Nicodemus Tessin the Younger was a notable Swedish Baroque architect. The son of the architect Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, he took over his father’s position as Stockholm’s city architect after studying in Paris and Rome during the 1670s. He completed his father’s Drottningholm palace and then

tessitura, (Italian: “texture”), in music, the general range of pitches found in a melody or vocal part. It differs from the compass of a piece to the extent that it does not take into account the extremes of the piece’s range but is concerned with the way in which the vocal line is arranged or

tunicate: …embedded in a tough secreted tunic containing cellulose (a glucose polysaccharide not normally found in animals). The less modified forms are benthic (bottom-dwelling and sessile), while the more advanced forms are pelagic (floating and swimming in open water). A characteristic tadpole larva develops in the life cycle, and in one…

aragonite: …element in the shells and tests of many marine invertebrates. These animals can secrete the mineral from waters that would ordinarily yield only calcite; they do so by physiological mechanisms that are not fully understood.

test, in zoology, a protective, loose-fitting shell secreted by some protozoans (especially foraminiferans and radiolarians). In most species the organic test contains inorganic materials that may be foreign objects (e.g., sand grains, shell fragments) or substances secreted by the organism

test act, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, any law that made a person’s eligibility for public office depend upon his profession of the established religion. In Scotland, the principle was adopted immediately after the Reformation, and an act of 1567 made profession of the reformed faith a

cricket: The Cricket Council and the ECB: The Cricket Council, comprising the Test and County Cricket Board (TCCB), the National Cricket Association (NCA), and the MCC, was the result of these efforts. The TCCB, which amalgamated the Advisory County Cricket Committee and the Board of Control of Test Matches at Home, had responsibility for all first-class and…

research and development: Company laboratories: Test laboratories may serve a whole company or group of companies or only a single manufacturing establishment. They are responsible for monitoring the quality of output. This often requires chemical, physical, and metallurgical analyses of incoming materials, as well as checks at every stage of…

cricket: Test matches: The first Test match, played by two national teams, was between Australia and England in Melbourne in 1877, with Australia winning. When Australia again won at the Oval at Kennington, London, in 1882, the Sporting Times printed an obituary notice announcing that English…

test of teaching knowledge (TTK), any of various tests used to assess teachers’ knowledge before, during, and after teacher preparation programs. TTKs are designed to identify an individual’s degree of formal teacher preparation, if any, and to predict teaching success. In general, three types of

Victor Fleming: The 1930s: The snappy Test Pilot (1938) was almost as good, with Gable, Loy, and Tracy forming an atypical but interesting romantic triangle.

Test Valley, borough (district), administrative and historic county of Hampshire, southern England, occupying a mostly rural area in the northwestern part of the county. The town of Andover, in the northern part of the district, is the administrative centre. Situated directly north of the port of

psychological testing, the systematic use of tests to quantify psychophysical behaviour, abilities, and problems and to make predictions about psychological performance. The word “test” refers to any means (often formally contrived) used to elicit responses to which human behaviour in other

animal disease: Disease prevention, control, and eradication: …United States, for example, the test-and-slaughter technique, in which simple tests are used to confirm the existence of diseased animals that are then slaughtered, has been of great value in controlling infectious and hereditary diseases, including dourine, a venereal disease in horses, fowl plague, and foot-and-mouth disease in cattle and…

Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, treaty signed in Moscow on August 5, 1963, by the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom that banned all tests of nuclear weapons except those conducted underground. The origins of the treaty lay in worldwide public concern over the danger posed by

psychological testing: Primary characteristics of methods or instruments: In the test-retest method, scores of the same group of people from two administrations of the same test are correlated. If the time interval between administrations is too short, memory may unduly enhance the correlation. Or some people, for example, may look up words they missed on…

in vitro fertilization (IVF), medical procedure in which mature egg cells are removed from a woman, fertilized with male sperm outside the body, and inserted into the uterus of the same or another woman for normal gestation. Although IVF with reimplantation of fertilized eggs (ova) has long been

angiosperm: Seeds: …integuments, which develop into a seed coat that is usually hard. They are enclosed in the ovary of a carpel and thus are protected from the elements and predators.

