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Reinhardt College Reinhardt College is a private four-year co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Its main campus is located in Waleska, Georgia on 540 acres of land in the foothills of the North Georgia mountains.
Reinhardt Kristensen Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen (born 1948) is a Danish invertebrate biologist, noted for the discovery of three new phyla of microscopic animals: the Loricifera in 1983, the Cycliophora in 1995, and the Micrognathozoa in 2000. He is also considered one of the world's leading experts on tardigrades.
Reinhardt's fund Reinhardt's fund (named after its creator, Fritz Reinhardt) was a set of Nazi German bank accounts where the money and valuables stolen from concentration and death camp victims were kept. The money was used to finance a number of important German construction projects - including the construction of new concentration camps.
Reinhart Hummel Reinhart Hummel (January 26 1930 - ) is a German theologian and long-term leader of the Evangelische Zentralstelle fĂĽr Weltanschauungsfragen (EZW). The EZW (literally: Protestant Centre for Questions on World views) is a subdivision of the Evangelical Church in Germany.
Reinheitsgebot The Reinheitsgebot (literally "purity requirement"), sometimes called the "Bavarian purity law" in English, is a regulation that originated in the city of Ingolstadt in the duchy of Bavaria in 1516, although first put forward in 1487"Bavaria"; Bolt, Rodney; Globe Pequot Press; Connecticut; 2005; pg 37., concerning standards for the sale and composition of beer.
Reinhold Ebertin Dr. Reinhold Ebertin, February 16, 1901 to March 14, 1988, German physician/astrologer, utilized the research on astrological midpoints of Hamburg School surveyor/astrologer Alfred Witte first published in 1928 in Witte's Regelwerk fĂĽr Planetenbilder.
Reinhold Klotz Reinhold Klotz (1807-1870), German classical scholar, was born near Chemnitz in Saxony on the 13th of March 1807. In 1849 he was appointed professor in the University of Leipzig in succession to Gottfried Hermann, and held this post until his death on the 10th of August 1870.
Reinhold Messner Reinhold Messner (born September 17 1944) is an Italian mountaineer and explorer, often cited as the greatest mountain climber] of all time, noted for making the first solo ascents of [[Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen and for being the first climber to ascend all fourteen "eight-thousanders" (peaks over 8,000 metres above sea level).
Reinhold Niebuhr Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (June 21, 1892 – June 1, 1971) was a Protestant theologian best known for his study of the task of relating the Christian faith to the reality of modern politics and diplomacy. He is a crucial contributor to modern just war thinking.
Reinhold Tilling Reinhold Tiling (born June 13 1893 in Absberg/Franken; died October 11 1933 in OsnabrĂĽck, Germany) was a German engineer, pilot and a rocket pioneer. Tiling was the son of a minister, and found himself in war service at the beginning of the First World War; this began a lifelong study of mechanical engineering and electro-technology.
Reining Reining is a western riding competition for horses where the riders guide the horses through a precise pattern of circles, spins, and stops. All work is done at the lope (known more commonly worldwide as the canter) and gallop; the fastest of the horse gaits.
Reinli stave church The Reinli stave church (Reinli stavkyrkje) is a Norwegian stave church built some time during the second half of the 13th century in Reinli, a village in the Sør-Aurdal municipality of Oppland county. It is the third church at the same location in Reinli.
Reino Aventura Reino Aventura (Spanish: "Adventure Kingdom") was an amusement park located in Tlalpan in the south-western part of Mexico City. It was opened to the public in March 1982 and at the time it was the biggest amusement park in Latin America.
Reino Helismaa Reino Vihtori "Repe" Helismaa (12 July 1913 - 21 January 1965) was a Finnish singer-songwriter, musician and scriptwriter, mainly known from his humorous, yet homely songs. One of his best-known interpreters was Tapio Rautavaara.
Reino Paasilinna Reino Paasilinna (born 5 December 1939 in Arctic Ocean) is a Finnish politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
Reinoldikirche The protestant Reinoldikirche is, according to its foundation date, the oldest extant church in Dortmund and is dedicated to Saint Reinoldus, the patron of the city. The church was built as a palatinate church in the Ottonian era.
Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Reinout Willem van Bemmelen (April 14 1904 Batavia (Dutch East Indies) - November 19 1983 Unterpirkach (Austria)) was a Dutch geologist. His main interest lay with structural geology, economic geology and volcanology.
