Alabama () is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.

Altruism () is the principle or practice of concern for the welfare of others.

Alaska () is the largest state in the United States by area.

Aquarius () is a constellation of the zodiac, situated between Capricornus and Pisces.

In the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, Aaron ( or ; Ahărōn, Hārūn, Greek ( Septuagint ): Ααρών ), who is often called "' Aaron the Priest "' () and once Aaron the Levite () ( Exodus 4: 14 ), was the older brother of Moses, ( Exodus 6: 16-20, 7: 7 ; Qur ' an 28: 34 ) and a prophet of God.

Achill Island () in County Mayo is the largest island off the coast of Ireland, and is situated off the west coast.

An abscess () is a collection of pus ( dead neutrophils ) that has accumulated in a cavity formed by the tissue in which the pus resides due to an infectious process ( usually caused by bacteria or parasites ) or other foreign materials ( e. g., splinters, bullet wounds, or injecting needles ).

Adelaide () is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia.

The name Rijndael () is a play on the names of the two inventors.

Anisotropy () is the property of being directionally dependent, as opposed to isotropy, which implies identical properties in all directions.

The word is originally Greek () and means " those hidden away ".

Abensberg () is a town in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim, in Bavaria, Germany, lying around 30 km southwest of Regensburg, 40 km east of Ingolstadt, 50 northwest of Landshut and 100 km north of Munich.

The Annales School () is a group of historians associated with a style of historiography developed by French historians in the 20th century.

Casa Batlló () is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904 – 1906 ; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia ( passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue ), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia ( the " Block of Discord ") in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain.

Anadyr () is a river in the far northeast Siberia which flows into Anadyr Bay of the Bering Sea and drains much of the interior of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

In ancient Greek mythology, ambrosia () is sometimes the food or drink of the Greek gods ( or demigods ), often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whomever consumed it.

Agate () is a microcrystalline variety of silica, chiefly chalcedony, characterised by its fineness of grain and brightness of color.

Dau Miu () is a Chinese vegetable that has become popular since the early 1990s, and now not only appears on English-language menus, usually as " pea shoots ", but is often served by upscale non-Asian restaurants as well.

The ' far-away light ' () is a reference to St Elmo's Fire, an electrical discharge supposed by ancient Greek mariners to be an epiphany of the Dioscuri, but the meaning of the line was obscured by gaps in the papyrus until reconstructed by a modern scholar — such reconstructions are typical of the extant poetry ( see Scholars, fragments and sources below ).

Alexander () is a common male first name, and less common surname derived from the Greek " Αλέξανδρος " ( Aléxandros ).

An antipope () or anti-pope is a person who, in opposition to the one who is generally seen as the legitimately elected Pope, makes a significantly accepted competing claim to be the Pope, the Bishop of Rome and leader of the Catholic Church.

In molecular biology, DNA ligase is a specific type of enzyme, a ligase, () that facilitates the joining of DNA strands together by catalyzing the formation of a phosphodiester bond.

In cell biology, an organelle () is a specialized subunit within a cell that has a specific function, and is usually separately enclosed within its own lipid bilayer.

* Type II enzymes () cleave within or at short specific distances from recognition site ; most require magnesium ; single function ( restriction ) enzymes independent of methylase.

For example, the Earth's mean specific gravity () is far higher than the typical specific gravity of rocks at the surface (), implying that the deeper material is denser.

Alum () is both a specific chemical compound and a class of chemical compounds.

Liturgy () is the customary public worship done by a specific religious group, according to its particular traditions.

* Mean anomaly at epoch () defines the position of the orbiting body along the ellipse at a specific time ( the " epoch ").

Although modern scholars interpret the " blood on our children " () as " a specific group's oath of responsibility " some audiences have historically interpreted it as " an assumption of eternal, racial guilt ".

Under standard assumptions, specific orbital energy () of elliptic orbit is negative and the orbital energy conservation equation ( the Vis-viva equation ) for this orbit can take the form:

The World Health Organization's ICD-10 lists narcissistic personality disorder under () Other specific personality disorders.

In addition, the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 1991 () which authorized United States combat operations against Iraqi forces during the 1991 Gulf War, stated that it constituted specific statutory authorization within the meaning of the War Powers Resolution.

Due to his family's specific interest and knowledge of Finnish history Ior Bockström-Svedlin became privately engaged with the history of the 18th century sea fortress Sveaborg () in Helsinki.

In the modern Chinese languages, words known as classifiers or measure words () are used along with numbers to define the quantity of a given object, or with demonstratives such as " this " and " that " to identify specific objects.

Smriti () literally " that which is remembered ," refers to a specific body of Hindu religious scripture, and is a codified component of Hindu customary law.

A polemic () is a contentious argument that is intended to establish the truth of a specific belief and the falsity of the contrary belief.

In addition, Law No. 11 / 2003 ( 13 May 2003 ) allows the municipalities to organize themselves into inter-municipal communities (), that can be of general or specific purposes ; and metropolitan areas (), that can be of two types: great metropolitan areas () and urban communities ().

The object of the game is to score by () pool balls into specific pockets.

City gods or town gods () are deities in Chinese mythology, responsible for the affairs of specific cities.

Under standard assumptions, specific orbital energy () of parabolic trajectory is zero, so the orbital energy conservation equation for this trajectory takes form:

Under standard assumptions, specific orbital energy () of a hyperbolic trajectory is greater than zero and the orbital energy conservation equation for this kind of trajectory takes form:

Note that, since the kinetic energy is, C < sub > 3 </ sub > is in fact equal to twice the magnitude of the specific orbital energy () of the escaping object.

Under standard assumptions, specific orbital energy () of elliptic orbit is negative and the orbital energy conservation equation ( the Vis-viva equation ) for this orbit can take the form:

The specific orbital energy () is negative, and