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15039
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona
Iona
Iona (; (IPA:[ˈiːˈxaɫ̪ɯimˈçiʎə]), sometimes simply Ì; ) is a small island in the Inner Hebrides, off the Ross of Mull on the western coast of Scotland. It is mainly known for Iona Abbey, though there are other buildings on the island. Iona Abbey was a centre of Gaelic monasticism for three centuries and is today known...
15040
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ido
Ido
Ido () is a constructed language, derived from Reformed Esperanto, created to be a universal second language for speakers of diverse backgrounds. Ido was specifically designed to be grammatically, orthographically, and lexicographically regular, and above all easy to learn and use. In this sense, Ido is classified as a...
15041
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvisational%20theatre
Improvisational theatre
Improvisational theatre, often called improvisation or improv, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted: created spontaneously by the performers. In its purest form, the dialogue, action, story, and characters are created collaboratively by the players a...
15043
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Space%20Station
International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is a modular space station (habitable artificial satellite) in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada). The ownership and use of ...
15044
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish
Irish
Irish most commonly refers to: Someone or something of, from, or related to: Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe Éire, Irish language name for the isle Northern Ireland, a constituent unit of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland, a s...
15045
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmicomics
Cosmicomics
Cosmicomics () is a collection of twelve short stories by Italo Calvino first published in Italian in 1965 and in English in 1968. The stories were originally published between 1964 and 1965 in the Italian periodicals Il Caffè and Il Giorno. Each story takes a scientific "fact" (though sometimes a falsehood by today's ...
15046
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-32
IA-32
IA-32 (short for "Intel Architecture, 32-bit", sometimes also called i386) is the 32-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture, designed by Intel and first implemented in the 80386 microprocessor in 1985. IA-32 is the first incarnation of x86 that supports 32-bit computing; as a result, the "IA-32" term may ...
15047
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internalism%20and%20externalism
Internalism and externalism
Internalism and externalism are two opposing ways of explaining various subjects in several areas of philosophy. These include human motivation, knowledge, justification, meaning, and truth. The distinction arises in many areas of debate with similar but distinct meanings. Internalism is the thesis that no fact about ...
15048
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolationism
Isolationism
Isolationism is a political philosophy advocating a national foreign policy that opposes involvement in the political affairs, and especially the wars, of other countries. Thus, isolationism fundamentally advocates neutrality and opposes entanglement in military alliances and mutual defense pacts. In its purest form, i...
15049
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis%20Colts
Indianapolis Colts
The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis. The Colts compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) South division. Since the 2008 season, the Colts have played their games in Lucas Oil Stadium. Previously, t...
15051
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration%20to%20the%20United%20States
Immigration to the United States
Immigration to the United States is the international movement of individuals who are not natives or do not possess citizenship in order to settle, reside, study, or work in the country. Immigration has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of United States history. All Americans,...
15052
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20and%20Scanner%20Interface%20Specification
Image and Scanner Interface Specification
Image and Scanner Interface Specification (ISIS) is an industry standard interface for image scanning technologies, developed by Pixel Translations in 1990 (which became EMC Corporation's Captiva Software and later acquired by OpenText). ISIS is an open standard for scanner control and a complete image-processing fram...
15053
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivo%20Caprino
Ivo Caprino
Ivo Caprino (17 February 1920 – 8 February 2001) was a Norwegian film director and writer, best known for his puppet films. His most noted film, Flåklypa Grand Prix ("Pinchcliffe Grand Prix"), was made in 1975. Early life Caprino was born 17 February 1920 in Oslo, the son of Italian furniture designer Mario Caprino an...
15054
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%2080286
Intel 80286
The Intel 80286 (also marketed as the iAPX 286 and often called Intel 286) is a 16-bit microprocessor that was introduced on February 1, 1982. It was the first 8086-based CPU with separate, non-multiplexed address and data buses and also the first with memory management and wide protection abilities. The 80286 used app...
