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14843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar%20travel | Interstellar travel | Interstellar travel refers to the idea of interstellar probes or crewed spacecraft moving between stars or planetary systems in a galaxy. Interstellar travel would be much more difficult than interplanetary spaceflight. Whereas the distances between the planets in the Solar System are less than 30 astronomical units (A... |
14844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interior%20Gateway%20Routing%20Protocol | Interior Gateway Routing Protocol | Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) is a distance vector interior gateway protocol (IGP) developed by Cisco. It is used by routers to exchange routing data within an autonomous system.
IGRP is a proprietary protocol. IGRP was created in part to overcome the limitations of RIP (maximum hop count of only 15, and a... |
14845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS%20%28disambiguation%29 | IRS (disambiguation) | IRS is the United States Internal Revenue Service.
IRS may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
I.R.S. Records
"I.R.S.", a song by Guns N' Roses featured on their album Chinese Democracy
Irwin R. Schyster, often abbreviated I.R.S., a ring name of professional wrestler Mike Rotunda
IR$, a Franco-Belgian comics ... |
14848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European%20languages | Indo-European languages | The Indo-European languages are a language family native to western and southern Eurasia. It comprises most of the languages of Europe together with those of the northern Indian subcontinent and the Iranian Plateau. Some European languages of this family, such as English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Danish, Dutch, and... |
60189218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20St%20Teresa%2C%20Singapore | Church of St Teresa, Singapore | The Church of St. Teresa is a Roman Catholic church in Singapore. The church was established in 1929 on the eastern slope of Bukit Purmei in Kampong Bahru, making it Singapore's first rural church. It was gazetted by the National Heritage Board as a National monument on 11 November 2009.
History
Origins
At the end o... |
14849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois | Illinois | Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it has the fifth largest gross domestic product (GDP), the sixth largest population, and the 25th largest land area. Chicago is the state's largest city and the fifth largest city in North America with the capital in Spring... |
14851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Murdock | Ian Murdock | Ian Ashley Murdock (April28, 1973 – December 28, 2015) was an American software engineer, known for being the founder of the Debian project and Progeny Linux Systems, a commercial Linux company.
Life and career
Although Murdock's parents were both from Southern Indiana, he was born in Konstanz, West Germany, on April ... |
14856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner%20product%20space | Inner product space | In mathematics, an inner product space (or, rarely, a Hausdorff pre-Hilbert space) is a real vector space or a complex vector space with an operation called an inner product. The inner product of two vectors in the space is a scalar, often denoted with angle brackets such as in . Inner products allow formal definition... |
14858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain%20Banks | Iain Banks | {{Infobox writer
|name = Iain Banks
|image = IainBanks2009.jpg
|caption = Banks at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 18 August 2009
|pseudonym = Iain M. Banks
|birth_name =
|birth_date = 16 February 1954
|birth_place = Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
|death_date =
|death_place = Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
|occup... |
14863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incunable | Incunable | In the history of printing, an incunable or incunabulum (plural incunables or incunabula, respectively), is a book, pamphlet, or broadside that was printed in the earliest stages of printing in Europe, up to the year 1500. Incunabula were produced before the printing press became widespread on the continent and are dis... |
14865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotropy | Isotropy | Isotropy is uniformity in all orientations; it is derived from the Greek isos (ἴσος, "equal") and tropos (τρόπος, "way"). Precise definitions depend on the subject area. Exceptions, or inequalities, are frequently indicated by the prefix an, hence anisotropy. Anisotropy is also used to describe situations where proper... |
14868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Mathematical%20Union | International Mathematical Union | The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is an international non-governmental organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of mathematics across the world. It is a member of the International Science Council (ISC) and supports the International Congress of Mathematicians. Its members are national ma... |
14869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Council%20for%20Science | International Council for Science | The International Council for Science (ICSU, after its former name, International Council of Scientific Unions) was an international non-governmental organization devoted to international cooperation in the advancement of science. Its members were national scientific bodies and international scientific unions.
