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Indian pitta: (from the article "pitta") The Indian pitta (P. brachyura) is typically colourful, with shimmering blue wing plumage. The blue-winged pitta (P. moluccensis), whose wings are not only blue but also emerald, white, and black, ...
Indian Platform: (from the article "Asia") The oldest rocks in Asia are found in the continental nuclei. Rocks more than 3 billion years old are in the Precambrian outcrops of the Angaran and Indian platforms and ...
Indian python: (from the article "python") ...Guinea and Australia. Some Australian pythons (genus Liasis) never grow much longer than one metre, but some pythons of Africa (P. sebae), India (
Indian red admiral: (from the article "admiral") ...western United States. The white admiral (Limenitis arthemis; see photograph), which occurs in North America and from Great Britain across Eurasia to Japan, feeds on honeysuckle. The Indian red admiral, ...
Indian Reformed Church in Africa: (from the article "Dutch Reformed Church") ...daughter churches, notably the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (also known as the Bantu Church) in 1859, the Dutch Reformed Mission Church (for Coloured, or racially mixed, persons) in 1881, ...
Indian religion: (from the article "myth") ...millennium and millenarian). Although other numbers occur (three, six, seven, 12, and 72), four is dominant. In ancient Mexico this world was held to be preceded by four other worlds. ...
Indian Removal Act: (May 28, 1830), first major legislative departure from the U.S. policy of officially respecting the legal and political rights of the American Indians. The act authorized the president to grant ... [4 Related Articles]
Indian Reorganization Act: (June 18, 1934), measure enacted by the U.S. Congress, aimed at decreasing federal control of American Indian affairs and increasing Indian self-government and responsibility. In gratitude for the Indians' services ... [2 Related Articles]
Indian rhinoceros: (from the article "perissodactyl") ...2.5 metres (6.6 to 8.2 feet), stand one metre or more at the shoulder, and weigh up to 250 or 300 kilograms (550 to 660 pounds). The largest forms are ...
Indian robin: (from the article "robin") The name robin is also applied to a dozen other chat-thrushes in the genera Erithacus and Tarsiger, as well as to a few other related species, notably the Indian robin ...
Indian sculpture: the sculptural traditions, forms, and styles of the civilizations of the Indian subcontinent. [7 Related Articles]
Indian Shaker Church: Christianized prophet cult among Northwest American Indians; it is not connected with the Shaker communities developed from the teachings of Ann Lee. In 1881 near Olympia, Wash., John Slocum, a ... [1 Related Articles]
Indian Shield: (from the article "continental shield") ...peninsular India, most of the western half of Australia, and the eastern segment of Antarctica are also areas of continental shields. These areas of Precambrian rocks are termed, appropriately, the ...
Indian South Equatorial Current: (from the article "equatorial current") In the Indian Ocean the place of a north equatorial current is taken by the Monsoon Current. There is, however, an Indian South Equatorial Current. Flowing westerly with the trades ...
Indian Space Research Organisation: (from the article "Abdul Kalam, A.P.J.") Kalam earned a degree in aeronautical engineering from the Madras Institute of Technology and in 1958 joined the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). He soon moved to the Indian ...
Indian spectacled cobra: (from the article "cobra") The Asian cobra (Naja naja) was formerly considered a single species with much the same distribution as the king cobra. Recently, however, biologists have discovered that nearly a dozen species ...
Indian Stream, Republic of: (from the article "Coos") ...seat, became the county's central railroad link by the 1870s. Other towns are Gorham, Northumberland, and Colebrook. The northern half of the county, which is sparsely populated, was known as ...
Indian summer: period of dry, unseasonably warm weather in late October or November in the central and eastern United States. The term originated in New England and probably arose from the Indians' ... [1 Related Articles]
Indian Tamil: (from the article "Sri Lanka") ...with the Sinhalese alone accounting for nearly three-fourths of the people. The Tamil segment comprises two groups-Sri Lankan Tamils (long-settled descendants from southeastern India) and Indian Tamils (recent immigrants from ...
