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Vardhamana: (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...to be used by, other than philosophers, writers on law, poetics, aesthetics, and ritualistic liturgy. The school may broadly be divided into two subschools: the Mithila school represented by Vardhamana ...
Vardon Trophy: (from the article "Vardon, Harry") ...made in the game, he turned professional at age 20. He subsequently achieved dominance in the sport, winning the British Open in 1896, 1898, 1899, 1903, 1911, and 1914 and ...
Vardon, Harry: British professional golfer, who pioneered accurate and reliable hitting techniques that are still the basis of the modern golf swing. [1 Related Articles]
Vare Trophy: (from the article "Vare, Glenna Collett") ...after World War II.) She was one of the first six women elected to the Women's Golf Hall of Fame in 1950, and in 1952 the Ladies' Professional Golf Association ...
Vare, Glenna Collett: American athlete who dominated women's golf in the 1920s. [1 Related Articles]
Varecia: (from the article "lemur") ...include the black lemur (E. macaco), in which the male is black and the female is reddish brown. The rare black-and-white or black-and-red ruffed lemurs (genus Varecia) live in rainforests ...
Varenius, Bernhardus: a major figure in the revival of geographic learning in Europe, whose scholarly general geography remained the accepted standard authority for more than a century. [1 Related Articles]
Varesco, Giambattista: (from the article "Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus") ...have been delighted, in the summer of 1780, to receive a commission to compose a serious Italian opera for Munich. The subject was to be Idomeneus, king of Crete, and ...
Varese: city, Lombardia (Lombardy) regione, northern Italy. It lies among the Alpine foothills descending to the Lake Varese, north of Milan. The modern Piazza Monte Grappa is a square in the ...
Varese, Edgard: French-born American composer and innovator in 20th-century techniques of sound production. [4 Related Articles]
Varga, Evgeny: (from the article "international relations") A swift return to Communist orthodoxy accompanied the clampdown on foreign contacts. During the war the U.S.S.R.'s leading economist, Evgeny Varga of the Institute of World Economy and World Politics, ...
Vargas Llosa, Mario: Peruvian writer whose commitment to social change is evident in his novels, plays, and essays. In 1990 he was an unsuccessful candidate for president of Peru. [5 Related Articles]
Vargas, Elizabeth: (from the article "Media and Publishing") Two of the three major network evening news shows went through another topsy-turvy year. At ABC the year began with a team of strikingly young coanchors, Bob Woodruff and Elizabeth ...
Vargas, Getulio: president of Brazil (1930-45, 1951-54), who brought social and economic changes that helped modernize the country. Although denounced by some as an unprincipled dictator, Vargas was revered by his followers ... [10 Related Articles]
Vargas, Manuel: (from the article "Literature") Nocturno paceno by Bolivian Manuel Vargas was a novel that consisted of 16 accounts that could be read independently and that oscillated between realism and surrealism. Set during the seven ...
vargueno: wooden cabinet of mixed Spanish and Oriental origin that first appeared in Europe in the late Middle Ages and became a common article of furniture in the Spanish colonial empire ... [1 Related Articles]
variable: (from the article "logic, history of") The variables here serve as placeholders for terms or names. Thus, replacing "alpha" by "substance," "beta" by "animal," and "gamma" by "dog" in the schema yields: "If every animal is ...
variable air volume system: (from the article "air-conditioning") ...mixed to reach a desired temperature. A simpler way to control temperature is to regulate the amount of cold air supplied, cutting it off once a desired temperature is reached. ...
variable annuity: (from the article "insurance") The problem of inflation has led to experimentation with variable annuities in order to protect annuitants against decreases in purchasing power. The major distinguishing characteristic of a variable annuity is ...
variable cost: (from the article "accounting") Unit cost under variable costing represents the average variable cost of making the product. Compared to the average full cost, the average variable cost is more useful when making short-term ...
variable costing: (from the article "accounting") ...as full, or absorption, costing methods, in that the overhead rates are intended to include provisions for all manufacturing costs. Both process and job-order costing methods can also be adapted ...
