Silence is a relative or total lack of sound. An environment with sound below 20 decibels is considered quiet or silent. Silence - As a mark of respect. Further information: Moment of silence Silence has been a part of the rituals surrounding Armistice Day since its inception, after the idea was first proposed by an Australian journalist, Edward George Honey, and later implemented by King George V of the United Kingdom. A two-minute silence is held at 11am, "the elev ...

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• Silence - Gestures and symbols
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• Gesture - Social significance
• Gesture - Using one hand
• Gesture - A-ok
• Gesture - Bang bang
• Gesture - Benediction and blessing
• Gesture - Blah-blah
• Gesture - Check please
• Gesture - Clenched fist
• Gesture - Fig sign
• Gesture - Hook 'em Horns
• Gesture - Horns
• Gesture - Knocking on wood
• Gesture - Middle finger
• Gesture - Salute
• Gesture - Shaka
• Gesture - Three middle fingers
• Gesture - Thumbs up thumbs down
• Gesture - V sign
• Gesture - Vulcan salute
• Gesture - Wanker
• Gesture - Using two hands
• Gesture - Air quotes
• Gesture - Gills
• Gesture - Italian elbow gesture
• Gesture - Time-out
• Gesture - Hand with body gestures
• Gesture - Biting one's thumb
• Gesture - Bowing kneeling kowtowing
• Gesture - Crossing oneself
• Gesture - Hand over heart
• Gesture - My eye
• Gesture - Touched / screw loose
• Gesture - Nonsense
• Gesture - Loser
• Gesture - Cutthroat
• Gesture - Choking sign
• Gesture - Nose thumbing
• Gesture - Body and facial gestures

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One widely recognized symbolic gesture of silence consists of a forefinger laid vertically across the lips. Comic emphasis is achieved with a gesture of thumb and finger zippering the mouth shut. For the cultural misunderstanding that made Harpocrates an emblem of silence from Roman times, see Harpocrates. In the United States and other Western cultures, it is sometimes difficult to interpret the message being sent by a person being silent (i.e. not speaking). It can mean anger, hostility, disinterest, or any number of other emotions. ...

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The outer is always a reflection of the inner. In silence and solitude the seeker makes a concerted effort to fill himself with the highest and most positive of energies � and then carries that holy space around him wherever he goes. In spreading serene and tranquil vibrations a seeker is serving the world. Sathya Sai Baba says: �There are many ways to serve the world. You can serve, if not actively, then at least by your serenity. Everyone need not do all things. Only a small minority can delight in serenity and remain still. God has ruled it so; otherwise how could the world function? If stillness be your destiny, dare to be so...�

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Buddhist symbolism appeared from around the 3rd century BCE, and started with aniconic symbolism, avoiding direct representations of the Buddha. Anthropomorphic symbolism appeared from around the 1st century CE with the arts of Mathura and the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, and were combined with the previous symbols. Various symbolic innovations were later introduced, especially through Tibetan Buddhism. Buddhist symbolism - Early aniconic symbols. Among the earliest and most common symbols of Buddhism ar ...

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• Buddhist symbolism - The 32 signs of a Great Man, and 80 Secondary Characteristics
• Buddhist symbolism - The Mudras
• Buddhist symbolism - The eight auspicious symbols of Tibetan & Nepali Buddhism
• Buddhist symbolism - International symbols of the World Fellowship of Buddhists

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A Code of Silence is when someone, usually with some sort of authority of power, but not always, witnesses or is privy to the knowledge of an illegal or heinous act, but puts comradery, or loyalty to the "unit" (which can be police, military, gangs, among other things) above informing the public, or proper authorities. The code of silence is usually either kept because of threat of force, or danger to oneself, or being branded a traitor or an outcast within within the unit or organizaton. The Code of Silence was famously practiced in Massachusett ...

