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Mead, George Herbert

(Encyclopedia)Mead, George Herbert mēd [key], 1863–1931, American philosopher and psychologist, b. South Hadley, Mass., grad. Oberlin, 1883, and Harvard, 1888, and studied in Leipzig and Berlin. He taught at the...

langue d'oc and langue d'oïl

(Encyclopedia)langue d'oc dôēlˈ [key], names of the two principal groups of medieval French dialects. Langue d'oc (literally, “language of yes”) was spoken south of a line running, roughly, from Bordeaux to ...

COBOL

(Encyclopedia)COBOL: see programming language. ...

FORTRAN

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Pascal

(Encyclopedia)Pascal: see programming language. ...

LISP

(Encyclopedia)LISP: see programming language.

landsmaal

(Encyclopedia)landsmaal: see Norwegian language. ...

kinesics

(Encyclopedia)kinesics: see body language.

Plattdeutsch

(Encyclopedia)Plattdeutsch: see German language. ...

BASIC

(Encyclopedia)BASIC: see programming language. ...