In July... |
14870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Union%20of%20Pure%20and%20Applied%20Chemistry | International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry | The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC ) is an international federation of National Adhering Organizations that represents chemists in individual countries. It is a member of the International Science Council (ISC). IUPAC is registered in Zürich, Switzerland, and the administrative office, known a... |
14871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Hydrographic%20Organization | International Hydrographic Organization | The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is an intergovernmental organisation representing hydrography. As of January 2022 the IHO comprised 97 Member States.
A principal aim of the IHO is to ensure that the world's seas, oceans and navigable waters are properly surveyed and charted. It does this through the ... |
14872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20mainframe | IBM mainframe | IBM mainframes are large computer systems produced by IBM since 1952. During the 1960s and 1970s, IBM dominated the large computer market. Current mainframe computers in IBM's line of business computers are developments of the basic design of the IBM System/360.
First and second generation
From 1952 into the late 196... |
14875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa%20State%20University | Iowa State University | Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa. It is the largest university in the state of Iowa and the third largest university in the Big 12 athletic conference. Iowa State is classified among "R1: Doctoral Univer... |
14877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction | Induction | Induction, Inducible or Inductive may refer to:
Philosophy
Inductive reasoning, in logic, inferences from particular cases to the general case
Biology and medicine
Labor induction (birth/pregnancy)
Induction chemotherapy, in medicine
Induced stem cells, stem cells derived from somatic, reproductive, pluripoten... |
14878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Astronomical%20Union | International Astronomical Union | The International Astronomical Union (IAU; , UAI) is a nongovernmental organisation with the objective of advancing astronomy in all aspects, including promoting astronomical research, outreach, education, and development through global cooperation. It was founded in 1919 and is based in Paris, France.
The IAU is comp... |
14879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval | Interval | Interval may refer to:
Mathematics and physics
Interval (mathematics), a range of numbers
Partially ordered set#Intervals, its generalization from numbers to arbitrary partially ordered sets
A statistical level of measurement
Interval estimate
Interval (graph theory)
Space-time interval, the distance between two ... |
14880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Criminal%20Court | International Criminal Court | The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal that sits in The Hague, Netherlands. The ICC is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, wa... |
14881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICC | ICC | ICC may refer to:
Buildings
International Commerce Centre, a skyscraper in Hong Kong
International Commercial Center, a skyscraper in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
International Convention Centre (disambiguation), any of several convention centers
Internationales Congress Centrum Berlin, Germany
Edward B. Bunn S.J. Inter... |
14882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubus%20%28disambiguation%29 | Incubus (disambiguation) | An incubus is a male demon that has sexual intercourse with sleeping women.
Incubus may also refer to:
Film
Incubus (1966 film), a film in Esperanto starring William Shatner
Incubus (2006 film), a horror film starring Tara Reid
The Incubus (1982 film), a horror film starring John Cassavetes
François Sagat's Incu... |
14883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian%20Peninsula | Iberian Peninsula | The Iberian Peninsula , also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia. It is principally divided between Spain and Portugal, comprising most of their territory, as well as a small area of Southern France, Andorra and Gibraltar. With an area of approximately , and ... |
14884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate%20value%20theorem | Intermediate value theorem | In mathematical analysis, the intermediate value theorem states that if f is a continuous function whose domain contains the interval , then it takes on any given value between f(a) and f(b) at some point within the interval.
