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interclavicle: (from the article "skeleton") ...precoracoid process forms a stout bar that reaches to the sternum. The wishbone, or furcula, which forms from the dermal part of the girdle, consists of two clavicles united in ...
Intercollegiate Football Association: (from the article "Camp, Walter") As an undergraduate and then as a medical student at Yale (1876-81), Camp played halfback, served as team captain (at that time equivalent to head coach), and became a member ...
Intercolonial Trade Union Congress: (from the article "organized labour") ...annual union assembly initiated in 1868 with a view to lobbying the legislature through a standing Parliamentary Committee. The model was followed in Australia, where, beginning in 1879, a number ...
intercolumniation: in architecture, space between columns that supports an arch or an entablature (an assemblage of moldings and bands that forms the lowest horizontal beam of a roof). In Classical architecture ...
intercontinental ballistic missile: (from the article "missile") ...ballistic missiles (SRBMs, MRBMs, IRBMs, and ICBMs). SRBMs are effective to 300 miles (480 km), MRBMs from 300 to 600 miles (480 to 965 km), IRBMs from 600 to 3,300 ...
Intercontinental Cup: (from the article "Football") ...Colombia's Once Caldas beat Argentina's Boca Juniors 2-0 on penalties, after a 1-1 draw in goals, to win its first Libertadores de America Cup and reached the final of the ...
interconversion: (from the article "hydrocarbon") ...than in cyclopropane, whereas cyclopentane and higher cycloalkanes are virtually free of angle strain. With the exception of cyclopropane, all cycloalkanes undergo rapid internal motion involving interconversion of nonplanar "puckered" ...
intercooler: (from the article "gas-turbine engine") In aircraft gas-turbine engines attention must be paid to weight and diameter size. This does not permit the addition of more equipment to improve performance. Accordingly, commercial aircraft engines operate ...
intercostalis muscle: in human physiology, any of a series of short muscles that extend between the ribs and serve to draw them together during inspiration and forced expiration or expulsive actions. A ... [2 Related Articles]
intercrater plain: (from the article "Mercury") ...The smallest craters visible in the highest-resolution Mariner photos are a few hundred metres in diameter. Interspersed among the larger craters are relatively flat, less-cratered regions termed intercrater plains. These ...
intercropping: (from the article "agricultural technology") ...disk openers that go through several inches of mulch. Since mulch decomposition may deprive the crop of nitrogen, extra fertilizer is often placed below the mulch in humid areas. In ...
Intercursus Magnus: (from the article "Henry VII") ...The economic importance of England for the Netherlands enabled Henry to induce Maximilian and the Netherlands to abandon the pretender in 1496 and to conclude a treaty of peace and ...
Intercursus Malus: (from the article "Philip I") ...to take shelter in England, where King Henry VII forced him to agree to two treaties, the first of which secured English support for Philip's Castilian rights. The second (April ...
Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association: (from the article "Christianity") ...bodies made their financial needs known to a wide constituency. Their chief aim has been to proclaim the Gospel and eschew the provision of social services. These societies joined together ...
interdict: in Roman and civil law, a remedy granted by a magistrate on the sole basis of his authority, against a breach of civil law for which there is no stipulated ... [1 Related Articles]
interdiffusion: (from the article "adhesive") ...other mechanisms of adhesion have been proposed. The first, mechanical interlocking, occurs when adhesive flows into pores in the adherend surface or around projections on the surface. The second, interdiffusion, ...
Interessengemeinschaft Basel: (from the article "Novartis AG") Ciba, Geigy, and Sandoz collectively constituted the entire chemical industry of Switzerland. In 1918 the three companies joined together to form a cartel, the Interessengemeinschaft Basel ("Basel Syndicate"), or Basel ...
