Angola, country located in southwestern Africa. A large country, Angola takes in a broad variety of landscapes, including the semidesert Atlantic littoral bordering Namibia’s “Skeleton Coast,” the sparsely populated rainforest interior, the rugged highlands of the south, the Cabinda exclave in the

Angola, country located in southwestern Africa. A large country, Angola takes in a broad variety of landscapes, including the semidesert Atlantic littoral bordering Namibia’s “Skeleton Coast,” the sparsely populated rainforest interior, the rugged highlands of the south, the Cabinda exclave in the

Angola: The arts: …Portugal drove much of this literary activity underground after 1926 but failed to destroy it altogether. Although the leader of the MPLA at independence, Agostinho Neto, was renowned throughout the Portuguese-speaking world for his poetry, his government too curtailed artistic freedom, implementing a rigorous system of censorship. Additional artistic outlets…

Angola: Relief: The Bié Plateau to the east of Benguela forms a rough quadrilateral of land above the 5,000-foot (1,500-metre) mark, culminating at about 8,600 feet (2,600 metres) and covering about one-tenth of the country’s surface. The Malanje highlands in the north-central part of the country are less…

Angola: Labour and taxation: …rural women, belong to the Organization of Angolan Women, which was founded in the 1960s and has established literacy and social programs. National revenue is derived from taxes on income and on petroleum.

Sao Tome and Principe: Ethnic groups: Another group, the Angolares, descended from formerly enslaved Angolans who were shipwrecked on São Tomé about 1540. The Angolares remained apart in the isolated southern zone of São Tomé island until the late 19th century, but they later spread throughout the country and became largely assimilated. Cabo Verdeans…

Ngoni, approximately 12 groups of people of the Nguni (q.v.) branch of Bantu-speaking peoples that are scattered throughout eastern Africa. Their dispersal was due to the rise of the Zulu empire early in the 19th century, during which many refugee bands moved away from Zululand. One Ngoni chief,

Tete: …climate and soils of the Angonia Highlands favour some cattle raising and the cultivation of cassava and sorghum. Pop. (2007 prelim.) 152,909.

longhair, breed of domestic cat noted for its long, soft, flowing coat. Long-haired cats were originally known as Persians or Angoras. These names were later discarded in favour of the name longhair, although the cats are still commonly called Persians in the United States. The longhair, a

Ankara, city, capital of Turkey, situated in the northwestern part of the country. It lies about 125 miles (200 km) south of the Black Sea, near the confluence of the Hatip, İnce Su, and Çubek streams. While the date of the city’s foundation is uncertain, archaeological evidence indicates

Angora goat, breed of domestic goat originating in ancient times in the district of Angora in Asia Minor. The goat’s silky coat yields the mohair of commerce. The Angora had been widely but unsuccessfully imported into Europe by the mid-18th century, but not until the animal was established in

rabbit hair: …animal fibre obtained from the Angora rabbit and the various species of the common rabbit. Rabbits have coats consisting of both long, protective guard hairs and a fine insulating undercoat.

Battle of Ankara, military confrontation on July 20, 1402, in which forces of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I, “the Thunderbolt,” victor at the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396, were defeated by those of the Turkic ruler Timur (Tamerlane). Bayezid’s humiliating loss came close to destroying the Ottoman

Ciudad Bolívar, city, capital of Bolívar estado (state), southeastern Venezuela. It lies on a small hill on the south bank of the Orinoco River, opposite Soledad on the north. Its elevation ranges from 85 to 246 feet (26 to 75 metres) above sea level; the average annual temperature is in the

Port of Spain: Angostura aromatic bitters, a popular ingredient in cocktails, is produced only in Port of Spain, its formula a closely guarded secret. Technical institutes train workers for various industries. Port of Spain is linked by good roads with other parts of Trinidad. The port has a…

Ciudad Guayana: The Angostura Bridge (completed 1967) across the Orinoco at Ciudad Bolívar (67 miles west of Ciudad Guayana) is an important link between the Guiana region and the rest of the country. Ciudad Guayana also has forestry, diamond mining, refractory brick, and paper and pulp enterprises and…

Cheyenne River: Angostura Dam (impounding Angostura Reservoir), finished in 1949 as part of the Missouri River basin irrigation and flood-control project, is on the Cheyenne River near Hot Springs, South Dakota. The Cheyenne joins the Missouri at Lake Oahe, one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the…

