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teleological ethics: (Greek telos, "end"; logos, "science"), theory of morality that derives duty or moral obligation from what is good or desirable as an end to be achieved. It is opposed to ...
teleology: (from Greek telos, "end"; logos, "reason"), explanation by reference to some purpose or end; also described as final causality, in contrast with explanation by efficient causes only. Human conduct, insofar ...
Teleorman: judet (county), south-central Romania. It is bounded on the south by Bulgaria. The Danube River drains eastward, constituting the southern border of the county. The Vedea, Teleorman, Olt, and Neajlov ...
teleost: any member of the infraclass Teleostei, a large and extremely diverse group of ray-finned fishes. Along with the chondrosteans and the holosteans, they are one of the three major subdivisions ...
telepathy: direct transference of thought from one person (sender or agent) to another (receiver or percipient) without using the usual sensory channels of communication, hence a form of extrasensory perception (ESP). ...
telephone: an instrument that is designed for the simultaneous transmission and reception of the human voice. Inexpensive, simple to operate, and offering its user a personal type of communication that cannot ...
telephone and telephone system: instrument designed for simultaneous two-way voice communication and the technological system through which it is employed. It is a central part of modern telecommunication.
teleprinter: any of various telegraphic instruments that transmit and receive printed messages and data via telephone cables or radio relay systems. Teleprinters became the most common telegraphic instruments shortly after entering ...
telescope: device used to form magnified images of distant objects.
Telesilla: Greek poet noted for saving the city of Argos from attack by Cleomenes and his Spartan troops after their defeat of the Argive men. She wrote lyric poetry dedicated to ...
Telesio, Bernardino: Italian philosopher and natural scientist who inaugurated the Renaissance empiricist reaction against the practice of reasoning without reference to concrete data.
Telesphorus, Saint: pope from about 125 to about 136. Telesphorus is said to have been a Greek, possibly from Calabria. Successor to St. Sixtus I, he was the eighth pope and a ...
television: the electronic delivery of moving images and sound from a source to a receiver. By extending the senses of vision and hearing beyond the limits of physical distance, television has ...
Television: American rock group that played a prominent role in the emergence of the punk-new-wave movement. With Television's first single, "Little Johnny Jewel" (1975), and much-touted debut album, Marquee Moon (1977), ...
telex: international telegraphic message-transfer service consisting of a network of teleprinters. Subscribers to a telex service can exchange textual communications and data directly with one another. Communication is opened by entering ...
Telford: new town in Telford and Wrekin unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Shropshire, England. It lies north and east of the hill of the Wrekin, which has an elevation ...
Telford and Wrekin: unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Shropshire, west-central England, in the east-central part of the county. The unitary authority, drained in the south by the River Severn, is a ...
Telford, Thomas: versatile Scottish civil engineer whose crowning achievement was the design and construction (1819-26) of the Menai Bridge in Wales.
telharmonium: earliest musical instrument to generate sound electrically. It was invented in the United States by Thaddeus Cahill and introduced in 1906. The electrophonic instrument was of the electromechanical type, and ...
Telimele: town, western Guinea. It is situated at the junction of trade routes from Kindia, Pita, Gaoual, and Boke. A trading centre (cattle, rice, millet, and oranges) for the Muslim Fulani ...
Telingana: historical and linguistic region of peninsular India, comprising the north-central and northeastern portions of Andhra Pradesh state. The Dravidian Telugu tongue is chiefly spoken there. The region was ruled by ...
teliospore: in fungi (division Mycota), a thick-walled, winter or resting spore of rust fungi (order Uredinales) borne in a fruiting structure (telium) from which a club-shaped structure (basidium) is produced.
Telipinus: last king of the Hittite Old Kingdom in Anatolia (reigned c. 1525-c. 1500 BC).
tell: ("hill" or "small elevation"), in Middle Eastern archaeology, a raised mound marking the site of an ancient city. For specific sites, see under substantive word (e.g., Hasi, Tel).
Tell Atlas: range of the Atlas Mountains in North Africa, extending about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from eastern Morocco through Algeria to Tunisia. In Morocco, from Ceuta east to Melilla (150 miles ...
