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terrazzo: (from the article "building construction") ...vinyl composition tile. In areas of higher traffic harder surfaces may be used-for example, cut stone tiles of marble or granite, ceramic tile applied with epoxy adhesive to the substrate, or terrazzo. Terrazzo is made in two ways, traditional and ...
terre de barre: (from the article "Togo") ...which is Lake Togo. Beyond the coast lies the Ouatchi Plateau, which stretches about 20 miles inland at an altitude of some 200 to 300 feet (60 to 90 metres). This is the region of the so-called terre de barre, ...
terre de pipe: (from the article "pottery") ...models by Paul-Louis Cyffle (1724-1806). At Luneville, not far away, Cyffle worked in a pleasant but sentimental vein and used a semiporcelain biscuit body known as terre-de-Lorraine, which was intended to resemble the biscuit porcelain of Sevres. The work of ...
Terre Haute: city, seat (1818) of Vigo county, western Indiana, U.S. It lies on a 10-mile (16-km) square plateau above the Wabash River (whence its French name meaning "high ground"), 71 miles (114 km) west-southwest of Indianapolis. The site was once a ...
Terrell, Ernie: (from the article "Ali, Muhammad") ...Williams. Over the course of three rounds, Ali landed more than 100 punches, scored four knockdowns, and was hit a total of three times. Ali's triumph over Williams was succeeded by victories over Ernie Terrell and Zora Folley.
Terrell, Mary Eliza Church: American social activist who was cofounder and first president of the National Association of Colored Women. She was an early civil rights advocate, an educator, an author, and a lecturer on woman suffrage and rights for African Americans. [1 Related Articles]
Terrell, Robert Heberton: (from the article "Terrell, Mary Eliza Church") ...She taught languages at Wilberforce University and at a black secondary school in Washington, D.C. After a two-year tour of Europe, she completed a master's degree from Oberlin (1888) and married Robert Heberton Terrell, a lawyer who would become the ...
terrestrial ecosystem: (from the article "angiosperm") As the principal component of the terrestrial biosphere, the angiosperm flora determines many features of the habitat, some of which are available food, aspects of the forest canopy, and grazing land. They supply nesting sites and materials for a wide ...
terrestrial flight telephone system: (from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...Canada. A second-generation system, GTE GenStar, employs digital modulation. In Europe the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) adopted a terrestrial APC system known as the terrestrial flight telephone system (TFTS) in 1992. This system employs digital modulation methods and operates ...
terrestrial locomotion: any of several forms of animal movement such as walking and running, jumping (saltation), and crawling. Walking and running, in which the body is carried well off the surface on which the animal is moving (substrate), occur only in arthropods ... [3 Related Articles]
terrestrial planet: (from the article "planet") Of the eight currently recognized planets of the solar system, the inner four, from Mercury to Mars, are called terrestrial planets; those from Jupiter to Neptune are called giant planets or Jovian planets. Between these two main groups is a ...
terrestrial plant: (from the article "community ecology") Terrestrial plants are believed to have evolved from the chlorophytes, such as the green algae. Their survival on land demanded special adaptations to prevent them from drying out and to aid them in obtaining nutrients and in reproducing. The evolution ...
terrestrial stationary wave: (from the article "Tesla, Nikola") In Colorado Springs, Colo., where he stayed from May 1899 until early 1900, Tesla made what he regarded as his most important discovery-terrestrial stationary waves. By this discovery he proved that the Earth could be used as a conductor and ...
Terrestrial Time: (from the article "dynamical time") Terrestrial Time (TT)-formerly Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TDT), the successor to Ephemeris Time (ET)-is the theoretical timescale of geocentric ephemerides, and it is specified as TT = TAI* + 32.184 seconds, where TAI* denotes a reprocessed computation of International Atomic Time (TAI) and the 32.184-second ...
terrier: (from the article "Dog breeds and their places of origin") The Terrier group consists of both big and small dogs, but members of this group more than any other share a common ancestry and similar behavioral traits. Terriers were bred to rid barns and stables of vermin, to dig out ...
