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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare earth elements") is a trivial name applied to 16 chemical elements: scandium, yttrium ...
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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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  • ] Retrieved April 16, 2007. The term "clairvoyance" is ... primarily through means of feeling. A term related to clairsentience ...
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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 ...
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  • Eucharistia, "thanksgiving") is the term with the earliest ... "sharing in common") is a term used, with different meanings ...
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  • of the mint family (Lamiaceae). In particular, the term commonly is used for the species Lavandula angustifolia (true lavender or common lavender), ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The term "cardiac" (as in cardiology and cardiovascular ... In addition to the term heart being used in a physical sense, the ...
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  • opulence while the poor went hungry. The term "cartoon" stuck ... Palace" as well as the use of the term cartoon to refer to satirical ...
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  • The term was first coined in 1917 by Victor Shklovsky (or Shklovskij ... characteristic of all art. He invented the term defamiliarization to “distinguish ...
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  • or thought. Bolzano's use of the term "an sich" differs ... Instead of the more traditional copulative term "is," Bolzano prefers ...
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  • The term digital divide refers to the gap between those people with ... education in addressing poverty in the long term; usually with an emphasis ...
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  • (This is a distinctly different use of the term autochthonous than its usual ... Transcendence (paired with the term The Encompassing in later works ...
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  • The term nucleus is from Latin nucleus ("kernel"), derived ... The adoption of the term "nucleus" to atomic theory, however ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of air pressure, one can forecast short-term changes in the weather. Numerous ... observations, reasonably accurate short term forecasts can be made. ...
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  • The term jade is applied to two different types of rock, nephrite and jadeitite, that are made up of different silicate minerals. Nephrite can ...
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  • As a medical term, stress refers to a wide range of strong external stimuli or conditions, both physiological and psychological, impinging on ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Apostolic Fathers were a group of early Christian leaders believed to know the Apostles personally. The term also refers to the collection ...
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  • a fundamental component of Hinduism. The term Upanishad itself is derived ... the pupil the Vedas and Vedangas. The term of stay varies (Manu Smriti ...
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  • The term enthalpy was composed of the prefix en-, meaning to "put ... The term pV is the work required to displace the surrounding atmosphere ...
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  • The term digital divide refers to the gap between people with effective access to digital and information technology and those with very limited ...
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  • encephalomyelitis (Longe 2006). While the term encephalitis also includes ... and catabolic processes. In the short term, this is often a valid trade ...
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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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  • 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 ...
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  • The term parapsychology refers to the scientific study of certain ... The term parapsychology refers to the scientific study of certain ...
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  • amethyst," but jewelers may use this term in referring to fine examples of ordinary amethystine quartz, even when not derived from eastern ...
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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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  • The principal achievement of Governor Wallace's first term was ... Alabama's state constitution prevented him from seeking a second ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • before the Buddha's Parinirvana the term Dharmakaya was current. Dharmakaya ... disciple. Anubuddha is a rarely used term, but was used by the Buddha ...
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  • out the word "God," using the term "G-d" instead to ... and later "P" sources, the the term El or Elohim is used until ...
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  • The term regolith is a combination of two Greek words: rhegos, which ... The term lunar soil is often used interchangeably with "lunar ...
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  • science fiction and popular literature, the term "neutronium" is ... *** Single pulsars – general term for neutron stars that emit directed ...
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  • Polyethers are compounds with more than one ether group. The term ... * Luminiferous aether (or luminiferous ether): This term, meaning ...
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  • The term docking refers to the holding of two membranes within a bilayer ... In neuronal exocytosis, the term priming has been used to include ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • ==List of Surgical Term Roots== ===Prefixes=== * angio- : related to ... * -ectomy: surgical removal; the term 'resection' is also ...
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  • "Fin Amor" (Refined Love). The term "courtly love" was ... ==Origin of term== The term amour courtois ("courtly love" ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The term Oriental Orthodoxy refers to the communion of Eastern Christian Churches that recognize only the first four ecumenical councils—the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • to assist our understanding of the past. The term was introduced into English by Daniel Wilson (1816–1892), President of Toronto University College ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • ecumenical council, which had accepted the term homoousios ("same substance ... homoousios (same substance: The Nicene term) nor homoiousos (like substance: ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The term “yellow journalism” originated during the circulation ... The New York Press coined the term "yellow journalism" in ...
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  • Classical antiquity, era, or period is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, which begins roughly ...
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  • of a cardiovascular disease, an umbrella term for grouping diseases that ... Cardiac arrhythmia (also dysrhythmia) is a term for any of a large ...
