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101Mendel, Mendelism — • Gregor Johann Mendel (the first name was taken on entrance to his order), b. 22 July, 1822, at Heinzendorf near Odrau, in Austrian Silesia; d. 6 January 1884, at the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas, Brunn Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight.… …
102antipodal — adjective a) On opposite sides of the globe b) diametrically opposite …
103antipathetic — I (distasteful) adjective abhorrent, bitter, disagreeable, disgusting, displeasing, hateful, loathsome, odious, offensive, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, undesirable, uninviting, unsatisfactory, virulent II (oppositional) adjective adverse,… …
104antipodal — Synonyms and related words: antipodean, antithetic, antithetical, confronting, contradictory, contrapositive, contrary, converse, counter, diametric, diametrically opposite, eyeball to eyeball, facing, inverse, obverse, opposing, opposite, polar …
105Eysoldt, Gertrud — (1870 1950) Actress. Eysoldt was best known for her androgynous portrayals of Puck in A Midsummer Night s Dream and Lulu in Erdgeist (Earth Spirit), both under Max Reinhardt s direction. In them she was the abandoned yet resourceful waif, the… …
106antipodal — an·tip·o·dal || æn tɪpÉ™dl adj. diametrically opposite, polar; on the opposite side of the globe …
107stereographic projection — Perspective projections in which a graticule of reduced earth is projected onto a plane tangential to reduced earth at a point from a point diametrically opposite to the point of tangency. In such a projection, the meridians and parallels are… …
108nadir — (NAY der, NAY deer) [Arabic: opposite (the zenith)] On the celestial sphere, the point exactly beneath the position of the observer and diametrically opposite the zenith; the lowest point By extension, the time of greatest personal or societal …
109antipodal — a. Opposite, over against, diametrically opposite, contrary in the utmost …
110positron — n. an electrically charged particle released in some radioactive decays, notably fluorine 18 or nitrogen 13, that has the same mass as an electron but opposite charge. It has a very short lifetime as it quickly reacts with an electron to produce… …
