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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degustation | Dégustation is the careful, appreciative tasting of various food, focusing on the gustatory system, the senses, high culinary art and good company. Dégustation is more likely to involve sampling small portions of all of a chef's signature dishes in one sitting. Usually consisting of many courses, it may be accompanied... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAFARI | SAFARI was an attempt by the French government, under the presidency of Georges Pompidou, to create a centralized database of personal data. SAFARI stands for Système Automatisé pour les Fichiers Administratifs et le Répertoire des Individus, "Automated System for Administrative Files and the Repertory of Individuals"... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal%20management | Coastal management is defence against flooding and erosion, and techniques that stop erosion to claim lands. Protection against rising sea levels in the 21st century is crucial, as sea level rise accelerates due to climate change. Changes in sea level damage beaches and coastal systems are expected to rise at an increa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markman%20v.%20Westview%20Instruments%2C%20Inc. | Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc., 517 U.S. 370 (1996), is a United States Supreme Court case on whether the interpretation of patent claims is a matter of law or a question of fact. An issue designated as a matter of law is resolved by the judge, and an issue construed as a question of fact is determined by the ju... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech%20Application%20Language%20Tags | Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) is an XML-based markup language that is used in HTML and XHTML pages to add voice recognition capabilities to web-based applications.
Description
Speech Application Language Tags enables multimodal and telephony-enabled access to information, applications, and Web services from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank%20Battalion | is a multi-directional shooter arcade video game that was released by Namco in 1980. The only direct home conversion is for the MSX, although it was followed up by two sequels: Battle City for the Famicom in 1985 and Tank Force for arcades in 1991.
Gameplay
The player, controlling a tank, must destroy twenty enemy ta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap%20analysis | In management literature, gap analysis involves the comparison of actual performance with potential or desired performance. If an organization does not make the best use of current resources, or forgoes investment in capital or technology, it may produce or perform below an idealized potential. This concept is similar ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameStorm | GameStorm was an online gaming service founded by Kesmai corporation in November 1997. It offered several online video games at a flat monthly fee of $10 per month, a relatively radical payment system in the age of pay-by-hour online gaming. Both Kesmai and GameStorm were sold to Electronic Arts in 1999, and shut down ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wool%20bale | A wool bale is a standard sized and weighted pack of classed wool compressed by the mechanical means of a wool press. This is the regulation required method of packaging for wool, to keep it uncontaminated and readily identifiable. A "bale of wool" is also the standard trading unit for wool on the wholesale national an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIA-530 | Currently known as TIA-530-A, but often called EIA-530, or RS-530, is a balanced serial interface standard that generally uses a 25-pin connector, originally created by the Telecommunications Industry Association.
Finalized in 1987 (revision A finalized in 1992), the specification defines the cable between the DTE and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nastic%20movements | In biology, nastic movements are non-directional responses to stimuli (e.g. temperature, humidity, light irradiance), and are usually associated with plants. The movement can be due to changes in turgor (internal pressure within plant cells). Decrease in turgor pressure causes shrinkage, while increase in turgor pressu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLVend | XMLVend is a South African developed, open interface standard, which facilitates the sale of prepaid electricity credit between electricity utilities and clients. It is an application of web services to facilitate trade between various types of devices and a utility prepayment vending server.
This standard is already... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%27s%20theorem%20%28group%20theory%29 | In mathematics, specifically group theory, Cauchy's theorem states that if is a finite group and is a prime number dividing the order of (the number of elements in ), then contains an element of order . That is, there is in such that is the smallest positive integer with = , where is the identity element of . ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muda%20%28Japanese%20term%29 | is a Japanese word meaning "futility", "uselessness", or "wastefulness", and is a key concept in lean process thinking such as in the Toyota Production System (TPS), denoting one of three types of deviation from optimal allocation of resources. The other types are known by the Japanese terms mura ("unevenness") and mur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus%20on%20Manifolds%20%28book%29 | Calculus on Manifolds: A Modern Approach to Classical Theorems of Advanced Calculus (1965) by Michael Spivak is a brief, rigorous, and modern textbook of multivariable calculus, differential forms, and integration on manifolds for advanced undergraduates.
