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Conformity: The appraisal principle that holds that the greater the similarity among properties in an area, the better they will hold their value.

Unconformity: A surface that separates two strata. It represents an interval of time in which deposition stopped, erosion removed some sediments and rock, and then deposition resumed (see also Angular unc . . . View Full Definition

Angular Unconformity: An erosional surface that separates rock units of differing dips. The rocks below the surface were deposited, deformed and eroded. The younger rocks above then accumulated upon the erosional surface.

Radical Innocence: The Romantics valued innocence as something pure, wholesome, fulfilling, natural, and individualistic. They saw it as antithetical to the corrupting influence of civilized conformity and the . . . View Full Definition

Transcendentalism: Transcendentalism is an American philosophical, religious, and literary movement roughly equivalent to the Romantic movement in England (see Romanticism). The transcendentalist philosophy is . . . View Full Definition

Puritan: Most familiar to modern Americans as the religious denomination of the Mayflower colonists, the Puritans were a Protestant sect particularly active during the sixteenth and seventeenth centu . . . View Full Definition

Negative Feedback: The dynamic comparison of a fraction of the output signal to the input signal at the input to an amplifier in such a way that the amplifier regulates it's output signal for maximal conformit . . . View Full Definition

Idiolect: The language or speech pattern unique to one individual at a particular period of his or her life. Because no total conformity in pronunciation is possible, each individual has a slightly di . . . View Full Definition

Splay: A planetary arrangement identified by lack of symmetry and irregularly spaced planets and groups of planets as described by Marc Edmund Jones; symbolic of individualism and nonconformity.

Unstabilized Display (Heading-Upward): A ppi display in which the orientation of the relative motion presentation is set to ship's heading and, thus, changes with changes in ship's heading. In this heading upward display, radar e . . . View Full Definition