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  • organisms. The main role of DNA is the long-term storage of information and ... DNA in classical biology, as the term "clone" refers to ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • new terminology, with the exception of the term "mental hygiene," ... It was Meyer who suggested the term "mental hygiene" to ...
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  • One. "Kalki" is also an important term in the Buddhist tradition ... quot; of God into physical form. The term is most ubiquitously related ...
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  • A hieroglyph is a character used in a pictorial writing system. The ... quot; or "to write," as in the term "glyph." This was ...
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  • to other females. Hence the use of the term "Lesbian" to refer ... sexologists are mentioned along with the term "invert." Freud ...
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  • above ground on soil or on its food source. The term "mushroom" also is used to designate the entire fungus with a fruiting body. ...
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  • ==Usage of the term "engine"== to as "siege engines." The term "gin" as in cotton ...
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  • Casuistry (ˈkæʒuːɨstri) is an applied ethics term referring to ... Critics use the term pejoratively for the use of clever but unsound ...
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  • to many religious traditions; yet, the term's usage is somewhat problematic ... quot; is Iman (Arabic: إيمان). This term literally means “to fully ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 000 species). Some individuals only use the term fish when referring to the ... preference among biologists is to use the term "fishes" when speaking ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Codependency is a descriptive term that attempts to explain imbalanced relationships where one person enables another person's self-destructive ...
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  • Political correctness (adjectivally: politically correct; commonly abbreviated PC) is a term used by proponents, usually on the political left ...
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  • quot;kind." While the etymology of the term is not pejorative, historically ... The term "interracial marriage" may be more common in contemporary ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • House, Inc. Retrieved July 10, 2008. The term graphy, the combining form ... The term icon is used for pictograms on computers and other electronic ...
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  • In its traditional, non-geologic use, the term "porphyry" refers ... The word "porphyry" is derived from a Latin term that means ...
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  • that "everything has a soul." The term has been further extended ... While the term "animism" refers to a broad range of spiritual ...
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  • may be known collectively as weasels. The term weasels also is used more ... however, as in American usage, the term "weasel" can refer ...
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  • monks were often referred to by the term bonze, particularly when describing ... discipline. In Mahayana Buddhism, the term "sangha" is, in ...
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  • from the classical understanding of the term, which predated Charles Darwin ... ομολογειν, “to agree.” The term homology is also used in a ...
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  • Michael Bergman mentioned that Jill Ellsworth used the term "invisible ... Another early use of the term invisible Web was by Bruce Mount (Director ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • A eunuch is a castrated man; the term usually refers to those deliberately castrated in order to perform specific social duties that were once ...
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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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  • The term "protocol sentence" itself is most closely related ... event" was an "undefined term which becomes sufficiently ...
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  • without need of official certification. The term is often mistakenly understood ... Since the mid-1990s, the term "common-law marriage" has ...
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  • roles in church governance. Derived from the Latin term cardo (meaning "hinge"), their title and position is indicative of the pivotal role ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • A line can be described as an ideal zero-width, infinitely long, perfectly straight curve (the term curve in mathematics includes "straight ...
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  • The term "the Continent" (capitalized)—used predominantly ... edge of the continent. In this sense the term continental Europe is used ...
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  • Even though Ely initially used the term “socialism” in his works, he refrained from using the term, coming under attack from his more conservative ...
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  • The British academic Beatrice Potter Webb reputedly coined the term ... one employer, although on occasion a short-term collaborative agreement (for ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • In addition to these biblical references, the term "Lazarus" ... "; 'Moses' being a metonymic term for the Hebrew Bible, and ...
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  • words are corrupted into "jargoon," a term applied to light-colored zircons. Yellow zircon is called "hyacinth," from a word of ...
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  • or cholesterol synthesis. Thus, a long-term increase in fructose or sucrose ... vomiting and hypoglycemia will result; long-term effects include a decline ...
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  • became so dominant that today, when the term "positivism" is ... as the "received view"—that term was introduced by Hilary Putnam. ...
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  • Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders and diseases of the nervous system. In the past the term has been used more generally ...
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  • Matthew's version. However, since the term "Gospel of the Hebrews ... The name Gospel of the Hebrews appears to have also been a generic ...
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  • Cushing was also the first anthropologist to use the term “chiefdom,” referring to a prehistoric aboriginal form of social organization. ...
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  • mother's uterus and brought to term.Barbara Rothman, Recreating ... Note that the term "biological mother" confuses the two ...