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Calculus on Manifolds is a brief monograph on the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megadiverse%20countries | A megadiverse country is one of a group of nations that harbours the majority of Earth's species and high numbers of endemic species. Conservation International identified 17 megadiverse countries in 1998. Many of them are located at least partially in tropical or subtropical regions.
Megadiversity means exhibiting gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora%20%28microbiology%29 | In microbiology, collective bacteria and other microorganisms in a host are historically known as flora. Although microflora is commonly used, the term microbiota is becoming more common as microflora is a misnomer. Flora pertains to the Kingdom Plantae. Microbiota includes Archaea, Bacteria, Fungi and Protists. Microb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Output%20compare | Output compare is the ability to trigger an output based on a timestamp in memory, without interrupting the execution of code by a processor or microcontroller. This is a functionality provided by many embedded systems.
The corresponding ability to record a timestamp in memory when an input occurs is called input capt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic%20Array%20Logic | The Generic Array Logic (also known as GAL and sometimes as gate array logic) device was an innovation of the PAL and was invented by Lattice Semiconductor. The GAL was an improvement on the PAL because one device type was able to take the place of many PAL device types or could even have functionality not covered by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20station | A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to any number of tuned receivers simultaneously.
Overview
Most o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20software%20development | Adaptive software development (ASD) is a software development process that grew out of the work by Jim Highsmith and Sam Bayer on rapid application development (RAD). It embodies the principle that continuous adaptation of the process to the work at hand is the normal state of affairs.
Adaptive software development re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus%20%28genetics%29 | In genetics, a locus (: loci) is a specific, fixed position on a chromosome where a particular gene or genetic marker is located. Each chromosome carries many genes, with each gene occupying a different position or locus; in humans, the total number of protein-coding genes in a complete haploid set of 23 chromosomes is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted%20proof | A computer-assisted proof is a mathematical proof that has been at least partially generated by computer.
Most computer-aided proofs to date have been implementations of large proofs-by-exhaustion of a mathematical theorem. The idea is to use a computer program to perform lengthy computations, and to provide a proof t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20pool%20pattern | The object pool pattern is a software creational design pattern that uses a set of initialized objects kept ready to use – a "pool" – rather than allocating and destroying them on demand. A client of the pool will request an object from the pool and perform operations on the returned object. When the client has finishe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miredo | Miredo is a Teredo tunneling client designed to allow full IPv6 connectivity to computer systems which are on the IPv4-based Internet but which have no direct native connection to an IPv6 network.
Miredo is included in many Linux and BSD distributions and is also available for recent versions of Mac OS X. (Discontinue... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holomorph%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, especially in the area of algebra known as group theory, the holomorph of a group is a group that simultaneously contains (copies of) the group and its automorphism group. The holomorph provides interesting examples of groups, and allows one to treat group elements and group automorphisms in a uniform ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20vectorization | Automatic vectorization, in parallel computing, is a special case of automatic parallelization, where a computer program is converted from a scalar implementation, which processes a single pair of operands at a time, to a vector implementation, which processes one operation on multiple pairs of operands at once. For ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washdown | Washdown (also wash down) is the process of cleaning or washing a surface for appearance, sanitation, or removal of contamination. It may involve pressure washing. Sometimes wash down involves rinsing with fresh water; other times it involves use of detergents and other chemicals.
Food processing and packaging machi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke%20ratio | In a reciprocating piston engine, the stroke ratio, defined by either bore/stroke ratio or stroke/bore ratio, is a term to describe the ratio between cylinder bore diameter and piston stroke length. This can be used for either an internal combustion engine, where the fuel is burned within the cylinders of the engine, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon%20%28video%20game%29 | Xenon is a 1988 vertical scrolling shooter video game, the first developed by The Bitmap Brothers, and published by Melbourne House which was then owned by Mastertronic. It was featured as a play-by-phone game on the Saturday-morning kids' show Get Fresh.
