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fan: device for producing a current of air or other gases or vapours. Fans are used for circulating air in rooms and buildings; for cooling motors and transmissions; for cooling and ... [3 Related Articles]
fan beam: (from the article "radar") ...1 degree.) Such a radar system can determine the location of the target in both azimuth angle and elevation angle. An aircraft-surveillance radar generally employs an antenna that radiates a ...
fan delta: (from the article "river") ...attention has been given to deltas that are composed of very coarse deposits-those of sand and gravel. Deltas developing from this type of material are commonly classified as either fan ...
Fan Fiction-TV Viewers Have It Their Way: Television shows had long captivated audiences and provided a temporary escape from reality for viewers who could vicariously live another life. Some devoted viewers would often discuss their favourite dramas ...
fan hitch: (from the article "dogsled racing") ...to sled dogs, which were used at that time for freight hauling and mail delivery, as well as by fur trappers to travel between their traps. At first dogs were ...
Fan Kuan: (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...probably none of his original work survives, but aspects of his style have been perpetuated in thousands of other artists' works. An even more formidable figure was the early 11th-century ...
fan painting: (from the article "painting") Folding screens and screen doors originated in China and Japan, probably during the 12th century (or possibly earlier), and screen painting continued as a traditional form into the 20th. They ...
fan shooting: (from the article "Earth exploration") High-velocity bodies of local extent can be located by fan shooting. Travel times are measured along different azimuths from a source, and an abnormally early arrival time indicates that a ...
Fan Si Peak: highest peak (10,312 feet [3,143 metres]) in Vietnam, lying in Lao Cai tinh (province) and forming part of the Fan Si-Sa Phin range, which extends northwest-southeast for ... [1 Related Articles]
fan vault: (from the article "Gothic art") ...of windows, an enlargement of windows to great proportions, and the conversion of the interior stories into a single unified vertical expanse. The typical Gothic pointed vaults were replaced by ...
Fan Wencheng: minister who advised the Manchu forces of Manchuria in their conquest of China and their establishment there of the Qing (Manchu) dynasty (1644-1911/12).
Fan Zhongyan: Chinese scholar-reformer who, as minister to the Song emperor Renzong (reigned 1022/23-1063/64), anticipated many of the reforms of the great innovator Wang Anshi (1021-86). In his 10-point program raised in ... [1 Related Articles]
fan-head trench: (from the article "river") ...lines during fan development. Such longitudinal shifting is facilitated by entrenching and/or backfilling the channel that links the source area to the fan. Incision at the fan apex produces a ...
Fan-Tan: card game that may be played by any number of players up to eight. The full pack of 52 cards is dealt out, one card at a time. Thus, some ... [1 Related Articles]
fan-tan: bank gambling game of Chinese origin, dating back at least 2,000 years and introduced in the western United States in the second half of the 19th century by Chinese immigrant ...
Fana: section of the city of Bergen, Hordaland fylke (county), southwestern Norway, opposite Store Sotra Island. Raune Fjord and its smaller branches, especially Fana Fjord, cut into Fana's irregular coastline. Most ...
fana: ' ("to pass away," or "to cease to exist"), the complete denial of self and the realization of God that is one of the steps taken by the Muslim Sufi ... [4 Related Articles]
Fanagalo language: (from the article "Africa") ...subcontinent are spoken in the Asian communities. In West Africa, forms of creole (Krio) and pidgin are widespread in the coast towns of very heterogeneous ethnic composition. In southern Africa, ...
fanaticism: (from the article "social movement") ...required to do so, is likely to be regarded by outsiders as a fanatic. Some students of social movements, particularly those whose analysis has a psychoanalytic orientation, have suggested that ...
Fancheng: (from the article "Xiangfan") ...Wuhan to Lanzhou in Gansu province. The area from very early times was a vitally important strategic and commercial centre. The modern municipality was formed in 1950 by combining the ...
