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• Derivative
  #[[Imitative]] of the work of someone else #A word that derives from another one.
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• Lubrication
  ...e]] generated) between the [[opposing]] surfaces. The interposed lubricant film can be a solid, (e.g. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite graphite], Mo ...]]al viscous [[resistance]] to [[motion]] of the lubricating fluid between the surfaces.
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• Oxford Companion to American Military History
  ...ordreference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t126 '''''The Oxford Companion to American Military History'''''] ...lt is the widest ranging account compiled in one volume of war, peace, and the U.S. military.
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• Panorama
  ...awing, photography, film/video, or a three-dimensional [[model]]. Further, the motion-picture term, pan or panning, is derived from "panorama". ...face and viewed from the inside, they were exhibited in London in 1792 as "The Panorama".
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• Noise
  ...ever, noise is still considered to be [[information]]. In a broader sense, film grain or even advertisements encountered while looking for something else c Noise can block, distort, change or interfere with the [[meaning]] of a message in both [[human]] and electronic [[communication]]
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• Property
  ...other individuals or groups, assuring the owner the right to dispense with the property in a [[manner]] he or she sees fit. Some [[philosophers]] assert t ...is any property that is not public property. Private property may be under the control of a single individual or by a group of individuals [[collective]]l
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• Editor
  :'''One who edits''' ...mity]] to a standard or to suit a particular [[purpose]] <carefully edited the [[speech]]> <edit a data file>
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• Bathos
  *1a : the sudden appearance of the commonplace in otherwise elevated matter or [[style]] : The serious [[message]] of the [[film]] is ruined by the ''bathos'' of its ridiculous ending.
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• Biography
  *3: an account of the life of something (as an [[animal]], a coin, or a building) ...ing [[intimate]] details of experience, and may include an [[analysis]] of the subject's [[personality]].
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• Support
  *I. The action of supporting. :1. a. The [[action]], or an act, of preventing a [[person]] from giving way, backing
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• Fine art
  ...]] (as [[painting]], [[sculpture]], or [[music]]) concerned primarily with the creation of [[beautiful]] objects —usually used in plural '''Fine art''' or the fine arts, from the 17th century on, denote art forms developed primarily for [[aesthetics]] an
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• Chants
  ...e_Ages Middle Ages] some religious chant evolved into song (forming one of the roots of later Western music).[2] Chanting (e.g., [[mantra]], sacred [[text]], the name of [[God]]/Spirit, etc.) is a commonly used [[spiritual]] [[practice]]
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• Crop Circles
  ..., rye, or corn, and the term itself Crop circle is a new term that entered the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] in 1990. ...uch as the circlemakers arts [[collective]][2] founded by John Lundberg in the early 1990s.
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• Mime
  :b : one that practices mime *4: pantomime - the art or [[genre]] of conveying a [[story]] by bodily movements only
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• Naked
  ...ng or subtending parts d : lacking foliage or vegetation e of an animal or one of its parts : lacking an external covering (as of hair, feathers, or shell *7 : unaided by any optical device or instrument <the naked eye>
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• Laboratory
  ...a laboratory for testing, experimentation, or practice <the laboratory of the [[mind]]> .... The title of laboratory is also used for certain other facilities where the [[processes]] or equipment used are similar to those in scientific laborato
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• Image
  ...ic as to suggest a mental image or give an accurate [[idea]] of something <the book gives a detailed picture of what is happening> *3 : image, [[copy]] <he was the picture of his [[father]]> <she was the very picture of [[health]]>
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• Genre
  ..."sort" is a loose set of criteria for a category of literary composition; the term is also used for any other [[Art#Art forms|form of art]] or [[utteranc ...ther, all works are recognized as either reflecting on or participating in the conventions of genre.
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• Teleportation
  ...terial objects between one place and another without physically traversing the [[distance]] between them has been documented as early as 1878. ...(meaning "to carry"). Fort's first formal use of the [[word]] occurred in the second chapter of his 1931 book [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo! ''Lo!'']
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• Speed
  <center>For lessons on the related [[topic]] of '''''[[Acceleration]]''''', follow [https://nordan.day ...m_Earth_to_Moon.gif‎|center|frame|<center>Speed of light from [[Earth]] to the Moon.</center>]]
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