The Earth's magnetic field is attributed to a dynamo effect of circulating electric current, but it is not constant in direction. Rock specimens of different age in similar locations have different directions of permanent magnetization.
Full Definition of WISDOM. 1. a: accumulated philosophic or scientific learning: knowledge b: ability to discern inner qualities and relationships: insight c: good sense: judgment.2. : a wise attitude, belief, or course of action. 3. : the teachings of the ancient wise men.See wisdom defined for English-language learners.efinition of WISDOM. : a didactic book included in the Roman Catholic canon of the Old Testament and corresponding to the Wisdom of Solomon in the Protestant Apocrypha â see bible table.
Associated with the later psychosocial stages envisaged by Erikson and Tornstamâs concept of gerotranscendence is the broader term, âwisdomâ. Wisdom is generally regarded as being deposited in societal laws and traditions and accrued by individuals through life experience.irst, Tornstam regards gerotranscendence as a radical reformulation of the disengagement theory promulgated in the early 1960s by Elaine Cumming and colleagues (Cumming, 1963, Cumming and Henry, 1961 and Cumming and Newell, 1960).