philosophy of biology: Testing: One of the oldest objections to the thesis of natural selection is that it is untestable. Even some of Darwin’s early supporters, such as the British biologist T.H. Huxley (1825–95), expressed doubts on this score. A modern form of the objection was raised in…

Rudolf Carnap: Career in Vienna and Prague: …in full detail in his essay “Testability and Meaning” (1936–37). Carnap argued that the terms of empirical science are not fully definable in purely experiential terms but can at least be partly defined by means of “reduction sentences,” which are logically much-refined versions of operational definitions, and “observation sentences,” whose…

Spain: Economy: …important are the amphorae from Monte Testaccio, a hill in Rome, still some 160 feet (50 metres) high, that is composed mostly of the remains of amphorae in which olive oil had been carried from Baetica to Rome in the first three centuries ce. Wine from Baetica and Tarraconensis, even…

testacean, any member of the protozoan order Arcellinida (formerly Testacida) of the class Rhizopodea. Testaceans are usually encased in one-chambered tests, or shells, and usually found in fresh water, although sometimes they occur in salt water and in mossy soil. The test has an underlying

testacean, any member of the protozoan order Arcellinida (formerly Testacida) of the class Rhizopodea. Testaceans are usually encased in one-chambered tests, or shells, and usually found in fresh water, although sometimes they occur in salt water and in mossy soil. The test has an underlying

testacean, any member of the protozoan order Arcellinida (formerly Testacida) of the class Rhizopodea. Testaceans are usually encased in one-chambered tests, or shells, and usually found in fresh water, although sometimes they occur in salt water and in mossy soil. The test has an underlying

Vladimir II Monomakh: In his “Testament,” which he wrote for his sons and which constitutes the earliest known example of Old Russian literature written by a layman, Vladimir recounted participating in 83 noteworthy military campaigns and recorded killing 200 Polovtsy princes. In addition to his martial qualities, Vladimir Monomakh was…

St. Francis of Assisi: The Franciscan rule of St. Francis of Assisi: …in his last writing, the Testament, composed shortly before his death in 1226, he declared unambiguously that absolute personal and corporate poverty was the essential lifestyle for the members of his order. It was not, however, mere external poverty he sought but the total denial of self (as in the…

will, legal means by which an owner of property disposes of his assets in the event of his death. The term is also used for the written instrument in which the testator’s dispositions are expressed. There is also an oral will, called a nuncupative will, valid only in certain jurisdictions, but

testament, in literature, a tribute or an expression of conviction, as in Thomas Usk’s prose allegory The Testament of Love (c. 1384) and Robert Bridges’s poem The Testament of Beauty (1929). A literary testament can also be a kind of last will and testament, a form that was popular in France and

Sir David Lyndsay: The Testament and Complaynt of Our Soverane Lordis Papyngo (completed 1530), written to celebrate the king’s escape from the Douglases, is a mixture of satire, comedy, and moral instruction in which the king’s dying parrot gives advice to the king and court; and his An Answer…

St. Angela Merici: …her death she dictated her spiritual testament and her counsels to her nuns; they insist on interest in the individual, gentleness, and the efficacy of persuasion over force.

Fritz Lang: Early life and German films: Mabuse (1933; The Testament of Dr. Mabuse), a crime thriller that was overtly the sequel to Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler; covertly, it was intended by Lang as an anti-Nazi statement that equated the state and German dictator Adolph Hitler with criminality. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s minister of propaganda,…

Robert Bridges: …for his long philosophical poem The Testament of Beauty, published on his 85th birthday. Bridges was poet laureate from 1913 until his death.

Robert Henryson: In The Testament of Cresseid, a narrative and “complaint” in 86 stanzas, Henryson completes the story of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, giving a grim and tragic account of the faithless heroine’s rejection by her lover Diomede and her decline into prostitution. The Testament is more than…

Fritz Lang: Early life and German films: Mabuse (1933; The Testament of Dr. Mabuse), a crime thriller that was overtly the sequel to Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler; covertly, it was intended by Lang as an anti-Nazi statement that equated the state and German dictator Adolph Hitler with criminality. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s minister of propaganda,…

Randall Thompson: … for unaccompanied choir (1940) and The Testament of Freedom for men’s voices and orchestra (1942; to words by Thomas Jefferson), both of which achieved great popularity. Thompson’s other works include a one-act opera, Solomon and Balkis (1942), and an oratorio, The Nativity According to St. Luke (1965).

