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 127. ISBN 978-1-58297-393-7. Ogilvie, Brian W. (2006). The science of describing: Natural history in renaissance Europe. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago...

In computer programming, self-documenting (or self-describing) source code and user interfaces follow naming conventions and structured programming conventions...

description or descriptive linguistics is the work of objectively analyzing and describing how language is actually used (or how it was used in the past) by a speech...

Gantner Verlag KG. ISBN 978-3-87429-425-6. Winston, Judith E. 1999. Describing Species: Practical Taxonomic Procedure For Biologists. Columbia University...

different from total war. The earliest use of the phrase dates back to 1883, describing attempts by Dutch and British forces to liberate the 28-man crew of the...

A platform display, destination display or train describer (British English) is supplementing the destination sign on arriving trains giving passengers...

perfect knowledge of the initial conditions and the relevant equations describing the chaotic system's behavior, one can theoretically make perfectly accurate...

differences, including a larger size. A new subspecies of the African civet was described based on a skull found in December 1999 in southeastern Djibouti. The...

frequency and possibly amplitude; in this case, the describing function method can be thought of as describing the sliding mode of the feedback system. Using...

animal's body, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk. They then describe the animal based on their limited experience and their descriptions of...

Lightweight Information Describing Objects (LIDO) is an XML schema for describing museum or collection objects. Memory institutions use LIDO for “exposing...

"Anthony McCall's "Line Describing a Cone"". Harvard Film Archive. Harvard College. Retrieved April 28, 2015. "Line Describing a Cone". Whitney Museum...

mnemonic acronym OCEAN or CANOE, is a scientific model for measuring and describing human personality traits. The framework groups variation in personality...

neuropsychological phenomenon characterized by difficulties processing or describing one's emotions. Alexithymia occurs in 5% of the general population, though...

Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) is a standard used for describing materials in archives. First adopted by the Society of American Archivists...

unified set of terms to describe most of the movements, although other, more specialized terms are necessary for describing unique movements such as...

The "New World" (Latin: Mundus novus) is a term describing the majority of lands in the Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas, and sometimes Oceania...

championship belt when on Jeopardy! Masters, and was referred to as a "self-described game show villain". To hype up Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time in November...

nature of language and developing a general theoretical framework for describing it. Applied linguistics seeks to utilize the scientific findings of the...

statistical framework for describing machine learning. Most traditional machine learning and deep learning algorithms can be described as empirical risk minimisation...

statistics, a Markov chain or Markov process is a stochastic process describing a sequence of possible events in which the probability of each event depends...

meaning 'hazy' or 'smoky' and commonly used as a word for delusion, describing the state of mind of those infected. While typhoid means 'typhus-like'...

person, though the term is often considered a slur altersex – a term describing people who alter their sex, such as through hormone replacement therapy...

interaction participates in nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. The theory describing its behaviour and effects is sometimes called quantum flavordynamics (QFD);...

newly described during this period are: Brazil Colombia Peru Indonesia Philippines A number of individuals have been particularly prolific in describing new...

List of bird species described in the 2000s List of bird species described in the 2010s List of living mammal species described in the 2020s The date...

of biphobia. While some participants spoke favorably of bisexuality, describing the recognition of the validity of pansexuality as being contingent on...

irony evolved from denoting a form of deception to, more liberally, describing the deliberate use of language to mean the opposite of what it says for...

Ulthar" (1920) and "The Other Gods" (1933), respectively, which fully describe places and events alluded to in The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. Nyarlathotep...

Babbage and Ada Lovelace, describing the analytical engine. While building the computer Z1 in 1936, Konrad Zuse described in two patent applications...

book on sexual pathologies, Anil Aggrawal compiled a list of 547 terms describing paraphilic sexual interests. He cautioned, however, that "not all these...

derived data. While this standard describes itself originally as a "data element" registry, its purpose is to support describing and registering metadata content...

Maxwell's equations are a set of coupled partial differential equations that describe how electric and magnetic fields are generated by electric charges and...

"right-wing" have been variously used as compliments and pejoratives describing neoliberal and conservative economic and social ideas. The political terms...

The following is the list of mammals which have been taxonomically described in the 21st century. List of mammals described in the 2000s...

M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation". Later, the...

philosophy. Though Thales (c. 624–545 BC) was arguably the first scientist for describing how cosmic events may be seen as natural, not necessarily caused by gods...

The physical laws describing the behaviour of gases under fixed pressure, volume, amount of gas, and absolute temperature conditions are called gas laws...

(macroscopic and (optical) microscopic) scale, however is insufficient for describing them at very small submicroscopic (atomic and subatomic) scales. Classical...

argued that no National Crime Syndicate existed as a cohesive entity, describing the term as a journalistic and prosecutorial construct that overstated...

the specific tongue position and lip rounding. The terminology used in describing places of articulation has been developed to allow specifying of all theoretically...

unfamiliar chemical systematic name "dihydrogen monoxide" (DHMO) and describing some properties of water in a particularly concerning manner – such as...

in understanding the structure of the periodic table of elements, for describing the chemical bonds that hold atoms together, and in understanding the...

with identifying optimal decisions for a rational agent, rather than describing how people actually make decisions. Despite this, the field is important...

as 1549 by French surgeon Ambroise Pare. At the time, Du Laurens was describing what was considered to be a pair of organs (not the single two-lobed organ)...

the crossing. The word ford is both a noun (describing the water crossing itself) and a verb (describing the act of crossing a ford). A ford is a much...

The Washington Post described it as an example of therapy speak, arguing it had become a buzzword improperly used to describe ordinary disagreements...

many LGBTQ people have reclaimed it as a neutral or positive term for describing themselves, as well as reinforcing in-group solidarity. By extension,...

orders often trace their lineage from their founders and have a text describing their lifestyle called a rule of life. Such orders exist in a number of...

is to keep the foo counters turning." One book[which?] describing the MIT train room describes two buttons by the door labeled "foo" and "bar". These...

Earth, describing them as having no clean-cut shape ... small, hazy, and somewhat luminous clouds of colour with a brighter sparkish nucleus.describing them...

Comedy represents the journey of the soul toward God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin. The poem begins on the night of...

ship model) and abstract models (e.g. a set of mathematical equations describing the workings of the atmosphere for the purpose of weather forecasting)...

conservative criticism of the New Left in the late 20th century, with many describing it as a form of censorship. Commentators on the political left in the...

Flyover country and flyover states are American phrases describing the parts of the contiguous United States between the Northeast and West Coast of the...

the negative clinical association of the word stemming from its use in describing same-gender attraction as a pathological state before homosexuality was...

Guin herself took exception to this treatment of children's literature, describing it as "adult chauvinist piggery". In 1976, literature scholar George Slusser...

resources or triples can vary from format to format. This mechanism for describing resources is a major component in the W3C's Semantic Web activity: an...

Freud argued that his new model included the option of scientifically describing the structure and functions of the mentally healthy living being and therefore...

is used to determine the concentration of substances in a solution. It describes how the amount of light that a solution absorbs is directly proportional...

government denies that there is a personality cult surrounding the Kim family, describing the people's devotion to the family as a personal manifestation of support...

Eruciform (literally: "caterpillar-shaped") is the entomological term describing a certain class of shapes of insect larvae. The word eruciform literally...

some films and home videos, including DVDs. DVS describers watch a program and write a script describing visual elements which are important in understanding...

appearances as possible, with the hope of meeting them. The term is used mostly describing young women, and sometimes men, who follow these individuals aiming to...

mainstream pornography sites. Lust has said that she has no objection to describing her films as pornography, because she expects viewers to be sexually aroused...

"Spanish Ladies" (Roud 687) is a traditional British naval song, typically describing a voyage from Spain to the Downs from the viewpoint of ratings of the...

third-largest UK think tank by expenditure, but gave it its lowest rating, describing it as deceptive on funding transparency. The institute has worked with...

