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- (from the article "wintergreen") ...thick, shining tooth-edged leaves in the upper part. Flowers hang singly from the leaf axils and have a pale pink, waxy-looking, urn-shaped corolla. The bright red berrylike fruits, called deerberries, ...
- Deere & Company
- major American manufacturer of farm machinery and industrial equipment. It is headquartered in Moline, Ill. [1 Related Articles]
- Deere, John
- pioneer American inventor and manufacturer of agricultural implements. [1 Related Articles]
- Deerfield Beach
- city, Broward county, southeastern Florida, U.S., on the Atlantic Ocean, just south of Boca Raton. The site, once a pineapple- and vegetable-growing area, was first settled about 1890; in 1896 ...
- deerfly
- (from the article "horse fly") ...a wedge-shaped miner's tool. Other such names are breeze fly and ear fly. One of the most common species (Tabanus lineola) has bright-green eyes and is known as green head. ...
- Deering, William
- American businessman and philanthropist whose company was at one time the largest agricultural-implement manufacturer in the world.
- Dees, Rick
- (from the article "Rick Dees") In the early 1980s, as radio became increasingly competitive-with every major music format fragmented to serve more and more specific groups of listeners-stations in large markets were content when they ...
- Deesis panel
- (from the article "mosaic") ...of the Holy Apostles in Thessaloniki (c. 1315) and at its most intense in the partly well-preserved cycles in the Kariye Cami, informs one of the greatest mosaic works of ...
- Def Jam Records
- (from the article "Def Jam Records") Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons managed several pioneer hip-hop acts, including Run-D.M.C., through their Rush Management agency, and in 1984 they set up their own Def Jam label; shortly thereafter, ...
- Def Leppard
- British rock band that was one of the prime movers of the new wave of British heavy metal. The original members were Pete Willis (b. Feb. 16, 1960, Sheffield, South ...
- Defaka language
- (from the article "Ijoid languages") ...smallest branch of the Niger-Congo language family. It consists of a language cluster, Ijo (Ijaw), comprising seven other language clusters with a total of approximately two million speakers, and Defaka ...
- defamation
- in law, attacking another's reputation by a false publication (communication to a third party) tending to bring the person into disrepute. The concept is an elusive one and is limited ... [1 Related Articles]
- defamiliarization
- (from the article "Tolstoy, Leo") "Kholstomer" (written 1863; revised and published 1886; "Kholstomer: The Story of a Horse") has become famous for its dramatic use of a favourite Tolstoyan device, "defamiliarization"-that is, the description of ...
- Defar, Meseret
- (from the article "Track and Field Sports (Athletics)") In women's competition Ethiopian Meseret Defar broke three distance world records in 2007-the indoor 3,000 m (8 min 23.72 sec) and the outdoor 5,000 m (14 min 16.63 sec) and ...
- defassa waterbuck
- (from the article "Kobus") ...swamps, and flood plains. Shoulder height ranges from 75-100 centimetres (30-39 inches) in the puku (Kobus vardoni) to about 130 cm in the common (K. ellipsiprymnus) and defassa (K. defassa) ...
- default judgment
- (from the article "procedural law") ...document commands the defendant to respond to the complaint within a specified number of days after its service. In common-law systems, if a defendant fails to appear, he may suffer ...
- default risk
- (from the article "risk") in economics and finance, an allowance for the hazard or lack of hazard in an investment or loan. Default risk refers to the chance of a borrower's not repaying a ...
- defeathering
- (from the article "poultry processing") The carcasses then go through the feather-picking machines, which are equipped with rubber "fingers" specifically designed to beat off the feathers. The carcasses are moved through a sequence of machines, ...
- defecation
- (from the article "sugar") ...pumped to a continuous clarification vessel, a large, enclosed, heated tank in which clear juice flows off the upper part while muds settle below. This settling and separation process is ...
