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  • 1principle — noun 1 basic general rule ADJECTIVE ▪ basic, broad, central, fundamental, general, underlying ▪ the basic principles of car maintenance ▪ b …

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  • 2Founding Fathers — 1. the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. 2. (often l.c.) any group of founders: the town s founding fathers. * * * ▪ United States history Introduction  the most prominent statesmen of America s Revolutionary… …

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  • 3founding — adj. Founding is used with these nouns: ↑charter, ↑director, ↑document, ↑editor, ↑meeting, ↑member, ↑partner, ↑president, ↑principle …

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  • 4Equivalence principle — General relativity|cTopic=Fundamental conceptsThe equivalence principle is one of the fundamental background concepts of the General Theory of Relativity. For the overall context, see General relativity.In the physics of relativity, the… …

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  • 5List of national founding fathers — Founding Fathers are persons instrumental in the establishment of an institution, usually a political institution, especially those connected to the origination of its ideals. In a national context, it is the establishment of a… …

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  • 6The Founding Myths of Israel — The Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State is a book by Zeev Sternhell. It was published in Hebrew in 1995, in French in 1996 and in English in 1998. The stated purpose of the book is an analysis of… …

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  • 7Novikov self-consistency principle — The Novikov self consistency principle, also known as the Novikov self consistency conjecture, is a principle developed by Russian physicist Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov in the mid 1980s to solve the problem of paradoxes in time travel, which is… …

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  • 8founder principle — The possibility that a new, isolated population, initiated by a small number of individuals taken from a parent population, may be genetically different from the parent population, because the founding individuals might not be typical of the… …

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  • 9Democracy — For other uses, see Democracy (disambiguation) and Democratic Party (disambiguation). A woman casts her vote in the second round of the French presidential election of 2007 …

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  • 10humanism — /hyooh meuh niz euhm/ or, often, /yooh /, n. 1. any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate. 2. devotion to or study of the humanities. 3. (sometimes cap.) the studies, principles, or culture… …

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