Fanconi anemia: (from the article "cancer") Another group of hereditary cancers comprises those that stem from inherited defects in DNA repair mechanisms. Examples include Bloom syndrome, ataxia-telangiectasia, Fanconi anemia, and xeroderma pigmentosum. These syndromes are characterized ...
fancy: the power of conception and representation in artistic expression (such as through the use of figures of speech by a poet). The term is sometimes used as a synonym for ...
fancy cut: (from the article "diamond cutting") ...a round stone with 58 facets. A single cut is a simple form of cutting a round diamond with only 18 facets. Any style of diamond cutting other than the ...
fandango: exuberant Spanish courtship dance and a genre of Spanish folk song. The dance, probably of Moorish origin, was popular in Europe in the 18th century and survives in the 20th ... [1 Related Articles]
Fanelli, Giuseppe: (from the article "anarchism") ...attempted to establish a decentralized, or "cantonalist," political system on Proudhonian lines. In the end, however, the influence of Bakunin was stronger. In 1868 his Italian disciple, Giuseppe Fanelli, visited ...
fanesca: (from the article "Ecuador") Easter is an opportunity to eat fanesca, a soup that is virtually the Ecuadoran national dish. The soup-made of onions, peanuts, fish, rice, squash, broad beans,
Faneuil Hall Marketplace: (from the article "Boston") The narrow and crowded streets of the central city are better suited for walking than driving, for Bostonians are incorrigible jaywalkers. The street markets around Faneuil Hall are as essential ...
Fanfani, Amintore: politician and teacher who served as Italy's premier six times. He formed and led the centre-left coalition that dominated Italian politics in the late 1950s and '60s. [3 Related Articles]
fanfare: originally a brief musical formula played on trumpets, horns, or similar "natural" instruments, sometimes accompanied by percussion, for signal purposes in battles, hunts, and court ceremonies. The term is of ...
Fang: Bantu-speaking peoples occupying the southernmost districts of Cameroon south of the Sanaga River, mainland Equatorial Guinea, and the forests of the northern half of Gabon south to the Ogooue River ... [7 Related Articles]
fang: (from the article "rattlesnake") A rattlesnake fang is similar to a curved hypodermic needle. At the top it meets with the end of the venom duct. Soft tissue surrounds the end of the venom ...
Fang Guozhen: (from the article "China") ...erstwhile general of the rebel Han regime named Ming Yuzhen; and Wu in the rich Yangtze delta area, under a former Grand Canal boatman named Zhang Shicheng. A onetime salt ...
Fang Lizhi: Chinese astrophysicist and dissident who was held by the Chinese leadership to be partially responsible for the 1989 student rebellion in Tiananmen Square.
fang-ding: (from the article "ding") ...which has a slight swelling of the bowl as it joins each of the legs (similar in effect to the li), and the fang-ding, ...
fang-hsiang: (from the article "arts, East Asian") New percussion instruments are evident in the celestial orchestras seen in Buddhist iconography. One apparent accommodation between old Chinese and West Asian tradition is the fang-hsiang, a set of 16 ...
Fangataufa Atoll: (from the article "Mururoa") ...after 1975 the tests were conducted underground. France, responding to international concern over fracturing the rock of Mururoa, began to carry out its more powerful blasts under the lagoon of ...
Fangio, Juan Manuel: driver who dominated automobile-racing competition in the 1950s, winning the world driving championship in 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, and 1957. He had won 24 world-championship Grand Prix races when he ... [1 Related Articles]
fangyi: type of Chinese bronze vessel in the form of a small hut or granary. Square or rectangular in section, its sides slope outward from a low base to a cover ...
Fanini, Nilson do Amaral: At the August 1995 meeting of the Baptist World Congress meeting in Buenos Aires, Arg., the Rev. Nilson do Amaral Fanini was elected to a five-year term as president of ...
Fannian law: (from the article "ancient Rome") ...repealed despite Cato's protests. Later sumptuary laws were motivated not by military crisis but by a sense of the dangers of luxury: the Orchian law (182) limited the lavishness of ...
Fannie Mae: federally chartered private corporation created as a federal agency by the U.S. Congress in 1938 to ensure adequate liquidity in the mortgage market regardless of economic conditions. It is one ... [1 Related Articles]
Fanning, Katherine Woodruff: American journalist (b. Oct. 18, 1927, Joliet, Ill.-d. Oct. 19, 2000, Boston, Mass.), was a relative latecomer to her profession but rose to become one of the most highly respected ...
