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- American journalist, humorist, novelist, and lecturer. Read specialized in the homespun humour of life in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas; Southern colonels, blacks, and drunken printers are frequently found in his writing.
- Read, Sir Herbert
- poet and critic who was the chief British advocate and interpreter of modern art movements from the 1930s to the '60s. His critical scrutiny embraced society, art, and literature from the point of view of a philosophic anarchist. [2 Related Articles]
- read-only memory
- (from the article "computer memory") Nonvolatile semiconductor memories, unlike SRAM and DRAM, do not lose their contents when power is turned off. Some nonvolatile memories, such as read-only memory (ROM), are not rewritable once manufactured or written. Each memory cell of a ROM chip has ...
- Reade, Charles
- English author whose novels attack, with passionate indignation and laborious research, the social injustices of his times. He is also remembered for his historical novel The Cloister and the Hearth (1861), which relates the adventures of the father of Desiderius ... [1 Related Articles]
- reader
- (from the article "photography, technology of") Readers and reader printers are desk-top projectors that display the frames reenlarged to about natural size on a back projection screen. In a reader printer the image may also be projected on sensitized paper for full-size enlargements. Advanced readers have ...
- reader printer
- (from the article "photography, technology of") Readers and reader printers are desk-top projectors that display the frames reenlarged to about natural size on a back projection screen. In a reader printer the image may also be projected on sensitized paper for full-size enlargements. Advanced readers have ...
- Reader's Digest
- U.S.-based monthly magazine, having probably the largest circulation of any periodical in the world. It was first published in 1922 as a digest of condensed articles of topical interest and entertainment value taken from other periodicals. Founded on a low ... [3 Related Articles]
- reader's theatre
- (from the article "dramatic literature") A similar kind of dramatic writing is the so-called readers' theatre, in which actors read or recite without decor before an audience. (This is not to be confused with "closet drama," often a dramatic poem that assumes dialogue form; e.g., ...
- reader-response criticism
- (from the article "Fish, Stanley") American literary critic particularly associated with reader-response criticism, according to which the meaning of a text is created, rather than discovered, by the reader; with neopragmatism, where critical practice is advanced over theory; and with the interpretive relationships between literature ...
- readerly and writerly
- opposite types of literary text, as defined by the French critic Roland Barthes in his book S/Z (1970). Barthes used the terms lisible ("readerly") and scriptible ("writerly") to distinguish, respectively, between texts that are straightforward and demand no special effort ...
- readers and writers problem
- (from the article "computer science") Process synchronization is required when one process must wait for another to complete some operation before proceeding. For example, one process (called a writer) may be writing data to a certain main memory area, while another process (a reader) may ...
- readiness
- (from the article "pedagogy") ...particularly in the basic subjects of language and number, and to measuring intellectual ability in the form of reasoning power. There has been special emphasis on the idea of the student's readiness at various ages to grasp concepts of concrete ...
- Reading
- town and unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Berkshire, southern England, 38 miles (61 km) west of London. It is an important junction of railways running west from London and south from the Midlands, and the Kennet and Avon ...
- Reading
- city, seat (1752) of Berks county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Schuylkill River, 51 miles (82 km) northwest of Philadelphia. Laid out in 1748 by Nicholas Scull and William Parsons on land owned by Thomas and Richard Penn (sons of ... [1 Related Articles]
- reading
- (from the article "dyslexia") ...is a chronic neurological disorder that inhibits a person's ability to recognize and process graphic symbols, particularly those pertaining to language. Primary symptoms include extremely poor reading skills owing to no apparent cause, a tendency to read and write words ...
- Reading Company
- American railroad in Pennsylvania, New York, and Delaware, absorbed into the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) in 1976. At its peak in the first half of the 20th century, it was the largest American carrier of anthracite coal.
- Reading Dynamics
- (from the article "Wood, Evelyn") The key technique in her system, which she called Reading Dynamics, was the use of the hand as a pacer as the eyes followed its rapid zigzag motion down each page. In 1959 she opened the first Evelyn Wood Reading ...
