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101Moon — /moohn/, n. Sun Myung /sun myung/, born 1920, Korean religious leader: founder of the Unification Church. * * * Sole natural satellite of Earth, which it orbits from west to east at a mean distance of about 238,900 mi (384,400 km). It is less… …
102photometry — photometric /foh teuh me trik/, photometrical, adj. photometrist, photometrician /foh teuh me trish euhn/, n. /foh tom i tree/, n. 1. the measurement of the intensity of light or of relative illuminating power. 2. the science dealing with such… …
103chemical element — Introduction also called element, any substance that cannot be decomposed into simpler substances by ordinary chemical processes. Elements are the fundamental materials of which all matter is composed. This article considers the… …
104CINÉMA D’AVANT-GARDE — Le cinéma d’avant garde ne constitue pas une école. On hésite à écrire que c’est un genre cinématographique, quoique en adoptant ce terme comme hypothèse de travail on puisse plus facilement circonscrire l’objet de notre étude. Le cinéma d’avant… …
105History of the single-lens reflex camera — The history of the single lens reflex camera predates the invention of photography in 1826/27 by one and a half centuries with the use of a reflex mirror in a camera obscura first described in 1676. Such SLR devices were popular as drawing aids… …
106Sky brightness — This article is primarily about the brightness of the night sky. For daytime situations, please see Diffuse sky radiation and Rayleigh Scattering. The fact that the sky isn t absolutely dark at night can easily be observed. Were the sky (in the… …
107interior design — 1. the design and coordination of the decorative elements of the interior of a house, apartment, office, or other structural space, including color schemes, fittings, furnishings, and sometimes architectural features. 2. the art, business, or… …
108reproductive system, plant — Introduction any of the systems, sexual or asexual, by which plants reproduce. In plants, as in animals, the end result of reproduction is the continuation of a given species, and the ability to reproduce is, therefore, rather conservative …
109Heat transfer — is a discipline of thermal engineering that concerns the exchange of thermal energy from one physical system to another. Heat transfer is classified into various mechanisms, such as heat conduction, convection, thermal radiation, and phase change …
110Fused quartz — A sphere manufactured by NASA out of fused quartz for use in a gyroscope in the Gravity Probe B experiment. It is one of the most accurate spheres ever created by humans, differing in shape from a perfect sphere by no more than 40 atoms of… …
