Definitions

1. A phenomenon is said to be chiral if it is not identical to its mirror image (see Chirality (mathematics)). (Web site)
2. The phenomenon was dubbed " galvanism," after Galvani, on the suggestion of his peer and sometime intellectual adversary Alessandro Volta.
3. This phenomenon is due to the spinning of the Earth on its axis. (Web site)
4. This phenomenon is called confinement, a theory which allows only hadrons to be seen.
5. The phenomenon was first investigated in the 1880s by Osbourne Reynolds in an experiment which has become a classic in fluid mechanics. (Web site)

International Phenomenon

1. Zen, which had developed into a distinctively Chinese school of Buddhism, became an international phenomenon early in its history.
2. Modernism is an international phenomenon and modern Urdu poetry is a part of it.

Worldwide Phenomenon

1. Cecchetti and his co-authors conclude that the rise and subsequent decline of inflation persistence has thus been a worldwide phenomenon. (Web site)
2. Good for seeing that UFOs are a worldwide phenomenon. (Web site)

Jacques Vallee

1. Dr. Jacques Vallee is a leading researcher on the phenomenon of unidentified flying objects world-wide.

Ufo Phenomenon

1. And in ufology only the 1950s contactee obsession with females and the Villas Boas case indicate that women were once part of the UFO phenomenon.
2. But that’s what ufology needs to do: find the “elsewhere” that houses the UFO phenomenon or phenomena.
3. Corrales, Scott Scott Corrales became interested in the UFO phenomenon as a result of the heavy UFO activity while he lived in both Mexico and Puerto Rico.

Global Phenomenon

1. In the context of world economy, junk food is a global phenomenon.

Similar Phenomenon

1. Similar phenomenon appears in Poland during holidays of 1st and 3rd of May, when taking few days of leaves can result in even 9 days long holidays.
2. A similar phenomenon occurred in April of 1815 with the cataclysmic eruption of Tambora Volcano in Indonesia, the most powerful eruption in recorded history.
3. It is very likely that the detection of odic force is a similar phenomenon.

Language Change

1. Language change is a phenomenon which has always provoked questions in society such as whether it is a signal for corruption or for improvement. (Web site)

Social Phenomenon

1. In reality, there is nothing natural involved - it is a social phenomenon reinforced each time you and I visit or read one resource but not another. (Web site)
2. The spread of language change is essentially a social phenomenon, which reflects the changing social situation. (Web site)
3. If we were here undertaking to present at length the theory of value, we should lay great stress on the fact that value is a social phenomenon.

Kevin Bacon

1. PHILLIPS: The game became instantly popular and the "Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon" phenomenon took on a life of its own. (Web site)
2. PHILLIPS: Kevin Bacon, from "Footloose" fame to pop phenomenon, six degrees away from the starring role, but close enough to steal the limelight. (Web site)

Cultural Phenomenon

1. This article examines blackface as a theatrical device and cultural phenomenon with far-reaching and enduring influence on American and world culture.
2. In the last decade, Kevin Bacon has become a cultural phenomenon. (Web site)
3. Another cultural phenomenon in the USSR linked with the Gulag was the forced migration of many artists and other people of culture to Siberia. (Web site)

Path Dependence

1. Recent methodological work in comparative politics and sociology has adapted the concept of path dependence into analyses of political and social phenomenon. (Web site)
2. Theory tells us that path dependence is a phenomenon that is likely to afflict choices of technologies, standards, the location of industries, and so forth.

Common Phenomenon

1. If path dependence is a common phenomenon, the real world should be rife with examples of it.
2. That movement, called solifluction, is a common phenomenon frequently seen on hillside slopes of Alaska and northern Canada. (Web site)
3. The Bauschinger effect is a common phenomenon in metallic materials.

Natural Phenomenon

1. A utility patent cannot protect an abstract idea, natural phenomenon, or mathematical formula.
2. Gravitation is a natural phenomenon by which all objects with mass attract each other, and is one of the fundamental forces of physics. (Web site)
3. Bioluminescence is a natural phenomenon in which light is produced by organisms such as the firefly, jellyfish and plankton.

Nirvana

1. With bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam at the helm, grunge became a phenomenon in the music industry. (Web site)
2. Grunge remained a mostly local phenomenon until the breakthrough of Nirvana in 1991 with their album Nevermind.

