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  • 71Timeline of intelligent design — This timeline of intelligent design outlines the major events in the development of intelligent design as presented and promoted by the intelligent design movement.Creationism and Creation science*1920s: Fundamentalist Modernist Controversy – in… …

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  • 72stage design — Aesthetic composition of a dramatic production as created by lighting, scenery, costumes, and sound. While elements such as painted screens and wheeled platforms were used in the Greek theatre of the 4th century BC, most innovations in stage… …

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  • 73Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy — A Fundamentalist cartoon portraying Modernism as the descent from Christianity to atheism, first published in 1922 and then used in Seven Questions in Dispute by William Jennings Bryan. The Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy was a religious… …

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  • 74compensation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Equalizing payment Nouns 1. (act of compensating) compensation, satisfaction, indemnification, indemnity; compromise; counteraction, [equal and opposite] reaction; measure for measure; retaliation,… …

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  • 75Compensation — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Compensation >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 compensation compensation equation Sgm: N 1 commutation commutation Sgm: N 1 indemnification indemnification Sgm: N 1 compromise compromise &c. 774 neutralization nullification …

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  • 76compensate — vb 1 Compensate, countervail, balance, offset, counterbalance, counterpoise are comparable when meaning to make up for or to undo the effects of. Compensate is by far the broadest of these terms both in mode of use and scope of application. It… …

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  • 77compensate — com•pen•sate [[t]ˈkɒm pənˌseɪt[/t]] v. sat•ed, sat•ing 1) to recompense for something; pay: Let me compensate you for your trouble[/ex] 2) to counterbalance; offset; make up for: He compensated his homeliness with personal charm[/ex] 3) mec to… …

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  • 78compensate — [c]/ˈkɒmpənseɪt / (say kompuhnsayt) verb (compensated, compensating) –verb (t) 1. to counterbalance; offset; make up for. 2. to make up for something to (a person); recompense. 3. Mechanics to counterbalance (a force or the like); adjust or… …

  • 79equaliser — noun 1. electronic equipment that reduces frequency distortion • Syn: ↑equalizer • Hypernyms: ↑electronic equipment 2. a weight that balances another weight • Syn: ↑counterweight, ↑counterbalance, ↑ …

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  • 80even off — verb adjust for engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance • Syn: ↑compensate, ↑counterbalance, ↑correct, ↑make up, ↑even out, ↑even up • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …

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