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Eddington, Paul (British actor)
British character actor who excelled at light comedy, notably in the BBC television series "The Good Life," 1975-79, "Yes, Minister," 1980-85, and "Yes, Prime Minister," 1986-90 (b. June 18, 1927--d. Nov. 4, 1995)....
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Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley (British scientist)
English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician who did his greatest work in astrophysics, investigating the motion, internal structure, and evolution of stars. He also was the first expositor of the theory of relativity in the English language....
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Eddington theory (astronomy)
A large body of evidence suggests that all members of this first class of variable stars owe their variability to pulsation. The pulsation theory was first proposed as a possible explanation as early as 1879, was applied to Cepheids in 1914, and was further developed by Arthur Eddington in 1917–18. Eddington found that if stars have roughly the same kind of internal structure, then the......
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Eddison, E. R. (British author)
English novelist and scholar of Icelandic literature whose works in the genre of romantic fantasy influenced the English fantasist J.R.R. Tolkien....
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Eddison, Eric Rucker (British author)
English novelist and scholar of Icelandic literature whose works in the genre of romantic fantasy influenced the English fantasist J.R.R. Tolkien....
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eddo (plant)
herbaceous plant of the family Araceae. Probably native to southeastern Asia, whence it has spread to the Pacific islands, it has become a staple crop cultivated for its large, starchy, spherical underground tubers, which are consumed as cooked vegetables, made into puddings and breads, and also made into the Polynesian poi, a thin, pasty, highly digestible mass of fermented tar...
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Eddy (county, New Mexico, United States)
county, southeastern New Mexico, U.S., bordered on the south by Texas. Its western region is in the Sacramento section of the Basin and Range Province, a rugged area where the Guadalupe Mountains rise to more than 6,000 feet (1,800 metres). The county’s far eastern region is flatland in the High Plains. Most of Eddy county lies in the Pecos River valley section of the Gr...
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Eddy (New Mexico, United States)
city, seat (1889) of Eddy county, southeastern New Mexico, U.S. It lies on the right bank of the Pecos River. Founded in 1887 and first known as Eddy (for its founder Charles B. Eddy), it was renamed in 1899 for the European spa of Carlsbad (now Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic), because of nearby mineral springs that reputedly had the same mine...
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Eddy (kite)
...an interest in meteorology and kite aerial photography, made a significant contribution to kite development in the West by introducing his now-familiar tailless, elongated diamond-shaped design. The Eddy kite, an adaptation of the ancient Javanese bowed kite known as the Malay in the West, was a reliable and popular flier that ignited a renewed interest in kite flying and was briefly used by th...
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eddy (fluid mechanics)
fluid current whose flow direction differs from that of the general flow; the motion of the whole fluid is the net result of the movements of the eddies that compose it. Eddies can transfer much more energy and dissolved matter within the fluid than can molecular diffusion in nonturbulent flow because eddies actually mix together large masses of fluid. Flow composed largely of e...
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eddy coefficient (physics)
in fluid mechanics, particularly in its applications to meteorology and oceanography, the proportionality between the rate of transport of a component of a turbulent fluid and the rate of change of density of the component. In this context, the term component signifies not only material constituents of the fluid, such as dissolved or suspended substances, but also constituents of its energy, such ...
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eddy current (electronics)
in electricity, motion of electric charge induced entirely within a conducting material by a varying electric or magnetic field or by electromagnetic waves. Eddy currents induced in a power transformer core represent lost power and are undesirable; eddy currents used to produce heat for cooking or for a metallurgical furnace represent useful applications of the phenomenon. ...
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eddy current (fluid mechanics)
fluid current whose flow direction differs from that of the general flow; the motion of the whole fluid is the net result of the movements of the eddies that compose it. Eddies can transfer much more energy and dissolved matter within the fluid than can molecular diffusion in nonturbulent flow because eddies actually mix together large masses of fluid. Flow composed largely of e...
