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One legal definition of degrees of consanguinity. [1] The number next to each box in the table indicates the degree of relationship relative to the given person. Consanguinity (from Latin consanguinitas 'blood relationship') is the characteristic of having a kinship with a relative who is descended from a common ancestor.
A first-degree relative (FDR) is a person's parent (father or mother), sibling (brother or sister) or child (son or daughter). [1] It constitutes a category of family members that largely overlaps with the term nuclear family, but without spouses. [2] If the persons are related by blood, the first degree relatives share approximately 50% of ...
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
Cryptic crossword clues consist typically of a definition and some type of word play. Cryptic crossword clues need to be viewed two ways. One is a surface reading and one a hidden meaning. [27] The surface reading is the basic reading of the clue to look for key words and how those words are constructed in the clue. The second way is the hidden ...
(2) In regard to a relative by blood of a spouse, by the line and the degree of relationship between such relative by blood and the said spouse; (3) In regard to the person who is married to the relative by blood of his spouse, by the line and the degree of relationship between such person and the said spouse.
In music, the submediant is the sixth degree of a diatonic scale. The submediant ("lower mediant") is named thus because it is halfway between the tonic and the subdominant ("lower dominant") [1] or because its position below the tonic is symmetrical to that of the mediant above. [2] (See the figure in the Degree (music) article.)
Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...
"Six Degrees" is the sixth track on Scouting for Girls' album, The Light Between Us. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence is a 2002 album by progressive metal band Dream Theater. English progressive rock band Arena released an album titled The Seventh Degree of Separation in 2011.