Spanish Open dictionary by Felipe Lorenzo del Río

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transposón: In genetics they also call it jumping gene, particle with genetic information, a DNA sequence of a chromosome that can alter the order of the genome or introduce new information into it. The transposition of genetic information can now be natural or provocative. Transposon was discovered by American scientist Barbara McClintock studying corn chromosomes during the 1940s and 1950s. So changes can now be made to an organism's genome.
goniómetro: From the gonos giego, origin, generation and metron, measured. Sextant or semicircle-shaped apparatus graduated at 180 degrees or circle at 360 used to measure or construct angles between two points such as the sun and horizon. With it the navigators could determine their position at sea on a sunny day in a simple way. Ancient astronomers called it astrolabe.
enclave y exclave: Concepts of Political Geography . It is a territory belonging to a particular jurisdiction surrounded by another jurisdiction. It is called an enclave in relation to the jurisdiction around you and exclaves in relation to the jurisdiction of which you are outside. Thus, for example, Gibraltar, an overseas territory and exclave of the United Kingdom, is nestled in Spain.
nagorno karabaj: Nagorno in Russian, mountain, high ground and Karabakh in Persian, black garden. Caucasus territory between Armenia and Azerbaijan, cause of the current conflict, dormant since the dissolution of the Russian empire, which led to the War of Upper Karabakh in the early 1990s. In theory the territory belongs to Azerbaijan but most of the population is Armenian. In fact it functions as an independent republic without international recognition, in Armenian, Republic of Artsaj, until 2017 Republic of Upper Karabakh
ppm: Variopinte acronyms that can mean everything from popular monarchical party to please please me, the Beatles' first album. They are usually acronyms for measurement: in music beats per minute to set the tempo, in medicine to determine heart rate, in computer printing, pages per minute and in physics, parts per million to assess the concentration of one substance in another.
ultracrepidiano: Although it looks like Latinism, (crepida -ae , sandalia ), it is an Anglicanism, as the term was created in the first quarter of the nineteenth century by the English humanist writer William Hazlitt who commented on this expression of Pliny the Elder that was attributed to the Greek painter of the 4th century a. C. Colophon appeals : Ne supra crepidam sutor iudicaret : That the shoemaker does not pee above the sandals , ( shoemaker, to your shoes). So Apeles told a shoemaker who started criticizing the sandals in a painting and went on in more detail. The term refers to individuals who have apparent authority over everything and have no knowledge of anything.
¡chapó!: Castellanization of the French chapeau, hat. With admiration it is an exclamative expression that indicates respect and admiration for something or someone. Among the most affluent and cultured classes of the past the expression was accompanied by the gesture or addition to taking off his hat.
ginandromorfo: Term of biology, from Greek gyné, woman, aner andrós, male and morfé, form. It is said of living beings with juxtaposed sexual characteristics of the male and female either in lateral asymmetry, on the one hand male and on the other female, or in genetic mosaic. The phenomenon, whose cause appears to be in the chromosomal division, occurs mainly in insects, in some crustaceans and in birds.
fitónimo: From Greek phyton -ou , plant and onoma -atos , name : name of a plant . The term applies to both scientific and popular names.
ablativo: Against what some think has nothing to do with speech that derives from fable but from ab- prefix of separation, deprivation or limitation and latus, past participle of fero, carry, produce. This declinative case, which in Greek did not exist and which some attribute to Julius Caesar, in its origin to indicate the place of verbal action, has then been used to express any circumstance of place, time or whatever in the grammatical sentence.
nazarí: Especially in the sports media begins to sound this term as a Gentile of Granada, our beautiful Andalusian city, as synonymous with Granada, Granada, Granadi, Garnatí or iliberitano. The appellate refers to the time when the Nasrid Muslim dynasty dominated the city of the Alhambra from the 13th to the 15th century.
estepicursor: Botanical term for steppe plants that when dried are swept away by the wind thus dispersing their seeds. They also call them running plants or rolling machines, pancracy balls, desert clouds or norias. The most characteristic example I define in the entrance Calamino, salicón, rascavieja, malvecino, salsola kali, ball of the western films when the wind whistles and the tragedy is chewing.
lúnula: Golden crescent-shaped pendant amulet among the richest or other metals carried by Roman girls until the eve of their marriage. Instead the children carried a bulla or ball-medallion against evil.
xylospongio: Greek term, xylon, wooden stick and spongos, sponge, which the Romans also called tersorious, tergeo, drying, rubbing, cleaning. A stick with a sea sponge at one end with which the Romans wiped their ass in public latrines. Thus they shared all the gut bacteria even though they left it in a dissolution of water, vinegar and salt. In issue 70 of the Letters to Lucilius in which he speaks of suicide, Seneca refers to this instrument in these terms : . . . lignum id quod ad emundanda obscena adhaerente spongia positum est . . . ( the stick located in the latrine to clean the droppings ).
romper la cuarta pared: Among the characters of a literary performance or fiction and viewers-readers is an imaginary wall to which some creators have referred mainly since the nineteenth century. So Stendhal in Racine and Shakespeare : ". . . The action takes place in a room where one of the walls has been erected by the magic wand of Melpómene. . . "When any of the characters interact with the expectator-readers the fourth wall is broken.
triqueta: Also triquel or triquetra, it is an Indo-European symbol, widely used by the Celts, as a triangular knot, the knot of eternity that represents birth, death and reincarnation with many geometric versions.
trisquel: Also triskele or triskelion, from Greek tri- and skelos, leg. Celtic sacred symbol, used by druids, with three unit spirals with geometric variants. In his polysemia he can allude to eternal evolution or perpetual learning and has appeared in archaeological remains north of the peninsula in petroglyphs, ceramic stamps or coins.
ombroclima: Technical term of the climatology and earth sciences of Greek origin : Ombros -ou , rain and klima -atos , inclination (of the earth relative to the sun), geographical region . It is the type of climate based on annual rainfall in a geographical area. In Madrid the ombroclimate ranges from semi-arid (less than 350 liters per square meter) to dry (less than 600 ).
pan para hoy y hambre para mañana: Saying expression of our language in which short-term solutions to any problem are criticized, which do not really solve it, because they are only "a stop while charging"
método loci: Memoristic technique, mentioned by St. Augustine in confessions as Palace of Memory or imaginary place where memories are stored. Loci is the singular genitive of locus, place. He named it Cicero in De oratore, putting it into practice to remember his speeches to the Senate. This mnemonic strategy that associates the facts with a familiar place was attributed to the Greek poet Simonides de Ceos, author of the verses to the fallen in the Thermopylae. Simonides identified the bodies of the diners of a banquet after an earthquake for the place each occupied.