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18684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20Bertram | Laura Bertram | Laura Maureen Bertram (born 5 September 1978) is a Canadian actress best known for her roles as Amanda Zimm in Ready or Not and Trance Gemini in Andromeda.
Life and career
Bertram was born in Toronto, Ontario, and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She earned her degree in history from the University of Guelph. She... |
18685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou%20Ferrigno | Lou Ferrigno | Louis Jude Ferrigno Sr. (; born November 9, 1951) is an American retired professional bodybuilder and actor. As a bodybuilder, Ferrigno won an IFBB Mr. America title and two consecutive IFBB Mr. Universe titles, and appeared in the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron. As an actor, he is best known for his title role ... |
18687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leninism | Leninism | Leninism is a political ideology developed by Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary vanguard party, as the political prelude to the establishment of communism. The function of the Leninist vanguard party is to provide t... |
18691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion%20of%20Merit | Legion of Merit | The Legion of Merit (LOM) is a military award of the United States Armed Forces that is given for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements. The decoration is issued to members of the eight uniformed services of the United States as well as to military and political f... |
18692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint%20%28software%29 | Lint (software) | Lint, or a linter, is a static code analysis tool used to flag programming errors, bugs, stylistic errors and suspicious constructs. The term originates from a Unix utility that examined C language source code.
History
Stephen C. Johnson, a computer scientist at Bell Labs, came up with lint in 1978 while debugging the... |
18693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20battles | Lists of battles | Lists of battles contain links to sets of articles on battles. They may be organized alphabetically, by era, by conflict, by participants or location, or by death toll. See :Category:Battles for a complete list of articles on battles.
Alphabetical list
List of battles (alphabetical)
Chronological
By era
List of ba... |
18694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livebearers | Livebearers | Livebearers are aquarium fish that retain the eggs inside the body and give birth to live, free-swimming young. Among aquarium fish, livebearers are nearly all members of the family Poeciliidae and include guppies, mollies, platies and swordtails.
The advantages of livebearing to the aquarist are that the newborn juve... |
18695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupercal | Lupercal | The Lupercal (from Latin lupa "female wolf") was a cave at the southwest foot of the Palatine Hill in Rome, located somewhere between the temple of Magna Mater and the Sant'Anastasia al Palatino. In the legend of the founding of Rome, Romulus and Remus were found there by the she-wolf who suckled them until they were ... |
18696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limp%20Bizkit | Limp Bizkit | Limp Bizkit is an American rap rock band from Jacksonville, Florida. Its lineup consists of Fred Durst (lead vocals), Sam Rivers (bass, backing vocals), John Otto (drums, percussion), DJ Lethal (turntables), and Wes Borland (guitars, vocals). The band's music is marked by Durst's angry vocal delivery and Borland's soni... |
18701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazio | Lazio | Lazio (, ; ; , ) is one of the 20 administrative regions of Italy. Situated in the central peninsular section of the country, it has 5,864,321 inhabitants – making it the second most populated region of Italy (after Lombardy and just ahead of Campania) – and its GDP of more than €197 billion per year means that it has ... |
18705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Alamos | Los Alamos | Los Alamos usually refers to Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Los Alamos may also refer to:
Establishments
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos Laboratory, also known as Project Y, the war-time laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Los Alamos Museum, unofficial name of the Bradbury Science Museum
Los Alamos Ranch School,... |
18706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Van%20Cleef | Lee Van Cleef | Clarence LeRoy "Lee" Van Cleef Jr. (January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989) was an American actor best known for his roles in Spaghetti Westerns such as For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. He declined to have his nose altered to play a sympathetic character in his film debut, High Noon, and was rele... |
18707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi%20Pirandello | Luigi Pirandello | Luigi Pirandello (; 28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre.". He was an Italian nationa... |
18710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke%20the%20Evangelist | Luke the Evangelist | Luke the Evangelist (Latin: Lucas; , Loukâs; , Lūqās; , Lūqā') is one of the Four Evangelists—the four traditionally ascribed authors of the canonical gospels. The Early Church Fathers ascribed to him authorship of both the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, which would mean Luke contributed over a quart... |
18713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynyrd%20Skynyrd | Lynyrd Skynyrd | Lynyrd Skynyrd ( ) is an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida. The group originally formed as My Backyard in 1964 and comprised Ronnie Van Zant (lead vocalist), Gary Rossington (guitar), Allen Collins (guitar), Larry Junstrom (bass guitar) and Bob Burns (drums). The band spent five years touring small ve... |
18717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Latin%20place%20names%20in%20Continental%20Europe%2C%20Ireland%20and%20Scandinavia | List of Latin place names in Continental Europe, Ireland and Scandinavia | This list includes European countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references. As a large portion of the latter were only created during the Middle Ages, often based on scholarly etiology, this is not to be confused with a list of the actual names mo... |
18720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodovico%20Ferrari | Lodovico Ferrari | Lodovico de Ferrari (2 February 1522 – 5 October 1565) was an Italian mathematician.
