Entertainment / Literature / Trope: Trope has two meanings: (1) a rhetorical device or figure of speech involving shifts in the meaning of words--click on the tropes link for examples, (2) a short dialogue inserted into the church mass during the early Middle Ages as a sort of mini-drama.
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Science / Chemistry / Allotrope: Some elements occur in several distinct forms called allotropes. Allotropes have different chemical and physical properties. For example, graphite and diamond are allotropes of carbon. MORE
Science / Chemistry / Azeotrope: A solution that does not change composition when distilled. For example, if a 95% (w/w) ethanol solution in water is boilled, the vapor produced also is 95% ethanol- and it is not possible to obtain h MORE
Entertainment / Photography / Zoetrope: Is an early device for creating illusion of continuous motion. A sequence of still pictures was viewed so quickly through slits in a rotating drum, that the images appeared to merge. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Hyperbole: The trope of exaggeration or overstatement. See tropes for examples. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Neologism: A made-up word that is not a part of normal, everyday vocabulary. Often Shakespeare invented new words in his place for artistic reasons. For instance, 'I hold her as a thing enskied.' The word enskie MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Synecdoche: A rhetorical trope involving a part of an object representing the whole, or the whole of an object representing a part. For instance, a writer might state, 'Twenty eyes watched our every move.' Rather MORE