Antarctic convergence
the fairly well-defined boundary that exists between the cold antarctic waters and the warmer waters to the north and can be traced around the world.
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a privately supported organization, chartered by Congress in 1935, for the encouragement and advancement of professional and nonprofessional theater. Historical Examples The ANTA is the end of a wall treated so as to be an almost independent member, like a square pillar in which the wall ends. How to judge architecture Russell Sturgis Sayac means […]
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an active hostility or opposition, as between unfriendly or conflicting groups: the antagonism between the liberal and the conservative parties. an opposing force, principle, or tendency: Her plan to become an actress met with the antagonism of her family. Physiology. an opposing action, as by one muscle in relation to another. Biochemistry, Pharmacology. the opposing […]
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acting in opposition; opposing, especially mutually. hostile; unfriendly. Historical Examples The county would discuss her antagonistically at a hundred tea-tables. The Pastor’s Wife Elizabeth von Arnim adjective in active opposition mutually opposed adj. 1630s, from antagonist + -ic. Related: Antagonistical (1620s); antagonistically.