General science

General science

A variety of science subjects concerning the fundamental knowledge about different aspects of our world and their underlying principles.

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Normal (mathematics)

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A term generically synonymous with perpendicular, which often refers specifically to a line that goes through a point P of a curve C and is perpendicular to the tangent to C at P . If a plane ...

A term characterising an excitation in a wave or field, connoting fundamental particlelike properties such as energy or mass, momentum, and angular momentum for this excitation. In general, any field ...

Infection

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A term considered by some to mean the entrance, growth, and multiplication of a microorganism (pathogen) in the body of a host, resulting in the establishment of a disease process. Others define ...

Mean effective pressure

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A term commonly used in the evaluation for positive-displacement machinery performance which expresses the average net pressure difference in pounds per square inch (lb/in. 2 or psi) on the two ...

Illuminance

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A term expressing the density of luminous flux incident on a surface. This word has been proposed by the Colorimetry Committee of the Optical Society of America to replace the term illumination. ...

Life forms of plants

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A term for the vegetative (morphological) form of the plant body. A related term is growth form but a theoretical distinction is often made: life form is thought by some to represent a basic genetic ...

Speech perception

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A term broadly used to refer to how an individual understands what others are saying. More narrowly, speech perception is viewed as the way a listener can interpret the sound that a speaker produces ...