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Adverse possession
ADVERSE POSSESSION A method of gaining legal title to real property by the actual, open, hostile, and continuous possession of it to the exclusion of its true owner for the period prescribed by state law. personal property may also be acquired by adverse possession. Adverse possession is similar... Read more |
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acquired characteristics
acquired characteristics modifications produced in an individual plant or animal as a result of mutilation, disease, use and disuse, or any distinctly environmental influence. Some examples are docking of tails, malformation caused by disease, and muscle atrophy. The belief in the inheritability of... Read more |
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Basis
BASIS The minimum, fundamental constituents, foundation, or support of a thing or a system without which the thing or system would cease to exist. In accounting, the value assigned to an asset that is sold or transferred so that it can be determined whether a gain or loss has resulted from the... Read more |
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Lipodystrophy
lipodystrophy (lip-oh-dis-trŏ-fi) n. any condition resulting in the loss and/or redistribution of fat tissue in part or all of the body. It may be congenital or acquired later in life.... Read more |
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hydrocephalus
hydrocephalus , also known as water on the brain, developmental (congenital) or acquired condition in which there is an abnormal accumulation of body fluids within the skull. The congenital form may be associated with other abnormalities. The acquired form may follow meningitis or another cerebral... Read more |
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Henry Clay Frick
Henry Clay Frick 1849-1919, American industrialist, b. Westmoreland co., Pa. He worked on his father's farm, was a store clerk, and did bookkeeping before he and several associates organized (1871) Frick & Company to operate coke ovens in the Connellsville coal district. He strengthened his... Read more |
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Trofim Denisovich Lysenko
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko , 1898-1976, Russian agronomist. As president of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences he became the scientific and administrative leader of Soviet agriculture. In 1937 he was made a member of the Supreme Soviet and head of the Institute of Genetics of the... Read more |
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house of Savoy
house of Savoy dynasty of Western Europe that ruled Savoy and Piedmont from the 11th cent., the kingdom of Sicily from 1714 to 1718, the kingdom of Sardinia from 1720 to 1861, and the kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1946. Collateral branches of the house of Savoy include that of Nemours. Savoy and... Read more |
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acquired
acquired acquired character in biology, a modification or change in an organ or tissue that is due to use, disuse, or environmental effects during an organism's lifetime.an acquired taste originally (in the mid 19th century) a taste, as for a food or drink, which is gained by experience; more... Read more |
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