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Portsmouth Football Club | #REDIRECT Portsmouth_F.C. | simple-english |
Hiroshima | Hiroshima, World Heritage Sites in Japan | Hiroshima (広島) is the capital city of Hiroshima Prefecture. It is the largest city in the Chugoku region of western Japan. About a million people live in Hiroshima. The city is famously known as the city where the first atomic bomb was dropped (on a residential area) on the morning of 6 August 1945. About 140,000 peop... | simple-english |
Richter scale | Earthquakes, Measurement | The Richter scale is a scale of numbers used to tell the power (or magnitude) of earthquakes. Charles Richter developed the Richter Scale in 1935. His scale worked like a seismogram, measured by a particular type of seismometer at a distance of 100 kilometers (62 mi) from the earthquake. Earthquakes 4.5 or higher on th... | simple-english |
Day | Units of time, Basic English 850 words | A day is the time it takes the Earth to spin around once. It is daytime on the side of the Earth that is facing the Sun. When it is nighttime, that side of the Earth is facing away from the Sun. It takes 24 hours for the Earth to spin once, so that is one day, including the daytime and nighttime. This is mean solar tim... | simple-english |
Phases of the Moon | Moon, Observational astronomy | There are 8 phases of the moon The phases of the Moon are the different ways the Moon looks from Earth. As the Moon orbits around the Earth, the half of the Moon that faces the Sun will be lit up. The different shapes of the lit portion of the Moon that can be seen from Earth are known as phases of the Moon. Each phase... | simple-english |
Sphere | Three-dimensional shapes | A sphere is a round, three-dimensional shape. All points on the edge of the sphere are at the same distance from the center. The distance from the center is called the radius of the sphere. A real-world sphere is called a globe if it is large (such as the Earth), and as a ball if it is small, like an association footba... | simple-english |
Quantity | Numbers, Quantity | Quantity or amount is how much of something there is that can be counted or measured. Whole numbers (1, 2, 3 ...) are used to count things. This can be done by pointing to each one. As things are pointed to, a number is said. Start with the number one. Each time another thing is pointed to, the next whole number is... | simple-english |
Advertising | Advertising | Advertising is how a company encourages people to buy their products, use their services, or adopt their ideas and stuff. Advertising is one element of marketing, which also includes design, research, and data mining. An advertisement (or an "ad" for short) is usually designed by an advertising agency for a sponsor or ... | simple-english |
Buddha | Buddhas, Buddhist terminology | A Buddha is the holiest type of being in Buddhism, a teacher of gods and humans. The word Buddha means "enlightened one" in Sanskrit or Fully Awakened One in Pāli. It is also a title for Siddhartha Gautama. He was the man who started Buddhism. Sometimes people call him "the Buddha" or the "Shakyamuni Buddha". Other tim... | simple-english |
Flag of the United States | National flags, Flags of the United States, Symbols of the United States, Flags with cantons | The flag of the United States of America is a national flag. It has 7 red stripes and 6 white stripes. These 13 stripes represent the original thirteen colonies. The flag also has a blue canton, a rectangle in the top left corner. There are 50 stars which represent the 50 states of America. When a new state joins the U... | simple-english |
America (disambiguation) | America is, in English, usually a short name for the United States of America. The Americas (North and South America) is rarely but sometimes called "America". America or América may also mean: América, Buenos Aires, Argentina La América, Commune of Medellín, Colombia América, Tamaulipas, Mexico América II, Tamaulipas,... | simple-english |
Ecological Yield | #REDIRECT Ecological_yield | simple-english |
Mahatma Gandhi | 1869 births, 1948 deaths, Assassinated Indian politicians, Indian Hindus, Politicians from Gujarat, Indian revolutionaries, Nonviolence advocates, People murdered in India, National symbols of India, Vegetarians, Time People of the Year, Nationalism, Mahatma Gandhi, Presidents of the Indian National Co... | Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi (2 October 1869– 30 January 1948) was a leader of nationalism in British-ruled India. He is more commonly called Mahatma Gandhi. mahatma is an honorific meaning "great-soul" or "venerable" in Sanskrit. He was first called this in 1914 in Africa Gandhi on Mahabharata said he wished to live his ... | simple-english |
