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A curve or surface the locus of a point whose cooumlrdinates are the variables in the equation of the locus as a graph of the exponential function...
pornography
pornography : material that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual excitement NOTE: Pornographic material is protected expression unless it is determined to be obscene. However, child pornography is illegal under federal and state laws prohibiting the depiction of minors in sexual acts. por·nog·ra·pher [pȯr-nÄ -grə-fər] n por·no·graph·ic [pȯr-nə-gra-fik] adj por·no·graph·i·cal·ly adv ...
holograph
holograph [Late Latin holographus, from Late Greek holographos, from Greek holos whole, complete + graphein to write] : a document (as a will or a deed) entirely in the handwriting of the person whose act it purports to be ho·lo·graph·ic [hō-lə-gra-fik, hÄ -] adj ...
olograph
olograph : holograph olo·graph·ic [ō-lə-gra-fik, Ä -] adj ...
polygraph
polygraph : an instrument that records physiological pulsations ;esp : lie detector poly·graph·ic [pÄ -lē-gra-fik] adj ...
graph
A suffix signifying something written as in digraph a writing also a writer or an instrument that produces a written or visible record of a measurement such as a spectrograph as autograph crystograph telegraph photograph...
main sequence
That region on a two dimensional graph of luminosity versus temperature for stars the Herzsprung Russel diagram which runs from high temperature and high luminosity to low temperature and low luminosity in which most of the stars plotted as points on the diagram are found A normal star such as the earths sun will spend most of its time over billions of years within this region of temperature and luminosity as it progressively converts more of its original hydrogen into heavier elements After the hydrogen is consumed a star may become a red giant or evolve into other types of star not within the main sequence region...
Cinematograph film
Cinematograph film, a 'cinematograph film' is to be taken to include the sounds embodied in a sound track which is associated with the film. S. 13 of the Copyright Act,1957 recognises 'cinemato-graph film' as a distinct and separate class of 'work' and declares that copyright shall subsist therein throughout India, Indian performing Right Society Ltd. v. Eastern India Motion Picture Association (1977) 2 SCC 820: (1977) 3 SCR 206: AIR 1977 SC 1443 (1450).Includes any apparatus for the representation of moving pictures or series of pictures. (Cinematograph Act, 1952, s. 2)Means any work of visual recording on any medium produced through a process from which a moving image maybe produced by any means and includes a sound recording accompanying such visual recording and 'cinematograph' shall be construed as including any work produced by any process analogous to cinematography including video films. [Copyright Act, 1957 (14 of 1957), s. 2 (f)]...
Entertainments amusements
Entertainments amusements, the words 'enter-tainments' and 'amusements' are wide enough to include theatres, dramatic performances, cinemas, sports and the like, Y.V. Srinivasamurthy v. State of Mysore, AIR 1959 SC 894. [Karnataka Cinemato-graph Shows Tax Act, 1951 (16 of 1951), s. 3]...
Pandect', or Digesta
Pandect', or Digesta. In the last month of the year AD 530, Justinian, by a constitution addressed to Tribonian, empowered him to name a commission for the purpose of forming a code out of the writings of those jurists who had enjoyed the Jus respondendi, or, as it is expressed by the emperor, 'antiquorum prudentium quibus auctoritatem conscribendarum interpretandarumque legum sacratissimi principes pr'buerunt.' The compilation, however, comprises extracts from some writers of the republican period, Const. Deo Auctore. Ten years were allowed for the completion of the work. The instructions of the emperor were, to select what was useful, to omit what was antiquated or superfluous, to avoid unnecessary repetitions, to get rid of contradictions, and to make such other changes as should produce out of the mass of ancient juristical writings a useful and complete body of law (jus Antiquum);--the work was to be named Digesta, a Latin term indicating an arrangement of materials; or Pandect', ...
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