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6361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiopeia | Cassiopeia | Cassiopeia ( ) or Cassiopea may refer to:
Greek mythology
Cassiopeia (mother of Andromeda), queen of Aethiopia and mother of Andromeda
Cassiopeia (wife of Phoenix), wife of Phoenix, king of Phoenicia
Cassiopeia, wife of Epaphus, king of Egypt, the son of Zeus and Io; mother of Libya
Science
Cassiopeia (constellat... |
6362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetus | Cetus | Cetus () is a constellation, sometimes called 'the whale' in English. The Cetus was a sea monster in Greek mythology which both Perseus and Heracles needed to slay. Cetus is in the region of the sky that contains other water-related constellations: Aquarius, Pisces and Eridanus.
Features
Ecliptic
Cetus is not among t... |
6363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carina%20%28constellation%29 | Carina (constellation) | Carina ( ) is a constellation in the southern sky. Its name is Latin for the keel of a ship, and it was the southern foundation of the larger constellation of Argo Navis (the ship Argo) until it was divided into three pieces, the other two being Puppis (the poop deck), and Vela (the sails of the ship).
History and myt... |
6364 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelopardalis | Camelopardalis | Camelopardalis is a large but faint constellation of the northern sky representing a giraffe. The constellation was introduced in 1612 or 1613 by Petrus Plancius. Some older astronomy books give Camelopardalus or Camelopardus as alternative forms of the name, but the version recognized by the International Astronomica... |
6365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention%20of%20Kanagawa | Convention of Kanagawa | The Convention of Kanagawa, also known as the Kanagawa Treaty (, Kanagawa Jōyaku) or the Japan–US Treaty of Peace and Amity (, Nichibei Washin Jōyaku), was a treaty signed between the United States and the Tokugawa Shogunate on March 31, 1854. Signed under threat of force, it effectively meant the end of Japan's 220-ye... |
6366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canis%20Major | Canis Major | Canis Major is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere. In the second century, it was included in Ptolemy's 48 constellations, and is counted among the 88 modern constellations. Its name is Latin for "greater dog" in contrast to Canis Minor, the "lesser dog"; both figures are commonly represented as follo... |
6367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canis%20Minor | Canis Minor | Canis Minor is a small constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere. In the second century, it was included as an asterism, or pattern, of two stars in Ptolemy's 48 constellations, and it is counted among the 88 modern constellations. Its name is Latin for "lesser dog", in contrast to Canis Major, the "greater d... |
6371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaurus | Centaurus | Centaurus is a bright constellation in the southern sky. One of the largest constellations, Centaurus was included among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations. In Greek mythology, Centaurus represents a centaur; a creature that is half hu... |
6416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact%20crater | Impact crater | An impact crater is a depression in the surface of a planet, moon, or other solid body in the Solar System or elsewhere, formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller body. In contrast to volcanic craters, which result from explosion or internal collapse, impact craters typically have raised rims and floors that are ... |
6417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvus%20%28disambiguation%29 | Corvus (disambiguation) | Corvus is a genus of birds commonly known as crows and ravens.