Schizophrenia | Schizophrenia | Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that is usually diagnosed by a psychiatrist and affects an individual's daily life. For some people, it is a lifelong mental disorder that causes them to behave, feel, or think differently than other people. Schizophrenia can cause psychotic symptoms like hallucinations or delusions. ... | simple-english |
Drink | Basic English 850 words, Drinks, Physiology, Human activities | A drink or beverage is a liquid that an organism can take into their body, by using their mouth. Typical drinks for humans include water, tea, milk, coffee, juice, soft drinks and alcoholic drinks. All drinks are mainly water. All living things need water to live. If we don't get enough water, we will dehydrate, and li... | simple-english |
Need | Philosophy, Psychology, Consumer | A need is a thing that, when a living being, plant or animal does not have it, it is not able to live. A thing that someone wants to have, but is able to live when they do not have it, is called a want. Every person has the same basic needs for the body. Humans have bodily needs of water, food, clothing, and shelter to... | simple-english |
Freeware | Software | Freeware is software that people may get without paying for it. In this case, "free" means "free of charge". In freeware, users might not be allowed to customize or share the software or source code with others. This leaves the author with more control than with free software. | simple-english |
Yahoo! | American search engines, Internet-related organizations | Yahoo! is a web portal and a provider of internet content and services. It offers many products and services, such as a search engine, e-mail, instant messaging, video, news, weather forecasting, money and other information. Yahoo! makes money from advertisements in their services. Yahoo started on October 8, 1997. Ear... | simple-english |
Mecca | Mecca | Mecca or Makkah (officially: Makkah al-Mukarramah; ) is a city in Saudi Arabia and the holiest city in Islam. As of the 2004 census, 1,294,169 people lived there. The city is inland from Jeddah, in the narrow sandy Valley of Abraham. It is above sea level. It is from the Red Sea. Makkah is the holiest city in the Is... | simple-english |
Arabian Peninsula | Peninsulas of Asia, Arabian Peninsula, Gondwana | The Arabian Peninsula is a peninsula in Southwesterm Asia at the junction of Africa and Asia. It is east of Ethiopia and northern Somalia, south of Iraq and Jordan, and southwest of Iran. The waters around it are, to its southwest, the Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba; to its southeast, the Arabian Sea; and to its northeast, ... | simple-english |
Muslim world | #REDIRECT Islamic world | simple-english |
South | Basic English 850 words, Compass directions | South is one of the 4 cardinal directions on a compass. South is normally down on the bottom of most maps. For example: Angola is to the south of Nigeria, which is itself to the south of Morocco . The South Pole is the farthest south you can go. | simple-english |
Central America | Central America | Central America (, or Centroamérica ) is the central geographic region of the continent known as the Americas. It goes from Mexico in the north-west, to Panama in the south-east. Central America has an area of . It is almost 0.1% of the Earth's surface. This is a list of the countries in Central America, from the larg... | simple-english |
French language | French language, Languages of France | French (French: , , ) is a Romance language that is from France. It is also spoken in Belgium (Wallonia), Luxembourg, Canada (Quebec), Switzerland (Romandy) and with many different countries in Africa (Francophone Africa). About 220 million people across the world speak French as a native or a second language. It has a... | simple-english |
Prime Minister | Prime ministers, Government occupations | A prime minister is a common title for someone manages the politics of a country and is the head of government. With countries that have kings and queens (known as monarchs), they are very important because they are in charge of most of the politics (they are "head of the government"). In countries with a president, th... | simple-english |
Greenland | Greenland, Arctic islands, Microstates | Greenland is the world's largest island. Greenland is a self-governing territory of the kingdom of Denmark. This large Arctic island is near two countries, Iceland to the east and Canada to the west. The island is geographically part of North America but the culture is more closely related to Denmark. It has a populati... | simple-english |
Soviet Union | Soviet Union, Former socialist republics, 1922 establishments, 1991 disestablishments in Europe, States and territories disestablished in the 1990s | The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), simply known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It was the first country to declare itself socialist and build towards a communist society. It was a union of 14 Soviet socialist republics and one Russian Sov... | simple-english |
