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Overview
The Gallery's collection of American art includes some 150 works by African-American artists. This online tour offers commentary on a selection of twenty-two paintings, works on paper, and sculpture ranging from a colonial portrait by Joshua Johnson of Baltimore to modern and contemporary pieces by Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Alma Thomas, Sam Gilliam, Barkley Hendricks, Willie Cole, Kara Walker, and Lorna Simpson.
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Displaying 2 result(s) from the 1913 edition: Blossom (Page: 157)
Blos"som (?), n. [OE. blosme, blostme, AS. blsma, blstma, blossom; akin to D. bloesem, L. fios, and E. flower; from the root of E. blow to blossom. See Blow to blossom, and cf. Bloom a blossom.]
1. The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom. &hand; The term has been applied by some botanists, and is also applied in common usage, to the corolla. It is more commonly used than flower or bloom, when we have reference to the fruit which is to succeed. Thus we use flowers when we speak of plants cultivated for ornament, and bloom in a more general sense, as of flowers in general, or in reference to the beauty of flowers.
Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day. Longfellow.
2. A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
In the blossom of my youth. Massinger.
3. The color of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; -- otherwise called peach color. In blossom, having the blossoms open; in bloom.
Blossom (Page: 157)
Blos"som, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blossomed (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Blossoming.] [AS. blstmian. See Blossom, n.]
1. To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower.
The moving whisper of huge trees that branched And blossomed. Tennyson.
2. To flourish and prosper.
Israel shall blossom and bud, and full the face of the world with fruit. Isa. xxvii. 6.
Displaying 1 result(s) from the 1828 edition:
BLOS''SOM, n. [Gr. a bud, probably from the same root.]
1. The flower or corol of a plant; a general term, applicable to every species of tree or plant, but more generally used than flower or bloom, when we have reference to the fruit which is to succeed. Thus we use flowers,when we speak of shrubs cultivated for ornament; and bloom, in a more general sense, as flowers in general, or in reference to the beauty of flowers.
2. This word is used to denote the color of a horse, that has his hair white,but intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; otherwise, peach-colored.
http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=blossom&use1913=on&use1828=on
Numerical analysis
In numerical analysis, a blossom is a functional that can be applied to any polynomial, but is mostly used for Bezier and spline curves and surfaces. The blossom of a polynomial is often denoted .
The Blossom of a functional is completely characterised by the three properties:
1. It is a symmetric function of its arguments. , (where means any permutation of its arguments).
2. It is affine in each of its arguments.
3. It satisfies the diagonal property. .
Graph theory
In graph theory, a blossom is a subgraph of a given graph with an odd number of vertices, in which there exists a matching that matches any subset of all but one vertex. Blossoms play a key role in Jack Edmonds' algorithms for maximum matching and minimum weight perfect matching in nonbipartite graphs.
In general, a graph with n vertices in which any subset of n-1 vertices has a perfect matching is called a factor-critical graph. A blossom is thus a factor-critical subgraph of any graph.
References
* Edmonds, Jack (1965). "Paths, Trees and Flowers". Canadian J. Math 17: 449–467. MR0177907.
* Ramshaw, Lyle (1987). "Blossoming: A Connect-the-Dots Approach to Splines". Digital Systems Research Center. Retrieved on 2006-06-28.
* Casteljau, Paul de Faget de (1992). "POLynomials, POLar Forms, and InterPOLation". Academic Press Professional, Inc..
* Farin, Gerald (2001). Curves and Surfaces for CAGD: A Practical Guide, fifth edition, Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 1-55860-737-4.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Blossom+(mathematics)
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