Indian Territory: originally "all of that part of the United States west of the Mississippi, and not within the States of Missouri and Louisiana, or the Territory of Arkansas." Never an organized ... [6 Related Articles]
Indian tobacco: (species Lobelia inflata), annual plant of the family Campanulaceae, native to open woodlands of North America. It was once considered a medicinal plant because of the emetic alkaloid present in ...
Indian wolf: (from the article "dog") It is believed that the early dogs dating from about 12,000 to 14,000 years ago came from a small strain of gray wolf that inhabited what is now India. Thereafter, ...
Indian-Australian Plate: (from the article "Cenozoic Era") ...produced the Alps and Carpathians in southern Europe and the Atlas Mountains in northwestern Africa, began roughly between 37 and 24 million years ago. The Himalayas were formed some time ...
Indian-crested swift: (from the article "crested swift") A widespread species is the crested tree swift (Hemiprocne longipennis), ranging from Southeast Asia eastward to the Celebes. It is about 20 cm (8 inches) long and has pale blue-gray ...
Indiana: constituent state of the United States of America. The state sits, as its motto claims, at "the crossroads of America." It borders Lake Michigan and the state of Michigan on ... [14 Related Articles]
Indiana: county, west-central Pennsylvania, U.S., bounded to the south by the Conemaugh River. It consists of a hilly region on the Allegheny Plateau that rises to the Allegheny Mountains in the ...
Indiana: borough (town), seat of Indiana county, west-central Pennsylvania, U.S., in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains, 46 miles (74 km) northeast of Pittsburgh. Settled about 1764, it was laid out ...
Indiana banana: (from the article "Magnoliales") ...that are vegetative divisions of one plant), propagated by grafting, are cultivated, principally in southern Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana (where the yellowish fruits are referred to as Indiana bananas). ...
Indiana Dunes: area of sand dunes, woodlands, wetlands, and other environments, located on the southern shore of Lake Michigan, northwestern Indiana, U.S. Much of the region is within Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, ... [2 Related Articles]
Indiana Pacers: (from the article "Bird, Larry") Bird retired in 1993 and moved to a front-office position with the Celtics. He became the head coach of the Indiana Pacers (despite having no previous coaching experience) in 1997 ...
Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument: (from the article "Indianapolis") ...Indianapolis (1969) includes Herron School of Art (1902) and an internationally renowned medical centre. The hub of the city, Monument Circle (1901), is the site of the 284.5-foot (87-metre) Indiana ...
Indiana State Fairgrounds: (from the article "Indianapolis") The Indiana State Fairgrounds, with more than 55 permanent buildings, including the Art Deco-style Pepsi Coliseum (1939), is a focus of trade and social activities. The annual state fair (August) ...
Indiana State University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Terre Haute, Ind., U.S. It comprises colleges of arts and sciences, business, education, nursing, technology, and health and human performance and a graduate ...
Indiana Territory: (from the article "Harrison, William Henry") ...Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin, in 1798, and he was sent to Congress as a territorial delegate the following year. In May 1800 Harrison was appointed governor of the ...
Indiana University: state system of higher education consisting of the campuses in Bloomington (main), Gary (known as Northwest), South Bend, Kokomo, New Albany (known as Southeast), and Richmond (known as East), as ... [3 Related Articles]
Indiana University of Pennsylvania: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Indiana, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is part of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The university comprises the Eberly College of Business and ...
Indiana War Memorial Plaza: (from the article "Indianapolis") ...of Art (1902) and an internationally renowned medical centre. The hub of the city, Monument Circle (1901), is the site of the 284.5-foot (87-metre) Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. The ...
Indiana, flag of: U.S. state flag consisting of a dark blue field (background) with a gold or buff (light tan) torch surrounded by 19 stars.
Indiana, Robert: American artist who was a central figure in the Pop art movement beginning in the 1960s. [1 Related Articles]
Indianapolis: city, capital of Indiana, U.S., and seat (1822) of Marion county. It lies on the White River at its confluence with Fall Creek, near the centre of the state. The ... [2 Related Articles]
Indianapolis 500: U.S. automobile race held annually from 1911, except for the war years 1917-18 and 1942-45. The race is always run at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, a suburban enclave of ... [10 Related Articles]
Indianapolis Clowns: (from the article "Negro league") ...other black players in Organized Baseball and increasingly ignored the black leagues. The talent pool was also shrinking as young stars such as Willie Mays (Birmingham Black Barons) and Hank ...