Monarch | Monarchs, Noble titles | A monarch is the ruler of a country which is a monarchy. Monarchs usually get their power by inheritance from one of their parents. When a monarch dies, a child or the nearest relative takes over. A male monarch is usually called a king or emperor. A female monarch is usually called a queen or empress. There female kin... | simple-english |
Unit | Basic English 850 words | Unit means part of something: a ~ in an army/air force, a navy. Component, building block of constructions and molecules. It could mean a unit of measurement, ~ of currency (£$¥¤€). Units sometimes means the digit in a number on the right, which is also called the "ones". In exact sciences use is made of cgs/psi/cal an... | simple-english |
Uncle | Family | An uncle is a name used in an extended family. An uncle is either a brother of one of someone's parents or is the husband of a sibling of a parent. That person is the uncle's nephew (male) or niece (female). An uncle's child is a cousin. A granduncle (also written as great-uncle or grand-uncle) is the brother of a gran... | simple-english |
Shakespeare | #redirect William Shakespeare | simple-english |
Information | Theoretical computer science, Information, Abstraction | The word "information" is used in many different ways. Originally, it comes from a word that meant to give a form to something. Information is something that people can learn, know about, or understand. For example, a newspaper contains information about the world. This article contains information about "Information"... | simple-english |
Airport | Airports | An airport is a place where airplanes can land or take off. Most airports in the world have only a long strip of level ground called a runway. Many airports have buildings which are used to hold airplanes and passengers. A building that holds passengers waiting for their planes or luggage is called a terminal. The sect... | simple-english |
Ice | Basic English 850 words, Ice | Ice is the common name for frozen water. Other liquids, such as ammonia or methane or milk, are called 'milk ice', for instance, instead of just 'ice'. Liquid water becomes solid ice when it is very cold. The freezing point is 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit or 273 kelvin). Ice can be made in a home refrigerator or freezer... | simple-english |
Travel | Travel, Leisure | Travel is the activity of going from one place to another place. When a person makes the same trip every day to work or school, this type of traveling is usually called "commuting." Some people travel to other cities as part of their job. This is called "business travel." When many people travel to a distant place to ... | simple-english |
CNN | CNN, Companies based in Atlanta | The Cable News Network (CNN) is an American cable news television channel. It was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. The Cable News Network first aired on television on June 1, 1980. The Cable News Network's first newscast was anchored (hosted) by David Walker and his wife Lois Hart. In its first year CNN hired many politi... | simple-english |
Leader | Politics | A leader is somebody whom people follow. A leader has authority. For people to accept a leader, his or her leadership must therefore be legitimate. An example of a leader is the head of government of a country. People within the government follow the leader, and citizens look to the head of government for inspiration a... | simple-english |
Blackboard | Learning, Writing media | A blackboard, also called a chalkboard, is a surface on which chalk is visible. It is used as a surface to write on. It is usually made up of wood or fiber. It is painted black to reflect the white chalks. Blackboards are often used to help in teaching in school. Blackboards are not used as much now but can be seen in... | simple-english |
Linux | Linux, Free software | Linux or GNU/Linux is a Unix-like operating system (or family of) for computers. The Linux kernel (the basis of the operating system) is free software, meaning people can use it, see how it works, change it, or share it. There is a lot of software for Linux and—like Linux itself—a lot of the software for Linux is free ... | simple-english |
Open source | Software, Free content | Open source is a software similar to free software, but is more related to business. It is different from other software because the source code is available to everyone. The source code is a set of instructions for the computer, written in a programming language. Anyone can see how the source code works and can change... | simple-english |
Desktop environment | Software, Desktop Environments | In graphical user interfaces and consoles a desktop environment is a location on a personal computer that helps the user get around on the computer. The desktop itself is a place in the operating system used for short cuts to computer files and folders on the hard drive. Computer icons (small pictures) are used to rep... | simple-english |