"middle" value. The basic feature of the median in describing data compared to the mean (often simply described as the "average") is that it is not skewed by...

Choice of Object Made by Men". It appears in a section of this paper describing what happens after a boy first becomes aware of prostitution: When after...

Most Questionable Cars of All Time" – where it was described as "Pathetic". CNN expanded by describing the Chevette as, "Another GM attempt to compete against...

without fully describing its control flow. Languages that permit this style allow a developer to minimize or eliminate side effects by describing what the...

notion of order using binary relations. It provides a formal framework for describing statements such as "this is less than that" or "this precedes that". Orders...

and documenting existing ones. It offers a visual chart with elements describing a firm's or product's value proposition, infrastructure, customers, and...

each other sexually explicit messages without having sex, and simply describing a sexual experience (also known as "sexting"). Cybersex is a sub-type...

Semantics describes the processes a computer follows when executing a program in that specific language. This can be done by describing the relationship...

magazine: "I have yet to meet a happy homosexual. They have a way of describing themselves as gay but the term is a misnomer. Those who are habitues of...

Butler. On March 6, MacGuire wrote Clark and Clark's attorney a letter describing the Croix-de-Feu, a nationalist French league of the Interwar period.[citation...

Italian grammar is the body of rules describing the properties of the Italian language. Italian words can be divided into the following lexical categories:...

behind ("posterior") and so on. As part of defining and describing terms, the body is described through the use of anatomical planes and axes. The meaning...

Steven Erikson has remarked on Hobb's writing of Fitz's perspective, describing it as a "quiet seduction" and "handled with consummate control, precision...

reported by software. Other information can be classified as a warning to describe a potential problem or as purely informational (not about a problem). Additionally...

analyse and describe the global economy. Other broad distinctions within economics include those between positive economics, describing "what is", and...

narrator, describing himself taking his father's record into his charge and finishing its writing. Before the very end of the book, Moroni describes an abridgment...

addition to listing linguistic materials (grammars, articles, dictionaries) describing individual languages, the database also contains the most up-to-date language...

The Venezuelan lowland rabbit is a new species of cottontail rabbit described in 2000, and named Sylvilagus varynaensis. It is the largest and darkest...

Historian of Satanism Gareth J. Medway described LaVey as a "born showman", with anthropologist Jean La Fontaine describing him as a "colourful figure of considerable...

[ispaniˈðað], typically translated as "Hispanicity") is a Spanish term describing a shared cultural, linguistic, or political identity among speakers of...

inaccurate stereotypes, such as being synonymous with accounting or limited to describing data. In 1998, Hayashi Chikio argued for data science as a new, interdisciplinary...

maximum is 55 knots (102 km/h; 63 mph; 28 m/s). The most common way of describing wind force is with the Beaufort scale that defines a gale as wind from...

states carrying out such acts usually avoid using the word annexation in describing their actions; in each of the unresolved annexations by Israel, Morocco...

input describing functions (HOSIDF) were first introduced by dr. ir. P.W.J.M. Nuij. The HOSIDFs are an extension of the sinusoidal input describing function...

Omnichannel is a neologism describing a business strategy. According to Frost & Sullivan, omnichannel is defined as "seamless and effortless, high-quality...

wave functions describing position and momentum, finite-dimensional vectors describing spin such as the singlet, and states describing many-body quantum...

Accounting Standards Board (IASB). They constitute a standardised way of describing a company's financial performance and position so that company financial...

electrodynamics) is part of the fundamental framework for understanding and describing nature. The modern concept of the quantum in physics originates from December...

verb inzuppare ('to dunk'). Several accounts exist describing the dish's creation. One describes it as created when the Dukes of Este, the rulers of...

When describing an orbit with orbital elements, typically two are needed to describe the size and shape of the trajectory, three are needed describe the...

several Sumerian leaders. Her best-known myths are Enki and Ninhursag describing her dealings with Enki resulting from his sexual exploits, and Enki and...

more ambiguous, with some manufacturers describing their packaged ice machine as an icemaker, while others describe their generators in this way. In 1748...

control theory, a closed-loop transfer function is a mathematical function describing the net result of the effects of a feedback control loop on the input...

a significant number of rapids. The term is also used as an adjective describing boating on such rivers, such as whitewater canoeing or whitewater kayaking...

Blessed would be reduced to a single island by the Theban poet Pindar, describing it as having shady parks, with residents indulging in athletic and musical...

which the light interacts. The techniques are particularly useful in describing geometrical aspects of imaging, including optical aberrations. A light...

historical importance because it includes historically unique chapters describing surgical training, instruments and procedures.[page needed] The oldest...

Media circus is a colloquial metaphor or idiom describing a news event for which the level of media coverage—measured by such factors as the number of...

elaboration likelihood model (ELM) of persuasion is a dual process theory describing the change of attitudes. The ELM was developed by Richard E. Petty and...

phalanx may be deployed for battle, on the march, or even camped, thus describing the mass of infantry or cavalry that would deploy in line during battle...

the pharynx. These divisions are not sufficient for distinguishing and describing all speech sounds. For example, in English the sounds [s] and [ʃ] are...

feel happier. In Greek the term originally had only a physical meaning, describing purification practices. In medicine, it can still refer to the evacuation...

separation, systems of caste, or cultures of social conservatism. Adjectives describing miscegenation include "inter-ethnic", "mixed-race", "multiethnic", "multiracial"...

(/ˈæməlɛk/; Biblical Hebrew: עֲמָלֵק‎, romanized: ʿĂmālēq) was a nation described in the Hebrew Bible as a staunch enemy of the Israelites. The name "Amalek"...

the Maxwell model for describing the behavior of a viscoelastic material and originated the Maxwell-Cattaneo equation for describing the transport of heat...

Natella. In 2008, Natella created a website called "Ever Dream This Man?" describing a supposed mysterious individual who has reportedly appeared in the dreams...

Rabinovitch, Megan Whalen Turner, J. K. Rowling and Neil Gaiman, with Gaiman describing her as "quite simply the best writer for children of her generation"....

litmus test: if you wouldn't use a word in the presence of someone you're describing, [there is a] good chance it's offensive. Writer Mike Rothschild linked...

Tongue-in-cheek is an idiom that describes a humorous or sarcastic statement expressed in a serious manner. The phrase originally expressed contempt,...

group-theoretic tools to be used on problems in field theory, such as describing the solutions to quintic polynomials. The study of field extensions and...

geometry to describe a curved universe with gravity; the study is called general relativity. Quantum mechanics is a set of principles describing physical...

commands for the computer to perform. Imperative programming focuses on describing how a program operates step by step (the order of the steps being generally...

used when referring to fictional literature and other narrative forms, describing a key character in a story who is perceived to be intentionally representative...

occurred in 1566 above Basel, Switzerland. The Basel pamphlet of 1566 describes unusual sunrises and sunsets. Celestial phenomena were said to have "fought"...

avocado, barbecue and chopsticks. In describing the preparation of avocados, he was the first European to describe the making of guacamole, named the breadfruit...

of communication, expressing ideas either in a literal sense (such as describing a specific event or place) or metaphorically. Poets have existed since...

knocked overboard by a sail yard. A section from Ynglingatal follows, describing that Eystein "fared to" Hel (referred to as "Býleistr's-brother's-daughter")...

eleventh to fifteenth Chaupais describing the role of Hanuman in reviving Lakshmana. In the twenty-first Chaupai, Tulsidas describes the need of Hanuman's kripa...

equation (named after Paul Langevin) is a stochastic differential equation describing how a system evolves when subjected to a combination of deterministic...

While the song has no chorus, it constantly repeats the word "sexy" when describing the feminine subject matter. Likewise, Brown continues to cast Marcia...

