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Teratoscincus

Teratoscincus is a genus of geckos commonly referred to as wonder geckos or frog-eyed geckos; it is the only genus within the subfamily Teratoscincinae. Species in the genus Teratoscincus are found from the Arabian Peninsula in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman, west across southern Asia in Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, north to Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to Mongolia and China. The genus consists of seven species.

Microcontinuity

In non-standard analysis, a discipline within classical mathematics, microcontinuity (or S-continuity) of an internal function f at a point a is defined as follows:

for all x infinitely close to a, the value f(x) is infinitely close to f(a).

Here x runs through the domain of f. In formulas, this can be expressed as follows:

if x ≈ a then f(x) ≈ f(a).

For a function f defined on R, the definition can be expressed in terms of the halo as follows: f is microcontinuous at c ∈ R if and only if f(hal(c)) ⊂ hal(f(c)), where the natural extension of f to the hyperreals is still denoted f. Alternatively, the property of microcontinuity at c can be expressed by stating that the composition st ∘ f is constant of the halo of c, where "st" is the standard part function.

Zurna

The zurna (also called surnay, birbynė, lettish horn, surla, sornai, dili tuiduk, zournas, or zurma), is a wind instrument played in central Eurasia, ranging from the Balkans to Central Asia. It is usually accompanied by a davul (bass drum) in Anatolian folk music.

Ex-Mutants

Ex-Mutants was a comic book series created by writer David Lawrence and artist Ron Lim along with editor David Campiti in 1986. It was first published by Eternity Comics and then Amazing Comics. Contractual problems resulted in a move to Pied Piper Comics. A legal dispute followed, and after running out of money for the struggle, the creators surrendered. The title returned to Eternity Comics and was later published in a revamped version by Malibu Comics, which Eternity had become an imprint of. A videogame for the Sega Genesis based on the Malibu version was released.

Foot

The foot (plural feet) is an anatomical structure found in many vertebrates. It is the terminal portion of a limb which bears weight and allows locomotion. In many animals with feet, the foot is a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg made up of one or more segments or bones, generally including claws or nails.

Foot (hieroglyph)

The Ancient Egyptian Foot hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed no. D58 is a side view of the human foot and the lower leg.

The foot hieroglyph is used in the Ancient Egyptian language hieroglyphs for the alphabetic consonant letter b.

Foot (unit)

A foot ( feet; abbreviation: ft; symbol: , the prime symbol) is a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems of measurement. Since 1959, both units have been defined by international agreement as equivalent to 0.3048 meters exactly. In both systems, the foot comprises 12 inches and three feet compose a yard.

Historically the "foot" was a part of many local systems of units, including the Greek, Roman, Chinese, French, and English systems. It varied in length from country to country, from city to city, and sometimes from trade to trade. Its length was usually between 250 mm and 335 mm and was generally, but not always, subdivided into 12 inches or 16 digits.

The United States is the only industrialized nation that uses the international foot and the survey foot (a customary unit of length) in preference to the meter in its commercial, engineering, and standards activities. The foot is legally recognized in the United Kingdom; road signs must use imperial units (however distances on road signs are always marked in yards, not feet), while its usage is widespread among the British public as a measurement of height. The foot is recognized as an alternative expression of length in Canada officially defined as a unit derived from the meter although both have partially metricated their units of measurement. The measurement of altitude in the aviation industry is one of the few areas where the foot is widely used outside the English-speaking world.

Foot (prosody)

The foot is the basic metrical unit that forms part of a line of verse in most Western traditions of poetry, including English accentual-syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The unit is composed of syllables, the number of which is limited, with a few variations, by the sound pattern the foot represents. The most common feet in English are the iamb, trochee, dactyl, and anapest. Contrasting with stress-timed languages such as English, in syllable-timed languages such as French, a foot is a single syllable.

The lines of verse are classified according to the number of feet they contain, e.g. pentameter. However some lines of verse are not considered to be made up of feet, e.g. hendecasyllable.

The English word "foot" is a translation of the Latin term pes, plural pedes. The foot might be compared to a measure in musical notation.

