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a doll's house (danish and ; also translated as a doll house) is a three-act play written by norwegian playwright henrik ibsen. it premiered at the royal theatre in copenhagen, denmark, on 21 december 1879, having been published earlier that month. the play is set in a norwegian town circa 1879. the play concerns the f... |
the aim-7 sparrow (air intercept missile) is an american medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile operated by the united states air force, united states navy, united states marine corps, and various other air forces and navies. sparrow and its derivatives were the west's principal beyond visual range (b... |
the aim-120 advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (amraam) (pronounced /æmɹæm/), is an american beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile capable of all-weather day-and-night operations. it uses active transmit-receive radar guidance instead of semi-active receive-only radar guidance. it is a fire-and-forget weapon, un... |
the agm-88 harm (high-speed anti-radiation missile) is a tactical, air-to-surface anti-radiation missile designed to home in on electronic transmissions coming from surface-to-air radar systems. it was originally developed by texas instruments as a replacement for the agm-45 shrike and agm-78 standard arm system. produ... |
the agm-65 maverick is an air-to-ground missile (agm) designed for close air support. it is the most widely produced precision-guided missile in the western world, and is effective against a wide range of tactical targets, including armor, air defenses, ships, ground transportation and fuel storage facilities. developm... |
the aim-54 phoenix is an american radar-guided, long-range air-to-air missile (aam), carried in clusters of up to six missiles on the grumman f-14 tomcat, its only operational launch platform. the phoenix was the united states' only long-range air-to-air missile. the combination of phoenix missile and the tomcat's an/a... |
the lockheed ac-130 gunship is a heavily armed, long-endurance, ground-attack variant of the c-130 hercules transport, fixed-wing aircraft. it carries a wide array of ground-attack weapons that are integrated with sophisticated sensors, navigation, and fire-control systems. unlike other modern military fixed-wing aircr... |
alternative or alternate may refer to: arts, entertainment and media alternative (kamen rider), a character in the japanese tv series kamen rider ryuki alternative, academic journal the alternative (film), a 1978 australian television film the alternative, a radio show hosted by tony evans 120 minutes (2004 tv program)... |
in abstract algebra, an alternative algebra is an algebra in which multiplication need not be associative, only alternative. that is, one must have for all x and y in the algebra. every associative algebra is obviously alternative, but so too are some strictly non-associative algebras such as the octonions. the associa... |
in economics and finance, arbitrage (, ) is the practice of taking advantage of a difference in prices in two or more markets; striking a combination of matching deals to capitalise on the difference, the profit being the difference between the market prices at which the unit is traded. when used by academics, an arbit... |
associazione calcio firenze fiorentina, commonly referred to as fiorentina (), is an italian professional football club based in florence, tuscany, italy. the original team was founded by a merger in august 1926, while the current club was refounded in august 2002 following bankruptcy. fiorentina have played at the top... |
afrobeat is a nigerian music genre that involves the combination of west african musical styles (such as traditional yoruba and igbo music and highlife) with american funk, jazz, and soul influences, with a focus on chanted vocals, complex intersecting rhythms, and percussion. the style was pioneered in the 1960s by ni... |
in number theory, an arithmetic, arithmetical, or number-theoretic function is for most authors any function f(n) whose domain is the positive integers and whose range is a subset of the complex numbers. hardy & wright include in their definition the requirement that an arithmetical function "expresses some arithmetica... |
ansi c, iso c, and standard c are successive standards for the c programming language published by the american national standards institute (ansi) and iso/iec jtc 1/sc 22/wg 14 of the international organization for standardization (iso) and the international electrotechnical commission (iec). historically, the names r... |
the alien and sedition acts were a set of four laws enacted in 1798 that applied restrictions to immigration and speech in the united states. the naturalization act increased the requirements to seek citizenship, the alien friends act allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens, the alien enemies act gave... |
antinomy (greek ἀντί, antí, "against, in opposition to", and νόμος, nómos, "law") refers to a real or apparent mutual incompatibility of two laws. it is a term used in logic and epistemology, particularly in the philosophy of immanuel kant. there are many examples of antinomy. a self-contradictory phrase such as "there... |
in mathematics, the ascending chain condition (acc) and descending chain condition (dcc) are finiteness properties satisfied by some algebraic structures, most importantly ideals in certain commutative rings. these conditions played an important role in the development of the structure theory of commutative rings in th... |