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eddy current loss (electronics)
...steel as well as in the stator conductors. The laminations are insulated from each other usually by a varnish layer. This breaks up the conducting path in the steel and limits the losses (known as eddy current losses) in the steel....
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eddy diffusivity (physics)
in fluid mechanics, particularly in its applications to meteorology and oceanography, the proportionality between the rate of transport of a component of a turbulent fluid and the rate of change of density of the component. In this context, the term component signifies not only material constituents of the fluid, such as dissolved or suspended substances, but also constituents of its energy, such ...
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Eddy, Duane (American musician)
American guitarist responsible for one of rock music’s elemental sounds, twang—resonant melodic riffs created on the bass strings of an electric guitar. One of early rock’s most influential and popular instrumentalists, Eddy had 15 Top 40 hits between 1958 and 1963....
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Eddy, Mary Baker (American religious leader)
Christian religious reformer and founder of the religious denomination known as Christian Science....
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Eddy, Mount (mountain, United States)
...for about 250 miles (400 km) from the foothills south of the Willamette Valley in southwestern Oregon, U.S., to the northwestern side of the Central Valley of California. The mountains rise to Mount Eddy (9,038 feet [2,755 m]) west of Mount Shasta in California and include numerous subranges. They are deeply dissected by many rivers (especially the Rogue and Klamath), and they contain a......
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Eddy, Nelson (American singer and actor)
...for about 250 miles (400 km) from the foothills south of the Willamette Valley in southwestern Oregon, U.S., to the northwestern side of the Central Valley of California. The mountains rise to Mount Eddy (9,038 feet [2,755 m]) west of Mount Shasta in California and include numerous subranges. They are deeply dissected by many rivers (especially the Rogue and Klamath), and they contain a.........
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Eddy, Nelson Ackerman (American singer and actor)
...for about 250 miles (400 km) from the foothills south of the Willamette Valley in southwestern Oregon, U.S., to the northwestern side of the Central Valley of California. The mountains rise to Mount Eddy (9,038 feet [2,755 m]) west of Mount Shasta in California and include numerous subranges. They are deeply dissected by many rivers (especially the Rogue and Klamath), and they contain a...........
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Eddy, William A. (American journalist)
Although tailless kites had been common in Asia for centuries, it was not until 1893 that William A. Eddy, an American journalist with an interest in meteorology and kite aerial photography, made a significant contribution to kite development in the West by introducing his now-familiar tailless, elongated diamond-shaped design. The Eddy kite, an adaptation of the ancient Javanese bowed kite......
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eddy-current brake (mechanics)
...by the frictional resistance generated when bar magnets are lowered into contact with the rails. The latest Shinkansen train-sets have eddy current instead of electromagnetic track brakes. The eddy-current brake makes no contact with the rail (so is not subject to frictional wear) and is more powerful, but it sets up strong electromagnetic fields that require reinforced immunization of......
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eddy-current tachometer (instrument)
Electrical tachometers are of several types. The eddy-current, or drag, type is widely used in automobile speedometers; a magnet rotated with the shaft being measured produces eddy currents that are proportional to angular speed. Electric-generator tachometers work by generating either an alternating or a direct current. The stroboscope, an instrument that illuminates rotating objects so that......
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Eddystone Lighthouse (lighthouse, English Channel, United Kingdom)
lighthouse celebrated in folk ballads and seamen’s lore, standing on the Eddystone Rocks, 14 miles off Plymouth, Eng., in the English Channel. The first lighthouse (1696–99), built of timber, was swept away with its designer, Henry Winstanley, by the great storm of 1703. The second, of oak and iron, designed by John Rudyerd (1708), was destroyed by fire in 1755. John Smeaton built (...
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Ede (Nigeria)
town, Osun state, southwestern Nigeria. It lies along the Osun River at a point on the railroad from Lagos, 112 miles (180 km) southwest, and at the intersection of roads from Oshogbo, Ogbomosho, and Ife. Ede is one of the older towns of the Yoruba people. It is traditionally said to have been founded about 1500 by Timi Agbale, a hunter and warlord sent by Ala...
