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Ferroelectricity: A state of matter with spontaneous electric polarization. Antiferroelectricity: A state of matter in which the adjacent electric dipoles point in opposite directions. Charge ordering; Charge density wave: An ordered state in which charge density is periodically modulated.
Fan has different ontological meanings according to whether it refers to our closed world, in which everything is finite and forever reverses to its opposite or initial state, or refers to the absolute Dao that is infinitely void and limitless, transcending changes and reversals.
Distance marker on the Rhine: 36 (XXXVI) myriametres from Basel.Note that the stated distance is 360 km; comma is the decimal mark in Germany.. Myria-(symbol my) is a now obsolete decimal metric prefix denoting a factor of 10 4 (ten thousand).
A skeleton key is a 万 能 钥 匙 ("myriad-use key"), [9] the emperor was the "lord of myriad chariots" (萬乘之主), [10] the Great Wall is called 万 里 长 城 ("Myriad-mile Long Wall"), Zhu Xi's statement 月 映 万 川 ("the moon reflects in myriad rivers") had the sense of supporting greater empiricism in Chinese philosophy, [11 ...
Nothing, no-thing, or no thing, is the complete absence of anything as the opposite of something and an antithesis of everything. The concept of nothing has been a matter of philosophical debate since at least the 5th century BC. Early Greek philosophers argued that it was impossible for nothing to exist.
Israel and the Palestinians failed to agree on myriad technical aspects of a new Palestinian state despite tireless arbitration by U.S. diplomats. ... the 77-year history of the quest for a two ...
Wanguo Quantu or the Complete Map of the Myriad Countries is a map developed in the 1620s by the Jesuit Giulio Aleni in Ming China following the earlier work of Matteo Ricci, who was the first Jesuit to speak Chinese and to publish maps of the world in Chinese from 1574 to 1603.
Thirty years later, Baz Luhrmann took the same tack, casting a 21-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio opposite a 17-year-old Claire Danes for his 1996 technicolor film adaptation.