15055
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe: A Romance () by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. At the time it was written, the novel represented a shift by Scott away from writing novels set in Scotland in the fairly recent past to England in the Middle Ages. Ivanhoe proved to be one o...
15056
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoelectric%20point
Isoelectric point
The isoelectric point (pI, pH(I), IEP), is the pH at which a molecule carries no net electrical charge or is electrically neutral in the statistical mean. The standard nomenclature to represent the isoelectric point is pH(I). However, pI is also used. For brevity, this article uses pI. The net charge on the molecule i...
15058
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20reply%20coupon
International reply coupon
An international reply coupon (IRC) is a coupon that can be exchanged for one or more postage stamps representing the minimum postage for an unregistered priority airmail letter of up to twenty grams sent to another Universal Postal Union (UPU) member country. IRCs are accepted by all UPU member countries. UPU member ...
15059
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20Bonewits
Isaac Bonewits
Phillip Emmons Isaac Bonewits (October 1, 1949 – August 12, 2010) was an American Neo-Druid who published a number of books on the subject of Neopaganism and magic. He was a public speaker, liturgist, singer and songwriter, and founder of the Neopagan organizations Ár nDraíocht Féin and the Aquarian Anti-Defamation Lea...
15062
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%208080
Intel 8080
The Intel 8080 ("eighty-eighty") is the second 8-bit microprocessor designed and manufactured by Intel. It first appeared in April 1974 and is an extended and enhanced variant of the earlier 8008 design, although without binary compatibility. The initial specified clock rate or frequency limit was 2 MHz, with common i...
15063
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%208086
Intel 8086
The 8086 (also called iAPX 86) is a 16-bit microprocessor chip designed by Intel between early 1976 and June 8, 1978, when it was released. The Intel 8088, released July 1, 1979, is a slightly modified chip with an external 8-bit data bus (allowing the use of cheaper and fewer supporting ICs), and is notable as the pro...
15064
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%208088
Intel 8088
The Intel 8088 ("eighty-eighty-eight", also called iAPX 88) microprocessor is a variant of the Intel 8086. Introduced on June 1, 1979, the 8088 has an eight-bit external data bus instead of the 16-bit bus of the 8086. The 16-bit registers and the one megabyte address range are unchanged, however. In fact, according to ...
15066
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulator%20%28electricity%29
Insulator (electricity)
An electrical insulator is a material in which electric current does not flow freely. The atoms of the insulator have tightly bound electrons which cannot readily move. Other materials—semiconductors and conductors—conduct electric current more easily. The property that distinguishes an insulator is its resistivity; in...
15067
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internetworking
Internetworking
Internetworking is the practice of interconnecting multiple computer networks, such that any pair of hosts in the connected networks can exchange messages irrespective of their hardware-level networking technology. The resulting system of interconnected networks are called an internetwork, or simply an internet. The m...
15068
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry
Infantry
Infantry is an army specialization whose personnel engage in military combat, usually against other enemy ground forces, as part of ground forces. They operate weapons and equipment to engage and destroy enemy ground forces. Infantry generally consists of light infantry, mountain infantry, motorized infantry, marine in...
15069
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20function
Identity function
In mathematics, an identity function, also called an identity relation, identity map or identity transformation, is a function that always returns the same value that was used as its argument. That is, for being identity, the equality holds for all . Definition Formally, if is a set, the identity function on is d...
15070
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I386
I386
The Intel 386, originally released as 80386 and later renamed i386, is a 32-bit microprocessor introduced in 1985. The first versions had 275,000 transistors and were the CPU of many workstations and high-end personal computers of the time. As the original implementation of the 32-bit extension of the 80286 architectur...
15072
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction%20register
Instruction register
In computing, the instruction register (IR) or current instruction register (CIR) is the part of a CPU's control unit that holds the instruction currently being executed or decoded. In simple processors, each instruction to be executed is loaded into the instruction register, which holds it while it is decoded, prepare...