Tell, William: Swiss legendary hero who symbolized the struggle for political and individual freedom.
Teller, Edward: Hungarian-born American nuclear physicist who participated in the production of the first atomic bomb (1945) and who led the development of the world's first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb.
Tellicherry: city, northern Kerala state, southwestern India. It was established in 1683 by the British for the pepper and cardamom trade and was their first settlement on the Malabar Coast. A ...
telluric current: natural electric current flowing on and beneath the surface of the Earth and generally following a direction parallel to the Earth's surface. Telluric currents arise from charges moving to attain ...
Telluride: town, seat (1883) of San Miguel county, southwestern Colorado, U.S., located on the western flank of the San Juan Mountains at an elevation of 8,750 feet (2,667 metres). Telluride sprang ...
tellurium: (Te), semimetallic chemical element in the oxygen family (Group VIa of the periodic table), closely allied with the element selenium in chemical and physical properties. It was discovered in 1782 ...
Tellus: ancient Roman earth goddess. Probably of great antiquity, she was concerned with the productivity of the earth and was later identified with the mother-goddess Cybele. Her temple on the Esquiline ...
Telstar: series of communications satellites whose successful launching, beginning in 1962, inaugurated a new age in electronic communications. The first experimental communications satellite was made in 1960 by John Robinson Pierce ...
Telugu language: language of the Dravidian family, spoken in southeastern India; it is the official language of the state of Andhra Pradesh. There are several distinct regional dialects in Telugu, as well ...
Telugu literature: body of writings in Telugu, a Dravidian language spoken in an area north of Madras, India, and running inland to Bellary. The literature, beginning in the 10th or 11th century, ...
Teluk Intan: port, northwestern Peninsular (West) Malaysia. It lies on a deltaic peninsula formed by the confluence of the Perak and Bidor rivers. Formerly called Telong Melintang, the port was renamed in ...
Telukbetung: (Indonesia): see Bandar Lampung.
telum figure: small, devotional image carved from wood or stone, probably used in private rather than communal ancestor worship in primitive societies. Telum figures are known on the northwestern coast of New ...
Tema: city and port, southeastern Ghana. It lies along the Gulf of Guinea (an embayment of the Atlantic Ocean), 18 miles (29 km) east of Accra.
Temblor Range: segment of the Coast Ranges (see Pacific mountain system), south-central California, U.S. It extends southeastward for about 50 miles (80 km) from northwestern Kern county to the San Emigdio Mountains ...
Tembu: Bantu-speaking people who inhabit the upper reaches of the Mzimvubu River in Eastern province, South Africa. The Tembu speak a dialect of Xhosa, a Bantu language of the Nguni group ...
temenggong: in the traditional Malay states, an official who was responsible for maintaining law and order and for commanding the police and army. This important nonhereditary position became delineated during the ...
Temerloh: town, central Peninsular (West) Malaysia, on the Pahang River. The town's residents are primarily engaged in rubber tapping and paddy (rice) farming. Local villagers ferry downriver to trade their produce ...
Temin, Howard Martin: American virologist who in 1975 shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with his former professor Renato Dulbecco and another of Dulbecco's students, David Baltimore, for his codiscovery of ...
Temirtau: city, east-central Kazakstan. It lies on the Samarkand Reservoir of the Nura River. The settlement, a satellite city of Qaraghandy (Karaganda), came into being when the reservoir was built in ...
Temminck's cat: Asian mammal of the cat family, a species of golden cat (q.v.).
Temne: group of some 1.6 million people of central and northwestern Sierra Leone who speak a language (also called Temne) of the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo family. The Temne are ...
Temora: town, south-central New South Wales, Australia. It lies in the Western Slopes district of the fertile Riverina. Founded in 1879 during a gold rush, the town derives its name from ...
Tempe: city, Maricopa county, south-central Arizona, U.S. It lies along the Salt River and is a southern suburb of Phoenix. First settled (1872) by Charles Hayden, father of former Arizona senator ...
Tempe, Vale of: narrow valley between the southern Olympus and northern Ossa massifs of northeastern Thessaly, Greece. The valley is lined by cliffs that rise to 1,650 feet (500 m) on the south; ...