The model year (sometimes abbreviated as MY) is a method of describing the version of a product which has been produced over multiple years. The model...

chestnut. Marron is also one of the French translations for "brown". Terms describing interchangeable shades, with overlapping RGB ranges, include burgundy...

XMLTV is an XML based file format for describing TV listings, which has been introduced in 2002. IPTV providers use XMLTV as the base reference template...

The Antoine equation is a class of semi-empirical correlations describing the relation between vapor pressure and temperature for pure substances. The...

The specimens in a herbarium are often used as reference material in describing plant taxa. Some specimens may be types, some may be specimens distributed...

experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose to...

System (SMILES) is a specification in the form of a line notation for describing the structure of chemical species using short ASCII strings. SMILES strings...

Liar's Poker is a non-fiction, semi-autobiographical book by Michael Lewis describing the author's experiences as a bond salesman on Wall Street during the...

described in folklore and superstition. The word may perhaps derive from the term ympe, used to denote a young grafted tree. Imps are often described...

rebirthing humanity after its previous catastrophic end. According to sources describing Aztec belief, the fifth world will be destroyed through a series of catastrophic...

Stack Remix)", "Your Body Changes Everything (Boy Harsher Remix)", and "Describe (A. G. Cook Remix)", released April 29, 2020, December 3, 2020, January...

algebra is therefore a formal way of describing logical operations in the same way that elementary algebra describes numerical operations. Boolean algebra...

interactions have led to efforts to go beyond the Standard Model (which does not describe gravity) and combine all four forces into a theory of everything. In his...

Computer-Aided Manufacturing) is a function modeling methodology for describing manufacturing functions, which offers a functional modeling language for...

literature and Arab folklore usually speak of the shayāṭīn in abstract terms, describing their evil influence only. According to hadith, during Ramadan they are...

streaming services such as YouTube and Amazon Prime on 13 August 2019. Describing Jackson as "acquitted in life, back on trial after death", Chase the Truth...

in a 1975 martial arts competition in The Bahamas called the Kumite, describing the event as a 60-round single-elimination tournament held in secret every...

emotional and physical "unresolved issues" when he moved to Los Angeles, describing the experience as participating in a "marathon with my pants around my...

to how academics practice their intellectual inquiries when examining, describing, and explaining the Middle East. Moreover, the scope of Said's scholarship...

which adheres to the ideology of Neo-Nazi terrorist accelerationism, describing the ONA's works as "highly-recommended" in a blog post. In the contemporary...

and media. This might also cause semantic variation of the term between describing a region's political entities and its people. BRICS Eurasian Economic...

based on the older word holomictic. The concepts and terminology used in describing meromictic lakes were essentially complete following some additions by...

thought as tools for prediction, problem solving, and action, rather than describing, representing, or mirroring reality. Pragmatists contend that most philosophical...

contrast to old money; French: vieux riche [vjø ʁiʃ]) is a social class describing rich individuals whose wealth was acquired within their own lifetime,...

aplasia, breast hypoplasia, or mammary hypoplasia) is a medical term describing the postpubertal underdevelopment of a woman's breast tissue. Just as...

Forsyth–Edwards Notation (FEN) is a standard notation for describing a particular board position of a chess game. The purpose of FEN is to provide all...

elegy. Poem 4 is didactic and describes principles that Ovid would develop in the Ars Amatoria. The fifth poem, describing a noon tryst, introduces Corinna...

However, the gross and net register tonnages are still widely used in describing older ships. Tonnage Ton#Units of volume Transport portal Stopford, Martin...

singular style. Screenwriter and academic Jule Selbo expanded on this, describing a film as "crime/action" or an "action/crime" or other hybrids was "only...

broadcasting media. It usually involves one and more sports commentators describing events as they happen. Sportscasters usually work in a booth, set, or...

with the Living, Marie Darrieussecq describes the sensation in several pages (see for example pp. 21–22), describing a visit to an ophthalmologist: His...

Pavlovsky. Surkov compared Roosevelt's policies to those of President Putin, describing the New Deal as a potential model for modern Russia. Pavlovsky suggested...

trained and overseen by the elderly Fagin. The term has become an idiom describing a person who engages in skillful deception. In the novel, Jack becomes...

neologism and portmanteau coined by Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick describing the symbiotic relationship between China and the United States, with incidental...

"Magic Circle" is an informal term describing the five most prestigious London-headquartered multinational law firms, which generally outperform the rest...

In color science, a color model is an abstract mathematical model describing the way colors can be represented as tuples of numbers, typically as three...

concept of proxemics and exploring cultural and social cohesion, and describing how people behave and react in different types of culturally defined personal...

their dominance in society. The opposite of homosocial is heterosocial, describing non-sexual relations with the opposite sex. The term homoaffectivity is...

dollar gold coin, the weight of the bullion coin is typically used when describing American Gold Eagles (e.g., "1/2-ounce American Gold Eagle") to avoid...

completed in 1151 or 1152, describing 26 religious visions she experienced. It is the first of three works that she wrote describing her visions, the others...

reference work describing the grammar of a language is called a reference grammar or simply a grammar. A fully revealed grammar, which describes the grammatical...

A museum label is a label describing an object exhibited in a museum or one introducing a room or area. At a minimum, museum labels should identify the...

professional services firm Deloitte and released in early February of each year, describing the season most recently finished. The following table shows the clubs...

wherein Pope Dionysius of Alexandria mentions Saracens in a letter while describing the persecution of Christians by the Roman Emperor Decius: "Many were...

(Latin for "turned/curved inward on oneself") is a theological phrase describing a life lived "inward" for oneself rather than "outward" for God and others...

some phrases describe him or other monsters at Yammu's disposal such as Tunannu (the biblical Tannin). Most scholars agree on describing Lôtān as "the...

where: r is position, t is time, ψ is a function of r and t describing the disturbance describing the wave (for example, for an ocean wave, ψ would be the...

America North of Mexico (usually referred to as FNA) is a multivolume work describing the native plants and naturalized plants of North America, including the...

sexually appealing. In the term's historical usage, rough trade is a variant describing partners with characteristics stereotypical of extreme masculinity. This...

were tackled by a W3C recommendation. In 2014 IETF published RFC 7111 describing the application of URI fragments to CSV documents. RFC 7111 specifies...

described as being rendered with remarkable skill. A 1960 review in the New York Herald Tribune praised the "brilliantly written" passages describing...

November 15, 1883) was an American entomologist, responsible for naming and describing approximately half of the insect taxa known in the United States during...

technical usage in the Islamic theology, and is a branch of Islamic studies describing the beliefs of Islam. Aqidah comes from the Semitic root ʿ-q-d, which...

dealing with a crime or a gruesome death. Their lyrics form a narrative describing the events of a murder, often including the lead-up and/or aftermath....

Standards Authority (ASA) related to statements on the Skytrax website describing the volume and reliability of their reviews as well as the official status...

were described in the 2000s including the golden palace monkey or Madidi titi, named by auction. Three species of lagomorph have been described in the...

applications in physics. For transport phenomena, flux is a vector quantity, describing the magnitude and direction of the flow of a substance or property. In...

occurred. Some Christians have preferred to interpret the narrative as describing a local flood instead of a global event. Still others prefer to interpret...

ephebophilia should be especially used with regard to homosexuality when describing the aesthetic and erotic interest of adult men in adolescent boys in classical...

magazine commissioned Elliott to write twelve articles under the book title, describing his method of market forecasting. In the early 1940s, Elliott expanded...

mantle is the mantelet (also spelled mantelot and mantlet), typically describing a short version of the mantle. The term appears as early as 1386, in "The...

named for the Spanish botanist Nicolás Monardes, who wrote a book in 1574 describing plants of the New World. Monarda species include annual and perennial...

parameters in the theory when parameters describing large distance scales differ from parameters describing small distance scales. Physically, the pileup...

