What is deformation? By Owais Khattak 8:13:00 PM The term deformation is, like several other structural geology terms, used in different ways by different people and under different circumstances. In most cases, particularly in the ï¬eld, the term refers to the distortion (strain) that is expressed in a (deformed) rock. This is also what the word literally means: a change in form or shape.
1. the principles of government set forth in The Prince by Machiavelli, in which political expediency is exalted above morality and the use of er aft and deceit to maintain authority or to effectuate policy is recommended. Also Machiavellism. 2. activity characterized by subtle cunning, duplicity, or bad faith.
It's not any kind of novel, actually. The Prince is a treatise, which is just a dressy way to say really long discussion of an idea.. Since that idea is the problem of ruling a nation, and Machiavelli is pretty rational about it, that makes his treatise not only political, but also philosophical.A double whammy.He probably didn't mind though, since he was dead by the time The Prince was published.). As part of his un-Christian remix of the genre, Machiavelli changed what virtu virtÃ¹ traditionally. Meant, sure he talked about it a, lot But'machiavelli s virtue was not your'grandma s. virtu virtÃ¹