The foot is a purely metrical unit; there is no inherent relation to a word or phrase as a unit of meaning or syntax, though the interplay between these is an aspect of the poet's skill and artistry.

Foot (furniture)

A foot is the floor level termination of furniture legs. Legless furniture may be slightly raised off of the floor by their feet.

Foot (disambiguation)

The foot is an anatomical structure found in many vertebrates.

Foot may also refer to:

  • Foot (unit), a unit of length, now usually 0.3048 m or 12 inches
  • Foot of a perpendicular, in geometry, a point where perpendicular lines intersect
  • Foot, an alternate name for the fotmal, a unit of weight usually equal to 70 pounds
  • Foot (surname)
  • Foot (hieroglyph), an ancient Egyptian symbol
  • Foot (prosody), meter in poetry
  • Foot (sewing), part of a sewing machine
  • Foot (sailing), the lower edge of a sail
  • Infantry; see List of Regiments of Foot
  • Foot Clan, a group of ninja in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series
  • Foot (mollusc), part of the typical mollusc body plan along with the shell, viscera, and mantle
  • Foot Lake, a lake in Minnesota
  • Foot orienteering, the sport of orienteering

FOOT may also refer to:

  • ICAO code for Tchibanga Airport
  • The Faculty of Optics and Optometry of Terrassa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia
  • Foothill Independent Bancorp (NASDAQ: FOOT), California bank acquired in 2005 by First National Bancorp, now PacWest Bancorp
Foot (surname)

Foot is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Caroline Foot (born 1965), former British swimmer
  • David Foot, Canadian economist
  • Dingle Foot (1905–1978), British lawyer and politician
  • Henry Foot (1805–1857), English-born Australian cricketer
  • Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon (1907–1990), British colonial administrator and diplomat
  • Isaac Foot (1880–1960), British politician and solicitor
  • John Foot, Baron Foot (1909–1999), British Liberal Party politician
  • John Foot (academic) (born 1964), British historian specialising in Italy
  • Michael Foot (1913–2010), British politician and journalist, Labour Party leader (1980-83)
  • M. R. D. Foot (1919-2012), British historian
  • Paul Foot (1937–2004), British journalist
  • Philippa Foot (1920–2010), British philosopher
  • Robert Foot (1889–1973), director general of the BBC (1942–1944)
  • Samuel A. Foot (1780–1846), U.S. representative and senator
  • Sarah Foot (born 1961), British historian
  • Solomon Foot (1802–1866), lawyer and senator from Vermont
  • Victorine Foot (1920-2000), British painter
Otic ganglion

The otic ganglion is a small parasympathetic ganglion located immediately below the foramen ovale in the infratemporal fossa and on the medial surface of the mandibular nerve. It is functionally associated with the glossopharyngeal nerve and innervates the parotid gland for salivation.

It is one of four parasympathetic ganglia of the head and neck. The others are the ciliary ganglion, the submandibular ganglion and the pterygopalatine ganglion.

Limelite

The Limelite was a broadsheet weekly newspaper that served Loring Air Force Base from 1953 to 1994.

Onans

Onans is a commune in the Doubs department in the Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

Sierra juniper

Sierra juniper is a common name for several species of juniper and may refer to:

  • Juniperus grandis
  • Juniperus occidentalis
EECS

EECS may refer to:

  • Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • European Energy Certificate System
Janota

Janota is a Slavic surname, it may refer to:

  • Eduard Janota, Czech economist
  • Jolanta Janota, Polish athlete
  • Michał Janota, Polish footballer
  • Ricardo Janota, Portuguese footballer
NCLN

Nicalin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NCLN gene.

Delticom

Delticom AG is a listed company based in Hanover. It operates 140 online shops in 42 countries selling car and motor cycle tyres and a range of accessories to both private and corporate customers. Delticom is Europe’s largest online tyre retailer with sales of over €500 million per year.

Bouka (film)

Bouka is a 1988 drama film directed by Roger Gnoan M'Bala.