variable expressivity: (from the article "genetic disease, human") ...the knees. Similarly, for some genetic disorders, clinical severity may vary dramatically, even among affected members in the same family. These variations of phenotypic expression are called variable expressivity, and ...
variable geometry wing: (from the article "airplane") Some aircraft have wings that may be adjusted in flight to attach at various angles to the fuselage; these are called variable incidence wings. Variable geometry (swing) wings can vary ...
variable incidence wing: (from the article "airplane") Some aircraft have wings that may be adjusted in flight to attach at various angles to the fuselage; these are called variable incidence wings. Variable geometry (swing) wings can vary ...
variable life insurance: (from the article "life insurance") Variable life insurance is similar to whole life insurance in that the insured obtains a fixed-premium life insurance policy that provides for a minimum death benefit. It differs, however, in ...
variable of interest: (from the article "statistics") In an experimental study, variables of interest are identified. One or more of these variables, referred to as the factors of the study, are controlled so that data may be ...
variable region: (from the article "immune system") The heavy and light chains that make up each arm of the antibody are composed of two regions, called constant (C) and variable (V). These regions are distinguished on the ...
variable star: any star whose observed light varies notably in intensity. The changes in brightness may be periodic, semiregular, or completely irregular. [2 Related Articles]
variable-cycle engine: (from the article "jet engine") For aircraft designed to fly mixed missions (i.e., at subsonic, transonic, and supersonic flight speeds) with low levels of fuel consumption, it is desirable to have an engine with the ...
variable-pitch propeller: (from the article "airplane") Propellers are basically rotating airfoils, and they vary in type, including two-blade fixed pitch, four-blade controllable (variable) pitch, and eight-blade contrarotating pitch. The blade angle on fixed-pitch propellers is set ...
variable-reluctance transducer: (from the article "telemetry") ...transducer-sensing device is a strain gauge based on the change in electrical resistance of a wire or a semiconductor material under strain. Another externally energized transducer, called the variable-reluctance type, ...
variable-sum game: (from the article "game theory") Players in constant-sum games have completely opposed interests, whereas in variable-sum games they may all be winners or losers. In a labour-management dispute, for example, the two parties certainly have ...
variable-wing bomber: (from the article "air warfare") The next generation of variable-wing bombers, such as the U.S. B-1 and the Soviet Tu-26 Backfire, were designed to avoid more sensitive electronic warning systems by penetrating enemy airspaces at ...
variables, separation of: one of the oldest and most widely used techniques for solving some types of partial differential equations. A partial differential equation is called linear if the unknown function and its ...
Varian, Russell H.: (from the article "Varian, Russell H.; and Varian, Sigurd F.") Russell Varian received his M.A. in 1927 from Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., and worked in a technical capacity with several organizations, including Humble Oil and Refining Company, Farnsworth Television Company, ...
Varian, Russell H.; and Varian, Sigurd F.: brothers who, with William W. Hansen, invented the klystron radio tube, a powerful microwave generator.
Varian, Sigurd F.: (from the article "Varian, Russell H.; and Varian, Sigurd F.") During the period 1935-39, Russell and his brother, Sigurd, a largely self-taught engineer and pilot, worked with William W. Hansen of Stanford to develop the klystron. Russell Varian and Hansen ...
variance: in statistics, the square of the standard deviation of a sample or set of data, used procedurally to analyze the factors that may influence the distribution or spread of the ... [4 Related Articles]
variance analysis: (from the article "accounting") ...the comparative income statement, one of which is illustrated in Table 4. This shows the profit that was planned for this period, the actual results received for this period, and ...
variance analysis: (from the article "statistics") A computational procedure frequently used to analyze the data from an experimental study employs a statistical procedure known as the analysis of variance. For a single-factor experiment, this procedure uses ...
variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: (from the article "bovine spongiform encephalopathy") ...grew over a possible relationship between the animal disease and the occurrence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in people. Beginning in the mid-1990s a new variant form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD) took ...
