Términos

Institutions that maintain facilities for the presentation of dramatic performances to spectators.

Receptacles of various types that contain holy relics. Usage has varied over time. In modern usage, the term refers to relatively small disc-shaped, glass-faced metal receptacles for relics, often designed so that they may be inserted into reliquary monstrances. In Early Christian usage, the term referred to cells or openings dug into walls to hold the corpse. For discs or clips that secure a host in a monstrance, use "lunettes (monstrance clips)."

Genus containing around 20 species of small understory trees native to the tropical forests of Central and South America.

Species of tree native to tropical America, from which cocoa and chocolate are prepared.

Educational institutions providing education in theology and religious history, primarily, but not exclusively, to prepare students for jobs as priests, ministers, or church workers; usually sponsored or controlled by a church or other religious organization. For buildings that house schools devoted especially to the training of rabbis, use "rabbinical seminaries."

Ancient Egyptian sculptures depicting a standing or kneeling male figure proffering a divine effigy.

Pinturas en tela, a menudo terciopelo o papel, producidas por medio del estarcido; frecuentemente naturalezas muertas de frutas o flores; popular en el siglo XIX.

La forma del budismo practicado en los países sudasiaticos de Sri Lanka, Burma, Camboya. Tailandia y Laos. Su doctrina, relativamente inalterada desde el siglo III a.C., se basa en la "tipitaka" o canon Pali y consiste en una interpretación conservadora de las enseñanzas de Buda. La mayor distinción de Theravada del posterior mahayana es el rechazo a los bodhisattvas. Mientras que el objetivo final del Theravada es convertirse en un "santo perfecto" o "arhat", los creyentes laicos no pueden alcanzar la iluminación verdadera. La verdadera iluminación es solo capturada por los religiosos y cuando estas son imposibles de comprender se recurre al Buddha.

Instrumento electrónico que se toca con la mano del intérprete hacia adelante y hacia atrás a diferentes distancias desde una antena que se eleva verticalmente desde el instrumento; el tono del tono único producido varía con la distancia de la mano a la antena.

Grouping of mammals including all placental and marsupial mammals, characterized by having mammary glands with nipples, functional teeth, oviducts that are partly fused, may have a cloaca, and having a uterus and vagina, giving birth to live young (viviparous).

Medicinal concoction of varying ingredients, usually a fermentation of herbs and other ingredients. It was used as an antidote to poison and bites of venomous serpents. First known by the Greeks in the 1st century CE; widely adopted in the ancient world in Europe, China, and India through trade along the the Silk Road.

In polymer science, refers to the molecular deterioration of polymers caused by overheating.

Method of ionizing atoms with low ionization potentials for use in mass spectrometry by contact with the heated surface of a metal.

The eleventh month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending (in 1794) from July 19 to August 17.

Nombre comercial para un método no tóxico de erradicación de insectos que utiliza un sistema basado en microprocesador. Se enfoca en la susceptibilidad de los insectos a temperaturas elevadas mientras mantiene el contenido de humedad y las dimensiones de los materiales orgánicos estables durante el calentamiento. En conservación es utilizado para la erradicación de carcoma y polillas en arte y antigüedades.

The branch of chemistry that deals with the amounts of heat evolved or absorbed in chemical reactions and physical change of state.

Electricity produced by the direct action of heat, especially in a closed circuit made of two dissimilar metals heated unequally, through two related mechanisms, the Peltier effect and the Seebeck effect.