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Anabaptist: (from Greek ana, "again")member of a fringe, or radical, movement of the Protestant Reformation and spiritual ancestor of modern Baptists, Mennonites, and Quakers. The movement's most distinctive ... [23 Related Articles]
Anabar Shield: (from the article "Precambrian time") ...the North Atlantic craton that incorporates northwestern Scotland, central Greenland, and Labrador; the Kaapvaal and Zimbabwean cratons in southern Africa; the Dharwar craton in India; the Aldan and Anabar shields ...
Anabasis: prose narrative, now in seven books, by Xenophon, of the story of the Greek mercenary soldiers who fought for Cyrus the Younger in his attempt to seize the Persian throne ... [4 Related Articles]
anabatic wind: local air current that blows up a hill or mountain slope facing the Sun. During the day, the Sun heats such a slope (and the air over it) faster than ...
anabolic steroid: (from the article "therapeutics") ...by the ovary and adrenal cortex in females. Testosterone is used to stimulate sexual organ development in androgen-deficient males and to initiate puberty in selected boys with delayed growth. The ...
anabolism: the sequences of enzyme-catalyzed reactions by which relatively complex molecules are formed in living cells from nutrients with relatively simple structures. Anabolic processes, which include the synthesis of such cell ... [13 Related Articles]
Anacanthobatidae: (from the article "skate") ...world, from tropical to near-Arctic waters and from the shallows to depths of more than 2,700 metres (8,900 feet). Nine genera of skates are placed in three families: Rajidae, Arynchobatidae, ...
Anacardiaceae: the sumac family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales, with about 70 genera and 650 species of evergreen or deciduous trees, shrubs, and woody vines. It is native to ... [2 Related Articles]
Anacardium: (from the article "Sapindales") ...tree), from the Mediterranean region, produces mastic, a varnish used for coating metals and oil and watercolour pictures. It is one of the most expensive resins to produce. The tropical ...
Anacharsis: legendary Scythian prince included in some ancient Greek lists as one of the Seven Wise Men and extolled as an exemplar of primitive virtue.
anachronism: (from Greek ana, "back," and chronos, "time"), neglect or falsification, intentional or not, of chronological relation. It is most frequently found in works of imagination that rest on a historical ...
Anacletus (II): antipope from 1130 to 1138 whose claims to the papacy against Pope Innocent II are still supported by some scholars. After study in Paris, he became a monk at Cluny ... [5 Related Articles]
Anacletus, Saint: second pope (76-88 or 79-91) after St. Peter. According to St. Epiphanius and the priest Tyrannius Rufinus, he directed the Roman Church with St. Linus, successor to St. Peter, during ...
Anaconda: city, seat (since 1977) of Anaconda-Deer Lodge county, southwestern Montana, U.S., 23 miles (37 km) northwest of Butte. Laid out in 1883 as Copperopolis by Marcus Daly, founder of Montana's ...
anaconda: either of two species of constricting, water-loving snakes found in tropical South America. [1 Related Articles]
Anaconda Company: one of the largest American mining companies, producing copper, aluminum, silver, and uranium. Since 1977 it has been a subsidiary of Atlantic Richfield Company. The company's headquarters are in Denver, ... [3 Related Articles]
Anaconda mine: (from the article "Daly, Marcus") ...mining engineer, he invested in smaller mining interests and enlisted the aid of such backers as George Hearst (father of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst) in order to purchase the ...
Anaconda plan: (from the article "American Civil War") ...the authority of the Federal government, had to direct his blue-clad armies to invade, capture, and hold most of the vital areas of the Confederacy. His grand strategy was based ...
Anacortes: city, Skagit county, northwestern Washington, U.S., on the northern tip of Fidalgo Island. Connected by ferry to the San Juan Islands and Victoria, British Columbia, the city originated in the ...