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  • Strict Arians condemned the term homoousios, but also rejected "homoiousios ... himself expressed his support of the term homoousios to the council ...
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  • (ESP), as well as the coining of the term "ESP" itself. ... Rhine established coined the term "parapsychology" (translating ...
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  • In the religions of India, Maya (Sanskrit māyā, from mā "not" and yā "this") is a term denoting three interrelated concepts: ...
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  • The term auteur as used and described by Truffaut was applied to directors ... originated the half-French, half-English term "auteur theory." ...
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  • in illegal activities. Historically, the term referred to both criminal ... of an “outlaw motorcycle club." The term "outlaw" came from ...
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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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  • 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 ...
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  • The term concerto (plural is concerti or concertos) usually refers to a musical work in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra ...
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  • Mechanics (from the Greek term Μηχανική ) is a branch of physics involving study of the movement of physical bodies when subjected to ...
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  • meaning "burial ground," the term generally refers to any structurally ... covered by cairns, barrows, or earth. The term also applies to tombs cut ...
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  • approach from a historical perspective. The term is used both in the pejorative ... Karl Popper used the term "historicism" in The Poverty of ...
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  • taken Nazirite vows thus giving rise to the term "Nazarene", which ... The term "Nazirite" comes from the Hebrew nazir meaning ...
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  • "Carpetbagger" was a term originated to describe the luggage ... The term was mostly considered insulting, suggesting an exploiter ...
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  • The term bioethics was first coined by American biochemist Van Rensselaer Potter to describe a new philosophy that integrates biology, ecology ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • by Arnold van Gennep, and for coining the term "communitas." Turner ... I have used the term "anti-structure,"...to describe both ...
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  • destruction. In a more general sense, the term forensics encompasses the ... In modern-day usage, the term "forensics" in place of "forensic ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • During Itō’s second term as Prime Minister, (August 8, 1892 – ... During Itō’s third term as Prime Minister (January 12, 1898 –June ...
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  • The term "bomb" is not usually applied to explosive devices ... βόμβος (bombos), an onomatopoetic term with approximately the same ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The first use of the term "digital library" in print may ... The term "digital libraries" was first popularized by the ...
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  • , and the original fluids are expelled. The term “diagenesis” is used to ... its rounded particles. Arenite is a general term for sedimentary rock with ...
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  • The term "gothic" was originally a disparaging term applied ... style of the Enlightened Establishment, the term "gothic" became ...
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  • The term erythrocytes comes from Greek erythros for "red" ... * Hemolysis is the general term for excessive breakdown of red blood ...
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  • as dar-e mehr. The etymology of this term, meaning "Mithra's ... Among present-day Iranian Zoroastrians, the term darb-e mehr includes ...
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  • at the Eiffel Tower, to what does the term "Eiffel Tower" refer ... proponent of this theory. He used the term "idea" in his theory ...
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  • for general or universal validity. The term knowledge is also used to ... using the example of a game. The term "game" is used in ...
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  • Absurdism is related to existentialism and nihilism, and the term ... The absurd encounter can also arouse a "leap of faith," ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Name (BAN) and European Pharmacopoeia (EP) term for this chemical is adrenaline ... Among U.S. health professionals, the term epinephrine is used over ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • In Christian theology, the term spirit is used to describe God, or ... languages and the Chinese language uses the term "breath" to refer ...
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  • The term phobia, from the Greek φόβος meaning "fear," ... |right|250px|The term "phobia" comes from the Greek word ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • :This article is about the legal term alien referring to citizens ... "Illegal alien" is the official term in legislation and the border ...
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  • German primary-school teaching uses a single term, Eigenschaftswort, to refer to both adjectives and adverbs. However German linguists avoid this term. ...
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  • Cork is a term variously used for a lightweight, elastic, water-resistant, natural material of commercial importance and for the common names ...
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  • The term "Ivy League" is now most commonly used to refer ... |left|250px|The term "Ivy League" came from the ivy plants ...
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  • " Proponents of the former use the term in contrast with the initial ... German politicians carefully avoided the term "reunification" ...
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  • Satyagraha (Sanskrit, meaning "Truth-force") was a term coined by Mahatma Gandhi to express his philosophy that non-violence is a power ...
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  • The term "basic law" is used in some places as an alternative to "constitutional law." A Basic Law is either a codified constitution ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • excuse…. National economic planning--the term used by this Administration ... Following his defeat, Landon finished out his term as governor of ...
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  • Cybercrime is a term used broadly to describe activity in which computers ... Although the term cybercrime is usually restricted to describing criminal ...