- defecation
- the act of eliminating solid or semisolid waste materials (feces) from the digestive tract. In human beings, wastes are usually removed once or twice daily, but the frequency can vary ... [5 Related Articles]
- Defence Intelligence Service
- (from the article "intelligence") Another principal member of the British intelligence community is the Defence Intelligence Service, which resembles the American Defense Intelligence Agency. The service integrates into the Ministry of Defence intelligence specialists ...
- Defence of India Act
- (1915), legislation designed to give the government of British India special powers to deal with revolutionary and German-inspired threats during World War I, especially in the Punjab. A special legal ...
- Defence of the Bill of Rights, Society for the
- (from the article "Wilkes, John") Friends and sympathizers of Wilkes early in 1769 formed the Society for the Defence of the Bill of Rights to uphold his cause and pay his debts. During 1770 it ...
- defendant
- (from the article "pleading") The rules make provision for the joinder of other parties whose participation is considered necessary by the court. Thus, a defendant under English law may issue a notice-called a third-party ...
- defender of the faith
- a title belonging to the sovereign of England in the same way as Christianissimus ("most Christian") belonged to the king of France. The title was first conferred by Pope Leo ... [1 Related Articles]
- defense
- (from the article "Approximate Strengths of Selected Regular Armed Forces of the World") ...is essential for the national interest: its product would be needed in wartime, when the supply of imports might well be cut off. The verdict of economists on this argument ...
- defense
- (from the article "baseball") By measuring the changes in the delicate balance between offense and defense, statistics also reveal much of baseball's history on the playing field. Lengthening the pitching distance to 60 feet ...
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- U.S. government agency created in 1958 to facilitate research in technology with potential military applications. Most of DARPA's projects are classified secrets, but many of its military innovations have had ... [7 Related Articles]
- defense attorney
- (from the article "procedural law") The defense lawyer has a double function in the investigation phase of the criminal process: to assist the suspect in gathering exonerating evidence and to protect him from violations of ...
- defense economics
- field of national economic management concerned with the economic effects of military expenditure, the management of economics in wartime, and the management of peacetime military budgets.
- Defense Intelligence Agency
- (from the article "intelligence") The DIA, established in 1961, is the major producer and manager of intelligence for the Department of Defense and is the principal adviser on military intelligence matters for the secretary ...
- Defense Mapping Agency
- (from the article "map") ...Good progress has been made, however, on areas bordering the continents and islands. The Arctic, Antarctic, South Pacific, and South Atlantic oceans are the most deficient in good coverage. The ...
- defense mechanism
- in psychoanalytic theory, any of a group of mental processes that enables the mind to reach compromise solutions to conflicts that it is unable to resolve. The process is usually ... [7 Related Articles]
- Defense of Legitimate Rights, Committee for the
- (from the article "Saudi Arabia") The regime tried to rely on clerics with whom it had close ties to reign in the dissidents, but to no avail. The kingdom's first organized Sunni Islamist opposition group, ...
- Defense of Marriage Act
- (from the article "The Legal Debate over Same-Sex Marriages") ...to indicate that that state would shortly have to recognize such marriages. Americans, however, have consistently opposed same-sex marriage by wide margins. In 1996 Congress enacted the federal Defense of ...
- Defense of Rights, Associations for the
- patriotic league formed in Anatolia and in Thrace in 1918, after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. Its purposes were to defend Turkey against foreign occupation ... [1 Related Articles]
- Defense of Tradesmen and Artisans, Union for the
- (from the article "Poujade, Pierre") ...visit of government tax collectors. Expanding his activities to other towns in southern France, he enrolled 800,000 members in his Union de Defense des Commercants et des Artisans (Union for ...
- Defense Supply Agency
- (from the article "marketing") Another governmental purchasing sector is the federal military buying establishment, represented in the United States by the Department of Defense, which purchases primarily through the Defense Supply Agency and the ...
- Defense, Quartier de la
- (from the article "Paris") In the 1970s the largest concentration of tall buildings in Europe arose some 2 miles (3 km) beyond the arch, on the far side of the suburban wedge of Neuilly-sur-Seine. ...
- Defense, U.S. Department of
- (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") The U.S. Department of Defense began blocking access to several Web sites by anyone who used its network, including troops in Iraq. YouTube, MySpace, and 11 other Web sites, which ...