Fano: island of the North Frisian group, in the North Sea off Esbjerg, southwestern Jutland, Denmark. Three-quarters of the island consists of beaches, dunes, heath, and marshland. Its settlements are Nordby ...
Fano: town and episcopal see, Marche regione, central Italy. It lies along the Adriatic coast at the mouth of the Metauro River, just southeast of Pesaro. The town occupies the site ...
Fano, Ugo: Italian-born American physicist (b. July 28, 1912, Turin, Italy-d. Feb. 13, 2001, Chicago, Ill.), was a pioneering nuclear physicist who helped identify the hazards of radioactivity for humans and whose ...
Fanon, Frantz: West Indian psychoanalyst and social philosopher, known for his theory that some neuroses are socially generated and for his writings on behalf of the national liberation of colonial peoples. [2 Related Articles]
fanqie: (from the article "Chinese languages") ...dictionary is divided according to rhymes, of which there are 61, and, finally, according to initial consonants. Inside each rhyme an interlocking spelling system known as fanqie ...
Fanshawe, Sir Richard, 1st Baronet: English poet, translator, and diplomat whose version of Camoes' Os Lusiadas is a major achievement of English verse translation.
Fant, Gunner: (from the article "phonetics") As a result of studying the phonemic contrasts within a number of languages, Roman Jakobson, Gunnar Fant, and Morris Halle concluded in 1951 that segmental phonemes could be characterized in ...
Fanta: (from the article "Coca-Cola Company, The") The post-World War II years saw diversification in the packaging of Coca-Cola and also in the development or acquisition of new products. In 1946 the company purchased rights to the ...
fantail: any of numerous birds of the Old World subfamily Rhipidurinae, family Muscicapidae (q.v.). Some authors retain these birds in the subfamily Muscicapinae. The fantails constitute the genus Rhipidura. Fantails are ... [1 Related Articles]
fantail: (from the article "windmill") ...early mills the turning of the post-mill body, or the tower-mill cap, was done by hand by means of a long tailpole stretching down to the ground. In 1745 Edmund ...
fantasia: in music, a composition free in form and inspiration, usually for an instrumental soloist; in 16th- and 17th-century England the term was applied especially to fugal compositions (i.e., based on ... [4 Related Articles]
fantasy: (from the article "comedy") Rather more explicitly comic is the element of fantasy in modern paintings, in which seemingly unrelated objects are brought together in a fine incongruity, as in the French primitive Henri ...
fantasy: (from the article "hallucination") ...of these engrams in complex circuits involving nerve cells. Such circuits in the cortex (outer layers) of the brain appear to subserve the neurophysiology of memory, thought, imagination, and fantasy. ...
fantasy: imaginative fiction dependent for effect on strangeness of setting (such as other worlds or times) and of characters (such as supernatural or unnatural beings). Examples include William Shakespeare's A Midsummer ... [3 Related Articles]
fantasy baseball: (from the article "baseball") The term fantasy baseball was introduced to describe the Internet-based virtual baseball game. But it also can be loosely construed to mean a number of games that permit the fan ...
Fantasy Records: (from the article "Fantasy Records") Fantasy was founded as a jazz label in San Francisco in 1949 by brothers Sol and Max Weiss. Their artists included the pianist Dave Brubeck (whose Jazz ...
fantasy sports league: (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") Online fantasy sports leagues were increasingly seen as an advertising-supported business. Participants in the leagues put together sports teams of their choice to compete in imaginary games. In hopes of ...
Fante: people of the southern coast of Ghana between Accra and Sekondi-Takoradi. They speak a dialect of Akan, a language of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Oral tradition ...
Fante confederacy: historical group of states in what is now southern Ghana. It originated in the late 17th century when Fante people from overpopulated Mankessim, northeast of Cape Coast, settled vacant areas ... [3 Related Articles]
Fante language: (from the article "Akan languages") dialect cluster of the Nyo group within the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Its principal members are Asante (Ashanti), Fante (Fanti), Brong (Abron), and Akuapem. The Akan cluster ...
