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Indigo
Indigo is a deep and rich color close to the color wheel blue (a primary color in the RGB color space), as well as to some variants of ultramarine, based on the ancient dye of the same name. The word "indigo" comes from the Latin for "Indian", as the dye was originally imported to Europe from India.
It is trad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15250 |
International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of 189 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15251 |
Islands of the Clyde
The Islands of the Firth of Clyde are the fifth largest of the major Scottish island groups after the Inner and Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland. They are situated in the Firth of Clyde between Ayrshire and Argyll and Bute. There are about forty islands and skerries, of which only four are inha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15252 |
International Bank Account Number
The International Bank Account Number (IBAN) is an internationally agreed system of identifying bank accounts across national borders to facilitate the communication and processing of cross border transactions with a reduced risk of transcription errors. It was originally adopted by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15253 |
Infinitive
Infinitive (abbreviated ) is a linguistics term referring to certain verb forms existing in many languages, most often used as non-finite verbs. As with many linguistic concepts, there is not a single definition applicable to all languages. The word is derived from Late Latin "[modus] infinitivus", a deriva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15254 |
Immaculate Conception
The Immaculate Conception is a dogma of the Roman Catholic Church which states that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception. It proved highly controversial in the Middle Ages, but revived in the 19th century and was adopted as church dogma when Pope Pius IX prom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15256 |
Interactive Fiction Competition
The Interactive Fiction Competition (also known as IFComp) is one of several annual competitions for works of interactive fiction. It has been held since 1995. It is intended for fairly short games, as judges are only allowed to spend two hours playing a game before deciding how many po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15266 |
Inquests in England and Wales
Inquests in England and Wales are held into sudden or unexplained deaths and also into the circumstances of and discovery of a certain class of valuable artefacts known as "treasure trove". In England and Wales, inquests are the responsibility of a coroner, who operates under the jurisdic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15268 |
Information retrieval
Information retrieval (IR) is the activity of obtaining information system resources that are relevant to an information need from a collection of those resources. Searches can be based on full-text or other content-based indexing. Information retrieval is the science of searching for information... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15271 |
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
The International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, more commonly referred to as the International Criminal Tribunal for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15274 |
ISO 216
ISO 216 is an international standard for paper sizes, used everywhere except in North America and parts of Latin America. The standard defines the "A", "B" and "C" series of paper sizes, including A4, the most commonly available paper size worldwide. Two supplementary standards, ISO 217 and ISO 269, define rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15275 |
Isaac Abendana
Isaac Abendana (ca. 1640 – 1699) was the younger brother of Jacob Abendana, and became "hakam" of the Spanish Portuguese Synagogue in London after his brother died.
Abendana moved to England before his brother, in 1662, and taught Hebrew at Cambridge University. He completed an unpublished Latin trans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15281 |
Internet Engineering Task Force
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is an open standards organization, which develops and promotes voluntary Internet standards, in particular the standards that comprise the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP). It has no formal membership roster or membership requirements. All part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15285 |
ISM band
The ISM radio bands are portions of the radio spectrum reserved internationally for industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) purposes other than telecommunications.
Examples of applications for the use of radio frequency (RF) energy in these bands include radio-frequency process heating, microwave ovens, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15286 |
Series (mathematics)
In mathematics, a series is, roughly speaking, a description of the operation of adding infinitely many quantities, one after the other, to a given starting quantity. The study of series is a major part of calculus and its generalization, mathematical analysis. Series are used in most areas of mat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15287 |
Interrupt
In digital computers, an interrupt is a response by the processor to an event that needs attention from the software. An interrupt condition alerts the processor and serves as a request for the processor to interrupt the currently executing code when permitted, so that the event can be processed in a timely ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15289 |
Intercalation (timekeeping)
Intercalation or embolism in timekeeping is the insertion of a leap day, week, or month into some calendar years to make the calendar follow the seasons or moon phases. Lunisolar calendars may require intercalations of both days and months.
The solar or tropical year does not have a whole ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15290 |
Ink
Ink is a liquid or paste that contain pigments or dyes and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design. Ink is used for drawing or writing with a pen, brush, or quill. Thicker inks, in paste form, are used extensively in letterpress and lithographic printing.