Interessengemeinschaft der Deutschen Teerfarbenfabriken: (from the article "IG Farben") ...latter group was called the Dreibund, or "Triple Confederation.") In 1916, at the height of World War I, the rival groups joined forces and, with the addition of other firms, ...
interest: the price paid for the use of credit or money. It may be expressed either in money terms or as a rate of payment. A brief treatment of interest follows. ... [25 Related Articles]
interest: (from the article "interest group") The term interest rather than interest group is often used to denote broad or less-formalized political constituencies, such as the agricultural interest and the environmental interest-segments of society that may ...
interest group: any association of individuals or organizations, usually formally organized, that, on the basis of one or more shared concerns, attempts to influence public policy in its favour. All interest groups ... [7 Related Articles]
interest parity: (from the article "international payment and exchange") ...to compensate the dealer for having to employ his liquid funds in a less remunerative market. When the relation of the forward rate to the spot rate is determined by ...
interest rate: (from the article "Australia") The fundamentals of the Australian economy remained strong in 2007. A small increase in inflation caused the Reserve Bank to raise interest rates in midyear. The decision was unpopular, because ...
interest, conflict of: (from the article "legal ethics") A lawyer is at times faced with the question of whether to represent two or more clients whose interests conflict. Quite aside from his ethical obligations, the legal systems of ...
interests, balance of: (from the article "police power") ...and maintenance of the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of the public. When the U.S. Supreme Court has considered such cases, it has tended to use a doctrine called ...
interface: surface separating two phases of matter, each of which may be solid, liquid, or gaseous. An interface is not a geometric surface but a thin layer that has properties differing ... [2 Related Articles]
interface: (from the article "computer") A variety of techniques have been employed in the design of interfaces to link computers and peripherals. An interface of this nature is often termed a bus. This nomenclature derives ...
interfacial angle: (from the article "Steno's law") ...chemical or mineral species are constant and are characteristic of the species; this angle is measured between lines drawn perpendicular to each face. The law, also called the law of ...
interfaith relations: (from the article "Religion") Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of the world's Eastern Orthodox Christians, accepted an apology that had been offered by Pope John Paul II in 2001 for the sacking of ...
Interfaith Stewardship Alliance: (from the article "Religion") ...The 86 signatories declared that "any damage that we do to God's world is an offense against God himself." In response, a network of evangelical theologians and scientists called the ...
interfascicular oligodendrocyte: (from the article "nervous system") ...from astrocytes by the greater density of both the cytoplasm and the nucleus, the absence of fibrils and of glycogen in the cytoplasm, and large numbers of microtubules in the ...
interfascicular parenchyma cell: (from the article "angiosperm") ...strands, which differentiate into primary xylem and phloem. The ground tissue that lies outside the procambial cylinder is the cortex, and that within is the pith. Ground tissue called the ...
interfemoral membrane: (from the article "bat") Most bats have a membrane, consisting of skin like that of the wings, that extends between their legs (the uropatagium, or interfemoral membrane). In the midline the interfemoral membrane is ...
interference: (from the article "baseball") ...if the catcher interferes with him by making contact with any part of his body or with the swing of his bat as the pitched ball is on its way ...
interference: in physics, the net effect of the combination of two or more wave trains moving on intersecting or coincident paths. The effect is that of the addition of the amplitudes ... [14 Related Articles]
interference: (from the article "therapeutics") ...drug use also increases the possibility of drug interactions that may interfere with drug effectiveness. Interaction can occur in the stomach or intestinal tract where the presence of one drug ...
interference: (from the article "analysis") Regardless of whether a classical or instrumental method is used, it may be necessary to remove interferences from an analyte prior to an assay. An interference is a substance, other ...
interference competition: (from the article "community ecology") ...Some plant species, for example, are able to extract water and nutrients from the soil faster than surrounding species. In other cases, the two species physically interfere with one another ...
interference fringe: a bright or dark band caused by beams of light that are in phase or out of phase with one another. Light waves and similar wave propagation, when superimposed, will ... [6 Related Articles]
interference microscope: (from the article "microscope") Although all optical microscopes in the strict sense create images by diffraction, interference microscopy creates images using the difference between an interfering beam unmodified by the specimen and an otherwise ...
interference removal: (from the article "analysis") Regardless of whether a classical or instrumental method is used, it may be necessary to remove interferences from an analyte prior to an assay. An interference is a substance, other ...
