national organization of British trade unions. Although it is the sole national trade union, three other related bodies also exist: the Scottish Trades Union Congress, the Wales Trade Union Council, ...
in Spanish-American literature, short prose sketch in which a historical incident is related in an imaginative and literary style. An evocation of the South American past, the tradicion may be ...
printed stamps given as a premium by retailers to customers and redeemable for cash or merchandise from the trading stamp company when accumulated in specified amounts. Retailers sponsor trading stamp ...
ceramic materials that are derived from common, naturally occurring raw materials such as clay minerals and quartz sand. Through industrial processes that have been practiced in some form for centuries, ...
plaza in the City of Westminster, London, named for Lord Nelson's naval victory (1805) in the Battle of Trafalgar. Possibly the most famous of all London squares, Trafalgar Square has ...
(Oct. 21, 1805), naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, which established British naval supremacy for more than 100 years; it was fought west of Cape Trafalgar, Spain, between Cadiz and ...
metropolitan borough in the southwest of the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England. Most of the borough's area, including towns such as Sale and Altrincham, lies south of the River ...
branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by a heroic individual. By extension the term may be applied ...
branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by a heroic individual. By extension the term may be applied ...
dramatic work incorporating both tragic and comic elements. When coined by the Roman dramatist Plautus in the 2nd century BC, the word denoted a play in which gods and men, ...
city, southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It lies along the Columbia River at the mouth of Trail Creek, adjacent to Rossland, in the Selkirk Mountains, and just north of the U.S.-Canada ...
(species Epigaea repens), trailing plant of the heath family (Ericaceae), native to sandy or boggy, acid woodlands of eastern North America. It has oblong, hairy evergreen leaves 2-6 cm (0.75-2.5 ...
nee Strickland nature writer who, in richly detailed descriptions of frontier life, was one of the first to praise the beauties of the Canadian landscape.
Scottish professor of medical jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh from 1832, who was editor of the eighth edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
(b.1431, Ayutthaya, Siam [now Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand]-d. 1488, Phitsanulok), eighth king of Siam (Thailand; 1448-88), who established a centralized political and administrative system, the outlines of which lasted ...
in military aviation, an airplane that is designed and used to train pilots to operate advanced aircraft effectively. The complicated modern military airplane requires a high degree of skill on ...
influence the learning of one skill has on the learning or performance of another. Will knowledge of English help a person learn German? Are skillful table-tennis (Ping-Pong) players generally good ...
Roman emperor (AD 98-117), the first to be born outside Italy. He sought to extend the boundaries of the empire to the east (notably in Dacia, Arabia, Armenia, and Mesopotamia), ...
first bridge spanning the Danube River, built east of the Iron Gate Rapids at Turnu Severin by the Roman emperor Trajan (reigned AD 98-117) to guarantee the supply line of ...
monument erected AD 106-113 by the Roman emperor Trajan and surviving intact in the ruins of Trajan's Forum in Rome. A marble column of the Roman Doric order, it measures ...
Expressionist poet whose personal and wartime torments made him Austria's foremost elegist of decay and death. He influenced Germanic poets after both world wars.
urban district, county seat, and minor seaport at the head of Tralee Bay, County Kerry, southwestern Ireland. The earls of Desmond had their main castle at Tralee in the 14th ...
one of the two principal types of merchant ships as classified by operating method (the other is the ocean liner). The tramp steamer, in contrast to the liner, operates without ...
an elevated, resilient webbed bed or canvas sheet supported by springs in a metal frame and used as a springboard for tumbling. Trampolining, or rebound tumbling, is an individual sport ...
(1225-1400), rulers of a kingdom that successfully defended Vietnam from the Mongol armies and continued Vietnamese penetration southward down the Indochinese peninsula.
figure of almost legendary proportions in Vietnamese history, a brilliant military strategist who defeated two Mongol invasions and became a cultural hero among modern Vietnamese.
town, southern Thailand, on the Malay Peninsula. Trang is an inland town on the Trang River and is a centre for rubber production. A spur links Trang and the nearby ...
town and archiepiscopal see, Bari provincia, Puglia (Apulia) regione, southeastern Italy. It lies along the Adriatic Sea, northwest of Bari city. Trani originated in Roman times and flourished under the ...
drug that is used to reduce anxiety, fear, tension, agitation, and related states of mental disturbance. Tranquilizers fall into two main classes, major and minor. Major tranquilizers, which are also ...
former American airline that maintained extensive routes in the United States and to Europe, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. TWA was absorbed by American Airlines in 2001.
mountain range on the frontier between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. It is the most northerly range of the Pamirs and extends for 150 miles (240 km) east-west in an unbroken chain ...
world's longest national road, extending east-west across the breadth of Canada for 4,860 miles (7,821 km), between Victoria (Vancouver Island, British Columbia) and St. John's (Newfoundland), linked by car ferries ...
eastward continuation of the most northerly Himalayan ranges in the southern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It consists of an ill-defined mountain area about 600 miles (1,000 km) ...