15073
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20islands
Lists of islands
This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country, by continent, by body of water, and by other classifications. For rank-order lists, see the other lists of islands below. Lists of islands by country Africa Antarctica Asia Europe North America Oceania South America Lists of islands by con...
15075
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL
INTERCAL
The Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym (INTERCAL) is an esoteric programming language that was created as a parody by Don Woods and , two Princeton University students, in 1972. It satirizes aspects of the various programming languages at the time, as well as the proliferation of proposed language construc...
15076
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Data%20Encryption%20Algorithm
International Data Encryption Algorithm
In cryptography, the International Data Encryption Algorithm (IDEA), originally called Improved Proposed Encryption Standard (IPES), is a symmetric-key block cipher designed by James Massey of ETH Zurich and Xuejia Lai and was first described in 1991. The algorithm was intended as a replacement for the Data Encryption...
15077
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor%20rower
Indoor rower
An indoor rower, or rowing machine, is a machine used to simulate the action of watercraft rowing for the purpose of exercise or training for rowing. Modern indoor rowers are often known as ergometers (colloquially erg or ergo) because they measure work performed by the rower (which can be measured in ergs). Indoor row...
15078
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internetwork%20Packet%20Exchange
Internetwork Packet Exchange
Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) is the network layer protocol in the IPX/SPX protocol suite. IPX is derived from Xerox Network Systems' IDP. It also has the ability to act as a transport layer protocol. The IPX/SPX protocol suite was very popular through the late 1980s and mid-1990s because it was used by Novell Ne...
15079
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20human%20rights%20instruments
International human rights instruments
International human rights instruments are the treaties and other international texts that serve as legal sources for international human rights law and the protection of human rights in general. There are many varying types, but most can be classified into two broad categories: declarations, adopted by bodies such as ...
15080
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20removal
Indian removal
Indian removal was the United States government policy of forced displacement of self-governing tribes of Native Americans from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi Riverspecifically, to a designated Indian Territory (roughly, present-day Oklahoma). The Indian Removal ...
15081
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Party%20%28Ireland%29
Green Party (Ireland)
The Green Party () is a green political party that operates in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. As other like-minded Green parties, it has eco-socialist/green left and more moderate, pragmatic factions. It holds a pro-European stance. It was founded as the Ecology Party of Ireland in 1981 by Dublin teacher...
15085
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoclasm
Iconoclasm
Iconoclasm (from Greek: + ) is the social belief in the importance of the destruction of icons and other images or monuments, most frequently for religious or political reasons. People who engage in or support iconoclasm are called iconoclasts, a term that has come to be figuratively applied to any individual who chal...
15086
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWW%20%28disambiguation%29
IWW (disambiguation)
IWW, or Industrial Workers of the World (known as the Wobblies), are an international union founded in 1905. IWW may also refer to: Inland waterway, a navigable river, canal, or sound Irish Whip Wrestling, an Irish-owned independent professional wrestling promotion established in 2002 Music It Was Written, the second...
15087
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolc
Imbolc
Imbolc or Imbolg (), also called Saint Brigid's Day (; ; ), is a Gaelic traditional festival. It marks the beginning of spring, and for Christians it is the feast day of Saint Brigid, Ireland's matron saint. It is held on 1 February, which is about halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. Historicall...
15088
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah
Isaiah
Isaiah ( or ; , Yəšaʿyāhū, "God is Salvation") was the 8th-century BC Israelite prophet after whom the Book of Isaiah is named. Within the text of the Book of Isaiah, Isaiah himself is referred to as "the prophet", but the exact relationship between the Book of Isaiah and the actual prophet Isaiah is complicated. The ...
15095
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intifada
Intifada
An intifada ( ) is a rebellion or uprising, or a resistance movement. It is a key concept in contemporary Arabic usage referring to a legitimate uprising against oppression. Etymology Intifada is an Arabic word literally meaning, as a noun, "tremor", "shivering", "shuddering". It is derived from an Arabic term nafad...
