A POSTERIORI (from an armour. aposteriori - from consequent), descending from experience; concept of the theory of knowledge, counter a priori.

APOSTLE, the Christian liturgucal book keeping a part of the New testament (particular act and the message of apostles) and the Apocalypse. 1-n a book of Ivan Fedorova (1564).

APOSTLE Daniel Pavlovich (1654-1734), the last elective hetman of Left-bank Ukraine (with 1727). The participant of Boreal war and the Persian marching 1722-23.

APOSTOLIKI (the Apostolic brothers), krestjansko-plebeian sect 2-nd floor. 13 - nach. 14 centuries in the Sowing. Italy. Opposed a feudal press and a latin church, invoked for poverty, failure{refusal} of property. Sect has based Segarelli (ok. 1260), with 1300 headed Dolchino.

APOSTOLOVO, city (with 1956) on Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk region. A railway junction. 18,2 thousand inhabitants (1991). Factories: canning, maslodelatelnyj, concrete products, metalworks for hothouses. It is based in 18 century.

APOSTLES (from grech. apostolos - a salting), in early Christian writings nomadic ecclesiasts of christianity. In the New testament twelve apostles - the nearest followers ("pupils") of the Christ.

APOTHECIUM (from grech. apothekion - a storage room), the open fruit body of some thecasporous fungi and lichens.

APOTROPEJ (dr .-ãðå÷. otvrashchajushchy a trouble), a magic subject to which in an antiquity attributed properties to preserve people, animal, home units against malicious forces. Apotropei often represented plotting of frightening godhoods and beasts: Gorgony, dwarf Besa, a lion, a griffon and so forth.

APOFATICHESKAJA THEOLOGY (from grech. apophatikos - negative), aspires to express nature absolute potustoronnego the god by serial jettisoning ("denial") of all definitions relating it{him} as incommensurable with his{its} nature. It was developed by Grigory Nisskim and in "Areopagitikah", in Middle Ages - Nikolay Kuzanskim. Often it was supplemented katafaticheskoj by theology, however was considered as more perfect way of knowledge of the god.

APOFEGMATY (from grech. apophthegma - saying), arcaded collections of witty and moralizing sayings or short instructive stories (" Apophthegmata Laconica " Plutarha).

APOTHEM (from grech. apotithemi - I lay off).. 1) a cutting (and also his{its} length) a perpendicular and, a regular polygon lowered{omitted} from the centre on any of his{its} parties... 2) In a regular pyramid an apothem - an altitude of a lateral face.

DEIFICATION (from grech. apotheosis - obozhestvlenie).. 1) obozhestvlenie ancient greek statesmen, hereinafter Roman emperors... 2) Glorifying, vozvelichivanie any face, event, the phenomena... 3) the Final solemn crowd scene of performance or the celebratory concert program.

APOENZYME, protein part of ferments for which development of catalytic activity presence and a nonprotein component - a coenzyme is necessary. The apoenzyme determines specificity (selectivity) of action of a ferment and a capability of a regulation of his{its} activity.

APOPHYSIS (from grech. apophysis-), in geology - zhilopodobnoe branch from magmatic bodies, communication{connection} with which it is possible to trace a process, shoot directly.

APOFONIJA, the same, that ablaut.

APOCHROMAT (from apo... And grech. chroma - colour), a lens in which selection of grades of an optical glass fits a spherical aberration, and the chromatic aberration is small.

APOFOCUS (from apo... And the centre), a point of an orbit of the heavenly body, the most remote from the centre of a body around of which there is a circulation.

APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS (Appalachian Mountains), a range on the orient the Sowing. America, in the USA and Canada. Length of 2600 kms. A sowing. Appalachian mountains (northward from rr. Mohok and Hudson) - a corrugated tableland with separate masses an altitude up to 1916 m (Washington); tracks of an ancient glaciation. JUzh. Appalachian mountains in an axial zone will consist from parallel hrebtov and masses, disjointed broad valleys; to an axial zone fit to from the orient of Piedmont plateau, from the west - Appalachian plateau. An altitude up to 2037 m (. Mitchell). Deposits of mineral coal, petroleum and gas, iron oxides, a titanium. Broad-leaved, conifers and mixed forests.

APPALACHSKY the COAL BASIN, on the orient the USA, along Appalachian mountains, in Predappalachskom a forward sag. Broad assimilation with 1840. Ok. 180 thousand êì2. Uglenosny adjournments permi and Carbon. Common stocks up to depth of 900 m 1600 billion t. Carbons basically bituminous. Combustion heat of 28,9-35,4 MDZH/KG. Production open{discovered} and underground ways.