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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 ...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
- The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare earth elements ... Terbium is classified as a rare earth element. The term "rare ...9 KB (1,141 words) - 03:47, 30 April 2023
- The term baryon usually refers to a subatomic particle composed of three quarks. The Particle Adventure, [http://www.particleadventure.org/frameless/hadrons ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 11:02, 20 September 2023
- The outback, also known as the Great Australian Desert, is the remote and arid interior (and north) of Australia. The term "outback" ...7 KB (1,078 words) - 20:04, 20 January 2023
- original shape when the stress is removed. The term is a contraction of the words "elastic polymer." There are many types of elastomers, most ...7 KB (1,017 words) - 07:38, 10 August 2023
- Information explosion is a term used to describe the rapidly increasing amount of published information and the effects of this abundance of ...13 KB (1,868 words) - 22:50, 5 February 2023
- English suffix "-itis," and the term arthritis comes from the Greek ... and catabolic processes. In the short term, this is often a valid trade ...8 KB (1,133 words) - 11:01, 16 August 2023
- The term common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective, commonsense, common-sense or commonsensical), based on a strict deconstruction ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- 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; ...20 KB (3,037 words) - 15:26, 29 January 2024
- Depth psychology is a broad term that refers to any psychological ... Depth psychology, from the German term (Tiefenpsychologie) coined ...6 KB (829 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- 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 ...9 KB (1,445 words) - 07:26, 2 April 2008
- 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 ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 14:59, 8 October 2022
- the fowl clade Galloanserae. However, the term fowl is not a formal taxonomic ... of Galliformes and Anseriformes, the term poultry typically is used ...11 KB (1,511 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- was a Scottish neurosurgeon who coined the term and invented the procedure ... as monoideism, but it was too late—the term “hypnosis” was already ...8 KB (1,149 words) - 08:55, 18 March 2024
- of religious antiquity. This blanket term or umbrella concept is usually ... This term is a convention that does not truly or accurately define ...12 KB (1,717 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- " a specific end-of times deceiver. The term Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal (Arabic for "The False Messiah") is a literal translation of the ...8 KB (1,233 words) - 16:34, 21 January 2024
- 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 ...6 KB (957 words) - 14:46, 30 April 2023
- originally by Thomas Huxley who coined the term, it involves a serious philosophical ... The term agnosticism comes from a conjunction of the Greek prefix ...18 KB (2,675 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- Meninges (singular meninx) is the collective term for the fibrous membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord, providing protection to the ...12 KB (1,800 words) - 10:31, 10 March 2023
- Many dance teachers criticize the use of the term "syncopation" and abandon it in favor of the term "double-time." This is ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
- Freud defined the term libido psychoanalytically in his Three Essays ... The term eros, understood as a life instinct antagonistic to the death ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 11:03, 7 March 2023
- 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, ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 17:59, 13 February 2024
- Nations. A patient, constructive long-term use of its potentialities ... Over objections from the Soviet Union, his term of office was extended ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 18:30, 2 May 2023
- Swedish political scientist Rudolf Kjellén coined the term "geopolitics ... the significance of navies (he coined the term sea power) in world conflict ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 12:53, 5 November 2022
- the god of a place called Zebub. The term appears in Christian texts ... If the term originally meant "Baal of Flies," it may be ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 10:24, 26 September 2023
- The term Barbarian does not derive from the name of any tribe or cultural ... == Origin of the term == The term "barbarian" is not derived ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 22:32, 10 February 2023
- 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 ...8 KB (1,272 words) - 01:35, 3 May 2023
- The term nuclear family refers to the family group consisting of parents ... The term nuclear family was developed in the western world to distinguish ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 19:50, 20 May 2023
- Sometimes, especially in the sciences, the term exponential function ... The term double exponential function can have two meanings: ...8 KB (1,160 words) - 23:57, 24 March 2024
- :Scarlet Sages. See Salvia coccinea ← redirecting the reader to ... :shade plants ← grouping term (may not appear in the text; may be ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- 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 ...7 KB (1,045 words) - 18:27, 21 July 2023
