same ...13 KB (2,042 words) - 07:18, 17 November 2023
- He was re-elected for a second term in 1976 despite some opposition. ... In 1981, Waldheim's bid for a third term as secretary-general ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- The first use of the term "digital library" in print may ... The term "digital libraries" was first popularized by the ...28 KB (4,011 words) - 14:37, 29 January 2024
- , and the original fluids are expelled. The term “diagenesis” is used to ... its rounded particles. Arenite is a general term for sedimentary rock with ...11 KB (1,524 words) - 17:45, 25 January 2023
- The term "gothic" was originally a disparaging term applied ... style of the Enlightened Establishment, the term "gothic" became ...19 KB (2,806 words) - 12:13, 24 January 2023
- The term erythrocytes comes from Greek erythros for "red" ... * Hemolysis is the general term for excessive breakdown of red blood ...16 KB (2,383 words) - 02:30, 8 December 2022
- as dar-e mehr. The etymology of this term, meaning "Mithra's ... Among present-day Iranian Zoroastrians, the term darb-e mehr includes ...25 KB (4,046 words) - 19:51, 26 March 2024
- at the Eiffel Tower, to what does the term "Eiffel Tower" refer ... proponent of this theory. He used the term "idea" in his theory ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 19:41, 16 April 2023
- for general or universal validity. The term knowledge is also used to ... using the example of a game. The term "game" is used in ...16 KB (2,254 words) - 16:10, 15 October 2020
- Absurdism is related to existentialism and nihilism, and the term ... The absurd encounter can also arouse a "leap of faith," ...15 KB (2,329 words) - 06:46, 14 June 2023
- an attempt to dissociate the paper from the term "red top," a term ... re-election of George W. Bush for a second term as President, with its November ...13 KB (1,917 words) - 16:59, 13 May 2020
- of sense-data and physical objects. He adopted the term “sense datum” from Russell and Moore who had used the term to refer to the collection of sense ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:46, 29 July 2023
- Name (BAN) and European Pharmacopoeia (EP) term for this chemical is adrenaline ... Among U.S. health professionals, the term epinephrine is used over ...13 KB (1,794 words) - 16:18, 15 February 2021
- saints as well, but the application of the term Doctor or Father of the Church ... The Lutheran Calendar of Saints does not use the full term "Doctor ...14 KB (1,860 words) - 16:32, 29 January 2024
- In Christian theology, the term spirit is used to describe God, or ... languages and the Chinese language uses the term "breath" to refer ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- The term phobia, from the Greek φόβος meaning "fear," ... |right|250px|The term "phobia" comes from the Greek word ...19 KB (2,851 words) - 17:25, 23 November 2022
- species also have common names with the term bass as well. These two species ... as the plural, although in some cases the term crappies tends not to be used ...11 KB (1,545 words) - 01:11, 7 April 2022
- :This article is about the legal term alien referring to citizens ... "Illegal alien" is the official term in legislation and the border ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 00:39, 9 January 2023
- German primary-school teaching uses a single term, Eigenschaftswort, to refer to both adjectives and adverbs. However German linguists avoid this term. ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 23:31, 17 December 2022
- Cork is a term variously used for a lightweight, elastic, water-resistant, natural material of commercial importance and for the common names ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 20:36, 23 May 2020
- The term "Ivy League" is now most commonly used to refer ... |left|250px|The term "Ivy League" came from the ivy plants ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 01:07, 8 February 2023
- " Proponents of the former use the term in contrast with the initial ... German politicians carefully avoided the term "reunification" ...20 KB (3,005 words) - 09:18, 5 December 2022
- Satyagraha (Sanskrit, meaning "Truth-force") was a term coined by Mahatma Gandhi to express his philosophy that non-violence is a power ...17 KB (2,735 words) - 22:38, 3 April 2020
- The term "basic law" is used in some places as an alternative to "constitutional law." A Basic Law is either a codified constitution ...11 KB (1,572 words) - 16:59, 21 April 2021
- In regular usage, the term sound is applied to any stimulus that excites our sense of hearing. The cause of sound is vibratory movement from ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 15:34, 4 February 2023
- excuse…. National economic planning--the term used by this Administration ... Following his defeat, Landon finished out his term as governor of ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 16:52, 20 July 2023
- Cybercrime is a term used broadly to describe activity in which computers ... Although the term cybercrime is usually restricted to describing criminal ...24 KB (3,483 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
