"Lumachella" is a word in ENGLISH
A grayish brown limestone, containing fossil shells,
which reflect a beautiful play of colors. It is also called fire
marble, from its fiery reflections.
Perhaps there are many "nows" of varying duration, depending on just what it is we are doing. We must face up to the fact that, at least in the case of humans, the subject experiencing subjective time is not a perfect, structureless observer, but a complex, multilayered, multifaceted psyche. Different levels of our consciousness may experience time in quite different ways. This is evidently the case in terms of response time. You have probably had the slightly unnerving experience of jumping at the sound of a telephone a moment or two before you actually hear it ring. The shrill noise induces a reflex response through the nervous system much faster than the time it takes to create the conscious experience of the sound.It is fashionable to attribute certain qualities, such as speech ability, to the left side of the brain, whereas others, such as musical appreciation, belong to processes occurring on the right side. But why should both hemispheres experience a common time? And why should the subconscious use the same mental clock as the conscious?
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A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called …
Read the complete definitionA silicate of aluminium, occurring usually in thick rhombic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It …
Read the complete definitionLydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It …
Read the complete definitionA grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States.
Read the complete definitionA granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging …
Read the complete definitionA soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
Read the complete definitionThe grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a.
Read the complete definitionThe pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles.
Read the complete definitionA long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed …
Read the complete definitionA dingy blue, or grayish black, variety of spinel. It is also called pleonaste.
Read the complete definitionA soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same …
Read the complete definitionThe green sickness; an anaemic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, …
Read the complete definitionA comparatively rare element occurring most abundantly in the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5. Symbol Cr. When isolated it is …
Read the complete definitionA soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.
Read the complete definitionLike ashes; ash-colored; grayish.
Read the complete definitionA crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite.
Read the complete definitionA grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de-Dome in Auvergne, France, where it is found.
Read the complete definitionA grayish white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta.
Read the complete definitionA mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is …
Read the complete definitionBrown or grayish black; darkish.
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