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Ede (The Netherlands)
gemeente (municipality), central Netherlands. It lies on the western edge of the wooded-heath Veluwe region. Founded in the 8th century by the Saxons, it is a garrison town with a 15th-century church, the Doesburger Mill (1507), and an open-air theatre. Nearby De Hoge Veluwe National Park has St. Hubertus Castle and the Kröller-Müller St...
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Edéa (Cameroon)
town located in southwestern Cameroon, situated at the head of steamboat navigation of the lower Sanaga River. Aluminum from Fria in neighbouring Guinea is the basis of the town’s aluminum industry, which produces aluminum ingots, sheet metal, and household products. A school, a hospital, and living quarters are pro...
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Edeke (religion)
...territorial organization was destroyed. Almost all indigenous religion has been replaced by Christianity; previously the Teso believed in an omnipotent but remote god, Akuj, and a god of calamity, Edeke....
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Edel, Joseph Leon (American critic and biographer)
American literary critic and biographer, who was the foremost 20th-century authority on the life and works of Henry James....
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Edel, Leon (American critic and biographer)
American literary critic and biographer, who was the foremost 20th-century authority on the life and works of Henry James....
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Edelinck, Gerard (Flemish engraver)
Flemish copperplate engraver during the best period of French portrait engraving....
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Edelman, Gerald Maurice (American physical chemist)
American physician and physical chemist who elucidated the structure of antibodies—proteins that are produced by the body in response to infection. For this work he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1972 with British biochemist Rodney Porter. Edelman also made significant contributions to developmental biology and n...
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Edelman, Marian Wright (American lawyer)
American lawyer and civil rights activist who founded the Children’s Defense Fund in 1973....
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Edelmann, John (American architect)
...he left for Chicago and was soon employed in the architectural office of a prominent figure in the development of the style of the Chicago School, William Le Baron Jenney. The office foreman, John Edelmann, became his friend....
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Edelstadt, David (American poet)
...Mayn yingele (1887; “My Little Boy”), for example, expresses a worker’s estrangement from his family—resulting from endless hours spent in a sweatshop. David Edelstadt was another poet who wrote about the harsh working conditions. He experienced them himself, joined the anarchist movement and edited its weekly Fraye arb...
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Edelstein, David Norton (United States jurist)
American judge (b. Feb. 16, 1910, New York, N.Y.—d. Aug. 19, 2000, New York), spent 43 years (1952–95) presiding over the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust action against IBM, considered one of the most important antitrust proceedings in modern judicial history, and was involved since 1988 in the landmark United States v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters...
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Edelstein, Der (work by Boner)
...or bîspel (“examples”), each of the tales emphasizes a moral. Written in Middle High German, the collection was probably completed in about 1350 and is titled Der Edelstein (“The Precious Stone”), because precious stones were said to cast a spell, and Boner hoped that his tales would do the same. Although he named only two of his......
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Edelstein, Gertrude (American actress, producer, and screenwriter)
American actor, producer, and screenwriter whose immensely popular situation comedy about the Goldberg family ran in various radio, television, stage, and film versions between 1929 and 1953....
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edelweiss (plant)
(Leontopodium alpinum), perennial plant of the family Asteraceae, native to alpine areas of Europe and South America. It has 2 to 10 yellow flower heads in a dense cluster, and, below these flower heads, 6 to 9 lance-shaped, woolly, white leaves are arranged in the form of a star. An edelweiss plant is about 5 to 30 cm (2 to 12 inches) tall. There are a number of varieties, most of them or...
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Edelzinn (decoration)
...two places in Europe evolved quite independently, though simultaneously, a new technique for casting pewter. The product was a type of relief-decorated ware known as “display pewter” (Edelzinn), and it gave a new and brilliant impetus to the trade. The first examples were made between 1560 and 1570, and the main centres of production were Nürnberg and Lyon. In the......
