Thomas Young
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～ British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)
third battle of Ypres
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～ battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery
Tai Yuan
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～ a branch of the Tai languages
Tappan Zee Bridge
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～ a cantilever bridge across the Hudson River
transit zone
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～ a six million square mile area that includes the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern Pacific Ocean; includes the principal routes used by drug smugglers
tidal zone
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～ an area subject to tidal action
time zone
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～ any of the 24 regions of the globe (loosely divided by longitude) throughout which the same standard time is used
Torrid Zone
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～ the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate
Temperate Zone
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～ the part of the Earth's surface between the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer or between the Antarctic Circle and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by temperate climate
tropical zone
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～ the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate
twilight zone
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～ the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both); "but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal"; "in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity"; "in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression"
twilight zone
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～ the lowest level of the ocean to which light can reach