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Ageing
Ageing or aging is the accumulation of changes in a person over time. Ageing in humans refers to a multidimensional process of physical, psychological, and social change. Some dimensions of ageing grow and expand over time, while others decline

Ageing
Ageing or aging is the accumulation of changes in a person over time. Ageing in humans refers to a multidimensional process of physical, psychological, and social change. Some dimensions of ageing grow and expand over time, while others decline

Ageism
Ageism, also called age discrimination is stereotyping of and discrimination against individuals or groups because of their age. It is a set of beliefs, attitudes, norms, and values used to justify age based prejudice, discrimination, and subordination

Agency
Agency may refer to:* Agency * Agency , refers to a person who acts on behalf of another person.* Agency * Agency , the ability of social actors to make independent choices.

Agency (administrative division)
Agencies are a type of administrative division:* Agencies of British India, which grouped the autonomous princely states* Agencies of Pakistan, the main subdivisions of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas

Agenda
Agenda may refer to:* Agenda , points to be discussed; sometimes refers to the list of topics itself* Political agenda, the set of goals of an ideological group; also used as above, the topics under discussion by a government

Agenda (liturgy)
The name Agenda is given, particularly in the Lutheran Church, to the official books dealing with the forms andceremonies of divine service.- The Term; its Equivalents Before the Reformation :

Agenesis
In medicine, agenesis refers to the failure of an organ to develop during embryonic growth and development due to the absence of primordial tissue

Agent
Agent may refer to one who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one entrusted with the business of another.- In law enforcement :

Agent Orange
Agent Orange is the code name for one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. Vietnam estimates 400,000 people were killed or maimed, and 500,000 children born with birth defects.A 50:50 mixture of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D, it was manufactured for the U.S

Agent provocateur
Traditionally, an agent provocateur is a person employed by the police or other entity to act undercover to entice or provoke another person to commit an illegal act

Agent Provocateur
Agent Provocateur is the fifth studio album by American/British rock band Foreigner, released in 1984. A concept album, the songs tell the story of a spy who sees life through both the inside and the outside. The album was the band's first and only number one album in the UK, and it reached the top 5 in the U.S

Agent Provocateur (band)
Agent Provocateur were a British electronica band, consisting of John Gosling, Matthew Ashman , Dan Peppe, Danny Saber and Cleo Torez

Agent provocateur (disambiguation)
An agent provocateur is a person employed to act undercover to entice or provoke another person to commit an illegal or rash act.Agent provocateur or Provocateur may also refer to:* Agent Provocateur , by Foreigner

AGF (Light infantry vehicle)
The Rheinmetall LandSysteme Light Infantry Vehicle for Special Operations, or LIV , is a German light armoured utility vehicle developed from the Mercedes-Benz G-Class. It is also known by the names Serval, Wolf and AGF. As the name implies, the LIV is designed specifically for use by special operations forces, and has light armour, high mobility and high firepower

Agflation
Agflation, a term coined in the late first decade of the 21st century, describes generalised inflation led by rises in Agricultural commodity prices. In the United States, agricultural prices are not generally factored into core inflation figures

Agglomerate
Agglomerates are coarse accumulations of large blocks of volcanic material that contain at least 75% bombs

Agglomeration
In the study of human settlements, an urban agglomeration is an extended city or town area comprising the built-up area of a central place and any suburbs linked by continuous urban area. In France, INSEE the French Statistical Institute, translate it as "Unité urbaine" which means continuous urbanized area

Agglutination
In contemporary linguistics, agglutination usually refers to the kind of morphological derivation in which there is a one-to-one correspondence between affixes and syntactical categories. Languages that use agglutination widely are called agglutinative languages

Aggravation
Aggravation may refer to:* Frustration, an emotional response* Aggravation , a board game played with marbles* Aggravation , a concept in criminal law* Aggravation, a cocktail made from whiskey, coffee liqueur and cream

Aggravation (board game)
Aggravation, sometimes called Frustration, is a board game for up to six players in which the object is to be the first player to have all four playing pieces reach the player's home section of the board

Aggregate
An aggregate is a collection of items that are gathered together to form a total quantity.* Aggregate , in materials science, a component of a composite material used to resist compressive stress

Aggregation
Aggregation may refer to uses in:* Business and economics:** Aggregation problem ** Purchasing aggregation, the joining of multiple purchasers in a group purchasing organization to increase their buying power

Aggregation number
An aggregation number is a description of the number of molecules present in a micelle once the critical micelle concentration has been reached.