Look up easy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Easy is an adjective describing something that is not difficult to do. It may also refer to: Easy (2003...

This is a list of flags in the United States describing the evolution of the flag of the United States, as well as other flags used within the United States...

to represent how individuals manage limited energy. It is a metaphor describing the amount of physical or mental energy that a person has available for...

Flora of Australia is a 59 volume series describing the vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens present in Australia and its external territories. The...

mythic history up to the destruction of Troy, arranged geographically, describing regions around the world from Egypt, India and Arabia to Europe. The second...

the Warring States era Zhan Guo Ce, in the section describing the state of Qi. It is also described in Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian (under...

Pay it forward is an expression for describing the beneficiary of a good deed repaying the kindness to others rather than paying it back to the original...

believed by some to be based on Lyme Park, south of Disley in Cheshire. In describing the estate, Austen uses uncharacteristically explicit symbolism to represent...

article Bird species new to science This page details the bird species described as new to science in the years 2010 to 2019: Brazil Peru Philippines Indonesia...

in São Paulo named Smart Sampa, describing it as "'Big Brother' is watching with 25,000 cameras". The Times described the cancellation of the 1984 film...

the nonfiction book The Dangerous Book for Boys with his brother Hal, describing various games and activities for children. In 2007, Iggulden became the...

when a troll woman aggressively asked him who he was, in the process describing herself: Old Norse: Troll kalla mik trungl sjǫtrungnis, auðsug jǫtuns...

Lebensstil) was used by psychiatrist Alfred Adler as one of several constructs describing the dynamics of the personality. Adler was influenced by the writings...

drawn sword (destrictus ensis)." The phrase has also come to be used in describing any situation infused with a sense of impending doom, especially when...

atomic orbital is a function describing the location and wave-like behavior of an electron in an atom. This function describes an electron's charge distribution...

How to Solve It (1945) is a small volume by mathematician George Pólya, describing methods of problem solving. This book has remained in print continually...

mathematical notation described below. Each character in a regular expression (that is, each character in the string describing its pattern) is either...

associated with the porn industry describing anal sex immediately followed by oral sex. The term is primarily used to describe a sexual practice whereby an...

chemistry, molecular orbital theory (MO theory or MOT) is a method for describing the electronic structure of molecules using quantum mechanics. It was...

point x {\displaystyle x} in D {\displaystyle D} . For example, when describing the motion of a drum skin, one can consider D {\displaystyle D} to be...

mathematics, a definition is used to give a precise meaning to a new term, by describing a condition which unambiguously qualifies what the mathematical term is...

Primates described in the 2000s. Rio Acari marmoset (Callithrix acariensis) and Manicore marmoset (C. manicorensis), two species of marmoset described from...

nomenclature is a set of recommendations for naming chemical compounds and for describing chemistry and biochemistry in general. The International Union of Pure...

type—what operations are allowed and what results they produce—without describing how those operations are implemented. Some authors do not use the term...

"?!", "!?", "!", and "!!". The chosen symbol is appended to the text describing the move (e.g. Re7? or Kh1!?); see Algebraic chess notation. Use of these...

four gold chevrons and bordered in green. This may have been intended to describe his flag. Although red was a popular colour for pirate flags of the time...

kill themselves but survives. Mental health professionals discourage describing suicide attempts as "failed" or "unsuccessful", as doing so may imply...

blog that he would be starting a new political website, NewMajority.com, describing it as "a group blog, featuring many different voices. Not all of them...

Commonly it refers to how strictly or loosely an expression is used in describing any particular concept, but it also appears in expressions that indicate...

performance, with /Film's BJ Colangelo and Jacob Oller of The A.V. Club describing him as a scene stealer. Todd Gilchrist, writing for Variety, praised Harmon's...

is a pair of mathematical markup languages, an application of XML for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. Its...

years. The tablet of Old Babylonian period (c. 1900–1600 BC) from Ur describing the divine appointment of Alulim by the gods notes that he was chosen...

transferred epithet qualifies a noun other than the person or thing it is describing. This is also known as a hypallage. This can often involve shifting a...

Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Society (ISOC), usually describing methods, behaviors, research, or innovations applicable to the working...

United States, describing himself in an 1817 letter to John Adams Smith as a "Philo-Yankee". Writing to Andrew Jackson in 1830, Bentham described himself as...

of councils, ancient writers, doctrines, and private revelation. After describing the attributes of God, chapter 2 of the confession endorses the traditional...

(for selected). Each radio button is normally accompanied by a label describing the choice that the radio button represents. The choices are mutually...

Reusable Object-Oriented Software (1994) is a software engineering book describing software design patterns. The book was written by Erich Gamma, Richard...

for this branding early in its history, with its owner, Adolf Dassler, describing it as "The three stripe company". Finnish Sport Museum has a pair of footwear...

(/deɪ ˈdʒʊəri, di -, - ˈjʊər-/; Latin: [deː ˈjuːre]; lit. 'from law') describes practices that are recognized by laws or other formal norms, regardless...

The Duke of Wellington Describing the Field of Waterloo to George IV is an oil on canvas history painting by the British artist Benjamin Robert Haydon...

diameter, or apparent size is an angular separation (in units of angle) describing how large a sphere or circle appears from a given point of view. In the...

Glossary of Meteorology defines a landspout as: [A] colloquial expression describing tornadoes occurring with a parent cloud in its growth stage and with its...

originated in the art markets of Munich, Germany in the 1860s and the 1870s, describing cheap, popular, and marketable pictures and sketches. In Das Buch vom...

2022. Sources describing Loomer as a self-described "proud Islamophobe" include: Cillizza, Chris (August 19, 2020). "A self-described 'proud Islamophobe'...

"country" to describe Great Britain and Ireland respectively, when describing trade between them. The Government of Ireland Act 1920 described Great Britain...

gastric-cardia, is a medical syndrome coined by Ludwig von Roemheld (1871–1938) describing a cluster of cardiovascular symptoms stimulated by gastrointestinal changes...

Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras. Classical texts such as Manusmriti, describe these varnas as part of a theoretical hierarchical classification, and...

novel by the American author Terry Bisson. It is an alternate history describing the world as it would have been had John Brown succeeded in his raid on...

Post-fascism is a label describing political parties and movements which has transitioned from a fascist political ideology toward a more moderate, mainstream...

minds at the outset of a modelling endeavour is whether we are intent on describing a portion of "reality" (some human enterprise) or a data processing activity...

recreation. A "gym" may include or describe adjacent open air areas as well. In Western countries, "gyms" often describe places with indoor or outdoor courts...

with having coined the term "dark fantasy"—although both authors were describing different styles of fiction. Brian Stableford argues "dark fantasy" can...

Tunisia who strongly condemned the military's actions. The US avoided describing the action as a coup. Other states either condemned or expressed concern...

January 2025. In 2025, Windey stated that she identifies as a lesbian, describing her attraction to women as central to her identity and saying that she...

IPA Vowel Sounds Chart". YourDictionary.com. Retrieved 7 December 2022. "Describing English vowels". home.cc.umanitoba.ca. Retrieved 7 December 2022....

cases playing historical characters, such as John Wesley Hardin, and describing different destinations around the United States visited by train. The...

aspect of the total expense. In any case care should be taken to accurately describe what is meant by the chosen percentage so as to avoid ambiguity. Sydney...

elaborate on her nature, other than describing her role as that of a fairy or magician. Later, she was described as King Arthur's half-sister and an enchantress...

hair and gave him the nickname Fairhair. The text then described Harald's various sons, describing Eirik Bloodaxe as his most beloved and one of his oldest...

of describing spatial areas, the concept of regions is important and widely used among the many branches of geography, each of which can describe areas...

size, and the bond. It is common to use the name of the abrasive when describing the paper, e.g. "aluminium oxide cloth" or "silicon carbide paper". Sandpaper...

crystal systems. A crystal system is described by three vectors. In the monoclinic system, the crystal is described by vectors of unequal lengths, as in...

differential constitutive equations that are used to describe the property. Equations describing relevant materials properties are often used to predict...

In Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, the mention of Sköll appears when describing the story of Sol, who drives the chariot of the Sun in Norse Mythology...

particularly fruitful for various calculations in gauge theories and in describing nonlinear effects of electromagnetic fields. In 1884 C. H. Hinton wrote...

interface, mirror, or beam travel) is described by a 2 × 2 ray transfer matrix which operates on a vector describing an incoming light ray to calculate the...

Darnley was murdered at Kirk o' Field in 1567. Many contemporary narratives describing his life and death refer to him as simply Lord Darnley, his title as heir...

"Cruel and unusual punishment" is a phrase in common law describing punishment that is considered unacceptable due to the suffering, pain, or humiliation...

The three-world model is a lens of political analysis describing the world during the Cold War. The model divides the world's nations into three groups:...

equations describing physical phenomena. Poisson's equation describes electric and gravitational potentials; the diffusion equation describes heat and...

Waugh also contends that there are a few subversions in this dynamic, describing one film, the cartoon Buried Treasure (c. 1928), as an "overt interrogation...

a typically narrowed neck above a rounded body and a footed pedestal. Describing a vessel as an "urn", as opposed to a vase or other terms, generally reflects...

described Brussels as the jihadist capital of Europe. She has criticised the Gender Recognition Act 2004, and opposed transgender rights, describing them...

practice Customary (liturgy) or consuetudinary, a Christian liturgical book describing the adaptation of rites and rules for a particular context Custom (Catholic...

often described as "virtual" when they share important functional aspects with other things (real or imagined) that are or would be described as "more...

species of the order Primates that were described in the 2010s. Caquetá titi (Callicebus caquetensis) was described by Thomas Defler, Marta Bueno, and Javier...

worked with Spanish screenwriter Jesús Olmo to develop the screenplay, describing a process that took almost a year and that shaped the sequel around a...

Kitchen hack – Technique to make cooking easier Jugaad – Indian term describing a creative hack or kludge Jury rigging – Term for a makeshift repair Kludge –...

combined with discussion forums. Chessgames.com co-founder Daniel Freeman described the site as "a worldwide chess community where anybody from anywhere can...

parliamentary seats were won by the Conservative Party, with the media describing the red wall as having "turned blue". At the 2021 Hartlepool by-election...

companion book by George R. R. Martin, Elio M. García Jr. and Linda Antonsson describing the history of House Targaryen from Aegon Targaryen's conquest of Westeros...

to an apparent or actual lack of experience and sophistication, often describing a neglect of pragmatism in favor of moral idealism. A naïve may be called...

had sent their officers to walk the plank. Author Douglas Botting, in describing the account, characterized it as an "alleged confession" and an "obscure...

Modeling Language (GML) is a hierarchical ASCII-based file format for describing graphs. It has been also named Graph Meta Language. A simple graph in...

introduced by Margaret Thatcher, describing it as a "grave mistake" and advocates for replacing Housing Benefit, which he describes as an "absolute scandal",...

make a high-pitched or hissing sound. Anecdotes describing encounters with the creature or briefly described lore about them can be found in several areas...

This list of gastropods described in 2018 is a list of new taxa of snails and slugs of every kind that have been described (following the rules of the...

to the effects of YouTube's recommendation algorithm. Some IDW members describe themselves as liberals in opposition to what they perceive as the excesses...

define the profile by: First digit describing maximum camber as percentage of the chord. Second digit describing the distance of maximum camber from...

for including the markup in documents, as well as one for separately describing what tags are allowed, and where (the document type definition (DTD),...

symbolic "words" or "sentences" of a formal system Formal grammar, a grammar describing a formal language Colloquialism, the linguistic style used for informal...

The Z notation /ˈzɛd/ is a formal specification language used for describing and modelling computing systems. It is targeted at the clear specification...

have no known prophylactic measures, treatments, or cures. Along with describing the history of the devastation caused by two of these Central African...

American surgeon known for his work in thoracic surgery and remembered for describing the Churchill-Cope reflex. Edward Churchill was born on 25 December 1895...

music elements with heavy metal. In 2002, Kid Rock was quoted in Variety describing himself as a "country-metal-rap hillbilly". In 2006, David Allan Coe featuring...

Philosophy (Book II, chapters 47 & 52) as the Behenii (singular Behenius), describing their magical workings and sigils. He attributed these to Hermes Trismegistus...

A cladogram based on their phylogeny is reproduced below: When first describing Andrewsarchus, Osborn believed it to be the largest terrestrial, carnivorous...

"Hyndluljóð"), all jötnar descend from Ymir. Gylfaginning elaborates on this, describing that the primordial jötunn Ymir formed in the warm waters that arose in...

contest which decides a winner for an event Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of contests taking place after a regular season or round-robin...

of assertions made by L. Peter Deutsch and others at Sun Microsystems describing false assumptions that programmers new to distributed applications invariably...

Look published an unfavorable article about the three lead actresses, describing Tate as "a hopelessly stupid and vain starlet". Tate, Duke and Parkins...

In chemistry, resonance, also called mesomerism, is a way of describing bonding in certain molecules or polyatomic ions by the combination of several contributing...

particles.) N is typically on the order of the Avogadro number, thus describing the system at a microscopic level is often impractical. This leads to...

borrowed. In the previous example, "the world" is compared to a stage, describing it with the attributes of "the stage"; "the world" is the tenor, and "a...

illegally exploit it, nor tell others how to do so. The phrase was used to describe hackers who support the ethical reporting of vulnerabilities directly to...

Sustainable fashion is a term describing efforts within the fashion industry to reduce its environmental impacts, protect workers producing garments and...

referred to as personal aide (PA) or personal secretary (PS), is a job title describing a person who assists a specific person with their daily business or personal...

Snakes N' Barrels "covered" by Dethklok, which serves as a bonus track. Describing the character, Small said, "I thought the drummer should be able to do...

word θρίξ (thrix) meaning hair, describing Trichomonas's flagella. The suffix -monas (μονάς – single unit), describes its similarity to unicellular organisms...

genealogy or birth of the gods') is a poem by Hesiod (8th–7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed c. 730–700 BC...

specifically traditional color theory, is a historical body of knowledge describing the behavior of colors — namely in color mixing, color contrast effects...

the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for describing the appearance of map layers. It is capable of describing the rendering of vector and raster data....

there are few—often brief and nondescript—mentions of Sheol, seemingly describing it as a place where both the righteous and the unrighteous dead go, regardless...

cook and dietitian in 1944. She wrote a number of letters to her family describing her dismal conditions, even as she was brought closer into Hitler's orbit...

Rille /ˈrɪl/ (German for 'groove') is typically used to describe any of the long, narrow depressions in the surface of the Moon that resemble channels...

information such as describing the major components of the system. The plan can include relatively low-level information such as describing functions, screen...

Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Turkey is a document describing the basic political principles of the Liberal International. Creation...

typically thought to heighten the dramatic force of the narrative by describing events as if they were still unfolding, and/or by foregrounding some events...

were believed to live beyond the snowy Riphean Mountains, with Pausanias describing the location as "The land of the Hyperboreans, men living beyond the home...

and a companion of Shivaji Maharaj. local poet Tulsidas, wrote a powada describing Subhedar Tanaji's heroics and sacrifice of life in the Battle of Sinhagad...

"true hermaphroditism" (now known as ovotesticular syndrome), a condition describing an individual with both female and male reproductive gonadal tissues....