Fanti, Manfredo: one of the most capable patriot generals during the mid-19th-century wars of Italian independence; he helped the northern Italian house of Sardinia-Piedmont consolidate Italy under its leadership.
Fantin-Latour, Henri: French painter, printmaker, and illustrator noted for his still lifes with flowers and his portraits, especially group compositions, of contemporary French celebrities in the arts. [1 Related Articles]
Fanum Voltumnae: (from the article "ancient Italic people") ...to a league of the "Twelve Peoples" of Etruria, formed for religious purposes but evidently having some political functions; it met annually at the chief sanctuary of the Etruscans, the ...
fanwort: any of about seven species of aquatic flowering plants constituting the genus Cabomba, of the fanwort or water-shield family (Cabombaceae), native to the New World tropics and subtropics. Water shield ... [1 Related Articles]
Fapp, Daniel L.: (from the article "1961: Other Winners") ...William Inge for Splendor in the GrassAdapted Screenplay: Abby Mann for Judgment at NurembergCinematography, Black-and-White: Eugen Shuftan for The HustlerCinematography, Color: Daniel L. Fapp for West Side StoryArt Direction, Black-and-White: ...
Faqariyyah: (from the article "Egypt") ...of their power was not so much the Ottoman ruling hierarchy as it was their own factionalism. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the Mamluks were divided into two great ...
faqih: (from the article "North Africa") ...and military posts. Strict adherence to the Maliki version of Islamic law provided the religious legitimization for the authority of this tribal caste. The fuqaha' (experts on ...
faqr: (from the article "maqam") ...the maqam of zuhd (renunciation, or detachment), which means that the person is devoid of possessions and his heart is without acquisitiveness; (4) the maqam of faqr (poverty), in which ...
Far Eastern Economic Review: former weekly news magazine covering general, political, and business and financial news of East and Southeast Asia. It was published in Hong Kong, where it was established in 1946. The ...
Far Eastern Republic: nominally independent state formed by Soviet Russia in eastern Siberia in 1920 and absorbed into the Soviet Union in 1922. At the time of the Far Eastern Republic's creation, the ... [1 Related Articles]
Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer: (from the article "Physical Sciences") ...On April 23 India launched Italy's Agile high-energy astrophysics satellite, which carried X-ray and gamma-ray detectors to study astronomical objects in the Milky Way Galaxy. NASA shut down its Far ...
Far'ah, Tall al-: ancient site in southwestern Palestine, located on the Wadi Ghazzah near Tall al-'Ajjul, in modern Israel. The site was excavated between 1928 and 1930 by British archaeologists in Egypt under ... [1 Related Articles]
far-infrared spectroscopy: (from the article "spectroscopy") ...historically has been divided into three regions, the near infrared (4,000-12,500 inverse centimetres [cm⁻¹]), the mid-infrared (400-4,000 cm⁻¹) and the far infrared (10-400 cm⁻¹). With the development of Fourier-transform spectrometers, ...
Fara Filiorum Petri: (from the article "Christianity") ...parts of Italy, the drama of the feast of St. Anthony, historically associated with the winter solstice, rivals any other feast day of the Christian calendar. To celebrate his feast, ...
Farabi, al-: Muslim philosopher, one of the preeminent thinkers of medieval Islam. He was regarded in the Arab world as the greatest philosophical authority after Aristotle. [10 Related Articles]
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front: (from the article "El Salvador") The death of Schafik Handal on Jan. 24, 2006, was a blow to El Salvador's leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). Handal had been a guerrilla leader in the ...
Farabundo Marti, Augustin: (from the article "El Salvador") The persistence of military rule can be partly explained as a result of a two-day revolt by farmworkers in January 1932 that was organized by Augustin Farabundo Marti, head of ...
farad: unit of electrical capacitance (ability to hold an electric charge), in the metre-kilogram-second system of physical units, named in honour of the English scientist Michael Faraday. The capacitance of a ... [1 Related Articles]
faraday: unit of electricity, used in the study of electrochemical reactions and equal to the amount of electric charge that liberates one gram equivalent of any ion from an electrolytic solution. ... [2 Related Articles]
Faraday cup: (from the article "mass spectrometry") The direct measurement of ion currents collected by a shielded electrode, called a Faraday cup, became possible in the 1930s with the introduction of electrometer tubes capable of measuring currents ...