Studying

1. One makes use of the various senses in studying a social phenomenon or social behavior.
2. While studying the fluorescence and phosphorescence of compounds irradiated with visible light, Becquerel observed an interesting phenomenon. (Web site)

Classical Conditioning

1. Pavlov is widely known for first describing the phenomenon of classical conditioning.

Behavior

1. This behavior, and the lack of universality of the C n constants, are related with the phenomenon of intermittency in turbulence. (Web site)
2. Light is a very complex phenomenon, but in many situations its behavior can be understood with a simple model based on rays and wave fronts. (Web site)
3. This fundamental property of predictions leads to the observable phenomenon of learning, as defined by changes in behavior based on updated predictions.

Rhyme

1. There are also some people who use the phrase wrenched rhyme for that other phenomenon. (Web site)
2. A similar phenomenon to broken rhyme is enjambed rhyme, in which the opening consonant of the new line completes the rhyme for the previous line e.g. (Web site)

Widespread

1. The popularized behavior of dolphins coming to the aid of an injured individual of their species is not a widespread phenomenon among whales as a group. (Web site)
2. Tilt-up construction (also called tiltwall or tilt wall construction) has a long history, but its widespread use is a relatively new phenomenon.
3. While the systematic study of beer styles is a modern phenomenon, the act of beer differentiation itself is ancient and widespread.

Sort

1. Dr. Eeckhoudt spoke about the well known phenomenon that risk averse people would like to purchase some sort of insurance.
2. Separately, if gravitation is itself some sort of wave phenomenon, changes in gravitational fields will propagate away from a source as waves. (Web site)
3. An ideal type is a sort of composite picture that all the cases of a particular phenomenon will be compared with.

Abduction Phenomenon

1. Musser had this to say about "spiritual" aspects of the abduction phenomenon: "This theory is one held by a number of abductees.
2. Even the abduction phenomenon or quasi-hostile actions of UFOs don’t frighten ufologists.
3. Critics of the UFO and abduction phenomenon often point out the vast distances in space and the enormous amount of time it would take to traverse them.

Meaning

1. It contains the first comprehensive evidence-driven hypothesis about the meaning and goals of the UFO and abduction phenomenon.
2. The book is the most complete exposition of the structure and meaning of the abduction phenomenon yet published.
3. Some of these problems are theoretical, meaning that existing theories seem incapable of explaining some observed phenomenon or experimental result. (Web site)

Neutrino Oscillations

1. The idea of neutrino oscillations was put forward in 1957 by Bruno Pontecorvo, in analogy with a similar phenomenon observed in the neutral kaon system.
2. The goal of the MINOS experiment is to detect the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations.

Thought

1. Before that, the phenomenon was thought only to occur in Earth's subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives beneath another. (Web site)
2. In many prehistoric and ancient cultures, the Moon was thought to be a deity or other supernatural phenomenon. (Web site)
3. The abduction phenomenon is far more ominous than I had thought. (Web site)

Occurrence

1. Occurrence of supernumerary supplemental mandibular central incisor is a rare phenomenon.
2. Aleatory probability, which represents the likelihood of future events whose occurrence is governed by some random physical phenomenon.
3. With an increase in tea, coffee and whiskey consumption nowadays, the occurrence of stained teeth a natural phenomenon.

Plate Tectonics

1. Though plate tectonics is a global phenomenon and virtually invisible to us in our daily lives, it introduces enormous stresses in the crust where we live.

Geology

1. A geological phenomenon is a phenomenon which is explained by or sheds light on the science of geology. (Web site)
2. In terms of geology, the absolute age of a geologic phenomenon is its age in Earth years. (Web site)

Electricity

1. Electromagnetic waves as a general phenomenon were predicted by the classical laws of electricity and magnetism, known as Maxwell's equations. (Web site)
2. Conductance is an electrical phenomenon where a material contains movable particles of electricity. (Web site)

Mdash

1. This phenomenon mostly affects the first two Doctors — William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton.
2. In William Ford Gibson 's novel Pattern Recognition an interesting kind of Internet phenomenon—"the footage"—plays an important role.

Separation

1. The actual flowfield around a sphere looks much different than his theory predicts because friction causes a phenomenon known as flow separation.
2. Its separation from the North American plate seems to be a quite recent geologic phenomenon, 1-3 million years ago (Ma) or so.

