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	Lucas Samaras Lucas Samaras , 1936-, American artist, b. Kastoria, Greece. Samaras is noted for his unusual assemblages, incorporating such diverse materials as straight pins, multicolored string, plastics, chicken wire, feathers, and mirrors. The resulting works are both visually seductive and implicitly... Read more
	syzygy syzygy , in astronomy, alignment of three bodies of the solar system along a straight or nearly straight line. A planet is in syzygy with the earth and sun when it is in opposition or conjunction , i.e., when its elongation is 180° or 0°. The moon is in syzygy with the earth and sun... Read more
	Nick Faldo Nick Faldo 1957- British golfer British golfer Nick Faldo has won six major golf events and more than 30 titles on the European Professional Golf Association tour, primarily from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Though Faldo is a great golfer, he has not been a popular nor particularly high... Read more
	biological symmetry biological symmetry similarity or balance between parts of an organism so that when a straight cut is made through a point or along a line, equal, mirror-image halves are formed. Symmetry in body shapes is related to the lifestyles of organisms. Asymmetry, or the absence of symmetry, most often... Read more
	angle angle in mathematics, figure formed by the intersection of two straight lines; the lines are called the sides of the angle and their point of intersection the vertex of the angle. Angles are commonly measured in degrees (°) or in radians. If one side and the vertex of an angle are fixed and the... Read more
	plane plane in mathematics, flat surface of infinite extent but no thickness. An example of a plane, or more exactly of a bounded portion of a plane, is the surface forming one face, or side, of a cube. A plane is determined, or defined, by any of the following: (1) three points not in a straight line;... Read more
	gun gun in general, any weapon that discharges shot, shells, or bullets by the explosion of gunpowder or some other explosive from a straight tube. See firearm ; artillery ; small arms .... Read more
	conic section conic section or conic , curve formed by the intersection of a plane and a right circular cone (conical surface). The ordinary conic sections are the circle , the ellipse , the parabola , and the hyperbola . When the plane passes through the vertex of the cone, the result is a point, a... Read more
	Marx Brothers Marx Brothers team of American movie comedians. The members were Julius (1890?-1977), known as Groucho; Arthur (1888?-1964), originally Adolph and known as Harpo; Leonard (1887?-1961), known as Chico; and two other brothers, Milton (Gummo) and Herbert (Zeppo), who had both left the act by 1935; all... Read more
	crystal crystal a solid body bounded by natural plane faces that are the external expression of a regular internal arrangement of constituent atoms, molecules, or ions. The formation of a crystal by a substance passing from a gas or liquid to a solid state, or going out of solution (by precipitation or... Read more