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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabidiminished%20icosahedron | In geometry, the metabidiminished icosahedron is one of the Johnson solids (). The name refers to one way of constructing it, by removing two pentagonal pyramids () from a regular icosahedron, replacing two sets of five triangular faces of the icosahedron with two adjacent pentagonal faces. If two pentagonal pyramids a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end%20delay | End-to-end delay or one-way delay (OWD) refers to the time taken for a packet to be transmitted across a network from source to destination. It is a common term in IP network monitoring, and differs from round-trip time (RTT) in that only path in the one direction from source to destination is measured.
Measurement
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAN%20Manager | LAN Manager is a discontinued network operating system (NOS) available from multiple vendors and developed by Microsoft in cooperation with 3Com Corporation. It was designed to succeed 3Com's 3+Share network server software which ran atop a heavily modified version of MS-DOS.
History
The LAN Manager OS/2 operating sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit%20load%20%28physics%29 | Limit load is the maximum load that a structure can safely carry. It's the load at which the structure is in a state of incipient plastic collapse. As the load on the structure increases, the displacements increases linearly in the elastic range until the load attains the yield value. Beyond this, the load-displacement... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20LAN%20Server | IBM LAN Server is a discontinued network operating system introduced by International Business Machines (IBM) in 1988. LAN Server started as a close cousin of Microsoft's LAN Manager and first shipped in early 1988. It was originally designed to run on top of Operating System/2 (OS/2) Extended Edition. The network clie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster%27s%20rule | Foster's rule, also known as the island rule or the island effect, is an ecogeographical rule in evolutionary biology stating that members of a species get smaller or bigger depending on the resources available in the environment. For example, it is known that pygmy mammoths evolved from normal mammoths on small island... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub%20curve | The bathtub curve is a particular shape of a failure rate graph. This graph is used in reliability engineering and deterioration modeling. The 'bathtub' refers to the shape of a line that curves up at both ends, similar in shape to a bathtub. The bathtub curve has 3 regions:
The first region has a decreasing failure r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate%20signing%20request | In public key infrastructure (PKI) systems, a certificate signing request (CSR or certification request) is a message sent from an applicant to a certificate authority of the public key infrastructure (PKI) in order to apply for a digital identity certificate. The CSR usually contains the public key for which the certi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20hundred | The long hundred, also known as the great hundred or twelfty, is the number 120 (in base-10 Hindu-Arabic numerals) that was referred to as hund, hund-teontig, hundrað, hundrath, or hundred in Germanic languages prior to the 15th century, and is now known as one hundred twenty, or six score. The number was translated in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADC%20Telecommunications | ADC Telecommunications was a communications company located in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, a southwest suburb of Minneapolis. It was acquired by TE Connectivity (Tyco Electronics) in December 2010 and ceased to exist as a separate entity. It vacated its Eden Prairie location in May 2011 and moved staff and resources to ot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimization%20problem | In mathematics, engineering, computer science and economics, an optimization problem is the problem of finding the best solution from all feasible solutions.
Optimization problems can be divided into two categories, depending on whether the variables are continuous or discrete:
An optimization problem with discrete ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporally%20ordered%20routing%20algorithm | The Temporally Ordered Routing Algorithm (TORA) is an algorithm for routing data across Wireless Mesh Networks or Mobile ad hoc networks.
It was developed by Vincent Park and Scott Corson at the University of Maryland and the Naval Research Laboratory. Park has patented his work, and it was licensed by Nova Engineeri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariant%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, an invariant is a property of a mathematical object (or a class of mathematical objects) which remains unchanged after operations or transformations of a certain type are applied to the objects. The particular class of objects and type of transformations are usually indicated by the context in which the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariant%20%28physics%29 | In theoretical physics, an invariant is an observable of a physical system which remains unchanged under some transformation. Invariance, as a broader term, also applies to the no change of form of physical laws under a transformation, and is closer in scope to the mathematical definition. Invariants of a system are de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily%20build | A daily build or nightly build is the practice of completing a software build of the latest version of a program, on a daily basis. This is so it can first be compiled to ensure that all required dependencies are present, and possibly tested to show no bugs have been introduced. The daily build is also often publicly a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20Interactive%20Simulation | Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) is an IEEE standard for conducting real-time platform-level wargaming across multiple host computers and is used worldwide, especially by military organizations but also by other agencies such as those involved in space exploration and medicine.