Aggregator
In computing, a feed aggregator, also known as a feed reader, news reader, RSS reader or simply aggregator, is client software or a Web application which aggregates syndicated web content such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts, and vlogs in a single location for easy viewing.-News aggregation websites:Examples of this sort of website are the Drudge Report

Aggression
In psychology, as well as other social and behavioral sciences, aggression refers to behavior between members of the same species that is intended to cause humiliation, pain, or harm. Ferguson and Beaver defined aggressive behavior as "Behavior which is intended to increase the social dominance of the organism relative to the dominance position of other organisms"

Aggro
Aggro is a slang term meaning aggravation or aggression. "Aggro" may also refer to:-In music:* The Aggrolites, a "dirty" reggae band from Los Angeles, California* A.G.G.R.O, a song by The Aggrolites

Agha
Agha may refer to:* Agha Agha is a title used in Middle East and South Asia.* Agha , an official in the Ottoman Empire* Agha , Indian actor

Agha (actor)
Agha was an Indian film producer in Bollywood films, who started his film career with the film Daulat in 1937.He was known for comic roles and appeared in over 180 Hindi films in his career between 1937 and 1989 spanning five decades.

Agile
Agile can refer to:*Agility*Agile , an American Thoroughbred racehorse* Agile management*Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe *Agile Software Corporation, a provider of product lifecycle management solutions

AGILE (spacecraft)
AGILE is an X-ray and Gamma ray astronomical satellite of the Italian Space Agency .ASI has made contact with AGILE: signals from it have been acquired by the ground station at the Broglio Space Centre near Malindi, Kenya and it has been placed in a sun-pointing mode.

Agility
* Agility is a physical trait of an animal or person, and a component of physical fitness. It is the ability to change the body's position and direction with speed and precision.Agility may also refer to:In Sport:

Agio
Agio is a term used in commerce for exchange rate, discountor premium.-Exchange rate:The variations from fixed par values or rates of exchange in the currencies of different countries. For example, in most countries that used the gold standard, the standard coin was kept up to a uniform point of fineness

Agio (commerce)
Agio is a term used in commerce for exchange rate, discountor premium.-Exchange rate:The variations from fixed par values or rates of exchange in the currencies of different countries. For example, in most countries that used the gold standard, the standard coin was kept up to a uniform point of fineness

Agios
Agios meaning Holy, it is equivalent to the English-language epithet Saint. For example, St

Agira (Ultra monster)
is a fictional kaiju from the tokusatsu TV series, Ultra Seven. Agira appeared in Episodes 32 and 46. This monster is one of Ultra Seven's Capsule Monsters.Subtitle: .- History :

Agitation
Agitation may refer to:* Agitation , putting into motion by shaking or stirring* Emotional state of excitement or restlessness** Psychomotor agitation, an extreme form of the above, which can be a side effect of antipsychotic medication

Agitator
An agitator is a person who actively supports some ideology or movement with speeches and especially actions. The Agitators were a political movement as well as elected representatives of soldiers, including the New Model Army of Oliver Cromwell, during the English Civil War. They were also known as adjutators

Agitator (film)
Agitator is a 2001 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike.-Cast:*Mickey Curtis*Kenichi Endo*Yoshiyuki Daichi*Hakuryu*Masatô Ibu*Renji Ishibashi*Masaya Kato*Aya Kawamura

Agitprop
Agitprop is derived from agitation and propaganda, and describes stage plays, pamphlets, motion pictures and other art forms with an explicitly political message.

Agitprop (disambiguation)
Agitprop was originally an abbreviation for the departments of Agitation and Propaganda in the early Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The term may also refer to one of the following.*Agitprop theatre, a left-wing politicized theatre

Aglet
An aglet is a small plastic or metal sheath typically used on each end of a shoelace, cord, or drawstring. An aglet keeps the fibers of the lace or cord from unraveling; its firmness and narrow profile make it easier to hold and easier to feed through the eyelets, lugs, or other lacing guides.-Etymology:The word aglet comes from Old French

Aglio
Aglio is a surname. People with this surname include:* Andrea-Salvatore Aglio , Italian painter and sculptor* Agostino Aglio , Italian painterSee also* Allio, Lalio, Delalio - similar surnames

Agnatha
Agnatha is a superclass of jawless fish in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata. The group excludes all vertebrates with jaws, known as gnathostomes.

Agnelli
Agnelli is a surname, and can refer to:*Members of the Agnelli family of Italy, including:**Giovanni Agnelli , Italian manufacturer and founder of Fiat***Edoardo Agnelli , Italian industrialist, son of Giovanni

Agnello
Agnello is a surname. People with this surname include:* John Agnello, American music producer* Carmine Agnello , New York mobster* Chris Agnello , American soccer coach* Carmine Gotti Agnello

Agnellus
Agnellus is a proper name of Latin origin. It can refer to:*Agnellus of Naples, bishop of Naples from 673-ca. 694, and patron saint of Naples*Agnellus, Bishop of Ravenna , a bishop of Ravenna*Andreas Agnellus , historian of Ravenna

Agnes (gallery)
Agnes was a Birmingham, Alabama photography gallery from 1993 to 2001. Shawn Boley, Jon Coffelt and Jan Hughes opened the gallery with the mission of attempting to raise awareness of social issues — such as cancer, AIDS, death and dying, the environment, homelessness, ethics, racism, classism, imprisonment — through photojournalism, film, video, poetry, and book arts

Agnomen
An agnomen , in the Roman naming convention, was a nickname, just as the cognomen was initially. However, the cognomina eventually became family names, so agnomina were needed to distinguish between similarly named persons

Agnosia
Agnosia is a loss of ability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells while the specific sense is not defective nor is there any significant memory loss

Agnosticism
Agnosticism is the view that the truth value of certain claims—especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims—is unknown or unknowable.

