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More followed, culminating in the influential Thesaurus of Engineering and Scientific Terms (TEST) published jointly by the Engineers Joint Council and the US Department of Defense in 1967. TEST did more than just serve as an example; its Appendix 1 presented Thesaurus rules and conventions that have guided thesaurus construction ever since ...
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
Thesaurus of English and Hindūstānī Technical Terms (1859) A Dictionary of the Puk'hto, Pushto, or Language of the Afghans (1860; 2nd edition, 1867) Selections from the Poetry of the Afghāns, from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century (1862) The Gulshan-i-roh : being selections, prose and poetical, in the Pus'hto, or Afghān language (1867)
Three cases are dependent on the observer's latitude (L) and the declination (δ) of the celestial object: [citation needed]. The object is above the horizon even at its lower culmination; i.e. if | δ + L | > 90° (i.e. if in absolute value the declination is more than the colatitude, in the corresponding hemisphere)
People reporting on the culminating project sometimes confuse the terminology with the state high school exit exam.The state exit exam is a written exam that usually tests student's math, reading, writing, and science skills, whereas the culminating project is a required project that is usually a learning experience based on a topic chosen by the student.
The culminating point in military strategy is the point at which a military force is no longer able to perform its operations. [ 1 ] On the offensive, the culminating point marks the time when the attacking force can no longer continue its advance, because of supply problems, the opposing force, or the need for rest. [ 2 ]
Charles Robertson (1858–1935) was an American entomologist specializing in bees.He carried out what is still the single most intensive study of flower-visiting insects of a single locality, culminating in a 221-page book published in 1928 under the title Flowers and Insects.
The formation begins with two soldiers standing back-to-back, with other such set of soldiers standing at a distance of three hands, drawing up seven circles and culminating in the end which is the place where the captured person or object is to be kept.