Xenon was followed in 1989 by Xenon 2: Megablast.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape%20dispenser | A tape dispenser is an object that holds a roll of tape and has a mechanism at one end to shear the tape. Dispensers vary widely based on the tape they dispense. Abundant and most common, clear tape dispensers (like those used in an office or at home) are commonly made of plastic, and may be disposable. Other dispenser... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Water%20Works%20Association | American Water Works Association (AWWA) is an international non-profit, scientific and educational association founded to improve water quality and supply. Established in 1881, it is a lobbying organization representing
a membership (as of 2012) of around 50,000 members worldwide.
In reviewing the success of the Safe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential%20complexity | Essential complexity is a numerical measure defined by Thomas J. McCabe, Sr., in his highly cited, 1976 paper better known for introducing cyclomatic complexity. McCabe defined essential complexity as the cyclomatic complexity of the reduced CFG (control-flow graph) after iteratively replacing (reducing) all structured... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemolysis%20%28microbiology%29 | Hemolysis (from Greek αιμόλυση, meaning 'blood breakdown') is the breakdown of red blood cells. The ability of bacterial colonies to induce hemolysis when grown on blood agar is used to classify certain microorganisms. This is particularly useful in classifying streptococcal species. A substance that causes hemolysis i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20cryptography | Below is a timeline of notable events related to cryptography.
B.C.
36th century The Sumerians develop cuneiform writing and the Egyptians develop hieroglyphic writing.
16th century The Phoenicians develop an alphabet
600-500 Hebrew scholars make use of simple monoalphabetic substitution ciphers (such as the Atbash... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan%20Mills | Harlan D. Mills (May 14, 1919 – January 8, 1996) was Professor of Computer Science at the Florida Institute of Technology and founder of Software Engineering Technology, Inc. of Vero Beach, Florida (since acquired by Q-Labs). Mills' contributions to software engineering have had a profound and enduring effect on educat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20structure | In differential geometry, a spin structure on an orientable Riemannian manifold allows one to define associated spinor bundles, giving rise to the notion of a spinor in differential geometry.
Spin structures have wide applications to mathematical physics, in particular to quantum field theory where they are an essent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadiametric%20rangefinding | Stadiametric rangefinding, or the stadia method, is a technique of measuring distances with a telescopic instrument. The term stadia comes from a Greek unit of length Stadion (equal to 600 Greek feet, pous) which was the typical length of a sports stadium of the time. Stadiametric rangefinding is used for surveying and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial%20modeling | Financial modeling is the task of building an abstract representation (a model) of a real world financial situation. This is a mathematical model designed to represent (a simplified version of) the performance of a financial asset or portfolio of a business, project, or any other investment.
Typically, then, financial... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAXELN | VAXELN (typically pronounced "VAX-elan") is a discontinued real-time operating system for the VAX family of computers produced by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) of Maynard, Massachusetts.
As with RSX-11 and VMS, Dave Cutler was the principal force behind the development of this operating system. Cutler's team... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QLogic | QLogic Corporation was an American manufacturer of networking server and storage networking connectivity and application acceleration products, based in Aliso Viejo, California through 2016.
QLogic's products include Fibre Channel adapters, converged network adapters for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Ethernet net... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC-HBA%20API | In computing, the FC-HBA API (also called the SNIA Common HBA API) is an Application Programming Interface for Host Bus Adapters connecting computers to hard disks via a Fibre Channel network. It was developed by the Storage Networking Industry Association
and published by the T11.5 committee of INCITS
An "early imple... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%2C000%2C000 | 10,000,000 (ten million) is the natural number following 9,999,999 and preceding 10,000,001.
In scientific notation, it is written as 107.
In South Asia except for Sri Lanka, it is known as the crore.
In Cyrillic numerals, it is known as the vran (вран — raven).
Selected 8-digit numbers (10,000,001–99,999,999)
10,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%2C000%2C000 | 100,000,000 (one hundred million) is the natural number following 99,999,999 and preceding 100,000,001.
