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- English novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist, author of Robinson Crusoe (1719-22) and Moll Flanders (1722). [8 Related Articles]
- Defoid languages
- (from the article "Benue-Congo languages") The Defoid languages comprise two groups: the Akokoid cluster of four languages and the very much larger Yoruboid cluster whose principal members are Yoruba (20,000,000 speakers), Igala (1,000,000), and Itsekiri (Itsepsilonkiri; 600,000). Yoruba is the Niger-Congo language with the largest ...
- defoliant
- a chemical dust or spray applied to plants to cause their leaves to drop off prematurely. Defoliants sometimes are applied to crop plants such as cotton in order to facilitate harvesting. They are also used in warfare to eliminate enemy ...
- defoliation
- (from the article "woodrat") Woodrats are usually common within their ranges, but Allegheny woodrat populations are declining, possibly because of forest defoliation by gypsy moths and infestation by parasites. Two species endemic to islands in the Gulf of California-N. anthonyi of the Todos Santos ...
- deforcement
- in English property law, wrongful taking and possession of land belonging to another. Deforcement had its primary legal significance in feudal England. Deforcement arose particularly in cases in which land possessed by a tenant escheated (was forfeited) to his lord ...
- DeForest, John William
- American writer of realistic fiction, author of a major novel of the American Civil War-Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty (1867).
- deforestation
- the clearing or thinning of forests, the cause of which is normally implied to be human activity. As such, deforestation represents one of the largest issues in global land use in the early 21st century. Estimates of deforestation traditionally are ... [23 Related Articles]
- deformation
- (from the article "topology") branch of mathematics, sometimes referred to as "rubber sheet geometry," in which two objects are considered equivalent if they can be continuously deformed into one another through such motions in space as bending, twisting, stretching, and shrinking while disallowing tearing ...
- deformation and flow
- in physics, alteration in shape or size of a body under the influence of mechanical forces. Flow is a change in deformation that continues as long as the force is applied. [15 Related Articles]
- deformation, modulus of
- (from the article "tunnels and underground excavations") ...the underground powerhouse and was stabilized by large tendons anchored back in a drainage tunnel plus strut action provided by the concrete structure that supported the generator machinery. The modulus of deformation (that is, the stiffness of the rock) is ...
- deformed nucleus
- (from the article "radioactivity") Nucleons can interact with one another in a collective fashion to deform the nuclear shape to a cigar shape. Such large spheroidal distortions are usual for nuclei far from magic, notably with 150 ⪅ A ⪅ 190, and 224 ⪅ ...
- Deg Xinag
- Athabaskan-speaking North American Indian tribe of interior Alaska, in the basins of the upper Kuskokwim and lower Yukon rivers. Their region is mountainous, with both woodlands and tundra, and is fairly rich in fish, caribou, bear, moose, and other game ... [4 Related Articles]
- Deganya
- (from the article "Eshkol, Levi") ...rule, working there in a number of settlements. He fought as a member of the Jewish Legion on the side of the British forces against the Turks. At the end of his service in 1920, Eshkol helped found Deganya Bet, ...
- Degas, Edgar
- French painter, sculptor, and printmaker who was prominent in the Impressionist group and widely celebrated for his images of Parisian life. Degas's principal subject was the human-especially the female-figure, which he explored in works ranging from the sombre portraits of ... [12 Related Articles]
- degassing
- (from the article "hydrosphere") ...uncertain. It is likely that the hydrosphere attained its present volume early in the Earth's history, and since that time there have been only small losses and gains. Gains would be from continuous degassing of the Earth; the present degassing ...
- Degema
- town and river port, Rivers state, southern Nigeria, on the Sambreiro River (an outlet of the Niger). A traditional market centre (fish, cassava, taro, palm produce, plantains, and yams) of the Ijo (Ijaw) people, it became a major exporter of ...
- degeneracy
- (from the article "chemical bonding") ...a given shell in the hydrogen atom have the same energy despite having different shapes is surprising and is associated with a cancellation of different contributions to the energy. (This so-called degeneracy, the possession of the same energy by different ...
