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Alimony refers to an allowance for support made under court order to a divorced person by the former spouse which is often the chief provider during the marriage.

Alkalosis refers to an abnormal increase in blood concentration of OH-ions, resulting in a rise in arterial pH above 7.45. Alkalosis is also defined as an abnormally high level of alkaline in the body.

All-or-none law refers to the principle stating that the size, amplitude, and velocity of the action potential are independent of the intensity of the stimulus that initiated it.

- All-or-Nothing (Faulty Heuristics) : Englisch: Sports Psychology
Examples of Faulty Heuristics
All-or-Nothing refers to a faulty heuristics which means seeing only the extremes in a situation.

All-or-nothing thinking is classifying objects or events as absolutely right or wrong, good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable, and so forth with nothing in between. All-or-nothing thinking is engaging in black-or-white thinking. Thinking in extremes, such as all good or all bad, with nothing in the middle.

Allegiance effect refers to a characterization of psychotherapy outcome research such that investigators commonly find the most effective treatment is the one to which they hold a theoretical allegiance.

Allegory of the cave refers to Plato's description of individuals who live their lives in accordance with the shadows of reality provided by sensory experience instead of in accordance with the true reality beyond sensory experience.

Allele refers to a member of a pair of genes; the alternate state of a gene at a given locus.