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motif in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Generally, a
motif is a
recurring element or
theme in a work of art or media.
Motif may
refer to:
Motif (chess...
- (the
German for "animal whorl" or "whirl of animals") is a
characteristic motif in
Bronze Age
Central Asia, the
Eurasian Steppe, and
later also in Iron...
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Motif description is the term that has been used for a form of
dance notation; however, the
current preferred terminology is
Motif Notation. It is a subset...
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structural motif is a
common three-dimensional
structure that
appears in a
variety of different,
evolutionarily unrelated molecules. A
structural motif does...
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Leitmotiv (IPA: [ˈlaɪtmoˌtiːf] ),
literally meaning "leading
motif", or "guiding
motif". A
musical motif has been
defined as a "short
musical idea ... melodic...
- The
Motif-Index of Folk-Literature is a six
volume catalogue of
motifs,
granular elements of folklore,
composed by
American folklorist Stith Thompson (1932–1936...
- an
essential tool for folklorists, used
along with the
Thompson (1932)
Motif-Index of Folk-Literature.
Austrian consul Johann Georg von Hahn devised...
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Recursion occurs when the
definition of a
concept or
process depends on a
simpler or
previous version of itself.
Recursion is used in a
variety of disciplines...
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Tituba (fl. 1692–1693) was an
enslaved Native American woman who was one of the
first to be
accused of
witchcraft during the
Salem witch trials of 1692–1693...
- acid
sequence (or
motif) of
glutamic acid-leucine-arginine (or ELR for short)
immediately before the
first cysteine of the CXC
motif (ELR-positive), and...
