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Loganiaceae: family of flowering plants in the order Gentianales, containing about 21 genera with more than 500 species of woody vines, shrubs, or trees native primarily to tropical areas of the ...
logarithm: the exponent or power to which a base must be raised to yield a given number. Expressed mathematically, x is the logarithm of n to the base b if b^x = n, ...
Logau, Friedrich, Freiherr von: German epigrammatist noted for his direct, unostentatious style.
loggia: room, hall, gallery, or porch open to the air on one or more sides; it evolved in the Mediterranean region, where an open sitting room with protection from the sun ...
logging: process of harvesting trees, sawing them into appropriate lengths (bucking), and transporting them (skidding) to a sawmill. The different phases of this process vary with local conditions and technology.
logia: (Greek: "sayings," "words," or "discourses"), hypothetical collection, either written or oral, of the sayings of Jesus, which might have been in circulation around the time of the composition of the ...
logic: the study of propositions and their use in argumentation.
logic, history of: the history of the discipline from its origins among the ancient Greeks to the present time.
logic, philosophy of: the study, from a philosophical perspective, of the nature and types of logic, including problems in the field and the relation of logic to mathematics and other disciplines.
Logical Atomism: theory, developed primarily by the British logician Bertrand Russell and the Austrian-born philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, proposing that language, like other phenomena, can be analyzed in terms of aggregates of fixed, ...
Logical Positivism: a philosophical doctrine formulated in Vienna in the 1920s, according to which scientific knowledge is the only kind of factual knowledge and all traditional metaphysical doctrines are to be rejected ...
logical relation: those relations between the elements of discourse or thought that constitute its rationality, in the sense either of (1) reasonableness or (2) intelligibility. A statement may be perfectly intelligible without ...
Logician: any member of a school of Chinese philosophers of the Warring States period (475-221 Bc). In Chinese the school is called Ming-chia (Pinyin Mingjia), "School of Names," because one of ...
logicism: school of mathematical thought introduced by the 19th-20th-century German mathematician Gottlob Frege and the British mathematician Bertrand Russell, which holds that mathematics is actually logic. Logicists contend that all of ...
logistics: in business, the organized movement of materials and, sometimes, people. The term was first associated with the military but gradually spread to cover business activities.
logistics: in military science, all the activities of armed-force units in roles supporting combat units, including transport, supply, signal communication, medical aid, and the like.
logogram: written or pictorial symbol intended to represent a whole word. Writing systems that make use of logograms include Chinese, Egyptian hieroglyphic writing, and early cuneiform writing systems. No known writing ...
Logone River: principal tributary of the Chari (Shari) River of the Lake Chad Basin, draining northeastern Cameroon and Chad. It is formed by the Mbere River and its tributary the Vina (Wina, ...
logos: in Greek philosophy and theology, the divine reason implicit in the cosmos, ordering it and giving it form and meaning. Though the concept defined by the term logos is found ...
logothete: in Byzantine government from the 6th to the 14th century, any of several officials who shared a variety of responsibilities ranging from the assessment and collection of taxes to the ...
Logrono: city, capital of La Rioja provincia and comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community"), north-central Spain on the Ebro River. Originating in Roman times, it owed its growth during the European Middle Ages ...
Logrono: former name of a province in Spain known from 1980 as La Rioja (q.v.).
Logue, Christopher: English poet, playwright, journalist, and actor, who was one of the leaders in the movement to bring poetry closer to the popular experience. His own pungent verse has been read ...
logwood: (species Haematoxylon campechianum), tree of the pea family (Fabaceae), native to Central America and the West Indies. The name is sometimes applied also to Condalia obovata, a tree of the ...
Lohengrin: the knight of the swan, hero of German versions of a legend widely known in variant forms from the European Middle Ages onward. It seems to bear some relation to ...
Loi-kaw: town, east-central Myanmar (Burma), on the Pilu River, a tributary of the Salween River. Situated in hilly forested country, Loi-kaw has timber and silk-processing industries and is the site of ...
loincloth: usually, a rectangular piece of cloth draped around the hips and groin. One of the earliest forms of clothing, it is derived, perhaps, from a narrow band around the waist ...
