group of countries controlled by one government

based on what people see, test, or experience

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

(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.

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

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

(historical) Japan from the Constitution of the Empire of Japan (1890) until the enactment of the post-WWII Constitution of Japan (1947). Unofficially used for Japan from the end of the shogunate (1868) to the end of the World War II (1945).

plural of empirical research

The pre-Columbian empire spreading over many parts of western South America. It was controlled by the Incas, and had its capital as Cuzco.

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