Faraday effect: in physics, the rotation of the plane of polarization (plane of vibration) of a light beam by a magnetic field. Michael Faraday, an English scientist, first observed the effect in ... [1 Related Articles]
Faraday generator: (from the article "magnetohydrodynamic power generator") A number of generator configurations have been devised to accommodate the Hall effect. In a Faraday generator, as shown in part A of the figure, the electrode walls are segmented ...
Faraday's law of induction: in physics, a quantitative relationship between a changing magnetic field and the electric field created by the change, developed on the basis of experimental observations made in 1831 by the ... [5 Related Articles]
Faraday's laws of electrolysis: in chemistry, quantitative laws used to express magnitudes of electrolytic effects, first described by the English scientist Michael Faraday in 1833. The laws state that (1) the amount of chemical ...
Faraday, Michael: English physicist and chemist whose many experiments contributed greatly to the understanding of electromagnetism. [23 Related Articles]
Farah: town, southwestern Afghanistan, on the Farah River. Usually identified with the ancient town of Phrada, it was once a centre of agriculture and commerce until destroyed by the Mongols in ...
Farah River: river in western Afghanistan, rising on the southern slopes of the Band-e Bayan Range, flowing southwest past the town of Farah, and emptying into the Helmand (Sistan) swamps on the ...
Farah, Nuruddin: Somali writer whose rich imagination and refreshing and often fortuitous use of his adopted language made him the most significant Somali writer in any European language. [3 Related Articles]
Farahnaz Pahlavi Dam: (from the article "dam") ...the heads until they are almost in contact and then joining them with flexible seals. Thus joined, the heads present a solid face to the water. Such a design was ...
farai: (from the article "African music") ...ivory or horn instruments may transmit verbal praises of chiefs and rulers. Among the Hausa, the long metal kakaki and wooden farai, both end-blown, ...
Faraj: 26th Mamluk ruler of Egypt and Syria; his reign was marked by a loss of internal control of the Mamluk kingdom, whose rulers were descendants of slaves. Faraj was the ...
faraj ba'd al-shiddah, al-: (from the article "Arabic literature") ...and Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn 'Umar al-Zamakhshari. Another major contributor, al-Tanukhi, also compiled a collection that is an example of the al-faraj ba'd al-shiddah ("escape from hardship") genre, which involves ...
Faraj, Alfred: (from the article "Arabic literature") ...elements of traditional comic forms of dramatic presentation with such Brechtian effects as the presence of an "author" as a stage character and the use of theatre-in-the-round staging. Alfred Faraj ...
Farallon Plate: (from the article "ocean") ...the Mendocino, Murray, Molokai, and Clarion fracture zones. They are not associated with a ridge crest. Rather, they occur on the west flank of the defunct Pacific-Farallon oceanic ridge. The ...
Faranah: town, central Guinea, western Africa. The town is located on the Niger River and was founded in the 1890s as a French outpost in the campaign against Samory Toure, the ...
farandole: lively and popular chain dance of Provence and Catalonia. It was mentioned as early as the 14th century and, according to tradition, was taken to Marseille from Greece by Phoenician ...
Faraz, Ahmed: Pakistani poet crafted more than a dozen volumes of contemporary Urdu poetry, in which he expressed passionate feelings about love and revolutionary protests against both capitalism and militarism. His much-admired ...
Farazdaq, al-: Arab poet famous for his satires in a period when poetry was an important political instrument. With his rival Jarir, he represents the transitional period between Bedouin traditional culture and ... [4 Related Articles]
Farber, Marvin: (from the article "Phenomenology") ...the United States has lived a rather marginal existence for quite some time, notwithstanding the meritorious journal of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research founded by Husserl's student Marvin Farber, who is ...