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The Towers of Silence (also dakhma or dokhma) are Zoroastrian funerary towers, the majority of which are located in Mumbai, India, belonging to Parsi Zoroastrians, and in Yazd and Kerman, Iran, belonging to the Iranian Zoroastrians. Zoroastrians consider the dead body to be unclean, and their religion prohibits allowing corpses to pollute the pure elements of earth and fire. Corpses are therefore placed atop the Towers of Silence for their flesh to be consumed by vultures. Once the bones have been bleached by the sun and wind, they are ...

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The argument from silence (also called argumentum ex silentio in Latin) is that the silence of a speaker or writer about X proves or suggests that the speaker or writer is ignorant of X. Whether such an argument is reasonable is subject to some interpretation or debate -- in general, the argument from silence does not offer a rigorous logical proof of a premise, although it may po ...

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A symbol, in its basic sense, is a conventional representation of a concept or quantity; i.e., an idea, object, concept, quality, etc. In more psychological and philosophical terms, all concepts are symbolic in nature, and representations for these concepts are simply token artifacts that are allegorical to (but do not directly codify) a symbolic meaning, or symbolism. Spoken language, for example, consists of distinct auditory tokens for representing symbolic concepts (words), arranged in an order which further suggests ...

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Symbolism is the systematic or creative use of arbitrary symbols as abstracted representations of concepts or objects and the distinct relationships in between, as they define both context and the narrower definition of terms. In a narrow context, "symbolism" is the applied use of any iconic representations which carry particular conventional meanings. All forms of language are innately symbolic, and any system of symbols can form a "language;" at the minimum using only two arbitrary symbols in a binary system. Human language i ...

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Buddhist symbolism appeared from around the 3rd century BCE, and started with aniconic symbolism, avoiding direct representations of the Buddha. Anthropomorphic symbolism appeared from around the 1st century CE with the arts of Mathura and the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, and were combined with the previous symbols. Various symbolic innovations were later introduced, especially through Tibetan Buddhism. Buddhist symbolism - Early aniconic symbols. Among the earliest and most common symbols of Buddhism ar ...

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• Buddhist symbolism - Early aniconic symbols
• Buddhist symbolism - The 32 signs of a Great Man and 80 Secondary Characteristics
• Buddhist symbolism - The Mudras
• Buddhist symbolism - The eight auspicious symbols of Tibetan & Nepali Buddhism
• Buddhist symbolism - International symbols of the World Fellowship of Buddhists

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Schools Anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-communism Anarcho-primitivism Anarcho-syndicalism Christian anarchism Eco-anarchism Individualist anarchism Mutualism Anarchism in culture Anarchism and religion Anarchism and society Anarchism and the arts Anarcho-punk Anarchist theory Anarchism and capitalism Anarchism and Marxism Anarchist economics Anarchist law Anarchist symbolism Anarchism without adjectives P ...

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• Anarchist symbolism - History
• Anarchist symbolism - Other anarchist symbols
• Anarchist symbolism - Red and black flag
• Anarchist symbolism - Black cat
• Anarchist symbolism - Black Cross
• Anarchist symbolism - Wooden shoe
• Anarchist symbolism - Monkey wrench
• Anarchist symbolism - Black and purple flag
• Anarchist symbolism - Black and green flag
• Anarchist symbolism - Black and pink flag
• Anarchist symbolism - Stars
• Anarchist symbolism - Jolly Roger/Pirate flag
• Anarchist symbolism - Eat the rich
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A chemical symbol is an abbreviation or short representation of the name of a chemical element. Natural elements all have symbols of one or two letters; some man-made elements have temporary symbols of three letters. Chemical symbols are listed in the periodic table and are used as shorthand and in chemical equations, e.g., . Because chemical symbols are often derived from the Latin or Greek name of the element, they may not bear much similar t ...

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Christian symbolism is the use of actions or objects to represent the truths of the Christian faith, either as a reminder of those truths or as a way of spiritually connecting with the underlying truth or act. Christian symbolism - Sacraments. The most important symbols in the Christian church are the sacraments. These rites, which vary between denominations but may include holy communion, baptism, ordination and marriage, are commonly described as an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual g ...