Reinsch test The Reinsch test is an initial indicator to detect the presence of one or more of the following heavy metals in a biological sample, and is often used by toxicologists where poisoning by such metals is suspected.
Reinsurance Reinsurance is a means by which an insurance company can protect itself against the risk of losses with other insurance companies. Individuals and corporations obtain insurance policies to provide protection for various risks (hurricanes, earthquakes, lawsuits, collisions, sickness and death, etc.
Reinsurance Sidecar Reinsurance sidecars, conventionally referred to as Sidecars, are financial structures which are created to allow investors to take on the risk and return of a group of insurance policies (a "book of business") written by an insurer or reinsurer (henceforth re/insurer) and earn the risk and return that arises from that business. A re/insurer will only pay ("cede") the premiums associated with a book of business to such an entity if the investors place sufficient funds in the vehicle to ensure that it can meet claims if they arise.
Reinterpretation In the analysis of 18th- and 19th-century Western music, an elision, overlap, or rather reinterpretation (Umdeutung), is the perception, after the fact, of a (metrically weak) cadential chord at the end of one phrase as the (metrically strong) initial chord of the next phrase. Two phrases may overlap, making the beginning and ending of both happen at the same moment in time, or both phrases and hypermeasures may overlap, making the last bar in the first hypermeasure and the first in the second.
Reinventing Comics Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form (Reinventing Comics, or "RC") is a 2000 book written by comic book writer and artist Scott McCloud. It was a thematic sequel to his critcally acclaimed Understanding Comics, and was followed by Making Comics.
Reinventing the square wheel Reinventing the square wheel is the practice of unnecessarily engineering artifacts that provide functionality already provided by existing standard artifacts (reinventing the wheel) and ending up with a worse result than the standard (a square wheel). This is an anti-pattern which occurs when the engineer is unaware or contemptuous of the standard solution and also does not understand the problem or the standard solution sufficiently to avoid problems overcome by the standard.
Reinventing the wheel Reinventing the wheel is a phrase that means a generally accepted technique or solution is ignored in favour of a locally invented solution. To "reinvent the wheel" is to duplicate a basic method that has long since been accepted and even taken for granted.
Reinvention Reinvention: A Demo Retrospective / 1990-1999 is the 1999 album by the Christian singer Stephen Crumbächer who is best known as the lead singer for the group Crumbächer. It was only available on the Internet site MP3.
Reinvestment risk Reinvestment risk is one of the main genres of financial risk. The term describes the risk that a particular investment might be canceled or stopped somehow, that one may have to find a new place to invest that money with the risk being there might not be a similarly attractive investment available.
Reis Effendi The Reis Effendi was a political post in the Ottoman Empire with many of the same responsibilities as a modern Foreign minister or the American Secretary of State. With the abolition of the Empire in 1918, it ceased to exist.
Reisburg Helices In Star Control II, Reisburg Helices are a form of exotic matter that can be found on various sapphire worlds. About 100 units can be found on Alpha Columbrae V, which are worth about 2500 in-game resource units.
Reise Nach Jerusalem - KudĂĽs'e Seyahat Reise Nach Jerusalem - KudĂĽs'e Seyahat (English translation: "Journey to Jerusalem" in both languages) was the German entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999, performed in German, Turkish and English (the live version also added lyrics in Hebrew) by SĂĽrpriz.
ReiserFS ReiserFS is a general-purpose, journaled computer file system designed and implemented by a team at Namesys led by Hans Reiser who is referred to as the project's Benevolent Dictator for Life. ReiserFS is currently supported on Linux and may be included in other operating systems in the future.
Reissert reaction The Reissert reaction is a series of chemical reactions that transforms quinoline to quinaldic acid. Quinolines will react with acid chlorides and potassium cyanide to give 1-acyl-2-cyano-1,2-dihydroquinolines, also known as Reissert compounds.
Reissner-Nordström black hole In physics and astronomy, a Reissner-Nordström black hole, discovered by Gunnar Nordström and Hans Reissner, is a black hole that carries mass M, electric charge Q, and no angular momentum. General properties of such a black hole are described in the article charged black hole.
