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Timely
TIMELY Existing or taking place within the designated period; seasonable. A legal action is timely filed, for example, when it is brought within the time period set by the statute of limitations. The meaning of the term timely must, in a number of situations, be determined on the basis of the... Read more |
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lentil
lentil leguminous Old World annual plant ( Lens culinaris ) with whitish or pale blue flowers. Its pods contain two greenish-brown or dark-colored seeds, also called lentils, which when fully ripe are ground into meal or used in soups and stews. Probably indigenous to SW Asia, and known to have... Read more |
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Time travel
Time Travel In 1898 H. G. Wells wrote his most famous novel, The Time Machine.In this novel, a young Victorian invented a device that allowed him to travel into the future or the past. He travels 800,000 years into the future and finds a society very different from the... Read more |
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solar time
solar time time defined by the position of the sun. The solar day is the time it takes for the sun to return to the same meridian in the sky. Local solar time is measured by a sundial . When the center of the sun is on an observer's meridian, the observer's local solar time is zero hours... Read more |
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buccal incubation
buccal incubation (mouth brooding) The incubation of eggs in the mouth of one of the parents. In a number of species of fish, the male or the female carries the fertilized eggs in the mouth until some time after hatching. During incubation the parent involved takes no food, and so may appear rather... Read more |
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Third Amendment
THIRD AMENDMENT The Third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. Ratified in 1791, the Third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution sets... Read more |
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gazetteer
gazetteer , dictionary or encyclopedia listing alphabetically the names of places, political divisions, and physical features of the earth and giving some information about each. The term gazetteer originally was applied to one who wrote a gazette. It was first used in its modern sense early in... Read more |
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civil time
civil time local time based on universal time . Civil time may be formally defined as mean solar time plus 12 hr; the civil day begins at midnight, while the mean solar day begins at noon. Civil time is occasionally adjusted by one-second increments to ensure that the difference between a... Read more |
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Reaction Time
Reaction TimeStrength variablesMinimum RT and comparison of sensesComplexity conditionsExplanations of RTRelation to other aspects of behaviorInstrumentationSpecial conditionsBIBLIOGRAPHYWhen a human subject follows instructions to make a specific response as soon as he can after the presentation of... Read more |
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