Entertainment / Literature / Terminus Ad Quem: The latest possible date that a literary work could have been written, a potential ending point for dating a manuscript or text. Latin for 'boundary up to this point.'
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Lifestyle / Wine Grapes / Parellada: White-wine grape mainly grown in the Catalunya region of Spain. Suited to cool climates it produces low yields that contribute to making good balanced sparkling wines (ie: cavas) capable of some agein MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Paradox: Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level. Common paradoxes seem to reveal a deeper truth through their contradictions, such as noting that 'without laws, we can have no MORE
Technology / Television (TV) / Paradigmatic Structure: In semiotics, a manner in which signs are organized and meaning created. Paradigmatic structures create meaning through association, in contrast to syntagmatic structures which create meaning through MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Paradigmatic Change: In linguistics, these are language changes brought about because a sound or a word was associated with a different sound or word. Algeo provides the following example: . . . The side of a ship on whic MORE
Technology / Home Audio / Passive Radiator: A type of bass reflex speaker enclosure that includes a 'passive' woofer in addition to the main woofer. The passive woofer isn't powered, but moves in response to changes in air pressure inside the c MORE
Business / Human Resources (HR) / Pay Adjustment: Any change made to the pay rate of an employee, such as an increase or decrease to the rate of pay. MORE