Corvus may also refer to:
Corvus (boarding device), used by ancient Roman warships
Corvus (constellation)
Corvus (Chinese astronomy), the same constellation as considered in traditional Chinese uranography
Corvus (heraldry), crows and ravens in herald... |
6420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona%20Borealis | Corona Borealis | Corona Borealis is a small constellation in the Northern Celestial Hemisphere. It is one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, and remains one of the 88 modern constellations. Its brightest stars form a semicircular arc. Its Latin name, inspired by its shape, means "northern crown". In... |
6421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus%20%28constellation%29 | Cygnus (constellation) | Cygnus is a northern constellation on the plane of the Milky Way, deriving its name from the Latinized Greek word for swan. Cygnus is one of the most recognizable constellations of the northern summer and autumn, and it features a prominent asterism known as the Northern Cross (in contrast to the Southern Cross). Cygnu... |
6422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communion | Communion | Communion may refer to:
Religion
The Eucharist (also called the Holy Communion or Lord's Supper), the Christian rite involving the eating of bread and drinking of wine, reenacting the Last Supper
Communion (chant), the Gregorian chant that accompanies this rite
First Communion, a ceremony in some Christian tradition... |
6423 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie | Calorie | The calorie is a unit of energy. For historical reasons, two main definitions of "calorie" are in wide use. The large calorie, food calorie, or kilogram calorie was originally defined as the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius (or one kelvin). The small calor... |
6424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona%20Australis | Corona Australis | Corona Australis is a constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere. Its Latin name means "southern crown", and it is the southern counterpart of Corona Borealis, the northern crown. It is one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.... |
6426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corcovado | Corcovado | Corcovado (), which means "hunchback" in Portuguese, is a mountain in central Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a 710-metre (2,329 ft) granite peak located in the Tijuca Forest, a national park.
Corcovado hill lies just west of the city center but is wholly within the city limits and visible from great distances. It is kn... |
6427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar%2C%20Somerset | Cheddar, Somerset | Cheddar is a large village and civil parish in the Sedgemoor district of the English county of Somerset. It is situated on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, north-west of Wells, south-east of Weston-super-Mare and south-west of Bristol. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Nyland and Bradley Cross. The pari... |
6429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact%20disc | Compact disc | The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in October 1982 and branded as Digital Audio Compact Disc.
The format was later adapted... |
6431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Farrar%20Browne | Charles Farrar Browne | Charles Farrar Browne (April 26, 1834 – March 6, 1867) was an American humor writer, better known under his nom de plume, Artemus Ward, which as a character, an illiterate rube with "Yankee common sense", Browne also played in public performances. He is considered to be America's first stand-up comedian. His birth name... |
6432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caelum | Caelum | Caelum is a faint constellation in the southern sky, introduced in the 1750s by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille and counted among the 88 modern constellations. Its name means “chisel” in Latin, and it was formerly known as Caelum Sculptorium (“the engravers’ chisel”); It is a rare word, unrelated to the far more common Lati... |
6433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarinet | Clarinet | The clarinet is a family of woodwind instruments. It has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight, cylindrical tube with an almost cylindrical bore, and a flared bell. A person who plays a clarinet is called a clarinetist (sometimes spelled clarinettist).
While the similarity in sound between the earliest clarinets and th... |
6434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chojn%C3%B3w | Chojnów | Chojnów (, Silesian German: Hoyn) is a small town in Legnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is located on the Skora river, a tributary of the Kaczawa at an average altitude of above sea level. Chojnów is the administrative seat of the rural gmina called Gmina Chojnów, although the tow... |
6435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canes%20Venatici | Canes Venatici | Canes Venatici () is one of the 88 constellations designated by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). It is a small northern constellation that was created by Johannes Hevelius in the 17th century. Its name is Latin for 'hunting dogs', and the constellation is often depicted in illustrations as representing the d... |
6436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamaeleon | Chamaeleon | Chamaeleon () is a small constellation in the southern sky. It is named after the chameleon, a kind of lizard. It was first defined in the 16th century.
History
Chamaeleon was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman. It first a... |
6437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholesterol | Cholesterol | Cholesterol is any of a class of certain organic molecules. A cholesterol is a sterol (or modified steroid), a type of lipid. Cholesterol is biosynthesized by all animal cells and is an essential structural component of animal cell membranes. When chemically isolated, it is a yellowish crystalline solid.