- to use the more encompassing and abstract term of "formalism." The term "formalism" was first used by the adversaries of ...22 KB (3,136 words) - 18:18, 22 December 2022
- ==Meaning of the term== sun"). This is the opposite of the term Occident. In terms of the ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- word of the title is the first sort term. The importance of a word ... first word of the title is the first sort term. Most new catalogs use this ...14 KB (2,172 words) - 22:33, 25 October 2022
- Monroe was a popular president who ran unopposed for a second term ... of Delegates and was elected to another term as governor of Virginia in ...18 KB (2,572 words) - 16:07, 8 February 2023
- universe and humanity. In modern usage, the term can also mean stories that ... ==Evolution of the Term== The term mythology, meaning "the study ...26 KB (3,852 words) - 22:45, 10 November 2022
- often faces funding challenges such as long-term financial viability, the aging ... be the most important determinant of long-term trends in federal spending ...24 KB (3,461 words) - 03:58, 9 November 2022
- be at least 20 stories tall (although the term "skyscraper" was ... == Origin of the term == Originally, the term skyscraper was a nautical ...21 KB (3,158 words) - 22:48, 29 January 2023
- The term alveolus also is used for anatomical structures connected ... individual grapes within a bunch. The term comes from the Latin alveolus ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 14:17, 2 July 2022
- instances, children may be placed in a long-term foster placement. For older ... children may be enrolled in long-term foster care which ultimately ...21 KB (3,334 words) - 06:37, 1 April 2024
- ) is a term used in a variety of different contexts. Originally, the ... For most Protestants, the term apocrypha refers to scriptural texts ...29 KB (4,388 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- clear whether they are using the term proposition in sense of the words or the "meaning" expressed by the words. To avoid the controversies ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
- called by a bewildering array of names. The term "quartz" comes from ... macrocrystalline. Chalcedony is a generic term for cryptocrystalline quartz. ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 15:39, 7 December 2022
- ===Tyndale's Long-Term Impact on the English Bible=== The men who translated the Revised Standard Version in the 1940s noted that Tyndale ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- From 1907 on, English language articles sometimes used the term "Maximalist ... The usage is roughly equivalent to the term "Red" or "Pinko ...15 KB (2,018 words) - 07:17, 17 November 2023
- referred to as "Yurak Samoyed," the term Samoyed coming from indiscriminate Russian usage throughout the centuries, deriving from the literal ...10 KB (1,457 words) - 22:04, 23 November 2023
- Concupiscence usually refers to sinful physical desire, especially sexual longing or lust. The term is derived from the Latin word concupiscentia ...10 KB (1,556 words) - 22:55, 14 May 2020
- (West Point). He completed his four-year term as a West Point cadet, and ... appointed Davis to fill out the Senate term of the late Jesse Speight ...22 KB (3,305 words) - 04:35, 31 July 2022
- Utopia (1929) he argued that the application of the term ideology ought to be broadened. He traced the history of the term from what he called a "particular ...10 KB (1,422 words) - 07:18, 5 October 2022
- ==Origin of the term 'Mandaean'== and Rudolf Macuch have translated the term manda, from which mandaiia ...22 KB (3,408 words) - 11:01, 9 March 2023
- to pigs, being placed in its own order. The common term antbear generally is also considered confusing, since the term generally refers to anteaters ...9 KB (1,488 words) - 00:41, 17 December 2022
- entries be modified, and that people not use the term "Xerox" in this way. However, this is mainly only true for North America—for example ...16 KB (2,312 words) - 22:46, 28 March 2023
- wobbler, minnow, shallow-diver and deep-diver. The term minnow is usually used for long, slender, lures that imitate baitfish, while the term plug is ...10 KB (1,609 words) - 17:31, 28 March 2024
- The term Leviathan comes from the old Hebrew name לִוְיָתָן ... In Paradise Lost, Milton uses the term Leviathan to describe the ...15 KB (2,465 words) - 22:16, 25 October 2022
- ===The term "Asgard"=== and mythographers of Norse society, the term is relatively underutilized ...19 KB (3,050 words) - 03:59, 18 August 2023
- end point for the corresponding action. The term is, however, frequently taken ... acted on): ‘shod’, ‘armed’. The term is, however, frequently taken ...16 KB (2,305 words) - 18:00, 30 November 2023
- ==Meanings of the term== The term physician is at least nine hundred years old in English: ...29 KB (3,911 words) - 19:59, 15 May 2020
- According to Ronald Numbers, the term "methodological naturalism ... The term "methodological naturalism" had been used in 1937 ...17 KB (2,419 words) - 15:22, 11 November 2022
- antelopes, cattle, buffalo, and goats. The term also is used to refer more ... The term "horn" is also popularly applied to other hard ...10 KB (1,636 words) - 16:20, 25 January 2023
