11) triangle, in music. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...triangle, in music, in music, percussion instrument consisting of a steel rod bent into a triangle, open at one angle, and struck with a steel rod. Only since the...
12) spirit level. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...tool for determining whether a surface is horizontal. It consists essentially of a slightly bent transparent tube that is held in a frame. The tube contains some...
13) layering. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...a plant by rooting a branch before severing it from the mother plant. Typically the branch is bent and a section that has been slit or broken on the underside is...
14) bassoon. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...instrument that plays in the bass and tenor registers. Its 8-ft (2.4-m) conical tube is bent double, the instrument thus being about 4 ft (1.2 m) high. It evolved...
15) Fisher, Dorothy Canfield. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...b. Lawrence, Kans., grad. Ohio State, 1899, Ph.D. Columbia, 1904. Her novels include The Bent Twig (1915), The Deepening Stream (1930), Seasoned Timber (1939), and...
16) Murphy, William Parry. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Wis., M.D. Harvard, 1920. He taught at Harvard from 1923 and was associated with the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, in Boston, from 1922. He made special studies of...
17) Cornell, Ezra. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Landing, N.Y. Cornell, who began life as a laborer, was of an ingenious mechanical bent and had a shrewd business mind. He aided in constructing (1844) the telegraph...
18) flamingo. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...related heron, stork, and spoonbill but with a longer neck, webbed feet, and a unique down-bent bill. Flamingos are tropical birds, although large colonies have been...
19) prism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...The light becomes separated because different wavelengths or frequencies are refracted (bent) by different amounts as they enter the prism obliquely and again as...
20) Irene, Byzantine empress. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Constantine VI, and later was made (792) joint ruler. Devoted to the Orthodox Church, she bent most of her efforts to suppressing iconoclasm. In 797 Irene had her...
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