rabbi adin even-israel steinsaltz (11 july 19377 august 2020) () was an israeli chabad chasidic rabbi, teacher, philosopher, social critic, author, translator and publisher. his steinsaltz edition of the talmud was originally published in modern hebrew, with a running commentary to facilitate learning, and has also bee... |
alfred edward housman (; 26 march 1859 – 30 april 1936) was an english classical scholar and poet. after an initially poor performance while at university, he took employment as a clerk in london and established his academic reputation by publishing as a private scholar at first. later housman was appointed professor o... |
efforts to scientifically ascertain and attribute mechanisms responsible for recent global warming and related climate changes on earth have found that the main driver is elevated levels of greenhouse gases produced by human activities, with natural forces adding variability. the likely range of human-induced surface-l... |
achduart (gaelic: achadh dhubhaird) is a coastal hamlet in coigach, wester ross in northwestern scotland, now within the highland council area. it is situated about 4 km southeast of the village of achiltibuie, at the end of a minor road. a footpath continues on to the hamlet of culnacraig, then along the coast past be... |
achiltibuie (; or field of the yellow-haired boy) is a long linear village in ross and cromarty, highland, on the coigach coast of northwestern scotland, overlooking badentarbet bay to the west. loch broom and the summer isles lie to the south. located 10 miles (16 km) northwest of ullapool as the crow flies. achiltibu... |
in economics, adaptive expectations is a hypothesized process by which people form their expectations about what will happen in the future based on what has happened in the past. for example, if people want to create an expectation of the inflation rate in the future, they can refer to past inflation rates to infer som... |
the mexican tetra (astyanax mexicanus), also known as the blind cave fish, blind cave characin, and blind cave tetra, is a freshwater fish of the family characidae of the order characiformes. the type species of its genus, it is native to the nearctic realm, originating in the lower rio grande and the neueces and pecos... |
the atom probe was introduced at the 14th field emission symposium in 1967 by erwin wilhelm müller and j. a. panitz. it combined a field ion microscope with a mass spectrometer having a single particle detection capability and, for the first time, an instrument could “... determine the nature of one single atom seen on... |
alphonse gabriel capone (; january 17, 1899 – january 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "scarface", was an american gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the chicago outfit. his seven-year reign as a crime boss ended when he went to prison at t... |
in electronics, the figures of merit of an amplifier are numerical measures that characterize its properties and performance. figures of merit can be given as a list of specifications that include properties such as gain, bandwidth, noise and linearity, among others listed in this article. figures of merit are importan... |
army of darkness is a 1992 american dark fantasy horror comedy film directed, co-written, and co-edited by sam raimi. the film is the third installment in the evil dead film series and the sequel to evil dead ii (1987). starring bruce campbell and embeth davidtz, it follows ash williams (campbell) as he is trapped in t... |
the rur-5 asroc (for "anti-submarine rocket") is an all-weather, all sea-conditions anti-submarine missile system. developed by the united states navy in the 1950s, it was deployed in the 1960s, updated in the 1990s, and eventually installed on over 200 usn surface ships, specifically cruisers, destroyers, and frigates... |
ahmed bin abdullah al-nami (; 7 december 197711 september 2001) was a saudi terrorist hijacker. he was one of the four hijackers of united airlines flight 93, which was crashed into a field in stonycreek township, pennsylvania, following a passenger revolt, as part of the 11 september attacks. born in saudi arabia, al-... |
ahmed ibrahim al-haznawi al-ghamdi (; 11 october 198011 september 2001) was a saudi terrorist hijacker. he was one of the four hijackers of united airlines flight 93, which was crashed into a field in stonycreek township, pennsylvania, following a passenger revolt, as part of the 11 september attacks. he left his famil... |
athanasius i of alexandria ( – 2 may 373), also called athanasius the great, athanasius the confessor, or, among coptic christians, athanasius the apostolic, was a church father and the 20th pope of alexandria (as athanasius i). his intermittent episcopacy spanned 45 years ( – 2 may 373), of which over 17 encompassed f... |
the azores ( , , ; , ), officially the autonomous region of the azores (), is one of the two autonomous regions of portugal (along with madeira). it is an archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the macaronesia region of the north atlantic ocean, about west of lisbon, about northwest of morocco, and about sout... |
the outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of australia. the outback is more remote than the bush. while often envisaged as being arid, the outback regions extend from the northern to southern australian coastlines and encompass a number of climatic zones, including tropical and monsoonal climates in northe... |
the absolute infinite (symbol: ω) is an extension of the idea of infinity proposed by mathematician georg cantor. it can be thought of as a number that is bigger than any other conceivable or inconceivable quantity, either finite or transfinite. cantor linked the absolute infinite with god, and believed that it had var... |
in engineering and its various subdisciplines, acceptance testing is a test conducted to determine if the requirements of a specification or contract are met. it may involve chemical tests, physical tests, or performance tests. in systems engineering, it may involve black-box testing performed on a system (for example:... |
the archbishopric of riga (, ) was an archbishopric in medieval livonia, a subject to the holy see. it was established in 1186 as the bishopric of livonia at ikšķile, then after moving to riga it became the bishopric of riga in 1202 and was elevated to an archbishopric in 1255. archbishops of riga the archbishops of ri... |
albert frederick (; ; 7 may 1553 – 27 august 1618) was the duke of prussia, from 1568 until his death. he was a son of albert of prussia and anna marie of brunswick-lüneburg. he was the second and last prussian duke of the ansbach branch of the hohenzollern family. duke of prussia albert became duke of prussia after pa... |
ansbach ( , ; ) is a city in the german state of bavaria. it is the capital of the administrative region of middle franconia. ansbach is southwest of nuremberg and north of munich, on the river fränkische rezat, a tributary of the river main. in 2020, its population was 41,681. developed in the 8th century as a benedic... |
national alliance (, an) was a national conservative political party in italy. it was the successor of the italian social movement (msi), a neo-fascist party founded in 1946 by former followers of benito mussolini that had moderated its policies over its last decades and finally distanced itself from its former ideolog... |
the arno is a river in the tuscany region of italy. it is the most important river of central italy after the tiber. source and route the river originates on monte falterona in the casentino area of the apennines, and initially takes a southward curve. the river turns to the west near arezzo passing through florence, e... |
aveiro () is a city and a municipality in portugal. in 2021, the population was 80,880, in an area of : it is the second most populous city in the centro region of portugal (after coimbra). along with the neighbouring city of ílhavo, aveiro is part of an urban agglomeration that includes 120,000 inhabitants, making it ... |
anthony the great ( antṓnios; ; ; ; – 17 january 356) was a christian monk from egypt, revered since his death as a saint. he is distinguished from other saints named anthony, such as , by various epithets: , , , , , and . for his importance among the desert fathers and to all later christian monasticism, he is also kn... |
amblypoda was a taxonomic hypothesis uniting a group of extinct, herbivorous mammals. they were considered a suborder of the primitive ungulate mammals and have since been shown to represent a polyphyletic group. characteristics the amblypoda take their name from their short and stumpy feet, which were furnished with f... |
amblygonite () is a fluorophosphate mineral, , composed of lithium, sodium, aluminium, phosphate, fluoride and hydroxide. the mineral occurs in pegmatite deposits and is easily mistaken for albite and other feldspars. its density, cleavage and flame test for lithium are diagnostic. amblygonite forms a series with monte... |
amygdalin (from ancient greek: 'almond') is a naturally occurring chemical compound found in many plants, most notably in the seeds (kernels) of apricots, bitter almonds, apples, peaches, cherries and plums, and in the roots of manioc. amygdalin is classified as a cyanogenic glycoside, because each amygdalin molecule i... |
amok syndrome is an aggressive dissociative behavioral pattern derived from indonesia and malaysia that led to the english phrase, running amok. the word derives from the malay word , traditionally meaning "an episode of sudden mass assault against people or objects, usually by a single individual, following a period o... |
the apostles' creed (latin: symbolum apostolorum or symbolum apostolicum), sometimes titled the apostolic creed or the symbol of the apostles, is a christian creed or "symbol of faith". the creed most likely originated in 5th-century gaul as a development of the old roman symbol: the old latin creed of the 4th century.... |
amicable numbers are two different natural numbers related in such a way that the sum of the proper divisors of each is equal to the other number. that is, s(a)=b and s(b)=a, where s(n)=σ(n)-n is equal to the sum of positive divisors of n except n itself (see also divisor function). the smallest pair of amicable number... |
agar ( or ), or agar-agar, is a jelly-like substance consisting of polysaccharides obtained from the cell walls of some species of red algae, primarily from "ogonori" (gracilaria) and "tengusa" (gelidiaceae). as found in nature, agar is a mixture of two components, the linear polysaccharide agarose and a heterogeneous ... |
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