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edema (medical disorder)
in medicine, an abnormal accumulation of watery fluid in the intercellular spaces of connective tissue. Edematous tissues are swollen and, when punctured, secrete a thin incoagulable fluid. This fluid is essentially an ultrafiltrate of serum but also contains small amounts of protein. Minor differences in composition are found in various diseases with which edema is associated. Generalized edema (...
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edemas (medical disorder)
in medicine, an abnormal accumulation of watery fluid in the intercellular spaces of connective tissue. Edematous tissues are swollen and, when punctured, secrete a thin incoagulable fluid. This fluid is essentially an ultrafiltrate of serum but also contains small amounts of protein. Minor differences in composition are found in various diseases with which edema is associated. Generalized edema (...
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edemata (medical disorder)
in medicine, an abnormal accumulation of watery fluid in the intercellular spaces of connective tissue. Edematous tissues are swollen and, when punctured, secrete a thin incoagulable fluid. This fluid is essentially an ultrafiltrate of serum but also contains small amounts of protein. Minor differences in composition are found in various diseases with which edema is associated. Generalized edema (...
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Eden (district, England, United Kingdom)
district, administrative county of Cumbria, northwestern England, in the eastern part of the county. A line running through the district from the River Tees, past the village of Culgaith and along the River Eamont and the Ullswater, to Stybarrow Dodd is a boundary between the historic counties of Westmorland and Cumberland; the area south of the line—including the town of...
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Eden (Maine, United States)
coastal town, Hancock county, southern Maine, U.S. It is on Mount Desert Island at the foot of Cadillac Mountain (1,530 feet [466 metres]) facing Frenchman Bay, 46 miles (74 km) southeast of Bangor. Settled in 1763, it was incorporated in 1796 as Eden; the present name (for Bar Island in the main harbour) was adopted in 19...
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Eden, Anthony (prime minister of United Kingdom)
British foreign secretary in 1935–38, 1940–45, and 1951–55 and prime minister from 1955 to 1957....
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Eden, Charles (American colonial governor)
...North Carolina, U.S., on Albemarle Sound. Settled about 1660, the first permanent settlement in colonial North Carolina, it went under several names before it was incorporated in 1722 and named for Charles Eden, the first royal governor. Edenton served as the unofficial capital of the colony until 1743, and its busy port exported plantation products, lumber, and fish. Joseph Hewes, a signer of....
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Eden, Eden, Eden (work by Guyotat)
...fictionalized biography to the linguistic and narrative experiments of writers such as Pierre Guyotat, whose Éden, Éden, Éden (1970; Eden, Eden, Eden), a novel about war, prostitution, obscenity, and atrocity, set in the Algerian desert, was banned by the censor for 11 years; Florence Delay in her stylish novel ......
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“Éden, Éden, Éden” (work by Guyotat)
...fictionalized biography to the linguistic and narrative experiments of writers such as Pierre Guyotat, whose Éden, Éden, Éden (1970; Eden, Eden, Eden), a novel about war, prostitution, obscenity, and atrocity, set in the Algerian desert, was banned by the censor for 11 years; Florence Delay in her stylish novel ......
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Eden, Garden of
in the Old Testament Book of Genesis, biblical earthly paradise inhabited by the first created man and woman, Adam and Eve, prior to their expulsion for disobeying the commandments of God. It is also called in Genesis the Garden of Yahweh, the God of Israel, and, in Ezekiel, the Garden of God. The term Eden probably is derived from the Akkadian word edinu,...
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Eden, George (governor general of India)
governor-general of India from 1836 to 1842, when he was recalled after his participation in British setbacks in Afghanistan....
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Edén, Nils (Swedish politician)
historian and politician who led what is generally regarded as the first parliamentary government in Swedish history....