Colm Tóibín: Novels: Among Tóibín’s later novels are The Testament of Mary (2012), which reflects on the life and crucifixion of Jesus through the perspective of his mother and was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and adapted for the stage, and Nora Webster (2014). House of Names (2017) centers on Clytemnestra of…

Luca Signorelli: …to Rome, where the “Testament of Moses” fresco in the Sistine Chapel is unanimously attributed to him. By that date his style had become fixed, his interest in dramatic action and the expression of great muscular effort marking him as an essentially Florentine naturalist. The S. Onofrio altarpiece (1484)…

Testamentum Domini, one of a series of writings (including the Apostolic Constitutions and the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus) that claim to set forth the fundamental rules of the early Christian Church. Originally written in Greek, probably in the 4th–5th century, it survives in a 7th-century

Le Testament, long poem by François Villon, written in 1461 and published in 1489. It consists of 2,023 octosyllabic lines arranged in 185 huitains (eight-line stanzas). These huitains are interspersed with a number of fixed-form poems, chiefly ballades and chansons, including the well-known

John Grisham: …Jury (1996; film 2003), and The Testament (1999).

trust company: Testamentary trusts, which originate in wills, arise when a person stipulates that his estate is not to be distributed but is to be held in trust for a certain period of time.

Margaret Atwood: In 2019 The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, was published to critical acclaim and was a cowinner (with Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other) of the Booker Prize.

Testamentum Domini, one of a series of writings (including the Apostolic Constitutions and the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus) that claim to set forth the fundamental rules of the early Christian Church. Originally written in Greek, probably in the 4th–5th century, it survives in a 7th-century

testacean, any member of the protozoan order Arcellinida (formerly Testacida) of the class Rhizopodea. Testaceans are usually encased in one-chambered tests, or shells, and usually found in fresh water, although sometimes they occur in salt water and in mossy soil. The test has an underlying

inheritance: Freedom of testation: The power of an owner of property to determine who is to have it upon his death is thought to stimulate economic activity: it is also considered desirable that a property owner be allowed to modify the rigid rules of the intestacy laws so…

Tampa Bay Buccaneers: … and quarterbacks Steve Young and Vinny Testaverde) who would play poorly (or not at all) in Tampa Bay only to go on to great success with other teams.

testcross, the mating of an organism whose genetic constitution is unknown with an organism whose entire genetic makeup for a trait is known, to determine which genes are carried by the former. In a breed of dog, for example, in which the gene for black coat colour is dominant over (suppresses the

testeggiata, in calligraphy, the headed ascenders or plumelike terminals to b, d, h, and l, in particular, which became an ornamental feature of the 16th-century italic bastarda script. At Venice in 1554, Vespasiano Amphiareo published models that combined an overdisciplined cancellaresca script

tester, canopy, usually of carved or cloth-draped wood, over a bed, tomb, pulpit, or throne. It dates from the 14th century and is usually made of the same material as the object it covers. It can be supported either by four posts, by two posts at the foot and a headpiece at the back, or by

Jon Tester is an American politician who was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 2006 and began representing Montana the following year. Tester grew up near Big Sandy in north-central Montana. At age nine he lost three fingers in a meat-grinding accident. While in high school he met Sharla

testis, in animals, the organ that produces sperm, the male reproductive cell, and androgens, the male hormones. In humans the testes occur as a pair of oval-shaped organs. They are contained within the scrotal sac, which is located directly behind the penis and in front of the anus. In humans each

testis, in animals, the organ that produces sperm, the male reproductive cell, and androgens, the male hormones. In humans the testes occur as a pair of oval-shaped organs. They are contained within the scrotal sac, which is located directly behind the penis and in front of the anus. In humans each

human cardiovascular system: The aorta and its principal branches: The testicular or ovarian arteries supply the testes in the male and the ovaries in the female, respectively.

