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larch
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A genus, Larix , of the pine family, with deciduous needles and short spurlike branches, which annually bear a crown of needles. The cones are small and persistent, varying by ...
ecotone
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A geographic boundary or transition zone between two different groups of plant or animal distributions. The term has been used to denote transitions at different spatial scales or ...
pacific islands
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A geographic designation that includes thousands of mainly small coral and volcanic islands scattered across the Pacific Ocean from Palau in the west to Easter Island in the east ...
polygon
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A geometric figure consisting of an ordered set of three or more (but a finite number of) points called vertices, each vertex connected by line segments called sides or edges to ...
fugacity
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A function introduced by G. N. Lewis to facilitate the application of thermodynamics to real systems. Thus, when fugacities are substituted for partial pressures in the mass ...
lagrangian function
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A function of the generalized coordinates and velocities of a dynamical system from which the equations of motion in Lagrange's form can be derived. The lagrangian function is ...
recursive function
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A function that maps natural numbers to natural numbers and is special in that it must be calculable by using a precisely specified algorithm. The mathematical definitions of ...
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