- as dual existences. Berque suggests the term trajet to include the subject ... is ku, which is the same as the Buddhist term “void.” The concept of ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- there is no formal definition for the term, the food industry covers ... uses the term food system to describe this entire enterprise. ...10 KB (1,449 words) - 06:16, 1 April 2024
- layers of amorphous solid. In addition, the term crystallites is used when ... is called the grain boundary. The term "crystallite boundary ...11 KB (1,643 words) - 23:09, 9 May 2020
- ==The term analytic philosophy== The term analytic philosophy is slightly ambiguous and generally has ...27 KB (4,040 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
- memory are not converted into long-term memory. The sufferer will ... to a brief interruption in the short/long-term memory transfer mechanism ...23 KB (3,498 words) - 17:16, 26 July 2023
- Mathematicians use the term manifold in a generic sense to mean the ... Whereas outside of mathematics the use of the term "dimension ...16 KB (2,438 words) - 15:22, 29 January 2024
- The term "graphite" is sometimes also used to refer to carbon ... in these materials. In this context, the term "(100 percent) graphite ...13 KB (1,840 words) - 19:59, 19 September 2021
- gabbro are called diabase, although the vernacular term microgabbro is often used when extra descriptiveness is desired. Gabbro may be extremely coarse ...5 KB (628 words) - 07:32, 15 April 2024
- then swimming on the eyeless side. The term flounder is not a formal taxonomic ... fish, crustaceans, and polychaetes, and in term being consumed at various ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 17:43, 28 March 2024
- by the letter P in electrical equations. The term wattage is used colloquially to mean "electric power in watts." In direct current ...5 KB (743 words) - 00:16, 13 February 2024
- Baron Jons Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848). The term allotropy is derived from the Greek words allos, meaning "other," and tropos, meaning ...5 KB (685 words) - 08:09, 23 July 2023
- peaceful cooperation, seeking short-term reconciliation as a prelude ... The term "Sunshine policy" originates in one of Aesop's ...14 KB (2,030 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- in the 1880 presidential election. His term began on March 4, 1881. Upon ... pieces dating back to John Adams' term, carted away and sold at public ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 18:32, 8 December 2023
- Although the term "fly" is part of the name, mayflies are ... stages are known as naiads. (Sometimes the term nymph is used in the older ...14 KB (2,120 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- The term microgravity is also used because weightlessness in, e.g ... begin to alter and temporary and long term health issues can occur. ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 23:27, 3 May 2023
- A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter. Some have suggested that the term 'cave' should be reserved ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- Fox is the general term applied to any of small to medium-sized canids (mammalian family Canidae) placed in the Carnivora tribe vulpini, characterized ...10 KB (1,577 words) - 06:39, 1 April 2024
- it to his forehead. In recent times the term has been superseded in favor ... The term psychometry was coined by Joseph Rodes Buchanan in 1842.Parapsychological ...11 KB (1,590 words) - 18:01, 14 April 2023
- in different periods—in the short term demand is the primary determinant of price; in the long term, however, the cost of production is more ...14 KB (2,073 words) - 18:02, 20 July 2023
- decay if they are fully ionized. (The term "stripped" is sometimes used to describe such ions). It is hypothesized that such elements ...5 KB (705 words) - 15:57, 13 February 2024
- metaphysical, or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness ... Prior to the eighteenth century, sublime was a term of rhetoric predominantly ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 21:10, 26 February 2023
- size and their composition. In the past, the term "Clastic Sedimentary Rocks" were used to describe silica-rich clastic sedimentary rocks ...11 KB (1,469 words) - 17:45, 25 January 2023
- Scythians, Huns, Magyars, or Mongols. The term rhubarb is a combination of ... crumbles. This common use led to the slang term for rhubarb, "pie plant ...14 KB (2,051 words) - 09:17, 10 August 2022
- riot. In New York State, for example, the term "riot" is not defined ... unrest in which racism is a key factor. The term entered the English language ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 19:19, 11 August 2022
- The term by which this subjection is commonly designated, the Mongol ... Historians have debated the long-term influence of Mongol rule on ...16 KB (2,408 words) - 13:10, 10 March 2023
- by simple trial and error learning (a term made famous by the American ... his canon he not only changed the term "higher psychical faculty ...18 KB (2,586 words) - 21:54, 12 February 2024
