| | - reed
- (from the article "wind instrument") Sound is generated by different methods in the aerophones designated as flutes and reeds in the Sachs-Hornbostel system. In flutes, the airstream is directed against a sharp edge; in reeds, ...
- reed bunting
- (from the article "bunting") ...a group of more than 35 species in Europe, Asia, and Africa. They include the colourful yellow-breasted bunting (Emberiza aureola), widespread across Siberia and northeastern Europe, and the reed bunting ...
- reed canary grass
- (from the article "reed") ...16.5 feet) tall, with feathery flower clusters and stiff, smooth stems. Other plants of the family Poaceae known as reeds are giant reed (Arundo donax), sea reed (Ammophila arenaria), reed ...
- Reed College
- (from the article "Oregon") ...schools, and several private colleges. The community colleges are administered by lay boards, supported by local taxes, and responsive to local needs in their curricula. Private colleges include Reed College ...
- reed instrument
- in music, any of several wind instruments (aerophones) that sound when the player's breath or air from a wind chamber causes a reed (a thin blade of cane or metal) ... [7 Related Articles]
- reed organ
- any keyboard instrument sounded by vibration of metal reeds under wind pressure. "Reed organ" commonly refers to instruments having free reeds (vibrating through a slot with close tolerance) and no ... [3 Related Articles]
- reed pen
- (from the article "drawing") ...papyrus, and, since the late Middle Ages, almost exclusively paper) in amounts varying with the saturation of the pen and the pressure exerted by the drawing hand. The oldest form ...
- reed pipe
- (from the article "keyboard instrument") Organ reeds were probably originally copied from instrumental prototypes. A reed stop may have a beating reed like that of a clarinet or a free reed (a type discussed below ...
- reed relay
- (from the article "electromagnet") Present reed switches used in telephone equipment are operated by up to 50 volts direct current. Typically, the reed closes at 58 ampere-turns and releases at 15 ampere-turns, the hold ...
- Reed Rules
- (from the article "Reed, Thomas B") The Reed Rules, adopted in February 1890, provided that every member present in the House must vote unless financially interested in a measure; that members present and not voting be ...
- reed stop
- (from the article "keyboard instrument") Organ reeds were probably originally copied from instrumental prototypes. A reed stop may have a beating reed like that of a clarinet or a free reed (a type discussed below ...
- reed warbler
- (from the article "warbler") ...Europe are familiar enough to have received special names, such as the blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), the whitethroat (S. communis), and the chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita). Reed (see photograph), bush, and swamp ...
- Reed, B. Mitchel
- (from the article "B. Mitchel Reed") In a career that spanned four decades, B. Mitchel Reed roamed the wide world of radio formats and established himself as a standout in both Top 40 and its flip ...
- Reed, Donna
- (from the article "1953: Best Supporting Actress") Other Nominees
- Reed, Ishmael
- African-American author of poetry, essays, and satiric novels. [2 Related Articles]
- Reed, Janet
- American dancer (b. Sept. 15, 1916, Tolo, Ore.-d. Feb. 28, 2000, Seattle, Wash.), was noted not only for her technique but also for her charm, vivacity, and flair for comedy, ...
- Reed, Jerry
- American country musician and actor won the admiration of musicians with his distinctive virtuoso guitar playing and his songwriting, but he later became better known for his comedic acting in ...
- Reed, Jim
- (from the article "Starr, Belle") ...Frank James. They occasionally sought refuge at the Shirley farm, and Belle's first child, Pearl, was probably fathered by Thomas C. ("Cole") Younger. Soon afterward, Belle ran away with Jim ...
- Reed, Jimmy
- American singer, harmonica player, and guitarist who was one of the most popular blues musicians of the post-World War II era.
