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A design is the concept of or proposal for an object, process, or system. The word design refers to something that is or has been intentionally created by a thinking agent, and is sometimes used to refer to the inherent nature of something – its design. The verb to design expresses the process of developing a design. In some cases, the direct ...
A design or figure commonly used in architectural ornaments and design patterns, including art nouveau. Syrian arch In American architecture, esp. Richardsonian Romanesque, an archway that begins at the ground, rather than being set upon a supporting pedestal. [C.f. Richardsonian Romanesque: Syrian arch] Systyle
Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. ISBN 0-231-16356-8; Lupton, Ellen. Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-56898-760-6. Martin, Roger L. The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive ...
A premium rate paid to distributed generators to encourage alternative energy sources. ferrite core A magnetic core for an inductor made from a metal oxide compound. ferroelectricity The property of materials that spontaneously maintain an electrical polarization, as a ferromagnetic material maintains magnetic polarization. fiber-optic cable
Handheld Device Markup Language (HDML) – designed for smartphones and handheld computers. Help Markup Language (HelpML) Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (HyTime) HyperTeX – for including hyperlinks in TeX (and LaTeX) documents. Information Presentation Facility (IPF) – is a system for presenting online help and hypertext on IBM ...
The architectural historian Chris Brooks first referred to Realism in his book Signs for the Times of 1984, [7] and then again, offering the alternative 'reality', in his widely read Gothic Revival of 2000. [8] Brooks compared Pugin’s concept of the 'real' to that of Victorian authors and painters:
The Conlang Flag, a symbol of language construction created by subscribers to the CONLANG mailing list, which represents the Tower of Babel against a rising sun. A constructed language (shortened to conlang) [a] is a language whose phonology, grammar, orthography, and vocabulary, instead of having developed naturally, are consciously devised for some purpose, which may include being devised ...
An artistic language, or artlang, [1] [2] [3] is a constructed language designed for aesthetic and phonetic pleasure. Constructed languages can be artistic to the extent that artists use it as a source of creativity in art, poetry, calligraphy or as a metaphor to address themes such as cultural diversity and the vulnerability of the individual in a globalizing world. [4]