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Acceptance testing
In engineering and its various subdisciplines, acceptance testing is a test conducted to determine if the requirements of a specification or contract are met. It may involve chemical tests, physical tests, or performance tests.
In systems engineering it may involve black-box testing performed on a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3233 |
Ansbach
Ansbach (; ) is a city in the German state of Bavaria. It is the capital of the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Ansbach is southwest of Nuremberg and north of Munich, on the Fränkische Rezat (Rezat River), a tributary of the Main river. In 2004, its population was 40,723.
Developed in the 8th centu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3236 |
National Alliance (Italy)
National Alliance (, AN) was a conservative political party in Italy.
AN was the successor of the post-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI), which had moderated its policies over its last decades and finally distanced itself from its former ideology during a convention in Fiuggi by dissolvi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3237 |
Arno
The Arno is a river in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is the most important river of central Italy after the Tiber.
The river originates on Monte Falterona in the Casentino area of the Apennines, and initially takes a southward curve. The river turns to the west near Arezzo passing through Florence, Empoli and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3240 |
Aveiro, Portugal
Aveiro ( or ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. In 2011, the population was 78,450, in an area of : it is the second most populous city in the Centro Region of Portugal (after Coimbra). Along with the neighbouring city of Ílhavo, Aveiro is part of an urban agglomeration that includes 120,000 i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3244 |
Anthony the Great
Anthony or Antony the Great ( "Antṓnios"; ; ; c. 12 January 251 – 17 January 356), was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. He is distinguished from other saints named Anthony such as , by various epithets of his own: , , and For his importance among the Desert Fathers and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3246 |
Amblypoda
Amblypoda is a taxonomic hypothesis uniting a group of extinct, herbivorous mammals. They were considered a suborder of the primitive ungulate mammals and have since been shown to represent a polyphyletic group.
The Amblypoda take their name from their short and stumpy feet, which were furnished with five t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3250 |
Amblygonite
Amblygonite () is a fluorophosphate mineral, (Li,Na)AlPO4(F,OH), composed of lithium, sodium, aluminium, phosphate, fluoride and hydroxide. The mineral occurs in pegmatite deposits and is easily mistaken for albite and other feldspars. Its density, cleavage and flame test for lithium are diagnostic. Amblyg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3251 |
Amygdalin
Amygdalin (from Ancient Greek: "" "almond") is a naturally occurring chemical compound best known for being falsely promoted as a cancer cure. It is found in many plants, but most notably in the seeds (kernels) of apricots, bitter almonds, apples, peaches, and plums.
Amygdalin is classified as a cyanogenic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3252 |
Apostles' Creed
The Apostles' Creed (Latin: "Symbolum Apostolorum" or "Symbolum Apostolicum"), sometimes titled the Apostolic Creed or the Symbol of the Apostles, is an early statement of Christian belief—a creed or "symbol". It is widely used by a number of Christian denominations for both liturgical and catechetical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3255 |
Amicable numbers
Amicable numbers are two different numbers so related that the sum of the proper divisors of each is equal to the other number.
The smallest pair of amicable numbers is (220, 284). They are amicable because the proper divisors of 220 are 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 20, 22, 44, 55 and 110, of which the sum i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3259 |
Agar
Agar ( or ), or agar-agar, is a jelly-like substance, obtained from red algae.
Agar is a mixture of two components: the linear polysaccharide agarose, and a heterogeneous mixture of smaller molecules called agaropectin. It forms the supporting structure in the cell walls of certain species of algae, and is relea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3262 |
Acid rain
Acid rain is a rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it has elevated levels of hydrogen ions (low pH). It can have harmful effects on plants, aquatic animals, and infrastructure. Acid rain is caused by emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, which react with t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3263 |
Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American folk singer-songwriter. He is known for singing songs of protest against social injustice, and storytelling while performing songs, following the tradition of his father Woody Guthrie. Guthrie's best-known work is his debut piece, "Alice's Restaurant M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3273 |
Antioxidant
Antioxidants are compounds that inhibit oxidation. Oxidation is a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals, thereby leading to chain reactions that may damage the cells of organisms. Antioxidants such as thiols or ascorbic acid (vitamin C) terminate these chain reactions. To balance the oxidative s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3277 |
Brass
Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, in proportions which can be varied to achieve varying mechanical and electrical properties. It is a substitutional alloy: atoms of the two constituents may replace each other within the same crystal structure.