History
The standard was develop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar%20Jacobson | Ivar Hjalmar Jacobson (born 1939) is a Swedish computer scientist and software engineer, known as major contributor to UML, Objectory, Rational Unified Process (RUP), aspect-oriented software development and Essence.
Biography
Ivar Jacobson was born in Ystad, Sweden, on September 2, 1939. He received his Master of El... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20and%20high | In aviation, hot and high is a condition of low air density due to high ambient temperature and high airport elevation. Air density decreases with increasing temperature and altitude. The lower air density reduces the power output from the aircraft's engine and also requires a higher true airspeed before the aircraft c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisano%20period | In number theory, the nth Pisano period, written as (n), is the period with which the sequence of Fibonacci numbers taken modulo n repeats. Pisano periods are named after Leonardo Pisano, better known as Fibonacci. The existence of periodic functions in Fibonacci numbers was noted by Joseph Louis Lagrange in 1774.
De... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple-versioning | Tuple-versioning (also called point-in-time) is a mechanism used in a relational database management system to store past states of a relation. Normally, only the current state is captured.
Using tuple-versioning techniques, typically two values for time are stored along with each tuple: a start time and an end time.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming%20weight | The Hamming weight of a string is the number of symbols that are different from the zero-symbol of the alphabet used. It is thus equivalent to the Hamming distance from the all-zero string of the same length. For the most typical case, a string of bits, this is the number of 1's in the string, or the digit sum of the b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoschizomer | Isoschizomers are pairs of restriction enzymes specific to the same recognition sequence. For example, SphI (CGTAC/G) and BbuI (CGTAC/G) are isoschizomers of each other. The first enzyme discovered which recognizes a given sequence is known as the prototype; all subsequently identified enzymes that recognize that seque... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pityriasis%20rosea | Pityriasis rosea is a type of skin rash. Classically, it begins with a single red and slightly scaly area known as a "herald patch". This is then followed, days to weeks later, by an eruption of many smaller scaly spots; pinkish with a red edge in people with light skin and greyish in darker skin. About 20% of cases sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome%20jumping | Chromosome jumping is a tool of molecular biology that is used in the physical mapping of genomes. It is related to several other tools used for the same purpose, including chromosome walking.
Chromosome jumping is used to bypass regions difficult to clone, such as those containing repetitive DNA, that cannot be easi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%20pyramid | In geometry, a square pyramid is a pyramid with a square base, having a total of five faces. If the pyramid's apex lies on a line erected perpendicularly from the center of the square, it is a right square pyramid with four isosceles triangles; otherwise, it is an oblique square pyramid. When all of the pyramid's edges... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagonal%20pyramid | In geometry, a pentagonal pyramid is a pyramid with a pentagonal base upon which are erected five triangular faces that meet at a point (the apex). Like any pyramid, it is self-dual.
The regular pentagonal pyramid has a base that is a regular pentagon and lateral faces that are equilateral triangles. It is one of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular%20cupola | In geometry, the triangular cupola is one of the Johnson solids (). It can be seen as half a cuboctahedron.
Formulae
The following formulae for the volume (), the surface area () and the height () can be used if all faces are regular, with edge length a:
Dual polyhedron
The dual of the triangular cupola has 6 tria... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%20cupola | In geometry, the square cupola, sometimes called lesser dome, is one of the Johnson solids (). It can be obtained as a slice of the rhombicuboctahedron. As in all cupolae, the base polygon has twice as many edges and vertices as the top; in this case the base polygon is an octagon.
Formulae
The following formulae for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagonal%20rotunda | In geometry, the pentagonal rotunda is one of the Johnson solids (). It can be seen as half of an icosidodecahedron, or as half of a pentagonal orthobirotunda. It has a total of 17 faces.