OpenOffice.org | Office suites, OpenOffice.org | OpenOffice.org was a free open source office suite. The free software project was hosted by Sun Microsystems and then Oracle Corporation and it was based on the older StarOffice software that was created by Sun Microsystems. It was available for many different operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X... | simple-english |
Download | Computer networking | Download means to get information from another computer or server. The opposite of downloading is uploading, which is sending data to another computer. Usually, we do not say "download" for a single web page (for example, when you open this page on your computer). When we say we downloaded something, it is normally a b... | simple-english |
GNOME | GNOME, Linux, Desktop Environments | GNOME is a computer desktop environment. It was designed for Linux, but many other operating systems can use it too. GNOME aims to provide an easy way to use a computer. GNOME is a free software project. It was made because at the time, people were questioning whether KDE was free software. GNOME is part of the GNU p... | simple-english |
Dog | Dogs, Wolves | Dogs are mammals, usually to be kept as pets, or work on farms or for the police. Some dogs are trained to be rescue dogs and join teams such as mountain rescue. Dogs have been bred by humans from ancestral wolves. They were the first animals to live with humans. There was a lot of different types among wolves in the L... | simple-english |
Blindness | Disability, Vision | Blindness is to not see anything. Some people are called blind, even though they can see a little bit. This is because they cannot see clearly, but only see unfocused shapes or colors. In modern countries, few young people are blind. In all the world, blindness is mostly caused by malnutrition and diseases of old peopl... | simple-english |
Dutton Speedwords | #REDIRECT Dutton's Speedwords | simple-english |
Arctic | Arctic | The Arctic is the area around the Earth's North Pole. It includes parts of Russia, Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Lapland, and Svalbard. It is an ocean, mostly covered with ice. The word 'Arctic' comes from the Greek word αρκτος, meaning "bear". The North Pole aims at the stars called the Great Bear and the Littl... | simple-english |
Sin | Religious terminology, Religious ethics | A sin is a bad act. Particularly, it is a bad act against another person(s), an animal, a spirit, or a god. In Abrahamic religions, such as Christianity and Judaism, it is an act that goes against what God wants. It turns people away from God and true happiness. In Exodus chapter 20, Moses was given the Ten Commandment... | simple-english |
Summer | Seasons | Summer is one of the four seasons. It is the hottest season of the year. In some places, summer is the wettest season (with the most rain), and in other places, it is a dry season. Four seasons are found in areas which are not too hot or too cold. Summer happens to the north and south sides of the Earth at opposite tim... | simple-english |
Month | Basic English 850 words, Units of time, Months | A month is an amount of time used with calendars. It is about 1/12th of a year. It is a little longer than a natural synodic orbital period of the moon, ca. 29.5 days. Lunar calendars use the natural synodic month. For some purposes astronomers use the sidereal month of 27.3 days. Other calendars, called "solar calenda... | simple-english |
Alberta | Alberta, 1905 establishments in North America, 1900s establishments in Canada | Alberta is a province in western Canada. It is bounded by the provinces of British Columbia on the west, Saskatchewan on the east, the US states of Montana, Utah and Arizona. Alberta is the fourth-largest Canadian province, after Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia, with an area of . Alberta has over five million (5,... | simple-english |
Electronics | Electronics | Electronics is the study of electricity (the flow of electrons) and how to use that to build things like computers. It uses circuits that are made with parts called components and connecting wires to do useful things. The science behind electronics comes from the study of physics and gets applied in real-life ways thr... | simple-english |
Scalar | Measurement, Basic physics ideas | Scalars are simple numbers. They are used for measuring things. Many things can be measured, and the measure can be explained by only giving the number. Suppose we are measuring a rod. We could give the measured length as 2 metres or 3 cm—depending on the length of the rod under observation. Here, only the figure 2 or ... | simple-english |
Photon | Basic physics ideas, Electromagnetism, Light, Elementary particles | Photons (from Greek φως, meaning light), in many atomic models in physics, are particles which transmit light. In other words, light is carried over space by photons. Photon is an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle. In quantum mechanics each photon has a characteristic quantum of energy that depends on ... | simple-english |