Valley, Utah. After Davis climbed it, she BASE jumped from the top. In describing this climb, she referred to her climb and jump as "the cleanest possible...

definition using the RGB color model. RGB color spaces are commonly found describing the mapping of the RGB color model to human perceivable color, but some...

the properties of computer terminals and not just text), is a retronym describing a type of user interface (UI) common as an early form of human–computer...

as hunting, tracking, watching, protecting and guarding; and language describing the dog often reflected these roles. According to the Oxford English Dictionary...

that is melodious') is the Muse of tragedy in Greek mythology. She is described as the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne (and therefore of power and memory)...

argues that the narrative combines a Yahwist narrator describing a rape, and an Elohist speaker describing a seduction. On the other hand, another critical...

refers to proximity to the front of the nose and is primarily used when describing the skull's position, especially in comparison to other animals. Similarly...

having little money (a "man of means by no means"), revels in his freedom, describing himself humorously and cynically as the "king of the road". It was Miller's...

In a circular manner, legal explanations for this normative position describe the non-enforceable speech as a statement that no "reasonable person" would...

others, looking inwards, looking out, discovering the same horror and describing it with the same dark strokes of gothic rock. Reynolds 2005, p. 423. Charlton...

wall of a body part, organ or cavity". The two terms are often used in describing a membrane or piece of connective tissue, referring to the opposing sides...

article from Gardner and Dukes describing the characteristic cells. The name was chosen for its brevity in describing the sine qua non of bacterial vaginosis...

Lexical similarity Semantic similarity Similitude (model), in engineering, describing the geometric, kinematic and dynamic 'likeness' of two or more systems...

Mythos, though the entity only appears in the title. The story begins by describing how the modern world has been stripped of imagination and belief in magic...

election, describing Trump's Democratic opponent Joe Biden and his 2016 Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton as champagne socialists. He also described his support...

the Keres. Ancient sources seldom distinguish or enumerate the Keres, describing them instead as a vast and host. In the Iliad, they are portrayed as "thousands"...

organization. ISO/IEC 12207 ISO/IEC 12207 is the international standard describing the method to select, implement, and monitor the life cycle for software...

queer in academic writing in the 1980s and 1990s as an inclusive way of describing gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender identity and experience, and also...

similarities with "Nordic", Germanic, or Scandinavian humans. Alleged contactees describe Nordics as being taller than the average human, standing roughly 6–7 ft...

described the myrrh of the first century AD as most likely to refer to a "species of mimosa", describing it "like the Egyptian thorn". He describes its...

Type of democracy principled on elected representation Ruscism – Term describing Russian political ideology Semi-authoritarian – Form of governmentPages...

Liberal Democrat MP for Leeds North West, Greg Mulholland was recorded describing health minister Ivan Lewis as an arsehole after Lewis refused to let him...

used in classical antiquity as a storytelling technique, with authors describing artworks and other objects in such detail that the audience would be able...

typical Sebaldian fashion) on a walking tour of Suffolk. In addition to describing the places he sees and people he encounters, including translator Michael...

This makes it possible to provide translations of the basic information describing the topic each item covers without favouring any particular language....

long-term financial stability. She opposed privatisation of Channel 4, describing it as a commercially successful public asset whose sale would harm the...

external stakeholders. An internal operational plan is a detailed plan describing planning details that are needed by management but may not be of interest...

believers of the catastrophic theory by studying Mount Etna in Sicily and describing the changes from one stratum to another and the fossil records within...

direct action, palingenesis, Third Positionism and ultranationalism), describing national-anarchism as "racist anti-capitalism" and "communitarian racism"...

often used in reference to a more general discipline—for example, in describing a software engineer who has general knowledge of computer programming...

them a zero score on their 0 to 100 fallacy-versus-fact "Science Index", describing Conservapedia as "the online encyclopedia run by conservative lawyer Andrew...

was "quite possibly the best record to appear in the last five years", describing it as "excellent in ways in which pop music hasn't been since the Beatles...

Dictionnaire Infernal (English: "Infernal Dictionary") is a book on demonology, describing demons organised in hierarchies. It was written by Jacques Collin de Plancy...

mythology, Nóatún (Old Norse 'ship-enclosure') is the home of the god Njörðr, described in the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning as located "in heaven". Andy Orchard...

Underweight is a term describing a person whose body weight is considered too low to be healthy. The definition usually refers to people with a body mass...

the angle from the batter, and is sometimes preceded by an adjective describing the distance from the batter (silly, short, deep or long). Words such...

spent over five years with the franchise, including extensive reshoots, describing it as both physically demanding and creatively rewarding. Wikimedia Commons...

This list describes characters from the anime and manga series Doraemon. Shizuka Minamoto (源 静香, Minamoto Shizuka), nicknamed Shizuka-chan (しずかちゃん) is...

original on January 6, 2015. Retrieved January 8, 2015. "Grant Wood's Letter Describing American Gothic". Campsilos.org. Archived from the original on November...

used in psychiatry to describe a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder. The name schizophasia is used in particular to describe the confused language...

of autological and heterological words is uncommon in linguistics for describing linguistic phenomena or classes of words, but is current in logic and...

preparations; and when one wants to describe a physical system that is entangled with another, without describing their combined state. This case is typical...

the eighth time", (abbreviated 8vo, 8º, or In-8) is a technical term describing the format of a book, which refers to the size of leaves produced from...

separated by differences in their size. At least up to 2025, the publication describing it was the most frequently cited paper by a single author, and the second...

notation (also Coxeter symbol) is a system of classifying symmetry groups, describing the angles between fundamental reflections of a Coxeter group in a bracketed...

"marks"—that's why we were yelling kayfabe in the first place. — Pat Patterson, describing his interaction with a ring attendant in the Pacific Northwest Wrestling...

denoting dolichocephaly are derived from European anatomy norms, and thus describing dolichocephaly as a medical condition may not reflect the diversity in...

2020, Trevorrow's script was posted to social media, with some critics describing the work as too professional to be fan fiction. Following the release...

Notice is the legal concept describing a requirement that a party be aware of legal process affecting their rights, obligations or duties. There are several...

geoinformatics" or "geodesy and geoinformation" is commonly used for describing this discipline. In addition, geospatial engineering is an alternative...

to write or to describe analysis patterns. Suggestions have been raised since to have a consistent and uniform format for describing them. Most of them...

aside" for the Bopeas, or Bohemian Peasants, a term and social theory describing downwardly mobile elite embracing a "rural life of making, brewing, fermenting...

specific functions in each one. The top (7th) layer is the Application Layer describing methods and protocols of software applications. It is then held that the...

Malaysian motor vehicle import duties is an article describing the excise duty on imported vehicles into the country. Malaysia's car industry is dominated...

as early as the late 1970s. The phrase was used in a literal manner, describing food that was unhealthy for human consumption, directly comparing it to...

chapter 24 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning. After describing Fólkvangr, High tells Gangleri (described as king Gylfi in disguise) that Freyja has the hall...

Cruciform describes objects resembling a common cross or Christian cross. These include architectural shapes, biology, art, and design. Christian churches...

to play the match. Shukla debunked the video on X on 11 February 2026, describing it as containing “altered, AI-generated audio” that did not reflect his...

cryptographic protocols[citation needed]. Beside the original use in describing concurrent systems, the π-calculus has also been used to reason through...

mathematics. It can be useful in both theoretical and practical research. Describing systems quantitatively allows for more precise predictions about those...

Washington Post reviewer framed the film as uneven yet sharply observant, describing it as incisive and, in effect, difficult to dismiss in light of contemporary...

theorizing than like describing. These reports may be informative, he says, but a psychologist is not to take them at face value. Dennett describes several phenomena...

where he is now a patient, and a letter from one of Charlie's friends describing developments in the students' lives in the months following this incident...

as performance art. The term was first used by Allan Kaprow in 1959 to describe a range of art-related events. Allan Kaprow first coined the term "happening"...

after the El Niño storm, it was given to him by a Japanese broadcaster describing his fight-style and the manner in which he stormed through the Shooto...

integration efforts. In 1983, Linda Chavez called the novel "a sickening book", describing it as "racist, xenophobic and paranoid". In the early 1980s, the director...

