climate classification: Genetic classifications: …is the 1970 classification of Werner H. Terjung, an American geographer. His method utilizes data for more than 1,000 locations worldwide on the net solar radiation received at the surface, the available energy for evaporating water, and the available energy for heating the air and subsurface. The annual patterns are…

Sonia Delaunay was a Russian painter, illustrator, and textile designer who was a pioneer of abstract art in the years before World War I. Delaunay grew up in St. Petersburg. She studied drawing in Karlsruhe, Germany, and in 1905 moved to Paris, where she was influenced by the Post-Impressionists

Studs Terkel was an American author and oral historian who chronicled the lives of Americans from the Great Depression to the early 21st century. After spending his early childhood in New York City, Terkel moved with his family to Chicago at age nine. His parents ran the Wells-Grand Hotel, a

Studs Terkel was an American author and oral historian who chronicled the lives of Americans from the Great Depression to the early 21st century. After spending his early childhood in New York City, Terkel moved with his family to Chicago at age nine. His parents ran the Wells-Grand Hotel, a

Niẓām al-Mulk: The Seyāsat-nāmeh: …enemy of the sultan’s wife Terken Khatun by preferring the son of another wife for the succession.

Turkish literature: Forms and genres: The tercibend and terkibbend are more-elaborate stanzaic forms. Both feature stanzas with the stylistic features of the gazel, but, unlike gazels, each stanza in these forms is followed by a couplet with a separate rhyme. In the tercibend the same couplet is repeated after each stanza, while in…

spectroscopy: Total orbital angular momentum and total spin angular momentum: A term is the set of all states with a given configuration: L, S, and J.

term, in the visual arts, element consisting of a sculptured figure or bust at the top of a stone pillar or column that usually tapers downward to a quadrangular base. Often the pillar replaces the body of the figure, with feet sometimes indicated at its base. The pillar itself may be a separate

term, in logic, the subject or predicate of a categorical proposition (q.v.), or statement. Aristotle so used the Greek word horos (“limit”), apparently by an analogy between the terms of a proportion and those of a syllogism. Terminus is the Latin translation of this word, used, for example, by

life insurance: …of life insurance contracts are term life, whole life, variable life, and universal life. Under term insurance contracts, a set amount of coverage, such as $50,000 or $500,000, is issued for a specified period of time. The premiums on such policies tend to increase with age, meaning that premium costs…

Taraji P. Henson: …No Good Deed (2014), and Term Life (2016).

life insurance: …of life insurance contracts are term life, whole life, variable life, and universal life. Under term insurance contracts, a set amount of coverage, such as $50,000 or $500,000, is issued for a specified period of time. The premiums on such policies tend to increase with age, meaning that premium costs…

If you’re looking to purchase life insurance, you may be wondering whether to get a term insurance policy—which covers you for a set period—or permanent life, which typically provides lifetime coverage and a cash value that builds over time. Although both types offer a payout should you die within

term limits, legal restrictions placed, typically in a country or region’s constitution, on the length of time an official may serve in their elected position. Term limits are applied to ensure political leaders do not continue in office indefinitely, a practice that could lead to a dictatorship.

term limits, legal restrictions placed, typically in a country or region’s constitution, on the length of time an official may serve in their elected position. Term limits are applied to ensure political leaders do not continue in office indefinitely, a practice that could lead to a dictatorship.

business finance: Term loans: A term loan is a business credit with a maturity of more than 1 year but less than 15 years. Usually the term loan is retired by systematic repayments (amortization payments) over its life. It may be secured by a chattel mortgage on…

history of logic: Aristotle: Aristotle’s logic was a term logic in the sense that it focused on logical relations between such terms in valid inferences.

Frederick Emmons Terman was an American electrical engineer known for his contributions to electronics research and anti-radar technology. Terman, the son of the noted psychologist Lewis Madison Terman, earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in chemistry and chemical engineering, respectively,

Lewis Terman was an American psychologist who published the individual intelligence test widely used in the United States, the Stanford-Binet test. Terman joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1910, where he became professor of education in 1916, the year he published The Measurement of

Lewis Terman was an American psychologist who published the individual intelligence test widely used in the United States, the Stanford-Binet test. Terman joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1910, where he became professor of education in 1916, the year he published The Measurement of

Lewis Terman was an American psychologist who published the individual intelligence test widely used in the United States, the Stanford-Binet test. Terman joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1910, where he became professor of education in 1916, the year he published The Measurement of

Baths of Caracalla, public baths in ancient Rome begun by the emperor Septimius Severus in ad 206 and completed by his son the emperor Caracalla in 216. Among Rome’s most beautiful and luxurious baths, designed to accommodate about 1,600 bathers, the Baths of Caracalla continued in use until the