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Eden of Norwood, Baron (governor general of India)
governor-general of India from 1836 to 1842, when he was recalled after his participation in British setbacks in Afghanistan....
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Eden, River (river, England, United Kingdom)
river in northern England. It rises in the fells (uplands) that connect the Lake District with the highlands of the Pennines and flows 90 miles (145 km) northwestward to its estuary in the Solway Firth, an Irish Sea inlet. From Kirkby Stephen, where its narrow, steep-sided upper valley opens out into the lowland vale, it flows in a meandering course among moraine hummocks (mounds of glacial debris...
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Eden, Robert Anthony, 1st Earl of Avon, Viscount Eden of Royal Leamington Spa (prime minister of United Kingdom)
British foreign secretary in 1935–38, 1940–45, and 1951–55 and prime minister from 1955 to 1957....
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Eden, Sir Anthony (prime minister of United Kingdom)
British foreign secretary in 1935–38, 1940–45, and 1951–55 and prime minister from 1955 to 1957....
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Eden Treaty (Great Britain-France [1786])
...by increasing tax revenue. He fostered legitimate trade and reduced smuggling by cutting import duties on certain commodities such as tea. In 1786 he signed an important commercial agreement, the Eden Treaty, with France. It was in keeping with the argument made by the economist Adam Smith in his The Wealth of Nations (1776) that Britain should be less economically......
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Eden, Vale of (valley, England, United Kingdom)
broad valley in the administrative county of Cumbria, England, separating the northern Pennines from the Lake District massif. The upper valley lies in the historic county of Westmorland and the lower valley in the historic county of Cumberland. The River Eden drains the vale into the Solway Firth. Geologically, the Vale of Eden is developed upon Perm...
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Eden Valley (valley, England, United Kingdom)
broad valley in the administrative county of Cumbria, England, separating the northern Pennines from the Lake District massif. The upper valley lies in the historic county of Westmorland and the lower valley in the historic county of Cumberland. The River Eden drains the vale into the Solway Firth. Geologically, the Vale of Eden is developed upon Perm...
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Edenbridge (England, United Kingdom)
town (parish), Sevenoaks district, administrative and historic county of Kent, England, south of London near the Surrey border, on the River Eden. It was enlarged after 1970 to accommodate overspill population from London, and light industries have been introduced. Nearby Hever Castle is a moated mansion of the 15th and 16th centuries, associated with the fami...
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Edenderry (Ireland)
market town, County Offaly, Ire., on the northern edge of the Bog of Allen. The town, including the Court House, was largely built by the marquesses of Downshire in the 18th and early 19th centuries. South of the town are the ruins of Peter Blundell’s castle. There are many castles in the area, for Edenderry was located on the edge of the Pale, the medieval English enclav...
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Edenglassie (Queensland, Australia)
port and capital of Queensland, Australia, and the nation’s third largest city. It lies astride the Brisbane River on the southern slopes of the Taylor Range, 12 miles (19 km) above the river’s mouth at Moreton Bay. The site, first explored in 1823 by John Oxley, was occupied in 1824 by a penal colony, which had moved from Redcliffe (22 miles [35 km] northeast). The early name, Eden...
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edenite (mineral)
...respective compositions are as follows: hornblende, Ca2(Mg4Al) (Si7Al); tschermakite, Ca2(Mg3Al2)(Si6Al2); edenite, NaCa2(Mg)5(Si7Al); pargasite, NaCa2 (Mg4Al)(Si6Al2). Extensive solid solution occurs, and each end-member has......
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Edens, Roger (American composer, lyricist, and actor)
...K. Furse for HamletArt Direction, Color: Hein Heckroth for The Red ShoesMusic Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture: Brian Easdale for The Red ShoesScoring of a Musical Picture: Roger Edens and Johnny Green for Easter ParadeSong: “Buttons and Bows” from The Paleface; music and lyrics by Ray Evans and......
