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1Specific heat capacity — Specific heat capacity, also known simply as specific heat, is the measure of the heat energy required to increase the temperature of a unit quantity of a substance by a certain temperature interval. The term originated primarily through the work …
2Specific performance — is an order of a court which requires a party to perform a specific act, usually what is stated in a contract. It is an alternative to award/ for awarding damages, and is classed as an equitable remedy commonly used in the form of injunctive… …
3place — n Place, position, location, situation, site, spot, station are comparable when they mean the point or portion of space occupied by or chosen for a thing. Place, the most general of these terms, carries as its basic implication the idea of… …
4Specific Area Message Encoding — or SAME is the protocol used to encode the Emergency Alert System in the U.S. for broadcast stations. It was originally created for NOAA Weather Radio by the National Weather Service, and was later adopted by the FCC for regular broadcasters on… …
5place theory — plās n a theory in physiology: the perception of pitch results from the ability of sounds of different pitch to stimulate different areas of the organ of Corti compare TELEPHONE THEORY * * * an early theory of pitch perception which postulated… …
6place — placeable, adj. placeless, adj. placelessly, adv. /plays/, n., v., placed, placing. n. 1. a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent. 2. space in general: time and place. 3. the specific portion of space normally… …
7Place cell — Infobox neuron neuron name = Place cell image neuron = Hippocampal pyramidal cell.png caption neuron = A hippocampal pyramidal cell location = Hippocampus function = Spatial memory: fires when animal is in a particular location neurotransmitter …
8Place name origins — The study of place names is called toponymy and is distinct from (but often confused with) etymology, the study of the origins of words. Rather than describing toponymy (as an academic discipline) itself, this article examines the origins of… …
9place — n. & v. n. 1 a a particular portion of space. b a portion of space occupied by a person or thing (it has changed its place). c a proper or natural position (he is out of his place; take your places). 2 a city, town, village, etc. (was born in… …
10Place — A place is a location in space.Place may refer to: *Place (mathematics), an equivalence relation defined on absolute values of an integral domain or field *Place (United States Census Bureau), defined as any concentration of population **Census… …