Anacreon: ancient Greek lyric poet who wrote in the Ionic dialect. Only fragments of his verse have survived. The edition of Anacreon's poetry known to later generations was probably prepared in ... [3 Related Articles]
Anacreontic poetry: (from the article "Anacreon") ...by post-Classical Greek writers at various dates and first published by Henri Estienne as the work of Anacreon in 1554. These had a great influence on Renaissance French poetry. The ...
anacrusis: in classical prosody, the up (or weak) beat, one or more syllables at the beginning of a line of poetry that are not regarded as a part of the metrical ...
Anadara: (from the article "ark shell") ...genera Arca and Barbatia, live attached by a byssus (a tuft of horny threads secreted by a gland on the foot) in rock and coral crevices. Other species, particularly of ...
Anadara granosa: (from the article "ark shell") ...Other species, particularly of the genus Anadara, live shallowly buried in sands and silts. Some species, such as the western African Anadara senilis and the Southeast Asian Anadara granosa, have ...
Anadara senilis: (from the article "ark shell") ...by a gland on the foot) in rock and coral crevices. Other species, particularly of the genus Anadara, live shallowly buried in sands and silts. Some species, such as the ...
Anadarko: city, seat (1907) of Caddo county, southwest-central Oklahoma, U.S. It lies along the Washita River. Founded in 1901 when the site was opened to white settlement, the city was named ... [1 Related Articles]
Anadarko Basin: (from the article "Permian Period") ...time was characterized by the gradual withdrawal of shorelines and the progressive increase in eolian (wind-transported) sands, red beds, and evaporites. Many intracratonic basins-such as the Anadarko, Delaware, and Midland ...
Anadarko Petroleum: (from the article "Business Overview") ...the heels of the merger-and-acquisition boom in 2005, when deals worth some $160 billion were announced, the energy sector witnessed some of its largest mergers since the late 1990s. Among ...
anadiplosis: a device in which the last word or phrase of one clause, sentence, or line is repeated at the beginning of the next. An example is the phrase that is ...
Anadoluhisari: (from the article "Bosporus") ...end of the strait, the Byzantine emperors and later the Ottoman sultans constructed fortifications along its shores, especially on the European side. Two noteworthy examples are the castles of Anadoluhisari, ...
anadromous fish: (from the article "Life Sciences") ...and reproductive isolation can be caused by only one or a few ecologically significant traits. Sticklebacks make up a species complex that includes two ecotypes-stream-dwelling populations and anadromous populations (populations ...
Anadyr: town and administrative centre, Chukchi autonomous okrug (district), far northeastern Russia. It lies on the southern shore of the estuary of the Anadyr River, which empties into ...
Anadyr River: (from the article "Asia") ...Yenisey with the Angara, Lena (with the waters of the Aldan and the Vilyuy), Yana, Indigirka, and Kolyma rivers all flow into the Arctic Ocean. Among rivers draining into the ...
Anadyr, Gulf of: gulf in far eastern Russia, in the northwestern part of the Bering Sea. The width of the gulf at its entrance is about 250 miles (400 km), and it runs ... [1 Related Articles]
anaerobe: (from the article "climate") ...and photosynthetic organisms had evolved such that the production of oxygen increased rapidly. The atmosphere became transformed from a reducing atmosphere with carbon dioxide, limited oxygen, and anaerobic organisms (that ...
anaerobic digestion: (from the article "environmental works") ...by anaerobic bacteria, carbon dioxide gas and methane gas are formed. Methane is combustible and is used as a fuel to heat the first digestion tank as well as to ...
anaerobic respiration: (from the article "bacteria") Respiration can also occur under anaerobic conditions by processes called anaerobic respiration, in which the final electron acceptor is an inorganic molecule, such as nitrate (NO₃⁻), nitrite (NO₂⁻), sulfate (SO₄²⁻), ...
Anafesto, Paolo Lucio: (from the article "doge") ...Latin dux, "leader") originated when the city was nominally subject to the Byzantine Empire and became permanent in the mid-8th century. According to tradition, the first doge was Paolo Lucio ...
anagamin: (from the article "ariya-puggala") ...("once-returner"), or one who is destined to be reborn in the human world only once more before reaching Nirvana. A third type of ariya-puggala is the anagamin ("never-returner"), or one ...
anagenesis: (from the article "evolution") Evolution can take place by anagenesis, in which changes occur within a lineage, or by cladogenesis, in which a lineage splits into two or more separate lines. Anagenetic evolution has ...
anaglyph: (from the article "Ducos du Hauron, Louis") Continuing his research, Ducos du Hauron devised improvements and cost reductions for printed colour reproductions. In 1891 he patented a device for three-dimensional photography called an anaglyph. Though he realized ...
