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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Definitions | | | | | |  Definitions: Encyclopedia II - Definition of music - Music as organized soundAn oft cited definition of music, made by Wynton Marsalis among others, is that it is "sound organized in time." Apart from objections that "organization" is not required, this definition is seen by many as being too broad. The fifteenth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica pinpoints the problem by saying that "while there are no sounds that can be described as inherently unmusical, musicians in each culture have tended to restrict the range of sounds they will admit." Organization would seem t ...
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| | | | | | Definitions: Encyclopedia II - Definition of music - Music as subjective experience Another commonly held definition of music holds that music must be 'pleasant' (determined by the esthesic level) or 'melodic' (determined by the neutral and/or esthesic levels). This view is often used to argue that some kinds of organized sound 'are not music', while others are, based on type of organization or its aesthetic effect. Since the range of what is accepted as music varies from culture to culture and from time to time, more elaborate versions of this definition admit some kind of cultural or social evolution of music, granting th ...
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| | | | | Definitions: Encyclopedia II - Definition of music - Music as language Many definitions of music implicitly hold that music is a communicative activity which conveys to the listener moods, emotions, thoughts, impressions, or philisophical, sexual, or political concepts or positions. "Musical language" may be used to mean style or genre, while music may be treated as language without being called such, as in Fred Lerdahl or others' analysis of musical grammar. Levi R. Bryant defines music not as a language, but as a marked-based, prob ...
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| | | | | Definitions: Encyclopedia II - Definition of music - Music as social construct Post-modern and other theories argue that, like all art, music is defined primarily by social context. According to this view, music is what people call music, whether it is a period of silence, found sounds, or performance. Famously John Cage's work 4'33" is rooted in this conception of music. According to Nattiez, Cage, Kagel, Schnebel, and others, "now perceive them[certain of their pieces] (even if they do not say so publicly) as a way of "speaking" in music about music, in the second degree, as it were, to expose or ...
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| | | | | Definitions: Encyclopedia II - Definitions of Palestine and Palestinian - Palestine
Definitions of Palestine and Palestinian - Palestine Defined.
The term Palestine is derived from the name of the Philistines, a people of uncertain origins, possibly Aegean, who, in the 12th century BCE, settled along the southern Mediterranean coastal plain of what is now Israel and the Gaza Strip and disappeared several centuries later. After crushing Bar Kokhba's revolt (132-135), the Romans Latinized the hitherto seldom-used Greek name Παλαιστίνη (Palaestina) and applied it to the enti ...
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| | | | | Definitions: Encyclopedia II - Definitions of Palestine and Palestinian - Palestinian This section describes several viewpoints of what makes a person a "Palestinian".
Definitions of Palestine and Palestinian - By place of birth.
A "Palestinian" can mean a person who is born in the geographical area known prior to 1918 as "Palestine", or a former citizen of the British Mandate territory called Palestine, or an institution related to either of these.
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| | | | | Definitions: Encyclopedia II - Operational definition - Relevance to business On October 15, 1970, the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne, Australia collapsed, killing 35 construction workers. The subsequent enquiry found that the failure arose because engineers had specified the supply of a quantity of flat steel plate. The word flat in this context lacked an operational definition, so there was no test for accepting or rejecting a particular shipment or for controlling quality.
In his managerial and statistical writings, W. Edwards Deming placed great importance on the value of using op ...
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| | | | | Definitions: Encyclopedia II - Operational definition - Relevance to philosophy The idea originally arises in the operationalist philosophy of P. W. Bridgman and others. By 1914, Bridgman was dismayed by the abstraction and lack of clarity with which, he argued, many scientific concepts were expressed. Inspired by logical positivism and the phenomenalism of Ernst Mach, in 1914 he declared that the meaning of a physical concept, such as mass, lay in the operations, physical and mental, performed in its measurement.
Thus, mass, as measured with a spring balance, and mass, as measured using a load cell are qu ...
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| | | | | Definitions: Encyclopedia II - Definition of planet - Issues and controversies While there is much disagreement between current definitions of "planet", most focus on three general criteria: that it must orbit a star, be above a certain size (usually large enough to be rounded by its own gravity), and yet not be large enough to commence nuclear fusion. Each of these criteria has been challenged by various discoveries, outlined below.
Definition of planet - Minor planets.
Within our planetary system, the nine objects currently accepted as planets orbit the Sun wit ...
