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91recess — /ri ses , ree ses/, n. 1. temporary withdrawal or cessation from the usual work or activity. 2. a period of such withdrawal. 3. a receding part or space, as a bay or alcove in a room. 4. an indentation in a line or extent of coast, hills, forest …
92recession — recession1 /ri sesh euhn/, n. 1. the act of receding or withdrawing. 2. a receding part of a wall, building, etc. 3. a withdrawing procession, as at the end of a religious service. 4. Econ. a period of an economic contraction, sometimes limited… …
93spectroscopy — spectroscopist /spek tros keuh pist/, n. /spek tros keuh pee, spek treuh skoh pee/, n. the science that deals with the use of the spectroscope and with spectrum analysis. [1865 70; SPECTRO + SCOPY] * * * Branch of analysis devoted to identifying… …
94spiral — spirality /spuy ral i tee/, n. spirally, adv. /spuy reuhl/, n., adj., v., spiraled, spiraling or (esp. Brit.) spiralled, spiralling. n. 1. Geom. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or… …
95United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
96Venetian school — any of various groups of artists identified with Venice throughout the history of Italian art but most notably the painters of the 18th century, as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Francesco Guardi, and Antonio Canaletto. [1740 50] * * * Renaissance… …
97Bhima River — River, southern India. Rising in Maharashtra state in the Western Ghats east of Mumbai (Bombay), it flows southeast 400 miles (645 km) through southern Maharashtra, northern Karnataka, and central Andhra Pradesh to join the Krishna River. The… …
98Hubble, Edwin Powell — ▪ American astronomer born Nov. 20, 1889, Marshfield, Mo., U.S. died Sept. 28, 1953, San Marino, Calif. American astronomer who is considered the founder of extragalactic astronomy and who provided the first evidence of the expansion of the… …
99Schmidt, Maarten — ▪ Dutch American astronomer born Dec. 28, 1929, Groningen, Neth. Dutch born American astronomer whose identification of the wavelengths of the radiation emitted by quasars (quasar) (quasi stellar objects) led to the theory that they may be… …
100Archdiocese of Saint Louis (Missouri) — St. Louis (Missouri) † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Louis (Missouri) (SANCTI LUDOVICI) Created a diocese 2 July, 1826; raised to the rank of an archdiocese 20 July, 1847. It comprises that portion of the State of Missouri bounded… …
