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• Requirement
  ...e tests should trace back to specific requirements. Requirements show what elements and [[functions]] are necessary for the particular project.
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• Mediocrity
  ...French ''médiocre'' and ''médiocrité'' and of [[English]] ''mediocrity''. Classical Latin ''mediocritās'' is used already with implications of inferiority, bu ...ates that life on [[Earth]] depends on just a few basic [[molecules]], the elements that make up these molecules are (to a greater or lesser extent) common to
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• Map
  ...ot clear. (The usual word for a surveyor's map in classical Latin and post-classical Latin is ''forma'' .) The [[transition]] in sense from ‘cloth’ to ‘ma ...of an area—a [[symbolic]] depiction highlighting [[relationships]] between elements of that [[space]] such as objects, regions, and themes.
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• Concepts
  ...ly equally to every thing in their extension. Concepts are also the basic elements of propositions, much the same way a [[word]] is the basic [[semantics|sema
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• Yin and yang
  *1 : [[opposite]] sides, elements, or [[extremes]] <the daily yin and yang of the [[campaign]] — Steve Lope ...''yin-yang'' concept. The concept lies at the origins of many branches of classical [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_science Chinese science] and philoso
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• Measure
  ===Classical=== ...ced back to John Wallis and Isaac Newton, and was foreshadowed in Euclid's Elements[1].
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• Artificial
  ...n [[rhetoric]]al [[context]], [[translating]] ancient [[Greek]] ), in post-classical Latin also prescribed by [[art]], [[scientific]] (4th or 5th cent.; 14th ce ...subatomic particles), rather than natural or spontaneous; (of isotopes and elements) resulting from phenomena of this kind, not occurring naturally.
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• Pollution
  post-classical Latin ''pollution''- , ''pollutio'' [[desecration]] (Vulgate), [[spiritual] ...s or [[energy]], such as [[noise]], [[heat]] or [[light]]. Pollutants, the elements of pollution, can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurr
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• Archaic
  ...e period leading up to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Greece classical period of Greek culture] ...religious]] [[contexts]]). Many nursery rhymes contain archaisms. Archaic elements that occur only in certain fixed [[expressions]] (for example 'be that as i
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• Mystery
  ...inisterium MINISTRY n. Confusion between mysterium and ministerium in post-classical Latin is not surprising, given the phonetic and semantic similarity between In sense 9 after Middle French mistere (1402 in this sense), post-classical Latin mysterium passion play (1521 in Du Cange). It is uncertain whether th
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• Opera
  ...al score], usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken [[theatre]], such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes Opera is part of the Western [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music classical music tradition]. It started in Italy at the end of the 16th century (with
  5 KB (752 words) - 01:38, 13 December 2020
• Lament
  ...cs accompanied by the aulis in classical and Hellenistic Greece.[2] Lament elements figure in [[Beowulf]], in the Hindu [[Vedas]], and in ancient Near Eastern ...sformed into Literature: Positing Women's Prayer as Cornerstone in Western Classical Literature" The Journal of American Folklore 114 No. 451 (Winter 2001:20-39
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• Rock music
  ...ipedia.org/wiki/Jazz jazz], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music classical] and other musical sources. ...a.org/wiki/Progressive_rock progressive rock], which extended the artistic elements; [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glam_rock glam rock], which highlighted sho
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• Quantum Mechanics
  Even so, classical physics often can be a good approximation to results otherwise obtained by ...ticle wave function) orbital path around or "through" the nucleus, defying classical electromagnetism.[7]
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• Romanticism
  ...vate a revived [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medievalism medievalism] and elements of art and [[narrative]] perceived to be authentically medieval in an attem ...magination]] as a critical [[authority]], which permitted [[freedom]] from classical notions of form in art. There was a strong recourse to historical and natur
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• Comedy
  ...is derived from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language Classical Greek] κωμῳδία kōmōidía, which is a compound either of κῶμο ...y] is defined by dark humor that makes light of so-called dark or [[evil]] elements in human nature. Similarly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_humor scat
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• Transcripts
  ...with transliteration, due to a common journalistic [[practice]] of mixing elements of both in rendering foreign names. The resulting practical transcription i ...loaned into other languages and followed their linguistic development.(In "classical" Greek of Aristotle's time, lower-case letters were not used, and the name
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• Memorization
  ...visualisation]], seeing in one's [[mind's eye]] an image that includes two elements in the list that are next to each other. One could [[imagine]] a dog inside ...ci The Method of loci], a [[technique]] for memorizing [[practiced]] since classical [[antiquity]] which is a type of mnemonic link system based on places (loci
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• Exoticism
  ...outlining and flattening space that created a [[distortion]] of classical elements. Olympia is provocative in her [[nudity]] that implies she is naked, not nu
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• Climax
  ...prose work of [[fiction]], the '''climax''' often resembles that of the [[classical]] comedy, occurring near the end of the [[text]] or [[performance]], after A climax includes three elements. The most important element is that the protagonist [[experiences]] a [[cha
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