Stefan–Maxwell diffusion) is a model for describing diffusion in multicomponent systems. The equations that describe these transport processes have been developed...

view of the scene to the reader, viewer, or listener by subjectively describing the actions and, in some cases, thoughts, of one or more characters. Diegetic...

regards it as "sneering and patronising" to a largely voiceless group. On describing those who use the word, the society stated that "we all know their old...

parts of the wavefunction describing observers become increasingly entangled with the parts of the wavefunction describing their experiments. Although...

Construction with logs was described by the Roman architect Vitruvius Pollio in his architectural treatise De Architectura. He described the log-based dwellings...

Exponential decay § Decay by two or more processes. There is a half-life describing any exponential-decay process. For example: As noted above, in radioactive...

Budō (武道) is a Japanese term describing modern Japanese martial arts. It is commonly translated as "Martial Way", or the "Way of Martial Arts". Budō is...

relativity. Minkowski is perhaps best known for his foundational work describing space and time as a four-dimensional space, now known as "Minkowski spacetime"...

Alan Davidson draws a distinction between profiteroles and cream puffs, describing profiteroles as smaller. Choux pastry dough is piped through a pastry...

Batomys is a genus of rodent endemic to the Philippines. It has six extant described species. Genus Batomys - Luzon and Mindanao forest rats, 7 species recognized...

story) is a cultural, religious or traditional myth which attempts to describe the earliest beginnings of the present world. Creation myths are the most...

ISO/IEC 80000, Quantities and units, is an international standard describing the International System of Quantities (ISQ). It was developed and promulgated...

Jonathan Cape in London in 1986. It is a continuation of his autobiography describing his childhood, Boy and detailed his travel to Africa and exploits as a...

media formats. TechRadar placed it among the best free video players, describing it as "an incredibly powerful program". XDA noted the extensive customization...

conducted investigations after the shootings. The Senate released a report describing the shooting as "the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since September...

format which is compact, forward- and backward-compatible, but not self-describing (that is, there is no way to tell the names, meaning, or full datatypes...

been confirmed. The term "playing musical chairs" is also a metaphor for describing any activity where items or people are repeatedly and usually pointlessly...

lit. 'titanic lizard') is a dubious genus of sauropod dinosaurs, first described by Richard Lydekker in 1877. It is known from the Maastrichtian (Upper...

"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is a phrase describing the persuasive power of statistics to bolster weak arguments, "one of the best, and best-known"...

Mob rule or ochlocracy or mobocracy is a pejorative term describing an oppressive majoritarian form of government controlled by the common people through...

Raafat, Chater and Frith proposed an integrated approach to herding, describing two key issues: the mechanisms of transmission of thoughts or behavior...

"15 minutes of fame" is an expression describing the short-lived media publicity or celebrity of an individual or phenomenon. It was formulated by Andy...

that category. The purpose of ISO 10962 is to provide a standard for describing all financial instruments that can be recognized world-wide by all operators...

into existing practices of software development. The findings allow for describing and comparing programming practices and the languages used to code programs...

speaking from personal experience rather than simply describing the works of others. He also describes the construction of sundials and water clocks, and...

with pundit and former Liverpool and England player Jamie Carragher describing it in 2022 as "the best we've ever had in English football... We've never...

go through.[when?] As of April 22, 2023, the webpage on KPF's website describing the project has been removed. It is still mentioned on Leslie E. Robertson...

political term originally describing a rich political donor, also called an angel or big-money man. The New York Times has described fat cats as symbols of...

verse, describing him as the most underrated member of the group (having never had a RZA-produced classic solo album). The song was described as a "classic"...

the Tamasheq were largely unemployed. The term ishumar began to be used describing young Tamasheq. A unique culture began to arise among many of the economically...

characterizes each decade of life by describing frequent occurrences or situations particular to those age periods. He describes that a crisis can begin in a...

place. Simplistically, the term "nice guy" could be an adjectival phrase describing what appears to be a friendly, kind, or courteous man. The "nice guys...

free electric currents and time-dependent effects, Maxwell's equations describing the magnetic quantities reduce to ∇ × H = 0 ∇ ⋅ H = − ∇ ⋅ M {\displaystyle...

which later became Everything's Eventual), and devotes most of the piece describing the origins of the then-forthcoming Hearts in Atlantis. Stephen King had...

Rational expectations is a set of modeling assumptions describing how macroeconomic agents form expectations about the future under uncertainty. Under...

17th century Hatha Ratnavali provides a different list of 84 asanas, describing some of them. In the 20th century, Indian nationalism favoured physical...

HOWNZ-feeld), named after Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, is a quantitative scale for describing radiodensity. It is frequently used in CT scans, where its value is also...

of The Source magazine's 100 Best Rap Albums. They have been quoted as describing their style as loud screaming, aggression, fighting with each other, stage...

is one of the most extensively studied of all interatomic potentials describing the potential energy of molecular systems. Due to the general applicability...

criticised The Times for publishing a caricature of him with a hooked nose, describing it as antisemitic. He also said that two people had been arrested for...

California, slang meaning "hyperactive". More specifically, it is an adjective describing the hip-hop music and the culture associated with the Oakland area. The...

(Sanskrit: कुरुक्षेत्रयुद्ध), also called the Mahabharata War, is a war described in the Hindu epic poem Mahabharata, arising from a dynastic struggle between...

(as in did he walk? etc.) – see do-support. The simple past is used for describing single occurrences or habitual occurrences in the past, and sometimes...

This is a of people who are described as being inventors or are credited with an invention. Contents:  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X...

corrosion-resistant material. A video on safety precautions at blast sites A video describing how to safely handle explosives in mines "explosive device". Cambridge...

Howard have expressed similar opinions on Rapunzel's hair, with Keane describing it as "this constant reminder that she has this gift". As directors, Howard...

between him and his first love: writing. Much of the novel is dedicated to describing various menial jobs that Chinaski temporarily holds during the USA’s WWII...

1954 by linguist Kenneth Pike, who argued that the tools developed for describing linguistic behaviors could be adapted to the description of any human...

continuing commercialization of the band's sound, with Ritchie Blackmore once describing at the time his appreciation of the band Foreigner. It became the band's...

band were known for playing short, intense punk songs, with Pitchfork describing the band as "a vital blast of classic hardcore." The idea to form the...

prominence through the NME's C86 cassette compilation, with AllMusic describing twee as "simplicity and innocence" as well as "boy-girl harmonies, lovelorn...

in electromagnetics, describing magnetic field set up by a steady current density Young–Laplace equation, in physics, describing pressure difference over...

Dry goods is a historic term describing the type of product line a store carries, which differs by region. The term comes from the textile trade, and the...

In plasma physics, the Vlasov equation is a differential equation describing the time evolution of the distribution function of a collisionless plasma...

Flora of China is a scientific publication aimed at describing the plants native to China. It is the English-language revision of the Latin Flora Reipublicae...

normally an ardent detractor of the band, was even more enthusiastic, describing the album as "the band's finest recording of the 80's". Band members Steve...

1930. Neurologist Constantin von Economo published a paper in April 1917 describing some of the cases he encountered in the winter months of 1916–1917. These...

rate derivatives, is a mathematical model that describes the future evolution of interest rates by describing the future evolution of the short rate, usually...