Vector | Vectors, Basic physics ideas | A vector is a mathematical object that has a size, called the magnitude, and a direction. It is often represented by boldface letters (such as \mathbf{u}, \mathbf{v}, \mathbf{w}), or as a line segment from one point to another (as in \overrightarrow{AB}). For example, a vector would be used to show the distance and dir... | simple-english |
Soap bubble | Water | A soap bubble is a very thin film of soap water. Their shape is a hollow, round ball, or sphere. They have a colorful surface. Soap bubbles do not last very long. Sometimes they break in the air. When they touch something else, they usually break. When people talk about soap bubbles they think about them being pretty b... | simple-english |
Mathematical | #REDIRECT Mathematics | simple-english |
Fire Brigades Union | Organisations based in London, Firefighting, Trade unions in the United Kingdom | The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) is the main union for firefighters in the United Kingdom. A union is a group of workers. They make the group to improve pay and working conditions. It was founded in 1918 in the London area as the Firemans Trade Union. It soon grew to cover the entire country. Today, it has around 50... | simple-english |
Accelerate | #REDIRECT Acceleration | simple-english |
Bicycle | Human-powered vehicles, Cycling | alt=|thumb|Black and pink children bicycle in the park Riding bicycles, which is also called cycling, is an important way to travel in several parts of the world. The most popular type of cycling is Utility cycling. It is also a common kind of recreation, a good form of low-impact exercise, and a popular sport. Accord... | simple-english |
Wheel | Basic English 850 words, Tools | A wheel is a disc or circle-shaped mechanical device. Its main purpose is to allow things to roll; in other words, the wheel spins, and object on the wheels moves more easily along the ground. It is a simple machine. The principle behind the wheel is that of mechanical advantage. Many machines have wheels with teeth, ... | simple-english |
Physical exercise | Fitness | The word exercise means: Things to do to get some practical experience and skill in some activity. Repeatedly moving the human body to make it stronger or better at doing something. This is called physical exercise. Basic modes of physical exercises People do physical exercises as a part of their healthy lifestyle to g... | simple-english |
Percentage | Mathematics | Percent means out of one hundred. It is often shown with the symbol "%". It is used even if there are not a hundred items. The number is then scaled so it can be compared to one hundred. Percent is also used to indicate changes in numerical quantities. For example, we have a bowl of fruit with three apples and one ora... | simple-english |
Writing | Basic English 850 words, Writing, History of technology | Writing is the art/act of recording language on a visual medium using a set of symbols. The symbols must be known to others, so that the text may be read. A text may also use other visual systems, such as illustrations and decorations. These are not called writing, but may help the message work. Usually, all educated p... | simple-english |
Rock | Rock has several meanings: Rock (geology), a hard substance made of minerals, often found in or on the ground Rock and roll music, a form of popular music that started in the 20th century | simple-english |
Plato | 427 BC births, 340s BC deaths, Ancient Greek philosophers, Slavers | Plato ( ) was one of the most important philosophers of all time. Born to wealthy parents in Athens, Greece, Plato wrote his books in the form of conversations called dialogues. In a dialogue, two or more people talk about ideas and sometimes disagree over them. The Laws is Plato's longest dialogue and probably his las... | simple-english |
Book | Basic English 850 words, Books, History of printing | A book is now a set of printed sheets of paper held together between two covers. The sheets of paper in a book are called pages. The pages have words written in them and maybe illustrations drawn. The first books were not printed, but written by hand in ink. The book is a more flexible format than the earlier idea of t... | simple-english |
Sundial | Clocks | A sundial shows the current solar time during the day. It does this because the sun appears to move through the sky. At different times in the day when the sun is shining, a shadow is cast in different places on the dial. A person marks the dial with the time at a certain shadow. This lets users easily see the time. Th... | simple-english |
Penninsula | (common misspelling) | simple-english |