Biography
Born in Bologna, Lodovico's grandfather, Bartolomeo Ferrari, was forced out of Milan to Bologna. Lodovico settled in Bologna, and he began his career as the servant of Gerolamo Cardano. He was extremely bright, so Cardano s... |
18722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphedema | Lymphedema | Lymphedema, also known as lymphoedema and lymphatic edema, is a condition of localized swelling caused by a compromised lymphatic system. The lymphatic system functions as a critical portion of the body's immune system and returns interstitial fluid to the bloodstream. Lymphedema is most frequently a complication of ca... |
18723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurens%20Janszoon%20Coster | Laurens Janszoon Coster | Laurens Janszoon Coster (c. 1370, Haarlem – c. 1440), or Laurens Jansz Koster, is the purported inventor of a printing press from Haarlem. He allegedly invented printing simultaneously with Johannes Gutenberg and was regarded by some in the Netherlands well into the 20th century as having invented printing first.
Biog... |
18724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%20Rover | Land Rover | Land Rover is a British brand of predominantly four-wheel drive, off-road capable vehicles, owned by multinational car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), since 2008 a subsidiary of India's Tata Motors. JLR currently builds Land Rovers in Brazil, China, India, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom. The Land Rover name was... |
18727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Numbering%20System%20for%20Food%20Additives | International Numbering System for Food Additives | The International Numbering System for Food Additives (INS) is a European-based naming system for food additives, aimed at providing a short designation of what may be a lengthy actual name. It is defined by Codex Alimentarius, the international food standards organisation of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Foo... |
18728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20of%20dilution | Law of dilution | Wilhelm Ostwald’s dilution law is a relationship proposed in 1888 between the dissociation constant and the degree of dissociation of a weak electrolyte. The law takes the form
Where the square brackets denote concentration, and is the total concentration of electrolyte.
Using , where is the molar conductivity at... |
18729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lleida | Lleida | Lleida (, ; Spanish: Lérida ) is a city in the west of Catalonia, Spain. It is the capital city of the province of Lleida.
Geographically, it is located in the Catalan Central Depression. It is also the capital city of the Segrià comarca, as well as the largest city in the province. It had 137,387 inhabitants , includ... |
18730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Mans | Le Mans | Le Mans (, ) is a city in northwestern France on the Sarthe River. Traditionally the capital of the province of Maine, it is now the capital of the Sarthe department and the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Le Mans. Le Mans is a part of the Pays de la Loire region.