In scientific notation, it is written as 108.
East Asian languages treat 100,000,000 as a counting unit, significant as the square of a myriad, also a counting unit. In Chinese, Korean, and Japanese respectively it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxidase%20test | The oxidase test is used to determine whether an organism possesses the cytochrome c oxidase enzyme. The test is used as an aid for the differentiation of Neisseria, Moraxella, Campylobacter and Pasteurella species (oxidase positive). It is also used to differentiate pseudomonads from related species.
Classification
S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit%20design | The process of circuit design can cover systems ranging from complex electronic systems down to the individual transistors within an integrated circuit. One person can often do the design process without needing a planned or structured design process for simple circuits. Still, teams of designers following a systemati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evernote | Evernote is a note-taking and task-management application developed by the Evernote Corporation. It is intended for archiving and creating notes with embedded photos, audio, and saved web content. Notes are stored in virtual "notebooks" and can be tagged, annotated, edited, searched, and exported.
Evernote is availabl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20semantics%20%28mathematical%20logic%29 | In mathematical logic, algebraic semantics is a formal semantics based on algebras studied as part of algebraic logic. For example, the modal logic S4 is characterized by the class of topological boolean algebras—that is, boolean algebras with an interior operator. Other modal logics are characterized by various other ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZetaGrid | ZetaGrid was at one time the largest distributed computing project, designed to explore the non-trivial roots of the Riemann zeta function, checking over one billion roots a day.
Roots of the zeta function are of particular interest in mathematics; a single root out of alignment would disprove the Riemann hypothesis, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertrust%20Technologies%20Corporation | Intertrust Technologies Corporation is a software technology company specializing in trusted distributed computing. Intertrust’s product lines consist of a DataOps platform, Application protection and Content protection solutions. Much of Intertrust's digital rights management (DRM) business is based on the Marlin DRM ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrococcal%20nuclease | Micrococcal nuclease (, S7 Nuclease, MNase, spleen endonuclease, thermonuclease, nuclease T, micrococcal endonuclease, nuclease T''', staphylococcal nuclease, spleen phosphodiesterase, Staphylococcus aureus nuclease, Staphylococcus aureus nuclease B, ribonucleate (deoxynucleate) 3'-nucleotidohydrolase) is an endo-exonu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unifying%20Theories%20of%20Programming | Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP) in computer science deals with program semantics. It shows how denotational semantics, operational semantics and algebraic semantics can be combined in a unified framework for the formal specification, design and implementation of programs and computer systems.
The book of this t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He%20Jifeng | He Jifeng (, born August 1943) is a Chinese computer scientist.
He Jifeng graduated from the mathematics department of Fudan University in 1965. From 1965 to 1985, he was an instructor at East China Normal University. During 1980–81, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and the University of San Francisco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winding%20engine | A winding engine is a stationary engine used to control a cable, for example to power a mining hoist at a pit head. Electric hoist controllers have replaced proper winding engines in modern mining, but use electric motors that are also traditionally referred to as winding engines.
Early winding engines were hand, or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facing%20Identification%20Mark | The Facing Identification Mark, or FIM, is a bar code designed by the United States Postal Service to assist in the automated processing of mail. The FIM is a set of vertical bars printed on the envelope or postcard near the upper edge, just to the left of the postage area (the area where the postage stamp or its equi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20flux%20parametron | A Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP) is a digital logic implementation technology based on superconducting Josephson junctions. QFP's were invented by Eiichi Goto at the University of Tokyo as an improvement over his earlier parametron based digital logic technology, which did not use superconductivity effects or Josephson ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20uniform%20polyhedra | In geometry, a uniform polyhedron is a polyhedron which has regular polygons as faces and is vertex-transitive (transitive on its vertices, isogonal, i.e. there is an isometry mapping any vertex onto any other). It follows that all vertices are congruent, and the polyhedron has a high degree of reflectional and rotatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist%20controller | A hoist controller is the controller for a hoist. The term is used primarily in the context of electrically operated hoists, but it is apparent that the control systems of many 20th century steam hoists also incorporated controllers of significant complexity. Consider the control system of the Quincy Mine No. 2 Hoist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busemann%20function | In geometric topology, Busemann functions are used to study the large-scale geometry of geodesics in Hadamard spaces and in particular Hadamard manifolds (simply connected complete Riemannian manifolds of nonpositive curvature). They are named after Herbert Busemann, who introduced them; he gave an extensive treatment ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadamard%20space | In geometry, an Hadamard space, named after Jacques Hadamard, is a non-linear generalization of a Hilbert space. In the literature they are also equivalently defined as complete CAT(0) spaces.