Variathus: (from the article "Lusitani") War broke out again in 153 BC, and under the leadership of Viriathus, an excellent strategist who managed to unite many Celtiberian tribes against the Romans, the Lusitani inflicted a ...
variation: in biology, any difference between cells, individual organisms, or groups of organisms of any species caused either by genetic differences (genotypic variation) or by the effect of environmental factors on ... [9 Related Articles]
variation: (from the article "navigation") ...needle did not point true north from all locations but made an angle with the local meridian. This phenomenon was originally called by seamen the northeasting of the needle but ...
variational principle: (from the article "calculus of variations") It is possible to formulate various scientific laws in terms of general principles involving the calculus of variations. These are called variational principles and are usually expressed by stating that ...
Variboba, Gjul: (from the article "Albanian language") ...missionary activities. Much of the small stream of literature in the 19th century was produced by exiles. Perhaps the earliest purely literary work of any extent is the 18th-century poetry ...
varicella-zoster virus: (from the article "chickenpox") Chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes herpes zoster (also called zoster, shingles, or zona), a localized eruption of large blisters. Chickenpox is the clinical ...
Varick, James: (from the article "African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church") ...by white ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1821 a conference attended by representatives of six black churches and presided over by a white Methodist minister elected a black ...
varicocele: (from the article "cardiovascular disease") ...bleeding into the surrounding tissues. Varicose veins may occur around the rectum and anus, producing hemorrhoids. If they occur within the scrotal sac in the region of the testes, they ...
varicocelectomy: (from the article "spermatic cord") In surgery of the spermatic cord, the aims are to preserve the blood supply to the testicle and the continuity of the ductus deferens. Varicocelectomy is the operation performed when ...
varicose vein: vein that is twisted and distended with blood. The term varix is also used for similar abnormalities in arteries and in lymphatic vessels. Varicose veins occur in a number of ... [3 Related Articles]
variegate porphyria: (from the article "porphyria") ...common form of porphyria, with an overall incidence of approximately one per 100,000 population; people of Scandinavian, Anglo-Saxon, and German ancestry seem more susceptible than others. (2) In variegate porphyria, ...
variegated horsetail: (from the article "horsetail") ...are often flesh-coloured and are present only for a short time in the spring. Wood horsetail (E. sylvaticum) grows in moist, cool woods and has many delicate branches that circle ...
variegated tinamou: (from the article "tinamou") ...conditions varying between and even within species. Many species have uneven sex ratios; preponderance of males seems to be more frequent. The ratio of males to females reaches four to ...
variegated toad: (from the article "toad") Harlequin frogs, which are also known as variegated toads (Atelopus; see photograph), are found in South and Central America. They are commonly triangular-headed and have enlarged hind feet. Some are ...
variety: (from the article "species") ...is of great importance for evolution in that individuals of one species share a common gene pool that members of other species do not. Within a single pool there is ...
variety show: (from the article "tap dance") The introduction of television and the rise of Las Vegas, Nevada, as a popular tourist attraction saved tap dance from a slow death. Variety shows, which included tap dancers along ...
variety-seeking buying behaviour: (from the article "marketing") Variety-seeking buying behaviour occurs when the consumer is not involved with the purchase, yet there are significant brand differences. In this case, the cost of switching products is low, and ...
Varig: Brazilian airline founded on May 7, 1927, with the assistance of a Berlin trading concern, Kondor Syndicat, which had begun flights in the state of Rio Grande do Sul the ... [1 Related Articles]
Varin, Joseph: (from the article "Sacred Heart, Society of the") (R.S.C.J.), a Roman Catholic religious congregation of women devoted to the education of girls, founded in France in 1800 by Madeleine Sophie Barat. Joseph Varin, a leader in the religious ...