Its inhabitants are called Manceaux (male) and M... |
18733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois%20McMaster%20Bujold | Lois McMaster Bujold | Lois McMaster Bujold ( ; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She is an acclaimed writer, having won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Her novella "The Mountains of Mourning" won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Awar... |
18735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycopene | Lycopene | Lycopene (from the neo-Latin Lycopersicum, the tomato species) is a bright red carotenoid hydrocarbon found in tomatoes and other red fruits and vegetables, such as red carrots, watermelons, grapefruits, and papayas. It is not present in strawberries or cherries. Although lycopene is chemically a carotene, it has no vi... |
18737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau | Landau | Landau (), officially Landau in der Pfalz, is an autonomous (kreisfrei) town surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße ("Southern Wine Route") district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a university town (since 1990), a long-standing cultural centre, and a market and shopping town, surrounded by vineyards an... |
18738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liv%20Ullmann | Liv Ullmann | Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938) is a Norwegian actress and film director. Recognised as one of the greatest European actresses, Ullmann is known as the muse and frequent partner of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. She acted in many of his films including, Persona (1966), Cries and Whispers (1972), Scenes from a Ma... |
18739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika | Laika | Laika (; c. 1954 – 3 November 1957) was a Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth. Laika, a stray mongrel from the streets of Moscow, was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into low orbit on 3 November 1957. No ... |
18756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20of%20Puppets | Master of Puppets | Master of Puppets is the third studio album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released on March 3, 1986, by Elektra Records. Recorded in Denmark at Sweet Silence Studios with producer Flemming Rasmussen, it was the band's last album to feature bassist Cliff Burton, who died in a bus accident in Sweden during ... |
18758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride%20the%20Lightning | Ride the Lightning | Ride the Lightning is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on July 27, 1984, by the independent record label Megaforce Records. The album was recorded in three weeks with producer Flemming Rasmussen at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark. The artwork, based on a concept by t... |
18760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica%20%28album%29 | Metallica (album) | Metallica is the self-titled fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. Released on August 12, 1991, by Elektra Records, it is commonly referred to as The Black Album because of its packaging design. Its recording took place at One on One Studios in Los Angeles over an eight-month span that frequently f... |
18761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load%20%28album%29 | Load (album) | Load is the sixth studio album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released on June 4, 1996 by Elektra Records in the United States and by Vertigo Records internationally. The album showed more of a hard rock side of Metallica than the band's typical thrash metal style, which alienated much of the band's fanbas... |
18763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garage%20Inc. | Garage Inc. | Garage Inc. is a compilation album of cover songs by American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released on November 24, 1998, through Elektra Records. It includes cover songs, B-side covers, and The $5.98 E.P. - Garage Days Re-Revisited, which had gone out of print since its original release in 1987. The title is a c... |
18764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26M%20%28album%29 | S&M (album) | S&M (an abbreviation of Symphony and Metallica) is a live album by American heavy metal band Metallica, with the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Kamen. It was recorded on April 21 and 22, 1999, at The Berkeley Community Theatre. This is the final Metallica album to feature bassist Jason Newsted.
Album info... |
18787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica | Metallica | Metallica is an American heavy metal band. The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles by vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, and has been based in San Francisco for most of its career. The band's fast tempos, instrumentals and aggressive musicianship made them one of the founding "big four" bands... |
18816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mural | Mural | A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate, usually a vertical one, that is to say a wall. Historically, they are especially associated with the fresco technique, where the pigments are applied to a thin layer of wet plaster, into which they sink.
Som... |
18819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microeconomics | Microeconomics | Microeconomics is a branch of mainstream economics that studies the behavior of individuals and firms in making decisions regarding the allocation of scarce resources and the interactions among these individuals and firms. Microeconomics focuses on the study of individual markets, sectors, or industries as opposed to t... |
18820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroeconomics | Macroeconomics | Macroeconomics (from the Greek prefix makro- meaning "large" + economics) is a branch of economics dealing with performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole.
For example, using interest rates, taxes, and government spending to regulate an economy’s growth and stability.
This includes ... |
18823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Pickford | Mary Pickford | Gladys Marie Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-American film actress and producer with a career that spanned five decades. A pioneer in the American film industry, she co-founded Pickford–Fairbanks Studios and United Artists, and was one of the 36 founders of th... |
18824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack%20Sennett | Mack Sennett | Mack Sennett (born Michael Sinnott; January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-American film actor, director, and producer, and studio head, known as the 'King of Comedy'.