- Reed, John
- U.S. poet-adventurer whose short life as a revolutionary writer and activist made him the hero of a generation of radical intellectuals. [1 Related Articles]
- Reed, Leonard
- American tap dancer (b. Jan. 7, 1907, Lightning Creek, Okla.-d. April 5, 2004, Covina, Calif.), gained his greatest fame as one of the inventors-along with his partner, Willie Bryant-of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Reed, Lou
- singer-songwriter whose place in the rock pantheon rests primarily on his role in guiding the Velvet Underground, a New York City-based quartet that produced four poor-selling but enormously influential studio ... [3 Related Articles]
- Reed, Oliver
- British character actor who brought a dark intensity to more than 50 motion pictures, notably Oliver! (1968), Women in Love (1969), The Devils (1971), The Three Musketeers (1974), and Castaway ...
- Reed, Sir Carol
- British film director noted for his technical mastery of the suspense-thriller genre. He was the first British film director to be knighted. [2 Related Articles]
- Reed, Stanley F.
- associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1938-57).
- Reed, Thomas
- (from the article "Latin American architecture") ...(1827), a small chapel by Antonio Maria de la Torre. In Colombia the construction of the new building for the Capitol (c. 1847-1926) in Bogota by the Danish architect Thomas ...
- Reed, Thomas B
- vigorous U.S. Republican Party leader who, as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1889-91, 1895-99), introduced significant procedural changes (the Reed Rules) that helped ensure legislative control by the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Reed, Walter
- U.S. Army pathologist and bacteriologist who led the experiments that proved that yellow fever is transmitted by the bite of a mosquito. The Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C., was named ... [4 Related Articles]
- Reed, William J.
- (from the article "Ada") city, seat (1907) of Pontotoc county, south-central Oklahoma, U.S. It lies along Clear Boggy Creek, south of the Canadian River, and was named for the daughter of the first postmaster, ...
- Reed, Willis
- American professional basketball player and professional and collegiate basketball coach.
- reedbuck
- (genus Redunca), any of three graceful antelopes in the family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), found in open and lightly wooded areas over much of sub-Saharan Africa. Reedbucks live alone or in ...
- Reeder, Eggert
- (from the article "Brussels") ...War II Brussels fell to the invading German army on May 18, 1940. The city did not suffer extensive physical damage but was subjected to harsh terms of occupation. To ...
- reedfish
- (from the article "reedfish") eellike African fish related to the bichir (q.v.).characteristics of fisheschondrosteanGeneral features<
- reedgrass
- (from the article "reed") ...and stiff, smooth stems. Other plants of the family Poaceae known as reeds are giant reed (Arundo donax), sea reed (Ammophila arenaria), reed canary grass (Phalaris), and reedgrass, or bluejoint ...
- reedling
- (species Panurus biarmicus), songbird often placed in the family Panuridae (order Passeriformes) but of uncertain relationships (see Muscicapidae). It lives in reedy marshes from England to eastern Asia. About 16 ... [2 Related Articles]
- reedpipe
- (from the article "wind instrument") In the third category of aerophones, reedpipes, the column of air is activated by the vibrations between the two parts of a double reed or those between a single reed ...
- Reeds Peak
- (from the article "Sierra") county, southwestern New Mexico, U.S. Sierra county is in the Mexican Highland section of the Basin and Range Province. Its irregular western border is the Black Range, including Hillsboro and ...
- Reeds, Sea of
- (from the article "Moses") The Egyptian army cornered them at the Sea of Reeds (papyrus), which barred their exit to the east. Later Jewish tradition understood the body of water to be the Red ...
- Reedsport
- city, Douglas county, southwestern Oregon, U.S., on the Pacific Coast near the mouth of the Umpqua River at its confluence with the Smith River. Founded in 1912 by Alfred Reed, ...
- reel
- in motion pictures, a light circular frame with radial arms and a central axis, originally designed to hold approximately 1,000 feet (300 m) of 35-millimetre motion-picture film. In the early ... [2 Related Articles]
- reel
- genre of social folk dance, Celtic in origin. It is a variety of country dance in which the dancers perform traveling figures alternating with "setting" steps danced in one place. ...