Peninsula | Peninsulas | A peninsula is a region of land that projects into a body of water. It is also defined as a piece of land with water on three sides. Many countries are on peninsulas, and may either take up part of a peninsula (such as Portugal) or all of it (such as India). Parts of a country may also be on a peninsula. For example... | simple-english |
Derivation | A derivative is something created from a primary source, which can mean different things. Derivative, or derivative security Derivative, a central idea of calculus Derivative works made from an existing work of art Derivative, a word that is made from a more basic word Derivative, a substance that has similar propertie... | simple-english |
Combinatorial game theory | Game theory | Combinatorial game theory, also known as CGT is a distinct branch of mathematics and theoretical computer science that studies combinatorial games, and is distinct from "traditional" or "economic" game theory. CGT arose in relation to the theory of impartial games, the two-player game of Nim in particular, with an emph... | simple-english |
Nim | Game theory, Solved games | Nim is a simple game used for examples in combinatorial game theory. The rules of nim are simple: The game begins with some piles of counters. Players alternate turns. On a turn, a player takes counters from a pile. At least one counter must be taken, but up to 3. All counters must be in the same pile. If a player cann... | simple-english |
CGT | #REDIRECT Combinatorial game theory | simple-english |
Mathematic | #REDIRECT mathematics | simple-english |
Windows operating system | #REDIRECT Microsoft Windows | simple-english |
Blue | Basic English 850 words | Blue is one of the colors of the rainbow that people can see. It is one of the primary colors (colors that can be mixed with other colors) of light, along with red and green. Apart from violet, it has the shortest wavelength of colors in the rainbow (about 470 nanometers). Blue paint can be made by mixing magenta and c... | simple-english |
Memory | Basic English 850 words, Human skills, Memory, Sources of knowledge | Memory is the personal record of past experiences. It is the brain's ability to store information to use later. Memory is studied in sciences known as "cognitive psychology". There are two types of memory: short-term and long-term memory, or known as working memory and reference memory. Short-term memory, the ability t... | simple-english |
Murder | Murders | Murder is where one person kills another person with aforethought. If a person does something reckless that makes someone else die, without the intention of killing, it is homicide and may be manslaughter. An accident caused by carelessness may be criminally negligent homicide. Sometimes, a death caused by someone else... | simple-english |
Bird | Basic English 850 words, Birds, Dinosaurs, Feathered dinosaurs, Archosaurs, Tetrapods, Vertebrates, Chordates | Wendee Lee known for all these voices legends of horror from justin adam bunnell bird Birds (Aves) are a group of animals with backbones. Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction, and are part of the theropod group of dinosaurs. The word for "bird-like" is avian, from Latin languag... | simple-english |
Freedom of speech | Human rights, Freedom, Libertarianism | Freedom of speech is the right to state one's opinions and ideas without being stopped or punished. Sometimes this is also called freedom of expression. Freedom of speech may include freedom of the press and freedom of information. It usually includes speaking in public; only rarely does it include speaking in the fami... | simple-english |
Vatican | #REDIRECT Vatican City | simple-english |
Banana | Bananas | A banana is the common name for a type of fruit and also the name for the herbaceous plants that grow it. These plants belong to the genus Musa. They are mostly found in the tropical region of Southeast Asia. They are considered to be berries. Historians think the first people to grow bananas for food lived in Papua Ne... | simple-english |
Biel/Bienne | Biel/Bienne, Switzerland | Biel/Bienne (official name; Biel is German, Bienne is French) is an industrial town in Switzerland. It is in the part of Switzerland named Bern and near the city also named Bern. The town is known for many companies that make watches and machines. The town of Biel, the capital of Swiss watch-making, lies at the end of ... | simple-english |
Biel Mean Time | #redirect Swatch Internet Time | simple-english |
Swatch Internet Time | time | Swatch Internet Time is a way to measure time invented in 1998 by the Swatch manufacturing firm in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. Time is shown as an "@" mark with three numerals. The day starts with @000 for midnight. Noon is @500. Just before midnight is @999. The thousand parts which make up a day are called "dot beats" ... | simple-english |