interferogram: (from the article "spectroscopy") ...spectrometer-type spectrum but has greater speed, resolution, and sensitivity. In this spectrometer the sample is subjected to a broadband source of radiation, resulting in the production of an interferogram due ...
interferometer: (from the article "acoustic interferometer") device for measuring the velocity and absorption of sound waves in a gas or liquid. A vibrating crystal creates the waves that are radiated continuously into the fluid medium, striking ...
interferon: any of several related proteins that are produced by the body's cells as a defensive response to viruses. They are important modulators of the immune response. [4 Related Articles]
interflow: (from the article "runoff") in hydrology, quantity of water discharged in surface streams. Runoff includes not only the waters that travel over the land surface and through channels to reach a stream but also ...
interfluve: (from the article "Pakistan") ...their differing physiographic features. The upper Indus plain is drained by the Indus together with its tributaries, the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej rivers, forming a developed system of ...
interformational breccia: (from the article "sedimentary rock") ...types of epiclastic conglomerates and breccias: intraformational, derived penecontemporaneously by eroding, transporting, and depositing material from within the depositional basin itself; and interformational, derived from source rocks that lie outside ...
interformational conglomerate: (from the article "sedimentary rock") ...types of epiclastic conglomerates and breccias: intraformational, derived penecontemporaneously by eroding, transporting, and depositing material from within the depositional basin itself; and interformational, derived from source rocks that lie outside ...
interglaciation: (from the article "Glaciations and interglaciations") Recent glacial and interglacial periodsglacial stageglacial stage...during the Pleistocene Epoch, and the successive glacial advances and retreats, which were evidently ...
Intergovernmental Authority on Development: (from the article "Somalia") The peace conference was held near Nairobi and was sponsored by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, a subregional organization made up of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, The Sudan, Uganda, and ...
Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: (from the article "International Refugee Organization") ...for resettlement, and an extensive tracing service to find lost relatives. It also assumed the responsibilities for the legal protection and resettlement of refugees previously carried out by the Intergovernmental ...
Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami and Mitigation System: (from the article "Multinational and Regional Organizations") ...disaster-response capabilities. A series of subsequent meetings involving 21 countries in the Indian Ocean region as well as other states and organizations led in June to the creation of the ...
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission: (from the article "Multinational and Regional Organizations") ...Indian Ocean tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people in 12 countries triggered responses by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic ...
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: United Nations panel established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988. Headquartered with the WMO in Geneva, Switz., the IPCC assesses peer-reviewed ... [9 Related Articles]
interhalogen compound: (from the article "chemical industry") ...important element generally available. Fluorine manufacture is now routine. Other uses have been developed: as a component in some rocket propellants, for the preparation of the extremely reactive interhalogen compounds ...
Interim Agreement: (from the article "Strategic Arms Limitation Talks") ...small fraction of its entire territory, and thus kept both sides subject to the deterrent effect of the other's strategic forces. The ABM treaty was ratified by the U.S. Senate ...
Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza Strip: (from the article "Israel") The Israelis and the newly formed Palestinian Authority (PA) arranged further exchanges of territory as part of the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, signed in September ...
Interim Committee: (from the article "international relations") ..."Within four months we shall in all probability have completed the most terrible weapon ever known in human history, one bomb of which could destroy a whole city." He then ...
Interim Constitution: (from the article "Tanzania") The Interim Constitution of 1965 established the United Republic of Tanzania through the merger of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, until then separate and independent countries. A permanent constitution for the United ...
interindividual difference: (from the article "special education") ...with disabilities became universal in developed countries by the late 20th century. Concurrent with this development was the identification of two concepts of individual differences: (1) "interindividual differences," which compares ...
interior design: planning and design of man-made spaces, a part of environmental design and closely related to architecture. Although the desire to create a pleasant environment is as old as civilization itself, ... [9 Related Articles]
interior live oak: (from the article "live oak") California live oak (Q. agrifolia) and interior live oak (Q. wislizenii), native to western North America, have holly-like leaves. They are usually shrubby but may reach 15 to 25 m ...