Indianapolis Colts: (from the article "Football") The Indianapolis Colts of the American Football Conference (AFC) defeated the Chicago Bears of the National Football Conference (NFC) 29-17 to win Super Bowl XLI in the rain in Miami ...
Indianapolis Motor Speedway: (from the article "Indianapolis 500") U.S. automobile race held annually from 1911, except for the war years 1917-18 and 1942-45. The race is always run at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, a suburban enclave of ...
indianische Blume: (from the article "pottery") ...colours-were much copied elsewhere. Overglaze colours were introduced about 1740, their first recorded use in France. (For the first use in Europe, see below Germany and Austria.) Brilliant indianische Blumen ...
Indianista novel: Brazilian literary genre of the 19th century that idealizes the simple life of the South American Indian. The tone of the Indianista novel is one of languid nostalgia and saudade, ... [1 Related Articles]
Indianola: city, Warren county, south-central Iowa, U.S., 17 miles (27 km) south of Des Moines. Founded in 1849 as the county seat, its name was taken from a newspaper account of ...
Indic writing systems: those that include the syllabic Kharosthi and semialphabetic Brahmi scripts of ancient India. No systems of writing subsequently developed from the Kharosthi script. Brahmi, however, is thought to be the ... [3 Related Articles]
indicated horsepower: (from the article "horsepower") ...termed brake horsepower or shaft horsepower, depending on what kind of instrument is used to measure it. Horsepower of reciprocating engines, particularly in the larger sizes, is often expressed as ...
indicative mood: (from the article "mood") Languages frequently distinguish grammatically three moods: the indicative, the imperative, and the subjunctive. The indicative is generally used for factual or neutral situations, as in English "John did his work" ...
indicative planning: (from the article "China") There are three types of economic activity in China: those stipulated by mandatory planning, those done according to indicative planning (in which central planning of economic outcomes is indirectly implemented), ...
indicator electrode: (from the article "analysis") ...while the electric current (usually nearly zero) between the electrodes is controlled. In the most common forms of potentiometry, two different types of electrodes are used. The potential of the ...
indicator species: organism-often a microorganism or a plant-that serves as a measure of the environmental conditions that exist in a given locale. For example, greasewood indicates saline soil; mosses often indicate acid ... [1 Related Articles]
indicator variable: (from the article "probability theory") ...the experiment of drawing balls from an urn containing black and red balls, R, the number of red balls drawn, is a random variable. A particularly useful random variable is ...
Indictable Offences Bill: (from the article "Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames, 1st Baronet") British legal historian, Anglo-Indian administrator, judge, and author noted for his criminal-law reform proposals. His Indictable Offences Bill (late 1870s), though never enacted in Great Britain, has continued to influence ...
indiction: in ancient Rome, the fiscal year. During the inflation of the 3rd century AD the Roman government supplied court and army employees by ordering the requisition, or by compulsory purchase ... [5 Related Articles]
indictment: in the United States (and, until recently, in England), a formal written accusation of crime affirmed by a grand jury and presented by it to the court for trial of ... [3 Related Articles]
Indies Party: (from the article "Indonesia") ...that the real figure was likely to have been no more than 400,000, but even with this greatly reduced estimate, Sarekat Islam was clearly much larger than any other movement ...
Indies, Council of the: supreme governing body of Spain's colonies in America (1524-1834). Composed of between 6 and 10 councillors appointed by the king, the council prepared and issued all legislation governing the colonies ... [5 Related Articles]
Indies, Laws of the: the entire body of law promulgated by the Spanish crown during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries for the government of its kingdoms (colonies) outside Europe, chiefly in the Americas; ... [2 Related Articles]
indifference: (from the article "applied logic") The fundamental tools of the logic of preference are as follows: (1) (strong) preference: x is preferable to y, symbolically x ≫ y, (2) indifference: x and y are indifferent, ...