- reel oven
- (from the article "baking") ...oven, with a rigid baking platform carried on chain belts. Other types include the peel oven, having a fixed hearth of stone or brick on which the loaves are placed ...
- Reelfoot Lake
- shallow lake on the boundary between Lake and Obion counties in northwestern Tennessee, U.S., near Tiptonville. It was formed by the earthquakes that occurred along the New Madrid Fault in ... [1 Related Articles]
- reeling
- (from the article "textile") Reeling is the process of unwinding raw silk filament from the cocoon directly onto a holder. When several filament strands, either raw silk or man-made, are combined and twisted together, ...
- reentrant rhythm
- (from the article "drug") The cardiac rhythm can be disturbed in several ways: (1) The conduction pathway may be disorganized, resulting in a reentrant rhythm in which an impulse circulates continuously in a local ...
- reentry
- (from the article "spaceflight") Reentry refers to the return of a spacecraft into Earth's atmosphere. The blanket of relatively dense gas surrounding Earth is useful as a braking, or retarding, force resulting from aerodynamic ...
- reentry vehicle
- (from the article "rocket and missile system") ...the warheads have detached from the remainder of the payload, and all elements are on a ballistic path. The terminal phase of flight occurs when gravity pulls the warheads (now ...
- Reeperbahn
- (from the article "The Reeperbahn") As rock and roll made its way to continental Europe in the late 1950s, several nightclub owners in the red-light district of Hamburg, West Germany-the Reeperbahn, named for the street ...
- Rees, Abraham
- (from the article "encyclopaedia") Having served a long apprenticeship as a reviser of Chambers's Cyclopaedia, Abraham Rees at last produced a completely original and finely illustrated work, The New Cyclopaedia (1802-20), the only serious ...
- Rees, Leighton Thomas
- Welsh darts player (b. Jan. 17, 1940, Ynysybwl, near Pontypridd, Wales-d. June 8, 2003, Pontypridd), was the first Embassy world professional darts champion (1978) and helped to popularize darts as ...
- Rees, Sir Martin John
- Armageddon is a favourite theme of science-fiction writers and filmmakers, but it is normally offered as escapist fantasy rather than serious prophecy. When a distinguished scientist, not known for extravagant ...
- Reese, Lizette Woodworth
- American poet whose work draws on the images of her rural childhood.
- Reese, Pee Wee
- American professional baseball player and broadcaster who was the captain of the famous "Boys of Summer" Brooklyn Dodgers teams of the 1950s. [3 Related Articles]
- Reese, Terence
- British bridge authority who was one of the game's best players ever and was considered its most outstanding and prolific writer (b. Aug. 28, 1913--d. Jan. 29, 1996).
- Reese, Thomas J.
- (from the article "Religion") ...of Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass., in October 2004 and was lecturing at the nondenominational Union Theological Seminary in New York City when the order was announced. ...
- Reese, William
- (from the article "creation myth") Charles Hartshorne and William Reese, 20th-century U.S. philosophers, have attempted to clarify and criticize all possible rational reflections concerning the relationship of deity to the universe. They state two opposed ...
- reeve
- (from the article "ruff") ...these may contain reddish, brown, black, and white feathers in proportions that vary with the individual. (This is the most extreme case of polymorphism known among birds.) The female, called ...
- Reeve, Christopher
- American actor (b. Sept. 25, 1952, New York, N.Y.-d. Oct. 10, 2004, Mount Kisco, N.Y.), was first known to the moviegoing public as the title character in Superman (1978) and ...
- Reeve, Philip
- (from the article "Literature") ...Framed (2005), about a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-obsessed boy who discovers a Renaissance masterpiece in a disused mine. The winner was A Darkling Plain, the final installment in Philip Reeve's ...
- Reeve, Tapping
- U.S. legal educator and jurist. [1 Related Articles]
- Reeves, H. A.
- (from the article "modulation") PCM, invented by H.A. Reeves of the United States in 1939, is employed by many communications companies and organizations, including Comsat and Intelsat, for telegraph, telephone, and television transmission. The ...