This has two important corollaries:
If a continuous function has values of opposite sign i... |
14889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq%20War | Iran–Iraq War | The Iran–Iraq War (; ) was a protracted armed conflict that began on 22 September 1980 with a full-scale invasion of Iran by neighbouring Iraq. The war lasted for almost eight years, and ended in a stalemate on 20 August 1988, when Iran accepted Resolution 598 of the United Nations Security Council. Iraq's primary rati... |
14891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental%20reading | Incremental reading | Incremental reading is a software-assisted method for learning and retaining information from reading, which involves the creation of flashcards out of electronic articles. "Incremental reading" means "reading in portions". Instead of a linear reading of articles one at a time, the method works by keeping a large readi... |
14892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence%20quotient | Intelligence quotient | An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from a set of standardized tests or subtests designed to assess human intelligence. The abbreviation "IQ" was coined by the psychologist William Stern for the German term Intelligenzquotient, his term for a scoring method for intelligence tests at University of Bre... |
14894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IIT%20Kanpur | IIT Kanpur | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) is a public technical university located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was declared to be an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India under the Institutes of Technology Act.
Established in 1959 as one of the first Indian Institutes of Technolo... |
14895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin | Insulin | Insulin (, from Latin insula, 'island') is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets; it is considered to be the main anabolic hormone of the body. It regulates the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and protein by promoting the absorption of glucose from the blood into liver, fat and skeletal mu... |
14896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductor | Inductor | An inductor, also called a coil, choke, or reactor, is a passive two-terminal electrical component that stores energy in a magnetic field when electric current flows through it. An inductor typically consists of an insulated wire wound into a coil.
When the current flowing through the coil changes, the time-varying m... |
14899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin%20pump | Insulin pump | An insulin pump is a medical device used for the administration of insulin in the treatment of diabetes mellitus, also known as continuous subcutaneous insulin therapy.
The device configuration may vary depending on design. A traditional pump includes:
the pump (including controls, processing module, and batteries)
... |
14900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%203166 | ISO 3166 | ISO 3166 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, special areas of geographical interest, and their principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states). The official name of the standard is Codes for the repr... |
14904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive%20insulin%20therapy | Intensive insulin therapy | Intensive insulin therapy or flexible insulin therapy is a therapeutic regimen for diabetes mellitus treatment. This newer approach contrasts with conventional insulin therapy. Rather than minimize the number of insulin injections per day (a technique which demands a rigid schedule for food and activities), the inten... |
14907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20function | Inverse function | In mathematics, the inverse function of a function (also called the inverse of ) is a function that undoes the operation of . The inverse of exists if and only if is bijective, and if it exists, is denoted by
For a function , its inverse admits an explicit description: it sends each element to the unique elemen... |
14909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertia | Inertia | Inertia is the resistance of any physical object to a change in its velocity. This includes changes to the object's speed, or direction of motion.
An aspect of this property is the tendency of objects to keep moving in a straight line at a constant speed when no forces act upon them.
Inertia comes from the Latin word... |
14910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibanez | Ibanez | is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki. Based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in import guitar sales in the United States and Europe, as well as the first brand of guitars to mass-produce the seven-string guitar... |
14912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest | Incest | Incest ( ) is human sexual activity between family members or close relatives. This typically includes sexual activity between people in consanguinity (blood relations), and sometimes those related by affinity (marriage or stepfamily), adoption, or lineage.
The incest taboo is one of the most widespread of all cultura... |
14914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20Revolution | Industrial Revolution | The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States, in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron productio... |
14918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Court%20of%20Justice | International Court of Justice | The International Court of Justice (ICJ; ; ), sometimes known as the World Court, is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN). It settles disputes between states in accordance with international law and gives advisory opinions on international legal issues. The ICJ is the only international court that... |
14919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Standard%20Book%20Number | International Standard Book Number | The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a numeric commercial book identifier that is intended to be unique. Publishers purchase ISBNs from an affiliate of the International ISBN Agency.
An ISBN is assigned to each separate edition and variation (except reprintings) of a publication. For example, an e-book, a ... |
14921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP%20address | IP address | An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label such as that is connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. An IP address serves two main functions: network interface identification and location addressing.
Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) defines an IP address... |
14922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If%20and%20only%20if | If and only if | In logic and related fields such as mathematics and philosophy, "if and only if" (shortened as "iff") is a biconditional logical connective between statements, where either both statements are true or both are false.
