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  • 61Antiquity of the World —     Antiquity of the World     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Antiquity of the World     Various attempts have been made to establish the age of the world. Two groups of scientists have especially busied themselves with this question: physicists and… …

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  • 62cosmos — /koz meuhs, mohs/, n., pl. cosmos, cosmoses for 2, 4. 1. the world or universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system. 2. a complete, orderly, harmonious system. 3. order; harmony. 4. any composite plant of the genus Cosmos, of tropical… …

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  • 63Figure of the Earth — An oblate spheroid Geodesy …

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  • 64The Lord of the Rings film trilogy — This article is about the Peter Jackson film trilogy. For other films, see The Lord of the Rings (film). The Lord of the Rings trilogy The poster for the trilogy is a montage that features a range of characters and scenes from all three movies …

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  • 65Corrective lens — A bifocal corrective eyeglass lens A pair of contact le …

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  • 66geometry — /jee om i tree/, n. 1. the branch of mathematics that deals with the deduction of the properties, measurement, and relationships of points, lines, angles, and figures in space from their defining conditions by means of certain assumed properties… …

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  • 67Modified Newtonian dynamics — MOND redirects here. For other uses, see Mond. In physics, Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is a hypothesis that proposes a modification of Newton s law of gravity to explain the galaxy rotation problem. When the uniform velocity of rotation of …

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  • 68Keratoconus — Classification and external resources The conical cornea that is characteristic of keratoconus ICD 10 H …

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  • 69Meridian arc — In geodesy, a meridian arc measurement is a highly accurate determination of the distance between two points with the same longitude. Two or more such determinations at different locations then specify the shape of the reference ellipsoid which… …

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  • 70GRS 80 — GRS 80, or Geodetic Reference System 1980, is a geodetic reference system consisting of a global reference ellipsoid and a gravity field model.GeodesyGeodesy, also called geodetics, is the scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and …

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