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111literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
112mathematics — /math euh mat iks/, n. 1. (used with a sing. v.) the systematic treatment of magnitude, relationships between figures and forms, and relations between quantities expressed symbolically. 2. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) mathematical procedures,… …
113necrosis — necrotic /neuh krot ik, ne /, adj. /neuh kroh sis, ne /, n. death of a circumscribed portion of animal or plant tissue. [1655 65; < NL < Gk nékrosis mortification, state of death. See NECR , OSIS] * * * ▪ tissue death death of a… …
114Austen, Jane — born Dec. 16, 1775, Steventon, Hampshire, Eng. died July 18, 1817, Winchester, Hampshire English novelist. The daughter of a rector, she lived in the circumscribed world of minor landed gentry and country clergy that she was to use in her… …
115Li Ye — literary name Jingzhai born 1192, Luangcheng, Hebei province, China died 1279, Yuanshi Chinese mathematician and scholar official who contributed to the solution of polynomial equations in one variable. When the Mongols invaded his home district… …
116segregation, racial — Practice of restricting people to certain circumscribed areas of residence or to separate institutions and facilities on the basis of race or alleged race. Racial segregation provides a means of maintaining the economic advantages and higher… …
117Bismarck, Otto von — ▪ German chancellor and prime minister Introduction in full Otto Eduard Leopold, Fürst (prince) von Bismarck, Graf (count) von Bismarck Schönhausen, Herzog (duke) von Lauenburg born April 1, 1815, Schönhausen, Altmark, Prussia [Germany] died… …
118Liliales — ▪ plant order Introduction the lily order of monocotyledonous (monocotyledon) flowering plants, containing 11 families, 67 genera, and 1,558 species of largely perennial herbs and climbers. Members of this order are important as sources of food …
119memory abnormality — Introduction any of the disorders that affect the ability to remember. Disorders of memory must have been known to the ancients and are mentioned in several early medical texts, but it was not until the closing decades of the 19th… …
120pope — The Pope † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Pope (Ecclesiastical Latin papa from Greek papas, a variant of pappas father, in classical Latin pappas Juvenal, Satires 6:633). The title pope, once used with far greater latitude (see below …