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Edentata (mammal order)
South American toothless animals (edentates) such as anteaters are probably survivors of a comparable early development in mammals. The armour of armadillos and the presence of bony plates in the skin of the extinct sloths suggest that the whole group may derive from an armoured ancestor. The appearance of hair in the mammal line seems to have led to the evolution of a light, spiny type of......
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edentate (mammal order)
South American toothless animals (edentates) such as anteaters are probably survivors of a comparable early development in mammals. The armour of armadillos and the presence of bony plates in the skin of the extinct sloths suggest that the whole group may derive from an armoured ancestor. The appearance of hair in the mammal line seems to have led to the evolution of a light, spiny type of......
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Edenton (North Carolina, United States)
town, seat of Chowan county, northeastern North Carolina, U.S., on Albemarle Sound. Settled about 1660, the first permanent settlement in colonial North Carolina, it went under several names before it was incorporated in 1722 and named for Charles Eden, the first royal governor. Edenton served as the unofficial capital of the colony until 1743, and its busy po...
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Ederle, Gertrude (American athlete)
first woman to swim the English Channel and one of the best-known American sports personages of the 1920s....
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Ederle, Gertrude Caroline (American athlete)
first woman to swim the English Channel and one of the best-known American sports personages of the 1920s....
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EDES (Greek nationalist guerrilla force)
nationalist guerrilla force that, bolstered by British support, constituted the only serious challenge to EAM-ELAS control of the resistance movement in occupied Greece during World War II. Led by Gen. Napoleon Zervas, EDES was originally liberal and antimonarchist; but it moved steadily to the political right. It cooperated with ELAS for a time in operations against the Germans...
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“Edes Anna” (work by Kosztolanyi)
...observer of human frailty with a gentle humour and a penchant for the macabre. He wrote lucid and simple poetry as well as accomplished short stories and novels. Édes Anna (1926; Wonder Maid, 1947), the tale of a servant girl, is perhaps his best novel. He translated poetry from several European languages and also from Chinese and Japanese. In his later years he devoted......
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Edes, Benjamin (American publisher)
founder and co-owner with John Gill of the New England newspaper the Boston Gazette and Country Journal. As editor and publisher of the Gazette, Edes made the paper a leading voice favouring American independence....
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Edessa (Turkey)
city, southeastern Turkey. It lies in a fertile plain and is ringed by limestone hills on three sides. The city is very old and controls a strategic pass to the south through which runs a road used since antiquity to travel between Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia. The modern name derives from the early Aramaic name, Urhai, which was changed to Edessa when the town was refounde...
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Edessa (Syria)
city, southeastern Turkey. It lies in a fertile plain and is ringed by limestone hills on three sides. The city is very old and controls a strategic pass to the south through which runs a road used since antiquity to travel between Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia. The modern name derives from the early Aramaic name, Urhai, which was changed to Edessa when the town was refounde...
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Edessa (Greece)
chief city, nomós (department) of Pélla, Macedonia, Greece, on a steep bluff above the valley of the Loudhiás Potamós (river). A swift, fragmented stream flowing through the town was known in ancient times as the Skirtos (“Leaper”) and since the Middle Ages as the Vódhas (Slavic voda, ...
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Edessa, county of (crusader state, Asia)
Meanwhile, castles had been built in Galilee, the frontier pushed southward, and Crusader states formed in the north. The county of Edessa, an ill-defined domain extending into the upper Euphrates region with a population consisting mainly of Armenians and Syrians, had already been established by Godfrey’s brother Baldwin. When Baldwin left to become ruler of Jerusalem, he bestowed the coun...
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Edessa, school of (Christian school)
Parallel with its richer and better-known Greek and Latin counterparts, an independent Syriac Christian literature flourished inside, and later outside (in Persia), the frontiers of the Roman Empire from the early 4th century onward. Aphraates, an ascetic cleric under whose name 23 treatises written between 336 and 345 have survived, is considered the first Syriac Father. Deeply Christian in......