Loir River: river of northwest-central France, an affluent of the Sarthe River, that rises north of Illiers in Eure-et-Loir departement. The Loir flows generally west-southwest, passing through the western extreme of the ...
Loire River: longest river in France, rising in the southern Massif Central and flowing north and west for 634 miles (1,020 km) to the Atlantic Ocean, which it enters south of the ...
Loisy, Alfred Firmin: French biblical scholar, linguist, and philosopher of religion, generally credited as the founder of Modernism, a movement within the Roman Catholic church aimed at revising its dogma to reflect advances ...
Loiza River: river in eastern Puerto Rico, rising in the Sierra de Cayey south of San Lorenzo. Flowing about 40 miles (65 km) between the humid foothills of the Cayey and the ...
Loja: principal city of far southern Ecuador, on a small plain at the northwestern foot of the Cordillera de Zamora of the Andes, near the junction of the Zamora and Malacatos ...
Lok Sabha: (Hindi: "House of the People"), the lower chamber of India's bicameral parliament. Under the constitution of 1950, it is elected for a term of five years by universal suffrage for ...
loka: in Hindu cosmography, the universe or any particular division of it. The most common division of the universe is the tri-loka, or three worlds (heaven, earth, atmosphere; later, heaven, world, ...
lokapala: in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, any of the guardians of the four cardinal directions. They are known in Tibetan as 'jig-rtenskyong, in Chinese as t'ien-wang, and in Japanese as shi-tenno. ...
Lokeren: municipality (gemeente), East Flanders (Oost-Vlaanderen) province, northern Belgium, on the Durme River, just east-northeast of Ghent (Gent). Notable buildings include the Church of St. Lawrence (1721), the town hall (1761), ...
Loki: in Norse mythology, a cunning trickster who had the ability to change his shape and sex. Although his father was the giant Farbauti, he was included among the Aesir (a ...
Lokoja: town and river port, capital of Kogi state, south-central Nigeria, on the west bank of the Niger River opposite the mouth of the Benue River. British merchants established a trading ...
Lolland: island, Storstrom amtskommune (county commune), Denmark, in the Baltic Sea. It is separated from southern Sjaelland (Zealand) by Smalandsfarvandet Sound. Lolland has an area of 480 square miles (1,243 square ...
Lollard: in late medieval England, a follower, after about 1382, of John Wycliffe, a University of Oxford philosopher and theologian whose unorthodox religious and social doctrines in some ways anticipated those ...
Lom: city, capital of Togo. Lome lies on the Gulf of Guinea (Atlantic coast) in the extreme southwestern corner of the country. Selected as the colonial capital of German Togoland in ...
Loma Mountains: mountain range in northeastern Sierra Leone, extending for about 20 miles (32 km) in a north-south direction, west of the source of the Niger River in the Guinea Highlands. Rising ...
Lomami River: river in Congo (Kinshasa), a major tributary of the Congo River. It rises in the Katanga highlands of southern Congo and flows northward some 930 miles (1,500 km) to join ...
Lomas de Zamora: cabecera (county seat) and partido (county) of Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires, Arg. It lies immediately south of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires provincia. The name and origin ...
Lomaum Dam: dam on the upper Catumbela River in western Angola. The Lomaum hydroelectric plant provides power for the cities of Lobito and Benguela on the Atlantic coast and for Huambo (Nova ...
Lomax, Alan: American ethnomusicologist, one of the most dedicated and knowledgeable folk-music scholars of the 20th century.
Lombard: village, DuPage county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. A suburb of Chicago, it lies 20 miles (30 km) west of downtown. Founded in 1833 and originally known as Babcock's Grove (for the ...
Lombard: member of a Germanic people who from 568 to 774 ruled a kingdom in Italy.
Lombard League: Italian league that, in the 12th and 13th centuries, resisted attempts by the Holy Roman emperors to reduce the liberties and jurisdiction of the communes of Lombardy in northern Italy. ...
Lombard, Carole: American actress and comedienne who starred in some of the most successful comedies of the 1930s.
Lombardi, Vince: coach in American professional gridiron football who became a national symbol of single-minded determination to win. In nine seasons (1959-67) as head coach of the previously moribund Green Bay Packers, ...
Lombardo, Guy: Canadian-born American dance-band leader whose New Year's Eve radio and television broadcasts with his Royal Canadians became an American tradition for 48 years. Derided by some music critics as the ...
