Key terms & definitions

Automatic Number Plate Recognition: technology that reads vehicle registration plates and checks them against records.

The political union of Austria with Germany, achieved by Hitler in March 1938.

A kingdom in south-western Iran, ruled by Cyrus and his father Cambyses I, with a mixed Persian and Elamite population.

A character who opposes the central protagonist or obstructs their aims. Jonathan Small is an antagonist in Holmes’s investigation.

The muscle that opposes the agonist’s action. In a simple movement, it relaxes and lengthens to allow the agonist to act.

A character or force that opposes the protagonist.

Having opposite effects; insulin and glucagon are antagonistic because one lowers blood glucose concentration while the other raises it.

The opposing effects of two substances or processes, such as insulin lowering blood glucose concentration and glucagon raising it.

Two effectors whose actions oppose one another, allowing a controlled variable to be changed in either direction.

The coordinated action of opposing muscles: one contracts to produce a movement while the other relaxes. Their roles reverse to produce the opposite movement.

Two muscles or muscle groups that produce opposing movements at a joint.

Responses that have opposing effects, such as mechanisms that increase heat loss and mechanisms that reduce it.

The Sikh funeral, meaning the last rite of passage.

An international agreement governing Antarctica that promotes peaceful use, scientific research and cooperation between countries.

The divine understood as the indwelling Lord, present within a person’s heart.

The noun or noun phrase to which a pronoun refers.

Conditions in a drainage basin before a rainfall event, especially how wet the soil already is.

A conductor used to transmit or receive radio waves; also called an aerial.

An inability to form new long-term memories after the onset of an illness or injury.

A collection of literary works, often by different writers.

Caused by human activities.

Anthropogenic means caused by human activity.

Caused by human activities.

Climate change resulting from human activities.

An increase in the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere caused by human activity.

A person who studies human societies and cultures.

Measurements of human body sizes and dimensions used to help products fit their intended users.

The study and use of human body measurements to inform product dimensions.

The attribution of human behaviour or characteristics to animals or other non-human things.

Representing gods with human forms, emotions and behaviour.