Términos

Single-edged knives or short swords used by Saxon and Anglo-Saxon people during the Early Middle Ages. The shape and construction of this weapon varies widely; continental versions have a curved blunt edge while those found in England are straight-backed, with an angled point.

Bugles de válvulas introducidos por Adolphe Sax en 1843 en París y patentados por él en 1845, de un diámetro interior moderadamente cónico y con una campana de tamaño mediano; construídos en nueve diferentes tamaños desde el sopranino al contrabajo, han conservado su popularidad como instrumentos de banda hasta hoy en día.

Order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, consisting of 16 families, 112 genera, and nearly 2,500 species, encompassing a wide variety of plant types distributed throughout the world, including shrubs and trees, rock-garden plants, familiar garden ornamentals, and bushes that yield currants and gooseberries. It belongs to the core eudicots, and, although its phylogenetic position is not well resolved, it is probably sister to the Rosid group in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II botanical classification system.

Instrumento de música de metal de la familia de los saxofones con un rango más o menos análogo a la voz de barítono. Tiene orificios cónicos y es de una sola lengüeta.

Instrumentos de lengüeta sencilla, comúnmente de bronce, con amplio diámetro interior cónico, una campana de contorno ligeramente expandido y construídos en varios tamaños desde el sopranino al contrabajo; todos menos los dos más pequeños se curvan hacia atrás en forma de U con la campana inclinada hacia adelante.

Refers to the culture of a Germanic people who in the early centuries of the Christian era lived in the area of modern Schleswig and along the Baltic coast, and who occupied Germany and the coasts of Gaul and Britain during the 5th and 6th centuries.

Nationality or culture of the kingdom of Saxony, the Prussian province of Saxony, or the state of Saxony in the German Democratic Republic, until 1952 when it was replaced as an administrative district by Leipzig, Karl-Marx-Stadt, and Dresden. For the ancient Saxon culture, use "Saxon (historical culture or style)."

Usese generalmente para cordófonos pulsados tipo laúd, del Caúcaso, Irán y las culturas islámicas del sudeste de Europa y Asia Menor, que tienen un mástil largo con trastes movibles, un cuerpo pequeño en forma de pera y un número variable de cuerdas.

Se refiere a las fachadas de edificios de escenarios de antiguos teatros griegos y romanos.

Graduated series of tones ascending or descending in order of pitch by fixed intervals; such a series used as the basis of musical composition.

Order containing 17 species in one family, characterized as slender animals with long tails and soft gray or brown fur, with tterrestrial species larger than the arboreal forms with larger claws, which they use for digging up insect prey.

Rare-earth metallic element having symbol Sc and atomic number 21. Scandium is a soft, silvery-white metal which does not tarnish in air. It was discovered in 1879 but predicted a decade earlier and given its initial name, ekaboron.

Electron microscopes designed for directly studying the surfaces of solid objects, utilizing a beam of focused electrons of relatively low energy as an electron probe that is scanned in a regular manner over the specimen. An electrical signal is obtained by collecting and amplifying secondary electrons emitted by the specimen and is applied to a cathode-ray tube scanned in synchronism with the electron beam.

Electon scanning microscopy using a focused beam.

Se refiere al estilo y movimiento en la literatura y arte italianos que florecieron en Milan entre 1860 y 1870. El estilo está basado en una enérgica rebelión contra los valores y la complacencia de la clase media. Pintores que trabajan en este estilo, como Filippo Carcano, Eugenio Gignous, y Luigi Conconi, enfatizan los contornos suavizados, pincelada abierta, empaste, una fusión evocativa de figura y fondo, y una interacción de colores que ejemplifican el movimiento filosófico de fusión de las artes. Trabajos tempranos en este estilo privilegian el retrato de figuras de la nobleza o literarias, mientras las obras posteriores en este estilo sirvieron como un preludio a las obras del Simbolismo.

One of a group of rock forming minerals composed of silicates of calcium, sodium and aluminum. Marialite, meionite, ekbergite are members of the scapolite group.

Family containing around 30,000 species of beetles characterized as being stout-bodied, having bright metallic colors, clubbed antennae, and front legs are broad and adapted for digging. The family includes the scarab, species Scarabaeus sacer, considered sacred in ancient Egypt.

Genus containing several species of Old World dung beetle, including the scarab, species Scarabaeus sacer, considered sacred in ancient Egypt.