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- (from the article "insurance") Surety contracts are designed to protect businesses against the possible dishonesty of their employees. Surety and fidelity bonds fill the gap left by theft insurance, which always excludes losses from persons in a position of trust. A bond involves three ...
- Fidenae
- (from the article "ancient Rome") ...and assigned them to their proper tribe and century within the tribal and centuriate assemblies. The increase in the number of military tribunes coincided with Rome's first two major wars, against Fidenae and Veii. In 366 BC six undifferentiated military ...
- Fidenza
- town, Emilia-Romagna regione, northern Italy. It is believed to have been the scene of St. Domninus' martyrdom under the Roman emperor Maximian and was called Borgo San Donnino for more than 1,000 years. The town was renamed Fidenza in 1927, ...
- fidenziana
- (from the article "Italian literature") Two burlesque medley forms of verse were invented during the century. Fidenziana poetry derives its name from a work by Camillo Scroffa, a poet who wrote Petrarchan parodies in a combination of Latin words and Italian form and syntax. Macaronic ...
- Fides
- Roman goddess, the deification of good faith and honesty. Many of the oldest Roman deities were embodiments of high ideals (e.g., Honos, Libertas); it was the function of Fides to oversee the moral integrity of the Romans. Closely associated with ... [1 Related Articles]
- Fidesz
- centre-right Hungarian political party. Fidesz (the Federation of Young Democrats) was founded in 1988 as an anticommunist party that promoted the development of a market economy and European integration. Initially, membership was restricted to those age 35 or younger, though ... [5 Related Articles]
- fidla
- (from the article "stringed instrument") The bowing principle has been applied to nonlutes from time to time: the ancient Icelandic fidla is a bowed zither, as is the Korean ajaeng; the Scandinavian talharpa is a bowed ...
- fiduciary
- in law, a person who occupies a position of such power and confidence with regard to the property of another that the law requires him to act solely in the interest of the person whom he represents. Examples of fiduciaries ... [1 Related Articles]
- fiduciary bond
- (from the article "insurance") Court bonds include several different types of surety bonds. Fiduciary bonds are required for court-appointed officials entrusted with managing the property of others; executors of estates and receivers in bankruptcy are frequently required to post fiduciary bonds.
- fiduciary money
- (from the article "money") ...ago. By the late 18th and early 19th centuries paper money and banknotes had spread to other parts of the world. The bulk of the money in use came to consist not of actual gold or silver but of fiduciary ...
- Fiedler, Arthur
- maestro of the Boston Pops Orchestra for 50 seasons and the best-selling classical conductor of all time; his recordings with the Pops sold some 50,000,000 discs. (The Pops Orchestra is the Boston Symphony minus its principal players.) Fiedler, whose principal ... [1 Related Articles]
- Fiedler, Leslie A.
- American literary critic who applied psychological (chiefly Freudian) and social theories to American literature. [2 Related Articles]
- Fiedler, Richard
- (from the article "flame thrower") Modern flame throwers first appeared in the early 1900s when the German army tested two models, one large and one small, submitted by Richard Fiedler. The smaller Flammenwerfer, light enough to be carried by one man, used gas pressure to ...
- fief
- in European feudal society, a vassal's source of income, held from his lord in exchange for services. The fief constituted the central institution of feudal society (see feudalism). It normally consisted of land to which a number of unfree peasants ... [10 Related Articles]
- field
- (from the article "baseball") ...(if a designated hitter is allowed to take the pitcher's turn at bat) 10 players each. The field of play is divided into the infield and the outfield. Within the infield is a square area called the diamond, which has ...
- field
- (from the article "physical science, principles of") Newton's law of gravitation and Coulomb's electrostatic law both give the force between two particles as inversely proportional to the square of their separation and directed along the line joining them. The force acting on one particle is a vector. ...
- field
- (from the article "Field axioms") A main question pursued by Dedekind was the precise identification of those subsets of the complex numbers for which some generalized version of the theorem made sense. The first step toward answering this question was the concept of a field, ...