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  • to use the more encompassing and abstract term of "formalism." The term "formalism" was first used by the adversaries of ...
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  • ==Meaning of the term== sun"). This is the opposite of the term Occident. In terms of the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • universe and humanity. In modern usage, the term can also mean stories that ... ==Evolution of the Term== The term mythology, meaning "the study ...
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  • often faces funding challenges such as long-term financial viability, the aging ... be the most important determinant of long-term trends in federal spending ...
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  • be at least 20 stories tall (although the term "skyscraper" was ... == Origin of the term == Originally, the term skyscraper was a nautical ...
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  • The term alveolus also is used for anatomical structures connected ... individual grapes within a bunch. The term comes from the Latin alveolus ...
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  • instances, children may be placed in a long-term foster placement. For older ... children may be enrolled in long-term foster care which ultimately ...
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  • ) is a term used in a variety of different contexts. Originally, the ... For most Protestants, the term apocrypha refers to scriptural texts ...
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  • clear whether they are using the term proposition in sense of the words or the "meaning" expressed by the words. To avoid the controversies ...
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  • called by a bewildering array of names. The term "quartz" comes from ... macrocrystalline. Chalcedony is a generic term for cryptocrystalline quartz. ...
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  • ===Tyndale's Long-Term Impact on the English Bible=== The men who translated the Revised Standard Version in the 1940s noted that Tyndale ...
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  • From 1907 on, English language articles sometimes used the term "Maximalist ... The usage is roughly equivalent to the term "Red" or "Pinko ...
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  • referred to as "Yurak Samoyed," the term Samoyed coming from indiscriminate Russian usage throughout the centuries, deriving from the literal ...
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  • Concupiscence usually refers to sinful physical desire, especially sexual longing or lust. The term is derived from the Latin word concupiscentia ...
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  • (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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • ==Origin of the term 'Mandaean'== and Rudolf Macuch have translated the term manda, from which mandaiia ...
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  • to pigs, being placed in its own order. The common term antbear generally is also considered confusing, since the term generally refers to anteaters ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The term Leviathan comes from the old Hebrew name לִוְיָתָן ... In Paradise Lost, Milton uses the term Leviathan to describe the ...
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  • ===The term "Asgard"=== and mythographers of Norse society, the term is relatively underutilized ...
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  • end point for the corresponding action. The term is, however, frequently taken ... acted on): ‘shod’, ‘armed’. The term is, however, frequently taken ...
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  • ==Meanings of the term== The term physician is at least nine hundred years old in English: ...
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  • According to Ronald Numbers, the term "methodological naturalism ... The term "methodological naturalism" had been used in 1937 ...
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  • antelopes, cattle, buffalo, and goats. The term also is used to refer more ... The term "horn" is also popularly applied to other hard ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • there is no formal definition for the term, the food industry covers ... uses the term food system to describe this entire enterprise. ...
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  • layers of amorphous solid. In addition, the term crystallites is used when ... is called the grain boundary. The term "crystallite boundary ...
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  • ==The term analytic philosophy== The term analytic philosophy is slightly ambiguous and generally has ...
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  • memory are not converted into long-term memory. The sufferer will ... to a brief interruption in the short/long-term memory transfer mechanism ...
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  • Mathematicians use the term manifold in a generic sense to mean the ... Whereas outside of mathematics the use of the term "dimension ...
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  • The term "graphite" is sometimes also used to refer to carbon ... in these materials. In this context, the term "(100 percent) graphite ...
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  • gabbro are called diabase, although the vernacular term microgabbro is often used when extra descriptiveness is desired. Gabbro may be extremely coarse ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • by the letter P in electrical equations. The term wattage is used colloquially to mean "electric power in watts." In direct current ...
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  • Baron Jons Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848). The term allotropy is derived from the Greek words allos, meaning "other," and tropos, meaning ...
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  • peaceful cooperation, seeking short-term reconciliation as a prelude ... The term "Sunshine policy" originates in one of Aesop's ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The term microgravity is also used because weightlessness in, e.g ... begin to alter and temporary and long term health issues can occur. ...
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  • A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter. Some have suggested that the term 'cave' should be reserved ...
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  • Fox is the general term applied to any of small to medium-sized canids (mammalian family Canidae) placed in the Carnivora tribe vulpini, characterized ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • decay if they are fully ionized. (The term "stripped" is sometimes used to describe such ions). It is hypothesized that such elements ...
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  • metaphysical, or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness ... Prior to the eighteenth century, sublime was a term of rhetoric predominantly ...
