diagnostic procedure diagnostic technique | a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis |
split-brain technique | brain surgery on animals in which the corpus callosum (and sometimes the optic chiasm) is severed so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted |
desensitization technique desensitisation technique desensitization procedure desensitisation procedure systematic desensitization systematic desensitisation | a technique used in behavior therapy to treat phobias and other behavior problems involving anxiety, client is exposed to the threatening situation under relaxed conditions until the anxiety reaction is extinguished |
projective test projective device projective technique | any personality test designed to yield information about someone's personality on the basis of their unrestricted response to ambiguous objects or situations |
proficiency technique | skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity, practice greatly improves proficiency |
technique | a practical method or art applied to some particular task |
Alexander Archipelago | a group of islands off southeastern Alaska |
Alexander Alexander the Great | king of Macedon, conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia, founder of Alexandria (- BC) |
Alexander I Czar Alexander I Aleksandr Pavlovich | the czar of Russia whose plans to liberalize the government of Russia were unrealized because of the wars with Napoleon (-) |
Alexander II Czar Alexander II Alexander the Liberator | the son of Nicholas I who, as czar of Russia, introduced reforms that included limited emancipation of the serfs (-) |
Alexander III Czar Alexander III | son of Alexander II who was czar of Russia (-) |
Alexander VI Pope Alexander VI Borgia Rodrigo Borgia | Pope and father of Cesare Borgia and Lucrezia Borgia (-) |
Bell Alexander Bell Alexander Graham Bell | United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (-) |
Bell Melville Bell Alexander Melville Bell | a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (-) |
Blok Alexander Alexandrovich Blok Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok | Russian poet (-) |
Calder Alexander Calder | United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (-) |
Craigie William A. Craigie Sir William Alexander Craigie | English lexicographer who was a joint editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (-) |
Fleming Alexander Fleming Sir Alexander Fleming | Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin (-) |
Hamilton Alexander Hamilton | United States statesman and leader of the Federalists, as the first Secretary of the Treasury he establish a federal bank, was mortally wounded in a duel with Aaron Burr (-) |
Humboldt Baron Alexander von Humboldt Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt | German naturalist who explored Central and South America and provided a comprehensive description of the physical universe (-) |
Korda Sir Alexander Korda Sandor Kellner | British filmmaker (born in Hungary) (-) |
Low David Low Sir David Low Sir David Alexander Cecil Low | British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (-) |
Mackenzie Sir Alexander Mackenzie | Canadian explorer (born in England) who explored the Mackenzie River and who was first to cross North America by land north of Mexico (-) |
Milne A. A. Milne Alan Alexander Milne | English writer of stories for children (-) |
Pope Alexander Pope | English poet and satirist (-) |
Pushkin Alexander Pushkin Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin | Russian poet (-) |
Schumann Robert Schumann Robert Alexander Schumann | German romantic composer known for piano music and songs (-) |
Selkirk Selcraig Alexander Selkirk Alexander Selcraig | Scottish sailor who was put ashore on a deserted island off the coast of Chile for five years (providing the basis for Daniel Defoe's novel about Robinson Crusoe) (-) |
Simon Herb Simon Herbert A. Simon Herbert Alexander Simon | United States economist and psychologist who pioneered in the development of cognitive science (-) |
Solzhenitsyn Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn | Soviet writer and political dissident whose novels exposed the brutality of Soviet labor camps (born in ) |
Todd Sir Alexander Robertus Todd Lord Todd | Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in ) |
Ustinov Sir Peter Ustinov Peter Alexander Ustinov | British actor and playwright (-) |
Wilson Alexander Wilson | Scottish ornithologist in the United States (-) |
Woollcott Alexander Woollcott | United States drama critic and journalist (-) |
Alexander Alexanders black lovage horse parsley Smyrnium olusatrum | European herb somewhat resembling celery widely naturalized in Britain coastal regions and often cultivated as a potherb |
powder photography powder method powder technique | a process for identifying minerals or crystals, a small rod is coated with a powdered form of the substance and subjected to suitably modified Xays, the pattern of diffracted rings is used for identification |