indifference: in the mathematical theory of probability, a classical principle stated by the Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli and formulated (and named) by the English economist John Maynard Keynes in A Treatise ... [1 Related Articles]
indifference curve: in economics, graph showing various combinations of two things (usually consumer goods) that yield equal satisfaction or utility to an individual. Developed by the Irish-born British economist Francis Y. Edgeworth, ... [1 Related Articles]
Indigenismo: movement in Latin America advocating a dominant social and political role for Indians in countries where they constitute a majority of the population. A sharp distinction is drawn by its ... [4 Related Articles]
indigenization: (from the article "Ukraine") In parallel with the NEP, the Bolsheviks took steps to appease, and at the same time to penetrate, the non-Russian nationalities. In 1923 a policy of "indigenization" was announced, including ...
indigenous religion: (from the article "Religious Adherents in the United States of America, AD 1900-2000") In like manner, artistic expression in archaic or "primitive" societies, often related to ritual presentation, is modelled on the structure of the cosmogonic myth. The masks, dances, and gestures are, ...
indigestion: any or all of the symptoms-abdominal discomfort, belching, flatulence, aversion to eating, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, heartburn-associated with the malfunctioning of the digestive system. Indigestion may be caused by disease, ... [3 Related Articles]
Indigetes: (from the article "Roman religion") ...As a member of the family or clan, however, the dead man or woman would, more specifically, be one of the Di Parentes; reverence for ancestors was the core of ...
Indigirka River: river, Sakha republic (Yakutia), far eastern Russia. It is one of the major rivers of northeastern Siberia. The Indigirka rises in the Verkhoyansk Mountains and flows 1,072 miles (1,726 km) ... [1 Related Articles]
indigo: in botany, any shrub or herb of the genus Indigofera within the pea family (Fabaceae). Most species occur in warm climates and are generally silky or hairy. The leaves are ...
indigo: an important and valuable vat dyestuff, obtained until about 1900 entirely from plants of the genera Indigofera and Isatis. Indigo was known to the ancients of Asia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, ... [8 Related Articles]
indigo snake: (Drymarchon corais), docile, nonvenomous member of the family Colubridae found from the southeastern United States to Brazil. It is the largest snake in the United States-record length is 2.6 metres ...
Indio: city, Riverside county, southern California, U.S. Located in the Coachella Valley, Indio lies between Palm Springs (northwest) and the Salton Sea (southeast). The area was originally inhabited by Cahuilla Indians ...
Indio River: (from the article "Nicaragua") ...northern corner of Costa Rica. Other rivers of the Caribbean watershed include the 158-mile- (254-km-) long Prinzapolka River, the 55-mile- (89-km-) long Escondido River, the 60-mile- (97-km-) long Indio River, ...
indio viejo: (from the article "Nicaragua") ...Nicaraguan gastronomy and is used in many foods, such as nacatamal (cornmeal dough stuffed with meat and cooked in plantain leaves), indio viejo (corn ...
indirect action process: (from the article "radiation") ...ejected. The ejected electron may give rise to a highly reactive free radical, which in turn may diffuse far enough to attack a biologically important target molecule in its vicinity. ...
indirect development: (from the article "echinoderm") During indirect development, the fertilized egg divides many times to produce a hollow ciliated ball of cells (blastula); cleavage is total, indeterminate, and radical. The blastula invaginates at one end ...
indirect drive: (from the article "fusion reactor") ...The driver should also deposit its energy on the pellet uniformly, with a variation of less than 1 percent. There are two methods to achieve this uniformity. In the first ...
indirect initiative: (from the article "referendum and initiative") ...may be direct (a proposal supported by the required number of voters is submitted directly to a popular vote for decision) or indirect (the proposal is submitted to the legislature). ...
indirect language: (from the article "Bataille, Henry") ...toward the theatre of ideas and, later, toward social drama, as in La Chair humaine (1922; "Human Flesh"), his later works were less successful. His theory of "indirect language," capable ...
indirect liquefaction: (from the article "coal utilization") Hydrogenation of coal can be done directly, either from gaseous hydrogen or by a liquid hydrogen-donor solvent, or it can be done indirectly, through an intermediate series of compounds. In ...