The connective is biconditional (a statement of material equivalence), and can be likened to the stand... |
14923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP | IP | IP or Ip or ip may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
IP College (Indraprastha College for Women), a constituent college of the University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
Imperial Police, a former Indian police agency
International Paper, an American pulp and paper company
Iraqi Police
Atyrau Airways (IATA code: I... |
14926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20dishes | List of Italian dishes | This is a list of Italian dishes and foods. Italian cuisine has developed through centuries of social and political changes, with roots as far back as the 4th century BC. Italian cuisine has its origins in Etruscan, ancient Greek, and ancient Roman cuisines.
Significant changes occurred with the discovery of the New Wo... |
14928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20Ambrose | Isaac Ambrose | Isaac Ambrose (1604 – 20 January 1664) was an English Puritan divine. He graduated with a BA. from Brasenose College, Oxford, on 1624. He obtained the curacy of St Edmund’s Church, Castleton, Derbyshire, in 1627. He was one of king's four preachers in Lancashire in 1631. He was twice imprisoned by commissioners of arra... |
14933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Convention%20for%20the%20Regulation%20of%20Whaling | International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling | The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW) is an international environmental agreement aimed at the "proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry". It governs the commercial, scientific, and aboriginal subsistence whaling practices of ... |
14934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Organization%20for%20Standardization | International Organization for Standardization | The International Organization for Standardization ( ISO; ) is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations.
Founded on 23 February 1947, the organization develops and publishes worldwide technical, industrial and commercial standards. It is headquar... |
14936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualist%20anarchism | Individualist anarchism | Individualist anarchism is the branch of anarchism that emphasizes the individual and their will over external determinants such as groups, society, traditions and ideological systems. Although usually contrasted to social anarchism, both individualist and social anarchism have influenced each other. Mutualism, an econ... |
14937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo%20Calvino | Italo Calvino | Italo Calvino (, also , ; 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).
Admired in Br... |
14939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercontinental%20ballistic%20missile | Intercontinental ballistic missile | An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a missile with a minimum range of primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more thermonuclear warheads). Similarly, conventional, chemical, and biological weapons can also be delivered with varying effectiveness, but have never been deployed on ... |
14943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20traditional%20music%20session | Irish traditional music session | Irish traditional music sessions are mostly informal gatherings at which people play Irish traditional music. The Irish language word for "session" is seisiún. This article discusses tune-playing, although "session" can also refer to a singing session or a mixed session (tunes and songs).
Barry Foy's Field Guide to th... |
14946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice | Ice | Ice is water frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Depending on the presence of impurities such as particles of soil or bubbles of air, it can appear transparent or a more or less opaque bluish-white color.
In the Solar System, ice is abund... |
14951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionic%20bonding | Ionic bonding | Ionic bonding is a type of chemical bonding that involves the electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged ions, or between two atoms with sharply different electronegativities, and is the primary interaction occurring in ionic compounds. It is one of the main types of bonding along with covalent bonding and met... |
14952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBF%20%28disambiguation%29 | IBF (disambiguation) | IBF, or International Boxing Federation, is one of several boxing organisations.
IBF may also refer to:
Businesses
International Banking Facility, a legal entity of a US bank
Irish Banking Federation, a banking representative body in Ireland
Sports
International Bandy Federation, former name of Federation of Intern... |
14958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune%20system | Immune system | The immune system is a network of biological processes that protects an organism from diseases. It detects and responds to a wide variety of pathogens, from viruses to parasitic worms, as well as cancer cells and objects such as wood splinters, distinguishing them from the organism's own healthy tissue. Many species ha... |
14959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunology | Immunology | Immunology is a branch of biology and medicine that covers the study of immune systems in all organisms. Immunology charts, measures, and contextualizes the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; malfunctions of the immune system in immunological disorders (such as autoimm... |
14960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA | IPA | IPA commonly refers to:
India pale ale, a style of beer
International Phonetic Alphabet, a system of phonetic notation
IPA may also refer to:
Organizations
International
Insolvency Practitioners Association, of the UK and Ireland
Institute of Public Administration (disambiguation)
International Permafrost Asso... |
14961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20beer | Ice beer | Ice beer is a beer style, in which beer has undergone some degree of fractional freezing during production. These brands generally have higher alcohol content than typical beer and generally have a low price relative to their alcohol content.