Anagni: town, Lazio (Latium) regione, central Italy. It lies on a hill above the Sacco Valley, southeast of Rome. The ancient Anagnia, capital of the Hernici people, lost its independence to ...
Anagni, Treaty of: (from the article "Sicilian Vespers") ...helped by the Italian Ghibellines. The son of Peter III acceded to the throne of Aragon as James II and made peace with the papacy, France, and the Angevins (to ...
anagnorisis: (Greek: "recognition"), in a literary work, the startling discovery that produces a change from ignorance to knowledge. It is discussed by Aristotle in the Poetics as an essential part of ... [1 Related Articles]
anagogical interpretation: (from the article "biblical literature") Anagogical (mystical or spiritual) interpretation seeks to explain biblical events or matters of this world so that they relate to the life to come. Jordan is thus interpreted as the ...
anagram: the transposing of the letters of a word or group of words to produce other words that possess meaning, preferably bearing some logical relation to the original. The construction of ...
Anah: town, western Iraq. Located on the Euphrates River and on a main road connecting Iraq and Syria, it is a local trade centre for crops grown in the fertile strip ...
Anaheim: city, Orange county, California, U.S. It lies on the plain of the Santa Ana River, 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Los Angeles. [1 Related Articles]
Anaheim Ducks: (from the article "Ice Hockey") The Anaheim Ducks, an expansion team that entered the league in the 1993-94 season as the Disney-inspired Mighty Ducks, won the league championship with an impressive play-off performance that culminated ...
Anahiti: ancient Iranian goddess of royalty, war, and fertility; she is particularly associated with the last. Possibly of Mesopotamian origin, her cult was made prominent by Artaxerxes II, and statues and ... [6 Related Articles]
Anaho Island: (from the article "Pyramid Lake") ...remarked that "it rose, according to our estimate, 600 feet above the water, and, from the point we viewed it, presented a pretty exact outline of the great pyramid of ...
Anahuac: historical and cultural region of Mexico. The heartland of Aztec Mexico, Anahuac (Nahuatl: "Land on the Edge of the Water") designated that part of New Spain that became independent Mexico ...
Anai Peak: peak in eastern Kerala state, southwestern India. Located in the Western Ghats range, it rises to 8,842 feet (2,695 m) and is peninsular India's highest peak. From this point radiate ... [3 Related Articles]
Anaia, Pedro de: (from the article "Sofala") ...region of what is now the modern state of Zimbabwe. In 1480 Sofala was visited by the Portuguese Pero da Covilha, seeking gold, and in 1505 the Portuguese Pedro (or ...
Anaimalai Hills: mountain range in the Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu state, southern India. The Anaimalai Hills are a junction of the Eastern Ghats and Western Ghats and have a general northwest-southeast trend. ...
Anaitides: (from the article "annelid") ...with 1 to 5 antennae, with palpi, and with 0 to 3 pairs of eyes; parapodia well developed into 1 or 2 lobes usually bearing compound setae; size, 0.2 to ...
Anak: (from the article "arts, East Asian") Paintings from the Three Kingdoms are mainly those from decorated tombs. The earliest dated Koguryo tomb, the Tomb of Tongsu, or Tomb No. 3, in Anak, south of P'yongyang, was ...
Anak Krakatau: (from the article "Krakatoa") ...December 1927, when a new eruption began on the seafloor along the same line as the previous cones. In early 1928 a rising cone reached sea level, and by 1930 ...
Anakena: (from the article "Easter Island") ...were initiated in 1955. The excavations revealed that three distinct cultural periods are identifiable on the island. The early period is characterized by ahus at Tahai, Vinapu, and Anakena, carbon ...
anakrisis: (from the article "Greek law") ...the defendant (who might be under arrest) to the magistrate having jurisdiction in the matter and by filing a written complaint with the latter, who would subject it to a ...
