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replevin: a form of lawsuit in common-law countries, such as England, Commonwealth countries, and the United States, for return of personal property wrongfully taken and for compensation for resulting loss. Replevin ...
Repnin, Nikolay Vasilyevich, Prince: diplomat and military officer who served Catherine II the Great of Russia by greatly increasing Russia's influence over Poland before that country was partitioned. He later distinguished himself in Russia's ...
repousse: method of decorating metals in which parts of the design are raised in relief from the back or the inside of the article by means of hammers and punches; definition ...
representation: in government, method or process of enabling the citizenry, or some of them, to participate in the shaping of legislation and governmental policy through deputies chosen by them.
representationism: philosophical theory of knowledge based on the assertion that the mind perceives only mental images (representations) of material objects outside the mind, not the objects themselves. The validity of human ...
Representatives, House of: one of the two houses of the bicameral United States Congress, established in 1789 by the Constitution of the United States.
repression: in metabolism, a control mechanism in which a protein molecule, called a repressor, prevents the synthesis of an enzyme by binding to-and thereby impeding the action of-the deoxyribonucleic acid that ...
reproduction: process by which organisms replicate themselves.
reproductive behaviour: any activity directed toward perpetuation of a species. The enormous range of animal reproductive modes is matched by the variety of reproductive behaviour.
reproductive system disease: any of the diseases and disorders that affect the human reproductive system. They include abnormal hormone production coming from the ovaries or the testes or from other endocrine glands, such ...
reproductive system, animal: any of the organ systems by which animals reproduce.
reproductive system, human: organ system by which humans reproduce.
reproductive system, plant: any of the systems, sexual or asexual, by which plants reproduce. In plants, as in animals, the end result of reproduction is the continuation of a given species, and the ...
reptile: any member of the class Reptilia, a group of air-breathing vertebrates that have internal fertilization and scaly bodies rather than hair or feathers. They occupy an intermediate position in evolutionary ...
Repton: village ("parish"), South Derbyshire district, administrative and historic county of Derbyshire, England. The famous independent boys' school of Repton was founded in 1556, and its buildings incorporate parts (restored) of ...
Repton, Humphry: English landscape designer who became the undisputed successor to Lancelot Brown as improver of grounds to the landed gentry of England. Of a well-to-do family, he was intended for a ...
Republican Party: French political party formed in May 1977 when the former National Foundation of Independent Republicans (Federation Nationale des Republicains Independents)-founded in 1966 by Valery Giscard d'Estaing-was merged with other small ...
Republican Party: unofficial English name of the Irish political party Fianna Fail (q.v.).
Republican Party: in U.S. history, political party formed from the nucleus of the Anti-Federalists and the country's first opposition party. Formed in 1792 by supporters of Thomas Jefferson in opposition to the ...
Republican Party: in the United States, one of the two major political parties, the other being the Democratic Party. The Republican Party traditionally has supported laissez-faire capitalism, low taxes, and conservative social ...
Republican River: river formed by the confluence of the North Fork of the Republican River and the Arikaree River near Haigler, Neb., U.S. It flows eastward through Swanson Lake (behind Trenton Dam) ...
Republicans, The: German ultranationalist political party, founded in West Germany in 1983. Although they reject the label, many observers regard the party as neo-fascist.
Requena: city, Valencia provincia (province) and comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), eastern Spain. Overlooking the left bank of the Magro River, the city, 2,270 feet (692 ...
Requesens y Zuniga, Luis de: Spanish governor of the Netherlands during one phase (1573-76) of the Dutch revolt called the Eighty Years' War. Succeeding the tyrannical Fernando Alvarez, duque de Alba, he tried unsuccessfully to ...
Requests, Court of: in England, one of the prerogative courts that grew out of the king's council (Curia Regis) in the late 15th century. The court's primary function was to deal with civil ...
requiem mass: musical setting of the Mass for the Dead (missa pro defunctis), named for the beginning of the Latin of the Introit "Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine" ("Give them eternal rest, ...
