| ‹‹ Prev 50 | 51-100 for Encyclopedia | Next 50 ›› |
| All A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | L |
|
Lagrange's theorem is one of the fundamental theorems of finite group theory. Formally stated, the order of a subgroup of a group divides the order of the original group. This means that the number of elements in any subgroup of a finite g...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 3 pages (1,014 words) in 2 products |
|
Lahars are debris flows associated with volcanoes, and can be further classified as either hot or cold depending on their temperature. The word lahar is of Indonesian origin, reflecting the frequency of volcanic debris flows in that region...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 4 pages (1,044 words) in 2 products |
|
second largest city of Pakistan and the capital of Punjab province. It lies 811 miles (1,305 km) northeast of Karāchi in the upper Indus plain on the Rāvi River, a tributary of the Indus. Little is known of the history of the s...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries, 1 Essay
About 24 pages (7,311 words) in 3 products |
|
LĀHORĪ, MUḤAMMAD ʿALĪ (1874–1951), scholar of Islam and founder of the Lāhorī branch of the Aḥmadīyyah movement. Born in Murar (Kapurthala), India, Lāhorī ...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 7 pages (2,140 words) in 2 products |
|
LAIMA is one of the few goddesses of the Baltic peoples who can be said to personify a number of elemental concepts. She incorporates a wide variety of both individual and societal functions, of which two are particularly noteworthy: archi...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 5 pages (1,585 words) in 2 products |
|
1952- Chinese-American mathematician whose work focuses on "strange attractors." Young was awarded the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize for her role in "the investigation of the statistical properties of dynamical systems and ...
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 0 pages (74 words) in 1 product |
|
LAITY is a term that has emerged in the Western religious and theological traditions to refer to those members of a religious community who, as a group, do not have the responsibilities of fulfilling the priestly functions appropriate to t...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 19 pages (5,580 words) in 2 products |
|
Relatively large body of slow-moving or standing water that occupies an inland basin. Lakes are most abundant in high northern latitudes and in mountain regions, particularly those that were covered by glaciers in recent geologic times. Th...
Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 3 Summaries
About 59 pages (17,610 words) in 4 products |
|
lake located in the southern part of eastern Siberia within the republic of Buryatia and Irkutsk oblast (province) of Russia. It is the oldest existing freshwater lake on Earth (20–25 million years old), as well as the deepest contin...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 10 pages (2,869 words) in 2 products |
|
Lake, southeastern Kazakhstan. It is about 375 mi (600 km) long, with a maximum depth of roughly 85 ft (25 m). Its chief feeder is the Ili River, which enters at the west in a wide delta. Harsh climate affects its size greatly; its area ha...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 3 pages (997 words) in 2 products |
|
fourth largest of the five Great Lakes of North America. It forms the boundary between Canada (Ontario) to the north and the United States (Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York) to the west, south, and east. The major axis of the lak...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 11 pages (3,318 words) in 2 products |
|
The development of relatively stable, warmer and colder layers within a body of water. Thermal stratification is related to incoming heat, water depth, and degree of water column mixing. Deep, large lakes such as the Great Lakes receive in...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 1 pages (286 words) in 2 products |
|
freshwater lake occupying a fault basin on the California-Nevada border in the northern Sierra Nevada, U.S. Fed by numerous small streams, it is drained by the Truckee River to Pyramid Lake, Nevada, about 60 miles (100 km) northeast. It me...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 23 pages (6,813 words) in 2 products |
|
One of the great messages to come out of the environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s is that, while humans can cause pollution, they can also clean it up. Few success stories illustrate this point as clearly as that of Lake Washing...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 5 pages (1,575 words) in 2 products |
|
LAKOTA RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS. Lakota, meaning "friends or allies," are Plains Indian peoples. They represent the largest of three divisions within the political body known as the Titonwan, along with the Dakota and Nakota. The...
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 10 pages (3,120 words) in 1 product |
|
Laksamana is a Malay honorific title given to the supreme military commander, the counterpart of the highest Malay state official, the bendahara. This is expressed in the saying "The bendahara rules the land, the laksamana rules the...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 2 pages (566 words) in 2 products |
|
union territory of India. It is a group of some two dozen islands with a total land area of 12 square miles (32 square kilometres) scattered over 30,000 square miles of the Arabian Sea. The easternmost island lies about 185 miles (300 kilo...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 9 pages (2,591 words) in 2 products |
|
Lalande, Andr aise entre les deux guerres. Paris, 1942. Smith, Colin. Contemporary French Philosophy. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1964....