Battle of Buena Vista, (Feb. 22–23, 1847), battle fought near Monterrey, Mex., in the Mexican-American War (1846–48), the war between the United States and Mexico. A U.S. army of about 5,000 men under General Zachary Taylor had invaded northeastern Mexico, taking Monterrey and Saltillo. General

Angoulême, city, capital of Charente département, Nouvelle-Aquitaine région, former capital of Angoumois, southwestern France. It lies on a high plateau above the junction of the Charente and Anguienne rivers, southwest of Limoges. Taken from the Visigoths by Clovis in 507, it was the seat of the

Angoulême Dynasty, (reigned 1515–74), a branch of the Valois dynasty (q.v.) in

Charles de Valois, duke d’Angoulême was an illegitimate son of King Charles IX of France and Marie Touchet, chiefly remembered for his intrigues against King Henry IV and for his later military exploits, particularly as commander at the siege of La Rochelle in 1627. Received favourably at the

Charles, duc d’Orléans was King Francis I’s favourite son and a noted campaigner, who twice took Luxembourg from the Holy Roman emperor Charles V’s forces (1542 and 1543). There were plans for marrying him to a Habsburg princess who would bring him either Milan or part of the Netherlands as a

Diane De France was the natural daughter (legitimated) of King Henry II of France by a young Piedmontese, Filippa Duc. (Diane was often thought, however, to have been the illegitimate daughter of Diane de Poitiers.) She was known for her culture and intelligence as well as for her beauty and for

Angoulême: The Land of Angoulême was the name given to the site of present-day New York City in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, who discovered the harbour while serving King Francis I, who was also count of Angoulême. Angoulême’s 19th-century town hall occupies the site of the…

Louis-Antoine de Bourbon, duke d’Angoulême was the last dauphin of France and a prominent figure in the restoration of the Bourbon line after the defeat of Napoleon in 1814. Angoulême was the elder son of the comte d’Artois (afterward Charles X of France) and Marie Thérèse of Savoy. When the

France: Louis XIII: …to power by negotiating the Treaty of Angoulême (1619), which reconciled Louis XIII to his mother. After the death in 1621 of Louis’s favourite, Charles d’Albert, duc de Luynes, Richelieu regained effective power; he became a cardinal in 1622 and in April 1624 gained access to Louis XIII’s council. On…

Angoumois, former province of France, nearly corresponding to the modern département of Charente, that represented the possessions of the counts of Angoulême from the 10th to the 12th century. Long part of Aquitaine, it was recovered by France from the English in 1373. Henry IV subordinated it to

gelechiid moth: The whitish larvae of the Angoumois grain moth (Sitotroga cerealella) attack both stored and growing grains, hollowing out the insides of kernels. The gray-coloured adult has blackish spots and a wingspan of about 12 mm (about 12 inch).

Angra do Heroísmo, city and concelho (municipality) on the south coast of Terceira, an island of the Azores archipelago of Portugal in the North Atlantic Ocean. It lies at the base of Mount Brasil. Angra became a city in 1534. The words do heroísmo commemorate the island’s resistance to invading

Angra do Heroísmo, city and concelho (municipality) on the south coast of Terceira, an island of the Azores archipelago of Portugal in the North Atlantic Ocean. It lies at the base of Mount Brasil. Angra became a city in 1534. The words do heroísmo commemorate the island’s resistance to invading

Angra dos Reis, city and port, southwestern Rio de Janeiro estado (state), eastern Brazil. It lies on Ilha Grande Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean. The city’s income derives from its port operations, a sizable fishing industry, and the flow of weekend and holiday tourists drawn to nearby beaches

Brazil: Power: Angra I, opened in 1982 near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil’s second nuclear reactor, Angra II, began operating in 2000. In 1984 the Itaipú hydroelectric complex, the world’s largest power station at its completion, began operating on the Alto Paraná River between Brazil and Paraguay. Dozens…

Angra Mainyu, the evil, destructive spirit in the dualistic doctrine of Zoroastrianism. According to the earliest version of the myth, he is the twin brother of Spenta Mainyu, the Holy Spirit, and both were the sons of Ahura Mazdā (Ormizd or Ormazd), the Wise Lord and supreme deity of