15097
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionosphere
Ionosphere
The ionosphere () is the ionized part of Earth's upper atmosphere, from about to altitude, a region that includes the thermosphere and parts of the mesosphere and exosphere. The ionosphere is ionized by solar radiation. It plays an important role in atmospheric electricity and forms the inner edge of the magnetosphe...
15100
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua
Interlingua
Interlingua (; ISO 639 language codes ia, ina) is an international auxiliary language (IAL) developed between 1937 and 1951 by the American International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). It ranks among the most widely used IALs and is the most widely used naturalistic IAL – in other words, those IALs whose vocabu...
15102
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle%20of%20Wight
Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight () is a county and the largest and second-most populous island of England. It is in the English Channel, between two and five miles off the coast of Hampshire, from which it is separated by the Solent. Referred to as 'The Island' by residents. The island has resorts that have been holiday destinations...
15107
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Control%20Message%20Protocol
Internet Control Message Protocol
The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) is a supporting protocol in the Internet protocol suite. It is used by network devices, including routers, to send error messages and operational information indicating success or failure when communicating with another IP address, for example, when an error is indicated whe...
15108
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICMP
ICMP
ICMP may refer to: Science and technology International Collection of Microorganisms from Plants, a culture collection in New Zealand International Congress on Mathematical Physics Internet Control Message Protocol, used in computer networking Ischemic cardiomyopathy, a type of heart disease Other uses The Inst...
15109
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20limit
Inverse limit
In mathematics, the inverse limit (also called the projective limit) is a construction that allows one to "glue together" several related objects, the precise gluing process being specified by morphisms between the objects. Thus, inverse limits can be defined in any category although their existence depends on the cate...
15111
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary%20spaceflight
Interplanetary spaceflight
Interplanetary spaceflight or interplanetary travel is the crewed or uncrewed travel between stars and planets, usually within a single planetary system. In practice, spaceflights of this type are confined to travel between the planets of the Solar System. Uncrewed space probes have flown to all the observed planets in...
15112
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%20interference
Wave interference
In physics, interference is a phenomenon in which two waves superpose to form a resultant wave of greater, lower, or the same amplitude. Constructive and destructive interference result from the interaction of waves that are correlated or coherent with each other, either because they come from the same source or becaus...
15114
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictable%20offence
Indictable offence
In many common law jurisdictions (e.g. England and Wales, Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore), an indictable offence is an offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer or by a grand jur...
15116
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter%20Milan
Inter Milan
Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale () or simply Inter, and known as Inter Milan outside Italy, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy. Inter is the only Italian side to have always competed in the top flight of Italian football since its debut in 1909....
15120
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferon
Interferon
Interferons (IFNs, ) are a group of signaling proteins made and released by host cells in response to the presence of several viruses. In a typical scenario, a virus-infected cell will release interferons causing nearby cells to heighten their anti-viral defenses. IFNs belong to the large class of proteins known as c...
15123
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%20settlement
Israeli settlement
Israeli settlements, or Israeli colonies, are civilian communities inhabited by Israeli citizens, overwhelmingly of Jewish ethnicity, built in violation of international law on lands occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. Israeli settlements currently exist in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, including ...
15125
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrealism%20%28the%20arts%29
Irrealism (the arts)
Irrealism is a term that has been used by various writers in the fields of philosophy, literature, and art to denote specific modes of unreality and/or the problems in concretely defining reality. While in philosophy the term specifically refers to a position put forward by the American philosopher Nelson Goodman, in ...
15129
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20have%20two%20cows
You have two cows
"You have two cows" is a form of political satire on various political, economic, etc. systems. The setup of a typical joke of this kind is the assumption that the listener lives within a given system and has two cows. The punch line is what happens to the listener and the cows in this system. History An article in ...
15134
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbulb%20joke
Lightbulb joke
A lightbulb joke is a joke cycle that asks how many people of a certain group are needed to change, replace, or screw in a light bulb. Generally, the punch line answer highlights a stereotype of the target group. There are numerous versions of the lightbulb joke satirizing a wide range of cultures, beliefs and occupati...
