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  • 21Arnolfo di Cambio — • Sometimes called di Lapo, the principal master of Italian Gothic, b. at Florence, about 1232 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Arnolfo di Cambio     Arnolfo di Cambio   …

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  • 22abrupt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. sudden, precipitate, short, curt; steep, precipitous, sheer; sudden or sharp (turn, etc.); jerky. See instantaneity.Ant., gradual. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [ Said of things, usually landscape ] Syn …

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  • 23precipitous — pre cip·i·tous || prɪ sɪpɪtÉ™s adj. very steep, having a high degree of inclination, nearly vertical, sheer …

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  • 24approach slope ratio — The ratio of horizontal to vertical distance indicating the degree of inclination of the approach surface …

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  • 25steep — steep1 [stēp] adj. [ME < OE steap, lofty, high, akin to OFris steep, MHG stouf, cliff (as in Ger Hohenstaufen) < IE * steup < base * (s)teu , to strike, butt > STOCK, STUB, L tundere, to strike] 1. having a sharp rise or highly… …

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  • 26Line moiré — is one type of moiré pattern; a pattern that appears when superposing two transparent layers containing correlated opaque patterns. Line moiré is the case when the superposed patterns comprise straight or curved lines. When moving the layer… …

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  • 27Earth's magnetic field — Computer simulation of the Earth s field in a normal period between reversals.[1] The tubes represent magnetic field lines, blue when the field points towards the center and yellow when away. The rotation axis of the Earth is centered and… …

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  • 28Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …

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  • 29education — /ej oo kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of… …

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  • 30Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …

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