National Roman Museum, in Rome, one of the world’s greatest museums of ancient Greco-Roman art. It was founded in 1889 and originally housed in a former monastery, probably designed by Michelangelo in the 16th century, on the site of the Baths of Diocletian. In the 1980s the museum acquired several

Termez, city, Uzbekistan, and a port of the Amu Darya (river) on the frontier of Afghanistan. The ancient town of Termez, a little to the north, flourished in the 1st century bce and was finally destroyed at the end of the 17th century ce. The present city originated as a Russian fort built in 1897

Henri-François-Émile Termier was a French geologist known for his studies of the stratigraphy (study of stratified rocks) and paleontology of North Africa and France. Termier was a geologist for the Morocco Mine Service from 1925 until 1940, when he became head of the Morocco Geological Service; in

Pierre-Marie Termier was a geologist known for his studies of the Eastern Alps. Termier was a professor at the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne from 1885 until 1894, when he became a professor of mineralogy at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris; in 1911 he was appointed director of

Terminal 1 at Kansai International Airport, airport terminal at Kansai International Airport in Ōsaka Bay, Japan, that was designed by architecture firm Renzo Piano Building Workshop and completed in 1994. Kansai International Airport sits upon an artificial island in Ōsaka Bay, a decision that was

Terminal 1 at O’Hare International Airport, airport terminal at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago that was designed by Helmut Jahn and completed in 1987. An airport terminal is subject to perhaps more change and fluctuation than any other commercial structure: it needs to be highly flexible

Terminal 1 at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, airport terminal at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, located northeast of Paris, that was designed by Paul Andreu and completed in 1974. Andreu, a recent graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, was put in charge of designing the airport then

crustacean: Exoskeleton: …again; this is called a terminal anecdysis. The molting process is under hormonal control.

ballistics: Terminal ballistics concerns the impact of projectiles; a separate category encompasses the wounding of personnel.

human respiratory system: Structural design of the airway tree: …in the lung are the terminal bronchioles. Distally, the airway structure is greatly altered by the appearance of cuplike outpouchings from the walls. These form minute air chambers and represent the first gas-exchanging alveoli on the airway path. In the alveoli, the respiratory epithelium gives way to a very flat…

angiosperm: Stems: …and the stem or from terminal buds at the end of the shoot. In temperate-climate plants these buds have extended periods of dormancy, whereas in tropical plants the period of dormancy is either very short or nonexistent.

caesura: …end of the next (terminal caesura). There may be several caesuras within a single line or none at all. Thus, it has the effect of interposing the informal and irregular patterns of speech as a subtle counterpoint to the poem’s regular rhythm; it prevents metrical monotony and emphasizes the…

muscle: The myofibril: …an enlarged sac called the terminal cisterna.

muscle: The myofibril: …an enlarged sac called the terminal cisterna.

Potsdam Conference, (July 17–August 2, 1945), Allied conference of World War II held at Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin. The chief participants were U.S. President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (or Clement Attlee, who became prime minister during the conference), and Soviet

airport: Air traffic control: …the aircraft passes into the terminal control area (TCA). Within this area, there may be a greatly increased density of air traffic, and this is closely monitored on radar by TCA controllers, who continually instruct pilots on how to navigate within the area. The aircraft is then brought into the…

radar: Doppler weather radar: Terminal Doppler weather radar (TDWR) is the name of the type of system at or near airports that is specially designed to detect dangerous microbursts. It is similar in principle to Nexrad but is a shorter-range system since it has to observe dangerous weather phenomena…

human nervous system: The peripheral nervous system: …by their projecting fibers, while terminal ganglia are found on the surfaces or within the walls of the target organs themselves. Motor ganglia have multipolar cell bodies, which have irregular shapes and eccentrically located nuclei and which project several dendritic and axonal processes. Preganglionic fibers originating from the brain or…

hair: …more heavily pigmented hair called terminal hair that develops in the armpits, genital regions, and, in males, on the face and sometimes on parts of the trunk and limbs. The hairs of the scalp, eyebrows, and eyelashes are of separate types from these others and develop fairly early in life.…

computer science: Operating systems: Processes known as terminal handlers were needed, along with mechanisms such as interrupts (to get the attention of the operating system to handle urgent tasks) and buffers (for temporary storage of data during input/output to make the transfer run more smoothly). Modern large computers interact with hundreds of…