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edestin (protein)
...globulins, insoluble in water, can be extracted from seeds by treatment with 2 to 10 percent solutions of sodium chloride. Many plant globulins have been obtained in crystalline form; they include edestin from hemp, molecular weight 310,000; amandin from almonds, 330,000; concanavalin A (42,000) and B (96,000); and canavalin (113,000) from jack beans. They are polymers of smaller subunits;......
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edetic acid (chemical compound)
EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) or its sodium salt has the property of combining with certain metal ions to form a molecular complex that locks up or chelates the calcium ion so that it no longer exhibits ionic properties. In hard water, calcium and magnesium ions are thus inactivated, and the water is effectively softened. EDTA can form similar complexes with other metallic ions....
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Edfu (Egypt)
town on the west bank of the Nile in Aswān muḥāfaẓah (governorate), Upper Egypt....
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Edgar (king of Scotland)
king of Scots from 1097, eldest surviving son of Malcolm III Canmore and Queen Margaret (granddaughter of King Edmund II of England) and thus the first king of the Scots to unite Celtic and Anglo-Saxon blood....
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Edgar (king of England)
king of the Mercians and Northumbrians from 957 who became king of the West Saxons, or Wessex, in 959 and is reckoned as king of all England from that year. He was efficient and tolerant of local customs, and his reign was peaceful. He was most important as a patron of the English monastic revival....
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Edgar (fictional character)
The subplot concerns the Earl of Gloucester, who gullibly believes the lies of his conniving illegitimate son, Edmund, and spurns his honest son, Edgar. Driven into exile disguised as a mad beggar, Edgar becomes a companion of the truly mad Lear and the Fool during a terrible storm. Edmund allies himself with Regan and Goneril to defend Britain against the French army mobilized by Cordelia. He......
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Edgar (opera by Puccini)
...compliant, she was justifiably jealous and was not an ideal companion. The two were finally able to marry in 1904, after the death of Elvira’s husband. Puccini’s second opera, Edgar, based on a verse drama by the French writer Alfred de Musset, had been performed at La Scala in 1889, and it was a failure. Nevertheless, Ricordi continued to have faith in...
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Edgar, David (British playwright)
...gay—thrived. One of the more-durable talents to emerge from it was Caryl Churchill, whose Serious Money (1987) savagely encapsulated the finance frenzy of the 1980s. David Edgar developed into a dramatist of impressive span and depth with plays such as Destiny (1976) and Pentecost (1994), his masterly response to....
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Edgar, Jim (American politician)
After his election as governor in 1990, Jim Edgar followed a more fiscally prudent path than his fellow Republican Thompson. Edgar, aided somewhat by a healthy national economy, put the state’s fiscal house in order and during the last two years of his administration increased funding for education. George Ryan, a conservative Republican, succeeded Jim Edgar as governor in 1999. He startled...
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Edgar the Aetheling (Anglo-Saxon prince)
Anglo-Saxon prince, who, at the age of about 15, was proposed as king of England after the death of Harold II in the Battle of Hastings (Oct. 14, 1066) but instead served the first two Norman kings, William I, Harold’s conqueror, and William II. His title of aetheling (an Anglo-Saxon prince, especially the heir apparent) indicates he was a prince of the royal family; he w...
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Edgartown (Massachusetts, United States)
town (township), seat of Dukes county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. The town comprises Chappaquiddick Island and the eastern tip of the island of Martha’s Vineyard. The oldest settlement on the island, Edgartown dates from 1642 and was incorporated in 1671 and named for Edgar, son of James II of England; the town had previously be...
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Edgartown (Florida, United States)
city, seat (1905) of St. Lucie county, east-central Florida, U.S. It is situated on the Indian River (a lagoon connected to the Atlantic Ocean by inlets), about 55 miles (90 km) north of West Palm Beach. The fort (1838–42), built during the Seminole Wars, was named for Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin K. Pierce (brother of President ...