Brass is similar to bronze, another alloy containing copper, wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3292 |
Bonn
The Federal city of Bonn ( ) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region, Germany's largest metropolitan area, with over 11 million inhabitants. It ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3295 |
Ballroom dance
Ballroom dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world. Because of its performance and entertainment aspects, ballroom dance is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television.
"Ballroom dance" may refer, at its widest definition, to almost any ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3332 |
The Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nation (originally called The Clansman) is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from the 1905 novel and play "", by Thomas Dixon Jr. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay with Frank E. Woods and produced t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3333 |
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is a mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, northeast Germany, Poland, Russia and the North and Central European Plain.
The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 10°E to 30°E longitude. A marginal sea of the Atla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3335 |
Brackish water
Brackish water is water having more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing seawater with fresh water together, as in estuaries, or it may occur in brackish fossil aquifers. The word comes from the Middle Dutch root "brak". Certain human activities can produce br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3336 |
BearShare
BearShare was a peer-to-peer file sharing application originally created by Free Peers, Inc. for Microsoft Windows and also a rebranded version of iMesh by MusicLab, LLC, tightly integrated with their music subscription service.
The principal operators of Free Peers, Inc. were Vincent Falco and Louis Tatta.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3340 |
Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which was originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1870s by African-Americans from roots in African musical traditions, African-American work songs, and spirituals. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed sim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3352 |
Berlin
Berlin (; ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3,769,495 (2019) inhabitants make it the most populous city proper of the European Union. The city is one of Germany's 16 federal states. It is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, and contiguous with Potsdam, Brandenburg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3354 |
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Benjamin Lee Whorf (; April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer. Whorf is widely known as an advocate for the idea that differences between the structures of different languages shape how their speakers perceive and conceptualize the world. This principle ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3355 |
Colin Powell
Colin Luther Powell (; born April 5, 1937) is an American politician and retired four-star general in the United States Army. During his military career, Powell also served as National Security Advisor (1987–1989), as Commander of the U.S. Army Forces Command (1989) and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6984 |
Chlorophyll
Chlorophyll (also chlorophyl) is any of several related green pigments found in the mesosomes of cyanobacteria, as well as in the chloroplasts of algae and plants. Its name is derived from the Greek words , ("pale green") and , ("leaf"). Chlorophyll is essential in photosynthesis, allowing plants to absorb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6985 |
Carotene
The term carotene (also carotin, from the Latin "carota", "carrot") is used for many related unsaturated hydrocarbon substances having the formula C40Hx, which are synthesized by plants but in general cannot be made by animals (with the exception of some aphids and spider mites which acquired the synthesizing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6986 |
Cyclic adenosine monophosphate
Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP, cyclic AMP, or 3',5'-cyclic adenosine monophosphate) is a second messenger important in many biological processes. cAMP is a derivative of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and used for intracellular signal transduction in many different organisms, convey... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6988 |
Corporatocracy
Corporatocracy (, from corporate and ; short form corpocracy) is a recent term used to refer to an economic and political system controlled by corporations or corporate interests. It is a form of Plutocracy.
The concept has been used in explanations of bank bailouts, excessive pay for CEOs as well as c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6997 |
Culture of Canada
The culture of Canada embodies the artistic, culinary, literary, humour, musical, political and social elements that are representative of Canada and Canadians. Throughout Canada's history, its culture has been influenced by European culture and traditions, especially British and French, and by its o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6999 |
List of companies of Canada
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America.