- reading frame
- (from the article "heredity") ...is a frameshift mutation, the addition or deletion of one or more DNA bases. In a protein-coding gene, the sequence of codons starting with AUG and ending with a termination codon is called the reading frame. If a nucleotide pair ...
- Reading, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquess of, Earl Of Reading, Viscount Erleigh Of Erleigh, Viscount Reading Of Erleigh, Baron Reading Of Erleigh
- politician, lord chief justice of England, and diplomat. [1 Related Articles]
- Readjuster Party
- (from the article "Mahone, William") American railroad magnate and general of the Confederacy who led Virginia's "Readjuster" reform movement from 1879 to 1882.post-Reconstruction eraUnited StatesThe era of conservative domination, 1877-90...ruling cabals tried repeatedly to overthrow ...
- readjustment
- (from the article "Christianity") The goal of the mystic is not simply a transient ecstasy; it is a permanent state of being in which the person's nature is transformed or deified. This state is frequently spoken of as a spiritual marriage involving God and ...
- ready-made
- everyday object selected and designated as art; the name was coined by the French artist Marcel Duchamp. [3 Related Articles]
- Reagan Doctrine
- (from the article "Reagan, Ronald W.") ...governments battling leftist insurgencies, and he actively supported guerrilla movements and other opposition forces in countries with leftist governments. This policy, which became known as the Reagan Doctrine, was applied with particular zeal in Latin America. During the 1980s the ...
- Reagan, John Henninger
- American congressman who was postmaster general of the Confederate States of America and later co-author of the bill creating the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission.
- Reagan, Maureen
- American political activist (b. Jan. 4, 1941, Los Angeles, Calif.-d. Aug. 8, 2001, Granite Bay, Calif.), was the daughter of former president Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman; a lifelong Republican, she was nevertheless an outspoken advocate of ...
- Reagan, Nancy
- American first lady (1981-89), the wife of Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States, and an actress, noted for her efforts to discourage drug use by American youths. [3 Related Articles]
- Reagan, Ronald W.
- 40th president of the United States (1981-89), noted for his conservative Republicanism, his fervent anticommunism, and his appealing personal style, characterized by a jaunty affability and folksy charm. The only movie actor ever to become president, he had a remarkable ... [49 Related Articles]
- reagent
- (from the article "ether") The unique properties of ethers (i.e., that they are strongly polar, with nonbonding electron pairs but no hydroxyl group) enhance the formation and use of many reagents. For example, Grignard reagents cannot form unless an ether is present to share ...
- reagin
- type of antibody found in the serum and skin of allergically hypersensitive persons and in smaller amounts in the serum of normally sensitive persons. Most reaginic antibodies are the immunoglobulin E (IgE) fraction in the blood. Reagins are easily destroyed ... [3 Related Articles]
- Reagon, Bernice Johnson
- African American musician and historian whose work ranged from African spirituals to militant civil rights anthems.
- real
- monetary unit of Brazil. Each real (plural: reais) is divided into 100 centavos. The Central Bank of Brazil (Banco Central do Brasil) has the exclusive authority to issue banknotes and coins in Brazil. Coins are issued in denominations ranging from ...
- real
- (from the article "coin") ...pattern by the ordinances of Ferdinand and Isabella issued in Medina del Campo in 1497. The double base of the system consisted of the gold excelente (replaced in 1535 by the escudo) and the silver real. The coins of Spanish ...
- Real Academia Espanola
- (from the article "academy") The French Academy, which would become Europe's best-known literary academy, began in 1635. The Royal Spanish Academy was founded in 1713 to preserve the Spanish language, and it published a landmark Spanish dictionary for that purpose.publication and revision of dictionaries
- real analysis
- (from the article "analysis") ...sum of x's. The Archimedean property indicates that the real numbers contain no infinitesimals. Arithmetic, completeness, ordering, and the Archimedean property completely characterize the real number system.
calculus
- real and personal property
- a basic division of property in English common law, roughly corresponding to the division between immovables and movables in civil law. At common law most interests in land and fixtures (such as permanent buildings) were classified as real-property interests. Leasehold ... [14 Related Articles]
- real answer
- (from the article "fugue") ...to the main key; the fourth statement, if there is one, typically is in the dominant key again. If the melody of the answer is an exact transposition of the subject, into the new key, it is a real answer; ...