indirect loss: (from the article "insurance") An entirely different branch of the insurance business has been developed to insure losses that are indirectly the result of one of the specified perils. A prominent example of this ...
indirect mood: (from the article "logic, history of") Theophrastus is reported to have added to the first figure of the syllogism the five moods that others later classified under a fourth figure. These moods were then called indirect ...
indirect primary: (from the article "primary election") ...Primaries may be direct or indirect. A direct primary, which is now used in some form in all U.S. states, functions as a preliminary election whereby voters decide their party's ...
indirect proof: (from the article "reductio ad absurdum") ...in logic, a form of refutation showing contradictory or absurd consequences following upon premises as a matter of logical necessity. A form of the reductio ad absurdum argument, known as ...
indirect rule: (from the article "western Africa, history of") ...as the lowest elements in a single administrative machine. This administration was to be conducted on entirely French lines. The British, on the other hand, came to believe more and ...
indirect smelting: (from the article "lead processing") Before lead concentrate can be charged into traditional blast furnaces for smelting, it must be roasted to remove most of the sulfur and to agglomerate further the fine flotation products ...
indirect system: (from the article "textile") Indirect measuring systems are those employing higher number to describe finer yarns, and are based on length per unit weight. Most countries measure yarns made from staple fibres according to ...
indirect tax: (from the article "disposable income") By convention, indirect taxes, such as value-added and other sales taxes, payroll taxes, and employers' contributions to social insurance, are not deducted from the computation of disposable income. Although these ...
indirect-acting genotoxic carcinogen: (from the article "poison") Direct-acting (reactive) genotoxic chemicals can themselves interact with DNA. Indirect-acting genotoxic carcinogens do not bind to DNA until they have been biotransformed in the body to reactive chemicals. Among the ...
indispensability argument: (from the article "mathematics, philosophy of") ...claim. Platonists have offered a few different arguments as refutations of fictionalism, but only one of them, known as the indispensability argument, has gained any real currency. According to the ...
indium: chemical element, rare metal of main Group 13 (IIIa, or boron group) of the periodic table. Of a brilliant, silvery-white lustre, indium was discovered (1863) by Ferdinand Reich and Theodor ... [3 Related Articles]
indium gallium arsenide: (from the article "nanotechnology") ...of semiconductor, magnetic, and other materials. An example of self-assembly that achieves a limited degree of control over both formation and organization is the growth of quantum dots. Indium gallium ...
indium gallium arsenide phosphide: (from the article "materials science") ...is one major characteristic of III-V materials with which silicon cannot compete: a III-V compound can be tailored to generate or detect photons of a specific wavelength. For example, an ...
indium tin oxide: (from the article "conductive ceramics") Ceramics based upon mixtures of indium oxide (In₂O₃) and tin oxide (SnO₂)-referred to in the electronics industry as indium tin oxide (ITO)-are outstanding electronic conductors, and they have the added ...
individual: (from the article "logic, philosophy of") ...call it x, it is true that") and "($x)" ("For each individual, call it x, it is true that"). The dummy letter x is here called a bound (individual) variable. ...
individual constant: (from the article "formal logic") a. One or more individual constants (say a, b, . . .): these constants are interpreted as names of specific individuals; formally they are distinguished from individual variables by the ...
individual deterrence: (from the article "punishment") Individual deterrence is directed at the person being punished: it aims to teach him not to repeat the behaviour. It is also the rationale of much informal punishment, such as ...
individual difference: (from the article "learning theory") ...fault in much learning theory stems from earlier tendencies to use the laws of physics as a model. Theorists once sought general laws of wide applicability that tended to obscure ...
individual dynamic psychotherapy: (from the article "mental disorder") Although the influence of psychoanalysis, particularly on American psychiatry, was profound, it began to wane in the 1970s. Since then, those seeking treatment have tended to choose short-term individual dynamic ...
Individual Lament: (from the article "biblical literature") In the Individual Lament an individual worshipper cries out to Yahweh in time of need. The structure of these psalms includes: an invocation of Yahweh, the complaint, the request for ...