Word Finder - assemblages

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The process of assembling or bringing together.

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the assemblage of words and recordings

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A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.

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A gathering of people.

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A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often found, elements into works of art.

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A group of different artifacts found in association with one another.

Three assemblages are held annually.

Assemblages of marine plants form another remarkable feature of Tibet, these being frequently met with growing at elevations of 14,000 to 15,000 ft.

A majority of the artists are content to copy old pictures of Buddhas sixteen disciples, the seven gods of happiness, and other similar assemblages of mythical or historical personages, not only because such work offers large opportunity for the use of striking colors and the production of meretricious effects, dear to the eye of the average Western householder and tourist, but also because a complicated design, as compared with a simple one, has the advantage of hiding the technical imperfections of the ware.

But the idealists are only too glad to get any excuse for denying bodily substances and causes; and, while Leibnitz supplied them with the fancied analysis of material into immaterial elements, and Hume with the reduction of bodies to assemblages of sensations, Mach adds the additional argument that bodily forces are not causes at all.

The word "species" now signifies a grade or rank in classification assigned by systematists to an assemblage of organic forms which they judge to be more closely interrelated by common descent than they are related to forms judged to be outside the species, and of which the known individuals, if they differ amongst themselves, differ less markedly than they do from those outside the species, or, if differing markedly, are linked by intermediate forms. It is to be noted that the individuals may themselves be judged to fall into groups of minor rank, known as sub-species or local varieties, but such subordinate assemblages are elevated to specific rank, if they appear not to intergrade so as to form a linked.

With the development of observational astronomy the sidereal universe was arbitrarily divided into areas characterized by special assemblages of stars; these assemblages were named asterisms by Ptolemy, who termed the brightest stars "of the fi rst magnitude," and the progressively fainter Stars.

The practical application of mechanics may be divided into two classes, according as the assemblages of material In view of the great authority of the author, the late Professor Macquorn Rankine, it has been thought desirable to retain the greater part of this article as it appeared in the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia.

General Pr-inciples.----Willis designated as aggregate combinations those assemblages of pieces of mechanism in which the motion of one follower is the resultant of component motions impressed on it by more than one driver.

The reason for this was that some of the first Tertiary floras to be examined were certainly Miocene, and, when these plants had been studied, it was considered that somewhat similar assemblages found elsewhere in deposits of doubtful geological age must also be Miocene.

This review incorporates new data on morphological diversity in galls from several large assemblages of Cretaceous and early Tertiary angiosperm leaves.

There is no clear evidence of corresponding shifts in tool function or the faunal assemblages.

The total absence of authentic Upper Paleolithic assemblages is equally significant.

Prior to the onset of the 19 th Century, diatom assemblages suggest a little or no change in water acidity.

The whole site is biologically rich, with many woodland plant communities represented and rich bryophyte and lichen assemblages.

Fourteen different bryophyte zones have been identified in the UK (Ratcliffe 1968 ), with distinct differences in the bryophyte assemblages within them.

The species assemblages of the Lickey heaths where not decimated by tree planting are a unique resource.

This suggests that most Mode 1 assemblages are a result of environmental adaptations by Pleistocene hominids in the region.

The compositional trends are very marked at Tell Brak with certain cereal taxa dominating the assemblages.

Jane Bevan Spatial and temporal dynamics of terricolous lichen assemblages and their bioprotective role in the El Cantino badlands, S E Spain.