A Hadamard space is defined to be a nonempty complete metric space such that, given any points and there exists a point suc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20domain | An application domain is a mechanism (similar to a process in an operating system) used within the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) to isolate executed software applications from one another so that they do not affect each other. Each application domain has its own virtual address space which scopes the resources f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonal%20selection | In immunology, clonal selection theory explains the functions of cells of the immune system (lymphocytes) in response to specific antigens invading the body. The concept was introduced by Australian doctor Frank Macfarlane Burnet in 1957, in an attempt to explain the great diversity of antibodies formed during initiati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band%20clamp | A band clamp is a generic term for a holding device usually consisting of a strap of metal or cloth formed into a loop, with a mechanism to forcibly adjust the diameter, thereby exerting a squeezing force on an object within the loop.
One type of band clamp known as a web clamp has a band usually made of nylon type cl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Assistance%20Markup%20Language | Microsoft Assistance Markup Language (Microsoft AML, generally referred to as MAML) is an XML-based markup language developed by the Microsoft User Assistance Platform team to provide user assistance ("online help") for the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. It makes up the Assistance Platform on Windows Vista.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple%20fringing | In photography (particularly digital photography), purple fringing (sometimes called PF) is the term for an unfocused purple or magenta "ghost" image on a photograph. This optical aberration is generally most visible as a coloring and lightening of dark edges adjacent to bright areas of broad-spectrum illumination, suc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudolocalization | Pseudolocalization (or pseudo-localization) is a software testing method used for testing internationalization aspects of software. Instead of translating the text of the software into a foreign language, as in the process of localization, the textual elements of an application are replaced with an altered version of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20bisulfate | Sodium bisulfate, also known as sodium hydrogen sulfate, is the sodium salt of the bisulfate anion, with the molecular formula NaHSO4. Sodium bisulfate is an acid salt formed by partial neutralization of sulfuric acid by an equivalent of sodium base, typically in the form of either sodium hydroxide (lye) or sodium chlo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WalkSAT | In computer science, GSAT and WalkSAT are local search algorithms to solve Boolean satisfiability problems.
Both algorithms work on formulae in Boolean logic that are in, or have been converted into conjunctive normal form. They start by assigning a random value to each variable in the formula. If the assignment satis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbone%20network | A backbone or core network is a part of a computer network which interconnects networks, providing a path for the exchange of information between different LANs or subnetworks. A backbone can tie together diverse networks in the same building, in different buildings in a campus environment, or over wide areas. Normally... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient%20space%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, especially in geometry and topology, an ambient space is the space surrounding a mathematical object along with the object itself. For example, a 1-dimensional line may be studied in isolation —in which case the ambient space of is , or it may be studied as an object embedded in 2-dimensional Euclide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20use%20restriction%20technology | Genetic use restriction technology (GURT), also known as terminator technology or suicide seeds, is the name given to proposed methods for restricting the use of genetically modified crops by activating (or deactivating) some genes only in response to certain stimuli, especially to cause second generation seeds to be i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed%20bandit | In probability theory and machine learning, the multi-armed bandit problem (sometimes called the K- or N-armed bandit problem) is a problem in which a fixed limited set of resources must be allocated between competing (alternative) choices in a way that maximizes their expected gain, when each choice's properties are o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vascularity | Vascularity, in bodybuilding, is the condition of having many highly visible, prominent, and often extensively-ramified superficial veins. The skin appears "thin"—sometimes virtually transparent—due to an extreme reduction of subcutaneous fat, allowing for maximum muscle definition.