Varin, Quentin: (from the article "Poussin, Nicolas") ...near the town of Les Andelys in Normandy, Poussin received an education in Latin and letters, but early on he showed an inclination for drawing. This talent was encouraged by ...
varina: (from the article "Lisbon") Despite modernization, Lisbon in many ways retains the air of a 19th-century city. The varinas (fish vendors) who roam the streets dressed in long black skirts still ...
variola major: (from the article "smallpox") Smallpox is caused by infection with variola major, a virus of the family Poxviridae. (A less-virulent form of smallpox, called alastrim, is caused by a closely related virus known as ...
variola minor: (from the article "smallpox") Smallpox is caused by infection with variola major, a virus of the family Poxviridae. (A less-virulent form of smallpox, called alastrim, is caused by a closely related virus known as ...
variolation: obsolete method of immunizing patients against smallpox by infecting them with substance from the pustules of patients with a mild form of the disease (variola minor). The disease then usually ... [2 Related Articles]
variometer: (from the article "gliding") ...familiar airplane instruments such as an altimeter, an airspeed indicator, a turn-and-bank indicator, a compass, and GPS (Global Positioning System) equipment. The most important instrument is the variometer, which shows ...
variscite: phosphate mineral, hydrated aluminum phosphate (AlPO₄·2H₂O), which is valued as a semiprecious gemstone and an ornamental material. Both variscite and strengite, a similar mineral in which iron replaces aluminum in ...
varistor: (from the article "crystal") ...I becomes proportional to a power of the voltage Vⁿ, where the exponent n has values of more than 100 in certain ranges of voltage. This material is called a ...
Varius: (from the article "Latin literature") Little is known of the "strong epic" for which Virgil's friend Varius is renowned, but Virgil's Aeneid was certainly something new. Recent history would have been too particularized a theme. ...
Varkiza Peace Agreement: (from the article "EAM-ELAS") ...ordered ELAS to disarm, however, the resistance group refused, causing an outbreak of hostilities in Athens (December 1944), mainly between ELAS and the British. A peace treaty was signed (Varkiza ...
Varmland: lan (county) of west-central Sweden, extending north from Vanern (lake) and northwest to the Norwegian frontier. It takes in most of the traditional landskap (province) of Varmland. Much of its ...
Varmus, Harold: American virologist and cowinner (with J. Michael Bishop) of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1989 for their work on the origins of cancer. [2 Related Articles]
Varna: seaport and third largest city in Bulgaria. Lying on the north shore of Varna Bay on the Black Sea coast, the city is sheltered by the Dobrudzhansko plateau, which rises ... [3 Related Articles]
varna: any one of the four traditional social classes of Hindu India. Although the literal meaning of the word varna (Sanskrit: "colour") has invited speculation that class distinctions were originally based ... [6 Related Articles]
Varna, Battle of: (Nov. 10, 1444), Turkish victory over a Hungarian force, ending the European powers' efforts to save Constantinople (now Istanbul) from Turkish conquest and enabling the Ottoman Empire to confirm and ... [4 Related Articles]
varnam: (from the article "South Asian arts") Other forms used in South Indian classical music derive largely from the musical repertoire of bharata-natyam, the classical South Indian dance. The varnam, a completely composed piece, serves mainly as ...
Varnay, Astrid: Swedish-born American opera singer (b. April 25, 1918, Stockholm, Swed.-d. Sept. 4, 2006, Munich, Ger.), was one of the leading Wagnerian sopranos of her day. Born to Hungarian parents who ...
Varney Airlines: (from the article "Continental Airlines, Inc.") The company's history traces to Varney Airlines, incorporated by Walter T. Varney in 1934. Later it came under the control of Robert Forman Six (president 1938-82), who gave the airline ...
Varney, James: American comedian (b. June 15, 1949, Lexington, Ky.-d. Feb. 10, 2000, White House, Tenn.), starred in numerous television commercials and nine films as Ernest P. Worrell, a dim-witted Southern handyman ...
Varney, Walter T.: (from the article "Continental Airlines, Inc.") The company's history traces to Varney Airlines, incorporated by Walter T. Varney in 1934. Later it came under the control of Robert Forman Six (president 1938-82), who gave the airline ...
Varnhagen von Ense, Karl August: German writer, diplomat, biographer, and, with his wife, Rahel, a leading figure of a Berlin salon that became a centre of intellectual debate. [1 Related Articles]
Varnhagen von Ense, Rahel: German literary hostess from early in the 19th century whose soirees were attended by many of the German Romantics, notably August Wilhelm von Schlegel, Friedrich von Schlegel, Ludwig Tieck, and ...