Formulae
The following formulae for volume, surface area, circumradius, and height are valid if all faces are regular, with edge le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elongated%20square%20cupola | In geometry, the elongated square cupola is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by elongating a square cupola () by attaching an octagonal prism to its base. The solid can be seen as a rhombicuboctahedron with its "lid" (another square cupola) removed.
Formulae
The following formu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elongated%20square%20gyrobicupola | In geometry, the elongated square gyrobicupola or pseudo-rhombicuboctahedron is one of the Johnson solids (). It is not usually considered to be an Archimedean solid, even though its faces consist of regular polygons that meet in the same pattern at each of its vertices, because unlike the 13 Archimedean solids, it lac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elongated%20pentagonal%20rotunda | In geometry, the elongated pentagonal rotunda is one of the Johnson solids (J21). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by elongating a pentagonal rotunda (J6) by attaching a decagonal prism to its base. It can also be seen as an elongated pentagonal orthobirotunda (J42) with one pentagonal rotunda removed.
Form... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroelongated%20square%20cupola | In geometry, the gyroelongated square cupola is one of the Johnson solids (J23). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by gyroelongating a square cupola (J4) by attaching an octagonal antiprism to its base. It can also be seen as a gyroelongated square bicupola (J45) with one square bicupola removed.
Area and Vo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroelongated%20pentagonal%20rotunda | In geometry, the gyroelongated pentagonal rotunda is one of the Johnson solids (J25). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by gyroelongating a pentagonal rotunda (J6) by attaching a decagonal antiprism to its base. It can also be seen as a gyroelongated pentagonal birotunda (J48) with one pentagonal rotunda remo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%20orthobicupola | In geometry, the square orthobicupola is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by joining two square cupolae () along their octagonal bases, matching like faces. A 45-degree rotation of one cupola before the joining yields a square gyrobicupola ().
The square orthobicupola is the se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%20gyrobicupola | In geometry, the square gyrobicupola is one of the Johnson solids (). Like the square orthobicupola (), it can be obtained by joining two square cupolae () along their bases. The difference is that in this solid, the two halves are rotated 45 degrees with respect to one another.
The square gyrobicupola is the second i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagonal%20orthobirotunda | In geometry, the pentagonal orthobirotunda is one of the Johnson solids (). It can be constructed by joining two pentagonal rotundae () along their decagonal faces, matching like faces.
Related polyhedra
The pentagonal orthobirotunda is also related to an Archimedean solid, the icosidodecahedron, which can also be c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented%20tridiminished%20icosahedron | In geometry, the augmented tridiminished icosahedron is one of the
Johnson solids (). It can be obtained by joining a tetrahedron to another Johnson solid, the tridiminished icosahedron ().
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Johnson solids |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elongated%20pentagonal%20gyrobirotunda | In geometry, the elongated pentagonal gyrobirotunda is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by elongating a "pentagonal gyrobirotunda," or icosidodecahedron (one of the Archimedean solids), by inserting a decagonal prism between its congruent halves. Rotating one of the pentagonal r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elongated%20pentagonal%20orthobirotunda | In geometry, the elongated pentagonal orthobirotunda is one of the Johnson solids (). Its Conway polyhedron notation is at5jP5. As the name suggests, it can be constructed by elongating a pentagonal orthobirotunda () by inserting a decagonal prism between its congruent halves. Rotating one of the pentagonal rotundae ()... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroelongated%20pentagonal%20birotunda | In geometry, the gyroelongated pentagonal birotunda is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by gyroelongating a pentagonal birotunda (either or the icosidodecahedron) by inserting a decagonal antiprism between its two halves.
The gyroelongated pentagonal birotunda is one of five J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroelongated%20square%20bicupola | In geometry, the gyroelongated square bicupola is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by gyroelongating a square bicupola ( or ) by inserting an octagonal antiprism between its congruent halves.