Born in Danville, Quebec, in 1880, he started in films in the Biograph Company of New York City, and later opened Keystone Studios in Eden... |
18825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion%20Picture%20Patents%20Company | Motion Picture Patents Company | The Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC, also known as the Edison Trust), founded in December 1908 and terminated seven years later in 1915 after conflicts within the industry, was a trust of all the major US film companies and local foreign-branches (Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig Polyscope, Lubin Manuf... |
18826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5 | MD5 | The MD5 message-digest algorithm is a cryptographically broken but still widely used hash function producing a 128-bit hash value. Although MD5 was initially designed to be used as a cryptographic hash function, it has been found to suffer from extensive vulnerabilities. It can still be used as a checksum to verify dat... |
18830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%3A%20The%20Gathering | Magic: The Gathering | Magic: The Gathering (colloquially known as Magic or MTG) is a tabletop and digital collectible card game created by Richard Garfield. Released in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast (now a subsidiary of Hasbro), Magic was the first trading card game and had approximately thirty-five million players , and over twenty billion ... |
18831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics | Mathematics | Mathematics (from Greek: ) is an area of knowledge, which includes the study of such topics as numbers (arithmetic and number theory), formulas and related structures (algebra), shapes and spaces in which they are contained (geometry), and quantities and their changes (calculus and analysis). There is no general consen... |
18835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%20%28disambiguation%29 | Manhattan (disambiguation) | Manhattan is a borough of New York City.
Manhattan may also refer to:
Places
Manhattan, California, a coastal town
Manhattan, Colorado, a ghost town
Manhattan, Florida, an unincorporated community
Manhattan, Illinois, a village in Will County
Manhattan Township, Will County, Illinois
Manhattan, Indiana, an unin... |
18836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20Ages | Middle Ages | In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and transitioned into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the mid... |
18837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median | Median | In statistics and probability theory, the median is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution. For a data set, it may be thought of as "the middle" value. The basic feature of the median in describing data compared to the mean (often simply de... |
18838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal | Mammal | Mammals (from Latin , 'breast') are a group of vertebrates constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or hair, and three middle ear bones. These characteristics distinguish ... |
18839 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music | Music | Music is the art of arranging sounds in time through the elements of melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. It is one of the universal cultural aspects of all human societies. General definitions of music include common elements such as pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, ... |
18842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode | Mode | Mode ( meaning "manner, tune, measure, due measure, rhythm, melody") may refer to:
Language
Grammatical mode or grammatical mood, a category of verbal inflections that expresses an attitude of mind
Imperative mood
Subjunctive mood
Rhetorical modes, a category of discourse
Narrative mode, the type of method voice ... |
18845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse | Mouse | A mouse (: mice) is a small mammal. Characteristically, mice are known to have a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail, and a high breeding rate. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse (Mus musculus). Mice are also popular as pets. In some places, certain kinds of field mice are lo... |
18847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics | Multics | Multics ("Multiplexed Information and Computing Service") is an influential early time-sharing operating system based on the concept of a single-level memory. It has been said that Multics "has influenced all modern operating systems since, from microcomputers to mainframes."
Initial planning and development for Multi... |
18849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist%20film%20theory | Marxist film theory | Marxist film theory is an approach to film theory centered on concepts that make possible a political understanding of the medium.
Overview
Sergei Eisenstein and many other Soviet filmmakers in the 1920s expressed ideas of Marxism through film. In fact, the Hegelian dialectic was considered best displayed in film edi... |
18851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars%20%28disambiguation%29 | Mars (disambiguation) | Mars is a planet in the Solar System.
Mars also commonly refers to:
Mars (mythology), the Ancient Roman god of war, equivalent to the Greek god Ares
Mars, Incorporated, a confectioner and food company
Mars (chocolate bar), produced by Mars, Inc.
