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  2. Molecularity - Wikipedia

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    A termolecular [4] [5] (or trimolecular) [6] reaction in solutions or gas mixtures involves three reactants simultaneously colliding, with appropriate orientation and sufficient energy. [4] However the term trimolecular is also used to refer to three body association reactions of the type:

  3. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  4. Cuckold - Wikipedia

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    A reed warbler raising the chick of a common cuckoo; the term "cuckold" is derived from the cuckoo's tendency to lay eggs in the nests of other birds.. The word cuckold derives from the cuckoo bird, alluding to its brood parasitism, or tendency to lay its eggs in the nests of other birds.

  5. Multimodality - Wikipedia

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    It has become more than just reading and writing, and now includes visual, technological, and social uses among others. [31] Georgia Tech's writing and communication program created a definition of multimodality based on the acronym, WOVEN. [33] The acronym explains how communication can be written, oral, visual, electronic, and nonverbal.

  6. Rebus - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, the rebus principle is the use of existing symbols, such as pictograms, purely for their sounds regardless of their meaning, to represent new words. Many ancient writing systems used what we now term 'the rebus principle' to represent abstract words, which otherwise would be hard to represent with pictograms.

  7. Glossary of motion picture terms - Wikipedia

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    A graphical arrangement of images or illustrations depicting the scenes and characters of a motion picture, animation, or interactive media production and displayed in sequence for the purpose of allowing writers, directors, or artists to pre-visualize and easily modify the chronology and structure of the narrative and/or the compositions of ...

  8. Tomography - Wikipedia

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    A typical 3D data set is a group of 2D slice images acquired, for example, by a CT, MRI, or MicroCT scanner. These are usually acquired in a regular pattern (e.g., one slice every millimeter) and usually have a regular number of image pixels in a regular pattern.

  9. Dysgraphia - Wikipedia

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    The DSM is unclear in whether writing refers only to the motor skills involved in writing, or if it also includes orthographic skills and spelling. [ 4 ] Dysgraphia should be distinguished from agraphia (sometimes called acquired dysgraphia) , which is an acquired loss of the ability to write resulting from brain injury , progressive illness ...