- real bills doctrine
- (from the article "bank") ...early bankers of focusing on short-term commercial loans, which was understandable given the assets they had to choose from, eventually became the basis for a fallacious theory known as the "real bills doctrine," according to which there could be no ...
- real contract
- (from the article "Roman law") If an agreement was not clothed in the form of a stipulation, it must, to be valid, fall under one of the types of real or consensual contracts. A real contract was one requiring that something should be transferred from ...
- Real Cuerpo de Mineria
- (Spanish: "Royal Mining Company"), guild of mine owners in the Spanish colonies in the Americas. The guild was set up by royal decree in 1777 in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Mexico) to reorganize and to provide capital for technological ...
- real definition
- (from the article "epistemology") ...used to discover unchanging forms through the method of dialectic, which Plato inherited from his teacher Socrates. The method involves a process of question and answer designed to elicit a "real definition." By a real definition Plato means a set ...
- Real del Monte
- (from the article "Pachuca") ...silver mines are said to have been worked in the area in pre-Columbian times. The Spanish founded the city-one of the first settlements in New Spain-in 1534 and took over the mines. The Real del Monte mine, begun in 1739 ...
- real earnings
- (from the article "labour economics") The rise of real earnings may be traced by comparing the movements of earnings in money with those of an index number of the prices of the articles on which pay is typically expended. Such comparisons indicate that between 1860 ...
- real estate agent
- (from the article "agency") ...other hand, has no possession of the object of sale but is empowered to make contracts for the purchase or sale of personal property on behalf of his principal. More limited are the powers of the real estate agent, who ...
- real evidence
- (from the article "evidence") The remaining form of evidence is so-called real evidence, also known as demonstrative or objective evidence. This is naturally the most direct evidence, since the objects in question are inspected by the judge or jury themselves. Problems arise in this ...
- real exchange rate
- (from the article "money") ...do not care about the nominal exchange rate (the official rate set by national governments under a fixed exchange rate or set by the market under floating rates). What matters is the so-called real exchange rate-the nominal exchange rate adjusted ...
- real field
- (from the article "metalogic") ...of these theorems is in the introduction of nonstandard analysis, which was originally instituted by other considerations. By using a suitable ultrapower of the structure of the field R of real numbers, a real closed field that is elementarily equivalent ...
- REAL identification act
- (from the article "United States") ...over mandates in a federal law broke into the open during 2007 when several state legislatures-including New Hampshire, Montana, Oklahoma, and Washington-refused to comply with the Real ID Act. Many others also took preliminary steps in the same direction. The ...
- real image
- (from the article "optical image") the apparent reproduction of an object, formed by a lens or mirror system from reflected, refracted, or diffracted light waves. There are two kinds of images, real and virtual. In a real image the light rays actually are brought to ...
- Real Irish Republican Army
- (from the article "Omagh") The town came to international attention on Aug. 15, 1998, when a car bomb exploded in a shopping district, killing 29 people and leaving more than 200 injured. The Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA), an IRA splinter group, claimed ...
- Real Madrid
- (from the article "football (soccer)") ...top foreign players. For example, the Welshman John Charles, known as "the Gentle Giant," remains a hero for supporters of the Juventus club of Turin, Italy, while the later success of Real Madrid was built largely on the play of ...
- real number
- in mathematics, a quantity that can be expressed as an infinite decimal expansion. Real numbers are used in measurements of continuously varying quantities such as size and time, in contrast to the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, &elipsis;, arising from ... [11 Related Articles]
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