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The pages of a book are printed two at a time, not as one complete book. Excess numbers are printed to make up for any spoilage due to make-readies or test pages to assure final print quality. A make-ready is the preparatory work carried out by the pressmen to get the printing press up to the required quality of impression. Included in make ...
The title of a book, or any other published text or work of art, is a name for the work which is usually chosen by the author. A title can be used to identify the work, to put it in context, to convey a minimal summary of its contents, and to pique the reader's curiosity. Some works supplement the title with a subtitle.
Mean lifetime, a certain number that characterizes the rate of reduction ("decay") of an assembly of unstable particles; Object lifetime, in object-oriented programming, the time between an object's creation until the object is no longer used; Product lifetime, a product's expected lifetime
The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.
Epic is a narrative genre characterised by its length, scope, and subject matter. The defining characteristics of the genre are mostly derived from its roots in ancient poetry (epic poems such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey).
The definition of life has long been a challenge for scientists and philosophers. [2] [3] [4] This is partially because life is a process, not a substance. [5] [6] [7] This is complicated by a lack of knowledge of the characteristics of living entities, if any, that may have developed outside Earth.
The English word secular, an adjective meaning something happening once in an eon, is derived from the Latin saeculum. [9] The descendants of Latin saeculum in the Romance languages generally mean "century" (i.e., 100 years): French siècle, [10] Spanish siglo, [11] Portuguese século, [12] Italian secolo, [13] etc.
Title page of Henry Thoreau's memoir, Walden (1854) A memoir (/ ˈ m ɛ m. w ɑːr /; [1] from French mémoire, from Latin memoria 'memory, remembrance') is any nonfiction narrative writing based on the author's personal memories. [2] [3] The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual.