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Encyclopedia > Bonnet

A bonnet the name of different types of headwear for men and women. The word is a 14th century loan from Old French, from Vulgar Latin bonitum (ultimately of Germanic origin. by extension, A bonnet is a kind of headgear which is usually brimless. ... Old French is a term sometimes used to refer to the langue doïl, the continuum of varieties of Romance language spoken in territories corresponding roughly to the northern half of modern France and parts of Belgium and Switzerland during the period roughly from 1000 to 1300 A.D... Vulgar Latin (in Latin, sermo vulgaris) is a blanket term covering the vernacular dialects of the Latin language spoken mostly in the western provinces of the Roman Empire until those dialects, diverging still further, evolved into the early Romance languages — a distinction usually assigned to about the ninth century. ...

People called Bonnet: The hood (US) or bonnet (UK) is the hinged cover over the engine of motor vehicles. ... British English (BrE) is a term used to refer to the form of the English language spoken in the British Isles. ... An engine is something that produces some effect from a given input. ... Blackfoot war bonnet. ... Native Americans is a term which has several different common meanings and scope, according to regional use and context. ... A gate valve is a valve that opens by lifting a round or rectangular gate out of the path of the fluid. ... Globe valves are named for their spherical body shape. ...

Places called Bonnet: Pierre Ossian Bonnet (December 22, 1819- 22 June 1892) French mathematician. ... A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ... Automobiles René Bonnet was a French automobile maker. ... The following automobile manufacturers produce or have produced automobiles. ... Mécanique Avion TRAction or Matra is a French company covering a wide range of activities mainly related to aeronautics and weaponry which today operates as the Lagardère Group. ...


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Pierre Ossian Bonnet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (379 words)
Bonnet was elected to the Academy of Sciences in 1862 to replace Biot.
From 1868 Bonnet assisted Chasles at the Ecole Polytechnique, and three years later he became a director of studies there.
In 1878 Bonnet succeeded Le Verrier to the chair at the Sorbonne, then in 1883 he succeeded Liouville as a member of the Bureau des Longitudes.
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