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Ad lib (and ad-lib) are terms derived from the Latin ad libitum, meaning "at one's pleasure". Ad lib is the adjective or adverb; ad-lib is the verb or noun form. Most commonly, in drama, the quick-witted invention of dialogue to cover a performer's memory lapse would be an example of an ad-lib. Or, a director might encourage performers to ad-lib in a particular show. (The term ad-lib usually refers to the interpolation of unscripted material in an otherwise scripted ...

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Surat Ad-Dukhan (Arabic: سورة الدخان ) (Smoke) is the 44th sura of the Qur'an with 59 ayat. In verse 54 there is a reference Houris ...

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Ad Daqahliyah (Arabic: الدقهليه ) is an Egyptian governorate lying northeast of Cairo. Its area is about 6,000 km² and it has a population of about 5 million. The capital of Ad Daqahliyah is al-Mansurah and the other major towns are Mit Ghamr, Bilqas, and Manzalah. This province is famous for producing some of the most acclaimed Egyptians in the fields of science, engineering, medicine and the arts. The nephrology and kidney center of Mansurah is considered

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An adding machine is a type of calculator, usually specialized for bookkeeping calculations. In the United States, very old adding machines were usually built to read in dollars and cents. They required the user to pull a crank to add numbers. The numbers were input by pressing keys on a large keypad: for instance, the amount $30.72 was input using keys corresponding to "$30", "70¢", and "2¢", and then pulling the crank. Subtraction was impossible, except by adding the complement of a numbe ...

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Ad Gentes is the Second Vatican Council's Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church. Passed by the assembled bishops by a vote of 2,394 to 5, it was promulgated by Pope Paul VI on November 18, 1965. The title is Latin for "To the Nations," and is from the first line of the decree, as is customary with Roman Catholic documents. (The full text in English is available from the Holy See's website.) Other related archives1965, Latin, November 18, Pope Paul VI, Roman Cat

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An ad hominem argument, also known as argumentum ad hominem (Latin, literally "argument to the man") or attacking the messenger, is a logical fallacy that involves replying to an argument or assertion by attacking the person presenting the argument or assertion rather than the argument itself. The derived neologism ad feminam is more specifically used to refer to sexist prejudice directed towards women. (For example, "Their recourse ... to ad feminam attacks evidences the chilly climate for women's leadersh ...

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Ad hoc is a Latin phrase which means "for this [purpose]." It generally signifies a solution that has been tailored to a specific purpose, such as a tailor-made suit, a handcrafted network protocol or a specific-purpose equation, as opposed to general solutions. It can also refer to an improvised and often impromptu event or solution "on an ad-hoc basis", as opposed to well-prepared ones. Ad hoc - Ad hoc computer network. In computer networking, ad-hoc is a connection method for wireles ...

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The Battle of Ad Decimum took place on September 13, 533 between the armies of the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, and the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire), under the command of general Belisarius. This event and events in the following year are sometimes jointly called the Second Battle of Carthage. The victory marked the beginning of the end for the Vandals and began the "Reconquest" of the west under the Emperor Justinian I. Ad Decimum (Latin for Ten Mile Post), was simply a marker along the Mediterranean coast 10 ...

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A central ad server is a computer server that stores advertisements and delivers them to web site visitors. These servers centrally store the ads so that advertisers can track from one source the distribution of their online advertisements, and have one location for controlling the rotation and distribution of their advertisements across the web. The central ad server was first developed and introduced by FocaLink Media Services in 1995 for controlling online advertising or banner ads. The company was founded by Dave Zinman and Jason Strober, and based in Palo Alto, CA. In 1998, the company changed its name to Ad ...

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Argumentum ad crumenam is a logical fallacy of thinking a conclusion is correct because the person making the argument is rich. Example: If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? I think Mary is a good role model. She's pretty rich so she must be doing something right. This new law is a good idea. Most of the people against it are riff-raff who make less than $20,000 a year. This fallacy is notably prevalent in art, movie, video game, or music criticism; in the form "you can try to criticize product X but it makes millions so you do ...

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Argumentum ad lazarum is the logical fallacy of thinking a conclusion is correct because the subject of the argument is poor. Argumentum ad lazarum - Examples. Family farms are struggling to get by so when they say we need to protect them, they must be on to something. The homeless tell us it's hard to find housing. Thus it must be. The monks have foresworn all material posessions. They must have achieved enlightenment.Including:

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2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction oriented comic. 2000 AD comic - Overview. 2000AD serialises a number of separate stories each "prog" (see glossary, below) and was first published by IPC Magazines in 1977, the first issue dated 26 February. IPC, later Fleetway, continued to produce the title until 1999, when it was bought by Rebellion Developments. Due in part to its weekly publication schedule, it is one of only a few comics to surpass 1000 issues. It has been a successful l ...

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An argumentum ad populum (Latin: "appeal to the people"), in logic, is a fallacious argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or all people believe it; it alleges that "If many believe so, it is so." In ethics this argument is stated, "if many find it acceptable, it is acceptable." This type of argument is known by several names, including appeal to belief, appeal to the majority, appeal to the people, argument by consensus, authority of the many, bandwagon ...

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Argumentum ad baculum (Latin: argument to the cudgel or appeal to the stick), also known as appeal to force, is an argument where force, coercion, or the threat of force, is given as a justification for a conclusion. One participates in this type of argument when one points out the violent consequences of holding a contrary position. Argumentum ad baculum - As a logical argument. A fallacious logical argument based on argumentum ad baculum generally has the following argum ...

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Value added refers to the additional value created at a particular stage of production or through image and marketing. In modern neoclassical economics, especially in macroeconomics, it refers to the contribution of the factors of production, i.e., land, labor, and capital goods, to raising the value of a product and corresponds to the incomes received by the owners of these factors. The factors of production provide "services" which raise the unit price of a product (X) relative to the cost per unit of interme ...

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Ad nauseam is a Latin term used to describe something that has been continuing "to the point of nausea." For example "This topic has been discussed ad nauseam": it has been discussed extensively and everyone has tired of it. It is a form of proof by assertion. Argumentum ad nauseam or argument from repetition is the false proof of a statement by (prolonged) repetition, possibly by different people. This logical fallacy is commonly used as a form of rhetoric by politicians, and it is one of the mechanisms of ...

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In physics, the AdS/CFT correspondence is the equivalence between a string theory or supergravity defined on some sort of anti de Sitter space (AdS) and a conformal field theory (CFT) defined on its conformal boundary whose dimension is lower by one. It is the most successfully tested realization of the holographic principle, a speculative idea about quantum gravity originally proposed by G ...

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