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| | | | | Definitions: Encyclopedia II - High-definition television - Notation In the context of HDTV, the formats of the broadcasts are referred to using a notation describing:
The number of lines in the display resolution.
Progressive frames (p) or interlaced fields (i).
Number of frames or fields per second.
For example, the format 720p60 is 1280 × 720 pixels, progressive encoding with 60 frames per second. The format 1080i50 is 1920 × 1080 pixels, interlaced encoding with 50 fields (25 frames) per second. Often the frame or field rate is left out. It can then usually be assumed to be either 50 or 60, except for 1080p which is only supporte ...
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| | | | | Definitions: Encyclopedia II - Definition of planet - History and etymology There has never been a single, precise definition for the word "planet." When originally coined by the ancient Greeks, a planet was any object that appeared to wander against the field of fixed stars that made up the night sky (asteres planetai "wandering stars"). This included not only the five "classical" planets, that is, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, but also the Sun and the Moon (the "seven heavenly objects"). Sometimes a distinction was made in terminology, so that if one said the "five planets", it would mean all of ...
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| | | | | Definitions: Encyclopedia II - Classical definition of effeminacy - Bible The Septuagint expresses the concept of effeminacy through the Greek word androgynos:
"Fear casts down the slothful; and the souls of the effeminate shall hunger." Septuagint, Prov 18.8
"Cowardice possesses the effeminate man." Septuagint, Prov 19.15
The editor of Cruden's Complete Concordance to the Bible of 1737 points to places in the Bible where "Weak and ineffectual men are sometimes spoken of as women": Masoretic text, Is 3.12; 19.16; and Septuagint, Is 19.16; Nah 3.13; Jer 28.30. (7) One Protestant minister declare ...
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| | | | | Definitions: Encyclopedia II - High-definition television - Notation In the context of HDTV, the formats of the broadcasts are referred to using a notation describing:
The number of lines in the display resolution.
Progressive frames (p) or interlaced fields (i).
Number of frames or fields per second.
For example, the format 720p60 is 1280 × 720 pixels, progressive encoding with 60 frames per second. The format 1080i50 is 1920 × 1080 pixels, interlaced encoding with 50 fields (25 frames) per second. Often the frame or field rate is left out. It can then usually be assumed to be either 50 or 60, except for 1080p which is only supported as ...
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| | | | | Definitions: Encyclopedia II - Definition - Determining meaning: extension intension ambiguity and vagueness Just as arguments can be good or bad, definitions can be good or bad. A definition gives us the meaning of a word. To understand this more deeply requires an elucidation of a few features of meaning, the principal ones being extension, intension, ambiguity, and vagueness.
An ostensive definition points out examples by which one gains a sense of the meaning of a word.
An extensional definition exhaustively lists every referent of a word (the completion of an ostensive exploration).
An intensional definiti ...
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| | | | | Definitions: Encyclopedia II - Definite description - Criticism of Russell’s analysis Though Russell's analysis has been widely accepted by philosophers, there has been some dissent.
Definite description - P. F. Strawson.
P. F. Strawson, in particular, argued that Russell had misrepresented what one means when one says "The present King of France is bald." According to Strawson, this sentence is not contradicted by "No one is the present King of France," for the former sentence contains not an existential assertion, but attempts to use "the present King of France" as a referring (or denoting) phrase. Since there is no present King of France, the phrase fails ...
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| | | | | Definitions: Encyclopedia II - Definite description - Bertrand Russell’s analysis France is a republic, and has no king. Consider the statement "The present King of France is bald." Is this statement true? Is it false? Is it meaningless?
It doesn't seem to be true, for there is no present King of France. But if it is false, then one would suppose that the negation of the statement is true, that is, "The present King of France has hair (is not bald)." But that doesn't seem any more true than the original statement.
Is it meaningless, then? One might suppose so (and some philosophers have--see below), because it certainly does fail to denote in a sense, but on the other ...
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| | | | | | Definitions: Encyclopedia II - High-definition television - Contemporary systems
High-definition television - Australia.
Main article: High definition television in Australia
Australia started HD broadcasting in January 2001 but only in August 2003 was HD content mandated. Most cities in Australia that have a population of 40,000 or greater have at least one terrestrial DTV channel available (for example, Albany, Western Australia, has had DTV available for almost a year as of May, 2005). However, most Australian DTV broadcasters are still experimenting with HDTV transmission and DTV delivery ...
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