Varnhagen, Francisco Adolfo: (from the article "Cabral, Pedro Alvares") ...Portuguese court. He retired to his estate in the Beira Baixa province of Portugal and spent his remaining years there. His tomb at Santarem was identified in 1848 by the ...
varnish: liquid coating material containing a resin that dries to a hard transparent film. Most varnishes are a blend of resin, drying oil, drier, and volatile solvent. When varnish dries, its ... [12 Related Articles]
varnish tree: any of various trees whose milky juice is used to make a varnish or lacquer. The term is applied particularly to an Asian tree (Rhus verniciflua), related to poison ivy, ...
Varohio: (from the article "northern Mexican Indian") ...peoples of northern Mexico have been divided into three branches-Taracahitian, Piman, and Aztecoidan. The Taracahitian branch consists of the Tarahumara of the southwestern Chihuahua; the Varohio, a small group which ...
Varosha: (from the article "Famagusta") ...occupied Cyprus from 1878 to 1960. They built extensive harbour installations at Famagusta, which became a naval base in World War II. During the British administration, a modern suburb called ...
Varro, Marcus Terentius: Rome's greatest scholar and a satirist of stature, best known for his Saturae Menippeae ("Menippean Satires"). He was a man of immense learning and a prolific author. Inspired by a ... [13 Related Articles]
Varroa destructor: (from the article "beekeeping") ...no good control for this mite. The only U.S. federal law pertaining to bees was passed to prevent the importation of adult bees carrying this mite into the United States. ...
varsoviana: (from the article "mazurka") ...single couples, the mazurka retains room for improvisation. The volume of mazurkas for piano composed by Frederic Chopin (1810-49) reflects the dance's popularity in his day. The varsoviana is a ...
Varthema, Lodovico de: intrepid Italian traveler and adventurer whose account of his Middle Eastern and Asiatic wanderings was widely circulated throughout Europe and earned him high fame in his own lifetime. He made ...
Varu-Karta: (from the article "Iranian religion") ...stone vault of heaven above. Beyond the vault of heaven was the realm of the Endless Lights, and below the earth was the realm of darkness and chaos. The earth ...
Varuna: in the Vedic phase of Hindu mythology, the god-sovereign, the personification of divine authority. He is the ruler of the sky realm and the upholder of cosmic and moral law ... [7 Related Articles]
Varunan: (from the article "Hinduism") ...to the old cults, some of which, however, were taking on an Aryan complexion. The pastoral god Murugan was identified with Skanda, and his mother, the fierce war goddess Korravai, ...
Varus, Publius Quinctilius: Roman general whose loss of three legions to Germanic tribes in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest caused great shock in Rome and stemmed Roman expansion beyond the Rhine River. [2 Related Articles]
Varus, Sextus Quintilius: (from the article "Varus, Publius Quinctilius") Varus came of an old patrician family, which had been without political influence for centuries. His father, Sextus Quinctilius Varus, was one of the assassins of Julius Caesar and committed ...
varve analysis: (from the article "De Geer, Gerhard, Friherre") Swedish geologist, originator of the varve-counting method used in geochronology.use inarchaeological datingarchaeologyDating...Mesopotamia goes back only 5,000 years. For a long ...
varved deposit: any form of repetitive sedimentary rock stratification, either bed or lamination, that was deposited within a one-year time period. This annual deposit may comprise paired contrasting laminations of alternately finer ... [4 Related Articles]
varvite: (from the article "varved deposit") Varved deposits in recent and ancient sedimentary sequences, where they are often termed varvite, frequently display disruption of the fine lamination and couplets by outsize clasts. These clasts are called ...
varzea: (from the article "Amazon River") The extensive lowland areas bordering the main river and its tributaries, called varzeas ("floodplains"), are subject to annual flooding, with consequent soil enrichment; however, most of the ...
Vas: megye (county), western Hungary. It borders the counties of Gyor-Moson-Sopron to the north, Veszprem to the east, and Zala to the south, along with the countries of ...