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In his Anabasis (3.2.13), Xenophon cites the Greek refusal to perform proskynesis as a sign of their freedom distinguishing them from the Persians: "As tokens of these victories [over Xerxes's invasion] we may, indeed, still behold the trophies, but the strongest witness to them is the freedom of the states in which you were born and bred; for ...
A database shard, or simply a shard, is a horizontal partition of data in a database or search engine. Each shard may be held on a separate database server instance, to spread load. Some data in a database remains present in all shards, [a] but some appears only in a single shard. Each shard acts as the single source for this subset of data. [1]
Lists of Greek and Latin roots in English beginning with other letters: ... kinematics, kinescope, kinesiologist, kinesiology, kinesis, kinesthetic, kinetic ...
On display in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, housed in the Stoa of Attalus Ancient Greek ostraca voting for the ostracization of Themistocles in 482 BC. An ostracon (Greek: ὄστρακον ostrakon, plural ὄστρακα ostraka) is a piece of pottery, usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel.
Kinesis may refer to: Kinesis (biology), a movement or activity of a cell or an organism in response to a stimulus; Kinesis (band), an alternative rock band from Bolton, England; Kinesis, a genus of earwigs; Kinesis (keyboard), a line of ergonomic computer keyboards; Kinesis (magazine), a magazine published by Vancouver Status of Women
Kinesiotherapy or Kinesitherapy or kinesiatrics (kinēsis, "movement"), literally "movement therapy", is the therapeutic treatment of disease by passive and active muscular movements (as by massage) and of exercise.
The Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek [1] (Greek: Λεξικό της κοινής Νεοελληνικής) is a monolingual dictionary of Modern Greek published by the Institute of Modern Greek Studies (Manolis Triantafyllidis Foundation) [2] (named after Manolis Triantafyllidis), at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1998.
Ideokinesis is an approach to improving posture, alignment, and fluency of movement through structured guided imagery [1] that uses metaphors, such as visualizing an object moving in a specific direction along various muscle groups throughout the body, while lying completely still.