Canada is the world's tenth-largest economy , with a nominal GDP of approximately US$1.52 trillion. It is a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Group of Seven (G7), and is one of the w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7000 |
Cauchy distribution
The Cauchy distribution, named after Augustin Cauchy, is a continuous probability distribution. It is also known, especially among physicists, as the Lorentz distribution (after Hendrik Lorentz), Cauchy–Lorentz distribution, Lorentz(ian) function, or Breit–Wigner distribution. The Cauchy distributi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7003 |
Control engineering
Control engineering or control systems engineering is an engineering discipline that applies control theory to design systems with desired behaviors in control environments. The discipline of controls overlaps and is usually taught along with electrical engineering and mechanical engineering at man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7011 |
Chagas disease
Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical parasitic disease caused by "Trypanosoma cruzi". It is spread mostly by insects known as "Triatominae", or "kissing bugs". The symptoms change over the course of the infection. In the early stage, symptoms are typically either not pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7012 |
Christiaan Barnard
Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation and the first one in which the patient regained consciousness. On 3 December 1967, Barnard transplanted the heart of acciden... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7015 |
Concubinage
Concubinage ( ) is an interpersonal and sexual relationship between a man and a woman in which the couple are not or cannot be married. The inability to marry may be due to multiple factors such as differences in social rank status, an existing marriage, religious or professional prohibitions, or a lack of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7016 |
Central Plaza (Hong Kong)
Central Plaza is a 78-storey, skyscraper completed in August 1992 at 18 Harbour Road, in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. It is the third tallest tower in the city after 2 International Finance Centre in Central and the ICC in West Kowloon. It was the tallest building in Asia from 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7017 |
Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio (, , ; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily until his death. His paintings combine a real... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7018 |
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (; November 2, 1699 – December 6, 1779) was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7019 |
Crookes radiometer
The Crookes radiometer (also known as a light mill) consists of an airtight glass bulb containing a partial vacuum, with a set of vanes which are mounted on a spindle inside. The vanes rotate when exposed to light, with faster rotation for more intense light, providing a quantitative measurement of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7021 |
Cold Chisel
Cold Chisel are an Australian pub rock band, which formed in Adelaide in 1973 by mainstay members Ian Moss on guitar and vocals, Steve Prestwich on drums and Don Walker on piano and keyboards. They were soon joined by Jimmy Barnes on lead vocals and, in 1975, Phil Small became their bass guitarist. The gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7022 |
Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S. or CS) or the Confederacy, was an unrecognized republic that fought against the United States during the American Civil War.
Existing from 1861 to 1865, the Confederacy was originally formed by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7023 |
Cranberry
Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the subgenus Oxycoccus of the genus "Vaccinium". In Britain, cranberry may refer to the native species "Vaccinium oxycoccos", while in North America, cranberry may refer to "Vaccinium macrocarpon". "Vaccinium oxycoccos" is cultivated in c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7025 |
Code coverage
In computer science, test coverage is a measure used to describe the degree to which the source code of a program is executed when a particular test suite runs. A program with high test coverage, measured as a percentage, has had more of its source code executed during testing, which suggests it has a lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7030 |
Caitlin Clarke
Caitlin Clarke (May 3, 1952 – September 9, 2004) was an American theater and film actress best known for her role as Valerian in the 1981 fantasy film "Dragonslayer" and for her role as Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998–1999 Broadway musical "Titanic".
Clarke was born Katherine Anne Clarke in Pittsburgh, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7033 |
Cruiser
A cruiser is a type of warship. Modern cruisers are generally the largest ships in a fleet after aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, and can usually perform several roles.
The term has been in use for several hundred years, and has had different meanings throughout this period. During the Age of S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7034 |
Chlamydia
Chlamydia, or more specifically a chlamydia infection, is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium "Chlamydia trachomatis". Most people who are infected have no symptoms. When symptoms do appear in can be several weeks after infection. Symptoms in women may include vaginal discharge or burnin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7037 |
Candidiasis
Candidiasis is a fungal infection due to any type of "Candida" (a type of yeast). When it affects the mouth, in some countries it is commonly called thrush. Signs and symptoms include white patches on the tongue or other areas of the mouth and throat. Other symptoms may include soreness and problems swallo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7038 |
Control theory
Control theory deals with the control of continuously operating dynamical systems in engineered processes and machines. The objective is to develop a control model for controlling such systems using a control action in an optimum manner without "delay or overshoot" and ensuring control stability. Contro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7039 |
Chemical formula
The connectivity of a molecule often has a strong influence on its physical and chemical properties and behavior. Two molecules composed of the same numbers of the same types of atoms (i.e. a pair of isomers) might have completely different chemical and/or physical properties if the atoms are connecte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7043 |
Beetle
Beetles are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of descri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7044 |
Concorde
The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde () is a British–French turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner that was operated until 2003. It had a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound, at Mach 2.04 ( at cruise altitude), with seating for 92 to 128 passengers. First flown in 1969, Concorde entered service in 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7045 |
Cannon
A cannon is a type of gun classified as artillery that launches a projectile using propellant. In the past, gunpowder was the primary propellant before the invention of smokeless powder during the late 19th century. Cannon vary in caliber, range, mobility, rate of fire, angle of fire, and firepower; different f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7053 |
Computer mouse
A computer mouse (plural mice or mouses) is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface. This motion is typically translated into the motion of a pointer on a display, which allows a smooth control of the graphical user interface of a computer.
The first public... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7056 |
Civil defense
Civil defence (civil defense in US English) or civil protection is an effort to protect the citizens of a state (generally non-combatants) from military attacks and natural disasters. It uses the principles of emergency operations: prevention, mitigation, preparation, response, or emergency evacuation an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7059 |
Community emergency response team
In the United States, community emergency response team (CERT) can refer to
Sometimes programs and organizations take different names, such as Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT), or Neighborhood Emergency Team (NET).
The concept of civilian auxiliaries is similar to civil d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7061 |
Catapult
A catapult is a ballistic device used to launch a projectile a great distance without the aid of gunpowder or other propellants – particularly various types of ancient and medieval siege engines. A catapult uses the sudden release of stored potential energy to propel its payload. Most convert tension or torsi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7063 |
Cinquain
Cinquain is a class of poetic forms that employ a 5-line pattern. Earlier used to describe any five-line form, it now refers to one of several forms that are defined by specific rules and guidelines.
The modern form, known as American Cinquain inspired by Japanese haiku and tanka, is akin in spirit to that o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7066 |
Dice
Dice (singular die or dice) are small, throwable objects with marked sides that can rest in multiple positions. They are used for generating random numbers, commonly as part of tabletop games, including dice games, board games, role-playing games, and games of chance.
A traditional die is a cube with each of its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8244 |
Dumpster diving
Dumpster diving (also totting, skipping, skip diving or skip salvage,) is salvaging from large commercial, residential, industrial and construction containers for unused items discarded by their owners, but deemed useful to the picker. It is not confined to dumpsters and skips specifically, and may cov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8246 |
Digital synthesizer
A digital synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to make musical sounds. This in contrast to older analog synthesizers, which produce music using analog electronics, and samplers, which play back digital recordings of acoustic, electric, or electronic inst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8247 |
Definition of music
A definition of music endeavors to give an accurate and concise explanation of music's basic attributes or essential nature and it involves a process of defining what is meant by the term "music". Many authorities have suggested definitions, but defining music turns out to be more difficult than mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8249 |
Dayton, Ohio
Dayton () is the sixth-largest city in the state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County. A small part of the city extends into Greene County. The 2019 U.S. census estimate put the city population at 140,407, while Greater Dayton was estimated to be at 803,416 residents. This makes Dayton the fou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8253 |
Diode
