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Created by: Karl Schaeffer

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Archibabble is used to describe the overly expressive, pretencious words used by many architects within the architecture field. The word is a play on the words architecture and babble.

Domain: Language; Category: Terminology Collected Term

Fenestration is the design, proportioning, and disposition (arrangement) of openings in a building.

Domain: Language; Category: Terminology Collected Term

Truncated is having the apex, vertex, or end cut off by a plane; or stopping short from a completed expression.

Domain: Language; Category: Terminology Collected Term

When a building or some portion of it, or a wall or fence, extends beyond the land of the owner and illegally intrudes upon that of an adjoining owner.

Domain: Law; Category: Contracts Collected Term

A lahar is a type of mudflow or debris flow composed of a slurry of pyroclastic material, rocky debris, and water. The material flows down from a volcano, typically along a river valley. Lahars are ...

Domain: Natural environment; Category: Volcano Collected Term

In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapour that falls under gravity. The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, graupel and ...

Domain: Weather; Category: General weather Collected Term

The white streaks you see coming off high-flying jet airplanes are called contrails, which is short for condensation trail. Contrails are clouds that formed when water vapor condenses and freezes ...

Domain: Weather; Category: Clouds Collected Term

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