Lüderitz, town on the Atlantic coast of Namibia (formerly South West Africa). The Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias stopped there in 1487 and named the bay Angra Pequena. Long neglected, it became the first German settlement in South West Africa when a Hamburg merchant, Franz Adolf Lüderitz,

raspy cricket: …a pollinator for the orchid Angraecum cadetii; it is the first orthopteran discovered to regularly pollinate flowering plants (angiosperms). The insect’s feeding behaviour, characterized by its primary dependence on nectar, seeds, and pollen, is believed to have evolved as a result of the relative shortage on the islands of arthropods,…

hawk moth: …exclusively pollinates the Madagascar orchid, Angraecum sesquipedale. The proboscis of this hawk moth is long enough to reach the nectar receptacle of the orchid, which is between 20 and 35 cm (8 and 14 inches) in length.

Angren, city, eastern Uzbekistan. It lies on the left bank of the Ohangaron River, 70 miles (115 km) east of Tashkent. The centre of the Uzbekistan coal industry, it was created in 1946 from mining settlements that had grown up in the rich Angren coal basin during World War II; it still consists of

Ingraj Bazar, city, north-central West Bengal state, northeastern India. It lies on the west bank of the Mahananda River. The city was chosen as the site of the British East India Company’s silk factories (trading stations) in 1676. The Dutch and French also had settlements there. It was

Robin Williams: In the comedy The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014), Williams portrayed a man who attempts to reconcile with friends and family following a terminal diagnosis. Boulevard (2014), in which he played a closeted gay man who befriends a male prostitute, was released after his death.

Joshua Angrist is an Israeli-American economist who, with the Dutch-American economist Guido Imbens, was awarded one-half of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Economics (the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) for his “methodological contributions to the analysis of

Joshua Angrist is an Israeli-American economist who, with the Dutch-American economist Guido Imbens, was awarded one-half of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Economics (the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) for his “methodological contributions to the analysis of

Peter Dinklage: …Angry Birds (2016) and its sequel (2019). Dinklage also appeared as Renault in a star-studded cast featuring Melissa McCarthy in The Boss (2016). In the sci-fi mystery Rememory (2017), Dinklage’s character searches for the killer of a man who invented a machine that can extract and record people’s memories. He…

Peter Dinklage: …Mighty Eagle in the animated Angry Birds (2016) and its sequel (2019). Dinklage also appeared as Renault in a star-studded cast featuring Melissa McCarthy in The Boss (2016). In the sci-fi mystery Rememory (2017), Dinklage’s character searches for the killer of a man who invented a machine that can extract…

Robert Aldrich: Early work: …the World War II films The Angry Hills (1959), with Robert Mitchum as a war correspondent, and Ten Seconds to Hell (1959), which featured Palance and Jeff Chandler as German demolitions experts. Both movies received tepid responses from critics and moviegoers.

Leon Uris: …that year his second novel, The Angry Hills, an account of the Jewish brigade from Palestine that fought with the British army in Greece, was published. Uris then wrote the screenplay for Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). His later works include Mila 18 (1961), a novel about the Jewish…

Neil Young: Later work and causes: …best rock song for “Angry World,” a track from his 2010 album Le Noise. Young teamed again with Crazy Horse to record Americana (2012), a collection of ragged covers of traditional American folk songs. He teamed with singer-guitarist Lukas Nelson (son of country star Willie Nelson) and his band…

Angry Young Men, various British novelists and playwrights who emerged in the 1950s and expressed scorn and disaffection with the established sociopolitical order of their country. Their impatience and resentment were especially aroused by what they perceived as the hypocrisy and mediocrity of the

Brahmaputra River: Physiography: …there are the Kubi, the Angsi, and the Chemayungdung. From its source the river runs for nearly 700 miles (1,100 km) in a generally easterly direction between the Great Himalayas range to the south and the Kailas Range to the north. Throughout its upper course the river is generally known…

dread, a fundamental category of existentialism. According to the 19th-century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, dread, or angst, is a desire for what one fears and is central to his conception of original sin. For the 20th-century German philosopher Martin Heidegger, anxiety is one of the distinctive

Peter Handke: …des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (1970; The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick), is an imaginative thriller about a former football (soccer) player who commits a pointless murder and then waits for the police to take him into custody. Die linkshändige Frau (1976; The Left-Handed Woman) is a dispassionate description of…