Moon Jae-In: The Moon presidency: to deploy the full Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system. Moon had opposed THAAD, a controversial theater missile defense network, during the campaign, and he had suspended the installation of additional launchers in June. Such close cooperation with the U.S. carried its own costs, however. Moon risked alienating…

art criticism: Formalism’s legacy: In Terminal Iron Works (1971), she wrote about sculptor David Smith in broadly formalist terms, getting “beyond an historical context,” as she said, and attempting to offer what New [literary] Criticism and theorist Roland Barthes called an “immanent analysis,” which focused on the structure and themes…

Chris Pratt: …TV with the action series The Terminal List (2022– ), in which he was cast as a Navy SEAL. Pratt supplemented his on-screen appearances with voice work in animated movies, notably The Lego Movie (2014) and its 2019 sequel and Onward (2020), about a quest by elven brothers to bring…

Michael Crichton: Crichton went on to publish The Terminal Man (1972; film 1974), which concerns electrode brain therapy gone wrong. He diverged from science fiction with The Great Train Robbery (1972; film 1979), a heist thriller set in Victorian England, and Eaters of the Dead (1976; film 1999), a historical narrative incorporating…

moraine: A terminal, or end, moraine consists of a ridgelike accumulation of glacial debris pushed forward by the leading glacial snout and dumped at the outermost edge of any given ice advance. It curves convexly down the valley and may extend up the sides as lateral moraines.…

cranial nerve: …(branching network) known as the terminal nerve (CN 0), is sometimes also recognized in humans, though whether it is a vestigial structure or a functioning nerve is unclear.

term: …case it is called a terminal pedestal.

rocket and missile system: Design principles: The terminal phase of flight occurs when gravity pulls the warheads (now referred to as the reentry vehicles, or RVs) back into the atmosphere and down to the target area.

telomerase, enzyme that influences cell life span by adding organic compounds known as nucleotides to telomeres, segments of DNA located at the ends of chromosomes. Telomeres consist of repetitive DNA sequences wherein the number of repeats determines the maximum life span of a cell. For context,

Suo Masayuki: After the drama Tsui no shintaku (2012; The Terminal Trust), Suo directed the musical comedy Maiko wa redî (2014; Lady Maiko) and the historical dramedy Katsuben! (2019; Talking the Pictures).

terminal velocity, steady speed achieved by an object freely falling through a gas or liquid. A typical terminal velocity for a parachutist who delays opening the chute is about 150 miles (240 kilometres) per hour. Raindrops fall at a much lower terminal velocity, and a mist of tiny oil droplets

James Gandolfini: …guys in films that included Terminal Velocity (1994), Crimson Tide (1995), and Get Shorty (1995).

airport: Passenger terminal layout and design: As passenger throughput at airports increases, the passenger terminal becomes a more important element of the airport, attaining a dominant status in the largest facilities. The passenger terminal may amount to less than 10 percent of the total…

Steven Spielberg: The 2000s: …Spielberg directed the lighthearted comedy The Terminal. Hanks again starred, this time as Viktor Navorski, a visitor from a fictional country in central Europe who lands at a New York airport only to find that civil war in his home country has invalidated his passport, keeping him from entering the…

Alfred Stieglitz: The Photo-Secession: …as Winter, Fifth Avenue or The Terminal (both 1892)—are almost always answers to difficult technical problems, which Stieglitz loved, and which often trumped his impulses to make photographs that were artistically correct.

Terminalia, genus of about 200 species of trees of the family Combretaceae. Some species are commercially important for products such as gums, resins, and tanning extracts. T. arjuna, of Southeast Asia; T. hilariana, of tropical America; T. obovata, of the West Indies and South America; and T.

Terminus: …year) the festival called the Terminalia was held. The owners of adjacent lands assembled at the common boundary stone, and each garlanded his own side of the stone. Offerings of cakes, grain, honey, and wine were made, and a lamb or pig was sacrificed.

Terminalia: catappa, the Indian, or tropical, almond, is commonly cultivated for ornament, particularly along streets in the tropics.

tannin: …and in sumac (Rhus) and myrobalan (Terminalia chebula). They also occur in galls, pathological growths resulting from insect attacks.

C.I. Lewis: …provided by what Lewis calls terminating judgment, which involves a statement about reality that has been verified empirically. Terminating judgments must refer to appearances, while nonterminating judgments may refer to other objects or values. Certainty and meaning may, however, exist in nonterminating judgments if a terminating judgment stands behind them.

Native American: Termination: The ultimate goals of assimilationist programming were to completely divest Native peoples of their cultural practices and to terminate their special relationship to the national government. Canada’s attempts at promoting these goals tended to focus on the individual, while those of the United States…

chain reaction: (3) Termination, which may be natural, as when all the reactants have been consumed or the containing vessel causes the chain carriers to recombine as fast as they are formed, but more often is induced intentionally by introduction of substances called inhibitors or antioxidants.

