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  • 61transient — I. adjective Etymology: Latin transeunt , transiens, present participle of transire to cross, pass by, from trans + ire to go more at issue Date: 1599 1. a. passing especially quickly into and out of existence ; transitory < transient beauty > …

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  • 62Nicomachean Ethics — Part of a series on Aristotle …

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  • 63atom — /at euhm/, n. 1. Physics. a. the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element, consisting of a nucleus containing combinations of neutrons and protons and one or more electrons bound to the nucleus by electrical&#8230; …

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  • 64Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.&#8230; …

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  • 65United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great&#8230; …

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  • 66transient — [tran′shənt, tran′sē ənt; tran′zhənt, tran′zē ənt] adj. [L transiens, prp. of transire: see TRANSIT] 1. a) passing away with time; not permanent; temporary; transitory b) passing quickly or soon; fleeting; ephemeral ☆ 2. staying only for a short&#8230; …

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  • 67Modernism — • Etymologically, modernism means an exaggerated love of what is modern, an infatuation for modern ideas Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Modernism     Modernism      …

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  • 68Ivory-billed Woodpecker — Taxobox name = Ivory billed Woodpecker status = CR status system = IUCN3.1 trend = down status ref = [IUCN2006|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2005|id=3712|title=Campephilus principalis|downloaded=9 May 2006 Database entry includes&#8230; …

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  • 69Hippocratic Corpus — Vaticanus graecus 277, 10v 11r: Table of contents in a fourteenth century Hippocratic Corpus manuscript. Marcus Fabius Calvus owned this manuscript, transcribed it in his own hand, and used it in the preparation of his 1525 Latin translation. The …

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  • 70reaction mechanism — Introduction       in chemical reactions (chemical reaction), the detailed processes by which chemical substances are transformed into other substances. The reactions themselves may involve the interactions of atoms (atom), molecules (molecule),&#8230; …

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