The gyroelongated square bicupola is one of five Johnson solids which are chiral, mean... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature%20coefficient | A temperature coefficient describes the relative change of a physical property that is associated with a given change in temperature. For a property R that changes when the temperature changes by dT, the temperature coefficient α is defined by the following equation:
Here α has the dimension of an inverse temperature ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantial%20equivalence | In food safety, the concept of substantial equivalence holds that the safety of a new food, particularly one that has been genetically modified (GM), may be assessed by comparing it with a similar traditional food that has proven safe in normal use over time. It was first formulated as a food safety policy in 1993, by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth%20root%20of%20two | The twelfth root of two or (or equivalently ) is an algebraic irrational number, approximately equal to 1.0594631. It is most important in Western music theory, where it represents the frequency ratio (musical interval) of a semitone () in twelve-tone equal temperament. This number was proposed for the first time in r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders%20of%20magnitude%20%28speed%29 | To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following list describes various speed levels between approximately 2.2 m/s and 3.0 m/s (the speed of light). Values in bold are exact.
List of orders of magnitude for speed
See also
Typical projectile speeds - also showing the corresponding kinetic energy per unit m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altix | Altix is a line of server computers and supercomputers produced by Silicon Graphics (and successor company Silicon Graphics International), based on Intel processors. It succeeded the MIPS/IRIX-based Origin 3000 servers.
History
The line was first announced on January 7, 2003, with the Altix 3000 series, based on Inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20health%20record | An electronic health record (EHR) is the systematized collection of patient and population electronically stored health information in a digital format. These records can be shared across different health care settings. Records are shared through network-connected, enterprise-wide information systems or other informat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olf%20%28unit%29 | The olf is a unit used to measure the strength of a pollution source. It was introduced by Danish professor P. Ole Fanger; the name "olf" is derived from the Latin word , meaning "smelled".
One olf is the sensory pollution strength from a standard person defined as an average adult working in an office or similar non... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal%20node%20controller | A terminal node controller (TNC) is a device used by amateur radio operators to participate in AX.25 packet radio networks. It is similar in function to the Packet Assembler/Disassemblers used on X.25 networks, with the addition of a modem to convert baseband digital signals to audio tones.
The first TNC, the VADCG b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20states%20and%20blue%20states | Starting with the 2000 United States presidential election, the terms "red state" and "blue state" have referred to U.S. states whose voters vote predominantly for one party — the Republican Party in red states and the Democratic Party in blue states — in presidential and other statewide elections. By contrast, states ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density%20%28computer%20storage%29 | Density is a measure of the quantity of information bits that can be stored on a given length (linear density) of track, area of the surface (areal density), or in a given volume (volumetric density) of a computer storage medium. Generally, higher density is more desirable, for it allows more data to be stored in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinorganic%20chemistry | Bioinorganic chemistry is a field that examines the role of metals in biology. Bioinorganic chemistry includes the study of both natural phenomena such as the behavior of metalloproteins as well as artificially introduced metals, including those that are non-essential, in medicine and toxicology. Many biological proce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagonal%20cupola | In geometry, the pentagonal cupola is one of the Johnson solids (). It can be obtained as a slice of the rhombicosidodecahedron. The pentagonal cupola consists of 5 equilateral triangles, 5 squares, 1 pentagon, and 1 decagon.
Formulae
The following formulae for volume, surface area and circumradius can be used if all ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminished%20rhombicosidodecahedron | In geometry, the diminished rhombicosidodecahedron is one of the Johnson solids (). It can be constructed as a rhombicosidodecahedron with one pentagonal cupola removed.
Related Johnson solids are:
: parabidiminished rhombicosidodecahedron with two opposing cupolae removed, and
: metabidiminished rhombicosidodecahed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrate%20rhombicosidodecahedron | In geometry, the gyrate rhombicosidodecahedron is one of the Johnson solids (). It is also a canonical polyhedron.
Related polyhedron
It can be constructed as a rhombicosidodecahedron with one pentagonal cupola rotated through 36 degrees. They have the same faces around each vertex, but vertex configurations along t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Java%20keywords | In the Java programming language, a keyword is any one of 68 reserved words that have a predefined meaning in the language. Because of this, programmers cannot use keywords in some contexts, such as names for variables, methods, classes, or as any other identifier. Of these 68 keywords, 17 of them are only contextually... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode | Bencode (pronounced like Bee-encode) is the encoding used by the peer-to-peer file sharing system BitTorrent for storing and transmitting loosely structured data.
