small island of historic importance near the island of Leyte, east-central Philippines. Located about 4 miles (6 km) off the southern tip of the island of Leyte just outside the mouth of Sogod Bay, Limasawa rises to about 700 feet ...
city and chief port of the Republic of Cyprus. The city lies on Akrotiri Bay, on the southern coast, southwest of Nicosia; it is the island's second largest city and is also its chief tourist centre.
town, seat, and district (established 1973), formerly in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Limavady town is on the River Roe 17 miles (27 km) east of the old city of Londonderry. Its name, meaning "the dog's leap," is derived from a ...
in astrophysics, gradual decrease in brightness of the disk of the Sun or of another star as observed from its centre to its edge, or limb. This phenomenon is readily apparent in photographs of the Sun. The darkening is greatest ...
port, southwestern Cameroon. It lies along Ambas Bay of the Gulf of Guinea, at the southern foot of Mount Cameroon, just south of Buea. Limbe is Cameroon's second largest port, after the much larger nearby port of Douala. It is ...
in Roman Catholic theology, the border place between heaven and hell where dwell those souls who, though not condemned to punishment, are deprived of the joy of eternal existence with God in heaven. The word is of Teutonic origin, meaning ...
the second most numerous tribe of the indigenous people called Kiranti, living in Nepal on the easternmost section of the Himalayas between the Arun River and the border of Sikkim state, India. Of Mongolian stock, they number an estimated 200,000 ...
provincie, southeastern Netherlands. It is bounded on the northwest by Noord-Brabant provincie, on the north by Gelderland provincie, on the east by Germany, and on the south and southwest by the Belgian provinces of Limburg and Liege. It is drained ...
historic region of the Low Countries that was one of many small states resulting from the division of the duchy of Lower Lorraine in the second half of the 11th century.
(all b. after 1385, Nijmegen, Brabant [now in The Netherlands]-d. by 1416), three Flemish brothers who were the most famous of all late Gothic illuminators. They synthesized the achievements of contemporary illuminators into a style characterized by subtlety of line, ...
semisoft surface-ripened cow's-milk cheese that has a rind of pungent odour and a creamy-textured body of strong flavour. Limburger originated in the Belgian province of Liege and was first sold at markets in Limbourg. By the late 20th century, most ...
dark-coloured volcanic rock that resembles basalt but normally contains no feldspar. It is associated principally with nepheline-basalts and leucite-basalts; it also occurs with monchiquite, from which it is not easily distinguished. Limburgite may occur as flows, sills, or dikes and ...
(Citrus aurantifolia), tree widely grown in tropical and subtropical areas and its edible acid fruits. The tree seldom grows more than 5 m (16 feet) high and if not pruned becomes shrublike. Its branches spread and are irregular, with short, ...
city, east-central Sao Paulo state, Brazil, on the headwaters of Tatu Stream, a tributary of the Piracicaba River. Known at various times as Tatuibi, Rancho de Limeira, and Nossa Senhora das Dores de Tatuibi, it was elevated to city status ...
first theatrical spotlight, also a popular term for the incandescent calcium light invented by Thomas Drummond in 1816. Drummond's light, which consisted of a block of calcium heated to incandescence in jets of burning oxygen and hydrogen, provided a soft, ...
a popular form of short, humorous verse that is often nonsensical and frequently ribald. It consists of five lines, rhyming aabba, and the dominant metre is anapestic, with two metrical feet in the third and fourth lines and three feet ...
county, southwestern Ireland, in the province of Munster. Its northern boundary, with County Clare, is the River Shannon and its estuary. The River Maigue bisects the county and flows north into the Shannon. On the west the boundary with County ...
county borough, port, and chief town of County Limerick, west-central Ireland, occupying both banks and King's Island of the River Shannon at the head of its estuary.
strictly speaking not lace at all but embroidered machine-made net the appearance of which approximates true lace. It was made at Mount Kennet, near Limerick, in Ireland, having been introduced there by an English lace manufacturer in 1829. Designs similar ...
in ancient Rome, the strip of open land along which troops advanced into unfriendly territory. The word, therefore, came to mean a Roman military road, fortified with watchtowers and forts. Finally, limes acquired the sense of frontier, either natural or ...
sedimentary rock composed mainly of calcium carbonate (CaCO3), usually in the form of calcite or aragonite. It may contain considerable amounts of magnesium carbonate (dolomite) as well; minor constituents also commonly present include clay, iron carbonate, feldspar, pyrite, and quartz.
