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category, in taxonomy

(Encyclopedia)category, in taxonomy: see classification. ...

order

(Encyclopedia)order, in taxonomy: see classification. ...

Common Weights and Measures (table)

(Encyclopedia)Common Weights and Measures Length Area Volume and Capacity (Liquid and Dry) Weight (Mass) ...

iconography

(Encyclopedia)iconography īˌkŏnŏgˈrəfē [key] [Gr.,=image-drawing] or iconology [Gr.,=image-study], in art history, the study and interpretation of figural representations, either individual or symbolic, reli...

Hamitic languages

(Encyclopedia)Hamitic languages, subfamily of the Hamito-Semitic family of languages, a now-abandoned system of classification for languages of N Africa and SW Asia. The Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, and (sometimes) ...

subspecies

(Encyclopedia)subspecies, also called race, a genetically distinct geographical subunit of a species. See also classification. ...

spectral class

(Encyclopedia)CE5 spectral class, in astronomy, a classification of the stars by their spectrum and luminosity. In 1885, E. C. Pickering began the first extensive attempt to classify the stars spectroscopically....

Fabricius, Johan Christian

(Encyclopedia)Fabricius, Johan Christian yōhănˈ krĭsˈtyän fäbrēˈsyo͝os [key], 1745–1808, Danish entomologist. Influenced by the methods of Linnaeus, under whom he studied, he devised a system of classif...

language

(Encyclopedia)language, systematic communication by vocal symbols. It is a universal characteristic of the human species. Nothing is known of its origin, although scientists have identified a gene that clearly cont...

atonality

(Encyclopedia)atonality āˌtōnălˈĭtē [key], in music, systematic avoidance of harmonic or melodic reference to tonal centers (see key). The term is used to designate a method of composition in which the compo...