It supports four different types of values:
byte strings,
integers,
lists, and
dictionaries (associative arrays).
Bencoding is most commonly used in to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set%20partitioning%20in%20hierarchical%20trees | Set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) is an image compression algorithm that exploits the inherent similarities across the subbands in a wavelet decomposition of an image. The algorithm was developed by Brazilian engineer Amir Said with William A. Pearlman in 1996.
General description
The algorithm codes the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron%20flux | The neutron flux, φ, is a scalar quantity used in nuclear physics and nuclear reactor physics. It is the total distance travelled by all free neutrons per unit time and volume. Equivalently, it can be defined as the number of neutrons travelling through a small sphere of radius in a time interval, divided by a maximal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%20rectifier | A metal rectifier is an early type of semiconductor rectifier in which the semiconductor is copper oxide, germanium or selenium. They were used in power applications to convert alternating current to direct current in devices such as radios and battery chargers. Westinghouse Electric was a major manufacturer of thes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated%20sign | The estimated sign, , also referred to as the e-mark or () can be found on most prepacked products in the European Union (EU). Its use indicates that the prepackage fulfils EU Directive 76/211/EEC, which specifies the maximum permitted tolerances in package content. The shape and dimensions of the e-mark are defined i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newzbin | Newzbin was a British Usenet indexing website, intended to facilitate access to content on Usenet. The site caused controversy over its stance on copyrighted material. Access to the Newzbin.com website was blocked by BT and Sky in late 2011, following legal action in the UK by Hollywood film studios.
The site announce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpywareBlaster | SpywareBlaster is an antispyware and antiadware program for Microsoft Windows designed to block the installation of ActiveX malware.
Overview
SpywareBlaster is a program intended to prevent the download, installation and execution of most spyware, adware, browser hijackers, dialers and other malicious programs based o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20locomotion | Animal locomotion, in ethology, is any of a variety of methods that animals use to move from one place to another. Some modes of locomotion are (initially) self-propelled, e.g., running, swimming, jumping, flying, hopping, soaring and gliding. There are also many animal species that depend on their environment for tran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClamWin%20Free%20Antivirus | ClamWin Free Antivirus is a free and open-source antivirus tool for Windows. It provides a graphical user interface to the Clam AntiVirus engine.
Features
Scanning scheduler (only effective with user logged in).
Automatic virus database updates on a regular basis.
Standalone virus-scanner.
Context menu integratio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabidiminished%20rhombicosidodecahedron | In geometry, the parabidiminished rhombicosidodecahedron is one of the Johnson solids (). It is also a canonical polyhedron.
It can be constructed as a rhombicosidodecahedron with two opposing pentagonal cupolae removed. Related Johnson solids are the diminished rhombicosidodecahedron () where one cupola is removed, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabidiminished%20rhombicosidodecahedron | In geometry, the metabidiminished rhombicosidodecahedron is one of the Johnson solids ().
It can be constructed as a rhombicosidodecahedron with two non-opposing pentagonal cupolae () removed.
Related Johnson solids are:
The diminished rhombicosidodecahedron () where one cupola is removed,
The parabidiminished rhomb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tridiminished%20rhombicosidodecahedron | In geometry, the tridiminished rhombicosidodecahedron is one of the Johnson solids (). It can be constructed as a rhombicosidodecahedron with three pentagonal cupolae removed.
Related Johnson solids are:
: diminished rhombicosidodecahedron with one cupola removed,
: parabidiminished rhombicosidodecahedron with two o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigyrate%20rhombicosidodecahedron | In geometry, the trigyrate rhombicosidodecahedron is one of the Johnson solids (). It contains 20 triangles, 30 squares and 12 pentagons. It is also a canonical polyhedron.
