(philosophy, phenomenology) In the thought of Immanuel Kant and Edmund Husserl, the self of each person, understood as the locus of personality and capable of being known as an object by means of reflective awareness, in contrast with the transcendental ego which is always an experiencing subject.

The official nickname for the state of New York in the United States of America. / Empire State Building

Alternative spelling of nonempirical

Research that bases its findings on direct or indirect observation as its test of reality.

(statistics, singular only) Synonym of the 68-95-99.7 rule

(historical) The empire ruled by the Achaemenid dynasty 550 BCE to 330 BCE

Empire of China

(fashion) A waistline on a woman's dress that is located immediately below the bust

The United States of America together with its allies, viewed as having the qualities characteristic of an empire.

An empire of the Mongols and Turkic peoples which existed in Asia from 1206 to 1368 and became the largest contiguous land empire in human history, stretching from Central Europe east to the Sea of Japan and from Siberia south to the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East.