Reissue A reissue or re-release is the new or repeated issue of an item. In common usage it refers to a musical recording (normally an album) which has already been released but which is then re-released, or reissued; either with the body of music left intact or with some alterations.
Reiter Reiters (German: Reiter, or horserider, shortened from the original 'Schwarze Reiter' or'black riders' called for the colour of their armour) were a type of cavalry, which appeared in the armies of Western Europe in the 16th century in place of the outmoded lance-armed knights, at the same type that cuirassiers and dragoons began to attain typological distinction from other kinds of cavalry. The reiters raised firearms to the status of primary weapons, as opposed to earlier Western European heavy cavalry relying primarily on hand-to-hand weapons.
Reith Lecture A Reith Lecture is a lecture in a series of annual radio lectures given by leading figures of the day, and broadcast by the BBC. They were begun in 1948, in honour of the first Director-General of the BBC, John Reith.
Reitmans Reitmans Canada Limited is a Canadian retailing company, specializing in women's apparel and was founded in 1926 by Herman and Sarah Reitman, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The immediate success of the first store on Saint Lawrence Boulevard (boulevard Saint-Laurent) prompted the Reitmans to open a second store which sold exclusively women's clothing.
Reitz Reitz is a small maize, wheat and cattle farming town in the Free State Province of South Africa which has the largest maize silos in the southern hemisphere. Previously known as Singer's Post, its name was changed to Amsterdam, and again to its current name Reitz after the Orange Free State president, Francis William Reitz.
Rejabhad Rejabhad, or his real name Rejab bin Had is a Malaysian cartoonist known as a legend cartoonist through Malaysian comic industry. He is known as King of Malaysian Cartoons (Raja Kartun Malaysia) or Malaysian Comic Headman (Penghulu Komik Malaysia) because of his huge contribution towards Malaysian comic industry.
Rejang people The Rejang people are an ethnic group living mainly on the southwest coast of the island of Sumatra, on the cool mountain slopes of the Barisan mountain range, in the province of Bengkulu, Indonesia. They speak the Rejang language ,which is quite different from the similarly-named Rejang-Baram language group, which is spoken on the island of Borneo in Sarawak and Kalimantan.
Rejang script The Rejang script, sometimes spelt Redjang and locally known as Aksara Kaganga ('Ka Ga Nga alphabet') after its first three letters, is an abugida of the Brahmic family, and is related to other scripts of the region, like Batak, Buginese, and Kerinci. The script was in use prior to the introduction of Islam to the Rejang area; the earliest attested document appears to date from the mid-18th century CE.
Rejdová Rejdová (1551 Redowa, Neuhay, Nojhaus, 1552 Romokwagasa, Neuhau, 1556 Rejdowa, 1566 Redoua, Romokvaghasa, 1686 Resdowa) (; ) is a village and large municipality in the Rožňava District in the Košice Region of middle-eastern Slovakia.
Rejean Lemelin Rejean "Reggie" Lemelin (born November 19, 1954 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada) is a former National Hockey League goaltender. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in the seventh round, 125th overall, in the 1974 NHL Amateur Draft.
Reject the Sickness Reject the Sickness is the first full-length studio album from New Jersey metalcore quintet God Forbid. It was recorded at Trax East Studios in South River, New Jersey and produced, mixed, and engineered by Steve Evetts.
Rejected Rejected is a 2000 animated short comedy film by animator Don Hertzfeldt that was nominated for a 2001 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. It received 27 awards from film festivals around the world and in 2004 was ranked by the Internet Movie Database as the 3rd most popular short film of all time.
Rejected takeoff A rejected takeoff or RTO is the situation in which it is decided to abort the takeoff of an airplane. There can be many reasons for deciding to perform a rejected takeoff, but they are usually due to suspected or actual technical failures, like an engine failure such as a compressor stall occurring during the takeoff run.
Rejection (emotion) Emotional rejection is the feeling a person experiences when disappointed about not achieving something desired or expected. It is commonly related to a quest of emotional relations, such as, but not limited to romantic or possibly romantic couples.
Rejection Hotline The Rejection Hotline is a service that allows people to gracefully indicate non-interest by giving a suitor the hotline number instead of their real phone number. The hotline has phone numbers in numerous area codes throughout the United States.