testicular cancer, disease characterized by uncontrolled growth of cells within the testis, the reproductive organ that produces sperm. Testicular cancer represents only 1 percent of all cancers in males, but it is the most common malignancy for men between ages 15 and 35. In the United States,

teratoma: Epidemiology and pathology: Testicular teratomas, for example, may contain cells of the endoderm, mesoderm, or ectoderm. Dermoid cysts, which tend to affect the ovaries, typically contain hair, skin, and other ectoderm-derived cell types. Sacrococcygeal teratomas, which affect infants, develop under the coccyx (tailbone) in a region known as…

Latin American literature: The boom novels: …narrative trend: the so-called “testimonial narrative.” In these books, a writer interviews a person from a marginal social group and transcribes the result in the first person. Many such books were produced, but none attained the well-deserved acclaim of Barnet’s transcription of the centenarian former slave and Maroon Esteban…

Ellen Gould Harmon White: …revealed was published in her Testimonies for the Church, which eventually grew from 16 pages in its 1855 edition to fill nine volumes. Her views on health, especially her opposition to the use of coffee, tea, meat, and drugs, were incorporated into Seventh-day Adventist practice.

Miguel Barnet: …was to be known as testimonio, or testimonial narrative, in Latin America. In these works, a subject who has been interviewed on tape by the writer tells his life in the first person. The author transcribes and edits the material to give it final form. Subjects are usually marginalized members…

Scott Turow: In 2017 Turow published Testimony, about an attorney in the midst of a midlife crisis who is asked by the International Criminal Court to investigate potential war crimes involving a Roma refugee camp after the Bosnian conflict. In The Last Trial (2020), a criminal defense attorney takes his final…

archaeology: Excavation: …Past (1930) and Geoffrey Bibby’s Testimony of the Spade (1956) might appear to give credence to that view. Actually, much of the work of excavation is careful work with trowel, penknife, and brush. It is often the recovery of features that are almost indistinguishable from nonarchaeological aspects of the buried…

computer science: Software engineering: Sophisticated techniques for testing software have also been designed. For example, unit testing is a strategy for testing every individual module of a software product independently before the modules are combined into a whole and tested using “integration testing” techniques.

clinical psychology: …activities under three main headings: assessment (including diagnosis), treatment, and research. In assessment, clinical psychologists administer and interpret psychological tests, either for the purpose of evaluating individuals’ relative intelligence or other capabilities or for the purpose of eliciting mental characteristics that will aid in diagnosing a particular mental disorder. The…

testing machine, Machine used in materials science to determine the properties of a material. Machines have been devised to measure tensile strength, strength in compression, shear, and bending (see strength of materials), ductility, hardness, impact strength (see impact test), fracture toughness,

psychological testing, the systematic use of tests to quantify psychophysical behaviour, abilities, and problems and to make predictions about psychological performance. The word “test” refers to any means (often formally contrived) used to elicit responses to which human behaviour in other

Stanley Kunitz: With The Testing-Tree (1971), Kunitz departed from the formal structure and rational approach of his earlier verse and wrote shorter, looser, and more emotional poetry. Included in the book are “The Illumination,” a compact poem about life’s regrets, and “King of the River,” which contemplates the…

Mario Testino is a Peruvian fashion photographer known for his evocative portraits and vivid advertisements. Testino, who was of Irish, Spanish, and Italian descent, found his inspiration in the work of British celebrity and fashion photographer Cecil Beaton. Though Testino studied law and

testis, in animals, the organ that produces sperm, the male reproductive cell, and androgens, the male hormones. In humans the testes occur as a pair of oval-shaped organs. They are contained within the scrotal sac, which is located directly behind the penis and in front of the anus. In humans each

shilling, former English and British coin, nominally valued at one-twentieth of a pound sterling, or 12 pence. The shilling was also formerly the monetary unit of Australia, Austria, New Zealand, and Ireland. Today it is the basic monetary unit in Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda. A silver coin

shilling, former English and British coin, nominally valued at one-twentieth of a pound sterling, or 12 pence. The shilling was also formerly the monetary unit of Australia, Austria, New Zealand, and Ireland. Today it is the basic monetary unit in Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda. A silver coin

Andrew Wyeth: …and 1985 Wyeth secretly painted Helga Testorf, his neighbour in Chadds Ford, creating hundreds of images of her, including nudes.