- Reeves, Martha
- (from the article "Martha and the Vandellas") American soul-pop vocal group that challenged the Supremes as Motown Records's premier female group in the 1960s. The original members were Martha Reeves (b. July 18, 1941Eufaula, Ala., U.S.), Annette ...
- Reeves, Steve
- American bodybuilder and actor. He was one of the handsomest and best-built men of his era. By Reeves's own account, at his bodybuilding peak he stood 6 feet 1 inch ... [2 Related Articles]
- Reeves, William Pember
- New Zealand statesman who, as minister of labour (1891-96), wrote the influential Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act (1894) and introduced the most progressive labour code in the world at that ... [3 Related Articles]
- referee
- (from the article "boxing") A referee is stationed inside the ring with the boxers and regulates the bout. In some jurisdictions the referee scores the contest along with two judges outside the ring. In ...
- reference beam
- (from the article "laser") Holograms are made by splitting a laser beam into two identical halves, using one beam to illuminate an object. This object beam then is combined with the other half-the reference ...
- reference electrode
- (from the article "analysis") ...common forms of potentiometry, two different types of electrodes are used. The potential of the indicator electrode varies, depending on the concentration of the analyte, while the potential of the ...
- reference ellipsoid
- (from the article "ellipsoid") Often an ellipsoid of revolution (called the reference ellipsoid) is used to represent the Earth in geodetic calculations, because such calculations are simpler than those with more complicated mathematical models. ...
- reference frame
- in dynamics, system of graduated lines symbolically attached to a body that serve to describe the position of points relative to the body. The position of a point on the ... [7 Related Articles]
- reference group
- (from the article "marketing") A consumer may interact with several individuals on a daily basis, and the influence of these people constitutes the social factors that impact the buying process. Social factors include reference ...
- reference librarianship
- (from the article "library") In reference service, librarians have traditionally given personal help to readers in making the best use of collections to satisfy their information needs. The publication of printed catalogs and bibliographies, ...
- reference, theory of
- (from the article "analytic philosophy") The debate concerning the theory of reference was about which of two competing accounts, one based on the views of Frege and one based on the early views of Russell, ...
- Referendar
- (from the article "Italy") ...have been more coherent than that of most other Romano-Germanic kingdoms. It was based on a central government in Pavia with numerous permanent administrators (such as the
- referendum and initiative
- electoral devices by which voters may express their wishes with regard to government policy or proposed legislation. They exist in a variety of forms. [42 Related Articles]
- Referent
- (from the article "rapporteur") In Germany the Referent in the Reichskammergericht, the supreme court of the Holy Roman Empire, had similar responsibilities. He analyzed evidence and legal issues and made his ...
- referential integrity
- (from the article "computer science") ...is specified to be nine digits, the DBMS may reject an update attempting to assign a value with more or fewer digits or one including an alphabetic character. Another type ...
- referential opacity
- (from the article "mind, philosophy of") ...millionth pen produced this year; similarly, he may believe this is his pen and yet not believe that this is the millionth pen produced this year. This second feature of ...
- referentialism
- (from the article "music") Among those who seek and propound theories of musical meaning, the most persistent disagreement is between the referentialists (or "heteronomists"), who hold that music can and does refer to meanings ...
- referred headache
- (from the article "nervous system disease") Pain may also be referred to the head (i.e., felt in the head even though the site of disease is elsewhere) by eye disorders such as glaucoma, infections or tumours ...
- referred pain
- (from the article "nervous system, human") The term referred pain is used to describe pain felt in a region where it does not originate but to which it is referred. It is usually used to describe ...
- refining
- (from the article "metallurgy") Extraction is often followed by refining, in which the level of impurities is brought lower or controlled by pyrometallurgical, electrolytic, or chemical means. Pyrometallurgical refining usually consists of the oxidizing ...
- reflectance
- (from the article "coal") An important property of coal is its reflectivity (or reflectance)-i.e., its ability to reflect light. Reflectivity is measured by shining a beam of monochromatic light (with a wavelength of 546 ...