Moon: Large-scale features: …passes through its phases, the terminator moves slowly across the Moon’s disk, its long shadows revealing the relief of mountains and craters. At full moon the relief disappears, replaced by the contrast between lighter and darker surfaces. Though the full moon is brilliant at night, the Moon is actually a…

James Cameron: Early life and career: …with Schwarzenegger on the blockbusters Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and True Lies (1994); the latter also starred Jamie Lee Curtis. In 1992 Cameron formed his own production company, Lightstorm Entertainment, and the following year he cofounded Digital Domain, a state-of-the-art effects company.

Claire Danes: Films of the early 21st century: The Hours, Terminator 3, and Shopgirl: …appeared in the action blockbuster Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Danes then starred with Billy Crudup in the period drama Stage Beauty (2004), in which she played a woman who defied societal norms in 17th-century London to act on the stage.

Emilia Clarke: Other credits: …she played Sarah Connor in Terminator Genisys, part of the blockbuster action series Terminator. Her costars included Arnold Schwarzenegger as the legendary cyborg. In Me Before You (2016), Clarke was cast as the caretaker of a paralyzed man. The romantic drama, which was adapted from Jojo Moyes’s best-selling book, was…

Christian Bale: Bale next appeared in Terminator Salvation (2009), the fourth film in the popular Terminator series, which had originally starred Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the futuristic thriller, Bale portrayed rebel leader John Connor as an adult. In Public Enemies (2009), which also starred Johnny Depp and Marion Cotillard, Bale played Melvin…

Public Enemy: …1959, Long Island, New York), Terminator X (original name Norman Lee Rogers; b. August 25, 1966, New York City), and Professor Griff (original name Richard Griffin; b. August 1, 1960, Long Island).

Arnold Schwarzenegger: …in Terminator Genisys (2015) and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019).

Termini Imerese, town, northern Sicily, Italy, on the Golfo (gulf) di Termini Imerese (an inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea), southeast of Palermo city. It was possibly a Phoenician seaport or trading station, and its well-known thermal saline springs were praised by the 6th–5th-century bce Greek poet

Lazio: …7,270 feet (2,216 metres) at Mount Terminillo. Although the mountains are mainly limestone, the valleys and lower foothills of the pre-Apennines are fertile. The western part of the region is a coastal plain centring on the Roman Campagna (Campagna di Roma) and extending northwestward into the Maremma and southeastward through…

modern logic, in the history of Western philosophy, the concepts, principles, and systems of logical argumentation that were studied and developed from approximately the 16th century through the end of the 19th century. The term “modern logic” conventionally refers to developments in the field of

anatomy: Anatomical nomenclature: …work was supplanted by the Terminologia Anatomica, which recognizes about 7,500 terms describing macroscopic structures of human anatomy and is considered to be the international standard on human anatomical nomenclature. The Terminologia Anatomica, produced by the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists and the Federative Committee on Anatomical Terminology (later…

jargon, in colonial history, an unstable rudimentary hybrid language used as a means of communication between persons having no other language in common. Although the term was long synonymous with pidgin—as can be seen by the use of jargon in the names of such pidgins as Chinook Jargon and Mobilian

Western music: The Franco-Flemish school: …Tinctoris (1436–1511), one of which, Terminorum musicae diffinitorium (c. 1475), is the earliest printed dictionary of musical terms.

Términos Lagoon, lagoon in southwestern Campeche state, at the base of the Yucatán Peninsula, eastern Mexico. An inlet of the Bay of Campeche on the Gulf of Mexico, it measures 45 miles (72 km) east-west and about 12 to 15 miles (19 to 24 km) north-south. Long, narrow Carmen Island stretches across

Atlanta, city, capital (1868) of Georgia, U.S., and seat (1853) of Fulton county (but also partly in DeKalb county). It lies in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the northwestern part of the state, just southeast of the Chattahoochee River. Atlanta is Georgia’s largest city and the

Terminus, (Latin: Boundary Stone), originally, in Roman cult, a boundary stone or post fixed in the ground during a ceremony of sacrifice and anointment. Anyone who removed a boundary stone was accursed and might be slain; a fine was later substituted for the death penalty. From this sacred object

termite, (order Isoptera), any of a group of cellulose-eating insects, the social system of which shows remarkable parallels with those of ants and bees, although it has evolved independently. Even though termites are not closely related to ants, they are sometimes referred to as white ants.

savanna: Environment: …between them, forming the so-called termite savanna.

animation: Termite Terrace: Less edgy than the Fleischers but every bit as anarchic were the animations produced by the Warner Bros. cartoon studio, known to its residents as “Termite Terrace.” The studio was founded by three Disney veterans, Rudolph Ising, Hugh Harmon, and Friz Freleng, but…

Filippo Silvestri: …morphology and biology of the Termitidae, the most highly evolved family of termites. Equally significant was his comparative study of the form and structure of the millipede and the centipede.

