Glossary


 * __Overall __****: 1. **From one end to the other: the overall length of the house.
 * 2.** Including everything; comprehensive: the overall costs of medical care.**3.** Regarded as a whole; general: My overall impression was favorable.
 * __Unforeseen__ ** - not anticipated; "unanticipated and disconcerting lines of development"- H.W.Glidden; "unforeseen circumstances"; "a virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy"; "like a bolt out of the blue".
 * __Tax __** is to impose a financial charge or other levy upon a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a state or the functional equivalent of a state such that failure to pay is punishable by law.
 * __Outcome: __** something that follows from an action, dispute, situation, etc.; result; consequence.
 * __Renowned: __** having a widespread, esp good, reputation; famous.
 * __Consumption: __** **1. ** the act of consuming or the state of being consumed, esp by eating, burning, etc.
 * 2. ** (Economics) //Economics// expenditure on goods and services for final personal use
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">3. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> the quantity consumed
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">4. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (Medicine / Pathology) //Pathol// a condition characterized by a wasting away of the tissues of the body, esp as seen in tuberculosis of the lungs.
 * __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Polycentric: __** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Having many centers, especially of authority or control: //the shift from Soviet-American hegemony to a polycentric world.//
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">2. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Having several central parts, such as centrosomes or chromatids.
 * __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Empirical __****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">: ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> derived from or relating to experiment and observation rather than theory
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">2. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (Medicine) (of medical treatment) based on practical experience rather than scientific proof
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">3. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (Philosophy) //Philosophy//
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">a. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (of knowledge) derived from experience rather than by logic from first principles Compare a priori, a posteriori