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 0 pages (0 words) in 1 product |
|
(1774–1890), Baul singer of Bengal. A wandering ascetic who infused his songs with a strong mixture of Sufi and Hindu mystical thought, Fakir Lalon Shah is considered the greatest Baul singer in Bengal, a former Indian province now ...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 4 pages (1,054 words) in 2 products |
|
Acetylmethadol (also referred to as l-alpha-acetylmethadol, methadyl acetate, LAAM or L-AAM) is structurally related to METHADONE. LAAM is a potent OPIOID agonist with properties similar to methadone, except for its prolonged half-life. Th...
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 1 pages (201 words) in 1 product |
|
The ideas of naturalist and systematist Jean Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829) influenced the notions surrounding evolution and also sparked social Lamarckism, which developed years after his death. He was also responsible for making a resp...
Study Pack: 4 Summaries
About 20 pages (5,876 words) in 4 products |
|
The Lamb shift describes a small but measurable difference in electron energy levels within the hydrogen atom that is accounted for by quantum electrodynamic theory. Specifically, the difference involves a shift between the 2s and the 2p s...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 2 pages (698 words) in 2 products |
|
In grammar, as well as in the theory of programming languages, "syntax" specifies the grammatical nature or construction of a statement. "Semantics" deals with the meaning attached to a well-formed statement. It should be observed that not...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 20 pages (5,922 words) in 2 products |
|
The idea of building up a complete material from a number of relatively thin layers to give a product of increased strength is an old idea. The patent for the first machine for pasting sheets of paper together in layers, forming chipboard,...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 3 pages (948 words) in 2 products |
|
LAMOTTE, ÉTIENNE (1903–1983), Belgian specialist in Indian Buddhist doctrine and history. A Roman Catholic priest, Lamotte was a professor at the Catholic University of Louvain. His two most significant achievements in the fi...
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 2 pages (491 words) in 1 product |
|
a device for producing illumination, consisting originally of a vessel containing a wick soaked in combustible material, and subsequently such other light-producing instruments as gas and electric lamps. The lamp was invented at least as ...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 4 pages (1,226 words) in 2 products |
|
The rise of Lana Turner (1920-1995) from humble origins to Hollywood stardom made her an inspiration to a generation of young American women. She achieved great popular acclaim during her acting career, but her personal life was marred by ...
Study Pack: 1 Biography, 2 Summaries, 1 Quotes
About 15 pages (4,550 words) in 4 products |
|
Great Britain 1853-1854 In the late 1840s wages in the Lancashire cotton industry had been reduced by 10 percent. When prosperity improved, the workers were disappointed not to have their old rates reinstated. A two-month strike of spinne...
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 8 pages (2,300 words) in 1 product |
|
The cephalochordates are the closest living relatives of the vertebrates. The group derives its name from the notochord that extends far forward into the head (farther than the brain, in contrast to vertebrates). The most famous representa...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 4 pages (1,180 words) in 2 products |
|
Land ethic refers to an approach to issues of land use that emphasizes conservation and respect for our natural environment. Rejecting the belief that all natural resources should be available for unchecked human exploitation, a land eth...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 2 pages (645 words) in 2 products |
|
Possession of property in outer space is an area of space law that is complex and controversial. There exists a tension between the desire to encourage scientific exploration that will benefit all humankind and the economic reality that no...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 6 pages (1,713 words) in 2 products |
|
Founded in 1976 by Wes and Dana Jackson, the Land Institute is both an independent agricultural research station and a school devoted to exploring and developing alternative agricultural practices. Located on the Smoky Hill River near Sa...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 3 pages (936 words) in 2 products |
|
Explosive charge buried just below the surface of the earth, used in military operations against troops and vehicles. It may be fired by the weight of vehicles or troops on it, the passage of time, or remote control. Though improvised land...