- defensive behaviour
- (from the article "aggressive behaviour") Aggression sometimes occurs when parents defend their young from attack by members of their own species. Female mice, for example, defend their pups against hostile neighbours, while male stickleback fish ...
- defensive defense
- (from the article "nuclear strategy") ...Pact's follow-on forces in the rear with air strikes. Such aggressive defense was criticized by peace movements as being too provocative. Instead, they proposed nonprovocative strategies based on "defensive defense," ...
- defensive tactics
- (from the article "tactics") The last years of the 19th century witnessed the development of automatic weapons in the form of machine guns. Artillery, too, was revolutionized by the addition of recoil mechanisms, which ...
- deferent
- (from the article "Copernicus, Nicolaus") ...by postulating three mechanisms: uniformly revolving, off-centre circles called eccentrics; epicycles, little circles whose centres moved uniformly on the circumference of circles of larger radius (deferents); and equants. The equant, ...
- deferred rebate
- (from the article "rebate") ...action on the part of the customers. For example, real estate firms in Europe gave rebates to buyers to encourage land improvements that would increase the value of adjoining unsold ...
- Deffand, Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du
- woman of letters and a leading figure in French society. [1 Related Articles]
- Defferre, Gaston
- French politician, Socialist Party leader, and longtime mayor of Marseille (1944-45, 1953-86). [1 Related Articles]
- Defiance
- city, seat (1845) of Defiance county, northwestern Ohio, U.S., where the Auglaize and Tiffin rivers meet the Maumee, 55 miles (89 km) southwest of Toledo. Laid out in 1829, Defiance ...
- deficiency disease
- (from the article "nutritional disease") Although deficiency diseases have been described in laboratory animals and humans deprived of single vitamins, in human experience multiple deficiencies are usually present simultaneously. The eight B-complex vitamins function in ...
- deficient number
- (from the article "number game") ..."abundant" or "deficient." In an abundant number, the sum of its proper divisors (i.e., including 1 but excluding the number itself) is greater than the number; in a deficient number, ...
- deficit financing
- practice in which a government spends more money than it receives as revenue, the difference being made up by borrowing or minting new funds. Although budget deficits may occur for ... [4 Related Articles]
- definite description
- (from the article "formal logic") ...a is any individual variable and alpha is any wff, (iotaa)alpha then stands for the single value of a that makes alpha true. An expression of the form "the so-and-so" ...
- definite integral
- (from the article "analysis") The task of analysis is to provide not a computational method but a sound logical foundation for limiting processes. Oddly enough, when it comes to formalizing the integral, the most ...
- definite proportions, law of
- statement that every chemical compound contains fixed and constant proportions (by weight) of its constituent elements. Although many experimenters had long assumed the truth of the principle in general, the ... [4 Related Articles]
- definiteness
- (from the article "Uralic languages") The category of definiteness (like English "the") is marked in numerous ways in the modern languages and originally appears to have been tied to the manner of number marking in ...
- definition
- (from the article "formal logic") Definitions, where they occur, can function as additional transformation rules, to the effect that, if in any theorem any expression of the form occurring on one side of a definition ...
- definition by genus and differentia
- (from the article "Aristotelianism") ...(Isagoge). The Isagoge, in fact, is only concerned with a simple and rather mechanical treatment of five concepts that had been much used by Aristotle. These were the concepts of ...
- deflation
- (from the article "Economic Affairs") Although deflation persisted, it was on a downward trend. The core inflation rate (excluding fresh food but not energy products) fell 0.1% in the third quarter. Land prices nationwide were ...
- deflation
- in geology, erosion by wind of loose material from flat areas of dry, uncemented sediments such as those occurring in deserts, dry lake beds, floodplains, and glacial outwash plains. Clay ... [1 Related Articles]
- deflation
- (from the article "respiration") ...stored within the elastic tissues of the lungs, just as energy is stored in a stretched rubber band. The conversion of this stored, or potential, energy into kinetic, or active, ...