Cholesterol a... |
6438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome | Chromosome | A chromosome is a long DNA molecule with part or all of the genetic material of an organism. Most eukaryotic chromosomes include packaging proteins called histones which, aided by chaperone proteins, bind to and condense the DNA molecule to maintain its integrity. These chromosomes display a complex three-dimensional s... |
6439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge | Charge | Charge or charged may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
Charge, Zero Emissions/Maximum Speed, a 2011 documentary
Music
Charge (David Ford album)
Charge (Machel Montano album)
Charge!!, an album by The Aquabats
Charged (Nebula album)
Charged (Toshinori Kondo, Eraldo Bernocchi and Bill Laswell album... |
6440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonna%20family | Colonna family | Colonna, also known as Sciarrillo or Sciarra, is an Italian noble family, forming part of the papal nobility. It was powerful in medieval and Renaissance Rome, supplying one Pope (Martin V) and many other church and political leaders. The family is notable for its bitter feud with the Orsini family over influence in Ro... |
6443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceuta | Ceuta | Ceuta (, , ; ; ) is a Spanish autonomous city on the north coast of Africa.
Bordered by Morocco, it lies along the boundary between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It is one of the several Spanish territories in Africa and, along with Melilla and the Canary Islands, one of the only permanently inhabited ... |
6444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cleopatra (disambiguation) | Cleopatra (69–30 BC) was the last active Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt before it became a Roman province.
Cleopatra may also refer to:
Given name
From the Greek name Κλεοπάτρα (Kleopatra) meaning "glory of the father", derived from κλέος (kleos) meaning "glory" combined with πατήρ (pater) meaning "father" (genitive πατρό... |
6445 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinogen | Carcinogen | A carcinogen is any substance, radionuclide, or radiation that promotes carcinogenesis, the formation of cancer. This may be due to the ability to damage the genome or to the disruption of cellular metabolic processes. Several radioactive substances are considered carcinogens, but their carcinogenic activity is attribu... |
6446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camouflage | Camouflage | Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else. Examples include the leopard's spotted coat, the battledress of a modern soldier, and the leaf-mimic katydid's wings. A third appr... |
6449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock | Clock | A clock or a timepiece is a device used to measure and indicate time. The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units: the day, the lunar month, year and galactic year. Devices operating on several physical processes have been used over the m... |
6451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Proteus%20Steinmetz | Charles Proteus Steinmetz | Charles Proteus Steinmetz (born Karl August Rudolph Steinmetz, April 9, 1865 – October 26, 1923) was a German-born American mathematician and electrical engineer and professor at Union College. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the Unit... |
6452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Martel | Charles Martel | Charles Martel (c. 688 – 22 October 741) was a Frankish statesman and military leader who, as Duke and Prince of the Franks and Mayor of the Palace, was the de facto ruler of Francia from 718 until his death. He was a son of the Frankish statesman Pepin of Herstal and Pepin's mistress, a noblewoman named Alpaida. Charl... |
6456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Edward%20Jones | Charles Edward Jones | Colonel Charles Edward ("Chuck") Jones (8 November 1952 - 11 September 2001) was a United States Air Force officer, an aeronautical engineer, computer programmer, and an astronaut in the USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program. He was killed in the attacks of 11 September 2001, aboard American Airlines Flight 11.
Lif... |
6458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic | Ceramic | A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature. Common examples are earthenware, porcelain, and brick.
The earliest ceramics made by humans were pottery objects (pot... |
6459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxing%20%28Chinese%20philosophy%29 | Wuxing (Chinese philosophy) | Wuxing (), usually translated as Five Phases, is a fivefold conceptual scheme that many traditional Chinese fields used to explain a wide array of phenomena, from cosmic cycles to the interaction between internal organs, and from the succession of political regimes to the properties of medicinal drugs. The "Five Phases... |
6462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20Christ%2C%20Scientist | Church of Christ, Scientist | The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded in 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Mary Baker Eddy, author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and founder of Christian Science. The church was founded "to commemorate the word and works of Christ Jesus" and "reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost eleme... |
6466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut | Connecticut | Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it has the highest per-capita income, second-highest level of human development behind Massachusetts, and highest median household income in the United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Mass... |
6468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country%20Liberal%20Party | Country Liberal Party | The Country Liberal Party (CLP), officially the Country Liberals (Northern Territory), is a liberal conservative political party in Australia founded in 1974, which operates solely in the Northern Territory, however due to Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands forming part of the Division of Lingiari they al... |
6469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon%20law | Canon law | Canon law (from , , a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership), for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members. It is the internal ecclesiastical law, or operational policy, governing the Catholic Church (both ... |
6501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbanus | Columbanus | Columbanus (; 543 – 21 November 615) was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries after 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy.
