| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| English general during World War II; won victories over Rommel in North Africa and led British ground forces in the invasion of Normandy (1887-1976) |
1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
,
Bernard Law Montgomery
,
Montgomery
,
Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
|
| reasoning from specific to general, concerning |
a posteriori
,
empirical
,
inductive
|
| argument from particular to general, of an |
a posteriori
,
empirical
,
inductive
,
pedagogical
|
| United States general in the American Civil War who was defeated by Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Fredericksburg (1824-1881) |
A. E. Burnside
,
Ambrose Everett Burnside
,
Burnside
|
| general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples |
abstraction
|
| general or abstract concept or term |
abstraction
|
| process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances |
abstraction
,
generalisation
,
generalization
|
| idea having general application |
abstraction
,
generalization
|
| general's adjutant; chief administrative officer |
adjutant general
|
| Roman general who was governor of Britain and extended Roman rule north to the Firth of Forth (37-93) |
Agricola
,
Gnaeus Julius Agricola
|
| Roman general who commanded the fleet that defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium (63-12 BC) |
Agrippa
,
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
|
| physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy (later called photons) (1879-1955) |
Albert Einstein
,
Einstein
|
| Austrian general who fought for the Hapsburgs during the Thirty Years' War (1583-1634) |
Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein
,
Wallenstein
|
| ancient Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War (circa 450-404 BC) |
Alcibiades
|
| general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume |
ale
|
| series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2) |
alkane
,
alkane series
,
methane series
,
paraffin
,
paraffin series
|
| any of a series of univalent groups of the general formula CnH2n+1 derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons |
alkyl
,
alkyl group
,
alkyl radical
|
| yearly publication of general information, especially astronomical and weather |
almanac
|
| general pardon |
amnesty
|
| argument from general to particular, of an |
analytical
,
a priori
,
deductive
|