Italian literature: Theatre: …Pasolini and the Milanese expressionist Giovanni Testori, an uncompromising extremist who progressed from narrative fiction to the theatre and from subproletarian Neorealism to violent Roman Catholic mysticism. Otherwise, late 20th-century Italian theatre was dominated more by innovative directors and performers than by noteworthy new plays. Outstanding directors included Giorgio Strehler,…

testosterone, hormone produced by the male testis that is responsible for development of the male sex organs and masculine characteristics, including facial hair and deepening of the voice. Testosterone was isolated from testicular extracts in 1935. Its discovery followed that of an androgen (male

turtle, (order Testudines), any reptile with a body encased in a bony shell, including tortoises. Although numerous animals, from invertebrates to mammals, have evolved shells, none has an architecture like that of turtles. The turtle shell has a top (carapace) and a bottom (plastron). The carapace

tortoise, (family Testudinidae), any member of the turtle family Testudinidae. Formerly, the term tortoise was used to refer to any terrestrial turtle. The testudinids are easily recognized because all share a unique hind-limb anatomy made up of elephantine (or cylindrical) hind limbs and hind

migration: Reptiles and amphibians: In the Galápagos Islands, giant land tortoises (Testudo elephantopus) stay chiefly in the upper humid zone, where food is abundant, but go down to the dry zone to lay their eggs. Despite their great body weight and slow pace, they travel some 50 kilometres (30 miles) across rough country.

Chancelade skeleton: …studied by the French anatomist Jean-Léo Testut, who declared it to be of Eskimo type and established it as the type specimen of a supposed “Chancelade race.” Although its Eskimo affinities were long accepted by many paleoanthropologists, later experts have generally agreed that the Chancelade skull is Cro-Magnon. The Cro-Magnons…

Lunar New Year, festival typically celebrated in China and other Asian countries that begins with the first new moon of the lunar calendar and ends on the first full moon of the lunar calendar, 15 days later. The lunar calendar is based on the cycles of the moon, so the dates of the holiday vary

Tet Offensive, attacks staged by North Vietnamese forces beginning in the early hours of January 31, 1968, during the Vietnam War. The Tet Offensive consisted of simultaneous attacks by some 85,000 troops under the direction of the North Vietnamese government. The attacks were carried out against

Paraguay, landlocked country in south-central South America. Paraguay’s recent history has been characterized by turbulence and authoritarian rule. It was involved in two of the three major wars on the continent—the War of the Triple Alliance (1864/65–70), against Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay,

tetanus: The neurotoxic component, tetanospasmin, is one of the deadliest poisons known. Once tetanospasmin has entered the body, it rapidly spreads by way of the lymphatic and vascular systems to the central nervous system, where it attacks motor neurons. Within the neurons, the toxin directly inhibits the activity of…

dinosaur: Tetanurae: These comprise birds and all the theropods closer to birds than to Ceratosaurus. They would include the true carnosaurs and coelurosaurs described below as well as a few relatively large carnivorous basal forms (such as Torvosaurus, Spinosaurus, Baryonyx, Afrovenator, and

tetanus, acute infectious disease of humans and other animals, caused by toxins produced by the bacillus Clostridium tetani and characterized by rigidity and spasms of the voluntary muscles. The almost constant involvement of the jaw muscles accounts for the popular name of the disease. Spores of

muscle: Twitch and tetanus responses: …pulse is given, and the tension will appear in waves in phase with the stimulation, causing an unfused tetanus. It is possible to stimulate the muscle at a frequency between these extremes so that the tension developed by the muscle remains constant. This latter type of contraction is called a…

Emil von Behring: immunity against tetanus by injecting it with the blood serum of another animal infected with the disease. Behring applied this antitoxin (a term he and Kitasato originated) technique to achieve immunity against diphtheria. Administration of diphtheria antitoxin, developed with Paul Ehrlich and first successfully marketed in 1892,…

tetanus: Active immunization with tetanus toxoid (prepared by chemical modification of toxin) is a relatively slow process, requiring weeks or months to become effective, and must be renewed every few years (booster doses). A first dose should be given to every accident victim, followed by two more doses several…

tetany, condition characterized by rhythmic cramping of the muscles of the hands and feet, muscle twitching, and possible spasms of the larynx, with difficulty breathing, nausea, vomiting, convulsions, and pain. Tetany results from a metabolic imbalance; it may be caused by too little calcium,

