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- * Economic depression, a sustained, long-term downturn in economic ... * Depression (kinesiology), an anatomical term of motion, refers to ...1 KB (174 words) - 15:39, 2 August 2022
- ), Russian language term for all citizens and people of Russia, regardless of ethnicity *Russophone, Russian-speaking person ( ru|русскоговорящий ...735 bytes (74 words) - 15:02, 1 February 2023
- 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 ...5 KB (766 words) - 11:34, 2 February 2024
- 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 ...12 KB (1,791 words) - 18:00, 30 November 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,593 words) - 18:31, 30 April 2023
- 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 ...5 KB (748 words) - 21:30, 7 February 2023
- a conclusion. Each of the premises has one term in common with the conclusion ... "Being mortal" is the major term and "Socrates" ...9 KB (1,397 words) - 01:55, 27 February 2023
- as the basis of an entire song. Neither the term "riff" or "lick ... The term riff entered musical slang in the 1920s (Rooksby, Ibid), ...6 KB (949 words) - 01:36, 15 December 2022
- 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 ...8 KB (1,319 words) - 23:03, 20 November 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,539 words) - 00:39, 2 May 2023
- Anisotropy is a term used in various scientific disciplines to indicate that certain properties of matter (such as a material or radiation) vary ...8 KB (1,148 words) - 06:28, 28 July 2023
- Monad is an English term meaning "one," "single," or "unit," especially in technical contexts. It comes from the ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 19:53, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...6 KB (938 words) - 13:23, 11 February 2022
- 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 ...17 KB (2,616 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- 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 ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 23:37, 1 November 2023
- 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 ...10 KB (1,502 words) - 07:59, 20 September 2023
- "Apathy" or apatheia (Greek απάθεια, "absence of feeling"), is a philosophical term originally used by the Stoics ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 05:58, 11 August 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 19:59, 20 November 2023
- The term metalloid is derived from the Greek words metallon, meaning ... not all semiconductors are metalloids. The term "metalloid" refers ...7 KB (910 words) - 16:19, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- Weed is a term for any plant growing in a setting where it is not wanted, such as undesirable plants in a garden, lawn, or agricultural field ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 22:25, 11 June 2020
- present, but in the indefinite future. The term has prompted a global recognition ... development is not a precisely defined term, and a wide array of views ...14 KB (1,869 words) - 00:30, 27 February 2023
- of Leibniz and Christian Wolff, and gave the term aesthetics its modern meaning. While Baumgarten saw himself as only a modest developer of the ...8 KB (1,198 words) - 09:10, 18 July 2023
- The term potash has more than one meaning. In a narrow sense, it refers to the salt potassium carbonate (K2CO3). In a broader sense, it is a ...6 KB (830 words) - 05:51, 30 November 2022
- into the canon by some. Note that the term does not mean non-canonical; ... Deuterocanonical is a term first coined in 1566 by the converted Jew ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- In Hinduism, the term Isvara (ईश्वर in Devanagari script, also variously transliterated as Ishvara and Īśvara), is a generic name ...11 KB (1,693 words) - 06:19, 11 March 2024
- ==Coining the term "Blue Law"== The term blue law may have been first used by Reverend Samuel Peters ...11 KB (1,685 words) - 23:53, 11 January 2023
- water (lake, sea, etc.). Some uses of the term keep this meaning, but in ... The term watershed comes from an old term shedding, meaning "splitting ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- used by certain Native American tribes. The term wickiup is generally used ... and use. In the twenty-first century, the term "wickiup" became ...11 KB (1,808 words) - 18:44, 4 May 2023
- Following his term as governor, Adair served one term in the United ... and he lost the election for a full term in the next year. He immediately ...12 KB (1,815 words) - 04:05, 3 August 2022
- policies, procedures, and methodologies of term assignments and clarification ... #Consistency: Promote uniformity in term format and in the assignment ...17 KB (2,446 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
- the Antichrist, but 1 and 2 John used the term in a different sense.]] ... other again being 1 John—where the term antichrist is used. In these ...8 KB (1,363 words) - 17:41, 25 January 2023
- Kenosis (from the Greek κένωσις: meaning "emptying") is an ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] term found primarily in Christian ...8 KB (1,166 words) - 17:24, 5 October 2022
- a hatchet-shaped anchor (Towle 1989). The term clam often is applied generally ... The term clam can be more precisely equated to any bivalve other than ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 22:30, 10 December 2023
- The term barrel is also used for the volume that a barrel of a standard ... In the United States, the term "keg" commonly means a ...10 KB (1,477 words) - 10:53, 20 September 2023
- == First term as Governor-general of India == After the war Cornwallis ... == Second term as governor-general of India == He was reappointed governor ...9 KB (1,361 words) - 01:57, 4 December 2023
- literature. Later historians expanded the term to include not only the lack ... with severe qualification, as a term of periodization. This usage ...17 KB (2,782 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- In a broad sense of the term, an organism is an embryo between the ... In general, for vertebrates, the term embryo may correspond variously ...8 KB (1,283 words) - 18:00, 13 February 2024
- the Russian Revolution of 1917), and a term often used in modern art today ... Gabo, Tatlin and Rodchenko began to use the term "Productivism." ...9 KB (1,167 words) - 18:57, 19 May 2020
- The term supersonic is used to define a speed that exceeds the speed of sound—a speed that is referred to as Mach 1. However, supersonic airflow ...7 KB (968 words) - 23:49, 26 February 2023
- American colonies. Another frequently used term is "Black Belt," ... ==Usage of the term== The term "Deep South" is defined in ...16 KB (2,381 words) - 08:36, 15 January 2023
- In medicine, the term "etiology" refers to the causes of ... are similarly based on folk etymology (the term "Amazon," for example ...11 KB (1,616 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- In meteorology, the term vapor pressure is used to mean the partial ... as such. Meteorologists also use the term saturation vapor pressure ...8 KB (1,238 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
- The use of the term hominid, which is the designation for members ... and thus affecting the consensus of the term "Hominid." Certain ...9 KB (1,225 words) - 11:38, 2 February 2024
- Gaucho (gaúcho in Portuguese) is a term commonly used to describe the nomadic and colorful horsemen and cowhands of the South American pampas ...11 KB (1,764 words) - 04:47, 18 April 2024
- The term Absolute denotes unconditioned and/or independence in the strongest sense. It can include or overlap with meanings implied by other ...15 KB (2,179 words) - 06:35, 14 June 2023
- The term bard (бард) refers to popular poets who put their verses to song. It came to be used in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s (and ...11 KB (1,802 words) - 08:06, 20 September 2023
- The term is employed extensively in tantric literature: the term for ... sceptre," which is how the term is sometimes translated. The ...7 KB (1,107 words) - 14:11, 3 May 2023
- real or apparent, of two laws. It is a term often used in logic and epistemology, when describing a paradox or unresolvable contradiction. The ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 06:35, 31 July 2023
- (Marxism), as interpreted by Lenin. The term Marxism-Leninism was most ... ==History of the term== [[Image:Karl Marx.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Karl Marx]] ...15 KB (2,166 words) - 08:40, 10 March 2023