Ink can be a complex medium, compo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15292 |
Islamabad Capital Territory
Islamabad Capital Territory () is the only federal territory of Pakistan. Located in north-central Pakistan between the provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it includes the country's federal capital Islamabad. The territory is represented in the National Assembly constituencies NA-52... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15294 |
Non-cognitivism
Non-cognitivism is the meta-ethical view that ethical sentences do not express propositions (i.e., statements) and thus cannot be true or false (they are not truth-apt). A noncognitivist denies the cognitivist claim that "moral judgments are capable of being objectively true, because they describe some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21178 |
North Sea
The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain (England and Scotland), Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. An epeiric (or "shelf") sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21179 |
Natural Born Killers
Natural Born Killers is a 1994 American crime film directed by Oliver Stone and starring Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Sizemore, and Tommy Lee Jones. The film tells the story of two victims of traumatic childhoods who became lovers and mass murderers, and are irresponsibl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21180 |
Nancy Reagan
Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins; July 6, 1921 – March 6, 2016) was an American film actress and the second wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States. She was the first lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
She was born in New York City. After her parents separate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21181 |
New Brunswick
New Brunswick () is one of four Atlantic provinces on the east coast of Canada. According to the Constitution of Canada, New Brunswick is the only bilingual province. About two-thirds of the population declare themselves anglophones and one-third francophones. One-third of the population describes themse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21182 |
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia () is a province in eastern Canada. With a population of 923,598 as of 2016, it is the most populous of Canada's three Maritime provinces and four Atlantic provinces. It is the country's second-most densely populated province and second-smallest province by area, both after neighbouring Prince ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21184 |
Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories (abbr. NT or NWT) is a federal territory of Canada. At a land area of approximately and a 2016 census population of 41,786, it is the second-largest and the most populous of the three territories in Northern Canada. Its estimated population as of 2020 is 44,982. Yellowkn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21186 |
Nez Perce people
The Nez Perce (; autonym: , meaning "the walking people" or "we, the people") are an Indigenous people of the Plateau who have lived on the Columbia River Plateau in the Pacific Northwest region for at least 11,500 years.
Members of the Sahaptin language group, the Niimíipuu were the dominant people ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21187 |
Neolithic
The Neolithic (, also known as the "New Stone Age"), the final division of the Stone Age, began about 12,000 years ago when the first developments of farming appeared in the Epipalaeolithic Near East, and later in other parts of the world.
The Neolithic division lasted (in that part of the world) until the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21189 |
Nomic
Nomic is a game created in 1982 by philosopher Peter Suber in which the of the game include mechanisms for the players to change those rules, usually beginning through a system of democratic voting.
The initial was designed by Peter Suber, and first published in Douglas Hofstadter's column "Metamagical Themas"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21190 |
Nintendo
Since then, Nintendo has produced some of the most successful consoles in the video game industry, such as the Game Boy, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Wii, and the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo has also released numerous influential franchises, including "Donkey Kong", "Mario", "The Legend of Zelda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21197 |
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize (, ; ; ) is a set of annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist, engineer and industrialist Alfred Nobel established the five Nobel prizes in 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21201 |
Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohr (; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research.
Bohr de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21210 |
National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The NFL is one of the four major professional sports leagues in North America, the hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21211 |
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich until 1943 and Greater German Reich in 1943–45, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) controlled the country which they transformed into a dictatorship. Under Hitler's rule, Germany became a totalitarian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21212 |
Naraoiidae
Naraoiidae is a family, of extinct, soft-shelled trilobite-like arthropods, that belongs to the order Nectaspida. Species included in the Naraoiidae are known from the second half of the Lower Cambrian to the end of the Upper Silurian. The total number of collection sites is limited and distributed over a v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21214 |
Northwest Passage
The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea route to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The eastern route along the Arctic coasts of Norway and Siberia is accordingly called the Northeast Passage (NEP... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21215 |
Nevada
Nevada ( or , ) is a state in the Western United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the 7th most extensive, the 32nd most populous, but the 9th least densely populated of the U.S. states. Ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21216 |
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States, except Hawaii and territories of the United States. There are 574 federally recognized tribes living within the US, about half of which are asso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21217 |
Nights into Dreams
Development began after the release of "Sonic & Knuckles" in 1994, although the concept originated during the development of "Sonic the Hedgehog 2" two years prior. Development was led by Sonic Team veterans Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima, and Takashi Iizuka. Naka began the project with the main idea revo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21218 |
Neuromyotonia
Neuromyotonia (NMT) is a form of peripheral nerve hyperexcitability that causes spontaneous muscular activity resulting from repetitive motor unit action potentials of peripheral origin. The prevalence of NMT is unknown. Neuromyotonia along with Morvan's Syndrome are the most severe types in the Periphe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21221 |
Neurology
Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the nervous system. Neurology deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the central and peripheral nervous systems (and their subdivisions,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21226 |
Niue
Niue ( or ; ) is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean, northeast of New Zealand. Niue's land area is about and its population, predominantly Polynesian, was about 1,600 in 2016. The island is commonly referred to as "The Rock", which comes from the traditional name "Rock of Polynesia". Niue is one of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21228 |
Nirvana (band)
Nirvana was an American rock band formed in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987. Founded by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic, the band went through a succession of drummers before recruiting Dave Grohl in 1990. Characterized by their punk aesthetic, Nirvana's fusion of pop mel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21231 |
Nirvana (British band)
Nirvana are an English pop rock band, formed in London, England in 1965. Though the band achieved only limited commercial success, they were acclaimed both by music industry professionals and by critics. In 1985, the band reformed. The members of the band took the popular American rock band with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21232 |
Nirvana
In Indian religions, nirvana is synonymous with "moksha" and "mukti". All Indian religions assert it to be a state of perfect quietude, freedom, highest happiness as well as the liberation from or ending of "samsara", the repeating cycle of birth, life and death.