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The official symbol of the Bahá'í Faith is the five-pointed star, as mentioned by Shoghi Effendi: "Strictly speaking the 5-pointed star is the symbol of our Faith, as used by the Báb and explained by Him." (Shoghi Effendi, Directives from the Guardian, p. 52) There are also three other symbols commonly used: the nine-pointed star, the ringstone symbol, and calligraphy of the Greatest Name. Bahá'í symbols - The Haykal. The haykal (Arabic for ...

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Astronomical symbols are symbols used to represent various celestial objects, theoretical constructs and observational events in astronomy. Many of the symbols are shared with astrology. The symbols listed here are commonly used by professional and amateur astronomers, and some are shared with astrology though there are differences depending on what part of the world you are in. (European glyphs differ slightly with American, for example) Astronomical symbols - Miscellaneous symbols.

A vexillological symbol is used by vexillologists to indicate certain characteristics of national flags, such as where they are used, who uses them, and what they look like. The set of symbols described in this article are known as international flag identification symbols, which were devised by Whitney Smith. Vexillological symbol - Usage. A special grid-type symbol () is used to indicate locations of use and which parties may use each flag (See Flag terminology). The format of the symbol is ...

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In Judaism, the Chai symbol consists of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet Het (ח) and Yod (י). In the Hebrew language, the word chai (חי) spelled by these two letters means "living", and is related to the word for "life", chaim, and also appears in the slogan am yisrael chai (עם ישראל חי, "The people of Israel lives!"). There have been various mystical numerological speculations about the fact that according to the system of gematria, the letters of chai add up to 18 (see "Jewish use of the Tetragrammaton" and "Lamedvavniks".) The Chai ...

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In mathematics and physics, the Christoffel symbols, named for Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829–1900), are coordinate-space expressions for the Levi-Civita connection derived from the metric tensor. The Christoffel symbols are used whenever practical calculations involving geometry must be performed, as they allow very complex calculations to be performed without confusion. Unfortunately, they are usually quite lengthy, and require careful attention to detail. By contrast, the index-less, formal notation for the Levi-Civita connection ...

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• Christoffel symbols - Relations
• Christoffel symbols - Change of variable
• Christoffel symbols - Coordinate expression for curvature
• Christoffel symbols - Riemann curvature
• Christoffel symbols - Ricci curvature
• Christoffel symbols - Einstein tensor
• Christoffel symbols - Weyl tensor
• Christoffel symbols - Applications to general relativity

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Many gestures utilize only the face or body, without the hands. One such gesture is "eye-rolling", when a person moves their pupils to the top of their eyes to indicate condescension, contempt, boredom, or exasperation. Mooning is the exposure of the buttocks towards a person or people. The mooner (usually male) opens his pants, turns around to face away from the target, and drops the pants while bending over. Mooning is a crude gesture of contempt or defiance. "Pressed ham" is a variation of mooning made by pressing the naked ...

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Gesture, Gesture - Social significance, Gesture - Using one hand, Gesture - A-ok, Gesture - Bang bang, Gesture - Benediction and blessing, Gesture - Blah-blah, Gesture - Check please, Gesture - Clenched fist, Gesture - Fig sign, Gesture - Hook 'em Horns, Gesture - Horns, Gesture - Knocking on wood, Gesture - Middle finger, Gesture - Salute, Gesture - Shaka, Gesture - Three middle fingers, Gesture - Thumbs up thumbs down, Gesture - V sign, Gesture - Vulcan salute, Gesture - Wanker, Gesture - Using two hands, Gesture - Air quotes, Gesture - Gills, Gesture - Italian elbow gesture, Gesture - Time-out, Gesture - Hand with body gestures, Gesture - Biting one's thumb, Gesture - Bowing kneeling kowtowing, Gesture - Crossing oneself, Gesture - Hand over heart, Gesture - My eye, Gesture - Touched / screw loose, Gesture - Nonsense, Gesture - Loser, Gesture - Cutthroat, Gesture - Choking sign, Gesture - Nose thumbing, Gesture - Body and facial gestures

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