island in the Torres Strait off northern Queensland, Australia. It is surrounded by Prince of Wales, Friday, Good's, Hammond, Wednesday, and Horn islands, and it is the administrative centre for ...
burgh (town) and Atlantic Ocean seaport, Highland council area, historic county of Caithness, Scotland, and the most northerly town on the mainland of Great Britain. It was the centre of ...
American psychologist who was instrumental in the development of psychometrics, the science that measures mental functions, and who developed statistical techniques for multiple-factor analysis of performance on psychological tests.
18th-dynasty king of Egypt (reigned c. 1482-1479 BC) who suppressed a revolt in Nubia, Egypt's territory to the south, and also sent a punitive expedition to Palestine against some Bedouins.
Egyptian king of the 18th dynasty (reigned 1479-26 BC), often regarded as the greatest of the rulers of ancient Egypt. Thutmose III was a skilled warrior who brought the Egyptian ...
18th-dynasty king of Egypt (reigned 1400-1390 BC), who secured an alliance with the Indo-European-led Mitanni Empire of northern Syria and ushered in a period of peace at the peak of ...
largest carnivorous marsupial of recent times, presumed extinct soon after the last captive individual died in 1936. A slender fox-faced animal that hunted at night for wallabies and birds, the ...
extinct genus of carnivorous marsupials found as fossils in Pliocene deposits in South America (the Pliocene epoch began 5.3 million years ago and ended 1.6 million years ago). Thylacosmilus was ...
(Thymus vulgaris), pungent herb of the mint family (Lamiaceae, or Labiatae), the dried leaves and flowering tops of which are used to flavour a wide range of foods, including poultry, ...
the mezereum order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, comprising the family Thymelaeaceae, with 40 genera of shrubs, some trees, and a few herbs, of nearly worldwide distribution.
organic compound of the pyrimidine family that is a constituent of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). DNA, along with RNA (ribonucleic acid), regulates hereditary characteristics in all living cells. Like the other ...
pyramid-shaped lymphoid organ that, in humans, is immediately beneath the breastbone at the level of the heart. The organ is called thymus because its shape resembles that of a thyme ...
town, southern Malawi, in the Shire Highlands. The town is an administrative and trade centre and processes tea, the principal cash crop of the surrounding agricultural area. Tung and coffee ...
gas-filled discharge chamber that contains a cathode filament, an anode plate, and one or more grids. An inert gas or metal vapour fills the discharge chamber. The grid controls only ...
any of several types of transistors having four semiconducting layers and therefore three p-n junctions; the thyristor is a solid-state analogue of the thyratron vacuum tube, and its name derives ...
any clinical and laboratory procedure that assesses the efficiency of the thyroid gland in synthesizing the two most active thyroid hormones, thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). Nonspecific thyroid tests measure ...
endocrine gland that is situated in the throat below the larynx (voice box); the thyroid secretes hormones vital to metabolism and growth. The gland consists of two oblong lobes lying ...
any of various benign tumours (adenomas) or cancerous tumours of the thyroid gland. Most thyroid tumours are adenomas; these have a wide variation of cellular patterns, usually having well-developed follicles; ...
any of many inflammatory diseases of the thyroid gland. Several nonspecific types of thyroiditis, both acute and chronic, may be caused by any of a number of bacterial and viral ...
one of the two major hormones secreted by the thyroid gland (the other is triiodothyronine). Thyroxine's principal function is to stimulate the consumption of oxygen and thus the metabolism of ...
in Greek religion, staff carried by Dionysus, the wine god, and his votaries (Bacchae, Maenads). In early Greek art the Bacchae were usually depicted as holding branches of vine or ...
ancient Roman city south of modern Susah in Tunisia. Although it was originally a native community influenced by Carthaginian civilization, Thysdrus probably received Julius Caesar's veterans as settlers in 45 ...
former German corporation that, prior to its 1999 merger with Krupp AG, was the largest steel producer in Europe. It operated ironworks, steelmaking plants, and rolling mills; made building materials, ...
leading German metals, engineering, and manufacturing company founded in 1999 through the merger of Krupp (Fried. Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp) and Thyssen (Thyssen Industrie AG). The two companies combined at a ...
in botany, any of the tropical trees and shrubs of the genus Cordyline of the family Liliaceae, native to Asia and some Pacific islands. Many are grown as ornamental plants. ...
in music, transverse (or side-blown) bamboo flute of the Han Chinese. The name once applied to end-blown (hsiao) flutes as well but is now used strictly for transverse flutes. Ti ...
in Chinese Buddhism, bodhisattva (buddha-to-be) who is especially committed to delivering the dead from the torments of hell. His name is a translation of the Sanskrit Ksitigarbha ("Womb of the ...
site in central Shanxi province in China containing a series of Buddhist cave temples dating from the mid-6th century. The sculptures in these temples represent the Tang dynasty style of ...
in Roman Catholicism, a triple crown worn by the pope or carried in front of him, used at some nonliturgical functions such as processions. Beehive-shaped, it is about 15 inches ...
city, northern Algeria. It lies at the southern end of Ouarsenis Massif (in the Tell Atlas) on the slopes of Mount Guezoul (4,510 feet [1,375 metres]) at the edge of ...
historic river of Europe and the second longest Italian river after the Po, rising on the slope of Monte Fumaiolo, a major summit of the Appennino Tosco-Emiliano. It is 252 ...
city, northeastern Israel, on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee; one of the four holy cities of Judaism (Jerusalem, Hebron, Tiberias, Zefat [Safed]).
second Roman emperor (AD 14-37), adopted son of Augustus, whose imperial institutions and imperial boundaries he sought to preserve. In his last years he became a tyrannical recluse, inflicting a ...