Lombardo, Pietro: leading sculptor and architect of Venice in the late 15th century, known for his significant contribution to the Renaissance in that city. He was the father of Tullio and Antonio, ...
Lombardy: regione of northern Italy. It is bordered on the north by Switzerland and by the Italian regioni of Emilia-Romagna (south), Trentino-Alto Adige and Veneto (east), and Piedmont (west). Administratively, Lombardy ...
Lomblen Island: largest of the Solor Islands, in the Lesser Sundas, Nusa Tenggara Timur provinsi ("province"), Indonesia. Lomblen lies between the Flores Sea (north) and the Savu Sea (south), about 25 miles ...
Lombok: island, Nusa Tenggara Barat provinsi (province), Indonesia. It is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying due east of Bali across the Lombok Strait and due west ...
Lombroso, Cesare: Italian criminologist whose views, though now largely discredited, brought about a shift in criminology from a legalistic preoccupation with crime to a scientific study of criminals.
Lomenie de Brienne, Etienne-Charles de: French ecclesiastic and minister of finance on the eve of the French Revolution. His unusual intelligence and aristocratic connections secured his rapid advancement in the church: he became bishop of ...
Lomond, Loch: largest of the Scottish lakes, lying across the southern edge of the Highlands. It forms part of the boundary between the council area of Stirling and the council area of ...
Lomonosov: town, Leningrad oblast (province), northwestern Russia, on the Gulf of Finland. Founded in 1710 by Prince Menshikov, it was a summer retreat of the Russian royal family. The palace of ...
Lomonosov Ridge: major submarine ridge of the Arctic Ocean. The ridge is 1,100 miles (1,800 km) long. From Ellesmere Island on the continental shelf of North America, the ridge extends north to ...
Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilyevich: Russian poet, scientist, and grammarian who is often considered the first great Russian linguistic reformer. He also made substantial contributions to the natural sciences, reorganized the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy ...
Lompoc: city, Santa Barbara county, southwestern California, U.S. It lies along the Santa Ynez River in the coastal Lompoc valley, 155 miles (250 km) northwest of Los Angeles. Originally inhabited by ...
Lomza: city, Podlaskie wojewodztwo (province), northeastern Poland.
Lon Nol: soldier and politician whose overthrow of Prince Norodom Sihanouk (1970) involved Cambodia in the Indochina war and ended in the takeover (1975) of the country by the communist Khmer Rouge.
London: city, capital of the United Kingdom. It is among the oldest of the world's great cities-its history spanning nearly two millennia-and one of the most cosmopolitan. By far Britain's largest ...
London: city, seat of Middlesex county, southeastern Ontario, Canada. It lies at the forks of the Thames River, midway between Lakes Ontario (east) and St. Clair (west) and Lakes Huron (north) ...
London Bridge: children's singing game in which there are several players (usually eight or more), two of whom join hands high to form an arch (the bridge). The other players march under ...
London Bridge: any of several successive structures spanning the River Thames between Borough High Street in Southwark and King William Street in the City of London.
London Bridge Station: railway station in the Bermondsey district of Southwark, London. It lies southeast of London Bridge and northeast of Guy's Hospital, and it is adjacent to the tourist attraction called the ...
London Clay: major division of Eocene rocks in the London Basin of England (the Eocene Epoch lasted from 57.8 to 36.6 million years ago); it immediately underlies much of the city of ...
London Dock Strike: (1889), influential strike by workers in the Port of London that won them the famous "dockers' tanner" (a pay rate of sixpence per hour) and revitalized the British Trades Union ...
London Docklands: area along the River Thames in London. It covers nearly 9 square miles (22 square km) of riverfront centred on the boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham, Southwark, Lewisham, and Greenwich. ...
London Group: English artists' association founded in November 1913 for the purpose of joint exhibition.
London Naval Conference: (Jan. 21-April 22, 1930), conference held in London to discuss naval disarmament and to review the treaties of the Washington Conference of 1921-22. Hosted by Great Britain, it included representatives ...
London Prize Ring rules: set of rules governing bareknuckle boxing, which were adopted in 1838 and revised in 1853. They superseded those drawn up by Jack Broughton, known as the father of English boxing, ...