Rerum Novarum: encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII in 1891 and considered by many conservative Roman Catholics to be extremely progressive. It enunciated the late 19th-century Roman Catholic position on social justice, ...
res judicata: (Latin: "a thing adjudged"), a thing or matter that has been finally juridically decided on its merits and cannot be litigated again between the same parties. The term is often ...
rescue mission: Christian religious organization established to provide spiritual, physical, and social assistance to the poor and needy. It originated in the city mission movement among evangelical laymen and ministers early in ...
research and development: in industry, two intimately related processes by which new products and new forms of old products are brought into being through technological innovation.
Resende: city, western Rio de Janeiro estado (state), eastern Brazil. It is situated on the Paraiba do Sul River, opposite Agulhas Negras, at 1,296 feet (395 metres) above ...
Resende, Garcia de: Portuguese poet, chronicler, and editor, whose life was spent in the service of the Portuguese court.
reserpine: drug derived from the roots of certain species of the tropical plant Rauwolfia. The powdered whole root of the Indian shrub Rauwolfia serpentina historically ...
reservoir: an open-air storage area (usually formed by masonry or earthwork) where water is collected and kept in quantity so that it may be drawn off for use.
Resheph: ancient West Semitic god of the plague and of the underworld, the companion of Anath, and the equivalent of the Babylonian god Nergal. He was also a war god and ...
Resia Pass: pass south of the Austrian-Italian border and just east of the Swiss frontier. It is 4,934 feet (1,504 m) high and about 1 mile (1.6 km) long and separates the ...
Resid Pasa, Mustafa: Ottoman statesman and diplomat who was grand vizier (chief minister) on six occasions. He took a leading part in initiating, drafting, and promulgating the first of the reform edicts known ...
residence: in anthropology, location chosen by a couple as their postnuptial domicile. In primitive societies, such residence choices frequently follow rules; and, in social systems of wide kinship ties, a new ...
residencia: in colonial Spanish America, judicial review of an official's acts, conducted at the conclusion of his term of office. Originating in Castile in the early 15th century, it was extended ...
residual landform: landform that was produced as the remains of an ancient landscape, escaping burial or destruction to remain as part of the present landscape. Residual landforms are often the result of ...
resin: any natural or synthetic organic compound consisting of a noncrystalline or viscous liquid substance. Natural resins are typically fusible and flammable organic substances that are transparent or translucent and are ...
resist printing: any of various methods of colouring cloth in a pattern by pretreating designed areas to resist penetration by the dye. To obtain a two-colour pattern on goods already dyed in ...
resistance: in European history, any of various secret and clandestine groups that sprang up throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II to oppose Nazi rule. The exact number of those who ...
resistance: in electricity, property of an electric circuit or part of a circuit that transforms electric energy into heat energy in opposing electric current. Resistance involves collisions of the current-carrying charged ...
Resistencia: city, capital of Chaco provincia (province), northeastern Argentina, on a stream that flows into the Parana River at the river port of Barranqueras, 4 miles (6 km) ...
resistivity: electrical resistance of a conductor of unit cross-sectional area and unit length. A characteristic property of each material, resistivity is useful in comparing various materials on the basis of their ...
resistor: electrical component that opposes the flow of either direct or alternating current, employed to protect, operate, or control the circuit. Voltages can be divided with the use of resistors, and ...
Resita: city, capital of Caras-Severin judet (county), southwestern Romania, near the Yugoslavian border. In a coal- and metal-mining region, it is a long-established metalworking centre. After World War II the ironworks ...