Vascularity is enhanced by extremel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depletion-load%20NMOS%20logic | In integrated circuits, depletion-load NMOS is a form of digital logic family that uses only a single power supply voltage, unlike earlier NMOS (n-type metal-oxide semiconductor) logic families that needed more than one different power supply voltage. Although manufacturing these integrated circuits required additional... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantsman | A plantsman is an enthusiastic and knowledgeable gardener (amateur or professional), nurseryman or nurserywoman. "Plantsman" can refer to a male or female person, though the terms plantswoman, or even plantsperson, are sometimes used. The word is sometimes said to be synonymous with "botanist" or "horticulturist", but ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order%20programming | Higher-order programming is a style of computer programming that uses software components, like functions, modules or objects, as values. It is usually instantiated with, or borrowed from, models of computation such as lambda calculus which make heavy use of higher-order functions. A programming language can be conside... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongly%20correlated%20material | Strongly correlated materials are a wide class of compounds that include insulators and electronic materials, and show unusual (often technologically useful) electronic and magnetic properties, such as metal-insulator transitions, heavy fermion behavior, half-metallicity, and spin-charge separation. The essential featu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now%20TV%20%28Hong%20Kong%29 | Now TV (also stylised as now TV) is a pay-TV service provider in Hong Kong operated by PCCW Media Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of PCCW. Launched on 26 September 2003, its TV signal is transmitted with IPTV technology through HKT's fixed broadband network.
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provides 197 TV channels including 176 channel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demersal%20fish | Demersal fish, also known as groundfish, live and feed on or near the bottom of seas or lakes (the demersal zone). They occupy the sea floors and lake beds, which usually consist of mud, sand, gravel or rocks. In coastal waters they are found on or near the continental shelf, and in deep waters they are found on or nea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline%20video%20inspection | Pipeline video inspection is a form of telepresence used to visually inspect the interiors of pipelines, plumbing systems, and storm drains. A common application is for a plumber to determine the condition of small diameter sewer lines and household connection drain pipes.
Older sewer lines of small diameter, typicall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%20antiprism | In geometry, the square antiprism is the second in an infinite family of antiprisms formed by an even-numbered sequence of triangle sides closed by two polygon caps. It is also known as an anticube.
If all its faces are regular, it is a semiregular polyhedron or uniform polyhedron.
A nonuniform D4-symmetric variant i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrodynamic%20tether | Electrodynamic tethers (EDTs) are long conducting wires, such as one deployed from a tether satellite, which can operate on electromagnetic principles as generators, by converting their kinetic energy to electrical energy, or as motors, converting electrical energy to kinetic energy. Electric potential is generated acr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20oscillation | Neural oscillations, or brainwaves, are rhythmic or repetitive patterns of neural activity in the central nervous system. Neural tissue can generate oscillatory activity in many ways, driven either by mechanisms within individual neurons or by interactions between neurons. In individual neurons, oscillations can appea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%20description | In surveying and property law, a land description or legal description is a written statement that delineates the boundaries of a piece of real property. In the written transfer of real property, it is universally required that the instrument of conveyance (deed) include a written description of the property.
Legal la... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling%20curve | A cooling curve is a line graph that represents the change of phase of matter, typically from a gas to a solid or a liquid to a solid. The independent variable (X-axis) is time and the dependent variable (Y-axis) is temperature. Below is an example of a cooling curve used in castings.
The initial point of the graph is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa%20Gross%20Horwitz%20Prize | The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry is an annual prize awarded by Columbia University to a researcher or group of researchers who have made an outstanding contribution in basic research in the fields of biology or biochemistry.
The prize was established at the bequest of S. Gross Horwitz and is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linklog | A linklog is a type of blog which is meant to act as a linked list. Common practice is for the post titles to link directly to an external URLs, and the content of the post includes information to complement the associated URL.
