domino theory
21domino — n. (pl. oes) 1 a any of 28 small oblong pieces marked with 0 6 pips in each half. b (in pl., usu. treated as sing.) a game played with these. 2 a loose cloak with a mask for the upper part of the face, worn at masquerades. Phrases and idioms:… …
22Domino — n. (pl. oes) 1 a any of 28 small oblong pieces marked with 0 6 pips in each half. b (in pl., usu. treated as sing.) a game played with these. 2 a loose cloak with a mask for the upper part of the face, worn at masquerades. Phrases and idioms:… …
23domino effect — noun the effect of the domino theory …
24Domino's Pizza, Inc. v. McDonald — Supreme Court of the United States Argued December 6, 2005 Decided F …
25Domino One — * [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446683 Domino One ] is the directing debut of Nick Louvel, who co wrote the screenplay. Co writer Nick Garrison makes his feature film debut starring as Jason Young, a grant scholarship chemistry student whose… …
26domino effect — noun a) the effect of one event setting off a chain of similar events b) the theory that, if Vietnam fell to communism, it would be followed by Cambodia and Laos etc …
27political theory — noun an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation • Syn: ↑political orientation, ↑ideology • Derivationally related forms: ↑ideologist (for: ↑ideology), ↑ideological ( …
28Combinatorial game theory — This article is about the theory of combinatorial games. For the theory that includes games of chance and games of imperfect knowledge, see Game theory. Mathematicians playing Konane at a Combinatorial game theory workshop (for technical content …
29Catastrophe theory — This article refers to the study of dynamical systems. For other meanings, see catastrophe. In mathematics, catastrophe theory is a branch of bifurcation theory in the study of dynamical systems; it is also a particular special case of more… …
30Entropy in thermodynamics and information theory — There are close parallels between the mathematical expressions for the thermodynamic entropy, usually denoted by S , of a physical system in the statistical thermodynamics established by Ludwig Boltzmann and J. Willard Gibbs in the 1870s; and the …