Agon
Agon is an ancient Greek word with several meanings:*In one sense, it meant a contest, competition, especially the Olympic Games , or challenge that was held in connection with religious festivals.

AGON
AGON is a series of episodic adventure games for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows by Private Moon Studios. The game uses QuickTime VR-like panoramas in a first person camera mode. The game takes place starting in 1903.-Gameplay:

Agon (ballet)
Agon is a ballet for twelve dancers, with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by George Balanchine. Composition began in December 1953 and concluded in April 1957; the music was first performed on June 17, 1957 in Los Angeles conducted by Robert Craft, while the first stage performance was given by the New York City Ballet on December 1, 1957 at the City Center of Music

Agon (comics)
Agon is a fictional character who has appeared in various comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The character is a member of the Inhumans, a race of beings who exist in Marvel's main shared universe, the Marvel Universe. He is best known as the father of Black Bolt

Agon (disambiguation)
Agon can refer to:* Agon, ancient Greek contest* Agon , a board game* Agon In Japanese Buddhism, refers to the Sarvāstivāda equivalent of the Theravada āgamas.

Agon (game)
Agon is an abstract strategy game with perfect information . Agon may be the oldest board game played on a 6 by 6 by 6 hexagonally tiled board, first appearing as early as the late Eighteenth Century in France

Agon (tokusatsu)
is a 1964 black-and-white Japanese tokusatsu kaiju series. Produced by Nippon Television, the four episode series aired on Fuji TV from January 2, 1968 to January 8, 1968. Internationally, the series is known as Agon: Atomic Dragon

Agone
Agone is an epic fantasy roleplaying game based on novels by award-winning fantasy writer Mathieu Gaborit. Agone is set in the land of Harmundia – also known as the Twilight Realms. The game was published in French starting in 1999 by the now-defunct company Multisim, which also translated five books into English starting in 2001

Agonia
Agonia may refer to:* Pain* Passion , also called the Agony of Christ* Contest, competition, public contesta historical region between troad and mysia north of mt

Agonia (1969 film)
Agonia was a 1969 Greek drama film directed by Odysseas Kosteletos, written by Nikos Antonakos.-Cast:*Tolis Voskopoulos as Alexis*Eleni Anousaki as Anna*Despoina Nikolaidou as Kate Andreou*Lavrentis Dianellos*Thodoros Exarhos*Nasos Kedrakas

Agonia (2006 film)
Agonia was a 2006 short Finnish drama film directed by Niklas Kullström, written by and starring Elmer Bäck and Anna-Mari Karvonen-Cast:*Elmer Bäck*Anna-Mari Karvonen*Jakob Öhrman Marja Salo*Rasmus Slätis*Pamela Tola

Agonist
An agonist is a chemical that binds to a receptor of a cell and triggers a response by that cell. Agonists often mimic the action of a naturally occurring substance

Agony (album)
Agony is the sixth studio album by Chicago Celtic punk band The Tossers. It was released on March 7, 2007 by Victory Records. It is their second release on the label.-Track listing:# "Never Enough" – 3:08# "Pub And Culture" – 2:58

Agony (Oppressor album)
Agony is the second studio album by technical death metal band Oppressor. It was released in 1996.- Track listing :# "Gone" – 3:28# "Suffersystem" – 0:52# "In Exile" – 5:59# "Passage" – 4:31# "Valley of Thorns" – 5:18

Agora
The Agora was an open "place of assembly" in ancient Greek city-states. Early in Greek history , free-born male land-owners who were citizens would gather in the Agora for military duty or to hear statements of the ruling king or council. Later, the Agora also served as a marketplace where merchants kept stalls or shops to sell their goods amid colonnades

Agoraphobia
Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder defined as a morbid fear of having a panic attack or panic-like symptoms in a situation from which it is perceived to be difficult to escape. These situations can include, but are not limited to, wide-open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions

Agoraphobia (song)
"Agoraphobia" is a song by the American alternative rock band Incubus. It is the third track on their 2004 album, A Crow Left of the Murder... It is considered a single, though it was only released to radio stations as a promo.

Agos
Agos is an Armenian weekly newspaper published in Istanbul, Turkey. It was established on 5 April 1996. Today, it has a circulation of over 9,000. It has both Armenian and Turkish pages as well as an on-line English edition