Columbanus taught an Irish monastic rule and penitential practices for those ... |
6503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord%2C%20New%20Hampshire | Concord, New Hampshire | Concord () is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Hampshire and the county seat of Merrimack County. As of the 2020 census the population was 43,976, making it the third largest city in New Hampshire behind Manchester and Nashua.
The village of Penacook lies at the northern boundary of the city limits. The city ... |
6505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophyceae | Chlorophyceae | The Chlorophyceae are one of the classes of green algae, distinguished mainly on the basis of ultrastructural morphology. They are usually green due to the dominance of pigments chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b. The chloroplast may be discoid, plate-like, reticulate, cup-shaped, spiral or ribbon shaped in different spe... |
6508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril | Cyril | Cyril (also Cyrillus or Cyryl) is a masculine given name. It is derived from the Greek name Κύριλλος (Kýrillos), meaning 'lordly, masterful', which in turn derives from Greek κυριος (kýrios) 'lord'. There are various variant forms of the name Cyril such as Cyrill, Cyrille, Ciril, Kirill, Kiryl, Kirillos, Kuriakose, Kyr... |
6511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20complexity | Computational complexity | In computer science, the computational complexity or simply complexity of an algorithm is the amount of resources required to run it. Particular focus is given to time and memory requirements. The complexity of a problem is the complexity of the best algorithms that allow solving the problem.
The study of the complexi... |
6512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercion | Coercion | Coercion () is compelling a party to act in an involuntary manner by use of threats, including force. It involves a set of various types of forceful actions that violate the free will of an individual to induce a desired response, for example: a bully demanding lunch money from a student or the student gets beaten. The... |
6513 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client%E2%80%93server%20model | Client–server model | Client-server model is a distributed application structure that partitions tasks or workloads between the providers of a resource or service, called servers, and service requesters, called clients. Often clients and servers communicate over a computer network on separate hardware, but both client and server may reside ... |
6514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20Dublin | County Dublin | County Dublin ( or ) is one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland, located on the island's east coast, within the province of Leinster. The county is divided into the local government areas of Dublin City, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin. The latter three were counties created in 1994, when ... |
6516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological%20argument | Cosmological argument | A cosmological argument, in natural theology, is an argument which claims that the existence of God can be inferred from facts concerning causation, explanation, change, motion, contingency, dependency, or finitude with respect to the universe or some totality of objects. A cosmological argument can also sometimes be r... |
6517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutch | Clutch | A clutch is a mechanical device that engages and disengages power transmission, especially from a drive shaft (driving shaft) to a driven shaft. In the simplest application, clutches connect and disconnect two rotating shafts (drive shafts or line shafts). In these devices, one shaft is typically attached to an engine ... |
6520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow%20tipping | Cow tipping | Cow tipping is the purported activity of sneaking up on any unsuspecting or sleeping upright cow and pushing it over for entertainment. The practice of cow tipping is generally considered an urban legend, and stories of such feats viewed as tall tales. The implication that rural citizens seek such entertainment due to ... |
6526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra | Cassandra | Cassandra or Kassandra; Ancient Greek: Κασσάνδρα, , also ), (sometimes referred to as Alexandra) was a Trojan priestess of Apollo in Greek mythology cursed to utter true prophecies, but never to be believed. In modern usage her name is employed as a rhetorical device to indicate someone whose accurate prophecies are no... |
6530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couplet | Couplet | A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (or closed) couplet, each of the two lines is end-stopped, implying that there is a grammatical pause at the... |
6532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte%20Bront%C3%AB | Charlotte Brontë | Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.
