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Voluntarism
- - Any theory which conceives will to be the dominant factor in experience or in the constitution of the world; -- contrasted with intellectualism. Schopenhauer and Fichte are typical exponents of the two types of metaphysical voluntarism, Schopenhauer teaching that the evolution of the universe is the activity of a blind and irrational will, Fichte holding that the intelligent activity of the ego is the fundamental fact of reality.
Volunteered
- verb - agree freely; "She volunteered to drive the old lady home"; "I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it"
- do volunteer work
- tell voluntarily; "He volunteered the information"
Volvariella
- noun - an important genus of mushrooms in the Orient
Volvocaceae
- noun - unicellular or colonial biflagellate free-swimming flagellates
Von Blucher
- noun - Prussian general who is remembered for his leadership in the wars against Napoleon (1742-1819)
Von Neumann
- noun - United States mathematician who contributed to the development of atom bombs and of stored-program digital computers (1903-1957)
Voortrekker
- unknown - Boers, Dutch Settlers who migrated from British Cape Colony in the 1830s
Voraciously
- adverb - in an eagerly voracious manner; "she reads voraciously"
Vortex Line
- - A line, within a rotating fluid, whose tangent at every point is the instantaneous axis of rotation as that point of the fluid.
Vortex Ring
- - A ring-shaped mass of moving fluid which, by virtue of its motion of rotation around an axis disposed in circular form, attains a more or less distinct separation from the surrounding medium and has many of the properties of a solid.