Test tube | Laboratory equipment | A test tube is a kind of laboratory glassware, composed of a fingerlike length of glass tubing, open at the top, and closed at the bottom. They range in size from a couple inches to several inches long, from a few millimeters to a couple centimeters in diameter. They are designed to allow easy heating of samples, to be... | simple-english |
Beaker | Laboratory equipment, Containers, Measuring tools | A beaker is a kind of laboratory glassware. A beaker is a cylinder with a lip and a spout (a bend in the rim of the beaker which makes it easier to pour liquids without spilling any). A beaker is usually about the same width as its height. This makes beakers very stable and easy to handle. They may be made of plastic, ... | simple-english |
Crucible | Laboratory equipment | In chemistry, a crucible is a kind of laboratory equipment that is usually a small cup, about the size of a shot glass, made of porcelain or non-reactive metal. Crucibles are used to heat chemical compounds to very high temperatures. Metals such as nickel and zirconium are also used as a modern crucible material. Metal... | simple-english |
Lithium | Alkali metals | Lithium (from Greek lithos 'stone') is a soft, silver-white metal with symbol Li. It is the third chemical element in the periodic table. This means that it has 3 protons in its nucleus and 3 electrons around it. Its atomic number is 3. Its mass number is 6.94. It has two common isotopes, 6Li and 7Li. 7Li is more ... | simple-english |
Beryllium | Beryllium | Beryllium is in group 2 of the periodic table, so it is an alkaline earth metal. It is grayish (slightly gray) in color. It has an atomic number of 4 and is symbolized by the letters Be. It is toxic and should not be handled without proper training. Beryllium has 4 electrons, 4 protons, and 5 neutrons. Beryllium has on... | simple-english |
Data compression | Data structures, Data compression | Data compression is a set of steps for packing data into a smaller space, while allowing for the original data to be seen again. Compression is a two-way process: a compression algorithm can be used to make a data package smaller, but it can also be run the other way, to decompress the package into its original form. ... | simple-english |
Compiler | Software, Computer programming | A compiler is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language into another programming language. The first language is called the source language, and the code is called source code. The second language is called the target and can usually be understood by computers. In that case, t... | simple-english |
Eye | Basic English 850 words, Eye | The eye is a round organ for sensing light so organisms can see. It is the first part of the visual system. About 97 percent of animal species have eyes. Image-resolving eyes are present in cnidaria, molluscs, vertebrates, annelids and arthropods. In mammals, two kinds of cells, rods and cones, allow sight by sending ... | simple-english |
Tongue-twister | Linguistics | A tongue-twister is a phrase that is hard to say. They often use alliteration and homophones. They are commonly employed to help warm up singers and actors Tongue-twisters can range from simple phrases for beginners to complex sequences that require advanced vocal control. They are popular in language learning, helping... | simple-english |
AbiWord | Free software, Word processors, GNOME, Cross-platform software | AbiWord is a free word processor that can be downloaded for free, it is open source and is much smaller in size than a proprietary alternative, Microsoft Word. It is available for FreeBSD, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and QNX. Its mascot is Abi the ant. It is much smaller than many other commercial word-processo... | simple-english |
Insect | Basic English 850 words, Insects, Animals, Entomology | Insects are a class in the phylum Arthropoda. They are small terrestrial invertebrates which have a hard exoskeleton. Insects are the largest group of animals on Earth by far: about 926,400 different species have been described. They are more than half of all known living species. They may be over 90% of animal species... | simple-english |
List of operating systems | Operating systems, Computer-related lists | This is a list of operating systems for computers. The first operating systems CTSS (The Compatible TimeShare System, made at MIT by Corbato and others) Incompatible Timesharing System (The Incompatible Timeshare System, made at MIT) Multics (project by Bell Labs, GE, and MIT) Master programme for Leo Computers, Leo II... | simple-english |
Computer jargon | Computer terminology | Computer jargon means words to do with computers and surrounding topics. Knowing what these words mean can help people know more about computers. Most people use these words to discuss computer ideas, but some people use these words to impress others (also known as buzzwords). Some examples of jargon are: Disk - a plac... | simple-english |
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