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farce
Light dramatic composition that uses highly improbable situations, stereotyped characters, violent horseplay, and broad humor. Farce is generally regarded as intellectually and aesthetically inferior to comedy in its crude characterizations and implausible plots, but it has remained popular throughout the West from ancient times to the present.
larch
Any of about 10-12 species of coniferous trees that make up the genus Larix of the pine family, native to cool temperate and sub-Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Though the larch has the pyramid shape typical of conifers, it sheds its short, light-green, needlelike leaves in autumn. The most widespread N. Amer. larch, the tamarack, or eastern larch (L. laricina), matures in 100-200 years, may grow 40-100 ft (12-30 m) tall, and has gray to reddish-brown bark. Coarse-grained, strong, hard, and heavy, larch wood is useful in ship construction and for telephone poles, mine timbers, and railroad ties.
march
Musical form with an even meter with strongly accented beats to facilitate military marching. Development of the European march may have been stimulated by the Ottoman invasions of the 14th-16th cent. Marches were not notated until the late 16th cent.; until then, time was generally kept by percussion alone, often with improvised fife embellishment. With the extensive development of brass instruments especially in the 19th cent., marches became widely popular and were often elaborately orchestrated. Such composers as W. A. Mozart, L. van Beethoven, J. Strauss, and G. Mahler wrote marches, often incorporating them into their operas, sonatas, or symphonies. The later popularity of J. P. Sousa's band marches was unmatched.
air
Mixture of gases constituting the earth's atmosphere. Some gases occur in steady concentrations. The most important are molecular nitrogen (N2), 78% by volume, and molecular oxygen (O2), 21%. Small amounts of argon (Ar; 1.9%), neon (Ne), helium (He), methane (CH4), krypton (Kr), hydrogen (H2), nitrous oxide (N2O), and xenon (Xe) are also present in almost constant proportions. Other gases occur in variable concentrations: water vapor (H2O), ozone (O3), carbon dioxide (CO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2). Air also contains trace amounts of ammonia and hydrogen sulfide. The variable constituents are important for maintaining life. Water vapor is the source for all forms of precipitation and is an important absorber and emitter of infrared radiation. Carbon dioxide is necessary for photosynthesis and is also an important absorber and emitter of infrared radiation. Ozone in the stratosphere (see ozone layer) is an effective absorber of ultraviolet radiation from the sun, but at ground-level is a corrosive pollutant and a major constituent of smog.
arcade
Series of arches, supported by columns or piers, joined together end to end in a row. When supporting a ...
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