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Novecentismo
Novecentismo, also known as the Generación del 14 or Generation of 1914, was a Spanish intellectual and aesthetic movement of the early twentieth century, led by José Ortega y Gasset.
Novel
Novel: the longest form of prose fiction, a book-length imaginative narrative of connected events, distinct from the novella and short story, emerging in Europe from the late 17th century and reshaped by digital publishing and audiobook streaming.
Novel of ideas
A novel of ideas is a novel organized around ideological conflict, where the idea itself is the protagonist, a form Dostoevsky developed in 1860s Russia.
Novel of manners
The novel of manners (French: roman de mœurs) is a type of novel that renders the ways of life of a society through social observation, chiefly in nineteenth-century French realism.
Novel prediction
A novel prediction is an empirical consequence of a scientific theory not known or not used in constructing it, which philosophers argue confirms the theory more strongly than accommodation.
Novel sequence
A novel sequence is a series of at least three novels or novellas by one author sharing characters, settings, or continuous storylines, distinct from a single novel printed in parts.
Novela de la Revolución
Novela de la Revolución, or Novel of the Revolution, is the Mexican fiction inspired by the Mexican Revolution of 1910, flourishing from the 1920s into the 1950s.
Novela de la tierra
Novela de la tierra ("novel of the land"), also called the telluric novel, is a regionalist current of early twentieth-century Spanish American fiction centered on land and rural life.
Novela de la Violencia
The novela de la Violencia is a body of Colombian novels from about 1948 to 1964 depicting the bipartisan political violence known as La Violencia.
Novela social
Novela social, also called realismo social, is the Spanish realist novel movement of the 1950s and early 1960s that documented social injustices under the Franco dictatorship.
NovelAI
NovelAI Diffusion is a family of anime-focused text-to-image models served by subscription, first released in October 2022 as a Stable Diffusion fine-tune and original from V4 onward.
Novelis
Novelis is an American aluminum rolling and recycling company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, a subsidiary of India's Hindalco Industries since 2007, and the world's largest recycler of aluminum.
Novelist
Novelist: a person who writes novels; word from 1575–85, novel from Italian novella. Covers the novel's definition, history from Tale of Genji and Don Quixote, and the novelist's profession.
Novelization
Novelization, or movie tie-in novel: a novel adapted from a film, TV program, or screenplay, published around the screen work's release. Dates to silent-era serials like The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913); golden era in the 1970s; now marketed as franchise lore supplements.
Novell
Novell was an American enterprise software company based in Provo, Utah, known for NetWare, which dominated PC networking, and later for owning the UNIX trademark and acquiring SUSE Linux.
Novella
A novella is a work of prose fiction longer than a short story and shorter than a novel, usually 17,500 to 40,000 words, focused on a single conflict.
Novella Calligaris
Novella Calligaris (born 1954, Padova), Italian swimmer; first Italian Olympic swimming medalist with silver 400 m freestyle and two bronzes at Munich 1972; 1973 world champion and world record holder, 800 m freestyle.
Novellus Systems
Novellus Systems was a San Jose, California maker of thin-film deposition equipment for chips, founded in 1984 and acquired by Lam Research in 2012 for about $3.3 billion.
Novels of Justinian
The Novels of Justinian (Νεαραὶ Διατάξεις) are the laws issued by the East Roman emperor Justinian I after 534, forming the fourth part of the Corpus Juris Civilis.
Novelty (locomotive)
Novelty was a steam locomotive built in London in 1829 by John Braithwaite and John Ericsson for the Rainhill Trials, where it was the fastest engine before repeated breakdowns eliminated it.
Novelty candidate
A novelty candidate is a person who runs for office as satire or protest without seriously expecting to win. This practice is common in the UK and Brazil.
Novelty detection
Novelty detection is a machine learning task that scores test samples against a model of normal data, used in fraud detection, medical diagnosis, and fault detection.
Novelty song
A novelty song is a comical or nonsensical song that peaked in the 1920s and 1930s, often taking the form of a parody or commentary on current events.
NOVELTY study
The NOVELTY study was a large international observational cohort study funded by AstraZeneca that enrolled about 12,000 patients with asthma, COPD, or both across 19 countries.
November
November (Nov.) is the eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar, with 30 days, named from Latin novem, "nine", for its position in the old Roman calendar.
November 1
November 1, the 305th day of the Gregorian year, is All Saints' Day in Western Christianity; key events include the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, the 1952 Ivy Mike hydrogen bomb test, and the 1993 Maastricht Treaty creating the European Union.
November 11
November 11, the 315th day of the year, marks the 1918 WWI armistice signed at Compiegne; observed as Veterans Day (US, renamed from Armistice Day in 1954) and Remembrance Day (Commonwealth).
November 12
November 12, the 316th day of the year, a date marked by the 1970 Bhola cyclone, the 1996 New Delhi mid-air collision, the 2001 Flight 587 crash, Turing's 1937 computability paper, the 1984 first space salvage, and births including Stanton, Rodin, and Grace Kelly.
November 13
November 13, the 317th day of the Gregorian year (318th in leap years), is marked by World Kindness Day, the 1002 St Brice's Day massacre, the 1927 Holland Tunnel opening, Mariner 9's Mars orbit, the 1985 Armero mudslide, and the 2015 Paris attacks.
November 13: Attack on Paris
November 13: Attack on Paris (13 novembre: Fluctuat Nec Mergitur) is a 2018 three-part Netflix documentary by Jules and Gédéon Naudet on the November 13, 2015 Paris attacks, told through survivor, firefighter, police, and government testimonies.