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  2. Multipotentiality - Wikipedia

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    Multipotentiality is an educational and psychological term referring to the ability and preference of a person, particularly one of strong intellectual or artistic curiosity, to excel in two or more different fields. [ 1][ 2] It can also refer to an individual whose interests span multiple fields or areas, rather than being strong in just one.

  3. Strong Interest Inventory - Wikipedia

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    The original Inventory was created with men in mind, so in 1933 Strong came out with a women's form of the Strong Vocational Blank. In 1974 when the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory came out, Campbell had combined both the men's and the women's forms into a single form. Other improvements that Campbell made to earlier versions include: the ...

  4. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    E.g., Original sentence: The thesis paper was difficult. After amplification: The thesis paper was difficult: it required extensive research, data collection, sample surveys, interviews and a lot of fieldwork. Anagram: Rearranging the letters of a word or a phrase to form a new phrase or word. E.g., An anagram for "debit card" is "bad credit".

  5. Fan (person) - Wikipedia

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    Fan (person) A fan or fanatic, sometimes also termed an aficionado or enthusiast, is a person who exhibits strong interest or admiration for something or somebody, such as a celebrity, a sport, a sports team, a genre, a politician, a book, a movie, a video game or an entertainer. Collectively, the fans of a particular object or person ...

  6. Glossary of philosophy - Wikipedia

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    philosophy. A broad field of inquiry concerning knowledge, in which the definition of knowledge itself is one of the subjects investigated. Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom, spanning the nature of the Universe and human nature (of the mind and the body) as well as the relationships between these and between people.

  7. Glossary of mechanical engineering - Wikipedia

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    Causes of wear can be mechanical (e.g., erosion) or chemical (e.g., corrosion). The study of wear and related processes is referred to as tribology. Wedge – a triangular shaped tool, and is a portable inclined plane, and one of the six classical simple machines. It can be used to separate two objects or portions of an object, lift up an ...

  8. Glossary of chemistry terms - Wikipedia

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    The study of the absorption or release of heat during a chemical reaction. thermodynamic stability. The condition of a system being in its lowest energy state with its environment (equilibrium). thermodynamics. The study of the effects of changing temperature, volume or pressure (or work, heat, and energy) on a macroscopic scale.

  9. Glossary of journalism - Wikipedia

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    1. An entertaining, amusing, or offbeat story used to balance a page or bulletin of otherwise serious news. [ 1] 2. The first sentence or first few words of a story, set in larger type than the main body text, or the first word or two of a photo caption, set in uppercase type distinct from the rest of the caption text.