Anaktuvuk Pass: (from the article "Alaskan mountains") ...and those flowing southward into the Yukon River drainage system, which empties into the Bering Sea. Several major rivers have eroded headward into the range to form low passes, the ...
anal atresia: (from the article "atresia and stenosis") Anal atresia (imperforate anus) is a malformation of the intestinal tract (about one out of every 6,000 births in the United States) with varying degrees of congenital absence of the ...
anal canal: the terminal portion of the digestive tract, distinguished from the rectum because of the transition of its internal surface from a mucous membrane layer (endodermal) to one of skinlike tissue ... [2 Related Articles]
anal sphincter: (from the article "anal canal") ...three areas: the upper part, with longitudinal folds called rectal columns; the lower portion, with internal and external constrictive muscles (sphincters) to control evacuation of feces; and the anal opening ...
anal stage: in Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the period in a child's psychosexual development during which the child's main concerns are with the processes of elimination. The anal stage, generally the second and ... [2 Related Articles]
analcime: common feldspathoid mineral, a hydrated sodium aluminosilicate (NaAlSi₂O₆·H₂O) that occurs in seams and cavities in basalt, diabase, granite, or gneiss and in extensive beds thought to have formed by precipitation ...
analgesia: loss of sensation of pain that results from an interruption in the nervous system pathway between sense organ and brain. Different forms of sensation (e.g., touch, temperature, and pain) stimulating ... [2 Related Articles]
analgesic: drug that relieves pain without blocking the conduction of nerve impulses or markedly altering the function of the sensory apparatus. [10 Related Articles]
analog circuit: (from the article "integrated circuit") Analog, or linear, circuits typically use only a few components and are thus some of the simplest types of ICs. Generally, analog circuits are connected to devices that collect signals ...
analog computer: any of a class of devices in which continuously variable physical quantities such as electrical potential, fluid pressure, or mechanical motion are represented in a way analogous to the corresponding ... [6 Related Articles]
analog facsimile: (from the article "telephone and telephone system") Further deployment of fax transmission had to await the development of improved long-distance telephone service. Between 1920 and 1923 the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) worked on telephone facsimile ...
analog information: (from the article "information processing") ...stimuli. In engineering parlance, humans are receptors of analog signals; and, by a somewhat loose convention, the messages conveyed via these carriers are called analog-form information, or simply analog information. ...
analog signal: (from the article "telemetry") ...on an individually allocated, discrete frequency band, and these bands are then combined for simultaneous transmission. Finally, data may be handled within the telemetry system in a continuous (analog) or ...
analogist: (from the article "linguistics") ...or as arrived at arbitrarily by a social convention. This dispute regarding the origin of language and meanings paved the way for the development of divergences between the views of ...
analogue: in literature, a story for which there is a counterpart or another version in other literatures. Several of the stories in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales are versions of tales ...
analogue: (from the article "weather forecasting") Prior to the 1980s the technique commonly used in long-range forecasting relied heavily on the analog method, in which groups of weather situations (maps) from previous years were compared to ...
analogue information: (from the article "modem") (from "modulator/demodulator"), any of a class of electronic devices that convert digital data signals into analog signals suitable for transmission over analog telecommunications circuits. A modem also receives modulated signals ...
analogue signal modulation: (from the article "telecommunication") As is noted in Analog-to-digital conversion, voice signals, as well as audio and video signals, are inherently analog in form. In most modern systems these signals are digitized prior to ...
analogue transmission: (from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...media, including coaxial cable systems, point-to-point microwave systems, and optical fibre systems. For coaxial and microwave transmission, either analog or digital methods may be employed. In analog transmission, each telephone ...
analogue-to-digital conversion: (from the article "telecommunication") As is noted in Analog-to-digital conversion, voice signals, as well as audio and video signals, are inherently analog in form. In most modern systems these signals are digitized prior to ...