- reflected wave propagation
- (from the article "telecommunications media") Sometimes part of the transmitted wave travels to the receiver by reflection off a smooth boundary whose edge irregularities are only a fraction of the transmitted wavelength. When the reflecting ...
- Reflecting Absence
- (from the article "World Trade Center") ...2005 (with further refinements appearing a year later). The winning design for the memorial was announced in January 2004; the plans for it were also revised (unveiled in June 2006). ...
- reflecting barrier
- (from the article "probability theory") ...This process is a Markov process. It is often called a random walk with reflecting barrier at 0, because it behaves like a random walk whenever it is positive and ...
- reflecting microscope
- (from the article "microscope") Microscopes of this type feature reflecting rather than refracting objectives. They are used to carry out microscopy over a wide range of visible light and especially in the ultraviolet or ...
- reflecting telescope
- (from the article "telescope") Reflectors are used not only to examine the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum but also to explore both the shorter- and longer-wavelength regions adjacent to it (i.e., the ultraviolet ...
- reflection
- (from the article "symmetry") ...elements of symmetry; i.e., changes in the orientation of the arrangement of atoms seem to leave the atoms unmoved. One such element of symmetry is rotation; other elements are translation, ...
- reflection
- (from the article "mind, philosophy of") ...of predictions, the construction of experiments, inductive confirmation, the inventing and testing of contingent generalizations, theories, and laws-but by the method of philosophical reflection. That method consists of the examination ...
- reflection
- abrupt change in the direction of propagation of a wave that strikes the boundary between different mediums. At least part of the oncoming wave disturbance remains in the same medium. ... [19 Related Articles]
- reflection grating
- (from the article "diffraction grating") component of optical devices consisting of a surface ruled with close, equidistant, and parallel lines for the purpose of resolving light into spectra. A grating is said to be a ...
- reflection nebula
- (from the article "nebula") If a cloud that would normally be a dark nebula happens to be illuminated by a nearby bright star not hot enough to ionize the cloud's hydrogen, the dust grains ...
- reflection principle
- (from the article "infinity") This line of thought leads to what logicians call the reflection principle. According to the reflection principle, if P is any simply describable property enjoyed by the Absolute, then there ...
- reflection, law of
- (from the article "Calculus of Variations") ...the very existence of an area-maximizing curve, which was not done satisfactorily until the 19th century.Light path problems. In the 1st century AD, Heron of Alexandria noticed that the law ...
- reflective equilibrium, method of
- (from the article "ethics") Rawls addressed the metaethical implications of the method of reflective equilibrium in a later work, Political Liberalism (1993), describing it there as "Kantian constructivism." According to Rawls, whereas intuitionism seeks ...
- reflector
- (from the article "nuclear reactor") A reflector is a region of unfueled material surrounding the core. Its function is to scatter neutrons that leak from the core and thereby return some of them to the ...
- reflex
- in biology, an action consisting of comparatively simple segments of behaviour that usually occur as direct and immediate responses to particular stimuli uniquely correlated with them. [18 Related Articles]
- reflex arc
- (from the article "reflex") In its simplest form, a reflex is viewed as a function of an idealized mechanism called the reflex arc. The primary components of the reflex arc are the sensory-nerve cells ...
- reflex camera
- (from the article "motion-picture camera") Most cameras now use the reflex system for viewing and focusing; in this system a mirror diverts to the viewfinder some of the light rays coming through the lens. Zoom ...
- reflex smiling
- (from the article "human behaviour") ...signaling interest and alarm, respectively. Smiling during infancy changes its meaning over the first year. The smiles that newborns display during their first weeks constitute what is called reflex smiling ...
- reflex sympathetic dystrophy
- (from the article "joint disease") Reflex sympathetic dystrophy-also called shoulder-hand syndrome because pain in the shoulder is associated with pain, swelling, and stiffness of the hand-only rarely develops in the wake of external injury. Most ...
|
|