("Trans-Siberian Main Railroad"), the longest single rail system in Russia, stretching from Moscow 5,778 miles (9,198 km) east to Vladivostok or (beyond Vladivostok) 5,867 miles (9,441 km) to the port ...
in Roman antiquity, the land bounded by the Alps, the Mediterranean, the Pyrenees, the Atlantic, and the Rhine. It embraced what is now France and Belgium, along with parts of ...
system of paved and unpaved roads in Brazil that is designed to facilitate settlement and exploitation of the vast underpopulated Amazon River Basin. The system consists of several major parts. ...
major American diversified financial-services corporation. Headquarters are in the Transamerica Pyramid building in San Francisco. In July 1999 Transamerica was acquired by Aegon NV, an insurance company in The Netherlands.
any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the transfer of the amino group (&singlehorzbond;NH2) of an amino acid to a carbonyl compound, commonly an a-keto acid (an acid with ...
mountain system subdividing the Antarctic continent into an eastern and a western region. The Transantarctic Mountains stretch for more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from Victoria Land to the shores ...
a small but densely populated region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains. It includes three independent states: Georgia in the northwest, Azerbaijan in the east, and Armenia, situated largely ...
the self that is necessary in order for there to be a unified empirical self-consciousness. For Immanuel Kant, it synthesizes sensations according to the categories of the understanding. Nothing can ...
term applied to the epistemology of the 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who held that the human self, or transcendental ego, constructs knowledge out of sense impressions and from universal ...
(TM), movement that was founded by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and became popular in the West during the 1960s. The movement is based more on the practice of specific techniques ...
19th-century movement of writers and philosophers in New England who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential unity ...
accord between the United States and Spain that divided their North American claims along a line from the southeastern corner of what is now Louisiana, north and west to what ...
region, that part of Hungary lying west of the Danube River, which flows north-south across the middle of the country. Both the English and the Hungarian versions of the name ...
device that converts input energy into output energy, the latter usually differing in kind but bearing a known relation to input. Originally, the term referred to a device that converted ...
a process of genetic recombination in bacteria in which genes from a host cell (a bacterium) are incorporated into the genome of a bacterial virus (bacteriophage) and then carried to ...
the area of a cruciform church lying at right angles to the principal axis. The bay at which the transept intersects the main body of the church is called the ...
method of decorating pottery by using an inked, engraved copperplate to make a print on paper that, while still wet, is pressed against a glazed pottery surface, leaving behind an ...
any one of a class of more than 450 enzymes that catalyze the transfer of various chemical groups (other than hydrogen) from one compound to another. Transaminases, for example, catalyze ...
protein (beta1 globulin) in blood plasma that transports iron from the tissues and bloodstream to the bone marrow, where it is reused in the formation of hemoglobin. Found fixed to ...
Christian commemoration of the occasion upon which Jesus Christ took three of his disciples, Peter, James, and John, up on a mountain, where Moses and Elijah appeared and Jesus was ...
denotation of the size of an infinite collection of objects. Comparison of certain infinite collections suggests that they have different sizes even though they are all infinite. For example, the ...
in biology, one of several processes by which genetic material in the form of "naked" deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is transferred between microbial cells. Its discovery and elucidation constitutes one of ...
a system of language analysis that recognizes the relationship among the various elements of a sentence and among the possible sentences of a language and uses processes or rules (some ...
device that transfers electric energy from one alternating-current circuit to one or more other circuits, either increasing (stepping up) or reducing (stepping down) the voltage. Transformers are employed for widely ...
form of pastoralism or nomadism organized around the migration of livestock between mountain pastures in warm seasons and lower altitudes the rest of the year. The seasonal migration may also ...
semiconductor device for amplifying, controlling, and generating electrical signals. Transistors are the active components of integrated circuits, or "microchips," which often contain millions of these minuscule devices etched into their ...
any of the first series of U.S. navigation satellites. Launched by the U.S. Navy in 1960-61, the Transit satellites were developed to provide an accurate, all-weather navigational aid for seagoing ...
alteration of a physical system from one state, or condition, to another. In atomic and particle physics, transitions are often described as being allowed or forbidden (see selection rule). Allowed ...
any of various chemical elements that have valence electrons in two shells instead of only one. While the term transition has no particular chemical significance, it is a convenient name ...
a conception of chemical reactions or other processes that involve rearrangement of matter as proceeding through a continuous change in the relative positions and potential energies of the constituent atoms ...
in mathematics and logic, statement that if A bears some relation to B and B bears the same relation to C, then A bears it to C. In arithmetic, the ...
former republic (though never internationally recognized as such) in southern Africa. It lay along the Indian Ocean and was surrounded mainly by the Republic of South Africa, though to the ...
in plants, movement of water and dissolved substances within the vascular system. Soil minerals and substances synthesized by root tissues move in very dilute solution in water through the xylem ...
in mechanical engineering, a device interposed between a source of power and a specific application for the purpose of adapting one to the other. Most mechanical transmissions function as rotary ...
conversion of one chemical element into another. A transmutation entails a change in the structure of atomic nuclei and hence may be induced by a nuclear reaction (q.v.), such as ...
("That Which Lies Beyond the River"), historical region of Turkistan in Central Asia east of the Amu Darya (Oxus River) and west of the Syr Darya (Jaxartes River), roughly corresponding ...
