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terminal cisterna: (from the article "muscle") ...saclike membranes. Each segment of the sarcoplasmic reticulum forms a cufflike structure surrounding a myofibril. The portion in contact with the transverse tubule forms an enlarged sac called the terminal ...
terminal control area: (from the article "airport") ...en route air traffic control instructions as it flies through successive flight information regions (FIRs). Upon approaching an airport at which a landing is to be made, the aircraft passes ...
terminal Doppler weather radar: (from the article "radar") ...weather hazard to aircraft in the process of landing or taking off from an airport is the downburst, or microburst. This strong downdraft causes wind shear capable of forcing aircraft ...
terminal ganglion: (from the article "nervous system, human") ...from the base of the skull to the coccyx; these are referred to as paravertebral ganglia. Prevertebral motor ganglia are located near internal organs innervated by their projecting fibres, while ...
terminal hair: (from the article "hair") ...the soles of the feet, undersurfaces of the fingers and toes, and a few other places. At and following puberty, this hair is supplemented by longer, coarser, more heavily pigmented ...
terminal handler: (from the article "computer science") ...work was required of the operating system with the advent of interactive computing, in which the user enters commands directly at a terminal and waits for the system to respond. ...
terminal moraine: (from the article "moraine") A terminal, or end, moraine consists of a ridgelike accumulation of glacial debris pushed forward by the leading glacial snout and dumped at the outermost edge of any given ice ...
terminal pedestal: (from the article "term") ...the body of the figure, with feet sometimes indicated at its base. The pillar itself may be a separate object (i.e., a pedestal for the head or other sculpture), in ...
terminal phase: (from the article "rocket and missile system") ...the missile is capable of placing on a ballistic trajectory toward a target. By midcourse the warheads have detached from the remainder of the payload, and all elements are on ...
terminal velocity: steady speed achieved by an object freely falling through a gas or liquid. A typical terminal velocity for a parachutist who delays opening the chute is about 150 miles (240 ...
Terminalia: genus of about 200 species of trees of the family Combretaceae. Some species are commercially important for products such as gums, resins, and tanning extracts. T. arjuna, of Southeast Asia; ...
Terminalia: (from the article "Terminus") ...and might be slain; a fine was later substituted for the death penalty. From this sacred object evolved the god Terminus. On February 23 (the end of the old Roman ...
terminating judgment: (from the article "Lewis, C.I.") ...problems are instead a matter of the subjective interpretations that individuals make about their sensory experiences. The only possible certainty is that provided by what Lewis calls terminating judgment, which ...
termination: (from the article "chain reaction") ...with the original reactants, producing stable products and another intermediate, whether of the same or different kind; the new intermediate reacts as before, so a repetitive cycle begins. (3) Termination, ...
termination: (from the article "Native American") The ultimate goals of assimilationist programming were to completely divest native peoples of their cultural practices and to terminate their special relationship to the national government. Canada's attempts at promoting ...
termination statement: (from the article "applied logic") This seeming impasse can be broken, in effect, by importing truth into the sphere of commands through the back door: with any command one can associate its termination statement, which, ...
terminator: (from the article "Moon") With binoculars or a small telescope, an observer can see details of the Moon's near side in addition to the pattern of maria and highlands. As the Moon passes through ...
Termini Imerese: town, northern Sicily, Italy, on the Golfo (gulf) di Termini Imerese (an inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea), southeast of Palermo city. It was possibly a Phoenician seaport or trading station, ...
Terminillo, Mount: (from the article "Lazio") ...of Roma, Frosinone, Latina, Rieti, and Viterbo. In the east Lazio is dominated by the Reatini, Sabini, Simbruini, and Ernici ranges of the central Apennines, rising to 7,270 feet (2,216 ...
Terminos Lagoon: lagoon in southwestern Campeche state, at the base of the Yucatan Peninsula, eastern Mexico. An inlet of the Bay of Campeche on the Gulf of Mexico, it measures 45 miles ...