Rejimen Artileri Diraja The Rejimen Artileri DiRaja (Royal Artillery Regiment) is the artillery corps of the Malaysian Army. Rejimen Artileri DiRaja was formed in Kajang on 15 August 1957 when a single battery was formed, drawn from Malay personnel formerly serving with the British Army's Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Rejimen Gerak Khas Rejimen Gerak Khas (Special Service Regiment) is a special forces/commando unit of the Malaysian Army. Rejimen Gerak Khas undertake commando raiding missions, special reconnaissance missions and infiltration missions or make forced entry assault missions.
Rejoice (Chi Rho album) Following Egypt their first recording, Chi Rho began the tradition of recording an album every 2 years, which resulted in the creation of Rejoice in 1995. This album is a composite of many traditional pieces, and some of the music upon which Chi Rho began its ministry.
Rejsekort Rejsekort (Official translation: TRAVEL CARD) is a future, electronic ticket system for public transport in Denmark. The system is a collaborative work between DSB, HUR, Ørestadsselskabet, and various regional bus companies, and work on it started on August 18 2003.
Rejuvenation (aging) Rejuvenation is the procedure of reversing the aging process, thus regaining youth. As people get older, their health worsens, strength and intelligence are thought to diminish, beauty is thought by many to go away.
Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes, and the Reinvention of the American Grown-up Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes, and the Reinvention of the American Grown-up is a non-fiction book written by author Christopher Noxon and published by Crown Publishing in 2006. The term "rejuvenile" refers to people who "cultivate tastes and mindsets traditionally associated with those younger than themselves.
Rejvíz Rejvíz (, German: Reihwiesen) is the highest situated Silesian village in the Czech Republic (757 metres above sea level), and an administrative part of Zlaté Hory. It is also the most important tourist area in the northern part of the Protected Landscape Territory of Jeseník.
Rekapitulacija 1980-1984 In January 1984 Laibach signed a contract with a Hamburg independent label "Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien" for a double LP retrospective release entitled REKAPITULACIJA 1980-1984 (RECAPITULATION 1980-1984). Album release date was 9 May 1985.
Rekey Rekeying is the process of changing a lock's tumblers to work on a different key than the current one. Though often referred to as 'changing a lock', rekeying does not require replacement of the lock itself, but resetting the tumbler combination to fit a different key.
Rekhmire Rekhmire was an 18th dynasty official, serving as 'Governor of the Town' (Thebes) and 'Vizier' during the reigns of Tuthmosis III and Amenhotep II. He is noted for constructing a lavishly decorated tomb for himself in the Valley of the Nobles, containing lively, well preserved scenes of daily life during the Egyptian New Kingdom.
Rekhta Rekhta (Urdū/, Hindī: रेख़्ता rekhtā; Persian for mixed) is the highly Persianized form of Urdū, a language that combines Arabic, Persian, and Hindī.UCLA Language Materials Project: Urdu From the late 17th century till the closing decades of the 18th century, the term also referred to the Urdu-Hindustani language.
Rekisumon Rekisumon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, which comprises anime, manga, toys, video games, trading card games, and other media.Rekisumon is a Digimon that is going to be in the next role playing game, which is Digimon Story: Moonlight.
Rekkof Aircraft Rekkof Aircraft is a Dutch company dedicated to restarting the production of upgraded versions of the Fokker F70 and Fokker F100 regional jets as production of those stopped when Fokker was declared bankrupt in 1996. They first announced their plans in late 2003 and intend to first re-launch the Fokker F70NG (NG standing for Next Generation) and if enough orders are placed later also the Fokker F100NG.
Rekords Rekords Rekords Rekords is a record label formed by Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age after Man's Ruin Records, the record label formally putting out The Desert Sessions went defunct. Currently signed to the label are Eagles of Death Metal, Fatso Jetson, and Like Hell.
Rel (DBMS) Rel is an Open Source true relational database management system (TRDBMS) that implements a significant portion of Chris Date and Hugh Darwen's Tutorial D query language. Primarily intended for teaching purposes, Rel is written in the Java programming language.
Relacore Relacore is a herbal supplement marketed by "The Carter Reed Company", a front for Basic Research of Salt Lake City, Utah. The company claimed that the product reduced cortisol, which was linked to the sole occurrence of body fat in women over 30.