- field
- (from the article "heraldry") In a blazon (verbal description) of the arms, their field, or background layer, appears first. It may be one of the metals or (gold) or argent (silver), one of the colours gules (red), azure (blue), vert (green), purpure (purple), or ...
- field
- (from the article "database") ...a set of files on magnetic disk or tape, optical disk, or some other secondary storage device. The information in these files may be broken down into records, each of which consists of one or more fields. Fields are the ...
- field
- (from the article "baseball") Field of play and equipmentfootballfootball, gridironThe play of the gameThe field for U.S. gridiron football is 120 yards (109.8 metres) long (including two 10-yard [9.1-metre] end zones) and 53.33 yards ...
- field archery
- form of archery in which targets of different sizes or shapes are placed at varying distances in uneven, often wooded, terrain in an attempt to simulate hunting conditions. As an organized sport it dates from the formation in 1939 of ... [1 Related Articles]
- field army
- (from the article "military unit") ...which has 50,000 to 300,000 troops and is commanded by a lieutenant general. The army corps is the largest regular army formation, though in wartime two or more corps may be combined to form a field army (commanded by a ...
- field artillery
- (from the article "field artillery") any large-calibre, crew-operated, mounted firearm designed for easy movement in the field. See artillery.principles of operationartilleryField artilleryField
- field bindweed
- (from the article "bindweed") ...with fleshy, kidney-shaped leaves and deep pink, 5-cm blooms, creeps along European seaside sand and gravel. Several Convolvulus species are widespread or conspicuous. The weedy, perennial field bindweed (C. arvensis), which is European but widely naturalized in North America, twines ...
- Field Code
- (from the article "Field, David Dudley") U.S. lawyer whose advocacy of law codification had international influence. The "Field Code" of civil procedure, enacted by New York state in 1848, was subsequently adopted in whole or in part in many other U.S. states, in the federal court ...
- field cricket
- (from the article "animal behaviour") Two cricket species, Gryllus campestris and G. bimacularis, are so similar morphologically that they can be distinguished from one another only with great difficulty. Their behaviours on the other hand, differ markedly. If the two species are crossed, however, the ...
- field dependence
- (from the article "personality") Another much studied cognitive control is called field dependence-field independence. It pertains to the extent to which people are influenced by inner (field-independent) or environmental (field-dependent) cues in orienting themselves in space and the extent to which they make fine ...
- field emission
- discharge of electrons from the surface of a material subjected to a strong electric field. In the absence of a strong electric field, an electron must acquire a certain minimum energy, called the work function, to escape through the surface ... [2 Related Articles]
- field excitation
- (from the article "electric generator") A source of direct current is required for the field winding, as sketched in Figure 2. In very small synchronous generators, this current may be supplied from an external source by fitting the generator shaft with two insulated copper (or ...
- field flicker
- (from the article "flicker") ...considered by many authorities to represent the same species as the yellow-shafted because the two forms hybridize frequently. The campos, or pampas, flicker (C. campestris) and the field flicker (C. campestroides)-sometimes considered to be a single species-are common in east-central ...
- field fortification
- (from the article "fortification") ...Fortifications are usually of two types: permanent and field. Permanent fortifications include elaborate forts and troop shelters and are most often erected in times of peace or upon threat of war. Field fortifications, which are constructed when in contact with ...
- field geology
- (from the article "geology") On a large scale, the techniques of field geology are employed. These include the preparation of geologic maps that show the areal distribution of geologic units selected for representation on the map. They also include the plotting of the orientation ...
- field gladiolus
- (from the article "Gladiolus") ...East African species. The fragrant, white G. tristis from South Africa is more delicate than the cultivated hybrids. Several species of gladiolus are native in Europe, including the magenta field gladiolus (G. segetum) that grows in grainfields.
- field goal
- (from the article "football, gridiron") ...was also responsible for having 11 players on a side, for devising a new scoring system in 1883 with two points for a touchdown, four points for the goal after a touchdown, and five points for a field goal (a ...