- degenerate art
- term used by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe art that did not support the ideals of National Socialism. It was also the title of a propagandistically designed Nazi exhibition of modern art held in Munich in 1937. [6 Related Articles]
- degenerate gas
- in physics, a particular configuration, usually reached at high densities, of a gas composed of subatomic particles with half-integral intrinsic angular momentum (spin). Such particles are called fermions, because their microscopic behaviour is regulated by a set of quantum mechanical ... [2 Related Articles]
- DeGeneres, Ellen
- One of the most eagerly awaited events on television during the 1996-97 season was an episode of the sitcom "Ellen," in which the title character, portrayed by comedian Ellen DeGeneres, would reveal her sexuality. The groundbreaking story line came at ...
- Degeneria
- (from the article "Magnoliales") ...with an elongated aperture and a homogenous (structureless) exine, and sterile stamens (staminodes) between the fertile stamens and the central single carpel. The unusual kidney-shaped fruits of Degeneria measure up to 12 cm (almost 5 inches) long; they split open ...
- Degeneria roseiflora
- (from the article "Magnoliales") ...on Viti Levu, the largest island of the Fijian archipelago. It is a relatively common tree that occurs mostly in upland forests on steep slopes, and it has been used for timber. A second species, D. roseiflora, was described in ...
- Degeneria vitiensis
- (from the article "Magnoliales") Degeneriaceae consists of one genus in Fiji. Degeneria vitiensis, as the species name indicates, was found on Viti Levu, the largest island of the Fijian archipelago. It is a relatively common tree that occurs mostly in upland forests on steep ...
- Degeneriaceae
- (from the article "Magnoliales") The two species in Degeneriaceae (Degeneria vitiensis and D. roseiflora) are large trees and have primitive vessels, single pollen grains with an elongated aperture and a homogenous (structureless) exine, and sterile stamens (staminodes) between the fertile stamens and the central ...
- Deggendorf
- city, Bavaria Land (state), southeastern Germany. It is on the Danube River, 2.5 miles (4 km) above its confluence with the Isar River. Deggendorf lies at the western foot of the Bavarian and Bohemian forests, east of ...
- deglaciation
- (from the article "Antarctica") ...may have been free or nearly free of ice as recently as about 3 million years ago, when the diatom-bearing beds were deposited in a marine seaway; and the Antarctic Ice Sheet may have undergone deglaciations perhaps similar to those ...
- Deglane, Henri
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...(e.g., New Sorbonne, Paris; 1885-1901), both of whom were influential teachers at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. A high point was reached with the Paris Exposition of 1889, for which Henri Deglane and Victor Laloux erected, respectively, the Grand Palais and ...
- degradation
- (from the article "surface coating") ...commonly thought to consist mainly of resistance to and protection from solar radiation. Many natural polymeric substrates, such as wood, and many synthetic polymers are susceptible to damage and degradation by continued exposure to sunlight. Degradation occurs because radiation in ...
- degradation theory
- (from the article "animism") ...spirit of disobedience" or common words such as genius) in the advanced civilization of his own day. This "development theory" he championed against the so-called degradation theory, which held that the religion of remote peoples could only have spread to ...
- degraded chernozem
- (from the article "Europe") ...for their fertility. In the formerly wooded steppe lying to the north of the grass steppe in both south central Russia and the lower Danubian lowlands, soils of somewhat less value are known as degraded chernozems and gray forest soils. ...
- degranulation
- (from the article "blood") ...encased in a vacuole lined by the invaginated membrane. The granules discharge their contents into the vacuole containing the organism. As this occurs, the granules of the neutrophil are depleted (degranulation). A metabolic process within the granules produces hydrogen peroxide ...
- degree
- in education, any of several titles conferred by colleges and universities to indicate the completion of a course of study or the extent of academic achievement. [3 Related Articles]
- degree
- (from the article "trigonometry") Numerical values can be assigned to angles by selecting a unit of measure. The most common units are the degree and the radian. There are 360° in a complete revolution, with each degree further divided into 60' (minutes) and each ...
- degree
- (from the article "mathematics") Lagrange presented a detailed analysis of the solution by radicals of second-, third-, and fourth-degree equations and investigated why these solutions failed when the degree was greater than or equal to five. He introduced the novel idea of considering functions ...