Crime

1. Comparative criminology is the study of the social phenomenon of crime across cultures, to identify differences and similarities in crime patterns. (Web site)
2. Criminology is the scientific study of crime as an individual and social phenomenon.
3. It offers an opportunity to study the phenomenon of crime and the ways that it is dealt with by the criminal justice and penal systems.

Investigation

1. Ghost orbs is a fairly new phenomenon in the investigation of ghosts.
2. Mr. Sims is a true pioneer in the investigation of the abduction phenomenon. (Web site)
3. Hereditary warfarin resistance: investigation of a rare phenomenon. (Web site)

Repulsive Force

1. The repulsive force, which harnesses a quantum phenomenon known as the Casimir effect, may someday allow nanoscale machines to overcome mechanical friction.

Gravity

1. Dark energy is an even more mysterious phenomenon, a force of some sort that beats out gravity and is causing the universe to expand at an ever-faster pace. (Web site)
2. This usually involves the assumption that gravity is itself a quantum phenomenon. (Web site)
3. Since gravity, according to Newton, is universal, orbits must be a universal phenomenon.

Beam

1. Diffraction When a beam of parallel light passes through a circular aperture it spreads out a little, a phenomenon known as diffraction. (Web site)

Radioactivity

1. In 1896, Henri Becquerel was investigating phosphorescence in uranium salts when he discovered a new phenomenon which came to be called radioactivity.
2. He became interested in understanding the the phenomenon of radioactivity itself. (Web site)
3. Radioactivity is a natural phenomenon in which an atom disintegrates by emitting certain particles. (Web site)

Religion

1. That which is called Satori in Zen is a term that is wrapped around a phenomenon that "IS" and that is not "owned" by any group, religion, or sect. (Web site)
2. Such in brief is the outline of the theory by which Tylor attempts to explain not only the phenomenon but the whole history and development of religion. (Web site)
3. This user is interested in religion as a sociological and psychological phenomenon.

Origin

1. The phenomenon of the nationalism in the Kurdistan, need only one fanatic to kill many people because of the origin.
2. The origin of new divergent boundaries at triple junction s is sometimes thought to be associated with the phenomenon known as hotspots. (Web site)
3. Such a ubiquitous belief demands an explanation, yet evolutionists are at a loss to explicate the origin of this pervasive phenomenon.

Consciousness

1. In The Emperor's New Mind (1989), he argues that known laws of physics are inadequate to explain the phenomenon of consciousness. (Web site)
2. Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon; it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved.

Superfluidity

1. The scientists at JILA study a very similar phenomenon: superfluidity (fluids that can flow with zero friction).
2. Therefore, superfluidity is a quantum phenomenon on a macroscopic scale. (Web site)

Physics

1. In physics, magnetism is a phenomenon by which materials exert an attractive or repulsive force on other materials.
2. Boojum (superfluidity), a phenomenon in physics, associated with superfluid Helium-3.
3. The Meaning of Symmetry Progress in physics depends on the ability to separate the analysis of a physical phenomenon into two parts.

Energy

1. The energy released by instantaneous strain release is the cause of earthquakes, a common phenomenon along transform boundaries.
2. This physiological phenomenon may be described thermodynamically in terms of changes in energy, entropy and free energy.
3. The other area of study that has led me to reject Leninism is that of energy as both a phsycial and social phenomenon. (Web site)

Atoms

1. Definition The phenomenon of spontaneous disintegration of nucleus of atoms is known as radioactivity.

Precession

1. The phenomenon of the "precession of the equinoxes" takes the ecliptical constellations (also known as the sidereal Zodiac, i.e. (Web site)
2. This matters because of an astronomical phenomenon called the precession of the equinoxes, whereby the position of the stars in sky has changed over time.
3. Around the 2nd Century B.C.E the Greek astronomer Hipparchus discovered an unusual phenomenon that is known today as the precession of the equinoxes.

Inflation

1. Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.
2. There is no longer any word available to signify the phenomenon that has been, up to now, called inflation.

Atom

1. In a real atom the spin interacts with the magnetic field created by the electron movement around the nucleus, a phenomenon known as spin-orbit interaction. (Web site)
2. Indeed, it could be said that Rutherford invented the very language to describe the theoretical concepts of the atom and the phenomenon of radioactivity. (Web site)
3. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a physical phenomenon based upon the quantum mechanical magnetic properties of an atom 's nucleus.

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