Terminus: (Latin: Boundary Stone), originally, in Roman cult, a boundary stone or post fixed in the ground during a ceremony of sacrifice and anointment. Anyone who removed a boundary stone was ...
termite: any of a group of cellulose-eating insects, the social system of which shows remarkable parallels with those of ants and bees, although it has evolved independently. Even though termites are ... [10 Related Articles]
termite savanna: (from the article "savanna") ...In Kenya old termite mounds, which are raised above the general soil surface, also provide flood-proof sites where trees and shrubs can grow, with grassland between them, forming the so-called ...
Termite Terrace: (from the article "animation") Less edgy than the Fleischers but every bit as anarchic were the animations produced by the Warner Bros. cartoon studio, known to its residents as "Termite Terrace." The studio was ...
Termopsinae: (from the article "termite") The family Kalotermitidae and the subfamily Termopsinae (family Hodotermitidae) make their nests in the wood on which they feed. These termites excavate irregular networks of galleries with no external openings, ...
terms of trade: relationship between the prices at which a country sells its exports and the prices paid for its imports. If the prices of a country's exports rise relative to the prices ... [2 Related Articles]
tern: any of about 40 species of slender, graceful water birds that constitute the subfamily Sterninae, of the family Laridae, which also includes the gulls. Terns inhabit seacoasts and inland waters ... [3 Related Articles]
ternary compound: (from the article "semiconductor device") Ternary compounds can be formed by elements from three different columns, as, for instance, mercury indium telluride (HgIn₂Te₄), a II-III-VI compound. They also can be formed by elements from two ...
ternary form: in music, a form consisting of three sections, the third section normally either a literal or a varied repeat of the first. The symmetrical construction of this scheme (aba) provides ... [3 Related Articles]
Ternate Island: one of the northernmost of a line of Indonesian islands stretching southward along the western coast of the island of Halmahera to the Bacan Islands east of the Molucca Sea. ... [1 Related Articles]
terne metal: (from the article "lead processing") Terne metal, an alloy of lead and typically 10 to 15 percent tin, is used to coat steel sheet in order to produce a strong, corrosion-resistant product that is widely ...
terneplate: steel sheet with a coating of terne metal, an alloy of lead and tin applied by dipping the steel in molten metal. The alloy has a dull appearance resulting from ...
Terni: city, capital of Terni provincia, Umbria regione, central Italy. It lies along the Nera River, north of Rome. The city was founded on the site of the ancient city of ...
Ternifine: site of paleoanthropological excavations located about 20 km (12 miles) east of Mascara, Algeria, known for its remains of Homo erectus. Ternifine was quarried for sand in the 19th century, ... [1 Related Articles]
terno: (from the article "Philippines") ...In the urban areas, many men wear an intricately embroidered shirt, the barong, for casual and formal events. On special occasions, urban women may wear the terno, a long dress ...
Ternopil: city, western Ukraine. It lies along the upper Seret River, 70 miles (115 km) east of Lviv. Although its date of foundation is unknown, the first known reference to Ternopil ...
Ternstroemia japonica: (from the article "Theaceae") ...have small yellow-green flowers and glossy leaves with prominent, sunken veins. A similar species, Cleyera japonica, has fragrant, creamy-white blooms followed by dark red, puffy berries. Ternstroemia japonica, a small ...
terokara: (from the article "Native American music") ...the Tropical Forest also have a musical bow for which they use a clay pot or metal bucket as a resonator. Another indigenous chordophone played by the Ache is the ...
Terpander: Greek poet and musician of the Aegean island of Lesbos.
terpen: (from the article "Zuiderzee") ...that are now the West Frisian Islands. From about AD 400 these low-lying sandflats were inhabited by the Frisians, who in the face of rising sea levels built the first ...
terpene: any of a class of hydrocarbons occurring widely in plants and animals and empirically regarded as built up from isoprene, a hydrocarbon consisting of five carbon atoms attached to eight ... [4 Related Articles]
terpinene: (from the article "isoprenoid") ...already been mentioned, and the oxygenated derivatives alpha-terpineol and terpin (terpin hydrate) are commercially important chemicals. Mixtures of terpin, alpha-terpineol, terpinolene, and the terpinenes result from the treatment of alpha-pinene ...
terpineol: (from the article "isoprenoid") ...filament. Few commercial uses, other than as flavourings, exist for the monocyclic monoterpene hydrocarbons. Menthol, which has already been mentioned, and the oxygenated derivatives alpha-terpineol and terpin (terpin hydrate) are ...
terpinolene: (from the article "isoprenoid") ...above), an oil of normal boiling point 178 °C (352 °F), is a major component of orange and lemon oils and is typical of the monocyclic monoterpene hydrocarbons. Others of ...