15144
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Electrotechnical%20Commission
International Electrotechnical Commission
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC; in French: Commission électrotechnique internationale) is an international standards organization that prepares and publishes international standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies – collectively known as "electrotechnology". IEC standards cov...
15145
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%209660
ISO 9660
ISO 9660 (also known as ECMA-119) is a file system for optical disc media. Being sold by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) the file system is considered an international technical standard. Since the specification is available for anybody to purchase, implementations have been written for many op...
15146
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20skating
Ice skating
Ice skating is the self-propulsion and gliding of a person across an ice surface, using metal-bladed ice skates. People skate for various reasons, including recreation (fun), exercise, competitive sports, and commuting. Ice skating may be performed on naturally frozen bodies of water, such as ponds, lakes, canals, and ...
15147
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Olympic%20Committee
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; , CIO) is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss Civil Code (articles 60–79). Founded by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas in 1894, it is the authority responsible for organi...
15150
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20circuit
Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Large numbers of tiny MOSFETs (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors) integrate into a s...
15154
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%203270
IBM 3270
The IBM 3270 is a family of block oriented display and printer computer terminals introduced by IBM in 1971 and normally used to communicate with IBM mainframes. The 3270 was the successor to the IBM 2260 display terminal. Due to the text color on the original models, these terminals are informally known as green scree...
15155
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.%20M.%20Pei
I. M. Pei
Ieoh Ming Pei ( ; ; April 26, 1917 – May 16, 2019) was a Chinese-American architect. Raised in Shanghai, Pei drew inspiration at an early age from the garden villas at Suzhou, the traditional retreat of the scholar-gentry to which his family belonged. In 1935, he moved to the United States and enrolled in the Universi...
15156
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICD%20%28disambiguation%29
ICD (disambiguation)
ICD is the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, an international standard diagnostic tool. ICD may also refer to: Organizations Information Control Division of the US Army in Germany after WWII United States Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD o...
15158
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20Jihad
Islamic Jihad
Islamic Jihad may refer to: Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (headquartered in Damascus) Islamic Jihad Organization, active mostly in Lebanon Islamic Jihad Union, active in Afghanistan and Pakistan Islamic Jihad of Yemen Turkish Islamic Jihad Egyptian Islamic Jihad See also Jihad, the Islamic theological con...
15161
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I486
I486
The Intel 486, officially named i486 and also known as 80486, is a microprocessor. It is a higher-performance follow-up to the Intel 386. The i486 was introduced in 1989. It represents the fourth generation of binary compatible CPUs following the 8086 of 1978, the Intel 80286 of 1982, and 1985's i386. It was the first...
15164
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%2080486SX
Intel 80486SX
Intel's i486SX was a modified Intel 486DX microprocessor with its floating-point unit (FPU) disabled. It was intended as a lower-cost CPU for use in low-end systems. Computer manufacturers that used these processors include Packard Bell, Compaq, ZEOS and IBM. Overview In the mid-early 1990s, common applications did n...
15165
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory
Ivory
Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally from elephants) and teeth of animals, that consists mainly of dentine, one of the physical structures of teeth and tusks. The chemical structure of the teeth and tusks of mammals is the same, regardless of the species of origin. The trade in certain teeth an...
15166
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry%20fighting%20vehicle
Infantry fighting vehicle
An infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), also known as a mechanized infantry combat vehicle (MICV), is a type of armoured fighting vehicle used to carry infantry into battle and provide direct-fire support. The 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe defines an infantry fighting vehicle as "an armoured combat ve...
15167
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ
ICQ
ICQ New is a cross-platform instant messaging (IM) and VoIP client. The name ICQ derives from the English phrase "I Seek You". Originally developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis in 1996, the client was bought by AOL in 1998, and then by Mail.Ru Group (now VK) in 2010. The ICQ client application and service were ini...
