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ingress: in astronomy, the apparent entrance of a smaller body upon the disk of a larger one as the smaller passes between the larger and the observer-e.g., the entrance of a ...
Inguri Dam: world's highest arch dam (completed 1980), located on the Inguri River in western Georgia near the point at which the river leaves the Caucasus Mountains on its way to the ...
Ingushetia: republic in southwestern Russia. The crest line of the Greater Caucasus range forms its southern boundary with Georgia; the Russian republic of Chechnya lies to the east, and that of ...
Inhambane: town, southeastern Mozambique. The town is a commercial seaport on Inhambane Bay, an inlet of the Mozambique Channel (Indian Ocean). It is a market centre, and industry consists mainly in ...
inheritance: the devolution of property on an heir or heirs upon the death of the owner. The term inheritance also designates the property itself. In modern society the process is regulated ...
inheritance tax: levy on the property accruing to each beneficiary of the estate of a deceased person. It is usually calculated by reference to the amount received and the relationship (if any) ...
inhibition: in enzymology, a phenomenon in which a compound, called an inhibitor, in most cases similar in structure to the substance (substrate) upon which an enzyme acts to form a product, ...
inhibition: in psychology, conscious or unconscious constraint or curtailment of a process or behaviour, especially of impulses or desires. Inhibition serves necessary social functions, abating or preventing certain impulses from being ...
Inisa: town, Oyo state, southwestern Nigeria, near a station on the railroad from Lagos, some 135 miles (215 km) to the southwest. Situated on the road from Ikirun to Offa and ...
Initial Teaching Alphabet: alphabet of 44 characters designed by Sir James Pitman to help children learn to read English more effectively. The Initial Teaching Alphabet is based on the phonemic (sound) system of ...
initiator: a source of any chemical species that reacts with a monomer (single molecule that can form chemical bonds) to form an intermediate compound capable of linking successively with a large ...
injunction: in civil proceedings, order of a court requiring a party to do or not to do a specified act or acts.
ink: fluid or paste of various colours, but usually black or dark blue, used for writing and printing. It is composed of a pigment or dye dissolved or dispersed in a ...
Ink Spots, the: American vocal group prominent in the late 1930s and '40s. One of the first African-American groups, along with the Mills Brothers, to reach both black and white audiences, the Ink ...
Inkatha Freedom Party: black political movement in South Africa that derives its main support from the Zulu people. Inkatha was founded in 1975 in the black homeland of KwaZulu by Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, ...
inkblot test: any of a number of psychological tests in which a person is asked to interpret ambiguous patterns made by inkblots; the best-known of these is the Rorschach test.
inkstand: receptacle for a pen, ink, and other writing accessories. In England such a utensil was called a standish from the 15th to the 18th century. Inkstands were made of silver, ...
inky cap: (genus Coprinus), any member of a group of about 100 cosmopolitan mushroom species belonging to the order Agaricales. They are so called because, after spore discharge, the cap disintegrates into ...
Inland Sea: the body of water lying between the Japanese islands of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. It is composed of five distinct basins linked together by channels. Its east-west length is about ...
inland water ecosystem: complex of living organisms in free water on continental landmasses.
inlay: in the visual arts, any decorative technique used to create an ornamental design, pattern, or scene by inserting or setting into a shallow or depressed ground or surface a material ...
Inman, Henry: the leading American portraitist of his time.
inn: building that affords public lodging, and sometimes meals and entertainment, to travelers. The inn has been largely superseded by hotels and motels, though the term is often still used to ...
Inn River: a major right- (south-) bank tributary of the Danube River. The Inn River is 317 miles (510 km) long. It rises in Lake Lughino in Switzerland and flows northeast across ...
innate idea: in philosophy, an idea allegedly inborn in the human mind, as contrasted with those received or compiled from experience. The doctrine that at least certain ideas (e.g., those of God, ...
inner ear: part of the ear that contains organs of the senses of hearing and equilibrium. The bony labyrinth, a cavity in the temporal bone, is divided into three sections: the vestibule, ...
