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field-effect transistor

(Encyclopedia)field-effect transistor: see transistor. ...

field-emission microscope

(Encyclopedia)field-emission microscope: see microscope. ...

field-ion microscope

(Encyclopedia)field-ion microscope: see microscope. ...

field, in algebra

(Encyclopedia)field, in algebra, set of elements (usually numbers) that may be combined under the operations of addition and multiplication so that it constitutes an additive group, the nonzero elements form a mult...

Victoria and Albert Museum

(Encyclopedia)Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London, opened in 1852 as the Museum of Manufacturers at Marlborough House. It originally contained a nucleus of contemporary objects of applied art bough...

National Museum of the United States

(Encyclopedia)National Museum of the United States: see Smithsonian Institution. ...

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation

(Encyclopedia)Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation: see National Museum of the American Indian. ...

Stockton, Robert Field

(Encyclopedia)Stockton, Robert Field, 1795–1866, American naval officer, b. Princeton, N.J. He left the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) to enter the U.S. Navy at 16 and served in the War of 1812 and in the ...

Bill of Rights, in U.S. history

(Encyclopedia)Bill of Rights, in U.S. history: see Constitution of the United States. ...

Broad Contemporary Art Museum

(Encyclopedia)Broad Contemporary Art Museum: see under Los Angeles County Museum of Art. ...