strait (110 miles [180 km] long) across northern Jutland, Denmark, connecting the North Sea and the Kattegat and separating the Vendsyssel and Thy regions from the mainland. Actually a series of fjords dotted with inlets and islands, it opens into ...
mathematical concept based on the idea of closeness, used primarily to assign values to certain functions at points where no values are defined, in such a way as to be consistent with nearby values. For example, the function (x2 - ...
legislative act restricting the time within which legal proceedings may be brought, usually to a fixed period after the occurrence of the events that gave rise to the cause of action. Such statutes are enacted to protect persons against claims ...
condition under which the loss that an owner (shareholder) of a business firm may incur is limited to the amount of capital invested by him in the business and does not extend to his personal assets. Acceptance of this principle ...
inlet of the Gulf of Carpentaria, in the northeast coast of Northern Territory, Australia. It extends for 85 miles (135 km) between the islands of Groote Eylandt (north) and the Sir Edward Pellew Group (southeast) and includes Maria Island. The ...
family of the water plantain order Alismales, containing 4 genera and about 12 species of tropical, freshwater plants. Two species-Hydrocleys nymphoides and Limnocharis flava, both native to tropical America-are cultivated in ponds and aquariums.
subsystem of hydrology that deals with the scientific study of fresh waters, specifically those found in lakes and ponds. The discipline also includes the biological, physical, and chemical aspects of the occurrence of lake and pond waters. Limnology traditionally is ...
extinct genus of primitive reptiles, among the earliest of the disputed labyrinthodont reptilian forms, that occurs as fossils in Early Permian rocks (those 258 to 286 million years old) of North America. It has been presented as a stem form ...
city, capital of Haute-Vienne departement and of the Limousin region, south central France (formerly in the province of Limousin), south-southwest of Paris, on the right bank of the Vienne River.
any of the enamelled products made in Limoges, Fr., and generally considered the finest painted enamelware produced in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Limoges enamels are largely the work of a few families such as the Penicaud, Limosin, ...
porcelain, largely servicewares, produced in Limoges, Fr., from the 18th century. Faience (tin-glazed earthenware) of mediocre quality was produced there after 1736, but the manufacture of hard-paste, or true, porcelain dates only from 1771. The manufacturers took advantage of being ...
capital, Limon province, eastern Costa Rica, on an open roadstead of the Caribbean Sea near the landfall sighted by Columbus in 1503. The waters are deep enough for large ships, and a sandbar offers some protection for the port. In ...
province, eastern Costa Rica, bounded on the north by Nicaragua, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, and on the southeast by Panama. Although the territory of 3,600 sq mi (9,300 sq km) rises in the south into the Cordillera ...
natural harbour of the Caribbean Sea, in Panama at the north end of the Panama Canal. Approximately 4 12 mi (7 km) long and 2 12 mi wide, it is protected from storms by breakwaters at its entrance. The bay ...
Mexican-born U.S. modern dancer and choreographer who expanded the repertoire of modern dance in works that explored the strengths and weaknesses of the human character.
a colourless liquid abundant in the essential oils of pine and citrus trees and used as a lemonlike odorant in industrial and household products and as a chemical intermediate.
one of the major iron minerals, hydrated ferric oxide (Fe2O3·H2O). It was originally considered one of a series of such oxides; later it was thought to be the amorphous equivalent of goethite and lepidocrocite, but X-ray studies have shown that ...
region of France encompassing the central departements of Correze, Haute-Vienne, and Creuse. Limousin is bounded by Centre to the north, Auvergne to the east, Midi-Pyrenees to the south, Aquitaine to the southwest, and Poitou-Charentes ...
any of various snails having a flattened shell. Limpets belonging to the subclass Prosobranchia (class Gastropoda) are marine; most cling to rocks near shore. A common American species is the Atlantic plate limpet (species Acmaea testudinalis) of cold waters; the ...
(species Aramus guarauna), large swamp bird of the American tropics, sole member of the family Aramidae (order Gruiformes). The bird is about 70 cm (28 inches) long and is coloured brown with white spots. The limpkin's most distinctive characteristics are ...
river in southeast Africa that rises as the Krokodil (Crocodile) River in the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and flows on a semicircular course first northeast and then east for about 1,100 miles (1,800 km) to the Indian Ocean. From its source ...
Wade-Giles romanization Lin Piao Chinese military leader who, as a field commander of the Red Army, contributed to the Communists' 22-year struggle for power and held many high government and party posts. He played a prominent role in the Cultural ...
Chinese translator who first made available to Chinese readers more than 180 works of Western literature, even though he himself had no firsthand knowledge of any foreign language.
