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  • 91mental disorder — Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g.,… …

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  • 92solids, mechanics of — ▪ physics Introduction       science concerned with the stressing (stress), deformation (deformation and flow), and failure of solid materials and structures.       What, then, is a solid? Any material, fluid or solid, can support normal forces.… …

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  • 93Illegitimacy — • As generally defined, and as understood in this article, illegitimacy denotes the condition of children born out of wedlock Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Illegitimacy     Illegitimacy …

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  • 94depreciate — de·pre·ci·ate /di prē shē ˌāt/ vb at·ed, at·ing vt: to subject to depreciation: lower the value of vi: to fall in value compare appreciate Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

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  • 95Clarification and stabilization of wine — The winemaking process naturally produces sediments that can precipitate out of the wine. The clarification and stabilization of wine in winemaking involves removing insoluble and suspended materials. The insoluble material causes a wine to be… …

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  • 96Dynamic awareness theory — (DAT) offers an alternative to explaining the creation of awareness in distributed work groups. DAT highlights the important role of users and social practices in awareness creation. The theory further points to the dynamic nature of awareness… …

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  • 97antipsychotics and hallucinations —    The term antipsychotic is used as a synonym for the terms neuroleptic and major tranquilizer. All three terms refer to a group of psy chotropic substances with varying chemical structures that have a broad range of effects upon the CNS, the… …

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  • 98dock — n [Dutch dialect docke dok pen, cage]: the place in a criminal court where a prisoner stands or sits during trial compare bar, bench, jury box, sidebar …

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  • 99decrease — I noun abatement, abbreviation, abridgment, alleviation, attenuation, constriction, contraction, curtailment, cut, cutback, deceleration, declension, declination, decline, decline and fall, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, deminutio …

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  • 100curtail — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. shorten, clip, cut, abbreviate; abate, diminish, reduce, lessen, abridge; deprive. See shortness, decrease, discontinuance. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. shorten, diminish, reduce, abridge; see decrease… …

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