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Illinois Institute of Technology: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. It dates to 1890, when the Armour Institute of Technology was founded (its first classes were held in 1893). The ...
Illinois River: navigable stream of northern and central Illinois, U.S. It is formed by the junction of the Des Plaines and Kankakee rivers in Grundy county, about 10 miles (16 km) southwest ...
Illinois State University: public, coeducational university in Normal, Illinois, U.S. Established in 1857, the university is the oldest public institution of higher learning in the state. Abraham Lincoln drafted the documents that established ...
Illinois, University of: state system of higher education in Illinois, U.S. It consists of three campuses, the main campus in the twin cities Champaign and Urbana and additional campuses in Chicago and Springfield. ...
illite: any of a group of mica-type clay minerals widely distributed in marine shales and related sediments. Illite contains more water and less potassium than true micas, but it has a ...
illuminated manuscript: handwritten book that has been decorated with gold or silver, brilliant colours, or elaborate designs or miniature pictures. Though various Islamic societies also practiced this art, Europe had the longest ...
illusion: a misrepresentation of a "real" sensory stimulus-that is, an interpretation that contradicts objective "reality" as defined by general agreement. For example, a child who perceives tree branches at night as ...
Illustrated London News: historic magazine of news and the arts, published in London, a forerunner in the use of various graphic arts. It was founded as a weekly in 1842 by Herbert Ingram, ...
Illyria: northwestern part of the Balkan Peninsula, inhabited from about the 10th century BC onward by the Illyrians, an Indo-European people. At the height of their power the Illyrian frontiers extended ...
Illyrian language: Indo-European language spoken in pre-Roman times along the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea and in southeastern Italy. The language of the Illyrian fragments found in Italy is usually called ...
Illyrian Provinces: stretch of territory along the Dalmatian coast that constituted a part of Napoleon's French Empire from 1809 to 1814. When the French victory of 1809 compelled Austria to cede a ...
ilm al-hadith: form of investigation established by Muslim traditionists in the 3rd century AH (9th century AD) to determine the validity of accounts (hadiths) of Muhammad's statements, actions, and approbations as reported ...
Ilmen, Lake: lake in Novgorod oblast (province), northwestern Russia. Lake Ilmen occupies the centre of the Ilmen Plain, an undulating glacial lowland much of which is drained by rivers flowing into the ...
ilmenite: iron-black, heavy, metallic oxide mineral, composed of iron and titanium oxide (FeTiO₃), that is used as the major source of titanium. It forms solid-solution series with geikielite and pyrophanite in ...
Ilobasco: town, north-central El Salvador. It is in a rich agricultural area (cattle, coffee, sugarcane, and indigo) but is known primarily for its clay dolls, a major item for sale to ...
Ilobu: town, Osun state, southwestern Nigeria. It lies along a tributary of the Oshun River and on the road from Ogbomosho to Oshogbo. Ilobu is a trade centre for the yams, ...
Ilocano: third largest cultural-linguistic group in the Philippines. When discovered by the Spanish in the 16th century, they occupied the narrow coastal plain of northwestern Luzon, known as the Ilocos region. ...
Ilocos Norte: province occupying the northwestern corner of Luzon, Philippines. It is 1,312 sq mi (3,399 sq km) in area. The province comprises a narrow coastal agricultural plain and the Ilocos (Malaya) ...
Ilocos Sur: province lying along the northwestern coast of Luzon, Philippines. With an area of 996 sq mi (2,580 sq km), it is bordered by the South China Sea (west) and the ...
Iloilo: province, eastern portion of the island of Panay, Philippines. It includes offshore islands in the Visayan Sea (east) and Guimaras Island in Guimaras Strait. The province has an area of ...
Iloilo City: chartered city, on the southeastern coast of Panay, Philippines. At the mouth of the Jaro River on the Iloilo Strait and sheltered by the offshore Guimaras Island, it is the ...
Ilopango, Lake: lake, south central El Salvador, on the borders of San Salvador, La Paz, and Cuscatlan departments. Occupying the crater of an extinct volcano, at an altitude of 1,450 ft (442 ...
Ilorin: city, traditional emirate, and capital of Kwara State, western Nigeria, on the Awun River, a minor tributary of the Niger. Founded in the late 18th century by Yoruba people, it ...
Ilos: in Greek mythology, the founder of Ilion (Troy). Ilos (or Zacynthus, a Cretan name) has been identified either as the brother of Erichthonius or as the son of Tros and ...
iltizam: in the Ottoman Empire, taxation system carried out by farming of public revenue. The state auctioned taxation rights to the highest bidder (multazim, plural multezim or multazims), who then collected ...