- field hockey
- outdoor game played by two opposing teams of 11 players each who use sticks curved at the striking end to hit a small, hard ball into their opponent's goal. It is called field hockey to distinguish it from the similar ... [13 Related Articles]
- field independence
- (from the article "personality") Another much studied cognitive control is called field dependence-field independence. It pertains to the extent to which people are influenced by inner (field-independent) or environmental (field-dependent) cues in orienting themselves in space and the extent to which they make fine ...
- field ionization
- (from the article "mass spectrometry") Intense fields, of the order of 108 volts per centimetre, can be generated in the neighbourhood of sharp points and edges of electrodes, and these have been used as field ionization, or field emission, sources. This source is becoming popular ...
- Field Museum of Natural History
- museum in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., established in 1893 as the Columbian Museum of Chicago with a gift from Marshall Field (from whom it derived its present name in 1905). It was established to house the anthropological and biological collections of ... [6 Related Articles]
- field mushroom
- (from the article "mushroom") ...between the two names, and either can be properly applied to any fleshy fungus fruiting structure. In a very restricted sense, mushroom indicates the common edible fungus of fields and meadows (Agaricus campestris). A very closely related species, A. bisporus, ...
- Field of Lies
- (from the article "Louis I") ...agitated against the Divisio, while conflict among the brothers, exacerbated by the involvement of opportunistic nobles, continued. On June 30, 833, Louis met Lothar at the so-called "Field of Lies" near Colmar in Alsace (now in France) ostensibly to settle ...
- Field of Mars
- (from the article "Saint Petersburg") ...important, in outward order from the Admiralty, are the Moyka and Fontanka rivers and the Griboyedov and Obvodny canals. Downstream from the northern entrance of the Fontanka into the Neva lies the Field of Mars, one of the city's beautiful ...
- field of view
- (from the article "microscope") The magnifying power, or extent to which the object being viewed appears enlarged, and the field of view, or size of the object that can be viewed, are related by the geometry of the optical system. A working value for ...
- field separation
- (from the article "Separations based on rate phenomena") Electrophoresis, described in an earlier section of this article, is an important method in the separation of biopolymers-namely, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules and proteins. Electrophoresis is conventionally conducted on plates or slabs as in thin-layer chromatography. To maintain the ionic ...
- field theory
- in psychology, conceptual model of human behaviour developed by German American psychologist Kurt Lewin, who was closely allied with the Gestalt psychologists. Lewin's work went far beyond the orthodox Gestalt concerns of perception and learning; his theory emphasized an individual's ...
- field trial
- any of the competitions among individual sporting dogs, under conditions that approximate or simulate those found in the hunting field. Competing dogs need not necessarily be of the same breed. In the United States many of the field trials in ...
- field winding
- (from the article "electric generator") ...prime mover. The magnetic field is produced by conductors, or coils, wound into slots cut in the surface of the cylindrical iron rotor. This set of coils, connected in series, is thus known as the field winding. The position of ...
- Field, Barron
- (from the article "Australian literature") ...in the colony, such as the poets Charles Tompson and William Wentworth in Australasia (1823), but those who were serving a tour of duty in the Antipodes, like the unfortunately named Barron Field, were more inclined to see their experiences ...
- Field, Ben
- (from the article "sleeping car") ...railroads as early as the 1830s, but these were makeshift; the first car designed for comfortable nighttime travel was the Pullman sleeper, which was commercially introduced by George M. Pullman and Ben Field in 1865. The sleeping car made its ...
- Field, Cyrus W
- U.S. financier noted for the success of the first transatlantic cable. He was the younger brother of the law reformer David Dudley Field and of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field. [1 Related Articles]
- Field, Darby
- (from the article "Appalachian Mountains") ...figures associated with the opening of northern Appalachia include the French explorer Samuel de Champlain, who sighted the mountains in 1605 as he sailed along the Maine coast; the American Darby Field, who made the first climb up Mount Washington ...
- Field, David Dudley
- U.S. lawyer whose advocacy of law codification had international influence. The "Field Code" of civil procedure, enacted by New York state in 1848, was subsequently adopted in whole or in part in many other U.S. states, in the federal court ... [1 Related Articles]
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