Relangi Venkata Ramaiah Relangi Venkata Ramaiah (9 August, 1909 - 26 November, 1975) is one of the famous comedians of Telugu films in its golden years. Hailing from West Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh, he has acted in several films as chief comedian, hero, anti hero and character artist.
Relapse A relapse (etymologically, "who falls again") occurs when a person is affected again by a condition that affected them in the past. This could be a medical or psychological condition such as depression, bipolar disorder, cancer or an addiction to a drug.
Relate Relate is a charity in the United Kingdom that offers advice, relationship counselling, sex therapy, mediation, and support through workshops and consultations whether face-to-face at 400 locations nationwide, by phone or by e-mail.
Related Related is an American "dramedy" series that aired on The WB network during the 2005-2006 television season. It revolved around the lives of four close-knit sisters - of Italian descent, raised in Brooklyn - living in New York City.
Related rates In differential calculus, related rates problems involve finding the rate at which a quantity is changing by relating that quantity to other quantities whose rates of change are known. The rate of change is usually with respect to time.
Related-key attack In cryptography, a related-key attack is any form of cryptanalysis where the attacker can observe the operation of a cipher under several different keys whose values are initially unknown, but where some mathematical relationship connecting the keys is known to the attacker. For example, the attacker might know that the last 80 bits of the keys are always the same, even though he doesn't know, at first, what the bits are.
Relation (mathematics) In mathematics, the concept of a relation is a generalization of 2-place relations, such as the relation of equality, denoted by the sign "=" in a statement like "5 + 7 = 12," or the relation of order, denoted by the sign "<" in a statement like "5 < 12". Relations that involve two places or roles are called binary relations by some and dyadic relations by others, the latter being historically prior but also useful when necessary to avoid confusion with binary (base 2) numerals.
Relation algebra In mathematics, relation algebra (RA) is an algebraic structure, a proper extension of the two-element Boolean algebra 2 intended to capture the mathematical properties of binary relations. RA consists of two binary operations, juxtaposition and relative product, two unary operations, complementation and converse, and the constant 1.
Relation construction In logic and mathematics, relation construction and relational constructibility have to do with the ways that one relation is determined by an indexed family or a sequence of other relations, called the relation dataset. The relation in the focus of consideration is called the faciendum.
Relation of Ideas A Relation of Ideas, in the Humean sense, is the type of knowledge that can be characterized as arising out of pure conceptual thought and logical operations (in contrast to a Matter of Fact). In a Kantian philosophy, it is equivalent to the analytic a priori.
Relation reduction In logic and mathematics, relation reduction and relational reducibility have to do with the extent to which a given relation is determined by an indexed family or a sequence of other relations, called the relation dataset. The relation under examination is called the reductandum.
Relational aggression Relational aggression is a term used to describe psychological (social/emotional) aggression between people in relationships. Relational aggression is a form of aggression where the group is used as a weapon to assault others and others' relationships.
Relational calculus The relational calculus refers to the two calculi, the tuple relational calculus and the domain relational calculus, that are part of the relational model for databases and that provide a declarative way to specify database queries. This in contrast to the relational algebra which is also part of the relational model but provides a more procedural way for specifying queries.
Relational database A relational database is a database that conforms to the relational model, and refers to a database's data and schema (the database's structure of how that data is arranged). Common usage of the term "Relational Database Management System" technically refers to the software used to create a relational database, but sometimes mistakenly refers to a relational database.
Relational frame theory Relational frame theory, or RFT, is a psychological theory of human language and cognition, developed largely through the efforts of Steven C. Hayes and Dermot Barnes-Holmes and currently being tested in about three dozen laboratories around the world.
Relational meeting The relational meeting is a primary organizing tool used by the Industrial Areas Foundation and also often in union organizing. It consists of a one-on-one, face-to-face meeting of two persons lasting at least 30 minutes, where personal topics and stories dealing with motivations and life are discussed in an often confessional, cathartic sort of manner.
Relational model The relational model for database management is a database model based on predicate logic and set theory. It was first formulated and proposed in 1969 by Edgar Codd with aims that included avoiding, without loss of completeness, the need to write computer programs to express database queries and enforce database integrity constraints.
Relational operator In computer programming languages, a relational operator symbol or a relational operator name is a lexical or syntactic unit that denotes a relation, for example, equality or greater than, among two or more domains, the members of which are typically denoted by further expressions. Expressions combined by means of a relational operator symbol form what is called a relational expression or a condition.