The process of "icing" beer involves lowering the temperature of a batch of ... |
14962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20element | Identity element | In mathematics, an identity element, or neutral element, of a binary operation operating on a set is an element of the set which leaves unchanged every element of the set when the operation is applied. This concept is used in algebraic structures such as groups and rings. The term identity element is often shortened to... |
14967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental | Instrumental | An instrumental is a recording normally without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting. Through semantic widening, a broader sense of the word song may refer to instrumentals. The music is primarily or exclusively produced using musical instru... |
14968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20icosahedron | Regular icosahedron | In geometry, a regular icosahedron ( or ) is a convex polyhedron with 20 faces, 30 edges and 12 vertices. It is one of the five Platonic solids, and the one with the most faces.
It has five equilateral triangular faces meeting at each vertex. It is represented by its Schläfli symbol {3,5}, or sometimes by its vertex f... |
14971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20archaeology%20of%20Dartmoor | Industrial archaeology of Dartmoor | The industrial archaeology of Dartmoor covers a number of the industries which have, over the ages, taken place on Dartmoor, and the remaining evidence surrounding them. Currently only three industries are economically significant, yet all three will inevitably leave their own traces on the moor: china clay mining, far... |
14972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idempotence | Idempotence | Idempotence (, ) is the property of certain operations in mathematics and computer science whereby they can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application. The concept of idempotence arises in a number of places in abstract algebra (in particular, in the theory of projectors and cl... |
14973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca%2C%20New%20York | Ithaca, New York | Ithaca is a city and college town in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States. It is the seat of Tompkins County and the largest community in the Ithaca–Tompkins County metropolitan area. Ithaca is situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, in Central New York. It is named after the Greek island of Ithac... |
14975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy%20League | Ivy League | The Ivy League (also known as The Ancient Eight) is an American collegiate athletic conference comprising eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States. The term Ivy League is typically used beyond the sports context to refer to the eight schools as a group of elite colleges with connotations of... |
14976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca%20Hours | Ithaca Hours | The Ithaca HOUR is a local currency formerly used in Ithaca, New York and was one of the longest-running local currency systems, though it is now no longer in circulation. It has inspired other similar systems in Madison, Wisconsin; Santa Barbara, California;
Corvallis, Oregon; and a proposed system in the Lehigh Vall... |
14979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar%20cloud | Interstellar cloud | An interstellar cloud is generally an accumulation of gas, plasma, and dust in our and other galaxies. Put differently, an interstellar cloud is a denser-than-average region of the interstellar medium (ISM), the matter and radiation that exists in the space between the star systems in a galaxy. Depending on the density... |
14980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imhotep | Imhotep | Imhotep (; "the one who comes in peace"; fl. late 27th century BCE) was an Egyptian chancellor to the Pharaoh Djoser, possible architect of Djoser's step pyramid, and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis. Very little is known of Imhotep as a historical figure, but in the 3,000 years following his death, he was ... |
14981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ictinus | Ictinus | Ictinus (; , Iktinos) was an architect active in the mid 5th century BC. Ancient sources identify Ictinus and Callicrates as co-architects of the Parthenon. He co-wrote a book on the project – which is now lost – in collaboration with Carpion.