Linklogs existed as a feature of computing systems before the internet as well. In distri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry%20%26%20Topology | Geometry & Topology is a peer-refereed, international mathematics research journal devoted to geometry and topology, and their applications. It is currently based at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, and published by Mathematical Sciences Publishers, a nonprofit academic publishing organisation.
It was foun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envelope%20%28motion%29 | In mechanical engineering, an envelope is a solid representing all positions which may be occupied by an object during its normal range of motion.
Another (jargon) word for this is a "flop".
Wheel envelope
In automobile design, a wheel envelope may be used to model all positions a wheel and tire combo may be expected... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20rare%20species%20in%20the%20British%20National%20Vegetation%20Classification | The following is a list of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens which were regarded as rare species by the authors of British Plant Communities, together with the communities in which they occur.
Vascular plants
Man orchid (Aceras anthropophorum) CG2, CG3, CG5
Baneberry (Actaea spicata) W9
Bristle bent (Agrosti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trembling%20hand%20perfect%20equilibrium | In game theory, trembling hand perfect equilibrium is a type of refinement of a Nash equilibrium that was first proposed by Reinhard Selten. A trembling hand perfect equilibrium is an equilibrium that takes the possibility of off-the-equilibrium play into account by assuming that the players, through a "slip of the han... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Practice%20of%20Programming | The Practice of Programming () by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike is a 1999 book about computer programming and software engineering, published by Addison-Wesley.
According to the preface, the book is about "topics like testing, debugging, portability, performance, design alternatives, and style", which, according to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagonal%20tiling | In geometry, the hexagonal tiling or hexagonal tessellation is a regular tiling of the Euclidean plane, in which exactly three hexagons meet at each vertex. It has Schläfli symbol of or (as a truncated triangular tiling).
English mathematician John Conway called it a hextille.
The internal angle of the hexagon is 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%20tiling | In geometry, the square tiling, square tessellation or square grid is a regular tiling of the Euclidean plane. It has Schläfli symbol of meaning it has 4 squares around every vertex. Conway called it a quadrille.
The internal angle of the square is 90 degrees so four squares at a point make a full 360 degrees. It is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular%20tiling | In geometry, the triangular tiling or triangular tessellation is one of the three regular tilings of the Euclidean plane, and is the only such tiling where the constituent shapes are not parallelogons. Because the internal angle of the equilateral triangle is 60 degrees, six triangles at a point occupy a full 360 degre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20constant%20species%20in%20the%20British%20National%20Vegetation%20Classification | The following is a list of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens which are constant species in one or more community of the British National Vegetation Classification system.
Vascular plants
Grasses
Sedges and rushes
Trees
Other dicotyledons
Other monocotyledons
Ferns
Clubmosses
Bryophytes
Mosses
Liverwort... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated%20hexagonal%20tiling | In geometry, the truncated hexagonal tiling is a semiregular tiling of the Euclidean plane. There are 2 dodecagons (12-sides) and one triangle on each vertex.
As the name implies this tiling is constructed by a truncation operation applies to a hexagonal tiling, leaving dodecagons in place of the original hexagons, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated%20trihexagonal%20tiling | In geometry, the truncated trihexagonal tiling is one of eight semiregular tilings of the Euclidean plane. There are one square, one hexagon, and one dodecagon on each vertex. It has Schläfli symbol of tr{3,6}.
Names
Uniform colorings
There is only one uniform coloring of a truncated trihexagonal tiling, with faces... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated%20square%20tiling | In geometry, the truncated square tiling is a semiregular tiling by regular polygons of the Euclidean plane with one square and two octagons on each vertex. This is the only edge-to-edge tiling by regular convex polygons which contains an octagon. It has Schläfli symbol of t{4,4}.
Conway calls it a truncated quadrille... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique%20reflection | In Euclidean geometry, oblique reflections generalize ordinary reflections by not requiring that reflection be done using perpendiculars. If two points are oblique reflections of each other, they will still stay so under affine transformations.
Consider a plane P in the three-dimensional Euclidean space. The usual re... |
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