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edge (graph theory)
If a finite number of points are connected by lines (Figure 13A), the resulting figure is a graph; the points, or corners, are called the vertices, and the lines are called the edges. If every pair of vertices is connected by an edge, the graph is called a complete graph (Figure 13B). A planar graph is one in which the edges have no intersection or common points except at the edges. (It should......
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edge dislocation (crystallography)
...to stress), and they possess this extremely useful property owing to imperfections called dislocations within their crystal lattices. There are many kinds of dislocations. In one kind, known as an edge dislocation, an extra plane of atoms can be generated in a crystal structure, straining to the breaking point the bonds that hold the atoms together. If stress were applied to this structure, it....
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edge effect (ecology)
...may exist along a broad belt or in a small pocket, such as a forest clearing, where two local communities blend together. The influence of the two bordering communities on each other is known as the edge effect. An ecotonal area often has a higher density of organisms of one species and a greater number of species than are found in either flanking community. Some organisms need a transitional.....
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edge lining (art restoration)
...perform a variety of treatments, including tear realignment and repair, reduction of planar deformations, and the introduction of consolidating adhesives to reattach cleaving paint. The practice of edge lining (sometimes referred to as “strip lining”), which has been increasingly used as an alternative to overall lining, aims to reinforce weak and torn edges where the canvas is......
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Edge of the Storm, The (work by Yáñez)
The novel Al filo del agua (1947; “On the Verge of Rain”; Eng. trans. The Edge of the Storm), his masterpiece, presents life in a typical Mexican village just before the Mexican Revolution. Its use of stream of consciousness, interior monologue, and complex structure anticipates many traits of the Latin American new novel of the 1950s and 1960s. La......
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Edge, the (Irish musician)
He was born of a Roman Catholic father and a Protestant mother (who died when he was just age 14). In Dublin in 1977, he and school friends David Evans (later “the Edge”), Larry Mullen, Jr., and Adam Clayton formed a band that would become U2. They shared a commitment not only to ambitious rock music but also to a deeply spiritual Christianity. Indeed, one of the few genuine threats....
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edge tone amplifier (device)
Basic to flutes and recorders, an edge tone is a stream of air that strikes a sharp edge, where it creates pressure changes in the air column that propagate down the tube. Reflections of these pressure variations then force the air stream back and forth across the edge, reinforcing the vibration at the resonant frequency of the tube. The time required to set up this steady-state oscillation is......
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Edgecote, battle of (England [1469])
...Warwick differed with the King on foreign policy. In 1469 civil war was renewed. Warwick and Edward’s rebellious brother George, duke of Clarence, fomented risings in the north; and in July, at Edgecote (near Banbury), defeated Edward’s supporters, afterward holding the King prisoner. By March 1470, however, Edward regained his control, forcing Warwick and Clarence to flee to Fran...
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Edgecumbe, Mount (mountain, Alaska, United States)
...Forest. Nearby is Sitka National Historical Park, the site of a pivotal battle between Russians and Tlingit Indians in 1804; it also contains the Russian Bishop’s House, trails, and totem poles. Mount Edgecumbe (3,201 feet [976 metres]), a dormant volcano on Kruzof Island, is a conspicuous landmark in Sitka’s island-studded, mountain-locked harbour. Inc. 1913. Pop. (2000) 8,835; (...
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edged sea star (order of sea star)
Sea stars belong to three orders: Phanerozonia, Spinulosa, and Forcipulata. Edged sea stars, order Phanerozonia, have distinct marginal plates and therefore tend to be rigid. Members of the order have suction-tube feet; the anus may be lacking. Most of the deep-sea sea stars belong to this order, and many are burrowers. Albatrossaster richardi has been taken at a depth of 6,035 m (19,800......
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Edgefield (county, South Carolina, United States)
county, western South Carolina, U.S. It consists of a hilly piedmont region bounded to the southwest by the Savannah River border with Georgia. Much of the county is within the southern portion of Sumter National Forest....
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