Bouka

Bouka nay refer to:

  • Bouka (film), 1988 film directed by Roger Gnoan M'Bala
  • Bouka, Benin, a town and arrondissement in the Borgou Department of Benin
  • Bouko, a town and sub-prefecture in Zanzan District, Ivory Coast, that is alternatively spelled "Bouka"
Penyrheol (electoral ward)

Penyrheol is the name of an electoral ward and a suburb in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, UK.

The electoral ward consists of some or all of the following areas: Penyrheol, Grovesend and Waun Gron, in the parliamentary constituency of Gower. It is bordered by the Loughor estuary to the north west; and the wards of Pontarddulais to the north; Llangyfelach to the east; and Upper Loughor, Kingsbridge, Gorseinon and Penllergaer to the south.

For the 2008 local council elections, the turnout was 34.16%. The results were:

|Candidate

|Party

|Votes

|Status

|David Cole

Labour

1036

Labour hold

|Jan Curtice

Labour

904

Labour gain

|Jim Dunckley

Plaid Cymru

346

|Hannah Lowe

Plaid Cymru

248

|Victor Bruno

Independent

200

In 2012 the result was as follows:

Penyrheol

Penyrheol may refer to:

  • Penyrheol, Caerphilly
  • Penyrheol, Pontypool
  • Penyrheol, Swansea
Arkaroola

Arkaroola is the common name for the Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary, a wildlife sanctuary situated on of freehold and pastoral lease land in South Australia. It is located north of the Adelaide city centre in the Northern Flinders Ranges, adjacent to the Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park and the Mawson Plateau. The most common way to get there is by car, but air travel can be chartered from Parafield Airport, Adelaide Airport or Aldinga Airfield. It is the atmospheric backdrop to the 2002 film The Tracker.

Senjahopen

Senjahopen or Senjehopen is a village in the municipality of Berg in Troms county, Norway. Its population (2009) is 291. Senjahopen is located along the Mefjorden on the northwest part of the large island of Senja, where it is one of the most important fishing villages on the island. Another nearby fishing village is Mefjordvær, which located about to the northwest.

Although Senjahopen is about north of the municipal center of Skaland, the trip took well over an hour to drive, until 2004 when the Geitskartunnelen opened. The new road under the mountains cut about off of the trip between the two villages.

The village has a population (2013) of 265, giving the village a population density of .

Zebra-tailed lizard

Zebra-tailed lizards (Callisaurus) are a genus of phrynosomatid lizards endemic to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.

Theonus

Theonus II is claimed by Dionysius the Areopagite to have been the last Romano-British Archbishop of London who "fled to Wales" in 586 prior to the fall of the city of Londinium to the East Saxons during the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain.

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Comma (rhetoric)

In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a comma (κόμμα komma, plural κόμματα kommata) is a short clause, something less than a colon.

In the system of Aristophanes of Byzantium, commata were separated by middle interpuncts.

In antiquity, a comma was defined as a combination of words that has no more than eight syllables.

Comma

The comma is a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in various languages. It has the same shape as an apostrophe or single closing quotation mark in many typefaces, but it differs from them in being placed on the baseline of the text. Some typefaces render it as a small line, slightly curved or straight but inclined from the vertical, or with the appearance of a small, filled-in number 9.

The comma is used in many contexts and languages, mainly for separating parts of a sentence such as clauses, and items in lists, particularly when there are three or more items listed. The word comma comes from the Greek komma (κόμμα), which means a cut-off piece; specifically, in grammar, a short clause.

A comma-shaped mark is used as a diacritic in several writing systems: above the letter in Greek; below the letter in Latvian, Romanian, and Livonian, and is considered distinct from the cedilla.

Comma (disambiguation)

A comma is a type of punctuation mark.

Comma or commas may also refer to:

  • Comma (butterfly), the brush-footed butterfly Polygonia c-album
  • Comma (journal), the journal of the International Council on Archives
  • Comma (music), a type of interval in music theory
  • Comma (rhetoric), a short clause in Ancient Greek rhetoric
  • "Commas" (song), the censored version of the Future song "Fuck Up Some Commas"
  • Comma Johanneum, a short clause of disputed authenticity in the Gospel of John
  • Comma operator, an operator in C and other related programming languages
  • Oxford comma, a disputed usage of the punctuation mark
Comma (music)

In music theory, a comma is a minute interval, the difference resulting from tuning one note two different ways. The word comma used without qualification refers to the syntonic comma, which can be defined, for instance, as the difference between an F tuned using the D-based Pythagorean tuning system, and another F tuned using the D-based quarter-comma meantone tuning system.

