According to the classification given by the Geological Survey of Italy, much of the territory consists of ground-type LPS, or paleosols, the rest is mainly composed of soils lp, lapilli, argillificate, Mafic, and leucite analcimizzata.

* Mafic, a geological / mineralogical term

My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.

It is important to note that these are " politically correct " terms and that in normal parlance, the adjective " American " and its direct cognates are almost always used unless the context does not render the nationality of the person clear.

In English the adjective used to indicate relation to the United States is U. S.

Specifically, is the neuter plural of, an adjective related to the verb ἀποκρύπτω ἀποκρύπτειν ( apocriptein ), " to hide something away.

( The two-syllable form learnèd, usually written without the grave, is used as an adjective to mean " educated " or to refer to academic institutions in both BrE and AmE.

The adjective alkaline is commonly used in English as a synonym for base, especially for soluble bases.

The word British is an adjective referring in various ways to the United Kingdom, or the island of Great Britain, and its people.

For example, although the words wee and little are interchangeable in some contexts, wee ( as an adjective ) is almost exclusively written by some people from some parts of northern Britain ( and especially Scotland ) or from Northern Ireland, whereas in Southern England and Wales, little is used predominantly.

The word " Bahá ' í " is used either as an adjective to refer to the Bahá ' í Faith or as a term for a follower of Bahá ' u ' lláh.

Bavarian is the adjective form of the German state of Bavaria, and refers to people of ancestry from Bavaria.

It is said by some that Bayonne is the birthplace of mayonnaise, supposedly a corruption of Bayonnaise, the French adjective describing the city's people and produce.

The word “ classics ” is derived from the Latin adjective classicus: “ belonging to the highest class of citizens ”, connoting superiority, authority, and perfection.

The corresponding adjective is canonical.

The relating adjective is consular, from the Latin consularis ( which has been used, substantiated, as a title in its own right ).

Context-sensitive is an adjective meaning " depending on context " or " depending on circumstances ".

The word maritime is an adjective that simply means " of the sea ", thus any land associated with the sea can be considered a maritime state or province ( e. g. All the provinces of Canada except Alberta and Saskatchewan border water ).

The word catholic ( derived via Late Latin catholicus, from the Greek adjective ( katholikos ), meaning " universal ") comes from the Greek phrase ( katholou ), meaning " on the whole ", " according to the whole " or " in general ", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning " about " and meaning " whole ".

A Gallo-Latin adjective carnuātus, " horned ," is also found.

The word " divine " in the New Testament is the Greek word θείας (" theias "), and is the adjective form of " divinity ".

Diacritic is primarily an adjective, though sometimes used as a noun, whereas diacritical is always and only an adjective.

But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.

Indeed, in the Halma edition of Theon's presentation of The Hypotheses there is a chart setting out ( under six distinct headings ) otherwise unrelated diagrams for describing the planetary motions.

Accordingly we may speak of the Platonism peculiar to Shelley's poems or the type of Stoicism present in Henley's `` Invictus '', and we may find that describing such Platonism or such Stoicism and contrasting each with other expressions of the same attitude or mode of thought is a difficult and challenging enterprise.

This is what was meant, above, by describing history as inferential.

This way of describing the matter is unfortunate.

While the Arrhenius concept is useful for describing many reactions, it is also quite limited in its scope.

The barn is commonly used in describing the cross sectional area of interaction in nuclear physics.

" It is ambiguous whether he means the ambrosia itself is rosy-red, or if he is describing a rosy-red nectar Hermes drinks along with the ambrosia.

After describing the manifestation of the Gospel in the Ogdoad and Hebdomad, he adds that the Basilidians have a long account of the innumerable creations and powers in the several ' stages ' of the upper world ( diastemata ), in which they speak of 365 heavens and say that " their great archon " is Abrasax, because his name contains the number 365, the number of the days in the year ; i. e. the sum of the numbers denoted by the Greek letters in ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ according to the rules of isopsephy is 365:

The concept and theory of Kolmogorov Complexity is based on a crucial theorem first discovered by Ray Solomonoff, who published it in 1960, describing it in " A Preliminary Report on a General Theory of Inductive Inference " as part of his invention of algorithmic probability.

( Hume 1974: 330-332 ) Here he is describing what would become known as the problem of induction.

Critias mentions an allegedly historical tale that would make the perfect example, and follows by describing Atlantis as is recorded in the Critias.

The earliest known autobiography in English is the early 15th-century Booke of Margery Kempe, describing among other things her pilgrimage to the Holy Land and visit to Rome.

The imperative style is often used when describing abstract algorithms.

The legend is linked to an idea in the Book of Revelation ( 3: 12 and 21: 2 ) describing a Second Coming, wherein Jesus establishes a new Jerusalem.

Alcopop is a colloquial term describing certain flavored alcoholic beverages, including:

Rules can range from the very simple, as in tic-tac-toe, to those describing a game universe in great detail, as in Dungeons & Dragons ( although most of the latter are role-playing games where the board is secondary to the game, helping to visualize the game scenario ).

" At bat ", " up ", " up at bat ", and " at the plate " are all phrases describing a batter who is facing the pitcher.

This passage begins by describing Scyld ’ s glory as a “ scourge of many tribes, a wrecker of mead-benches .” Scyld ’ s glory and importance is shown by the prestigious death he obtains through his service as the king of the Danes.

The difficulty in conceiving of or describing an object without also conceiving of or describing its properties is a common justification for bundle theory, especially among current philosophers in the Anglo-American tradition.