Relational Philosophy Relational Philosophy, as defined by the Persian-American philosopher Ardeshir Sepahsalar, is the history of humanity in its evolving exposure of the development of the Self-Unself (SU), the Self-Others (SO), and the Self-World (SW). Relational Systems
Relational space The relational theory of space is a metaphysical theory according to which space is composed of relations between objects, with the implication that it cannot exist in the absence of matter. Its opposite is the container theory.
Relational theory In physics and philosophy, a relational theory is a framework to understand reality or a physical system in such a way that the position and other properties of the objects are only meaningful relative to other objects. In a relational theory, space does not exist unless there are objects in it.
Relations between Catholicism and Judaism This article on relations between Catholicism and Judaism deals with the current relationship between the Catholic Church and Judaism, focusing on changes over the last fifty years, and especially during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II.
Relations of production Relations of production (German: Produktionsverhaltnisse) is a concept frequently used by Karl Marx in his theory of historical materialism and in Das Kapital. Beyond examining specific cases, Marx never defined the general concept exactly.
Relationship (archaeology) An archaeological relationship is the position in space and by implication, in time, of an object or context with respect to another. This is determined, not by linear measurement but by determining the sequence of their deposition - which arrived before the other.
Relationship breakup A relationship breakup (or otherwise simply known as a breakup) refers to the ending of a relationship, typically a romantic one. A breakup can vary between emotionally traumatic to consensual for those involved, especially if romantic love is involved.
Relationship counseling Relationship counseling is the process of counseling the parties of a relationship in an effort to recognize and to better manage or reconcile troublesome differences. The relationship involved may be between members of a family, couples, employees or employers in a workplace, or between a professional and a client.
Relationship marketing Relationship marketing is a form of marketing that evolved from direct response marketing in the 1960s and emerged in the 1980s, in which emphasis is placed on building longer term relationships with customers rather than on individual transactions. It involves understanding the customer's needs as they go through their life cycles.
Relationship Transgression According to Metts, relationship transgressions are offenses (major or minor) that disrupt the stability of a relationship because they involve violations of rules (explicit or taken for granted) for appropriate relational conduct.
Relationships Australia Relationships Australia (RA) began in 1948 under the name of Marriage Guidance Council. They are an Australian not-for profit organisation providing professional services to support relationships across Australia.
Relationships Foundation The Relationships Foundation is a British-based think tank founded by the Christian think tank the Jubilee Centre. It is aimed at changing the way society approaches social, economic and political issues by balancing the needs of economics and relationships.
Relative bearing indicator A Relative bearing indicator shows the bearing of some source relative to a vehicle carrying a detector. It is most commonly used in conjunction with an ADF (automatic direction finder) in an aircraft navigating with the aid of an NDB (non-directional beacon) and more details may be found in that Wikipedia article.
Relative contact homology In mathematics, in the area of symplectic topology, relative contact homology is an invariant of spaces together with a chosen subspace. Namely, it is associated to a contact manifold and one of its Legendrian submanifolds.
Relative dating Before the advent of absolute dating in the 20th century, archaeologists and geologists were largely limited to the use of Relative Dating techniques. Estimates of the order of prehistoric and geological events were determined by using basic stratigraphic rules, and by observing where fossil organisms lay in the geological record, stratified bands of rocks present throughout the world.
Relative density Relative density (also known as specific gravity) is a dimensionless ratio of the densities of two materials. It can help quantify the buoyancy between two materials, or determine the density of one "unknown" material using the "known" density of another material.
Relative deprivation Relative deprivation is the experience of being deprived of something to which one thinks he is entitled to [Walker & Smith 2001]. It is a term used in social sciences to describe feelings or measures of economic, political, or social deprivation that are relative rather than absolute.
Relative Degree Relative Degree is a rock band which included two of the current Linkin Park artists, drummer Rob Bourdon and guitarist Brad Delson. The band did not last long; its ultimate and only goal was to make a show at the Roxy theater in Hollywood.
Relative homology In algebraic topology, a branch of mathematics, the (singular) homology of a topological space relative to a subspace is a construction in singular homology, for pairs of spaces. It is somewhat analogous to forming quotient objects in other categories, a general way to gain insight into structures.

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