Rainer Werner Fassbinder: …Angst essen Seele auf (1973; Ali: Fear Eats the Soul), a tale of doomed romance between a German cleaning woman and a much younger Moroccan mechanic; and In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (1979; In a Year of 13 Moons), a political allegory concerning a transgender woman who confronts her…

angstrom (Å), unit of length, equal to 10−10 metre, or 0.1 nanometre. It is used chiefly in measuring wavelengths of light. (Visible light stretches from 4000 to 7000 Å.) It is named for the 19th-century Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström. The angstrom is also used to measure such quantities

Anders Jonas Ångström was a Swedish physicist, a founder of spectroscopy for whom the angstrom, a unit of length equal to 10−10 metre, was named. Ångstrom received a doctorate at Uppsala University in 1839, and he became an observer at Uppsala Observatory in 1843. He succeeded to the chairmanship

Harry Angstrom, fictional character, the protagonist of four novels by John Updike—Rabbit, Run (1960) and its sequels. Rabbit Angstrom is an ordinary middle-class man lost in the sterility of the modern world. Throughout the tetralogy, the former high-school basketball star serves as a voice for

Harry Angstrom, fictional character, the protagonist of four novels by John Updike—Rabbit, Run (1960) and its sequels. Rabbit Angstrom is an ordinary middle-class man lost in the sterility of the modern world. Throughout the tetralogy, the former high-school basketball star serves as a voice for

lizard: Annotated classification: Superfamily Anguoidea Family Anguidae (Alligator lizards, glass lizards, galliwasps, and California legless lizards) Skull arches, osteoderms present. 6 mandibular bones. Late Cretaceous to present. Most in Americas, a few Eurasian. Glass lizards (Ophisaurus) are limbless “grass swimmers” reaching 120 cm (48 in.). Alligator lizards (Gerrhonotus) and galliwasps (Diploglossus

François Anguier was a French sculptor who produced gisants and decorations for tombs, churches, palaces, and public monuments. Anguier began his training in France and, about 1641, traveled to Rome, where he is believed to have studied in the workshop of the Baroque sculptor Alessandro Algardi

Michel Anguier was a French sculptor who produced decorations for tombs, churches, palaces, and public monuments. Anguier began working as a sculptor in Eu, France, and later traveled to Paris and Rome. In Rome he was believed to have studied in the workshop of the Baroque sculptor Alessandro

Anguilla, island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, a British overseas territory. It is the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles and lies about 12 miles (19 km) north of the island of Saint Martin and 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Saint Kitts. The Valley is the principal town

Saint Kitts and Nevis: Federation and independence movements: After unsuccessful negotiations, the Anguilla Act of July 1971 placed Anguilla directly under British control. On February 10, 1976, Anguilla was granted a constitution, and its union with Saint Kitts and Nevis was formally severed in 1980.

eel: Natural history: …about 10 years in the European freshwater eel (A. anguilla) but possibly much earlier in tropical marine species. The process of growth and maturation has been most closely studied in the European freshwater eel. In this species, both sexes pass through successive phases of neutrality, precocious feminization, and juvenile hermaphroditism…

eel: Annotated classification: Family Anguillidae (freshwater eels) Scales present, gill slits ventrolateral. Important as food. 1 genus, Anguilla, with 15 species. Worldwide, but not on the Pacific coast of the Americas and South Atlantic coasts. Family Heterenchelyidae (mud eels) No fins, mouth large. 2 genera with 8 species. Tropical Atlantic.…

eel, (order Anguilliformes), any of more than 800 species of teleost fishes characterized by elongate wormlike bodies. Anguilliforms include the common freshwater eels as well as the voracious marine morays. Regardless of their final habitat, all eels probably pass through the leptocephalus stage,

eel, (order Anguilliformes), any of more than 800 species of teleost fishes characterized by elongate wormlike bodies. Anguilliforms include the common freshwater eels as well as the voracious marine morays. Regardless of their final habitat, all eels probably pass through the leptocephalus stage,

eel: Annotated classification: Suborder Anguilloidei Frontal bones of skull paired. Family Anguillidae (freshwater eels) Scales present, gill slits ventrolateral. Important as food. 1 genus, Anguilla, with 15 species. Worldwide, but not on the Pacific coast of the Americas and South Atlantic coasts. Family Heterenchelyidae

slowworm, (Anguis fragilis), a legless lizard of the family Anguidae. It lives in grassy areas and open woodlands from Great Britain and Europe eastward to the Urals and Caspian Sea. Adults reach 40 to 45 cm (16 to 18 inches) in body length, but the tail can be up to two times the length from snout