She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach ... |
6533 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Williams%20%28British%20writer%29 | Charles Williams (British writer) | Charles Walter Stansby Williams (20 September 1886 – 15 May 1945) was a British poet, novelist, playwright, theologian, literary critic, and member of the Inklings, an informal literary discussion group associated with C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien at the University of Oxford.
Early life and education
Charles Wi... |
6535 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celery | Celery | Celery (Apium graveolens) is a marshland plant in the family Apiaceae that has been cultivated as a vegetable since antiquity. Celery has a long fibrous stalk tapering into leaves. Depending on location and cultivar, either its stalks, leaves or hypocotyl are eaten and used in cooking. Celery seed powder is used as a ... |
6536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPM | CPM | CPM may refer to:
Advertising
Cost per mille, the advertising cost per thousand views
Cost per thousand impressions, the online advertising equivalent
Management
Certified practising marketer, a qualification for Australian marketers
Certified Property Manager
Certified Public Manager
Comparable Profits Method, a com... |
6537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestines | Celestines | The Celestines were a Roman Catholic monastic order, a branch of the Benedictines, founded in 1244. At the foundation of the new rule, they were called Hermits of St Damiano, or Moronites (or Murronites), and did not assume the appellation of Celestines until after the election of their founder, Peter of Morone (Pietro... |
6539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna | Cessna | The Cessna Aircraft Company () was an American general aviation aircraft manufacturing corporation headquartered in Wichita, Kansas. The company produced small, piston-powered aircraft, as well as business jets. For much of the mid-to-late 20th century, Cessna was one of the highest-volume and most diverse producers of... |
6542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czes%C5%82aw%20Mi%C5%82osz | Czesław Miłosz | Czesław Miłosz (, also , ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Miłosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition... |
6543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore | Carnivore | A carnivore , or meat-eater (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning meat or "flesh" and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an animal whose food and energy requirements derive solely from animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other soft tissues) whether through hunting or scavenging. Animals that depend solely on animal fl... |
6546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts | Celts | The Celts (, see pronunciation of Celt for different usages) or Celtic peoples are a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia, identified by their use of Celtic languages and other cultural similarities. Historical Celtic groups included the Gauls, Celtiberians, Gallaeci, Galatians, Lepontii, Britons,... |
6547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conductor | Conductor | Conductor or conduction may refer to:
Music
Conductor (music), a person who leads a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra.
Conductor (album), an album by indie rock band The Comas
Conduction, a type of structured free improvisation in music notably practiced by Butch Morris
Mathematics
Conductor (ring theory... |
6548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Monet | Claude Monet | Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of impressioni... |
6555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage | Carthage | Carthage was the capital city of the ancient Carthaginian civilization, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the classical world.
The city developed from a Canaanite Phoen... |
6556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprime%20integers | Coprime integers | In mathematics, two integers and are coprime, relatively prime or mutually prime if the only positive integer that is a divisor of both of them is 1. Consequently, any prime number that divides does not divide , and vice versa. This is equivalent to their greatest common divisor (GCD) being 1. One says also is prim... |
6557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20unit | Control unit | The control unit (CU) is a component of a computer's central processing unit (CPU) that directs the operation of the processor. A CU typically uses a binary decoder to convert coded instructions into timing and control signals that direct the operation of the other units (memory, arithmetic logic unit and input and out... |
6558 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cello | Cello | The cello ( ; plural celli or cellos) or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G2, D3 and A3. The viola's four strings are each an octave higher. Music for the cello is ge... |
6559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20store | Control store | A control store is the part of a CPU's control unit that stores the CPU's microprogram. It is usually accessed by a microsequencer. A control store implementation whose contents are unalterable is known as a Read Only Memory (ROM) or Read Only Storage (ROS); one whose contents are alterable is known as a Writable Cont... |
6561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columba | Columba | Columba or Colmcille (7 December 521 – 9 June 597) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission. He founded the important abbey on Iona, which became a dominant religious and political institution in the region f... |
6562 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional%20proof | Conditional proof | A conditional proof is a proof that takes the form of asserting a conditional, and proving that the antecedent of the conditional necessarily leads to the consequent.