Pausanias identifies Ictinus as architect of the Temple of Apollo at Bassae... |
14982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore%20of%20Miletus | Isidore of Miletus | Isidore of Miletus (; Medieval Greek pronunciation: ; ) was one of the two main Byzantine Greek architects (Anthemius of Tralles was the other) that Emperor Justinian I commissioned to design the cathedral Hagia Sophia in Constantinople from 532 to 537. The creation of an important compilation of Archimedes' works has ... |
14984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Atomic%20Energy%20Agency | International Atomic Energy Agency | The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. The IAEA was established as an autonomous organisation on 29 July 1957. Though established independently of... |
14985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Civil%20Aviation%20Organization | International Civil Aviation Organization | The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is a specialized and funding agency of the United Nations. It changes the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth. Its headquarters is located ... |
14986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Maritime%20Organization | International Maritime Organization | The International Maritime Organization (IMO, French: Organisation Maritime Internationale; known as the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization until 1982) is a specialised agency of the United Nations responsible for regulating shipping. The IMO was established following agreement at a UN conference he... |
14987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Labour%20Organization | International Labour Organization | The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice through setting international labour standards. Founded in October 1919 under the League of Nations, it is the first and oldest specialised agency of the UN. The ILO has 187 member states: 186 ... |
14990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMO | IMO | IMO or Imo may refer to:
International Mathematical Olympiad
International Meteor Organization
International Maritime Organization
International Meteorological Organization
Irish Medical Organisation, the main organization for doctors in the Republic of Ireland
IMO number, a unique identity number issued to seac... |
14996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20English | International English | International English is the concept of the English language as a global means of communication in numerous dialects, and the movement towards an international standard for the language. It is also referred to as Global English, World English, Common English, Continental English, General English, Engas (English as asso... |
14997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20African%20Institute | International African Institute | The International African Institute (IAI) was founded (as the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures - IIALC) in 1926 in London for the study of African languages. Frederick Lugard was the first chairman (1926 to his death in 1945); Diedrich Hermann Westermann (1926 to 1939) and Maurice Delafosse (19... |
14998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI | IAI | IAI is an acronym for:
IAI alphabet, another name for Africa Alphabet
Iaido
Information Architecture Institute
Institute of Art and Ideas
Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research
International African Institute
International Association for Identification
Israel Aerospace Industries (Ha-Taasiya Ha-A... |
15000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin-like%20growth%20factor | Insulin-like growth factor | The insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) are proteins with high sequence similarity to insulin. IGFs are part of a complex system that cells use to communicate with their physiologic environment. This complex system (often referred to as the IGF "axis") consists of two cell-surface receptors (IGF1R and IGF2R), two ligand... |
15001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGF | IGF | IGF may stand for:
Insulin-like growth factor
Independent Games Festival
Internet Governance Forum
Identity Governance Framework
Inoki Genome Federation
International Golf Federation
International Genetics Federation
International Graphical Federation, a former global union federation
Israeli Ground Forces
In... |
15004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot | Idiot | An idiot, in modern use, is a stupid or foolish person.
'Idiot' was formerly a technical term in legal and psychiatric contexts for some kinds of profound intellectual disability where the mental age is two years or less, and the person cannot guard themself against common physical dangers. The term was gradually repl... |
15012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamism | Islamism | Islamism (also often called political Islam or Islamic fundamentalism) is a political ideology which posits that modern states and regions should be reconstituted in constitutional, economic and judicial terms, in accordance with what is conceived as a revival or a return to authentic Islamic practice in its totality. ... |
15014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructional%20theory | Instructional theory | An instructional theory is "a theory that offers explicit guidance on how to better help people learn and develop." It provides insights about what is likely to happen and why with respect to different kinds of teaching and learning activities while helping indicate approaches for their evaluation. Instructional design... |
15018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infusoria | Infusoria | Infusoria are minute freshwater life forms including ciliates, euglenoids, protozoa, unicellular algae and small invertebrates. Some authors (e.g., Bütschli) used the term as a synonym for Ciliophora. In modern formal classifications, the term is considered obsolete; the microorganisms previously included in the Infuso... |