Mars may also refer to:
Biology and medicine
MARS (gene), a human enzym... |
18852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morpheme | Morpheme | A morpheme is the smallest meaningful lexical item in a language. A morpheme is not a word. The difference between a morpheme and a word is that a morpheme sometimes does not stand alone, but a word on this definition always stands alone. The field of linguistic study dedicated to morphemes is called morphology.
In En... |
18856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV | MTV | MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a division of Paramount Global.
The channel originally aired music videos and rel... |
18857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustelidae | Mustelidae | The Mustelidae (; from Latin mustela, weasel) are a family of carnivorous mammals, including weasels, badgers, otters, ferrets, martens, minks and wolverines, among others. Mustelids () are a diverse group and form the largest family in the order Carnivora, suborder Caniformia. They comprise about 66–70 species across ... |
18858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland | Maryland | Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. Baltimore is the largest city in the state, and the capital is Annapoli... |
18859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan | Michigan | Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. Its name derives from a gallicized variant of the original Ojibwe word (), meaning 'large water' or 'large lake'. With a population of nearly 10.1 million and a total area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by populatio... |
18862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20wage | Minimum wage | A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their employees—the price floor below which employees may not sell their labor. Most countries had introduced minimum wage legislation by the end of the 20th century. Because minimum wages increase the cost of labor, companies often try to avoid m... |
18864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullet | Mullet | Mullet may refer to:
Hairstyle
Mullet (haircut), a hairstyle that is short in the front, top, and sides, but long in the back
Fish
Mullet (fish), or "grey mullets", of the family Mugilidae
Flathead grey mullet, or striped mullet, Mugil cephalus, important food fish species in the family Mugilidae.
Goatfish, or "... |
18866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth | Macbeth | Macbeth (, full title The Tragedie of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, Macbet... |
18870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor%20Threat | Minor Threat | Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band, formed in 1980 in Washington, D.C. by vocalist Ian MacKaye and drummer Jeff Nelson. MacKaye and Nelson had played in several other bands together, and recruited bassist Brian Baker and guitarist Lyle Preslar to form Minor Threat. They added a fifth member, Steve Hansge... |
18875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental%20event | Mental event | A mental event is any event that happens within the mind of a conscious individual. Examples include thoughts, feelings, decisions, dreams, and realizations.
Some believe that mental events are not limited to human thought but can be associated with animals and artificial intelligence as well. Whether mental events ar... |
18878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly | Monopoly | A monopoly (from Greek and ) is as described by Irving Fisher, a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situation where a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular thing. This contrasts with a monopsony which relates to a single entity's control of a market to purchase a good or ... |
18879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts%20Institute%20of%20Technology | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has since played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, ranking it among the top academic institutions in the world.
Founded in response to the inc... |
18880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopolistic%20competition | Monopolistic competition | Monopolistic competition is a type of imperfect competition such that there are many producers competing against each other, but selling products that are differentiated from one another (e.g. by branding or quality) and hence are not perfect substitutes. In monopolistic competition, a firm takes the prices charged by ... |
18881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20induction | Mathematical induction | Mathematical induction is a mathematical proof technique. It is essentially used to prove that a statement P(n) holds for every natural number n = 0, 1, 2, 3, ... ; that is, the overall statement is a sequence of infinitely many cases P(0), P(1), P(2), P(3), ... . Informal metaphors help to explain this technique, such... |
18884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix | Matrix | Matrix most commonly refers to:
The Matrix (franchise), an American media franchise
The Matrix, a 1999 science-fiction action film
Matrix (mathematics), a rectangular array of numbers, symbols or expressions
Matrix or MATRIX may also refer to:
Science and mathematics
Matrix (logic), part of a formula in prenex n... |
18885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton%20Downey%20Jr. | Morton Downey Jr. | Sean Morton Downey Jr. (December 9, 1932 – March 12, 2001) was an American television talk show host and actor who pioneered the "trash TV" format in the late-1980s on his program The Morton Downey Jr. Show.
