Star schema

Star schema

"The star schema (sometimes referenced as star join schema) is the simplest style of data warehouse schema."

Extended Backus–Naur Form

Extended Backus–Naur Form

"In computer science, Extended Backus–Naur Form (EBNF) is a metasyntax notation used to express context-free grammars: that is, a formal way to describe computer programming languages and other formal languages."

Anxiolytic

Anxiolytic

"An anxiolytic (or antianxiety agent) is a drug prescribed for the treatment of symptoms of anxiety."

High dynamic range imaging

High dynamic range imaging

"In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of luminances between light and dark areas of a scene than normal digital imaging techniques."

Juzo Itami

Juzo Itami

"Juzo Itami (伊丹 十三 ,Itami Jūzō?, May 15, 1933 – December 20, 1997) was an actor and (later) a popular modern Japanese film director. Many critics came to regard him as Japan's greatest director since Akira Kurosawa. His 10 movies, all of which he wrote himself, are comic satires on elements of Japanese culture."

(Geometric) Distortion (optics)

Distortion (optics)

"In geometric optics and cathode ray tube (CRT) displays, distortion is a deviation from rectilinear projection, a projection in which straight lines in a scene remain straight in an image. It is a form of optical aberration."

Bernard d'Espagnat

Bernard d'Espagnat

"Bernard d'Espagnat (b. Fourmagnac, France, 1921) is a French theoretical physicist, philosopher of science, and author, best known for his work on the nature of reality."

Hardy's paradox

Hardy's paradox

"Hardy's paradox is a thought experiment in quantum mechanics devised by Lucien Hardy in which a particle and its antiparticle may interact without annihilating each other. The paradox arises in that this may only occur if the interaction is not observed and so it seemed that one might never be able to confirm this."

Nonlocality

Nonlocality

"In physics, nonlocality is a direct influence of one object on another distant object, in violation of the principle of locality."

defeasible

defeasible

adj. "capable of being annulled or terminated."

Synesthesia

Synesthesia

"Synesthesia (also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia, plural synesthesiae or synaesthesiae)—from the Ancient Greek σύν (syn), 'together,' and αἴσθησις (aisthēsis), 'sensation' — is a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway."

Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia

"Onomatopoeia or onomatopœia, from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία (ὄνομα for 'name' and ποιέω for 'I make'), is one or more words that imitate or suggest the source of the sound they are describing."

Honne and tatemae

Honne and tatemae

"Honne (本音 ?) refers to a person's true feelings and desires. Tatemae (建前 ?), literally 'façade,' is the behaviour and opinions one displays in public."

Yunomi

Yunomi

"A yunomi (Japanese: 湯のみ) is a form of teacup, typically made from a ceramic material, being taller than wide, with a trimmed or turned foot. Unlike the more formal chawan tea bowl which is used during the Japanese tea ceremony, the yunomi is made for daily (or informal) tea drinking."

Bokeh

Bokeh

"Bokeh (derived from Japanese, a noun boke 暈け, meaning 'blurred or fuzzy') is a photographic term referring to the appearance of point of light sources in an out-of-focus area of an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field."

Defensive weapons of the Japanese samurai

Defensive weapons of the Japanese samurai

Eromenos

Eromenos

"In the pederastic tradition of Classical Athens, the eromenos (Greek ἐρώμενος, pl. ἐρώμενοι, "eromenoi") was an adolescent boy who was in a love relationship with an adult man, known as the erastes (ἐραστής)."

Hsin Hsin Ming

Hsin Hsing Ming
Hsin Hsin Ming - Verses on the Perfect Mind

"Xinxin Ming (alt. spellings: Xin Xin Ming or Xinxinming) (信心銘) (Wade-Giles: Hsin Hsin Ming; Japanese: Shinjinmei (or Shinjin no Mei)) a verse attributed to the Third Chinese Chan (Zen) Patriarch Jianzhi Sengcan 僧璨 (d. 606) (Wade-Giles: Chien-chih Seng-ts'an; Japanese: Kanchi Sosan), is one of the earliest Chinese Chan expressions of the Buddhist mind training practice."

Japanese Culture - Japanese aesthetics

Japanese aesthetics

Japanese Culture - Ensō

Ensō

"Ensō (円相) is a Japanese word meaning 'circle' and a concept strongly associated with Zen."