Inner Hebrides: islands off the Atlantic (western) coast of Scotland. As their name suggests, the Inner Hebrides lie close to the west coast of Scotland. They stretch 150 miles (240 km) from ...
Inner Light: the distinctive theme of the Society of Friends (Quakers), the direct awareness of God that allows a person to know God's will for him. It was expressed in the 17th ...
Inner Mongolia: autonomous region of China. It is a vast territory, with an area of 454,600 square miles (1,177,500 square kilometres), that stretches in a great crescent for some 1,700 miles (2,700 ...
Inness, George: American painter known especially for the luminous, atmospheric quality of his late landscapes.
Innisfail: town, northeastern Queensland, Australia, at the confluence of the North and South Johnstone rivers, between the coast and Mt. Bartle Frere. It is located in a region of heavy rainfall ...
Innitzer, Theodor: cardinal and primate of Austria who withdrew his original support of the Nazi regime and became devoted to the reconstruction of the Austrian Church.
Innocent: last of four antipopes (1179-80) during the pontificate of Alexander III. A member of a family of German origin, he was a cardinal when elected on Sept. 29, 1179, by ...
Innocent I, Saint: pope from 401 to 417, who condemned Pelagianism, a heresy concerning the role of grace and free will.
Innocent II: pope from 1130 to 1143.
Innocent III: the most significant pope of the Middle Ages. Elected pope on January 8, 1198, Innocent III reformed the Roman Curia, reestablished and expanded the pope's authority over the Papal States, ...
Innocent IV: one of the great pontiffs of the Middle Ages (reigned 1243-54), whose clash with Holy Roman emperor Frederick II formed an important chapter in the conflict between papacy and empire. ...
Innocent IX: pope from Oct. 29 to Dec. 30, 1591.
Innocent V, Blessed: pope during 1276, the first Dominican pontiff. He collaborated with SS. Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas in drafting a rule of studies for the Dominican order.
Innocent Veniaminov, Saint: the most famous Russian Orthodox missionary priest of the 19th century, who later became Metropolitan Innocent of Moscow. He was canonized in the Russian Church.
Innocent VI: pope from 1352 to 1362.
Innocent VII: pope from 1404 to 1406.
Innocent VIII: pope from 1484 to 1492.
Innocent X: pope from 1644 to 1655.
Innocent XI, Blessed: pope from 1676 to 1689.
Innocent XII: original name Antonio Pignatelli pope from 1691 to 1700.
Innocent XIII: original name Michelangiolo, or Michelangelo, Dei Conti pope from 1721 to 1724.
Innoko River: river, west-central Alaska, U.S. It is the westernmost major tributary of the Yukon River. The Innoko rises in the Kuskokwim Mountains west of the town of McGrath and flows north ...
Innoshima: city, eastern Hiroshima ken (prefecture), western Honshu, Japan. Innoshima is coextensive with a small offshore island in the Inland Sea, originally settled by pirates. After the decline ...
Inns of Court: in London, group of four institutions of considerable antiquity that have historically been responsible for legal education. Their respective governing bodies, the benches, exercise the exclusive right of admitting persons ...
Innsbruck: city, Tirol region, western Austria, on the Inn at the mouth of the Sill River in the Eastern Alps. First mentioned in 1180 as a small market town belonging to ...
Inoceramus: genus of extinct pelecypods (clams) found as fossils in Jurassic to Cretaceous rocks (laid down between 208 and 66.4 million years ago). Especially important and widespread in Cretaceous rocks, Inoceramus ...
inoculation: process of producing immunity and method of vaccination that consists of introduction of the infectious agent onto an abraded or absorptive skin surface instead of inserting the substance in the ...
