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  2. Elaboration - Wikipedia

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    Elaborate Bytes, the Swiss software development company behind CloneDVD; The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, a 2009 play by Kristoffer Diaz; Operation Elaborate, the codename of the 2022 iSpoof fraud investigation; Elaborative interrogation, the use of explanations to help remember information; Elaborative encoding, a different mnemonic system

  3. Rube Goldberg machine - Wikipedia

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    The term "Rube Goldberg" was being used in print to describe elaborate contraptions by 1928, [2] and appeared in the Random House Dictionary of the English Language in 1966 meaning "having a fantastically complicated improvised appearance", or "deviously complex and impractical". [3]

  4. Giving dap - Wikipedia

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    Elaborate examples of dap are observed as a pregame ritual performed by many teams in the National Basketball Association, [2] serving as a means of psychological preparation and team solidarity. Some find the sound produced by a 'dap handshake' pleasurable, so will repeat the gesture until they get a "clean sound."

  5. Reredos - Wikipedia

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    Reredos depicting the Immaculate Conception.Portuguese, 17th century. Santarém, Portugal. A reredos (/ ˈ r ɪər ˌ d ɒ s, ˈ r ɪər ɪ-, ˈ r ɛ r ɪ-/ REER-dos, REER-ih-, RERR-ih-) is a large altarpiece, a screen, or decoration placed behind the altar in a church.

  6. Nomenclature - Wikipedia

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    The word name is possibly derived from the Proto-Indo-European language hypothesised word nomn. [27] The distinction between names and nouns, if made at all, is extremely subtle, [28] although clearly noun refers to names as lexical categories and their function within the context of language, [29] rather that as "labels" for objects and ...

  7. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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    This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.

  8. Skeuomorph - Wikipedia

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    A similar alternative definition of skeuomorph is "a physical ornament or design on an object made to resemble another material or technique". [citation needed] This definition is broader in scope, as it can be applied to design elements that still serve the same function as they did in a previous design.

  9. Glossary of history - Wikipedia

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    Also eon. age Age of Discovery Also called the Age of Exploration. The time period between approximately the late 15th century and the 17th century during which seafarers from various European polities traveled to, explored, and charted regions across the globe which had previously been unknown or unfamiliar to Europeans and, more broadly, during which previously isolated human populations ...