Iltutmish: also called Shams-ud-din Iltutmish, Iltutmish also spelled Altamsh third and greatest Delhi sultan of the so-called Slave dynasty.
Ilumquh: Arabian god of pre-Islamic times who was associated with the Moon and was greater than the two other principal astral deities of South Arabia, the goddess Shams and the god ...
Ilya Of Murom: a hero of the oldest known Old Russian byliny, traditional heroic folk chants. He is presented as the principal bogatyr (knight-errant) at the 10th-century court of Saint Vladimir I of ...
Ilyushin Il-2: single-seat assault bomber that was a mainstay of the Soviet air force during World War II. The Il-2 is generally considered the finest ground-attack aircraft produced by any nation during ...
Ilyushin Il-76: -76, Soviet military transport aircraft, first flown in 1971 and first produced in 1975. It was designed by the Ilyushin design bureau under G.V. Novozhilov. The Il-76 was a heavy ...
Ilyushin, Sergey Vladimirovich: Soviet aircraft designer who created the famous Il-2 Stormovik armoured attack aircraft used by the Soviet air force during World War II. After the war he designed civil aircraft: the ...
Imabari: city, Ehime ken (prefecture), Shikoku, Japan, facing the Kurushima Strait on the Inland Sea. Imabari, founded as a castle town, was the first port in Shikoku to be opened to ...
Imad ad-Dawlah: also called 'ali Ibn Buyeh one of the founders of the Buyid dynasty of Iran. 'Ali and his brothers Ahmad and Hasan were followers of Mardaviz ebn Zeyar of northern ...
imaginary number: any product of the form ai, in which a is a real number and i is the imaginary unit defined as -1. See number system.
Imaginism: Russian poetic movement of the post-Revolutionary period that advocated poetry based on a series of arresting and unusual images. It is sometimes called Imagism but is unrelated to the 20th-century ...
Imagist: any of a group of American and English poets whose poetic program was formulated about 1912 by Ezra Pound-in conjunction with fellow poets Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Richard Aldington, and F.S. ...
imam: ("leader," "pattern"), the head of the Muslim community; the title is used in the Qur'an several times to refer to leaders and to Abraham. The origin and basis of the ...
Imam Bondjol: Minangkabau religious leader, key member of the Padri faction in the religious Padri War, which divided the Minangkabau people of Sumatra in the 19th century.
Imari: city, Saga ken (prefecture), Kyushu, Japan, facing Imari Bay. The two islands of Taka and Fuku form a natural mole, protecting the city's harbour. Imari was once a base for ...
Imari ware: Japanese porcelain made at the Arita kilns in Hizen province. Among the Arita porcelains are white glazed wares, pale gray-blue or gray-green glazed wares known as celadons, black wares, and ...
Imbangala: warrior group of central Angola in the early 17th century. The Imbangala, sometimes mistakenly identified with the Jaga, probably left the Lunda state of Shaba in the 15th century under ...
Imber, Naphtali Herz: itinerant Hebrew poet whose poem "Ha-Tiqva" ("The Hope"), set to music, was the official anthem of the Zionist movement from 1933 and eventually became Israel's national anthem.
imbrex: in ancient Greek and Roman architecture, a raised roofing tile used to cover the joint between the flat tiles. Used in a series, they formed continuous ridges over the aligned ...
Imhoff, Gustaaf Willem, baron van: governor-general of the Dutch East Indies (1743-50), a reformer who tried in vain to restore the decaying Dutch East India Company to prosperity.
Imhotep: vizier, sage, architect, astrologer, and chief minister to Djoser (reigned 2630-2611 BC), the second king of Egypt's third dynasty, who was later worshiped as the god of medicine in Egypt ...
imidazole: any of a class of organic compounds of the heterocyclic series characterized by a ring structure composed of three carbon atoms and two nitrogen atoms at nonadjacent positions. The simplest ...
iminoglycinuria: inborn impairment of the transport system of the kidney tubules, which normally reabsorb the amino acids glycine, proline, and hydroxyproline. In young children in whom this transport system fails to ...
imipramine: synthetic drug used in the treatment of depression and enuresis (bed-wetting). Introduced into medicine in the 1960s, imipramine was the first tricyclic antidepressant, a class named for its three-ring molecular ...
imitation: in psychology, the reproduction or performance of an act that is stimulated by the perception of a similar act by another animal or person. Essentially, it involves a model to ...
Imitation of Christ: a Christian devotional book written between 1390 and 1440. Although its authorship is a matter of controversy, the book is linked to the name of Thomas a Kempis. Whatever the ...
