Increment
in economy, an increase of value, particularly an increase in the value of real estate . See Unearned Increment
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Increment
in mathematics, a quantity, generally variable, added to the independent variable in a variable expression. The function also undergoes a corresponding change, which is called an increment or decrement, according as the function is increasing or decreasing. When the increment or decrement is infinitely small, it is called a differential.
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Increment
UNEARNED, the increase in the rent of land due to the growth of industrial undertakings and of towns, and the general progress of society.
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Incubation
in pathology, the maturation of morbific matter introduced into the system. The word has reference, also, to the act of sleeping for oracular dreams. Artificial incubation is the hatching of eggs by means of heat artificially applied. The Egyptians have long done so successfully by means of heated eggs by incubation has become a lucrative business in many sections of the United States. Period of incubation, in pathology, interval that elapses between this is the the introduction of morbific matter into the body, and the commencement of the disease thence resulting.
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Incus
one of the small bones of the ear. It stands between the malleus and the stapes, and is connected with them by articular surfaces.
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Indemnity
an act designed to relieve the government or any of its officers from penalties when they have been compelled by exceptional circumstances to omit the performance of some duty, or to violate or even to suspend some law.
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Indented
in heraldry, a term signifying notched like the teeth of a saw, but smaller than dancette. Applied to one of the lines of partition; ordinaries are also thus borne.
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Indenture
a deed entered into between two or more parties, and so called because duplicates of every deed between two or more parties were once written on one skin, which was cut in half, with a jagged or indented edge; so that they were seen to belong to one another.
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Independence
DECLARATION OF. See DECLARATION OF INDEPEND- ENCE.
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Independence (City of Kansas the county seat)
a city of Kansas, the county seat of Montgomery co. It is on the Verdigris River, and on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and the Missouri Pacific railroads. It is the center of an important gas and oil field region. Its industries include cotton mills, planing mills, flour mills, a glass factory, cement plants, machine shops, etc. It has hospitals, a public library, an excellent park system, a courthouse, high schools etc. Pop. (1910) 10,480; (1920) 11,920.
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Independence Hall
a famous public hall in Philadelphia. It was the capitol building of the colony of Pennsylvania. It is a low, plain, brick structure. It was erected 1729-34. During the Revolutionary War it was occupied by the Continental Congress. The Declaration of Independence was signed here, and was read to the people from the front steps. The old " Liberty Bell " hung in the tower and now occupies a place of honor in the main hall. The building has been converted into a historical museum.
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Independent Seconds & Inertia
Independent Seconds A movement having a seconds hand that is driven by a separate train. Inertia That property of matter by which it tends when in rest to remain so, or when set in motion to continue so.
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Indeterminate
in mathematics, having an indefinite number of values or solutions. Indeterminate analysis is a branch of algebra in which there are always given a greater number of unknown quantities than there are independent equations, by which means the number of solutions is indefinite.
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Indeterminate Sentence
a sentence of a person convicted of crime which is not a definite, but an indefinite length of time. Under the preceding practice of courts all prisoners were sentenced for a definite time, but in places where the indeterminate sentence is in use the judge simply gives the sentence as the law establishes it, e. g., not less than five nor more than twelve years. This method allows the judge to free the prisoner if he has demonstrated the genuineness of his reform and to hold him to the maximum sentence if he has not. This method has been approved by all the eminent penologists who maintain that reform of the prisoner is the aim of penology.
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Index Prohibitorius
a list of be read by Roman books which may not Catholics, cleric or lay, on pain of excommunication. The first Index Librorum (1564) in the Prohibitorum was published and various edipontificate of Pius IV., tions have since appeared.
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India
A name used by the Greeks and Romans, much as the modern term East Indies, to describe the whole of the southeast part of Asia , including the two peninsulas of Hindustan and of Burmah, Cochin- China, Siam, and Malacca, and also the islands of the Indian Archipelago.
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India Linen
a variety of fine cotton lawn, bleached pure white, and finished with considerable starch. It is used for women's and children's gowns. It is sometimes dyed black or in plain colors. The same fabric is also called India linon. Sailboat, Bombay. Zebu cart of a rich Indian. East Indian civilization
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India Rubber
. See Rubber
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Indian Architecture
that form of the building art existing in, and to a certain extent peculiar to, India. No remains exist earlier than the 3d century B. C., when the Emperor Asoka made Buddhism the religion of India. After that period there arose (1) Buddhist architecture, followed by (2) the Jaina Architecture. Of styles more distinctively Hindu there were fourviz., (3) the Southern, (4) the Northern, and (5) the Modern Hindu; and (6) the Cashmirian. Temples, etc., of the Southern Hindu style exist within the area formed by a line drawn E. and W. from Madras to Mangalore, constituting a triangle, having each side 400 miles. The chief race is the Tamul. The temples are divided into a square Viman (the temple proper), with a pyramidal roof of one or more stories, mantapas (porches), gopuras (gate pyramids), and choultries (pillared halls). The most splendid example is the temple at Tanjore, its base being a square of 82 feet. The finest temples are in Orissa, especially Bobaneswar, built about A. D. 657. They have a curved spire, sometimes surrounded by other spires. The Modern Hindu style is this ancient one modified by Mohammedan styles.
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