- degree
- (from the article "graph theory") An important number associated with each vertex is its degree; this is defined as the number of edges that enter or exit from it-thus, a loop contributes 2 to the degree of its vertex. For instance, the vertices of the ...
- degree
- (from the article "criminal law") The common-law tradition distinguishes four degrees of participation in crime. One who commits the act "with his own hand" is a principal in the first degree. His counterpart in French law is the auteur (literally, "author"), or coauteur when two ...
- degree
- (from the article "formal logic") ...symbols designed to stand for functions. The notion of a function may be sufficiently explained for present purposes as follows: There is said to be a certain function of n arguments (or, of degree n) when there is a rule ...
- degree day
- (from the article "agricultural technology") One weather characteristic of agricultural value is the degree day. This concept holds that the growth of a plant is dependent on the total amount of heat to which it is subjected during its lifetime, accumulated as degree days. Common ...
- DeGregory v. New Hampshire Attorney General
- (from the article "legislative investigative powers") ..."groups which themselves are neither engaged in subversive or other illegal or improper activities . . . are to be protected in their rights of free and private association." Later, in DeGregory v. New Hampshire Attorney General (1966), the court ...
- Degrelle, Leon
- founder and leader of the Rexist Party of Belgium, who collaborated with the Germans during World War II. [3 Related Articles]
- Degtyarev, Vasily
- (from the article "small arm") After the war, Vasily Degtyarev of the Soviet Union incorporated Schmeisser's principles into his own designs, culminating in the Pistolet Pulemyot Degtyarova of 1940. The PPD was fed by a drum-shaped magazine containing 71 7.62-millimetre cartridges, and it fired at ...
- degu
- one of four species of ratlike South American rodents found primarily on the lower western slopes of the Andes Mountains. It is one of the most common mammals of central Chile at elevations up to 1,200 metres (3,900 feet), where ... [1 Related Articles]
- Deguchi Nao
- (from the article "Omoto") ...between World War I and World War II and that served as a model for numerous other sects in that country. The teaching of Omoto is based on divine oracles transmitted through a peasant woman, Deguchi Nao, whose healing powers ...
- Deguchi Onisaburo
- (from the article "Omoto") The doctrine was systematized and organized by her son-in-law, Deguchi Onisaburo (1871-1948), who denounced armament and war and identified himself as the leader who would establish the new order. He attracted more than 2,000,000 believers in the 1930s but aroused ...
- deguele
- (from the article "art, African") ...for a human head are carried on the top corner of a rectangular, tentlike costume called kagba. This mask is the symbol of the Lo, which only initiates may see. In the Korhogo region, deguele masks appear in pairs at ...
- degumming
- (from the article "fat and oil processing") Water refining, usually called degumming, consists of treating the natural oil with a small amount of water, followed by centrifugal separation. The process is applied to many oils that contain phospholipids in significant amounts. Since the separated phospholipids are rather ...
- Deh Cho First Nations
- (from the article "Arctic Regions") In Canada progress on the environmental-impact assessment process for the Mackenzie Delta pipeline became mired in litigation with the Deh Cho First Nations, whose traditional territory encompassed 40% of the proposed route. Both the Deh Cho and the Canadian government ...
- dehalogenation
- (from the article "elimination reaction") ...groups of atoms leaving the molecule. The removal of a hydrogen atom and a halogen atom, for example, is known as dehydrohalogenation; when both leaving atoms are halogens, the reaction is known as dehalogenation. Similarly, the elimination of a water ...
- dehiscence
- (from the article "Fabales") ...also can be found in other plant families. It is the pistil, or gynoecium, of Fabales that is unique. The single carpel develops into a fruit (the pod, or legume) that generally splits open (dehisces) along one or both edges ...
- Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia
- urban area on the southwestern coast of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). The area lies south of Colombo, of which it is a residential suburb. It comprises Dehiwala, Galkissa, Mount Lavinia, and other communities, all governed by a single urban council. Mount ...
- Dehmel, Richard
- German poet who exerted a major influence on young writers through his innovations in form and content.
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