Resnais, Alain: French motion-picture director, a leader of the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) of unorthodox, influential film directors appearing in France in the late 1950s. His major works include
resolution: in chemistry, any process by which a mixture called a racemate (q.v.) is separated into its two constituent enantiomorphs. (Enantiomorphs are pairs of substances that have dissymmetric arrangements of atoms ...
resonance: in particle physics, an extremely short-lived phenomenon associated with subatomic particles called hadrons that decay via the strong nuclear force. This force is so powerful that it allows resonances to ...
resonance: in physics, relatively large selective response of an object or a system that vibrates in step or phase, with an externally applied oscillatory force. Resonance was first investigated in acoustical ...
resonance, theory of: in chemistry, theory by which the actual normal state of a molecule is represented not by a single valence-bond structure but by a combination of several alternative distinct structures. The ...
resonator: acoustical device for reinforcing sound, as the sounding board of a piano, the "belly" of a stringed instrument, the air mass of an organ pipe, and the throat, nose, and ...
resorcinol: phenolic compound used in the manufacture of resins, plastics, dyes, medicine, and numerous other organic chemical compounds. It is produced in large quantities by sulfonating benzene with fuming sulfuric acid ...
Respighi, Ottorino: Italian composer who introduced Russian orchestral colour and some of the violence of Richard Strauss's harmonic techniques into Italian music. He studied at the Liceo of Bologna and later with ...
respiration: the process by which animal organisms take up oxygen and discharge carbon dioxide in order to satisfy their energy requirements. In the living organism, energy is liberated, along with carbon ...
respiration, human: the process by which oxygen is taken up and carbon dioxide discharged.
respiratory disease: any of the diseases and disorders that affect human respiration.
respiratory distress syndrome: a common complication in infants, especially in premature newborns, characterized by extremely laboured breathing, cyanosis (a bluish tinge to the skin or mucous membranes), and abnormally low levels of oxygen ...
respiratory therapy: medical specialty primarily concerned with administering oxygen or other substances and providing assistance in order to maintain the breathing capacity of individuals with impaired lung function.
responsa: ("questions and answers"), replies made by rabbinic scholars in answer to submitted questions about Jewish law. These replies began to be written in the 6th century after final redaction of ...
responsorial singing: style of singing in which a leader alternates with a chorus. Responsorial singing is found in the folk music of many cultures-e.g., American Indian, African, and African American. One example ...
responsory: plainchant melody and text originally sung responsorially-i.e., by alternating choir and soloist or soloists. Responsorial singing of the psalms was adopted into early Christian worship from Jewish liturgical practice. Most ...
Resserella: extinct genus of brachiopods (lamp shells) that occurs as fossils in marine rocks of Middle Ordovician to Lower Silurian age (421 to 478 million years old).Resserella has a dorsal shell ...
restaurant: establishment where refreshments or meals may be procured by the public. The public dining room that came ultimately to be known as the restaurant originated in France, and the French ...
Restell, Madame: infamous British-born abortionist and purveyor of contraceptives.
Restif, Nicolas-Edme: French novelist whose works provide lively, detailed accounts of the sordid aspects of French life and society in the 18th century.
resting potential: the imbalance of electrical charge that exists between the interior of electrically excitable nerve cells and their surroundings. The resting potential of electrically excitable cells lies in the range of ...
Restionales: order of grasslike monocotyledonous flowering plants comprising four families, distributed mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, especially in southern Africa and Australia.
Reston: urban community, in Fairfax county, northeastern Virginia, U.S. It lies adjacent to Herndon, 22 miles (35 km) west-northwest of Washington, D.C. The community was developed after 1962 by Robert E. ...
Reston, James: Scottish-born American columnist and editor for The New York Times who was one of the most influential American journalists.
Restoration literature: English literature written after the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 following the period of the Commonwealth. Some literary historians speak of the period as bounded by the reign of ...
Restormel: borough (district), administrative and historic county of Cornwall, extreme southwestern England, in the central part of the county. Restormel borough spans the peninsular county and is thus bordered by the ...
restriction enzyme: a protein produced by bacteria that cleaves DNA at specific sites along the molecule. In the bacterial cell, restriction enzymes cleave foreign DNA, thus eliminating infecting organisms. Restriction enzymes can ...
restrictive covenant: in Anglo-American property law, an agreement limiting the use of property. Known to Roman law but little used in England or the United States until the 19th century, restrictive covenants ...