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121Common Core — This article is about a program of the University of Chicago. For the new U.S. education standards, see Common Core State Standards Initiative. The Common Core (also core curriculum or the Core) is the University of Chicago s implementation of… …
122Place of articulation — In articulatory phonetics, the place of articulation (also point of articulation) of a consonant is the point of contact, where an obstruction occurs in the vocal tract between an active (moving) articulator (typically some part of the tongue)… …
123Place names of Hong Kong — The generic forms of place names of Hong Kong are mainly, but not limited to Cantonese, Hakka and British English.Majority of generic forms are suffix such as Chung in Kwai Chung. Some indicators of ordering and direction could be as prefix, like …
124Common logarithms — Logarithm Log a*rithm (l[o^]g [.a]*r[i^][th] m), n. [Gr. lo gos word, account, proportion + ariqmo s number: cf. F. logarithme.] (Math.) One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550 1617), to abridge… …
125Common time — Time Time, n.; pl. {Times}. [OE. time, AS. t[=i]ma, akin to t[=i]d time, and to Icel. t[=i]mi, Dan. time an hour, Sw. timme. [root]58. See {Tide}, n.] 1. Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms… …
126Common misunderstandings of genetics — “ Indeed there is a popular dogma that is reinforced daily in the media and, it must be said, by many scientists that rests on a crude mistake... André Pichot has called this DNA mania.[1] ” …
127Common English usage misconceptions — Text from Robert Louis Stevenson s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as it would appear in a professionally published edition in the United States today, featuring one sentence paragraphs, sentences beginning with the conjunctions but and and …
128Common Resource — A resource, such as water or pasture, that provides users with tangible benefits. A major concern with common resources is overuse, especially when there are poor social management systems in place to protect the core resource. Common resources… …