It can be constructed as a rhombicosidodecahedron with three pentagonal cupolae rotated through 36 degrees. Related Johnson solids are:
The gyrat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snub%20disphenoid | In geometry, the snub disphenoid, Siamese dodecahedron, triangular dodecahedron, trigonal dodecahedron, or dodecadeltahedron is a convex polyhedron with twelve equilateral triangles as its faces. It is not a regular polyhedron because some vertices have four faces and others have five. It is a dodecahedron, one of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snub%20square%20antiprism | In geometry, the snub square antiprism is one of the Johnson solids ().
It is one of the elementary Johnson solids that do not arise from "cut and paste" manipulations of the Platonic and Archimedean solids, although it is a relative of the icosahedron that has fourfold symmetry instead of threefold.
Construction
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%20code | In coding theory, block codes are a large and important family of error-correcting codes that encode data in blocks.
There is a vast number of examples for block codes, many of which have a wide range of practical applications. The abstract definition of block codes is conceptually useful because it allows coding theor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20-ectomies | The surgical terminology suffix -ectomy was taken from Greek εκ-τομια = "act of cutting out". It means surgical removal of something, usually from inside the body.
A
Adenectomy is the surgical removal of a gland.
Adenoidectomy is the surgical removal of the adenoids, also known as the pharyngeal tonsils.
Adrenalectomy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythical%20number | A mythical number is a number used and accepted as deriving from scientific investigation and/or careful selection, but whose origin is unknown and whose basis is unsubstantiated. An example is the number 48 billion, which has often been accepted as the number of dollars per year of identity theft. This number "has app... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation%20and%20evolution%20in%20public%20education | The status of creation and evolution in public education has been the subject of substantial debate and conflict in legal, political, and religious circles. Globally, there are a wide variety of views on the topic. Most western countries have legislation that mandates only evolutionary biology is to be taught in the ap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matched%20filter | In signal processing, a matched filter is obtained by correlating a known delayed signal, or template, with an unknown signal to detect the presence of the template in the unknown signal. This is equivalent to convolving the unknown signal with a conjugated time-reversed version of the template. The matched filter is t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguity%20function | In pulsed radar and sonar signal processing, an ambiguity function is a two-dimensional function of propagation delay and Doppler frequency , . It represents the distortion of a returned pulse due to the receiver matched filter (commonly, but not exclusively, used in pulse compression radar) of the return from a movin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20migration | Data migration is the process of selecting, preparing, extracting, and transforming data and permanently transferring it from one computer storage system to another. Additionally, the validation of migrated data for completeness and the decommissioning of legacy data storage are considered part of the entire data migra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20scrubbing | Memory scrubbing consists of reading from each computer memory location, correcting bit errors (if any) with an error-correcting code (ECC), and writing the corrected data back to the same location.
Due to the high integration density of modern computer memory chips, the individual memory cell structures became small ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrophobia%20%28game%29 | Acrophobia is an online multiplayer word game. The game was originally conceived by Andrea Shubert, and programmed by Kenrick Mock and Michelle Hoyle in 1995. Originally available over Internet Relay Chat, the game has since been developed into a number of variants, as a download, playable through a browser, via Twitte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator%20car | A refrigerator car (or "reefer") is a refrigerated boxcar (U.S.), a piece of railroad rolling stock designed to carry perishable freight at specific temperatures. Refrigerator cars differ from simple insulated boxcars and ventilated boxcars (commonly used for transporting fruit), neither of which are fitted with coolin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%20contract | A link contract is an approach to data control in a distributed data sharing network. Link contracts are a key feature of the XDI specifications under development at OASIS.
In XDI, a link contract is a machine-readable XDI document that governs the sharing of other XDI data. Unlike a conventional Web link, which is es... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbridge%20Networks | Newbridge Networks was an Ottawa, Ontario, Canada company founded by Welsh-Canadian entrepreneur Sir Terry Matthews. It was founded in 1986 to create data and voice networking products after Matthews was forced out of his original company Mitel. According to Matthews, he saw that data networking would grow far faster ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandalf%20Technologies | Gandalf Technologies, Inc., or simply Gandalf, was a Canadian data communications company based in Ottawa. It was best known for modems and terminal adapters that allowed computer terminals to connect to host computers through a single interface. Gandalf also pioneered a radio-based mobile data terminal that was popul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BS%207799 | BS 7799 was a standard originally published by BSI Group (BSI) in 1995. It was written by the United Kingdom Government's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and consisted of several parts.