Tete, port city, west-central Mozambique. Tete is situated on the right bank of the Zambezi River near the rich coal mines of Moatize. Under Portuguese influence Tete had become a market centre for ivory and gold by the mid-17th century. Given a town charter in 1761, it became a city in 1959. It is

Hervé Bazin: …Tête contre les murs (1949; Head Against the Wall), a novel about penal institutions and the judicial system that supports them, and in a second autobiographical novel, La Mort du petit cheval (1950; “The Death of a Small Horse”).

Johannes Nikolaus Tetens was a German psychologist, mathematician, economist, educator, and empiricist philosopher who strongly influenced the work of Immanuel Kant. Tetens became professor of physics at Bützow University in 1760 and five years later was made director of the Pädagogium (“Academy”)

Coatlicue, Aztec earth goddess, symbol of the earth as both creator and destroyer, mother of the gods and mortals. The dualism that she embodies is powerfully concretized in her image: her face is of two fanged serpents and her skirt is of interwoven snakes (snakes symbolize fertility); her breasts

sponge: Size range and diversity of structure and colour: …as in Tethya aurantium, the sea orange; others may be cup- or fan-shaped. Calcareous sponges of the genus Scypha are shaped like tubular sacs, with an opening (osculum) at the tip. Members of the Hexactinellida are erect or cylindrical, with a stalklike base.

mountain: The Alpine-Himalayan, or Tethyan, System: The interconnected system of mountain ranges and intermontane plateaus that lies between the stable areas of Africa, Arabia, and India on the south and Europe and Asia on the north owes its existence to the collisions of different continental fragments during the past…

Tethys Sea, tropical body of salt water that existed from the end of the Paleozoic Era (541 million to about 252 million years ago) until the Cenozoic Era (66 million years ago to the present). Initially, it separated the supercontinent of Laurasia in the north from Gondwana in the south during

nudibranch: Those of the family Tethyidae can swim. Among bottom creepers in cold northern seas is the bushy-backed sea slug (Dendronotus frondosus), named for its stalked, lacy cerata. Occurring worldwide in warm seas are the blue sea slug (Glaucus marina, or G. atlanticus) and the doridacean nudibranchs such as Doris…

Tethys, major regular moon of Saturn, remarkable for a fissure that wraps around the greater part of its circumference. It was discovered in 1684 by the Italian-born French astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini and named for a Titan in Greek mythology. Tethys has a diameter of 1,066 km (662 miles), and

Tethys Sea, tropical body of salt water that existed from the end of the Paleozoic Era (541 million to about 252 million years ago) until the Cenozoic Era (66 million years ago to the present). Initially, it separated the supercontinent of Laurasia in the north from Gondwana in the south during

Himalayas: Physical features: …Range (Great Himalayas); and the Tethys, or Tibetan, Himalayas. Farther north lie the Trans-Himalayas in Tibet proper. From west to east the Himalayas are divided broadly into three mountainous regions: western, central, and eastern.

Tethys Sea, tropical body of salt water that existed from the end of the Paleozoic Era (541 million to about 252 million years ago) until the Cenozoic Era (66 million years ago to the present). Initially, it separated the supercontinent of Laurasia in the north from Gondwana in the south during

Asia: Paleozoic events in the Tethysides: Along the northern margin of the Tethysides, there was a continuous transition from the Altaid evolution into the Tethyside or, more strictly speaking, into the Cimmeride evolution. In northern Tibet the Kunlun Mountains (a part of the Cimmerides) may also be considered the southernmost…

proboscidean: …sirenians are together classified as tethytherians, in reference to the ancient sea of Tethys, where both groups are hypothesized to have originated. On land the closest proboscidean relative is the hyrax (order Hyracoidea), a small rodentlike animal of Africa and southwestern Asia. Tethytheria and Hyracoidea are grouped together as Uranotheria.