15019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%208859-1 | ISO/IEC 8859-1 | ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. ISO 8859-1 encodes what it refers to as "Latin alphabet no. 1", consisting of 191 ... |
15020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%208859 | ISO/IEC 8859 | ISO/IEC 8859 is a joint ISO and IEC series of standards for 8-bit character encodings. The series of standards consists of numbered parts, such as ISO/IEC 8859-1, ISO/IEC 8859-2, etc. There are 15 parts, excluding the abandoned ISO/IEC 8859-12. The ISO working group maintaining this series of standards has been disband... |
15022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared | Infrared | Infrared (IR), sometimes called infrared light, is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than those of visible light. It is therefore invisible to the human eye. IR is generally understood to encompass wavelengths from around 1 millimeter (300 GHz) to the nominal red edge of the visible spectrum, arou... |
15023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icosidodecahedron | Icosidodecahedron | In geometry, an icosidodecahedron is a polyhedron with twenty (icosi) triangular faces and twelve (dodeca) pentagonal faces. An icosidodecahedron has 30 identical vertices, with two triangles and two pentagons meeting at each, and 60 identical edges, each separating a triangle from a pentagon. As such it is one of the... |
15024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%208601 | ISO 8601 | ISO 8601 is an international standard covering the worldwide exchange and communication of date- and time-related data. It is maintained by the Geneva-based International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and was first published in 1988, with updates in 1991, 2000, 2004, and 2019. The standard aims to provide a we... |
15027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isa | Isa | Isa or ISA may refer to:
Places
Isa, Amur Oblast, Russia
Isa, Kagoshima, Japan
Isa, Nigeria
Isa District, Kagoshima, former district in Japan
Isa Town, middle class town located in Bahrain
Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
Isa (river), a river in Belarus
People
Isa (name), an Arabic name corresponding to Jesus... |
15028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Seabed%20Authority | International Seabed Authority | The International Seabed Authority (ISA) () is an intergovernmental body based in Kingston, Jamaica, that was established to organize, regulate and control all mineral-related activities in the international seabed area beyond the limits of national jurisdiction (referred to as "the Area"), an area underlying most of t... |
15029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry%20Standard%20Architecture | Industry Standard Architecture | Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) is the 16-bit internal bus of IBM PC/AT and similar computers based on the Intel 80286 and its immediate successors during the 1980s. The bus was (largely) backward compatible with the 8-bit bus of the 8088-based IBM PC, including the IBM PC/XT as well as IBM PC compatibles.
Origin... |
15030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental%20Panel%20on%20Climate%20Change | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations responsible for advancing knowledge on human-induced climate change. It was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and later endorsed b... |
15031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC%20%28disambiguation%29 | IPCC (disambiguation) | The IPCC, or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is a scientific body under the auspices of the United Nations.
IPCC may also refer to:
Other organisations
Independent Police Complaints Commission, defunct public body in England and Wales
Independent Police Complaints Council of the Hong Kong Government
Iri... |
15032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Personal%20Computer | IBM Personal Computer | The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible de facto standard. Released on August 12, 1981, it was created by a team of engineers and designers directed by Don Estridge in Boca Raton, Florida.
... |
15033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties%20of%20Ireland | Counties of Ireland | The counties of Ireland (Irish: ) are historic administrative divisions of the island, now used in various contexts. They began as Norman structures, and as the powers exercised by the Cambro-Norman barons and the Old English nobility waned over time, new offices of political control came to be established at a county... |
15034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20Sciences%20Institute | Information Sciences Institute | The USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) is a component of the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering, and specializes in research and development in information processing, computing, and communications technologies. It is located in Marina del Rey, California.
ISI actively particip... |
15036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20security | Information security | Information security, sometimes shortened to InfoSec, is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. It typically involves preventing or reducing the probability of unauthorized/inappropriate access to data, or the unlawful use, disclosure, disrupt... |
15037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income | Income | Income is the consumption and saving opportunity gained by an entity within a specified timeframe, which is generally expressed in monetary terms. Income is difficult to define conceptually and the definition may be different across fields. For example, a person's income in an economic sense may be different from their... |
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