15169
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism
Impressionism
Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of m...
15172
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20slang
Internet slang
Internet slang (also called Internet shorthand, cyber-slang, netspeak, digispeak or chatspeak) is a non-standard or unofficial form of language used by people on the Internet to communicate to one another. An example of Internet slang is "LOL" meaning "laugh out loud". Since Internet slang is constantly changing, it is...
15174
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impi
Impi
Impi is a Zulu word meaning war or combat, and by association any body of men gathered for war, for example impi ya masosha is a term denoting 'an army'. Impi were formed from multiple regiments (amabutho in Zulu) from amakhanda (large militarised homesteads). However, in English impi is often used to refer to a Zulu r...
15175
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20mythology
Irish mythology
Irish mythology is the mythology of the island of Ireland that has been preserved in the oral tradition, and later in the manuscripts of early Celtic Christianity. These tales and themes have continued to be developed over time in the living folklore of the country, but the main themes and characters have remained larg...
15176
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance
Insurance
Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent or uncertain loss. An entity which provides insurance is known as an insurer, an insurance company, an insurance carrier or an underwriter. A person or entity who buys ins...
15179
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira%20Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (; née Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was the 3rd prime minister of India and was also the first and, to date, only female prime minister of India. Gandhi was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the ...
15180
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmentalism
Intergovernmentalism
In international relations, intergovernmentalism treats states (and national governments in particular) as the primary actors in the integration process. Intergovernmentalist approaches claim to be able to explain both periods of radical change in the European Union because of converging governmental preferences and pe...
15181
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualism
Individualism
Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology and social outlook that emphasizes the intrinsic worth of the individual. Individualists promote the exercise of one's goals and desires and to value independence and self-reliance and advocate that interests of the individual should achieve precedence ...
15187
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20vivo
In vivo
Studies that are in vivo (Latin for "within the living"; often not italicized in English) are those in which the effects of various biological entities are tested on whole, living organisms or cells, usually animals, including humans, and plants, as opposed to a tissue extract or dead organism. This is not to be confu...
15188
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20vitro
In vitro
In vitro (meaning in glass, or in the glass) studies are performed with microorganisms, cells, or biological molecules outside their normal biological context. Colloquially called "test-tube experiments", these studies in biology and its subdisciplines are traditionally done in labware such as test tubes, flasks, Petr...
15189
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20754-1985
IEEE 754-1985
IEEE 754-1985 was an industry standard for representing floating-point numbers in computers, officially adopted in 1985 and superseded in 2008 by IEEE 754-2008, and then again in 2019 by minor revision IEEE 754-2019. During its 23 years, it was the most widely used format for floating-point computation. It was implemen...
15190
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%2080186
Intel 80186
The Intel 80186, also known as the iAPX 186, or just 186, is a microprocessor and microcontroller introduced in 1982. It was based on the Intel 8086 and, like it, had a 16-bit external data bus multiplexed with a 20-bit address bus. The 80188 variant, with an 8-bit external data bus was also available. Description The...
15191
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition
Inquisition
The Inquisition or Holy Inquisition was a group of institutions within the Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy, conducting trials of suspected heretics. Studies of the records have found that the overwhelming majority of sentences consisted of penances, but that cases of repeat unrepentant heretics were hand...
15192
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac
Isaac
Isaac is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites and is an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He was the son of Abraham and Sarah, the father of Jacob, and the grandfather of the twelve tribes of Israel. Isaac's name means "he will laugh", reflecting the laug...