However, Buddhist and non-Buddhist traditions ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21233 |
Neva
The Neva ( Finnish: Nëvii), ) is a river in northwestern Russia flowing from Lake Ladoga through the western part of Leningrad Oblast (historical region of Ingria) to the Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland. Despite its modest length of , it is the fourth largest river in Europe in terms of average discharge (after t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21238 |
Nissan
, usually shortened to Nissan (, or AU/NZ: ; Japanese pronunciation: ), is a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Nishi-ku, Yokohama. The company sells its cars under the Nissan, Infiniti, and Datsun brands with in-house performance tuning products labelled Nismo. The company traces i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21240 |
Intermediate value theorem
In mathematical analysis, the intermediate value theorem states that if "f" is a continuous function whose domain contains the interval ["a", "b"], then it takes on any given value between "f"("a") and "f"("b") at some point within the interval.
This has two important corollaries:
This c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14884 |
Iran–Iraq War
The Iran–Iraq War (; “First Gulf War”) or "Holy defence" (Persian: دفاع مقدس) as called among Iranians began on 22 September 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran, and it ended on 20 August 1988, when Iran accepted the UN-brokered ceasefire. Iraq wanted to replace Iran as the dominant Persian Gulf state, and was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14889 |
Incremental reading
Incremental reading is a software-assisted method for learning and retaining information from reading, which involves the creation of flashcards out of electronic articles. "Incremental reading" means "reading in portions". Instead of a linear reading of articles one at a time, the method works by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14891 |
Intelligence quotient
An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from a set of standardized tests or subtests designed to assess human intelligence. The abbreviation "IQ" was coined by the psychologist William Stern for the German term "Intelligenzquotient", his term for a scoring method for intelligence t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14892 |
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (also known as IIT Kanpur or IITK) is a public technical and research university located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. It was declared to be an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India under the Institutes of Technology Act.
Es... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14894 |
Insulin
Insulin (, from Latin "insula", 'island') is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets; it is considered to be the main anabolic hormone of the body. It regulates the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and protein by promoting the absorption of glucose from the blood into liver, fat and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14895 |
Inductor
An inductor, also called a coil, choke, or reactor, is a passive two-terminal electrical component that stores energy in a magnetic field when electric current flows through it. An inductor typically consists of an insulated wire wound into a coil around a core.
When the current flowing through an inductor c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14896 |
Insulin pump
An insulin pump is a medical device used for the administration of insulin in the treatment of diabetes mellitus, also known as continuous subcutaneous insulin therapy.
The device configuration may vary depending on design. A traditional pump includes:
Other configurations are possible. More recent model... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14899 |
Intensive insulin therapy
Intensive insulin therapy or flexible insulin therapy is a therapeutic regimen for diabetes mellitus treatment. This newer approach contrasts with conventional insulin therapy. Rather than minimize the number of insulin injections per day (a technique which demands a rigid schedule for food a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14904 |
Interwiki links
Interwiki linking ("W-link") is a facility for creating links to the many wikis on the World Wide Web. Users avoid pasting in entire URLs (as they would for regular web pages) and instead use a shorthand similar to links within the same wiki (intrawiki links).
Unlike domain names on the Internet, ther... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14906 |
Inverse function
In mathematics, an inverse function (or anti-function) is a function that "reverses" another function: if the function applied to an input gives a result of , then applying its inverse function to gives the result , and vice versa, i.e., if and only if .
As an example, consider the real-valued functi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14907 |
Inertia
Inertia is the resistance of any physical object to any change in its velocity. This includes changes to the object's speed, or direction of motion.