Sofonisba Anguissola was a late Renaissance painter best known for her portraiture. She was one of the first known female artists and one of the first women artists to establish an international reputation. Among female painters, she was unusual in that her father was a nobleman rather than a

angular velocity: The angular acceleration is the time rate of change of the angular velocity and is usually designated by α and expressed in radians per second per second. For the case in which the angular velocity is uniform (nonvarying), θ = ωt and α = 0. If…

aperture: …object point is called the angular aperture, which can be taken as a measure of the light-gathering power of the instrument. See also pupil; relative aperture.

chemical bonding: Molecular shapes and VSEPR theory: … in methane, CH4, or the angular arrangement of atoms in H2O.

angular velocity: …axis, or at which the angular displacement between two bodies changes. In the figure, this displacement is represented by the angle θ between a line on one body and a line on the other.

electricity: Alternating-current circuits: …ω, which is called the angular frequency, is expressed in radians per second. Figure 22 shows an example with V0 = 170 volts and ω = 377 radians per second, so that V = 170 cos(377t). The time interval required for the pattern to be repeated is called the period…

angular harp, musical instrument in which the neck forms a clear angle with the resonator, or belly; it is one of the principal varieties of the harp. The earliest-known depictions of angular harps are from Mesopotamia about 2000 bc. In Egypt, especially, and in Mesopotamia, this harp was played

magnification: Angular magnification is equal to the ratio of the tangents of the angles subtended by an object and its image when measured from a given point in the instrument, as with magnifiers and binoculars.

molding: Flat or angular: of architectural design, as follows: (1) The fascia, face, or band is a continuous member with a flat surface, parallel to the surface that it ornaments and either projecting from or slightly receding into it. (2) The fillet, listel, or regula is a relatively narrow band, usually…

angular momentum, property characterizing the rotary inertia of an object or system of objects in motion about an axis that may or may not pass through the object or system. The Earth has orbital angular momentum by reason of its annual revolution about the Sun and spin angular momentum because of

spectroscopy: Angular momentum quantum numbers: There are a set of angular momentum quantum numbers associated with the energy states of the atom. In terms of classical physics, angular momentum is a property of a body that is in orbit or is rotating about its own axis.…

principles of physical science: Conservation of angular momentum: The total angular momentum (also called moment of momentum) of an isolated system about a fixed point is conserved as well. The angular momentum of a particle of mass m moving with velocity v at the instant when it is at…

joint: Joint movements: Swing, or angular movement, brings about a change in the angle between the long axis of the moving bone and some reference line in the fixed bone. Flexion (bending) and extension (straightening) of the elbow are examples of swing. A swing (to the right or left) of…

perspective scenery: Angle perspective was an 18th-century refinement of perspective scenery. Several vanishing points were set at the centre-back of the stage and off to the sides, so that the scenery, receding in several directions, was pictured at an angle to the viewer.

pregnancy: Ectopic pregnancy: …tube, it is called an angular pregnancy; many angular pregnancies terminate in abortions; others go to term but are complicated because the placenta does not separate properly from the uterine wall after the birth of the baby. An angular pregnancy differs from a cornual pregnancy, which develops in the side…

astronomy: Telescopic observations: The angular resolving power (or resolution) of a telescope is the smallest angle between close objects that can be seen clearly to be separate. Resolution is limited by the wave nature of light. For a telescope having an objective lens or mirror with diameter D and…

hydrocarbon: Cycloalkanes: …and imposes considerable strain (called angle strain) on cyclopropane. Cyclopropane is further destabilized by the torsional strain that results from having three eclipsed C―H bonds above the plane of the ring and three below.

angular velocity, time rate at which an object rotates, or revolves, about an axis, or at which the angular displacement between two bodies changes. In the figure, this displacement is represented by the angle θ between a line on one body and a line on the other. In engineering, angles or angular

