Some merit scholarships also consider financial need, but rewarding talent is the primary objective. In most cases the scholarship sponsor has a set of criteria they use to select the winners from among the qualified applicants. Sponsors can have a variety of goals in offering a scholarship.
A batholith (from Greek bathos, depth + lithos, rock) is a large emplacement of igneous intrusive (also called plutonic) rock that forms from cooled magma deep in the Earth's crust. batholith is an exposed area of (mostly) continuous plutonic rock that covers an area larger than 100 square kilometers (40 square miles). Areas smaller than 100 square kilometers are called stocks.
noun, plural laths. [lath z, laths, lahth z, lahths] /lÃ¦Ã°z, lÃ¦Î¸s, lÉÃ°z, lÉÎ¸s/ (Show IPA) 1. a thin, narrow strip of wood, used with other strips to form latticework, a backing for plaster or stucco, a support for slates and other roofing materials, etc. 2. a group or quantity of such strips. 3. work consisting of such strips. 4. wire mesh or the like used in place of wooden laths as a backing for plasterwork.