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Telephone phobia ( telephonophobia, telephobia, phone phobia) is reluctance or fear of making or taking phone calls, literally, "fear of telephones ". [1] It is considered to be a type of social phobia or social anxiety. [1] It may be compared to glossophobia, in that both arise from having to engage with an audience, and the associated fear of ...
Apophenia (/ æ p oʊ ˈ f iː n i ə /) is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things. The term (German: Apophänie from the Greek verb ἀποφαίνειν (apophaínein)) was coined by psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in his 1958 publication on the beginning stages of schizophrenia.
In mathematics. 666 is the sum of the first thirty-six natural numbers, which makes it a triangular number: [4] . Since 36 is also triangular, 666 is a doubly triangular number. [5] Also, 36 = 15 + 21 where 15 and 21 are triangular as well, whose squares ( 152 = 225 and 212 = 441) add to 666 and have a difference of 216 = 6 × 6 × 6.
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
A numbers station is a shortwave radio station characterized by broadcasts of formatted numbers, which are believed to be addressed to intelligence officers operating in foreign countries. Most identified stations use speech synthesis to vocalize numbers, although digital modes such as phase-shift keying and frequency-shift keying , as well as ...
The number (if dialed as a ten-digit local call in large cities) now reaches 3-1-1 , but it occasionally continues to appear in documentation as a fictional number. [31] In much of the North American Numbering Plan , a 0 or 1 in the second digit signified an area code until 1994; these numbers could not be issued as individual local exchanges ...
13 (thirteen) is the natural number following 12 and preceding 14.. Strikingly folkloric aspects of the number 13 have been noted in various cultures around the world: one theory is that this is due to the cultures employing lunar-solar calendars (there are approximately 12.41 lunations per solar year, and hence 12 "true months" plus a smaller, and often portentous, thirteenth month).
Prank call. A prank call (also known as a crank call or a hoax call or a goof call) is a telephone call intended by the caller as a practical joke played on the person answering. It is often a type of nuisance call. It can be illegal under certain circumstances. Recordings of prank phone calls became a staple of the obscure and amusing cassette ...