A diode is a two-terminal electronic component that conducts current primarily in one direction (asymmetric conductance); it has low (ideally zero) resistance in one direction, and high (ideally infinite) resistance in the other. A diode vacuum tube or thermionic diode is a vacuum tube with two electrodes, a hea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8254 |
Drexel University
Drexel University is a private research university with its main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a financier and philanthropist. Founded as Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry, it was renamed Drexel Institute of Technology in 1936, before ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8256 |
Daedalus
In Greek mythology, Daedalus (; ; ; Etruscan: "Taitale") was a skillful architect, craftsman and artist, and was seen as a symbol of wisdom, knowledge, and power. He is the father of Icarus, the uncle of Perdix, and possibly also the father of Iapyx, although this is unclear. He invented and built the Labyrin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8258 |
Deception Pass
Deception Pass is a strait separating Whidbey Island from Fidalgo Island, in the northwest part of the U.S. state of Washington. It connects Skagit Bay, part of Puget Sound, with the Strait of Juan de Fuca. A pair of bridges known collectively as Deception Pass Bridge cross Deception Pass. The bridges w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8259 |
Dominoes
Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with rectangular "domino" tiles. Each domino is a rectangular tile with a line dividing its face into two square "ends". Each end is marked with a number of spots (also called "pips", "nips", or "dobs") or is blank. The backs of the dominoes in a set are indisti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8262 |
Dissociation constant
In chemistry, biochemistry, and pharmacology, a dissociation constant (formula_1) is a specific type of equilibrium constant that measures the propensity of a larger object to separate (dissociate) reversibly into smaller components, as when a complex falls apart into its component molecules, or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8263 |
Dimensional analysis
In engineering and science, dimensional analysis is the analysis of the relationships between different physical quantities by identifying their base quantities (such as length, mass, time, and electric charge) and units of measure (such as miles vs. kilometres, or pounds vs. kilograms) and tracki... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8267 |
Digital television
Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television audiovisual signals using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier analog television technology which used analog signals. At the time of its development it was considered an innovative advancement and represented the first significant e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8271 |
Declaration of Arbroath
The Declaration of Arbroath (; ; ) is the name usually given to a letter, dated 6 April 1320 at Arbroath, written by Scottish barons and addressed to Pope John XXII. It constituted King Robert I's response to his excommunication for disobeying the pope's demand in 1317 for a truce in the First ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8274 |
Digital data
Digital data, in information theory and information systems, is the discrete, discontinuous representation of information or works. Numbers and letters are commonly used representations.
Digital data can be contrasted with analog signals which behave in a continuous manner, and with continuous functions ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8276 |
Demon
A demon is a supernatural being, typically associated with evil, prevalent historically in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology, and folklore; as well as in media such as comics, video games, movies and television series.
The original Greek word "daimon" does not carry negative connotations. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8280 |
Domino effect
A domino effect or chain reaction is the cumulative effect produced when one event sets off a chain of similar events. The term is best known as a mechanical effect and is used as an analogy to a falling row of dominoes. It typically refers to a linked sequence of events where the time between successive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8286 |
Diffusion pump
Diffusion pumps use a high speed jet of vapor to direct gas molecules in the pump throat down into the bottom of the pump and out the exhaust. They were the first type of high vacuum pumps operating in the regime of free molecular flow, where the movement of the gas molecules can be better understood as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8293 |
Doris Day
Doris Day (born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better Al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8300 |
Distillation
Distillation is the process of separating the components or substances from a liquid mixture by using selective boiling and condensation. Distillation may result in essentially complete separation (nearly pure components), or it may be a partial separation that increases the concentration of selected comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8301 |
David Hilbert
David Hilbert (; ; 23 January 1862 – 14 February 1943) was a German mathematician and one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory, the calculus ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8302 |
Down syndrome
Down syndrome or Down's syndrome, also known as trisomy 21, is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21. It is usually associated with physical growth delays, mild to moderate intellectual disability, and characteristic facial features. The average IQ of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8303 |
Dyslexia
Dyslexia, also known as reading disorder, is characterized by trouble with reading despite normal intelligence. Different people are affected to varying degrees. Problems may include difficulties in spelling words, reading quickly, writing words, "sounding out" words in the head, pronouncing words when readin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8305 |
Delft
Delft () is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam, to the southeast, and The Hague, to the northwest. Together with them, it is part of both Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area and the Randstad.