The first part, containing the best practices for Information Security Management, was revised in 1998; after a lengthy discu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C000%2C000%2C000 | 1,000,000,000 (one billion, short scale; one thousand million or one milliard, one yard, long scale) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001. With a number, "billion" can be abbreviated as b, bil or bn.
In standard form, it is written as 1 × 109. The metric prefix giga indicates 1,000,0... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast%20delay | In radio and television, broadcast delay is an intentional delay when broadcasting live material, technically referred to as a deferred live. Such a delay may be to prevent mistakes or unacceptable content from being broadcast. Longer delays lasting several hours can also be introduced so that the material is aired at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Draft | An Internet Draft (I-D) is a document published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) containing preliminary technical specifications, results of networking-related research, or other technical information. Often, Internet Drafts are intended to be work-in-progress documents for work that is eventually to be pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/167%20%28number%29 | 167 (one hundred [and] sixty-seven) is the natural number following 166 and preceding 168.
In mathematics
167 is an emirp, an isolated prime, a Chen prime, a Gaussian prime, a safe prime, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and a real part of the form .
167 is the smallest number which requires six terms w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam%20Elkies | Noam David Elkies (born August 25, 1966) is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University. At the age of 26, he became the youngest professor to receive tenure at Harvard. He is also a pianist, chess national master and a chess composer.
Early life
Elkies was born to an engineer father and a piano teacher mother. H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20semantic%20graph | In computer science, an abstract semantic graph (ASG) or term graph is a form of abstract syntax in which an expression of a formal or programming language is represented by a graph whose vertices are the expression's subterms. An ASG is at a higher level of abstraction than an abstract syntax tree (or AST), which is u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisense%20therapy | Antisense therapy is a form of treatment that uses antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) to target messenger RNA (mRNA). ASOs are capable of altering mRNA expression through a variety of mechanisms, including ribonuclease H mediated decay of the pre-mRNA, direct steric blockage, and exon content modulation through splicing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staff%20%28building%20material%29 | Staff is a kind of artificial stone used for covering and ornamenting temporary buildings.
It is chiefly made of plaster of Paris (powdered Gypsum), with a little cement, glycerin, and dextrin, mixed with water until it is about as thick as molasses. When staff is cast in molds, it can form any shape. To strengthen ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20eigenvector | In linear algebra, a generalized eigenvector of an matrix is a vector which satisfies certain criteria which are more relaxed than those for an (ordinary) eigenvector.
Let be an -dimensional vector space and let be the matrix representation of a linear map from to with respect to some ordered basis.
There may n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20arbitrage | In finance, statistical arbitrage (often abbreviated as Stat Arb or StatArb) is a class of short-term financial trading strategies that employ mean reversion models involving broadly diversified portfolios of securities (hundreds to thousands) held for short periods of time (generally seconds to days). These strategies... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superkey | In the relational data model a superkey is a set of attributes that uniquely identifies each tuple of a relation. Because superkey values are unique, tuples with the same superkey value must also have the same non-key attribute values. That is, non-key attributes are functionally dependent on the superkey.
The set of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet%20Track | The Sweet Track is an ancient trackway, or causeway, in the Somerset Levels, England, named after its finder, Ray Sweet. It was built in 3807 BC (determined using dendrochronology) and is the second-oldest timber trackway discovered in the British Isles, dating to the Neolithic. The Sweet Track was predominantly built ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-frequency%20network | A single-frequency network or SFN is a broadcast network where several transmitters simultaneously send the same signal over the same frequency channel.
Analog AM and FM radio broadcast networks as well as digital broadcast networks can operate in this manner. SFNs are not generally compatible with analog television t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-code%20editor | A source-code editor is a text editor program designed specifically for editing source code of computer programs. It may be a standalone application or it may be built into an integrated development environment (IDE).
Characteristics
Source-code editors have characteristics specifically designed to simplify and speed ... |
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