An aspect of this property is the tendency of objects to keep moving in a straight line at a constant speed, when no forces act upon them.
Inertia comes from th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14909 |
Ibanez
The Hoshino Gakki company began in 1908 as the musical instrument sales division of the "Hoshino Shoten", a bookstore chain. Hoshino Gakki decided in 1935 to make Spanish-style acoustic guitars, at first using the "Ibanez Salvador" brand name in honor of Spanish luthier Salvador Ibáñez, and later simply "Ibanez... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14910 |
Incest
Incest is human sexual activity between family members or close relatives. This typically includes sexual activity between people in consanguinity (blood relations), and sometimes those related by affinity (marriage or stepfamily), adoption, clan, or lineage.
The incest taboo is one of the most widespread of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14912 |
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, now also known as the First Industrial Revolution, was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the United States, in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14914 |
International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), sometimes called the World Court, is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN). It settles disputes between states and gives advisory opinions on international legal issues referred to it by the UN. Its opinions and rulings serve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14918 |
International Standard Book Number
The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a numeric commercial book identifier which is intended to be unique. Publishers purchase ISBNs from an affiliate of the International ISBN Agency.
An ISBN is assigned to each separate edition and variation (except reprintings) of a pu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14919 |
IP address
An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.
An IP address serves two main functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing.
Internet Protocol version 4 (I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14921 |
If and only if
In logic and related fields such as mathematics and philosophy, if and only if (shortened as iff) is a biconditional logical connective between statements, where either both statements are true or both are false.
The connective is biconditional (a statement of material equivalence), and can be likened ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14922 |
Isaac Ambrose
Isaac Ambrose (1604 – 20 January 1664) was an English Puritan divine. He graduated with a BA. from Brasenose College, Oxford, on 1624. He obtained the curacy of St Edmund’s Church, Castleton, Derbyshire, in 1627. He was one of king's four preachers in Lancashire in 1631. He was twice imprisoned by commis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14928 |
International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling
The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is an international environmental agreement signed in 1946 in order to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry". It gover... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14933 |
International Organization for Standardization
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO; ) is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. In contrast to many international organizations, which utilize the British English form of spell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14934 |
Individualist anarchism
Individualist anarchism is the branch of anarchism that emphasize the individual and their will over external determinants such as groups, society, traditions and ideological systems. Although usually contrasted to social anarchism, both individualist and social anarchism have influenced each o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14936 |
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (, also , ; 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the "Our Ancestors" trilogy (1952–1959), the "Cosmicomics" collection of short stories (1965), and the novels "Invisible Cities" (1972) and "If on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14937 |
Intercontinental ballistic missile
An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a guided ballistic missile with a minimum range of primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more thermonuclear warheads). Similarly, conventional, chemical, and biological weapons can also be delivered with va... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14939 |
Ice
Ice is water frozen into a solid state. Depending on the presence of impurities such as particles of soil or bubbles of air, it can appear transparent or a more or less opaque bluish-white color.
In the Solar System, ice is abundant and occurs naturally from as close to the Sun as Mercury to as far away as the Oo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14946 |
Ionic bonding
Ionic bonding is a type of chemical bonding that involves the electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged ions, and is the primary interaction occurring in ionic compounds. It is one of the main types of bonding along with covalent bonding and metallic bonding. Ions are atoms (or groups of atoms)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14951 |
Immune system
The immune system is a host defense system comprising many biological structures and processes within an organism that protects against disease. To function properly, an immune system must detect a wide variety of agents, known as pathogens, from viruses to parasitic worms, and distinguish them from the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14958 |
Immunology
Immunology is a branch of biology that covers the study of immune systems in all organisms. Immunology charts, measures, and contextualizes the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; malfunctions of the immune system in immunological disorders (such as autoimmu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14959 |
Ice beer
Ice beer is a beer style, in which beer has undergone some degree of fractional freezing during production. These brands generally have higher alcohol content than typical beer and generally have a low price relative to their alcohol content.
The process of "icing" beer involves lowering the temperature of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14961 |
Identity element
In mathematics, an identity element, or neutral element, is a special type of element of a set with respect to a binary operation on that set, which leaves any element of the set unchanged when combined with it. This concept is used in algebraic structures such as groups and rings. The term "identity... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14962 |
Instrumental
An instrumental is a recording without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a Big Band setting. Through semantic widening, a broader sense of the word song may refer to instrumentals. The music is primarily or exclusively produced using musical i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14967 |
Regular icosahedron
In geometry, a regular icosahedron ( or ) is a convex polyhedron with 20 faces, 30 edges and 12 vertices. It is one of the five Platonic solids, and the one with the most sides.