Delft is a popular tourist destination in the coun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8308 |
Duesberg hypothesis
The Duesberg hypothesis is the claim, associated with University of California, Berkeley professor Peter Duesberg, that various noninfectious factors such as but not limited to, recreational and pharmaceutical drug use are the cause of AIDS, and that HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is merely a h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8309 |
DSL (disambiguation)
DSL or digital subscriber line is a family of technologies that provide digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network.
DSL may also refer to: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8310 |
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago, although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is the subject of active research. They became the dominant terrestrial vertebrates af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8311 |
Diamagnetism
Diamagnetic materials are repelled by a magnetic field; an applied magnetic field creates an induced magnetic field in them in the opposite direction, causing a repulsive force. In contrast, paramagnetic and ferromagnetic materials are attracted by a magnetic field. Diamagnetism is a quantum mechanical ef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8315 |
Duke of Marlborough (title)
Duke of Marlborough (pronounced ) is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created by Queen Anne in 1702 for John Churchill, 1st Earl of Marlborough (1650–1722), the noted military leader. In historical texts, it is often to him that an unqualified use of the title refers. The name of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8317 |
Difference engine
A difference engine, first created by Charles Babbage, is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. Its name is derived from the method of divided differences, a way to interpolate or tabulate functions by using a small set of polynomial coefficients. Most mathemat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8324 |
Divergence
In vector calculus, divergence is a vector operator that operates on a vector field, producing a scalar field giving the quantity of the vector field's source at each point. More technically, the divergence represents the volume density of the outward flux of a vector field from an infinitesimal volume arou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8328 |
Decision problem
In computability theory and computational complexity theory, a decision problem is a problem that can be posed as a yes-no question of the input values. An example of a decision problem is deciding whether a given natural number is prime. Another is the problem "given two numbers "x" and "y", does "x"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8336 |
Domain Name System
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and decentralized naming system for computers, services, or other resources connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities. Most prominently, it translat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8339 |
David Letterman
David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He hosted late night television talk shows for 33 years, beginning with the February 1, 1982, debut of "Late Night with David Letterman" on NBC, and ending with the May 20, 2015, broadcast of "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8340 |
Delroy Lindo
Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is an English actor and theatre director. He has been nominated for Tony and Screen Actors Guild awards and has won a Satellite Award.
Lindo has played prominent roles in four Spike Lee films: West Indian Archie in "Malcolm X" (1992), Woody Carmichael in "Croo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8341 |
David Janssen
David Janssen (born David Harold Meyer, March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Richard Kimble in the television series "The Fugitive" (1963–1967). Janssen also had the title roles in three other series: "Richard Diamond, Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8343 |
Greek drachma
The drachma ( , ; pl. "drachmae" or "drachmas") was the currency used in Greece during several periods in its history:
It was also a small unit of weight.
The name "drachma" is derived from the verb (, "(I) grasp"). It is believed that the same word with the meaning of "handful" or "handle" is found in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8347 |
Denarius
The denarius (, dēnāriī ) was the standard Roman silver coin from its introduction in the Second Punic War to the reign of Gordian III (AD 238–244), when it was gradually replaced by the Antoninianus. It continued to be minted in very small quantities, likely for ceremonial purposes, until and through the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8349 |
David Mamet
David Alan Mamet (; born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter and author. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1984) and "Speed-the-Plow" (1988). He first gained critical acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway 1970s play... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8351 |
Definable real number
Informally, a definable real number is a real number that can be uniquely specified by its description. The description may be expressed as a construction or as a formula of a formal language. For example, the positive square root of 2, formula_1, can be defined as the unique positive solution to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8361 |
Diego de Almagro
Diego de Almagro (; – July 8, 1538), also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo, was a Spanish conquistador known for his exploits in western South America. He participated with Francisco Pizarro in the Spanish conquest of Peru. While subduing the Inca Empire he laid the foundation for Quito and Trujil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8362 |
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