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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... |
15195 | 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
... |
15198 | 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.... |
15205 | 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... |
15208 | 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... |
15214 | 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... |
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