Terpsichore: in Greek religion, one of the nine Muses, patron of lyric poetry and dancing (in some versions, flute playing). She is perhaps the most widely known of the Muses, her ... [1 Related Articles]
terra: (from the article "Venus") Two striking features are the continent-sized highland areas, or terrae-Ishtar Terra in the northern hemisphere and Aphrodite Terra along the equator. Ishtar is roughly the size of Australia, while Aphrodite ...
Terra Australis Incognita: (from the article "Antarctica") About AD 650, however, long before European geographers of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance were to conjecture about the mythical Terra Australis, Maori legend tells of a New Zealand ...
terra caida: (from the article "Amazon River") ...upland extends both north and south to the horizon. Occasionally these bluffs are undercut by the river as it swings to and fro across the alluvium, producing the
terra firme: (from the article "Brazil") ...as the watercourse approaches the Atlantic, but no delta extends into the ocean. The basin's most widespread topographical features are gently undulating hills called terra firme ("solid ...
Terra Fria: (from the article "Tras-os-Montes") ...Douro River, and west by the mountains of Geres, Cabreira, and Marao. Geologically a part of the Meseta Central (q.v.), the terrain may be divided physically into two regions. Terra ...
Terra Lliure: (from the article "Spain") Other autonomous communities have had similar but much smaller and less significant illegal organizations whose terrorist activities have ceased, including the Terra Lliure (Free Country) in Catalonia and Exercito Guerrilheiro ...
Terra Museum of American Art: (from the article "Libraries and Museums") ...disaster in the Darfur region of The Sudan, the British Museum dropped the admission fee and asked the public to instead donate to charities working in the Darfur area. In ...
terra preta dos Indios: (from the article "Amazon River") ...Small areas are underlain with basaltic and diabasic rocks, with reddish soils (terra roxa) of considerable natural fertility. The terra preta dos Indios ("black ...
Terra Quente: (from the article "Tras-os-Montes") ...physically into two regions. Terra Fria in the north is a monotonous sequence of rolling hills and dry plateaus where grains (especially rye) are extensively cultivated and livestock are raised. ...
terra rossa: (from the article "Montenegro") A distinctive feature of Montenegro is the accumulations of terra rossa in its coastal area. This red soil, a product of the weathering of dolomite and limestone rocks, is also ...
terra roxa: (from the article "Amazon River") ...fertility because of their lack of phosphate, nitrogen, and potash and their high acidity. Small areas are underlain with basaltic and diabasic rocks, with reddish soils (terra ...
terra sigillata ware: bright-red, polished pottery used throughout the Roman Empire from the 1st century BC to the 3rd century AD. The term means literally ware made of clay impressed with designs. Other ... [3 Related Articles]
Terra, Gabriel: (from the article "Uruguay") In 1930 the Colorado presidential candidate, Gabriel Terra, successfully maneuvered through the political vacuum created by the death in 1929 of Batlle, who had held an increasingly complex political and ...
terra-cotta: (Italian: "baked earth"), literally, any kind of fired clay but, in general usage, a kind of object-e.g., vessel, figure, or structural form-made from fairly coarse, porous clay that when fired ... [14 Related Articles]
terra-cotta army: (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...of the earth below, with rivers of liquid mercury driven by mechanical contrivances. Excavations around the tomb have uncovered a large protective "spirit army" of some 7,000 life-size terra-cotta figurines, ...
terrace: (from the article "beach") ...tide height, and sediment composition and distribution. The following, however, constitute some of the profile elements that commonly occur. At the upper part, above high sea level, a beach terrace ...
terrace cultivation: method of growing crops on sides of hills or mountains by planting on graduated terraces built into the slope. Though labour-intensive, the method has been employed effectively to maximize arable ... [4 Related Articles]
terrace vase: (from the article "Marieberg pottery") ...in evidence during the period when Sten was manager. The factory produced tureens with applied fruit and flowers. Its most original faience production, almost verging on the eccentric, is the ...