- himself "not a traditor"—a term referring to those who had ... fell under one definition or another of the term. When Mensurius died in 311 ...15 KB (2,298 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- and bodhati or budhyate (Sanskrit). The term Bodhi is mostly used in Buddhist ... satori; Chinese Wù) is a Japanese Buddhist term for enlightenment. The word ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- by the vast majority of people. The term genius is also commonly applied ... from the same ancestor). A related term is genius loci, the spirit ...20 KB (2,859 words) - 06:48, 18 April 2024
- The term kabuki originally suggested the unorthodox character of this ... have evolved using these innovations. The term keren (外連), often translated ...13 KB (1,911 words) - 16:49, 14 May 2024
- for political or religious purposes. The term brainwashing was originally ... and behavior to the degree connoted by the term "brainwashing" became ...29 KB (4,296 words) - 22:37, 20 November 2023
- in 1905, the art critic, Louis Vauxcelles coined the term the Fauves (French for "wild beasts")—an initially pejorative term—for the loose ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 01:43, 26 March 2024
- The term "sedevacantism" is derived from the Latin phrase ... held in the Vatican. However, the term "sedevacantist" ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 20:19, 26 December 2023
- isolated from St. John's Wort. The term "terpene" at times ... atoms added. Some authors will use the term terpene to include all terpenoids. ...11 KB (1,643 words) - 14:57, 30 April 2023
- The name "industrial engineer" can be misleading. While ... * Specifically per product (short term) ** Analysis of the complete ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 22:36, 5 February 2023
- "norm," and some have used the term "normlessness" to ... social circles. Anomie is an accurate term to describe this division. ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 10:44, 30 October 2021
- observations. Hooke coined the biological term cell because his observations ... *Organelle - term used for major subcellular structures ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 23:46, 3 December 2023
- there is no single version of a goblin; the term is more generic for those ... Many characteristics have been attributed to the generic term of goblin ...13 KB (2,074 words) - 15:53, 18 December 2022
- to be poisonous, although this is not the correct term, as venoms and poisons are different. Poisons can be absorbed by the body, such as through the ...11 KB (1,696 words) - 17:02, 3 May 2023
- and ethnographer, notable for coining the term Lebensraum—"living ... state theory" and who coined the term “geopolitics.” Kjellen’s ...10 KB (1,388 words) - 06:38, 15 April 2024
- the previous Palaeolithic tools, hence the term Epipalaeolithic. However, ... As a slang term, "Stone Age" can be used to describe a modern ...14 KB (2,116 words) - 06:20, 18 November 2022
- the Meditations on First Philosophy, but the term "the cogito" is (often confusingly) referred to in it. Descartes felt that this phrase ...12 KB (1,920 words) - 22:26, 7 January 2024
- The term borax is used for a number of closely related minerals or ... The term borax is often used for a number of closely related minerals ...10 KB (1,388 words) - 19:37, 20 November 2023
- regions. The name Romanesque itself was a term coined in the nineteenth century ... The term is both useful and misleading. Medieval sculptors and architects ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 04:56, 16 December 2022
- of Europe in the sixteenth century. The term "humanism" itself ... The term, "Enlightenment humanism," is not as well known ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 19:10, 19 August 2023
- The term Dravidian derives from the Sanskrit term Dravida. Francis ... Harrison, 1856). Caldwell coined the term "Dravidian" for ...24 KB (3,241 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- in (Isaiah 45:1 and Jer. 51:44). The term is the Akkadian equivalent ... to the dragon, may derive from an older term meaning "storm-wind. ...11 KB (1,817 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- In eukaryotes, the term genome can be applied specifically to mean ... The main role of DNA molecules is the long-term storage of information. DNA ...18 KB (2,592 words) - 15:43, 11 February 2023
- headstands, and handstands. The term "acrobatics" can ... Sometimes called 'Sports acrobatics' the term now officially ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 05:38, 15 June 2023
- The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare earth elements") is a trivial name applied to 16 chemical elements: scandium, yttrium ...13 KB (1,750 words) - 07:39, 15 April 2024
- sink that receives the vapor produced. The term drying is also applied to ... The term "dehydration" may mean drying of water-containing ...10 KB (1,629 words) - 22:34, 19 August 2020
- Ji) the only grandson of Confucius. The term is originally derived from ... However, the Analects never expands on what this term means. ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 06:15, 20 December 2022