It has five equilateral triangular faces meeting at each vertex. It is represented by its Schläfli symbol {3,5}, or some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14968 |
Industrial archaeology of Dartmoor
The industrial archaeology of Dartmoor covers a number of the industries which have, over the ages, taken place on Dartmoor, and the remaining evidence surrounding them. Currently only three industries are economically significant, yet all three will inevitably leave their own traces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14971 |
Idempotence
Idempotence (, ) is the property of certain operations in mathematics and computer science whereby they can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application. The concept of idempotence arises in a number of places in abstract algebra (in particular, in the theory of proj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14972 |
Ithaca, New York
Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York. It is the seat of Tompkins County, as well as the largest community in the Ithaca–Tompkins County metropolitan area. This area contains the municipalities of the Town of Ithaca, the village of Cayuga Heights, and other towns and villages in Tomp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14973 |
Bodyline
Bodyline, also known as fast leg theory bowling, was a cricketing tactic devised by the English cricket team for their 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia, specifically to combat the extraordinary batting skill of Australia's Don Bradman. A bodyline delivery was one where the cricket ball was bowled at the body o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18053 |
Laws of infernal dynamics
The laws of infernal dynamics are an adage about the cursedness of the universe. Attributed to Science fiction author David Gerrold, the laws are as follows:
The laws are a parody on the first and second of Newton's laws of motion in the spirit of Murphy's law. Newton's first law of motion ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18056 |
Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich ( ; born Karen Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954) is an American author, writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a federally recognized tribe of the Anishinaabe ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18057 |
Latin literature
Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings written in the Latin language. The beginning of Latin literature dates to 240 BC, when the first stage play was performed in Rome. Latin literature would flourish for the next six centuries. The classical era of Latin li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18058 |
Leonard Bloomfield
Leonard Bloomfield (April 1, 1887 – April 18, 1949) was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s. His influential textbook "Language", published in 1933, presented a comprehensive description of American structural lin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18060 |
Leather
Leather is a durable and flexible material created by tanning animal rawhide and skins. The most common raw material is cattle hide. It can be produced at manufacturing scales ranging from artisan to modern industrial scale.
Leather is used to make a variety of articles, including footwear, automobile seats, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18062 |
Long Parliament
The Long Parliament was an English Parliament which lasted from 1640 until 1660. It followed the fiasco of the Short Parliament, which had convened for only three weeks during the spring of 1640 after an 11-year parliamentary absence. In September 1640, King Charles I issued writs summoning a parliamen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18065 |
Lubricant
A lubricant is a substance, usually organic, introduced to reduce friction between surfaces in mutual contact, which ultimately reduces the heat generated when the surfaces move. It may also have the function of transmitting forces, transporting foreign particles, or heating or cooling the surfaces. The prop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18069 |
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner (; ; 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch discovered nuclear fission of uranium when it absorbed an extra neutron; the results were published in early 1939. They understood the nucl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18070 |
Llama
The llama (; ) ("Lama glama") is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since the Pre-Columbian era.
Llamas are very social animals and live with others as a herd. Their wool is very soft and lanolin-free. Llamas can learn simple tasks after a few repetit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18071 |
Lexicon
A lexicon, word-hoard, wordbook, or word-stock is the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge (such as nautical or medical). In linguistics, a lexicon is a language's inventory of lexemes. The word "lexicon" derives from the Greek ("lexicon"), neuter of ("lexikos") meaning "of or for words."
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (; 14/15 April 14522 May 1519), known as Leonardo da Vinci ( ), was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included science and invention, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18079 |
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins in a tribal game played by the indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands and by various other indigenous peoples of North America. The game was extensively modified ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18080 |
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. The population in 2019 was approximately . Liverpool is the ninth-largest English district by population, and the largest in Merseyside and the surrounding region. It lies within the UK's sixth-most populous urban area, and its metropolitan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18081 |
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a group are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". This event has a hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18084 |
Lonsdaleite
Lonsdaleite (named in honour of Kathleen Lonsdale), also called hexagonal diamond in reference to the crystal structure, is an allotrope of carbon with a hexagonal lattice. In nature, it forms when meteorites containing graphite strike the Earth. The great heat and stress of the impact transforms the graph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18087 |
Labrador duck
The Labrador duck ("Camptorhynchus labradorius") was a North American bird; it has the distinction of being the first endemic North American bird species to become extinct after the Columbian Exchange, with the last known sighting occurring in 1878 in Elmira, New York. It was already a rare duck before E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18088 |
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