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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 ...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
- direction and is considered cliched. The term 'chromatic' is understood ... fixed outer strings. However, the closest term used by the Greeks to our ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- embedded processors and controllers. The term originates in science fiction ... == Origins of the term == [[Image:Hacking the Gibson in Wagamamas.jpg ...14 KB (2,094 words) - 02:18, 15 January 2023
- performed almost entirely by computer. The term, Computer Based Learning ... The term, "Learning Design"[http://www.epiclearning.com/exchange/design ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 08:09, 14 January 2023
- Although the term is generally reserved for professional space travelers ... Federal Space Agency agreed to use the term "spaceflight participant ...15 KB (2,112 words) - 18:25, 19 August 2023
- Dread or Angst as a philosophical term originated primarily through the work of the nineteenth century Danish existential philosopher and theologian ...8 KB (1,159 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- Shellfish is a a broad term for various aquatic mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms that are used as food. A culinary and fisheries term, ...11 KB (1,582 words) - 19:57, 21 April 2023
- The term traces to the Ancient Greek word entelecheia, from the combination ... metaphysician Leibniz (1646-1716) used the term to refer to unextended thinking ...6 KB (836 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- 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 ...9 KB (1,485 words) - 10:12, 11 March 2023
- in a given discipline. The original Greek term "paradeigma" was ... Kuhn initially used the term "paradigm" in the contexts ...16 KB (2,327 words) - 07:43, 18 November 2022
- Zhonghua minzu (Chinese: 中华民族; Pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínzú), is a Chinese term that refers to the modern notion of a Chinese nationality ...15 KB (2,210 words) - 06:01, 13 June 2023
- The term military-industrial complex (MIC) refers to the combination ... The term, often used pejoratively, refers to the institutionalized ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 16:24, 13 September 2023
- A bulldozer is a very powerful crawler (caterpillar tracked tractor) equipped with a blade. The term "bulldozer" is often used to mean ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 18:42, 22 November 2023
- Linguistic scholar Roland De Vaux wrote that the term cherubim is ... In some regions the Assyro-Babylonian term came to refer in particular ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 18:30, 8 December 2023
- A muckraker is an American English term for one who investigates and ... President Theodore Roosevelt is attributed as the source of the term ...11 KB (1,585 words) - 17:31, 11 May 2020
- The term “catharsis” was used in a philosophical sense by Aristotle ... The Greek philosopher Aristotle used the term “catharsis” twice ...14 KB (2,260 words) - 00:10, 1 December 2023
- and across the world's cultures. The term was first coined by Friedrich ... "Henotheism" as a term is not widely used by the general ...15 KB (2,313 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- The term “eclectic” was first used in the first century B.C.E ... The term "eclectics" comes from the Greek eklektikos: “choosing ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- The term inheritance refers to something, physical or otherwise, that one receives from another. Receivers have no say in whether an inheritance ...3 KB (403 words) - 15:38, 2 August 2022
- Tuber is a botanical term for an enlarged, fleshy, generally underground stem of certain seed plants, in which the typical stem parts are represented ...10 KB (1,640 words) - 18:40, 2 May 2023
- or an engineering design. More generally, the term "blueprint" has come to be used to refer to any detailed plan. == History == ...5 KB (743 words) - 05:41, 16 November 2023
