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  2. List of stock characters - Wikipedia

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    A stock character, popular in 16th-century Spanish literature, who is comically and shockingly vulgar. Clarín, the clown in Life is a dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, is a gracioso. Examples of similar characters in Anglophone culture include: Bubbles in the television series Trailer Park Boys

  3. Bimodality - Wikipedia

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    Bimodality is the simultaneous use of two distinct pitch collections. It is more general than bitonality since the "scales" involved need not be traditional scales; if diatonic collections are involved, their pitch centers need not be the familiar major and minor-scale tonics.

  4. Stars in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Stars as sentient beings, in one form or another, is a recurring theme. [1] [2] [3] [27] Anthropomorphized, thinking stars appear in Olaf Stapledon's 1937 novel Star Maker and Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson's Starchild trilogy consisting of the 1964 novel The Reefs of Space, the 1965 novel Starchild, and the 1969 novel Rogue Star.

  5. Buchdahl's theorem - Wikipedia

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    Evolution of central pressure against compactness (radius over mass) for a uniform density 'star'. This central pressure diverges at the Buchdahl bound. In general relativity , Buchdahl's theorem , named after Hans Adolf Buchdahl , [ 1 ] makes more precise the notion that there is a maximal sustainable density for ordinary gravitating matter.

  6. Uniform polyhedron - Wikipedia

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    Example forms from the cube and octahedron. The convex uniform polyhedra can be named by Wythoff construction operations on the regular form. In more detail the convex uniform polyhedron are given below by their Wythoff construction within each symmetry group. Within the Wythoff construction, there are repetitions created by lower symmetry forms.

  7. Unimodality - Wikipedia

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    Other examples of unimodal distributions include Cauchy distribution, Student's t-distribution, chi-squared distribution and exponential distribution. Among discrete distributions, the binomial distribution and Poisson distribution can be seen as unimodal, though for some parameters they can have two adjacent values with the same probability.

  8. Shape of a probability distribution - Wikipedia

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    A bimodal distribution would have two high points rather than one. The shape of a distribution is sometimes characterised by the behaviours of the tails (as in a long or short tail). For example, a flat distribution can be said either to have no tails, or to have short tails.

  9. Literary genre - Wikipedia

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    A literary genre is a category of literature.Genres may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or length (especially for fiction).They generally move from more abstract, encompassing classes, which are then further sub-divided into more concrete distinctions. [1]