- deflation hollow
- (from the article "deflation") ...particles are picked up by turbulent eddies in wind and may be carried for hundreds of kilometres; they later settle to form loess deposits. Local areas subjected to deflation may ...
- deflationary policy
- (from the article "international payment and exchange") ...shift in the pattern of world trade), even if domestic demand is not above the supply potential and prices are not rising. In this case, policies designed to reduce domestic ...
- deflected-thrust aircraft
- (from the article "helicopter") The second group, convertible airplanes with propellers, has four basic configurations. The first of these are the deflected thrust type, in which large propellers exert thrust against a wing deflected ...
- deflection coil
- (from the article "television") Scanning is accomplished by two sets of electromagnet coils. These coils must be precisely designed to preserve the focus of the scanning spot no matter where it falls on the ...
- deflection of the vertical
- (from the article "geoid") ...surfaces, ellipsoid and geoid, are shown in the figure. The local direction of gravity is normal to the geoid, and the angle between this direction and the normal to the ...
- deflection theory
- (from the article "bridge") ...steel towers spread laterally at the base, and a 7.4-metre- (24.5-foot-) deep truss is used for the deck. Of greater significance than the deck construction, however, was the first application ...
- deflection yoke
- (from the article "television") A similar action in the vertical deflection coils produces the vertical scanning motion. The two sets of deflection coils are combined in a structure known as the deflection yoke, which ...
- defoamer
- (from the article "surface coating") One problem with specialty additives is that they often have a surfactant nature and consequently stabilize foam in the liquid coating. Portions of the coating polymer also have a surfactant ...
- Defoe, Daniel
- English novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist, author of Robinson Crusoe (1719-22) and Moll Flanders (1722). [8 Related Articles]
- Defoid languages
- (from the article "Benue-Congo languages") The Defoid languages comprise two groups: the Akokoid cluster of four languages and the very much larger Yoruboid cluster whose principal members are Yoruba (20,000,000 speakers), Igala (1,000,000), and Itsekiri ...
- defoliant
- a chemical dust or spray applied to plants to cause their leaves to drop off prematurely. Defoliants sometimes are applied to crop plants such as cotton in order to facilitate ...
- defoliation
- (from the article "woodrat") Woodrats are usually common within their ranges, but Allegheny woodrat populations are declining, possibly because of forest defoliation by gypsy moths and infestation by parasites. Two species endemic to islands ...
- deforcement
- in English property law, wrongful taking and possession of land belonging to another. Deforcement had its primary legal significance in feudal England. Deforcement arose particularly in cases in which land ...
- DeForest, John William
- American writer of realistic fiction, author of a major novel of the American Civil War-Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty (1867).
- deforestation
- the clearing or thinning of forests, the cause of which is normally implied to be human activity. As such, deforestation represents one of the largest issues in global land use ... [23 Related Articles]
- deformation
- (from the article "topology") branch of mathematics, sometimes referred to as "rubber sheet geometry," in which two objects are considered equivalent if they can be continuously deformed into one another through such motions in ...
- deformation and flow
- in physics, alteration in shape or size of a body under the influence of mechanical forces. Flow is a change in deformation that continues as long as the force is ... [15 Related Articles]
- deformation, modulus of
- (from the article "tunnels and underground excavations") ...the underground powerhouse and was stabilized by large tendons anchored back in a drainage tunnel plus strut action provided by the concrete structure that supported the generator machinery. The modulus ...
- deformed nucleus
- (from the article "radioactivity") Nucleons can interact with one another in a collective fashion to deform the nuclear shape to a cigar shape. Such large spheroidal distortions are usual for nuclei far from magic, ...
- Deg Xinag
- Athabaskan-speaking North American Indian tribe of interior Alaska, in the basins of the upper Kuskokwim and lower Yukon rivers. Their region is mountainous, with both woodlands and tundra, and is ... [4 Related Articles]
- Deganya
- (from the article "Eshkol, Levi") ...rule, working there in a number of settlements. He fought as a member of the Jewish Legion on the side of the British forces against the Turks. At the end ...