Terracina: town and episcopal see, Lazio (Latium) region, south central Italy, on the Golfo (gulf) di Gaeta (an inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea) at the foot of the Monti Ausoni, southeast ...
terraferma: (from the article "Venice") Although Venice may aptly be regarded as an isolated sea city, it has always had close links with the surrounding marshlands and the mainland of northern Italy. The Venetian republic ...
terrain: (from the article "tactics") Finally, in tactics (as in strategy) there is the topographical element to consider. Land warfare is fought neither in a vacuum nor on a uniformly checkered board. Instead, it unfolds ...
Terramare culture: (from the article "Western architecture") From 1500 BC in Emilia, in northern Italy south of the Po River, the Terramare culture developed. This culture was characterized by a curious world of terramare, ...
terrane: (from the article "Cambrian Period") Several terranes (fault-bounded fragments of the Earth's crust) seem to have been located near or attached to the margin of the northern Africa sector of Gondwana in the high southern ...
terrapin: a term formerly used to refer to any aquatic turtle but now restricted largely, though not exclusively, to the diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) of the turtle family ... [1 Related Articles]
terrarium: enclosure with glass sides, and sometimes a glass top, arranged for keeping plants or terrestrial or semi-terrestrial animals indoors. The purpose may be decoration, scientific observation, or plant or animal ... [2 Related Articles]
Terrassa: city, Barcelona provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Catalonia, in northeastern Spain. Terrassa lies along the coastal plain, just northwest of ...
Terrasses, Les: (from the article "Western architecture") ...at the Werkbund Exposition at Stuttgart (1927), and his influential but unexecuted submittal to the League of Nations competition-was a footnote to that dream of a new city. The villa, ...
Terray, Joseph-Marie: French controller general of finances during the last four years of the reign of King Louis XV. Terray instituted a series of financial reforms that, had they been maintained and ... [2 Related Articles]
Terray, Lionel: (from the article "Makalu") ...Makalu had been observed by climbers of Mount Everest, but attempts to ascend its steep, glacier-covered sides did not begin until 1954. On May 15, 1955, two members-Jean Couzy and ...
terrazzo: (from the article "building construction") ...vinyl composition tile. In areas of higher traffic harder surfaces may be used-for example, cut stone tiles of marble or granite, ceramic tile applied with epoxy adhesive to the substrate, ...
terre de barre: (from the article "Togo") ...which is Lake Togo. Beyond the coast lies the Ouatchi Plateau, which stretches about 20 miles inland at an altitude of some 200 to 300 feet (60 to 90 metres). ...
terre de pipe: (from the article "pottery") ...models by Paul-Louis Cyffle (1724-1806). At Luneville, not far away, Cyffle worked in a pleasant but sentimental vein and used a semiporcelain biscuit body known as terre-de-Lorraine, which was intended ...
Terre Haute: city, seat (1818) of Vigo county, western Indiana, U.S. It lies on a 10-mile (16-km) square plateau above the Wabash River (whence its French name meaning "high ground"), 71 miles ...
Terrell, Ernie: (from the article "Ali, Muhammad") ...Williams. Over the course of three rounds, Ali landed more than 100 punches, scored four knockdowns, and was hit a total of three times. Ali's triumph over Williams was succeeded ...