Interior Low Plateaus: (from the article "United States") ...separated from one another by the great valley of the Mississippi River. The Ozark Plateau lies west of the river and occupies most of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas; on ...
Interior Lowlands: (from the article "Australia") The Interior Lowlands are dominated by three major basins, the Carpentaria Basin, the Eyre Basin, and the Murray Basin. The Carpentaria and Eyre basins are separated by such minute residual ...
Interior Lowlands: the broad, generally flat areas of the central part of the North American continent. The name is used in regional geologic and physiographic descriptions of North America and the conterminous ... [4 Related Articles]
interior monologue: in dramatic and nondramatic fiction, narrative technique that exhibits the thoughts passing through the minds of the protagonists. These ideas may be either loosely related impressions approaching free association or ... [2 Related Articles]
Interior Plateau: (from the article "Fraser River") ...source, the river's course is initially northwestward, descending by gentle gradients along the Rocky Mountain trench. Near latitude 54° N the river makes a great bend southward to traverse the ...
interior rhyme: (from the article "prosody") Rhyme normally occurs at the ends of lines; "Vertue" reveals, however, a notable example of interior rhyme, or rhyme within the line:My musick shows ye have your
Interior Ridges: (from the article "Pyrenees") ...of the Ariege, which contain the primary, or granitic, axial zones. On the Spanish side the series is repeated in the opposite direction, but it is more highly developed and ...
Interior, Department of the: (from the article "Guam") ...air and naval base for the squadrons of bombers that attacked Japan near the end of the war. Under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Navy, it was made a territory ...
interlaced scanning: (from the article "television") ...so positioned that its lines fall precisely in the empty spaces of the first set. The area of the image is thus scanned twice, but each point in the area ...
Interlacustrine region: (from the article "eastern Africa") South of the savanna, the Interlacustrine peoples (those peoples living between the lakes now named Victoria, Albert, Edward, and Tanganyika) had states and kings, as did the ethnic groups of ...
Interlake Formation: (from the article "Silurian Period") ...aggregate thickness of 600 metres (1,970 feet) occurs in Michigan, where one individual halite bed reaches a thickness of l65 metres (540 feet). A halite bed 2 metres (6.6 feet) ...
Interlaken: town, Bern canton, central Switzerland. It lies along the Aare River, in the Bernese Highlands. Its name is derived from its position on the flat plain (Bodeli), 1,864 feet (568 ... [1 Related Articles]
interleukin: any of a group of naturally occurring proteins that mediate communication between cells. Interleukins regulate cell growth, differentiation, and motility. They are particularly important in stimulating immune responses, such as ... [1 Related Articles]
interlibrary lending: (from the article "library") The publication of bibliographies and library catalogs heightened awareness that no library could afford to be self-sufficient, and this awareness in turn stimulated interest in various forms of interlibrary cooperation. ...
Interlingua: simplified form of Latin intended for use as an international second language. Interlingua was originally developed in 1903 by the Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano, but lack of clarity as to ... [2 Related Articles]
interlining: (from the article "textile") Manufacturers of tailored garments formerly used interlinings made of horsehair, which was later replaced by goat hair and then by resin-treated viscose rayon. Today fusible interlinings and various washable synthetics ...
interlobar artery: (from the article "renal capsule") ...vital tissue from injury. The number of elastic and smooth muscle fibres found in the capsule tends to increase with the individual's age. The capsule receives its blood supply ultimately ...
interlobular artery: (from the article "renal system") ...the medulla they split almost at right angles into branches called arcuate arteries that curve along between the cortex and the medulla parallel to the surface of the kidney. Many ...
Interlochen: unincorporated resort village, Grand Traverse county, northwestern Michigan, U.S., located in a fruit-growing region about 15 miles (25 km) south of Traverse City. The village (whose name means "between the ...
