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71aspect ratio — 1. Aeron. the ratio of the span of an airfoil to its mean chord. 2. Television. the ratio of the width of an image to its height, usually the ratio 4 to 3. 3. Naval Archit. the ratio of the height of a rudder to its fore and aft length. 4.… …
72pipestem — /puyp stem /, n. 1. the stem of a tobacco pipe. 2. something resembling this in slenderness, as an unusually thin arm or leg. [1720 30, Amer.; PIPE1 + STEM1] * * * …
73slender — slenderly, adv. slenderness, n. /slen deuhr/, adj., slenderer, slenderest. 1. having a circumference that is small in proportion to the height or length: a slender post. 2. thin or slight; light and graceful: slender youths. 3. small in size,… …
74tenuity — /teuh nooh i tee, nyooh , te /, n. 1. the state of being tenuous. 2. slenderness. 3. thinness of consistency; rarefied condition. [1525 35; < L tenuitas thinness, equiv. to tenui(s) (see TENUIS) + tas TY2] * * * …
75thread — threader, n. threadless, adj. threadlike, adj. /thred/, n. 1. a fine cord of flax, cotton, or other fibrous material spun out to considerable length, esp. when composed of two or more filaments twisted together. 2. twisted filaments or fibers of… …
76Greco, El — orig. Doménikos Theotokópoulos born 1541, Candia, Crete died April 7, 1614, Toledo, Spain Cretan born Spanish painter, the first great master of Spanish painting. Documentation on his early life is limited, but it is known that he was in Venice с …
77Southeast Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. The classical literatures of Southeast Asia can be divided into three major regions: the Sanskrit region of… …
78Maillart, Robert — ▪ Swiss engineer born Feb. 6, 1872, Bern, Switz. died April 5, 1940, Geneva Swiss bridge engineer whose radical use of reinforced concrete revolutionized masonry arch bridge design. After studying at the Swiss Federal Institute of… …
79Sarah Bernhardt: My Double Life — ▪ Primary Source The French actress Sarah Bernhardt made an indelible mark on the 19th century stage, though she was not particularly considered a natural. Yet at some point she became the actress against whom all others were… …
80Luis de Morales — Luis de Morales † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Luis de Morales Spanish painter, b. at Badajoz in Estremadura about 1509; d. at Badajoz, 1586. His life was spent in painting devotional subjects for churches and oratories. Painting was for… …