Terrell, Mary Eliza Church: American social activist who was cofounder and first president of the National Association of Colored Women. She was an early civil rights advocate, an educator, an author, and a lecturer ... [1 Related Articles]
Terrell, Robert Heberton: (from the article "Terrell, Mary Eliza Church") ...She taught languages at Wilberforce University and at a black secondary school in Washington, D.C. After a two-year tour of Europe, she completed a master's degree from Oberlin (1888) and ...
terrestrial ecosystem: (from the article "angiosperm") As the principal component of the terrestrial biosphere, the angiosperm flora determines many features of the habitat, some of which are available food, aspects of the forest canopy, and grazing ...
terrestrial flight telephone system: (from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...Canada. A second-generation system, GTE GenStar, employs digital modulation. In Europe the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) adopted a terrestrial APC system known as the terrestrial flight telephone system (TFTS) ...
terrestrial locomotion: any of several forms of animal movement such as walking and running, jumping (saltation), and crawling. Walking and running, in which the body is carried well off the surface on ... [3 Related Articles]
terrestrial planet: (from the article "planet") Of the eight currently recognized planets of the solar system, the inner four, from Mercury to Mars, are called terrestrial planets; those from Jupiter to Neptune are called giant planets ...
terrestrial plant: (from the article "community ecology") Terrestrial plants are believed to have evolved from the chlorophytes, such as the green algae. Their survival on land demanded special adaptations to prevent them from drying out and to ...
terrestrial stationary wave: (from the article "Tesla, Nikola") In Colorado Springs, Colo., where he stayed from May 1899 until early 1900, Tesla made what he regarded as his most important discovery-terrestrial stationary waves. By this discovery he proved ...
Terrestrial Time: (from the article "dynamical time") Terrestrial Time (TT)-formerly Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TDT), the successor to Ephemeris Time (ET)-is the theoretical timescale of geocentric ephemerides, and it is specified as TT = TAI* + 32.184 seconds, where TAI* denotes a ...
terrier: (from the article "Dog breeds and their places of origin") The Terrier group consists of both big and small dogs, but members of this group more than any other share a common ancestry and similar behavioral traits. Terriers were bred ...
Terrier: (from the article "rocket and missile system") ...Talos. Both used radar tracking and target acquisition and radio command guidance. The later Nike Hercules, also command-guided, had a range of 85 miles. After 1956 the Talos was supplemented ...
terrigenous facies: (from the article "sedimentary facies") Sedimentary facies are either terrigenous, resulting from the accumulation of particles eroded from older rocks and transported to the depositional site; biogenic, representing accumulations of whole or fragmented shells and ...
Terriss, Ellaline: (from the article "Terriss, William") Terriss' daughter Ellaline (b. April 13, 1871-d. June 16, 1971) became a great star in music halls and in both straight and musical plays from the 1890s to the 1920s. ...
Terriss, William: original name William Charles James Lewin one of England's leading actors of the later Victorian stage.
Territorial Army: (from the article "British army") ...itself during the Napoleonic Wars (1800-15). Reforms were carried out to improve its organization and efficiency in the late 1800s. Between 1905 and 1912 the Territorial Force (after 1921, Territorial ...
territorial asylum: (from the article "asylum") The right of asylum falls into three basic categories: territorial, extraterritorial, and neutral. Territorial asylum is granted within the territorial bounds of the state offering asylum and is an exception ...
territorial behaviour: in zoology, the methods by which an animal, or group of animals, protects its territory from incursions by others of its species. Territorial boundaries may be marked by sounds such ... [25 Related Articles]
territorial jurisdiction: (from the article "procedural law") ...and civil-law countries, which are likely to subdivide the problem into questions of "international jurisdiction" (i.e., which country may take the case) and questions of "territorial jurisdiction" (i.e., courts in ...
territorial principle: (from the article "international law") ...legislative, executive, or judicial actions. International law particularly addresses questions of criminal law and essentially leaves civil jurisdiction to national control. According to the territorial principle, states have exclusive authority ...
Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, Convention on the: (from the article "international law") The 1958 Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone provided that states cannot suspend the innocent passage of foreign ships through straits that are used for international navigation between ...
territorial waters: (from the article "commercial fishing") The Law of the Sea extended from 12 to 200 miles an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) within which a coastal country has control over fisheries and their exploitation. This effectively ...
territory: in ecology, any area defended by an organism or a group of similar organisms for such purposes as mating, nesting, roosting, or feeding. Most vertebrates and some invertebrates, such as ...