Interlochen Arts Camp: (from the article "Interlochen") Interlochen is best known as the home of the Interlochen Arts Camp. Originally a summer music camp only, it has expanded to offer programs in dance and visual and theatre ...
interlocking: (from the article "railroad") The first attempts at interlocking switches and signals were made in France in 1855 and in Britain in 1856. Interlocking at crossings and junctions prevents the displaying of a clear ...
interlocking: (from the article "African music") Interlocking techniques are a prominent feature of many instrumental styles in East and southeastern Africa. From regions in Tanzania and Mozambique come the ng'oma drumming of Gogo women and such ...
interlocking: (from the article "tapestry") The fourth treatment-interlocking-was introduced in the Gobelins factory in the 18th century. Here wefts of juxtaposed colour segments are looped through each other between the two warps that mark, respectively, ...
interlocutor: (from the article "minstrel show") ...performers were arranged in a semicircle, with the interlocutor in the centre and the end men-Mr. Tambo, who played the tambourine, and Mr. Bones, who rattled the bones-at the ends. ...
interlocutory decree: generally, a judicial decision that is not final or that deals with a point other than the principal subject matter of the controversy at hand. An interlocutory decree of divorce ... [2 Related Articles]
interlude: in theatre, early form of English dramatic entertainment, sometimes considered to be the transition between medieval morality plays and Tudor dramas. Interludes were performed at court or at "great houses" ... [3 Related Articles]
intermedi: (from the article "theatre music") Renaissance theatre in Italy bred the intermedio, which consisted of songs and instrumental music added before or after the acts of a play. The words of the songs were generally ...
intermediate ballistics: (from the article "ballistics") ...It is divided into several disciplines. Internal and external ballistics, respectively, deal with the propulsion and the flight of projectiles. The transition between these two regimes is called intermediate ballistics. ...
intermediate earthquake: (from the article "earthquake") Of the total energy released in earthquakes, 12 percent comes from intermediate earthquakes-that is, quakes with a focal depth ranging from about 60 to 300 km. About 3 percent of ...
intermediate filament: (from the article "cell") Intermediate filaments are so named because they are thicker than actin filaments and thinner than microtubules or muscle myosin filaments. The subunits of intermediate filaments are elongated, not globular, and ...
intermediate frequency: (from the article "superheterodyne reception") ...with a low-frequency current produced in the receiver, giving a beat (or heterodyne) frequency that is the difference between the original combining frequencies. This different frequency, called the intermediate frequency ...
intermediate gastric gland: (from the article "gastric gland") There are three types of gastric glands, distinguished from one another by location and type of secretion. The cardiac gastric glands are located at the very beginning of the stomach; ...
intermediate haulage: (from the article "coal mining") ...the surface, is a major factor in underground-mine efficiency. It can be considered in three stages: face or section haulage, which transfers the coal from the active working faces; intermediate ...
intermediate host: (from the article "community ecology") Parasites have evolved by three major evolutionary routes to alternate among two or more hosts. Some parasite species have evolved to alternate between their final host and an intermediate host, ...
intermediate lever: (from the article "keyboard instrument") ...depressed. The lever, in turn, pushes upward on the hammer shaft near its pivot in a rail fixed above the keys. When the key is pressed completely down, the jack ...
intermediate nuclear force: (from the article "international relations") ...movement, however, now officially patronized by the British Labour Party, the Greens in West Germany, and Dutch and Belgian social democrats, forced Reagan to link Pershing deployment with intermediate nuclear ...
intermediate Population II: (from the article "Stellar populations") ...long-period variables were divided into different subgroups, such that those with periods of less than 250 days and of relatively early spectral type (earlier than M5e) were considered "intermediate Population ...
intermediate proofer: (from the article "baking") ...To restore a flexible, pliable structure, the dough piece must be allowed to rest while fermentation proceeds. This is accomplished by letting the dough ball travel through an enclosed cabinet, ...
intermediate reactor: (from the article "nuclear reactor") ...on how many collisions take place with heavier atoms before fission occurs, the typical fission-causing neutrons can have energies in the range of 0.5 electron volt to thousands of electron ...