Study Pack: 3 Summaries
About 19 pages (5,809 words) in 3 products |
|
in ancient Egyptian and Greek geography, the southern coast of the Red Sea and adjacent coasts of the Gulf of Aden, corresponding to modern coastal Ethiopia and Djibouti. To the ancients, Punt was a place of legend and fable, illustrated b...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 12 pages (3,564 words) in 2 products |
|
This term has been used environmentally in two distinct ways. The more historic use refers to making land productive for agriculture. The current usage refers mostly to the restoration of disturbed land to an ecologically stable conditio...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 10 pages (2,898 words) in 2 products |
|
Deliberate change in the way agricultural land is held or owned, the methods of its cultivation, or the relation of agriculture to the rest of the economy. The most common political objective of land reform is to abolish feudal or colonial...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 19 pages (5,640 words) in 2 products |
|
In 2000 in Zimbabwe, black Africans began occupying the farms of the white minority (who owned most of the land), terrorizing the families living there and threatening to take the land for black Africans. The occupying forces were encoura...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 35 pages (10,527 words) in 2 products |
|
A land trust is a private, legally incorporated, nonprofit organization that works with property owners to protect open land through direct, voluntary land transactions. Land trusts come in many varieties, but their intent is consistent....
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 13 pages (3,893 words) in 2 products |
|
Land is any part of the earth's surface that can be owned as property. Land comprises a particular segment of the earth's crust and can be defined in specific terms. The location of the land is extremely important in determ...
Study Pack: 3 Summaries
About 8 pages (2,260 words) in 3 products |
|
Entropy is a physical quantity that can be interpreted as a measure of the thermodynamic disorder of a physical system. Entropy has the unique property that its global value must always increase or stay the same; this property is reflected...
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 1 pages (386 words) in 1 product |
|
Many people live their lives unaware of an accumulating danger that threatens the human lifestyle and existence. America creates more trash than any other nation on the planet. We as Americans are largely responsible for much of the poll...
Study Pack: 7 Summaries, 1 Essay
About 20 pages (5,936 words) in 8 products |
|
Landforms are the mesoscale topographic features that define a regional landscape. Climate and plate tectonics ultimately determine the system of processes—plate tectonic motion,...
Study Pack: 3 Summaries
About 6 pages (1,891 words) in 3 products |
|
Landgrebe, Ludwig(1902 nomenologie. Hamburg: Meiner, 1982....
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 0 pages (0 words) in 1 product |
|
Landscape ecology is an interdisciplinary field that emerged from several intellectual traditions in Europe and North America. An identifiable landscape ecology started in central Europe in the 1960s and in North America in the late 1970...
Study Pack: 3 Summaries
About 19 pages (5,647 words) in 3 products |
|
the movement downslope of a mass of rock, debris, earth, or soil (soil being a mixture of earth and debris). Landslides occur when gravitational and other types of shear stresses within a slope exceed the shear strength (resistance to shea...
Study Pack: 3 Summaries
About 9 pages (2,582 words) in 3 products |
|
As a household name for so many readers of varying persuasions, Langston Hughes was perhaps the most significant black American writer in the twentieth century. From the Harlem Renaissance of the early twenties, to the Black Arts reorienta...
Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 9 Biographies, 2 Biographies, 4 Summaries, 11 Essays, 42 Criticisms, 1 Quotes
About 881 pages (264,264 words) in 70 products |
|
System of conventional spoken or written symbols used by people in a shared culture to communicate with each other. A language both reflects and affects a culture's way of thinking, and changes in a culture influence the development of its...
Study Pack: 3 Summaries, 6 Essays, 1 Quotes
About 3,849 pages (1,154,604 words) in 10 products |
|
Learning a new language is a great thing. It is fun, interesting and can lead to great opportunities.
When you learn a new language, you are exposed to new things. You also learn their culture and the way the people live and the food they ...
Study Pack: 4 Summaries, 3 Essays
About 39 pages (11,774 words) in 7 products |
|
Language Acquisition Device (Lad) Notion that some knowledge about language is built into the brain of the human child. Learning theorists argue that the environments of young children everywhere are supportive of learning. All young child...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 5 pages (1,560 words) in 2 products |
|
Language and Thought Should questions about "thought"—about intentionality, beliefs, and concept possession, for example—be approached directly or, instead, indirectly via the philosophy of "language...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 7 pages (1,950 words) in 2 products |
‹‹ Prev 50 |
51-100 for Encyclopedia | Next 50 ››