Overview
The assumed antecedent of a conditional proof is called the conditional proof assumption (CPA). Thus, the goal of a conditional proof is to dem... |
6563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction%20introduction | Conjunction introduction | Conjunction introduction (often abbreviated simply as conjunction and also called and introduction or adjunction) is a valid rule of inference of propositional logic. The rule makes it possible to introduce a conjunction into a logical proof. It is the inference that if the proposition p is true, and proposition q is t... |
6566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20in%20the%20Commonwealth%20of%20Nations | English in the Commonwealth of Nations | The use of the English language in most current and former member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations was inherited from British colonisation. Mozambique, which joined the Commonwealth in 1996, is a special case: English is widely spoken there, despite it being a former Portuguese colony (though the port of Chinde... |
6569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20McCarry | Charles McCarry | Charles McCarry (June 14, 1930 – February 26, 2019) was an American writer, primarily of spy fiction, and a former undercover operative for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Biography
McCarry's family came from The Berkshires area of western Massachusetts. He was born in Pittsfield, and lived in Virginia. He graduated... |
6571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimbri | Cimbri | The Cimbri (Greek Κίμβροι, Kímbroi; Latin Cimbri) were an ancient tribe in Europe. Ancient authors described them variously as a Celtic people (or Gaulish), Germanic people, or even Cimmerian. Several ancient sources indicate that they lived in Jutland, which in some classical texts was called the Cimbrian peninsula. T... |
6576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland%20Browns | Cleveland Browns | The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland. Named after original coach and co-founder Paul Brown, they compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division. The Browns play their home games at FirstEnergy Stadium, ... |
6579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbine | Carbine | A carbine ( or ) is a long gun that has a barrel shortened from its original length. Most modern carbines are rifles that are compact versions of a longer rifle or are rifles chambered for less powerful cartridges.
The smaller size and lighter weight of carbines make them easier to handle. They are typically issued to... |
6583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20cuisine | Chinese cuisine | Chinese cuisine is an important part of Chinese culture and includes cuisines originating from China. Because of the Chinese diaspora and historical power of the country, Chinese cuisine has influenced many other cuisines in Asia and beyond, with modifications made to cater to local palates. Chinese food staples such a... |
6585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin%20Br%C3%A2ncu%C8%99i | Constantin Brâncuși | Constantin Brâncuși (; February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century and a pioneer of modernism, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. As a child he displayed an a... |
6586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus%20Sluter | Claus Sluter | Claus Sluter (1340s in Haarlem – 1405 or 1406 in Dijon) was a Dutch sculptor, living in the Duchy of Burgundy from about 1380. He was the most important northern European sculptor of his age and is considered a pioneer of the "northern realism" of the Early Netherlandish painting that came into full flower with the wor... |
6587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac%2C%20Michigan | Cadillac, Michigan | Cadillac ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city is the county seat of Wexford County. The population was 10,355 at the 2010 census.