Immaculate Conception: Roman Catholic dogma asserting that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was preserved free from the effects of the sin of Adam (usually referred to as "original sin") from the first ...
Immanuel Ben Solomon: Hebrew poet who lived mainly in Rome, considered the founder of secular poetic writing in Hebrew. Probably a wandering teacher by profession, he was a prolific writer of Hebrew verse, ...
immediate constituent analysis: in linguistics, a system of grammatical analysis that divides sentences into successive layers, or constituents, until, in the final layer, each constituent consists of only a word or meaningful part ...
Immermann, Karl Leberecht: dramatist and novelist whose works included two forerunners in German literary history: Die Epigonen as a novel of the contemporary social scene and Der Oberhof as a realistic story of ...
immersed tube: technique of underwater tunneling used principally for underwater crossings. The method was pioneered by the American engineer W.J. Wilgus in the Detroit River in 1903 for the Michigan Central Railroad. ...
immersion foot: a painful disorder of the foot involving damage to the skin, nerves, and muscle that is caused by prolonged exposure to cold dampness or by prolonged immersion in cold water. ...
Immigration Restriction Act: (1901), in Australian history, fundamental legislation of the new Commonwealth of Australia that effectively stopped all non-European immigration into the country and that contributed to the development of a racially ...
immortality: in philosophy and religion, the continuity of human spiritual existence after the death of the body. The concept of immortality is to be distinguished from that of bodily resurrection.
immune system: the complex group of defense responses found in humans and other advanced vertebrates that helps repel disease-causing organisms (pathogens). Immunity from disease is actually conferred by two cooperative defense systems, ...
immune system disorder: any of various failures in the body's defense mechanisms against infectious organisms (see table). Disorders of immunity include immune deficiency diseases, such as AIDS, that ...
immunity: in law, exemption or freedom from liability. In England and the United States a legislator is immune from civil liability for statements made during legislative debate. He is also immune ...
immunization: process by which resistance to disease is acquired or induced in plants and animals. This discussion focuses on immunization against infectious diseases in vertebrate animals, specifically humans.
immunology: the scientific study of the body's resistance to invasion by other organisms (i.e., immunity). In a medical sense, immunology deals with the body's system of defense against disease-causing microorganisms and ...
Imo: state, southern Nigeria. Imo is bordered by the states of Anambra to the north, Abia (until 1991 part of Imo state) to the east, and Rivers to the south and ...
Imola: town and episcopal see, Bologna provincia, Emilia-Romagna regione, northern Italy. Imola lies along the Santerno River, southeast of Bologna. Its Forum Cornelii was a station on the Roman road Via ...
impact crater: any feature on the continents that has been created by the impact of cosmic bodies (meteorites, asteroids, or comets) on the Earth's surface. In fact, the collision of a Mars-sized ...
impala: (Aepyceros melampus), swift-running antelope, family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), that is found in large herds, usually near water, on the savannas and open woodlands of central and southern Africa.
impasto: paint that is applied to a canvas or panel in quantities that make it stand out from the surface. Impasto was used frequently to mimic the broken-textured quality of highlights-i.e., ...
Impatiens: large genus of herbaceous plants, belonging to the balsam family (Balsaminaceae), that are widely distributed in Asia, Africa, and North America. Some are regarded as weeds but others are popular ...
impeachment: in common law, a criminal proceeding instituted against a public official by a legislative body. In Great Britain the House of Commons serves as prosecutor and the House of Lords ...
Imperia: capital of Imperia provincia, Liguria regione, northwestern Italy. It lies on that part of the Riviera di Ponente known as the Riviera dei Fiori, northeast of San Remo. Formed in ...
Imperial Chemical Industries PLC: major British corporation that was founded in 1926 as Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. to amalgamate four major British chemical companies: Brunner, Mond & Co. Ltd., Nobel Industries Ltd., United Alkali ...
imperial city: any of the cities and towns of the Holy Roman Empire that were subject only to the authority of the emperor, or German king, on whose demesne (personal estate) the ...
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine: institution of higher learning in London, affiliated with the University of London. It is one of the leading research colleges or universities in England. Its main campus is located in ...
Imperial Crown: crown created in the 10th century for coronations of the Holy Roman emperors. Although made for Otto the Great (912-973), it was named for Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman emperor.
Imperial Group, PLC: leading British manufacturer of tobacco products, including Player and Embassy cigarettes, Wilson's snuff, and several brands of cigars. Its other products included beer, prepared foods, and packaging. Corporate headquarters are ...