Early life
Downey's parents were in show business; his father, Morton Downey, was a popular singer, and his mot... |
18886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20male%20singles%20tennis%20players | List of male singles tennis players | This is a list of top international male singles tennis players, both past and present.
It includes players who have met one or more of the following criteria in singles:
Officially ranked among the top 25 players by the Association of Tennis Professionals (since 1973)
Ranked among the top 10 by an expert (e.g. A. ... |
18887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphilosophy | Metaphilosophy | Metaphilosophy, sometimes called the philosophy of philosophy, is "the investigation of the nature of philosophy". Its subject matter includes the aims of philosophy, the boundaries of philosophy, and its methods. Thus, while philosophy characteristically inquires into the nature of being, the reality of objects, the p... |
18888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandolin | Mandolin | A mandolin ( ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a plectrum. It most commonly has four courses of doubled metal strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 strings, although five (10 strings) and six (12 strings) course versions also exist... |
18889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microphotonics | Microphotonics | Microphotonics is a branch of technology that deals with directing light on a microscopic scale and is used in optical networking. Particularly, it refers to the branch of technology that deals with wafer-level integrated devices and systems that emit, transmit, detect, and process light along with other forms of radia... |
18890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Windows | Microsoft Windows | Microsoft Windows, commonly referred to as Windows, is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families, all of which are developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. Active Microsoft Windows families include Windows NT and Windows IoT; these m... |
18892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojo%20%28African-American%20culture%29 | Mojo (African-American culture) | Mojo , in the African-American spiritual practice called hoodoo, is an amulet consisting of a flannel bag containing one or more magical items. It is a "prayer in a bag", or a spell that can be carried with or on the host's body. Alternative American names for the mojo bag include gris-gris bag, hand, mojo hand, conjur... |
18894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Groening | Matt Groening | Matthew Abram Groening ( ; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, and animator. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell (1977–2012) and the television series The Simpsons (1989–present), Futurama (1999–2003, 2008–2013, 2023), and Disenchantment (2018–present). The Simpsons is the... |
18895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics | Metaphysics | Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of consciousness and the relationship between mind and matter, between substance and a... |
18896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20spaceflight | Human spaceflight | Human spaceflight (also referred to as manned spaceflight or crewed spaceflight) is spaceflight with a crew or passengers aboard a spacecraft, often with the spacecraft being operated directly by the onboard human crew. Spacecraft can also be remotely operated from ground stations on Earth, or autonomously, without any... |
18899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendelevium | Mendelevium | Mendelevium is a synthetic element with the symbol Md (formerly Mv) and atomic number 101. A metallic radioactive transuranium element in the actinide series, it is the first element by atomic number that currently cannot be produced in macroscopic quantities through neutron bombardment of lighter elements. It is the t... |
18900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus%20ponens | Modus ponens | In propositional logic, modus ponens (; MP), also known as modus ponendo ponens (Latin for "method of putting by placing") or implication elimination or affirming the antecedent, is a deductive argument form and rule of inference. It can be summarized as "P implies Q. P is true. Therefore Q must also be true."