The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle: …end of the 8th century Achaius, King of Scots, founded a chivalric order and introduced the veneration of St. Andrew into Scotland, but few scholars accept this. More probable is that the Order of the Thistle relates to an order founded by King David I of Scots in the 12th…

ocean basin: Exploration of the ocean basins: Another notable instrument system is ANGUS, a deep-towed camera sled that can take thousands of high-resolution photographs of the seafloor during a single day. It has been successfully used in the detection of hydrothermal vents at spreading centres. Overlapping photographic images make it possible to construct photomosaic strips about 10…

Angus, breed of black, polled beef cattle, for many years known as Aberdeen Angus, originating in northeastern Scotland. Its ancestry is obscure, though the breed appears closely related to the curly-coated Galloway, sometimes called the oldest breed in Britain. The breed was improved and the

Angus, council area and historic county in eastern Scotland, bounded on the east by the North Sea and on the south by the Firth of Tay. The council area lies entirely within the historic county of Angus, which also includes the city of Dundee and a small area south of Coupar Angus in the Perth and

Archibald Douglas, 6th earl of Angus was a powerful Scottish lord during the reigns of King James V and Mary, Queen of Scots. He was the grandson of the 5th earl, Archibald Douglas (c. 1449–c. 1514). By his second marriage in 1514 to the queen dowager Margaret Tudor, Angus aroused the jealousy of

Archibald Douglas, 8th earl of Angus was a Scottish rebel during the reign of James VI and a strong advocate of Presbyterian government. He was the son of the 7th earl, who was nephew of the 6th, and he succeeded to the earldom at the age of two. The earldom of Morton came to him in 1586. During

Archibald Douglas, 8th earl of Angus was a Scottish rebel during the reign of James VI and a strong advocate of Presbyterian government. He was the son of the 7th earl, who was nephew of the 6th, and he succeeded to the earldom at the age of two. The earldom of Morton came to him in 1586. During

William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus was a Scottish rebel and conspirator, a convert to Roman Catholicism during the reign of James VI. He joined the household of the Earl of Morton and then, while visiting the French court, became a Roman Catholic; in consequence, on his return, he was disinherited

miracle: India: According to the Anguttara Nikaya, one of the collections of the Buddha’s sayings, there are three kinds of miracles—the miracle of magic, the miracle of thought reading, and the miracle of instruction—and of these the last is the most wonderful and excellent, whereas the other two are not…

potto: …but much smaller primates called angwantibos (Arctocebus calabarensis and A. aureus) live only in the rainforests of west-central Africa. They measure 24 cm (9.5 inches) long and are yellowish in colour, with a long, thin snout. Like the potto, they are tailless, but the third finger as well as the…

Anhalt, former German state, which was a duchy from 1863 to 1918 and a Land (state) until 1945, when it was merged in Saxony-Anhalt. Saxony-Anhalt was a Land of the German Democratic Republic from 1949 to 1952, when it was broken up into Bezirke (districts), the former territories of Anhalt being

spectroscopy: Energy states of real diatomic molecules: …real molecules the oscillations are anharmonic. The potential for the oscillation of a molecule is the electronic energy plotted as a function of internuclear separation (Figure 7A). Because this curve is nonparabolic, the oscillations are anharmonic and the energy levels are perturbed. This results in a decreasing energy level separation…

Tuomas Anhava was a Finnish poet and translator working within the modernist tradition of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot. Anhava was a perfectionist in his poetry, with a fanatical concern for le mot propre and a great theoretical interest in the aesthetics of modern poetry. His Runoja (1953; “Poems”)

anhedonia, inability to experience pleasure from daily activities and from activities or interactions that normally are considered pleasurable. The word anhedonia is derived from the Greek an-, meaning “without,” and hēdonē, meaning “pleasure.” Persons affected by anhedonia may appear to enjoy an

igneous rock: Fabric: … or hypidiomorphic (partly faced), or anhedral or allotriomorphic (no external crystal faces). Quite apart from the presence or absence of crystal faces, the shape, or habit, of individual mineral grains is described by such terms as equant, tabular, platy, elongate, fibrous, rodlike, lathlike, needlelike, and irregular. A more general contrast…

pentatonic scale: …most widely known form is anhemitonic (without semitones; e.g., c–d–f–g–a–c′), the hemitonic form (with semitones; e.g., c–e–f–g–b–c′) occurring less frequently.