Byzantine emperor from 578 who succeeded in defending the empire against the Persians to the east but suffered reverses in conflicts with the Avars and the Slavs to the north ...
part of the Mid-Sahara Rise of the central Sahara. Mostly in northwestern Chad, the mountains extend into northeastern Niger and southern Libya. The formation is about 300 miles (480 km) ...
historic region and autonomous region of China that is often called "the roof of the world." It occupies about 471,700 square miles (1,221,600 square kilometres) of the plateaus and mountains ...
vast, high plateau in Central Asia and part of China in which the Tibet Autonomous Region, Tsinghai province, western Szechwan province, and southern Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang are located. ...
member of either of two physical types of people who inhabit Tibet or nearby regions and speak Tibetan. Tibetans are sometimes distinguished by physical type, notably (1) a round-headed group ...
distinctive form of Buddhism that evolved from the 7th century AD in Tibet. It is based mainly on the rigorous intellectual disciplines of Madhyamika and Yogacara philosophy and utilizes the ...
dating system based on a cycle of 60 Tibetan years, each of which usually has 354 days (12 cycles of the phases of the Moon). Adjustment to the solar year ...
floor covering handwoven in Tibet and, more recently, by Tibetan refugees elsewhere. Before 1959, when thousands of refugees left the country after an abortive rebellion against China, the Tibetan carpet ...
Tibetic (or Bodic) language belonging to the Tibeto-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan language family; it is spoken in Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, and in parts of northern India (including Sikkim). The ...
body of largely religious and occult writings that has developed since the 7th century, when Tibetan became a written language. Until the 13th century most Tibetan literary works were skillfully ...
group of languages that includes all Sino-Tibetan languages except those classified as Chinese. (It also excludes the Tai, Karen, and Miao-Yao [Hmong-Mien] languages, when these are sometimes classified as Sino-Tibetan.)
inner and larger of the two bones of the lower leg in vertebrates-the other is the fibula. In humans the tibia forms the lower half of the knee joint above ...
Roman poet, the second in the classical sequence of great Latin writers of elegiacs that begins with Cornelius Gallus and continues through Tibullus and Sextus Propertius to Ovid. Quintilian considered ...
(from the 17th-century French tic or ticq, "a twitching"), a sudden rapid, recurring contraction in a muscle or group of muscles, occurring more often in the upper parts of the ...
canton, southern Switzerland; wedge shaped, it protrudes into Italy to the west and south and is bounded by the cantons of Valais and Uri to the north and Graubunden to ...
river, tributary of the Po River, rising in the Swiss part of the Alpilepoutine (mountains) near Novena Pass, Switz., at about 8,000 feet (2,440 m) and draining an area of ...
any of the roughly 825 species of invertebrates of the suborder Ixodida, within the order Parasitiformes, subclass Acari (sometimes Acarina, or Acarida).
English verse writer and man of letters who is, however, best remembered for the quarrel involving his translation of the first book of Homer's Iliad in 1715, which appeared contemporaneously ...
high-speed means of reporting information on securities transactions. It provides the stock symbol, number of shares, and price of each transaction; these are transmitted to tickers at brokerage houses. The ...
any ornamental summer-blooming plant of the genus Coreopsis of the family Asteraceae, consisting of about 100 species of annual and perennial herbs native to North America. Members of the genus ...
mountain pass of the Cordillera Central of the Peruvian Andes, about 60 mi (100 km) northeast of Lima, through the highest part of which (La Cima), at an elevation of ...
unincorporated village and town (township), Essex county, northeastern New York, U.S., at the north outlet (La Chute River) of Lake George where it drains into Lake Champlain. Located on an ...
level muddy surface bordering an estuary, alternately submerged and exposed to the air by changing tidal levels. The tidal waters enter and leave a tidal flat through fairly straight major ...
in astronomy, strain produced in a celestial body (such as the Earth or Moon) that undergoes cyclic variations in gravitational attraction as it orbits, or is orbited by, a second ...
electricity produced by turbines operated by tidal flow. Many ideas for harnessing the tides were put forward in the first half of the 20th century, but no scheme proved technically ...
any of the cyclic deformations of one astronomical body caused by the gravitational forces exerted by others. The most familiar are the periodic variations in sea level on the Earth ...
natural region in eastern Virginia, U.S., comprising a low-lying alluvial plain on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay between the Atlantic Ocean and the Fall Line (a line marking the ...
one of the Moluccas (Maluku) islands, east-central Indonesia. With an area of 45 square miles (116 square km), Tidore lies off the western coast of central Halmahera and forms part ...
imprint taken from calligraphy engraved on stone or wood. The practice emerged in the Tang dynasty (618-907) as a method of studying the style of earlier calligraphers and developed into ...
method of dyeing by hand in which coloured patterns are produced in the fabric by gathering together many small portions of material and tying them tightly with string before immersing ...
