Términos

Use the qualifiers here to refer to an artist who is in direct contact with the works of the named creator, and living at the same time or shortly after him or her, though not actually working in his or her studio.

Use the qualifiers here to indicate authorship by an unknown individual working directly for the named master, probably under his or her supervision. The distinction between workshop, studio, office, and atelier typically depends upon the historical period in question and the type of work being produced.

Gente que estima o mide cantidades de materiales y equipos necesarios para edificar un proyecto de construcción.

Structures, often located at ports of entry, used to isolate people, animals, or goods in order to prevent the spread of suspected infectious diseases.

Periodicals published at regular intervals four times per year.

Four voices or instruments, particularly when having four stringed instruments.

Particular types of subdivisions of towns or cities, particularly where there are four divisions total. Examples are in Italy.

Measures of capacity for liquids and grain or other dry substances consisting of small particles equal to 1/4 gallon or 2 pints.

Gold found in quartz deposits. As a material, may refer to decorative stones or gemstones comprising quartz having small bits of gold embedded.

Method of dating by measuring, on an exposed surface of quartz, the thickness of the hydration layer caused by the natural intake of water on that surface from the atmosphere.

The Quaternary is the second major division of geologic time in the Cenozoic era, following the Tertiary period. It extends from about 1.8 million years ago to the present. It is divided into Pleistocene and Holocene epochs.

Quaternary ammonium compounds are salts of quaternary ammonium cations with an anion. They are prepared by alkylation of tertiary amines. The compounds are used in softener formulations in the textile industry and in hair conditioner formulas. In conservation, they are used as wood preservatives, and as surfactant fungicides in treatment of textiles and paper.

In poetry, units comprising four lines of verse.

In ancient China, stone structures resembling watchtowers which marked the entrance to a building complex. Generally built in pairs, they stand on opposing sides of a road or walkway, and are typically found in front of citadels, palaces, mansions, ancestral temples, and mausoleums.

Species of ornamental and timber tree native to the northeastern part of North America. It is among the largest of birches, reaching 30 m (100 feet) on cool, moist bottomlands and on drier soils to elevations of 1,950 m. On limbs and young trunks the silvery yellow bark peels in paper-thin curls; on old trunks it is red-brown, deeply grooved, and broken into irregular plates. The pale green twigs are slightly aromatic. The hard, pale red-brown wood usually is not separated from that of sweet birch commercially.

Nationality, culture, and styles of the province of Québec, Canada.

The dialect or viariety of French spoken Quebec.