15193
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian%20Football%20League
Italian Football League
Italian Football League (IFL) is the top level American football league in Italy established in 1980. In 1980 the first American football league in Italy was established and crowned a champion. The Italian league (Series A) in the early 1980's was one of the first leagues in Europe to sign professional import players...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iduna
Iduna
Iduna may refer to: One of several modern anglicizations of the name of the Norse goddess Iðunn 176 Iduna, an asteroid named after the goddess Iduna (bird), a genus of tree warblers Iduna (literature society) Iduna, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community, United States Iduna language, spoken in Papua New Guinea ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indic
Indic
Indic may refer to: Indic languages (disambiguation) Various scripts: Brahmic scripts, a family of scripts used to write Indian and other Asian languages Kharoshthi (extinct) Indian numerals Indian religions, also known as the Dharmic faiths Other things related to the Indian subcontinent See also Inđić, a Se...
15199
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua%20%28province%29
Papua (province)
Papua is the largest and easternmost province of Indonesia, comprising most of Western New Guinea. The province is located on the island of New Guinea. It is bordered by the state of Papua New Guinea to the east, the province of West Papua to the west, the Pacific Ocean to the north, and the Arafura Sea to the south. T...
15200
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMF%20%28disambiguation%29
IMF (disambiguation)
The IMF, or International Monetary Fund is an international organization. IMF may also refer to: Entertainment Impossible Missions Force, a fictional secret espionage agency in the Mission: Impossible television and film series International Music Feed, a music video television network Internationale Medien und Fi...
15201
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of two or more academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several other fields like sociology, anthropology, psychology, economics etc. It is about creating something by thinking across boundaries....
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insertion%20sort
Insertion sort
Insertion sort is a simple sorting algorithm that builds the final sorted array (or list) one item at a time. It is much less efficient on large lists than more advanced algorithms such as quicksort, heapsort, or merge sort. However, insertion sort provides several advantages: Simple implementation: Jon Bentley shows...
15207
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig%20Nobel%20Prize
Ig Nobel Prize
The Ig Nobel Prize ( ) is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research, its stated aim being to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The name of the award is a pun on the Nobel Prize, which it parodies, and on...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20Alb%C3%A9niz
Isaac Albéniz
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (; 29 May 1860 – 18 May 1909) was a Spanish Catalan virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the Post-Romantic era who also had a significant influence on his contemporaries and younger composers. He is best known for his piano works base...
15210
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU-R
ITU-R
The ITU Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) is one of the three sectors (divisions or units) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and is responsible for radio communications. Its role is to manage the international radio-frequency spectrum and satellite orbit resources and to develop standards for radioco...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20Civil%20War
Irish Civil War
The Irish Civil War (; 28 June 1922 – 24 May 1923) was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State, an entity independent from the United Kingdom but within the British Empire. The civil war was waged between two opposing groups, the pro-treaty Provi...
15215
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Explorer
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, (from August 16, 1995 to March 30, 2021) commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a discontinued series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It...
15220
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprecise%20language
Imprecise language
Imprecise language, informal spoken language, or everyday language is less precise than any more formal or academic languages. Language might be said to be imprecise because it exhibits one or more of the following features: ambiguity – when a word or phrase pertains to its having more than one meaning in the languag...
15221
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%2080188
Intel 80188
The Intel 80188 microprocessor was a variant of the Intel 80186. The 80188 had an 8-bit external data bus instead of the 16-bit bus of the 80186; this made it less expensive to connect to peripherals. The 16-bit registers and the one megabyte address range were unchanged, however. It had a throughput of 1 million instr...
15222
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.2
IEEE 802.2
IEEE 802.2 is the original name of the ISO/IEC 8802-2 standard which defines logical link control (LLC) as the upper portion of the data link layer of the OSI Model. The original standard developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in collaboration with the American National Standards Inst...
15223
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invertebrate
Invertebrate
Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a backbone or spine), derived from the notochord. This includes all animals apart from the chordate subphylum Vertebrata. Familiar examples of invertebrates include arthropods (insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and myriapods...
15225
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar%20Aasen
Ivar Aasen
Ivar Andreas Aasen (; 5 August 1813 – 23 September 1896) was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet. He is best known for having assembled from dialects one of the two official written versions of the Norwegian language, Nynorsk. Background He was born as Iver Andreas Aasen at Åsen in Ørsta (then...