Tempelhof: district of Berlin, Germany. It is the site of an airport that became well known during the Soviet blockade of West Berlin (1948-49; see Berlin blockade and airlift); the airport ...
tempera painting: painting executed with pigment ground in a water-miscible medium. The word tempera originally came from the verb temper-that is, "to bring to a desired consistency"; dry pigments are made usable ...
temperament: in psychology, an aspect of personality concerned with emotional dispositions and reactions and their speed and intensity; the term often is used to refer to the prevailing mood or mood ...
temperance movement: movement dedicated to promoting moderation and, more often, complete abstinence in the use of intoxicating liquor. Although an abstinence pledge had been introduced by churches as early as 1800, the ...
temperate forest: vegetation type with a more or less continuous canopy of broad-leaved trees. Such forests occur between approximately 25° and 50° latitude in both hemispheres (see). Toward the polar regions they ...
temperature: measure of hotness or coldness expressed in terms of any of several arbitrary scales and indicating the direction in which heat energy will spontaneously flow, i.e., from a hotter body ...
temperature inversion: a reversal of the normal behaviour of temperature in the troposphere (the region of the atmosphere nearest the Earth's surface), in which a layer of cool air at the surface ...
temperature stress: physiological stress induced by excessive heat or cold that can impair functioning and cause injury or death. Exposure to intense heat increases body temperature and pulse rate. If body temperature ...
temperature-humidity index: combination of temperature and humidity that is a measure of the degree of discomfort experienced by an individual in warm weather; it was originally called the discomfort index. The index ...
tempering: in metallurgy, process of improving the characteristics of a metal, especially steel, by heating it to a high temperature, though below the melting point, then cooling it, usually in air. ...
Tempest, Dame Marie: English actress, known as "the queen of her profession," who had a 55-year career as a star of light opera and legitimate comedy.
Tempest, The: drama in five acts by William Shakespeare, first written and performed about 1611 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from an edited transcript, by Ralph Crane (scrivener of ...
Tempietto: small circular chapel erected in the courtyard of San Pietro in Montorio in Rome on the supposed site of the martyrdom of St. Peter. It was commissioned by Ferdinand and ...
Tempio Malatestiano: burial chapel in Rimini, Italy, for Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, the lord of the city, together with his mistress Isotta degli Atti and the Malatesta family. The "temple" was converted, beginning ...
Templar: member of the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, a religious military order of knighthood established at the time of the Crusades that became a model ...
Temple: city, Bell county, central Texas, U.S. It lies along the Little River, just southeast of Belton Lake (impounded on the Leon River) and some 35 miles (55 km) south-southwest of ...
temple: edifice constructed for religious worship. Most of Christianity calls its places of worship churches; many religions use temple, a word derived in English from the Latin word for time, because ...
Temple University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is a state-related university and comprises seven campuses: three in Philadelphia, two in Montgomery county, and two abroad, ...
Temple, Frederick: archbishop of Canterbury and educational reformer who was sometimes considered to personify, by his rugged appearance and terse manner as a schoolmaster and bishop, the ideal of "manliness" fashionable during ...
Temple, Le: in Paris, originally a fortified monastery of the Templars and later a royal prison. It was built in the 12th century northeast of the city in an area commanded by ...
Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, 1st Earl, Viscount Cobham, Baron Cobham: English statesman, the brother-in-law of William Pitt, under whom he served as first lord of the Admiralty.
Temple, Shirley: internationally popular American child star of the 1930s, who was Hollywood's greatest box-office attraction at the age of seven in sentimental musicals.
Temple, Sir William, Baronet: English statesman and diplomat who formulated the pro-Dutch foreign policy employed intermittently during the reign of King Charles II. In addition, his thought and prose style had a great influence ...
Temple, The: in London, series of buildings associated with the legal profession. The Temple lies between Fleet Street and the Embankment in the City of London and is mainly divided into the ...
Temple, William: archbishop of Canterbury who was a leader in the ecumenical movement and in educational and labour reforms.
Templeton, Fay: American singer and actress who enjoyed popularity in a career that extended from light opera to burlesque to musical theatre.