Termez, city, Uzbekistan, and a port of the Amu Darya (river) on the frontier of Afghanistan. The ancient town of Termez, a little to the north, flourished in the 1st century bce and was finally destroyed at the end of the 17th century ce. The present city originated as a Russian fort built in 1897

termite: Nest types: …family Kalotermitidae and the subfamily Termopsinae (family Hodotermitidae) make their nests in the wood on which they feed. These termites excavate irregular networks of galleries with no external openings, except the temporary ones created during swarming. The nest galleries have partitions made of fecal matter and are lined or coated…

Larry McMurtry: …to Be Strangers (1972), and Terms of Endearment (1975; film 1983).

Danny DeVito: Career: …films, including the family drama Terms of Endearment (1983), the romantic adventure Romancing the Stone (1984; which also featured Douglas as an actor and producer), the dark comedy Ruthless People (1986), and the buddy film Twins (1988). In 1992 he portrayed the supervillain Oswald Cobblepot, who transforms into the Penguin,…

Michael Moore: …debut in the one-man show The Terms of My Surrender, which examined the Trump presidency. The following year he considered the 2016 presidential election and the unexpected rise of Trump in the documentary Fahrenheit 11/9. The movie especially takes to task the policies of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, under whose…

Twentieth Amendment, amendment (1933) to the Constitution of the United States indicating the beginning and ending dates of presidential and congressional terms. It was proposed by Sen. George W. Norris of Nebraska on March, 2, 1932, and was certified the following January. Commonly known as the

terms of trade, relationship between the prices at which a country sells its exports and the prices paid for its imports. If the prices of a country’s exports rise relative to the prices of its imports, one says that its terms of trade have moved in a favourable direction, because, in effect, it

distribution, in syllogistics, the application of a term of a proposition to the entire class that the term denotes. A term is said to be distributed in a given proposition if that proposition implies all other propositions that differ from it only in having, in place of the original term, any

Sven Holm: …“Maiden Voyage”), and ignorance in Termush, Atlanterkysten (1967; Eng. trans. 1969). In his intense prose poem on the theme of human suffering, Syv passioner (1971; “Seven Passions”), Holm offered a utopian alternative to the psychological breakdown and envisioned collapse of the Western way of life.

tern, any of about 40 species of slender, graceful water birds that constitute the subfamily Sterninae, of the family Laridae, which also includes the gulls. Terns inhabit seacoasts and inland waters and are nearly worldwide in distribution. The largest number of species is found in the Pacific

rare-earth element: Ternary and higher-order oxides: The rare-earth oxides form tens of thousands of ternary and higher-order compounds with other oxides, such as aluminum oxide (Al2O3), ferric oxide (Fe2O3), cobalt sesquioxide (Co2O3), chromium sesquioxide (Cr2O3), gallium sesquioxide (Ga2O3), and manganese sesquioxide (Mn2O3).

ternary form, in music, a form consisting of three sections, the third section normally either a literal or a varied repeat of the first. The symmetrical construction of this scheme (aba) provides one of the familiar shapes in Western music; ternary form can be found in music from the Middle Ages

Ternate Island, one of the northernmost of a line of Indonesian islands stretching southward along the western coast of the island of Halmahera to the Bacan Islands east of the Molucca Sea. Ternate Island lies within the propinsi (or provinsi; province) of North Maluku (Maluku Utara) and is

lead processing: Lead-tin: Terne metal, an alloy of lead and typically 10 to 15 percent tin, is used to coat steel sheet in order to produce a strong, corrosion-resistant product that is widely used for automobile gasoline tanks, packaging, roofing, and other uses where lead’s favourable properties are…

terneplate, steel sheet with a coating of terne metal, an alloy of lead and tin applied by dipping the steel in molten metal. The alloy has a dull appearance resulting from the high lead content. The composition of terne metal ranges from 50–50 mixtures of lead and tin to as low as 12 percent tin

Ghent-Terneuzen Canal: …the Western Schelde estuary at Terneuzen, Netherlands. The canal was built in 1824–27 and was reconstructed in 1881. It was further enlarged during the early 20th century and reopened in 1910, and it was again enlarged between 1954 and 1968 to enable Ghent’s port to handle 80,000-ton ships. A lock…