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  • size and their composition. In the past, the term "Clastic Sedimentary Rocks" were used to describe silica-rich clastic sedimentary rocks ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The term by which this subjection is commonly designated, the Mongol ... Historians have debated the long-term influence of Mongol rule on ...
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  • by simple trial and error learning (a term made famous by the American ... his canon he not only changed the term "higher psychical faculty ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • for political or religious purposes. The term brainwashing was originally ... and behavior to the degree connoted by the term "brainwashing" became ...
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  • in 1905, the art critic, Louis Vauxcelles coined the term the Fauves (French for "wild beasts")—an initially pejorative term—for the loose ...
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  • The term "sedevacantism" is derived from the Latin phrase ... held in the Vatican. However, the term "sedevacantist" ...
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  • isolated from St. John's Wort. The term "terpene" at times ... atoms added. Some authors will use the term terpene to include all terpenoids. ...
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  • The name "industrial engineer" can be misleading. While ... * Specifically per product (short term) ** Analysis of the complete ...
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  • "norm," and some have used the term "normlessness" to ... social circles. Anomie is an accurate term to describe this division. ...
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  • observations. Hooke coined the biological term cell because his observations ... *Organelle - term used for major subcellular structures ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • and ethnographer, notable for coining the term Lebensraum—"living ... state theory" and who coined the term “geopolitics.” Kjellen’s ...
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  • The term kabuki originally suggested the unorthodox character of this ... have evolved using these innovations. The term keren (外連), often translated ...
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  • the previous Palaeolithic tools, hence the term Epipalaeolithic. However, ... As a slang term, "Stone Age" can be used to describe a modern ...
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  • the Meditations on First Philosophy, but the term "the cogito" is (often confusingly) referred to in it. Descartes felt that this phrase ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • regions. The name Romanesque itself was a term coined in the nineteenth century ... The term is both useful and misleading. Medieval sculptors and architects ...
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  • of Europe in the sixteenth century. The term "humanism" itself ... The term, "Enlightenment humanism," is not as well known ...
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  • The term Dravidian derives from the Sanskrit term Dravida. Francis ... Harrison, 1856). Caldwell coined the term "Dravidian" for ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • headstands, and handstands. The term "acrobatics" can ... Sometimes called 'Sports acrobatics' the term now officially ...
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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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  • sink that receives the vapor produced. The term drying is also applied to ... The term "dehydration" may mean drying of water-containing ...
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  • Ji) the only grandson of Confucius. The term is originally derived from ... However, the Analects never expands on what this term means. ...
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  • to ethnology. Frobenius introduced the term Kulturkreis (culture circle ... Frobenius introduced his definition of the term Kulturkreise (“culture circle” ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The term diaspora (in Ancient Greek, διασπορά – "a scattering or sowing of seeds") refers to any people or ethnic population ...
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  • issue in philosophy by Scholastics. The term "ontology" is, however ... The term Ontology is, however, a fairly modern term. While the etymology ...
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  • gestation), and embryogenesis. The term progesterone also is used for natural or synthetic steroids that have a progesterone-like action on the ...
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  • actually quite uniformly practiced. The English term "potluck" is erroneously said to derive from "potlatch" due to its use in the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Virtual reality (VR) is technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment through one's senses. The term ...
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  • The term cargo cult describes any new religious movement that owes its initial impetus to the encounter between a tribal (often hunter-gatherer ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The term Arab (Arabic: عرب ʻarab ) generally refers to those persons who speak Arabic as their native tongue. There are estimated to be over ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The origin of the term hesychasmos is not entirely certain. The basic ... to be synonymous with Hesychast. The term Hesychast also appears in ...
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  • Historically, the term "fundamentalism" was first used in ... often strongly object to this term because they see it as a derogatory ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • as a suffix in Silla official titles. The term Hwarang does not literally ... Following the fall of Silla, the term hwarang survived and changed ...
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  • Photojournalism, as a descriptive term, often implies the use of ... The invention of the term "photojournalism" is often attributed ...
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  • is known as foliated or banded rock. The term "foliation" is derived ... hornstones, and geologists often use the term hornfels to signify those ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • During her term as Governor General Sauvé made state visits to Italy; ... After completing her term of office as Governor General in 1990 Sauvé ...
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  • ==Presidency: First term, 1897-1901== ===Policy=== McKinley defeated ... to annexation through the end of his term, but McKinley was open to ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • (Chlorophyta). Note that in reality the term algae is mainly used for convenience ... Some biologists prefer the term "marine macroalgae" over ...
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