Modus p... |
18901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus%20tollens | Modus tollens | In propositional logic, modus tollens () (MT), also known as modus tollendo tollens (Latin for "method of removing by taking away") and denying the consequent, is a deductive argument form and a rule of inference. Modus tollens takes the form of "If P, then Q. Not Q. Therefore, not P." It is an application of the gener... |
18902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematician | Mathematician | A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
One of the earliest known mathematicians were Thales of Miletus (c. 624–c.546 BC);... |
18906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfluidics | Microfluidics | Microfluidics refers to the behavior, precise control, and manipulation of fluids that are geometrically constrained to a small scale (typically sub-millimeter) at which surface forces dominate volumetric forces. It is a multidisciplinary field that involves engineering, physics, chemistry, biochemistry, nanotechnology... |
18908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne%20prime | Mersenne prime | In mathematics, a Mersenne prime is a prime number that is one less than a power of two. That is, it is a prime number of the form for some integer . They are named after Marin Mersenne, a French Minim friar, who studied them in the early 17th century. If is a composite number then so is . Therefore, an equivalen... |
18909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium | Magnesium | Magnesium is a chemical element with the symbol Mg and atomic number 12. It is a shiny gray solid which bears a close physical resemblance to the other five elements in the second column (group 2, or alkaline earth metals) of the periodic table: all group 2 elements have the same electron configuration in the outer ele... |
18910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markup%20language | Markup language | Markup refers to data included in an electronic document which is distinct from the document's content in that it is typically
not included in representations of the document for end users, for example on paper or a computer screen, or in an audio
stream. Markup is often used to control the display of the document o... |
18916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning | Meaning | Meaning most commonly refers to:
Meaning (linguistics), meaning which is communicated through the use of language
Meaning (philosophy), definition, elements, and types of meaning discussed in philosophy
Meaning (non-linguistic), a general term of art to capture senses of the word "meaning", independent from its lin... |
18917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-ethics | Meta-ethics | In metaphilosophy and ethics, meta-ethics is the study of the nature, scope, and meaning of moral judgment. It is one of the three branches of ethics generally studied by philosophers, the others being normative ethics (questions of how one ought to be and act) and applied ethics (practical questions of right behavior ... |
18921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montesquieu%20%28disambiguation%29 | Montesquieu (disambiguation) | Montesquieu (1689–1755) was a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher.
Montesquieu may also refer to:
Montesquieu, Hérault, commune in the Hérault department, France
Montesquieu, Lot-et-Garonne, commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department, France
Montesquieu, Tarn-et-Garonne, commune in the Tarn-et-Ga... |
18925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormons | Mormons | Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s. After Smith's death in 1844 the movement split into several groups following different leaders; the majority followed Brigham Young, while ... |
18926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitoba | Manitoba | Manitoba ( ) is a province of Canada at the longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's fifth-most populous province, with a population of 1,342,153 as of 2021, of widely varied landscape, from arctic tundra and the Hudson Bay coastline in the north to dense boreal forest, large freshwater lakes, and prairie gra... |
18929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Logan | Mount Logan | Mount Logan () is the highest mountain in Canada and the second-highest peak in North America after Denali. The mountain was named after Sir William Edmond Logan, a Canadian geologist and founder of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). Mount Logan is located within Kluane National Park Reserve in southwestern Yukon, ... |
18930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject%20%28philosophy%29 | Subject (philosophy) | A subject is a being who has a unique consciousness and/or unique personal experiences, or an entity that has a relationship with another entity that exists outside itself (called an "object").
A subject is an observer and an object is a thing observed. This concept is especially important in Continental philosophy, w... |
18932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20bias | Media bias | Media bias is the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of many events and stories that are reported and how they are covered. The term "media bias" implies a pervasive or widespread bias contravening the standards of journalism, rather than the perspective of an individual journ... |
18934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad | Muhammad | Muhammad ibn Abdullah ( ; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of the world religion of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet, divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monotheistic teachings of Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets. He ... |
18935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse%20code | Morse code | Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one of the inventors of the telegraph.
International Morse Code encodes the 26 basic Latin letters t... |
18937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapping | Mapping | Mapping may refer to:
Mapping (cartography), the process of making a map
Mapping (mathematics), a synonym for a mathematical function and its generalizations
Mapping (logic), a synonym for functional predicate
Types of mapping
Animated mapping, the depiction of events over time on a map
Brain mapping, the techni... |
18939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency%20contraception | Emergency contraception | Emergency contraception (EC) is a birth control measure, used after sexual intercourse to prevent pregnancy.
There are different forms of EC. Emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs), sometimes simply referred to as emergency contraceptives (ECs), or the morning-after pill, are medications intended to disrupt or delay ovu... |
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