Terrier: (from the article "rocket and missile system") ...Talos. Both used radar tracking and target acquisition and radio command guidance. The later Nike Hercules, also command-guided, had a range of 85 miles. After 1956 the Talos was supplemented by the Terrier, a radar-beam rider, and the Tartar, a ...
terrigenous facies: (from the article "sedimentary facies") Sedimentary facies are either terrigenous, resulting from the accumulation of particles eroded from older rocks and transported to the depositional site; biogenic, representing accumulations of whole or fragmented shells and other hard parts of organisms; or chemical, representing inorganic precipitation ...
Terriss, Ellaline: (from the article "Terriss, William") Terriss' daughter Ellaline (b. April 13, 1871-d. June 16, 1971) became a great star in music halls and in both straight and musical plays from the 1890s to the 1920s. After making her debut in 1888, she formed a team ...
Terriss, William: original name William Charles James Lewin one of England's leading actors of the later Victorian stage.
Territorial Army: (from the article "British army") ...itself during the Napoleonic Wars (1800-15). Reforms were carried out to improve its organization and efficiency in the late 1800s. Between 1905 and 1912 the Territorial Force (after 1921, Territorial Army) and Special Reserve were established. The army was greatly ...
territorial asylum: (from the article "asylum") The right of asylum falls into three basic categories: territorial, extraterritorial, and neutral. Territorial asylum is granted within the territorial bounds of the state offering asylum and is an exception to the practice of extradition. It is designed and employed ...
territorial behaviour: in zoology, the methods by which an animal, or group of animals, protects its territory from incursions by others of its species. Territorial boundaries may be marked by sounds such as bird song, or scents such as pheromones secreted by ... [25 Related Articles]
territorial jurisdiction: (from the article "procedural law") ...and civil-law countries, which are likely to subdivide the problem into questions of "international jurisdiction" (i.e., which country may take the case) and questions of "territorial jurisdiction" (i.e., courts in which part of the country may take the case). In ...
territorial principle: (from the article "international law") ...legislative, executive, or judicial actions. International law particularly addresses questions of criminal law and essentially leaves civil jurisdiction to national control. According to the territorial principle, states have exclusive authority to deal with criminal issues arising within their territories; this ...
Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, Convention on the: (from the article "international law") The 1958 Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone provided that states cannot suspend the innocent passage of foreign ships through straits that are used for international navigation between one part of the high seas and another part of ...
territorial waters: (from the article "commercial fishing") The Law of the Sea extended from 12 to 200 miles an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) within which a coastal country has control over fisheries and their exploitation. This effectively restricts most fishing operations on the continental shelves to national ...
territory: in ecology, any area defended by an organism or a group of similar organisms for such purposes as mating, nesting, roosting, or feeding. Most vertebrates and some invertebrates, such as arthropods, including insects, exhibit territorial behaviour. Possession of a territory ...
territory: (from the article "international law") The sovereignty of a state is confined to a defined piece of territory, which is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and is protected by international law from violation by other states. Although frontier disputes do not detract ...
Terroir, Le: (from the article "Beauchemin, Neree") French Canadian poet and physician who was a prominent poet of Le Terroir (French: "The Soil") school of Quebec regionalist poetry.
Terror, Mount: (from the article "Ross Island") ...of the Ross Ice Shelf, just off the coast of Victoria Land. The island is 43 miles (69 km) long and 45 miles wide. On it are Mount Erebus (an active volcano 12,450 feet [3,800 metres] high) and Mount Terror ...
Terror, Reign of: the period of the French Revolution from Sept. 5, 1793, to July 27, 1794 (9 Thermidor, year II). Caught up in civil and foreign war, the Revolutionary government decided to make "Terror" the order of the day (September 5 decree) ... [8 Related Articles]
terrorism: the systematic use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective. Terrorism has been practiced by political organizations with both rightist and leftist objectives, by nationalistic and ... [210 Related Articles]
terry pile: (from the article "textile") If the pile is not cut when the rod is removed, a loop pile fabric results. In weaving terry pile fabrics, the ground warp is under tension, and the pile warp stays slack. When wefts are beaten in, the slack ...