Inonu, Ismet: Turkish army officer, statesman, and collaborator with and successor to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as president of the Turkish Republic. Identified with one-party rule between 1939 and 1946, he later emerged ...
inorganic compound: any substance in which two or more chemical elements other than carbon are combined, nearly always in definite proportions. Compounds of carbon are classified as organic except for carbides, carbonates, ...
inosilicate: any of a class of inorganic compounds that have structures characterized by silicate tetrahedrons (a central silicon atom surrounded by four oxygen atoms at the corners of a tetrahedron) arranged ...
inosinic acid: a compound important in metabolism. It is the ribonucleotide of hypoxanthine and is the first compound formed during the synthesis of purine in organisms. From inosinic acid are derived such ...
inositol: any of several stereoisomeric alcohols similar in molecular structure to the simple carbohydrates. The best known of the inositols is myoinositol, named for its presence in muscle tissue, from which ...
Inoue Enryo: Japanese philosopher and educator who attempted to reinterpret Buddhist concepts so they would be relevant to Western philosophical doctrines. An ardent nationalist, Inoue helped make Buddhism an intellectually acceptable alternative ...
Inoue Kaoru: one of the elder statesmen (genro) who ruled Japan during the Meiji period (1868-1912).
Inoue Tetsujiro: Japanese philosopher who opposed Christianity as incompatible with Japanese culture and who worked to preserve traditional Japanese values. At the same time, using Western philosophical methods, he helped to create ...
Inoue Yasushi: Japanese novelist noted for his historical fiction, notably Tempyo no iraka (1957; The Roof Tile of Tempyo), which depicts the drama of 8th-century Japanese monks traveling to China and bringing ...
Inowroclaw: city, Kujawsko-Pomorskie wojewodztwo (province), north-central Poland, in the Kujawy region. First mentioned in 1185 as a trading settlement, Inowroclaw lay on an ancient trade route between southern ...
input-output analysis: economic analysis developed by the 20th-century Russian-born U.S. economist Wassily W. Leontief, in which the interdependence of an economy's various productive sectors is observed by viewing the product of each ...
input/output device: any of various devices (including sensors) used to enter information and instructions into a computer for storage or processing and to deliver the processed data to a human operator or, ...
inquest: judicial inquiry by a group of persons appointed by a court. The most common type is the inquest set up to investigate a death apparently occasioned by unnatural means. Witnesses ...
Inquisition: in Roman Catholicism, a papal judicial institution that combatted heresy and such things as alchemy, witchcraft, and sorcery and wielded considerable power in medieval and early modern times. The name ...
inquisitorial procedure: in law, one of the two methods of exposing evidence in court (the other being the adversary procedure; q.v.). The inquisitorial system is typical of countries that base their legal ...
inro: in Japanese dress, small portable case worn on the girdle. As indicated by the meaning of the word inro ("vessel to hold seals"), these objects, probably originally imported from China, ...
insanity: in criminal law, condition of mental disorder or mental defect that relieves a person of criminal responsibility for his conduct. Tests of insanity used in law are not intended to ...
insect: any member of the class Insecta, the largest class of the phylum Arthropoda, which is itself the largest of the animal phyla. Like all arthropods, the insects have segmented bodies, ...
insecticide: any toxic substance that is used to kill insects. Such substances are used primarily to control pests that infest cultivated plants or to eliminate disease-carrying insects in specific areas.
insectivore: the common name applied to any of 450 or so species of mammals-comprising hedgehogs, golden moles, "true" moles, "true" shrews, the moonrat, gymnures, solenodons, and tenrecs-that subsist primarily on insects, ...
inselberg: (from German insel, "island," and berg, "mountain"), isolated hill that stands above well-developed plains and appears not unlike an island rising from the sea. Although the term is usually applied ...
inselberg: (from German Insel, "island," and Berg, "mountain"), isolated hill that stands above well-developed plains and appears not unlike an island rising from the sea. ...
Inside Passage: natural sheltered sea route extending for more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from Seattle (Wash., U.S.) northwest to Skagway (Alaska, U.S.). It comprises channels and straits between the mainland and ...