Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In anthropology, relating to the period after contact between a primitive culture and the trade and influence of a higher.
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Such people dismiss - without having ever read them - mind-blowingly original thought experiments by the likes of Bear and Banks and Vinge and me, which make up the only real library of what-if extrapolations that our committees could quickly turn to, in the event of a post-contact situation!
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Such people dismiss - without having ever read them - mind-blowingly original thought experiments by the likes of Bear and Banks and Vinge and me, which make up the only real library of what-if extrapolations that our committees could quickly turn to, in the event of a post-contact situation!
The Sound and the Fury about Stephen Hawking’s Alien Warning 2010
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"I'll be the No. 1 fan that day," said Hejduk, who felt he was just fending off a post-contact shove from Canada's Dwayne De Rosario, who also earned a yellow card on the play.
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But to some extent we have seen something approcahing kind of environment in the past - typically in opening of the North American west or post-contact pre-colonial Africa - where low population density and difficulty of communication over great distances resulted in near autonomy for certain places.
Going somewhere I don’t usually | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2006
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Four primary factors influenced the post-contact indigenous distribution of Jalisco and its evolution into a Spanish colonial province.
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Four primary factors influenced the post-contact indigenous distribution of Jalisco and its evolution into a Spanish colonial province.
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I need to find the specific reference for this, but I remember reading some or another anthropologist that there is no “post-contact” society and I think that was defined as any inter-civilizational contact, not just with Europeans where lighter skinn is not fundamentally associated with power, beauty and privilege.
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The bite itself is so minor that it won't do you much harm, but Carter stresses that, as with any animal bite, you need to get medical attention and receive a post-contact rabies vaccination.
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At the point of contact, the swing is nearly picture perfect, except for two things: first, he folds his back foot over, instead of rotating on it, which limits his post-contact extension and follow-through.
Halos Heaven 2010
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Progress M-04M (36P) docked successfully to the SM (Service Module) aft port under automatic KURS control, followed by a final DPO post-contact thrusting burn, docking probe retraction and hook closure ( "sborka") after motion damp-out while the ISS was in free drift for ~20 min (11: 26pm-11: 46pm).
SpaceRef Top Stories 2010
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