Terry, Alfred H.: (from the article "Little Bighorn, Battle of the") In June of 1876, the government sent in troops under the command of Brigadier General Alfred H. Terry to locate and rout the Indians. Terry, taking the main body of men up the Yellowstone River, hoped to block the movement ...
Terry, Eli: American clock maker who is generally considered the father of the U.S. mass-production clock industry. [3 Related Articles]
Terry, Ellen: English actress who became one of the most popular stage performers in both Great Britain and North America. For 24 years (1878-1902) she worked as the leading lady of Sir Henry Irving in one of the most famous partnerships in ... [1 Related Articles]
Terry, Lucy: poet, storyteller, and activist of colonial and postcolonial America.
Terry, Samuel: pioneer Australian landowner and merchant, known as "the Rothschild of New South Wales."
Terry, Sonny: original name Saunders Terrell American blues singer and harmonica player who became the touring and recording partner of guitarist Brownie McGhee in 1941. [1 Related Articles]
Terry-Thomas: thickly mustachioed, gap-toothed British comic actor noted for his film roles as a pretentious, scheming twit.
Terrytuft: (from the article "textile") ...the effect of parallel seams. The Malipol machine produces a one-sided pile fabric by stitching loop pile through a backing fabric. A new British process makes double-sided terry fabric, called Terrytuft, by inserting pile yarn into a backing and knotting ...
tert-butyl methyl ether: (from the article "petroleum refining") ...A mixture of 85 percent methanol and 15 percent gasoline entered the commercial market in California in 1992 as an alternative to conventional gasoline. In addition, methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), an oxygenated fuel additive added to gasoline in response ...
tert-butylcyclohexane: (from the article "hydrocarbon") The highly branched tert-butyl group (CH₃)₃C&singlehorzbond; (tert-butyl) is even more spatially demanding than the methyl group, and more than 99.99 percent of tert-butylcyclohexane molecules adopt chair conformations in which the (CH₃)₃C&singlehorzbond; group is equatorial.
tertiary alcohol: (from the article "alcohol") ...one other carbon atom), the compound is a primary alcohol. A secondary alcohol has the hydroxyl group on a secondary (2°) carbon atom, which is bonded to two other carbon atoms. Similarly, a tertiary alcohol has the hydroxyl group on ...
tertiary alkyl halide: (from the article "organohalogen compound") Alkyl halides (RX, where R is an alkyl group and X is F, Cl, Br, or I) are classified as primary, secondary, or tertiary according to the degree of substitution at the carbon to which the halogen is attached. In ...
tertiary amine: (from the article "amine") Amines are classified as primary, secondary, or tertiary depending on whether one, two, or three of the hydrogen atoms of ammonia have been replaced by organic groups. In chemical notation these three classes are represented as RNH₂, R₂NH, and R₃N, ...
tertiary butyl alcohol: (from the article "butyl alcohol") ...of four organic compounds having the same molecular formula but different structures: normal (n-) butyl alcohol, secondary (sec-) butyl alcohol, isobutyl alcohol, and tertiary (t-) butyl alcohol.
tertiary health care: (from the article "medicine") ...however, the radiological and laboratory services provided by hospitals are available directly to the family doctor, thus improving his service to patients and increasing its range. The third tier of health care, employing specialist services, is offered by institutions such ...
tertiary order: (from the article "monasticism") The notion of secondary and tertiary orders was developed in the Roman Catholic world, though by analogy it could be extended to non-Christian cultures. The triple division within the Franciscans and the Dominicans epitomizes the following hierarchy: the first order ...
Tertiary Period: interval of geologic time lasting from approximately 65.5 million to 2.6 million years ago. It is the traditional name for the first of two periods in the Cenozoic Era (65.5 million years ago to the present); the second is the ... [19 Related Articles]
tertiary prevention: (from the article "therapeutics") ...is the early detection of disease or its precursors before symptoms appear, with the aim of preventing or curing it. Examples include regular cervical Papanicolaou test screening and mammography. Tertiary prevention is an attempt to stop or limit the spread ...