- Degas, Edgar
- French painter, sculptor, and printmaker who was prominent in the Impressionist group and widely celebrated for his images of Parisian life. Degas's principal subject was the human-especially the female-figure, which ... [12 Related Articles]
- degassing
- (from the article "hydrosphere") ...uncertain. It is likely that the hydrosphere attained its present volume early in the Earth's history, and since that time there have been only small losses and gains. Gains would ...
- Degema
- town and river port, Rivers state, southern Nigeria, on the Sambreiro River (an outlet of the Niger). A traditional market centre (fish, cassava, taro, palm produce, plantains, and yams) of ...
- degeneracy
- (from the article "chemical bonding") ...a given shell in the hydrogen atom have the same energy despite having different shapes is surprising and is associated with a cancellation of different contributions to the energy. (This ...
- degenerate art
- term used by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe art that did not support the ideals of National Socialism. It was also the title of a propagandistically designed Nazi ... [6 Related Articles]
- degenerate gas
- in physics, a particular configuration, usually reached at high densities, of a gas composed of subatomic particles with half-integral intrinsic angular momentum (spin). Such particles are called fermions, because their ... [2 Related Articles]
- DeGeneres, Ellen
- One of the most eagerly awaited events on television during the 1996-97 season was an episode of the sitcom "Ellen," in which the title character, portrayed by comedian Ellen DeGeneres, ...
- Degeneria
- (from the article "Magnoliales") ...with an elongated aperture and a homogenous (structureless) exine, and sterile stamens (staminodes) between the fertile stamens and the central single carpel. The unusual kidney-shaped fruits of Degeneria measure up ...
- Degeneria roseiflora
- (from the article "Magnoliales") ...on Viti Levu, the largest island of the Fijian archipelago. It is a relatively common tree that occurs mostly in upland forests on steep slopes, and it has been used ...
- Degeneria vitiensis
- (from the article "Magnoliales") Degeneriaceae consists of one genus in Fiji. Degeneria vitiensis, as the species name indicates, was found on Viti Levu, the largest island of the Fijian archipelago. It is a relatively ...
- Degeneriaceae
- (from the article "Magnoliales") The two species in Degeneriaceae (Degeneria vitiensis and D. roseiflora) are large trees and have primitive vessels, single pollen grains with an elongated aperture and a homogenous (structureless) exine, and ...
- Deggendorf
- city, Bavaria Land (state), southeastern Germany. It is on the Danube River, 2.5 miles (4 km) above its confluence with the Isar River. Deggendorf lies at the ...
- deglaciation
- (from the article "Antarctica") ...may have been free or nearly free of ice as recently as about 3 million years ago, when the diatom-bearing beds were deposited in a marine seaway; and the Antarctic ...
- Deglane, Henri
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...(e.g., New Sorbonne, Paris; 1885-1901), both of whom were influential teachers at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. A high point was reached with the Paris Exposition of 1889, for which Henri ...
- degradation
- (from the article "surface coating") ...commonly thought to consist mainly of resistance to and protection from solar radiation. Many natural polymeric substrates, such as wood, and many synthetic polymers are susceptible to damage and degradation ...
- degradation theory
- (from the article "animism") ...spirit of disobedience" or common words such as genius) in the advanced civilization of his own day. This "development theory" he championed against the so-called degradation theory, which held that ...
- degraded chernozem
- (from the article "Europe") ...for their fertility. In the formerly wooded steppe lying to the north of the grass steppe in both south central Russia and the lower Danubian lowlands, soils of somewhat less ...
- degranulation
- (from the article "blood") ...encased in a vacuole lined by the invaginated membrane. The granules discharge their contents into the vacuole containing the organism. As this occurs, the granules of the neutrophil are depleted ...
- degree
- in education, any of several titles conferred by colleges and universities to indicate the completion of a course of study or the extent of academic achievement. [3 Related Articles]
- degree
- (from the article "trigonometry") Numerical values can be assigned to angles by selecting a unit of measure. The most common units are the degree and the radian. There are 360° in a complete revolution, ...
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