Cadillac was settled as early as 1871 and formerly known as the village of Clam Lake before incorporating as a city in 1877. The city is the junction of several major hig... |
6589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO | COINTELPRO | COINTELPRO (syllabic abbreviation derived from Counter Intelligence Program) (1956–1971) was a series of covert and illegal projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic American political organizations. FBI record... |
6590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise%20missile | Cruise missile | A cruise missile is a guided missile used against terrestrial targets, that remains in the atmosphere and flies the major portion of its flight path at approximately constant speed. Cruise missiles are designed to deliver a large warhead over long distances with high precision. Modern cruise missiles are capable of tra... |
6591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete | Crete | Crete (, Modern: , Ancient: , ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Crete rests approximately south of the Greek mainland. It has an area of and a coastline of 1,... |
6592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclades | Cyclades | The Cyclades (; , , ) are an island group in the Aegean Sea, southeast of mainland Greece and a former administrative prefecture of Greece. They are one of the island groups which constitute the Aegean archipelago. The name refers to the islands around ("cyclic", κυκλάς) the sacred island of Delos. The largest island o... |
6596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20vision | Computer vision | Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the human visual system can do.
Computer vision tasks include methods for acquiring... |
6597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry | Curry | A curry is a dish with a sauce seasoned with spices, mainly associated with South Asian cuisine. In southern India, leaves from the curry tree may be included.
There are many varieties of curry. In traditional cuisines, the selection of spices for each dish is a matter of national or regional cultural tradition, relig... |
6598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel | Camel | A camel is an even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back. Camels have long been domesticated and, as livestock, they provide food (milk and meat) and textiles (fiber and felt from hair). Camels are working animals especially suited to their desert habitat ... |
6599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldea | Chaldea | Chaldea () was a small country that existed between the late 10th or early 9th and mid-6th centuries BC, after which the country and its people were absorbed and assimilated into the indigenous population Babylonia. Semitic-speaking, it was located in the marshy land of the far southeastern corner of Mesopotamia and br... |
6600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currying | Currying | In mathematics and computer science, currying is the technique of converting a function that takes multiple arguments into a sequence of functions that each takes a single argument. For example, currying a function that takes three arguments creates three functions:
Or more abstractly, a function that takes two argum... |
6601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus | Cyrus | Cyrus (Persian: کوروش) is a male given name. It is the given name of a number of Persian kings. Most notably it refers to Cyrus the Great (circa 600-530 BC). Cyrus is also the name of Cyrus I of Anshan (ca. 650 BC), King of Persia the grandfather of Cyrus the Great; and Cyrus the Younger (died 401 BC), brother to the P... |
6603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case | Case | Case or CASE may refer to:
Containers
Case (goods), a package of related merchandise
Cartridge case, also called casing or "brass", the metallic enclosure component in modern firearm cartridges
Bookcase, a piece of furniture used to store books
Briefcase or attaché case, a narrow hard-sided box used mainly for car... |
6604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering%20%28computer%20graphics%29 | Rendering (computer graphics) | Rendering or image synthesis is the process of generating a photorealistic or non-photorealistic image from a 2D or 3D model by means of a computer program. The resulting image is referred to as the render. Multiple models can be defined in a scene file containing objects in a strictly defined language or data struct... |
6606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartridge | Cartridge | Cartridge may refer to:
Media
Broadcast cartridge, used in radio stations
8-track tape cartridge, a 1960s-1980s music storage format
Compact Cassette, used with sound recording and reproduction and data storage for early microcomputers
Digital Audio Tape cartridge, a recording and playback medium introduced by So... |
6607 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaosium | Chaosium | Chaosium Inc. is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include Call of Cthulhu, based on the horror fiction stories of H. P. Lovecraft, RuneQuest Glorantha, Pendragon, based on Thomas Mallory's Le Morte d'Arthur, and 7th Sea, "swashbuckling and sorcery"... |
6610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina%20Panthers | Carolina Panthers | The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Panthers compete in the National Football League (NFL), as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The team is headquartered in Bank of America Stadium in Uptown Charlotte; th... |
6611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20Bears | Chicago Bears | The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago. The Bears compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) North division. The Bears have won nine NFL Championships, including one Super Bowl, and hold the NFL record for the m... |
6612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati%20Bengals | Cincinnati Bengals | The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football team based in Cincinnati. The Bengals compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) North division. The club's home games are held in downtown Cincinnati at Paul Brown Stadium.
Former Clevela... |
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