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In colloquial Québécois French, it means "a bunch" (as in il y avait du monde en masse, "there was a bunch of people"). en suite as a set (not to be confused with ensuite, meaning "then"). Can refer, in particular, to hotel rooms with attached private bathroom, especially in Britain where hotels without private facilities are more common than ...
HRTEM image of sample showing hexagonal lattice. The inset on the bottom left shows the EDAX spectrum from the same spot. Carbon and copper peaks arises from the TEM grid used.
Stanine (STAndard NINE) is a method of scaling test scores on a nine-point standard scale with a mean of five and a standard deviation of two. Some web sources attribute stanines to the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II .
Levée en masse (French pronunciation: [ləve ɑ̃ mɑs] or, in English, mass levy [1]) is a French term used for a policy of mass national conscription, often in the face of invasion. The concept originated during the French Revolutionary Wars , particularly for the period following 16 August 1793, [ 2 ] when able-bodied men aged 18 to 25 were ...
Many saw English fluency as the key to success, and for the first time in Canadian history Gaelic-speaking parents were teaching their children to speak English en masse. The sudden stop of Gaelic language acquisition , caused by shame and prejudice, was the immediate cause of the drastic decline in Gaelic fluency in the 20th century.
The text states that the length of each stanine is 0.35 stdev (except the 1st and 9th) Running some number sin an spreedsheet shows this does not line up with the percentages given. To get something that looks like the percentages given it looks like a spacing of 0.5 stdev is needed. Can someone confirm this is the definition of a stanine.
In some dialects of French, the English term "weekend" becomes la fin de semaine ("the end of week"), a calque, but in some it is left untranslated as le week-end, a loanword. French cor anglais (literally English horn) is a near-calque of English French horn. In English cor anglais refers to a completely different musical instrument.
Stannane / ˈ s t æ n eɪ n / or tin hydride is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Sn H 4.It is a colourless gas and the tin analogue of methane.Stannane can be prepared by the reaction of SnCl 4 and Li[AlH 4].