analogy: in biology, similarity of function and superficial resemblance of structures that have different origins. For example, the wings of a fly, a moth, and a bird are analogous because they ... [4 Related Articles]
analogy: (from Greek ana logon, "according to a ratio"), originally, a similarity in proportional relationships. It may be a similarity between two figures (e.g., triangles) that differ in scale or between ... [13 Related Articles]
analvos: (from the article "religious dress") ...The outer rhason, a wide-sleeved garment, is black in the Greek Church but variable in colour in the Russian Church among the secular clergy (i.e., those who minister in parishes). ...
analysis: (from the article "Pappus of Alexandria") ...is Pappus's commentary on a group of geometry books by Euclid, Apollonius of Perga, Eratosthenes of Cyrene, and Aristaeus, collectively referred to as the "Treasury of Analysis." "Analysis" was a ...
analysis: (from the article "law, philosophy of") The analytical questions in jurisprudence are concerned with articulating the axioms, defining the terms, and prescribing the methods that best enable one to view the legal order (or part of ...
analysis: in physics and chemistry, determination of the physical properties or chemical composition of samples of matter or, particularly in modern physics, of the energy and other properties of subatomic particles ...
analysis: a branch of mathematics that deals with continuous change and with certain general types of processes that have emerged from the study of continuous change, such as limits, differentiation, and ... [11 Related Articles]
analyte: (from the article "analysis") ...of those analytical techniques that use no mechanical or electronic instruments other than a balance. The method usually relies on chemical reactions between the material being analyzed (the analyte) and ...
Analytic: (from the article "philosophy, Western") ..."critique" or "critical examination"-that had its own special architectonics. Each of Kant's three critiques is divided into the same three parts: (1) an "analytic," or analysis of reason's right functioning, ...
analytic a priori proposition: (from the article "epistemology") According to Kant, the propositions that express human knowledge can be divided into three kinds (see above A priori and a posteriori knowledge: Analytic and synthetic propositions): (1) analytic a priori ...
analytic geometry: mathematical subject in which algebraic symbolism and methods are used to represent and solve problems in geometry. The importance of analytic geometry is that it establishes a correspondence between geometric ... [11 Related Articles]
analytic language: any language that uses specific grammatical words, or particles, rather than inflection (q.v.), to express syntactic relations within sentences. An analytic language is commonly identified with an isolating language (q.v.), ...
analytic number theory: (from the article "number theory") Inspired by Gauss, other 19th-century mathematicians took up the challenge. Sophie Germain (1776-1831), who once stated, "I have never ceased thinking about the theory of numbers," made important contributions to ...
analytic philosophy: a loosely related set of approaches to philosophical problems, dominant in Anglo-American philosophy from the early 20th century, that emphasizes the study of language and the logical analysis of concepts. ... [21 Related Articles]
analytic proposition: in logic, a statement or judgment that is necessarily true on purely logical grounds and serves only to elucidate meanings already implicit in the subject; its truth is thus guaranteed ... [16 Related Articles]
analytic psychology: the psychoanalytic method of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung as he distinguished it from that of Sigmund Freud. Jung attached less importance than did Freud to the role of sexuality in ... [3 Related Articles]
analytic trigonometry: (from the article "trigonometry") Analytic trigonometry combines the use of a coordinate system, such as the Cartesian coordinate system used in analytic geometry, with algebraic manipulation of the various trigonometry functions to obtain formulas ...
analytic-synthetic distinction: (from the article "analytic proposition") The distinction between analytic and synthetic statements aroused extensive debate in the mid-20th century, particularly in view of objections raised by the American logician Willard Van Orman Quine.issues in epistemology
analytical balance: (from the article "quantitative chemical analysis") The basic tool in all quantitative analyses is the analytical balance, used for the accurate weighing of samples and precipitates. For usual analytical work the balance should be able to ...
Analytical Cubism: (from the article "Cubism") The movement's development from 1910 to 1912 is often referred to as Analytical Cubism. During this period, the work of Picasso and Braque became so similar that their paintings are ...
Analytical Engine: generally considered the first computer, designed and partly built by the English inventor Charles Babbage in the 19th century (he worked on it until his death in 1871). While working ... [5 Related Articles]