Within the same tuning system, two enharmonically equivalent notes (such as G and A) may have a slightly different frequency, and the interval between them is a comma. For example, in extended scales produced with five-limit tuning an A tuned as a major third below C5 and a G tuned as two major thirds above C4 will not be exactly the same note, as they would be in equal temperament. The interval between those notes, the diesis, is an easily audible comma (its size is more than 40% of a semitone).

Commas are often defined as the difference in size between two semitones. Each meantone temperament tuning system produces a 12-tone scale characterized by two different kinds of semitones (diatonic and chromatic), and hence by a comma of unique size. The same is true for Pythagorean tuning.

467 px|Lesser diesis defined in quarter-comma meantone as difference between semitones , or interval between enharmonically equivalent notes (from C to D). The interval from C to D is narrower than in Pythagorean tuning (see below).

492 px| Pythagorean comma (PC) defined in Pythagorean tuning as difference between semitones , or interval between enharmonically equivalent notes (from D to C). The interval from C to D is wider than in quarter-comma meantone (see above).

In just intonation, more than two kinds of semitones may be produced. Thus, a single tuning system may be characterized by several different commas. For instance, a commonly used version of five-limit tuning produces a 12-tone scale with four kinds of semitones and four commas.

The size of commas is commonly expressed and compared in terms of cents – 1/1200 fractions of an octave on a logarithmic scale.

Valdgeym

Valdgeym is a rural locality (a selo) in Birobidzhansky District of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. Valdgeym was the place where the first collective farm was established in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. As of 1992, Valdgeym was the largest farming cooperative in the region.

Cerithideopsilla

Cerithideopsilla is a genus of medium-sized sea snails or mud snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Potamididae, the horn snails.

Usage examples of "cerithideopsilla".

Does it not say that Hu the Mighty, the inventor of husbandry, who brought the Cumry from the summer-country, drew the old afanc out of the lake of lakes with his four gigantic oxen?

And now, Baas, I have had enough of this, and should like to return to our outspan and examine those new oxen.

Still, I am glad none of them wish to marry me, Baas, and make me work like a whole team of oxen to drag them out of their mudholes.

These huge, ponderous, and lethargic beasts of burden, Bozo knew, are most commonly domesticated by man, and are used to draw wains, much in the manner of oxen.

Corporal List sat on the buckboard, his switch snapping the dusty, sweat-runnelled backs of the pair of oxen labouring at their yokes.

After the trees were down, the buckers had cut them into lengths, then they were snaked away by tractors handled by men called cat-doctors, or by teams driven by men who were always called bull-punchers because in the old days the dragging had been done by oxen.

Cart wheels and oxen crunched through puddles snap frozen, then plowed by their passage to shards like white cullet, salted in heaps at a glassworks.

His oxen and fatlings are killed, His wine is drawn, and His table furnished, and all things ready.

The rest from normal labors on feriae extended to slaves and also some animals, including oxen but excluding equines of all varieties.

Even the oxen were noble beasts, with broad brows and gentle eyes, their horns tipped with gilded caps.

There were wheeled vehicles that whined softly and left a tang of ozone behind, and pedal-powered carts like jinrikishas, and even a few draft animals that resembled small oxen.

In the Via Larga the country people were dozing in their carts as the donkeys and oxen clop-clopped over the stones with their produce for the Old Market.

Senor Licentiate, is the place I mentioned, where we can rest and the oxen can find abundant fresh grass.

Oft on his altar shall my firstlings bleed, See, by his bounty here with rustic reed I play the airs I love the livelong day, The while my oxen round about me stray.

There are numerous instances of horses, sheep, oxen, and even wood-pigeons, having been taught to live upon flesh, until they have loathed their natural aliment.