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- ...ncarta]] from 2000 to 2009, [[Wikipedia]] since 2001, the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' since 2016, and [[Encyclopedia.com]] since 1998. ...y 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125191151/https://www.britannica.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ...10 KB (1,307 words) - 00:48, 12 February 2024
- {{distinguish|text=the [[Propædia]] volume of the Encyclopædia Britannica, part of which is titled Outline of Knowledge}}<!--... Attention: THIS IS ...with practical skill or expertise) or [[Explicit knowledge|explicit]] (as with the theoretical understanding of a subject); and it can be more or less for ...32 KB (4,157 words) - 10:47, 24 February 2024
- ...eam behind to slow the vehicle down steep hills. Sometimes at a steep hill with frequent traffic, such a team would be hired to passing wagons to help them ...o the shafts or pole are hinged vertically, allowing them to rise and fall with the movement of the animals. A four-wheeled vehicle is also steered by the ...22 KB (3,250 words) - 08:16, 23 February 2024
- ...s also been considered as the final Age of the three-age division starting with [[prehistory]] (before recorded history) and progressing to [[protohistory] ...ref> In the [[Ancient Near East]], this transition occurred simultaneously with the [[Bronze Age collapse]], during the 12th century BC. The technology soo ...64 KB (9,308 words) - 00:17, 6 March 2024
- ...d based on their expertise in a given area of responsibility, particularly with regard to scientific or technical knowledge. Technocracy follows largely in This system explicitly contrasts with [[Representative Democracy|representative democracy]], the notion that elec ...36 KB (4,922 words) - 17:35, 27 February 2024
- The earliest bridges were likely made with fallen trees and [[stepping stones]]. The [[Neolithic]] people built [[boar ...felled or placed across streams. Some of the first [[human-made]] bridges with significant span were probably intentionally felled trees.<ref>{{cite book ...71 KB (10,109 words) - 02:33, 26 February 2024
- ...14-11-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017033402/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/491506/rapid-transit|archive-date=2014-10-17|url-status ...to minimize gaps between train and platform. They are typically integrated with other public transport and often operated by the same [[transit authority|p ...84 KB (12,110 words) - 14:05, 29 February 2024
- ...name=Poidevin/> Time is often referred to as a fourth [[dimension]], along with [[Three-dimensional space|three spatial dimensions]].<ref>"Newton did for t ...numbers obtained from different time systems differ from one another, but with careful measurements they can be synchronized. ...108 KB (15,833 words) - 11:06, 19 January 2024
- ...atus de Signis'' of [[John Poinsot]] and then began anew in late modernity with the attempt in 1867 by [[Charles Sanders Peirce]] to draw up a "new list of ...ημιωτικὴ" but rather do we find substituted the "σημειωτικὴ" spelling (and with final accent reversed). '''Note''' that in [[Greek orthography|Modern Greek ...88 KB (12,446 words) - 23:47, 7 March 2024
- ...ry 12, 2021 }}</ref> It is composed of [[semiconductor material]], usually with at least three [[Terminal (electronics)|terminals]] for connection to an el ...s of charge carriers in [[bipolar junction transistor]] devices. Compared with the [[vacuum tube]], transistors are generally smaller and require less pow ...94 KB (12,903 words) - 23:13, 7 March 2024
- ..., 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220202193947/https://www.britannica.com/topic/social-science |archive-date=February 2, 2022 |last2=Greenfeld |f The [[history of science]] spans the majority of the historical record, with the earliest written records of identifiable predecessors to modern science ...164 KB (21,878 words) - 00:58, 8 March 2024
- ...(in which case the individual remains fully conscious), or in combination with general anesthesia or sedation. <!--see Talk page on endpoints. Discussed with expert; author of Miller's anesthesiology--> ...74 KB (10,116 words) - 18:06, 22 February 2024
- ...esearch-Projects-Agency |access-date=January 5, 2023 |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Defense Advanced Research Proj ...Soviet Union|Soviet]] launching of [[Sputnik 1]] in 1957. By collaborating with academia, industry, and government partners, DARPA formulates and executes ...129 KB (16,902 words) - 04:37, 7 March 2024
- | label4 = Average density (with [[energy]]) | data7 = [[Shape of the universe|Flat]] with 4‰ error margin<ref>{{cite web|author=NASA/WMAP Science Team|date=January 2 ...155 KB (21,606 words) - 06:24, 28 February 2024
- ...s the ideas and achievements of [[classical antiquity]]; it was associated with great [[social change]] in most fields and disciplines, including [[Renaiss ...st traces appear in Italy as early as the late 13th century, in particular with the writings of [[Dante]] and the paintings of [[Giotto]]. ...114 KB (16,418 words) - 02:17, 3 March 2024
- ...knowledge|awareness of facts]], a [[Knowledge by acquaintance|familiarity with individuals and situations]], or a [[Procedural knowledge|practical skill]] ...she knows how to swim", and [[knowledge by acquaintance]] as a familiarity with the known object based on previous direct experience, like knowing someone ...190 KB (25,701 words) - 08:43, 6 March 2024
- ...b. In 1995, only {{val|.04}} percent of the world's population had access, with well over half of those living in the United States,<ref>{{Cite book|title= ...g every 18 months ([[Edholm's law]], which is related to [[Moore's law]]), with the bandwidths of telecommunications networks rising from [[bits per second ...140 KB (19,365 words) - 07:41, 8 March 2024
- ...nd [[Ocean current|ocean currents]], producing a global [[climate system]] with different [[Climate region|climate regions]], and a range of weather phenom ...Earth's rotation]]. [[Tidal locking]] has made the Moon always face Earth with the same side. ...194 KB (27,016 words) - 18:39, 1 March 2024
- ...cur within the universe). However, [[space]] and time took on new meanings with the [[Lorentz transformation]] and [[Special relativity|special theory of r ...rent from what they might observe if the world were Euclidean. It was only with the advent of sensitive scientific measurements in the mid-1800s, such as t ...197 KB (29,900 words) - 06:15, 7 March 2024
- ...AAAIAAJ Page 391]. (cf. "[...] ''high poles covered with copper plates and with gilded tops were erected 'to break the stones coming from on high'.'' J. Dü ...or, and it was often confused with magnetism. The ancients were acquainted with rather curious properties possessed by two minerals, [[amber]] ({{lang-grc- ...163 KB (23,536 words) - 08:58, 27 February 2024