Solidity
31stability — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Permanence Nouns 1. stability; immutability, unchangeableness, constancy, firmness, equilibrium, immobility, soundness, vitality, stiffness, solidity, aplomb; establishment, fixture; homeostasis;… …
32massive — massive, massy, bulky, monumental, substantial are comparable when they mean impressively large or heavy. Massive distinctively stresses solidity and strength of construction and may imply an imposing appearance {its ceilings . . . heavy with… …
33Naïve physics — or folk physics is the untrained human perception of basic physical phenomena. In the field of artificial intelligence the study of naïve physics is a part of the effort to formalize the common knowledge of human beings. Many ideas of folk… …
34Kitty Pryde — Superherobox| caption=Kitty Pryde with Lockheed Art by Paul Smith. character name=Shadowcat real name=Katherine Kitty Anne Pryde species=Human Mutant publisher=Marvel Comics debut= Uncanny X Men #129 (Jan. 1980) creators=John Byrne alliances=X… …
35Amédée Ozenfant — Guitar and Bottles (Guitare et bouteilles), 1920. Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Amédée Ozenfant (15 April 1886 – 4 May 1966) was a French cubist painter. He was born into a bourgeois family in Saint Quentin, Aisne and was educated at… …
36epistemology — epistemological /i pis teuh meuh loj i keuhl/, adj. epistemologically, adv. epistemologist, n. /i pis teuh mol euh jee/, n. a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge. [1855 60; < Gk… …
37Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …
38Windpump — An Aermotor Windmill Company water pumping windmill in Texas near Denton. A windpump is a windmill used for pumping water, either as a source of fresh water from wells, or for draining low lying areas of land. Once a common fixture on farms in… …
39firmness — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Firmness of position] Syn. solidity, steadiness, durability, substantiality; see stability 1 . 2. [Firmness of material] Syn. stiffness, impliability, hardness, toughness, solidity, density, impenetrability, durability,… …
40so|lid|i|ty — «suh LIHD uh tee», noun, plural ties. 1. the condition or quality of being solid; firmness or hardness; density: »the solidity of marble or steel. Transparency is one goal of the architect, says Breuer, “but transparency needs also solidity”… …