- to ethnology. Frobenius introduced the term Kulturkreis (culture circle ... Frobenius introduced his definition of the term Kulturkreise (“culture circle” ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
- The Nix (Nixie plural) is the most popular term for the shapeshifting ... The term Nix comes from the Old High German Nichus, which became nickes ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- The term diaspora (in Ancient Greek, διασπορά – "a scattering or sowing of seeds") refers to any people or ethnic population ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- issue in philosophy by Scholastics. The term "ontology" is, however ... The term Ontology is, however, a fairly modern term. While the etymology ...15 KB (2,218 words) - 00:43, 18 November 2022
- gestation), and embryogenesis. The term progesterone also is used for natural or synthetic steroids that have a progesterone-like action on the ...17 KB (2,310 words) - 08:47, 28 June 2022
- actually quite uniformly practiced. The English term "potluck" is erroneously said to derive from "potlatch" due to its use in the ...10 KB (1,450 words) - 05:54, 30 November 2022
- Medicaid covers nursing home and long-term adult care for qualified ... for Medicaid benefits if the need for long-term care arises. In other words ...22 KB (3,201 words) - 09:36, 10 March 2023
- Virtual reality (VR) is technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment through one's senses. The term ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 20:36, 3 May 2023
- The term cargo cult describes any new religious movement that owes its initial impetus to the encounter between a tribal (often hunter-gatherer ...28 KB (4,339 words) - 19:15, 26 November 2023
- a more fitting description. Yet it is the term "yeti" that has ... as metoh-kangmi. Metoh-kangmi is a generic term used in the region for many ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 09:58, 23 May 2023
- that begins with the hope of a happy, long-term relationship in which love ... "[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=annul Annul] Etymology Online ...12 KB (1,862 words) - 05:11, 31 July 2023
- Despite common use of the term tin can, most cans currently in use are not made primarily or wholly of tin. That term reflects the near-exclusive ...10 KB (1,694 words) - 23:38, 30 April 2023
- The term Arab (Arabic: عرب ʻarab ) generally refers to those persons who speak Arabic as their native tongue. There are estimated to be over ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- lack consensus in how to define the term and what constitutes a species ... endangered to prevent their extinction. The term species also is central to ...23 KB (3,511 words) - 17:36, 14 October 2022
- The origin of the term hesychasmos is not entirely certain. The basic ... to be synonymous with Hesychast. The term Hesychast also appears in ...15 KB (2,357 words) - 11:44, 22 January 2024
- Historically, the term "fundamentalism" was first used in ... often strongly object to this term because they see it as a derogatory ...27 KB (4,004 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- The term angioplasty is a fusion of the words angio (from the Latin/Greek ... the bodily structure). Occlusion is a term often used in medicine to ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 18:06, 27 July 2023
- as a suffix in Silla official titles. The term Hwarang does not literally ... Following the fall of Silla, the term hwarang survived and changed ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 21:28, 9 February 2024
- Photojournalism, as a descriptive term, often implies the use of ... The invention of the term "photojournalism" is often attributed ...14 KB (2,031 words) - 22:46, 28 March 2023
- is known as foliated or banded rock. The term "foliation" is derived ... hornstones, and geologists often use the term hornfels to signify those ...12 KB (1,761 words) - 16:21, 9 November 2022
- pain and nociception are not the same. The term "pain" is a subjective ... Acute pain is defined as short-term pain or pain with an easily identifiable ...18 KB (2,786 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- minority groups in China. Miao is a Chinese term and does not reflect the self ... Throughout Chinese history, the term “Miao” has been applied inconsistently ...23 KB (3,462 words) - 16:33, 9 November 2022
- During her term as Governor General Sauvé made state visits to Italy; ... After completing her term of office as Governor General in 1990 Sauvé ...18 KB (2,686 words) - 17:42, 2 April 2024
- ==Presidency: First term, 1897-1901== ===Policy=== McKinley defeated ... to annexation through the end of his term, but McKinley was open to ...21 KB (3,197 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- of clauses, phrases, and words. The term can also refer to the study ... Grammar can refer to a range of concepts. For example, the term "English ...25 KB (3,469 words) - 22:17, 30 March 2023
- The term solstice can also be used in a wider sense, as the date ... The term heliacal circle is used for the ecliptic, which is in the ...25 KB (3,968 words) - 19:48, 28 August 2023