(1964). Leitch described combining genres as problematic. Screenwriter and academic Jule Selbo expanded on this, describing a film described as "crime/action"...

datasheet is created by the manufacturer and begins with an introductory page describing the rest of the document, followed by listings of specific characteristics...

plasma by describing it in the language of string theory. By applying the AdS/CFT correspondence, Sơn and his collaborators were able to describe the quark-gluon...

non-invertible symmetries, and subsystem symmetries. The transformations describing physical symmetries typically form a mathematical group. Group theory...

speaking in a monotone soft voice on his views about the world and humanity, describing nature, Indian symbols, "the meaning of inner life", the LSD experience...

three-dimensional space, height is measured along the vertical z axis, describing a distance from (or "above") the x-y plane. The English-language word...

and Mark Stones is a book by Alfred Watkins, first published in 1925, describing the existence of alleged ley lines in Great Britain. Watkins presents...

founding myths. Simon Goldhill employs the metaphor of sedimentation in describing Apollonius' laying down of layers "where each object, cult, ritual, name...

with The Saga of the Greenlanders describing her as a full sister to Leif, but The Saga of Erik the Red describing her as his half-sister. Unlike his...

questioned the accuracy of its claims and the quality of its arguments, describing it as agitprop and propaganda. At times, according to Kinney, "Zeitgeist...

Cambridge, he was a member of a Labour Party club and described himself as a socialist, in later life describing himself as a one-nation conservative. He joined...

the fact that he lost the election". This new definition derogatorily describing the nature of Trump supporters rather than his deriders has been picked...

A law label is a legally required tag or label on new items describing the fabric and filling regulating the United States mattress, upholstery, and stuffed...

mostly as an underscore to the commentary of Doodles Weaver, who is describing a horse race. Weaver introduces the racehorses, some of them bearing a...

Leather Patrol." The press release included a quote from Carpenter Brut, describing the album as "pure frenzy like Master of Puppets, or any of the good old...

Timagoras dead, Meles repented and threw himself down from the same rock. Describing the nature of the emotion, Plato asserts that it is the result of the...

related to the motions of celestial objects. Galileo was instrumental in describing the characteristics of falling objects by determining that the acceleration...

contribution to the field of education was developing a comprehensive system of describing, assessing and classifying educational outcomes, now known as Bloom's...

Clinodactyly is a medical term describing the curvature of a digit (a finger or toe) in the plane of the palm, most commonly the fifth finger (the "little...

has been noted by car reviewers, with a journalist from The Telegraph describing being inside the Ami as "being inside a Lego brick". The French carmaker...

Christian theological term, most notably used in the Nicene Creed for describing Jesus (God the Son) as "same in being" or "same in essence" with God the...

a descriptor of a color was first used in the London Gazette of 1686, describing a uniform to be "A Red Coat with a Buff-colour'd lining". The color desert...

later Russian Mil Mi-24 helicopter has been produced in many variants, as described below. In 1966, Soviet aircraft designer Mikhail Mil created a mock-up...

Brilliance: when describing the visual appearance of the wine, it refers to high clarity, very low levels of suspended solids. When describing fruit flavors...

in the early 12th century. When describing the fall of the Jin Empire to the Mongols (1234), Persian history described the conquered country as Khitāy...

inside (depending on the graphical user interface) when checked. A caption describing the meaning of the checkbox is normally shown adjacent to the checkbox...

A rhizome is a concept in post-structuralism describing an assemblage that allows connections between any of its constituent elements, regardless of any...

as Travels, chiefly on Foot, through several parts of England in 1782, described in Letters to a Friend. It contained many errors and was attributed to...

voice after listening to fast-talking radio jockeys from the 1950s era, describing Quagmire as a "50s radio guy on coke." The "giggity" phrase was inspired...

Rockwell met Quentin Tarantino, Anders and Richard Linklater, with Rockwell describing the rise of new filmmakers as having a "New Wave feeling", and thought...

Briseis. The plot begins when Greeks led by Achilles sack Lyrnessus, describing the looting and burning of the city, the massacre of its men and the abduction...

quantum mechanics, a probability amplitude is a complex number used for describing the behaviour of systems. The square modulus of this quantity at a point...

{\displaystyle |y\rangle } range over the basis vectors of the Hilbert space describing a one-particle system, then the tensor product produces the basis vectors...

organisms. Molecular evolution is the basis of phylogenetic approaches to describing the tree of life. Molecular evolution overlaps with population genetics...

comments freely throughout the broadcast, when the main commentator is not describing the action. The color commentator provides expert analysis and background...

other figures. In a later work by Berossus describing Babylonia, the Apkallu appear again, also described as fish-men who are sent by the gods to impart...

sentence level but questioned his success in conveying a sense of depth, describing the novel in Literary Review as "erudite, occasionally hilarious and eventually...

result or change of something List of effects Cause and effect, an idiom describing causality Drug effect, a change resulting from the administration of a...

Achilles is the shield that Achilles uses in his fight with Hector, as described in a passage in Book 18, lines 478–608 of Homer's Iliad. The intricately...

This list of organizations historically described as communist fronts by the United States government includes the names of groups included in various...

(gene-finding format, generic feature format, GFF) is a file format used for describing genes and other features of DNA, RNA and protein sequences. The following...

viscoelasticity. The fiber behaves as a spring, with the following equation describing its behavior of motion: T = K t θ + I d 2 θ d t 2 {\displaystyle T=K_{t}\theta...

Richard (2011). A Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain, and Readers at Home: Describing the Country and Cities, the Natives and Their Manners. Cambridge University...

and a large proportion of cover versions of the song have been by men describing a hypothetical woman. The song first hit the charts in 1945, performed...

Emmy Awards. Noel Murray of The A.V. Club awarded the episode an "A", describing it as "intense and terrifying". Seth Amitin of IGN awarded the episode...

1086/463051. JSTOR 1062622. S2CID 162049250. Who is Govinda (Krishna)? Archived 2011-05-21 at the Wayback Machine Sacred Hindi verses describing Govinda...

the jungle" (also called jungle law) is an expression that has come to describe a scenario where "anything goes". The Oxford English Dictionary defines...

Expressions of self-satisfaction or pride or delight at the end of a sentence describing an action, a situation, an instruction, or direction, especially when...

molecular orbital theory is an application of molecular orbital theory describing HOMO–LUMO interactions. In 1952, Kenichi Fukui published a paper in the...

with Matthew 24:15–16 adding a reference to Daniel and Luke 21:20–21 describing the Roman armies ("But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies...");...

their list of "12 Amazing Episodes of The Masters of Horror" series, describing it as "among the highest-rated episodes and a fan favorite." Deeply in...

of he and te in Tokelauan are reserved for when describing a singular noun. However, when describing a plural noun, different articles are used. For plural...

Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model of spin glasses, the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation describing dynamic scaling of growing interfaces, and the study of whirling flocks...

family, grand ducal family, or princely family are more appropriate to describe, respectively, the relatives of a reigning baron, count/earl, duke, archduke...

records (RR). A zone file may be either a DNS master file, authoritatively describing a zone, or it may be used to list the contents of a DNS cache. The format...

powerful god, the wielder of the creative power of the universe, also describing him to have been "born at first, him neither the gods nor the fathers...

without incurring a disadvantage. This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. The Queen's Gambit is one of the oldest known openings in...

spinster: she still has a chance to be married". Yet other sources on terms describing a never-married woman indicate that the term applies to a woman as soon...

incorporate audience participation and comedy, often include statements describing how his effects are achieved through a combination of psychology, showmanship...

(flying), describe the positions of birds, exemplified by the bird most usual to heraldry – the heraldic eagle; moreover, birds also are described by the...

"that is so overboard, and a lie, really." Regarding the police reports describing the abuse while she was a minor being released to the media, Seewald said...

depths of an alien planet. Robox received negative reviews, with reviewers describing it as confusing and tedious, albeit visually pleasing. It was released...

brought in the name of the United States of America. A detailed history describing the origins of Pennsylvania's government, including its designation as...

knowledge and deprecates the mind and mental processes, at all times describing a dichotomy between the mind and the soul, in which the mind is only a...