Glossary extracted starting with automatic seeds, with BOW for the domain mat and language EN
stress | The amount of force per unit area within a cross section (perpendicular to the direction of force) of a body on which a force acts. |
span-- | The colgroup element represents a group of one or more columns in the table that is its parent, if it has a parent and that is a table element. |
mie scattering | Scattering of light (without regard to wavelength) by larger particles, such as those of dust or fog in Earth's atmosphere (see also Rayleigh Scattering) |
convenience sampling | an easily accessible group of people is chosen, and everyone in that group is surveyed |
clustering | In cosmology, the observed tendency of galaxies to bunch together, rather than to distribute themselves uniformly and independently of each other |
file extension | Under Windows, a period and up to three characters at the end of a file name |
libraries | In computer terms, a library is a collection of subroutines provided by the operating system or development environment that can be used to perform certain common tasks; e.g |
late type stars | (a) Stars of spectral type later than the sun (G2) |
old stars | Stars that, according to contemporary stellar evolution theory, have an age comparable to that of the galaxy to which they belong |
baily's beads | Small "beads" of sunlight (the "diamond ring" effect) which shine through the valleys on the limb of the Moon in the instant before (or after) totality in a solar eclipse |
electromagnetic radiation | (a) "Waves" of electrical and magnetic "disturbance", radiated as visible light, radio waves, or any other manifestation of the electromagnetic spectrum |
cas a | A radio source in Cassiopeia, the strongest extrasolar source in the sky, perhaps 3 kpc distant, believed to be the remnant of a Type II supernova whose light reached Earth about 1667 |
geoid | (a) The equipotential surface ("mean sea level") of Earth's gravitational field |
span | The link element allows authors to link their document to other resources. |
client | A computer process that requests a service from another computer and accepts the server's responses. |
span-- | A DOCTYPE is a required preamble and must consist of the following characters, in this order: |
nist | National Institute of Standards and Technology Non-regulatory body of the US Department of Commerce for the promotion and development of measurement science, standards and technology |
two-person game | A game consisting of 2 players (decision makers) in game theory. |
dms | Defense Messaging Service. |
clockwise | The direction around a circle in which the hands on a clock usually move. |
principal | The amount of money on which interest payments calculations are based on. |
spam | Unsolicited commercial e-mail sent to many recipients, much like an electronic version of junk mail. |
conservative system | (a) A system in which total energy is conserved in time, and the evolution of the observable properties is indifferent with respect to the direction of time |
gross annual income | total income earned in a year |
atomic mass number | The total number of protons and neutrons in an atom's nucleus |
material implication | The sentence of "if p then q" that is equivalent to "(not p) and q", in that they share the same truth values as sentences. |
gravitational redshift | (a) Generic name for the shift in the frequency or wavelength of a signal that travels up or down in a gravitational field; effect is a redshift if signal travels upward, a blueshift if it travels downward |
coax cable | A type of cable, used in Ethernet networking, with a solid central conductor surrounded by an insulator, in turn surrounded by a cylindrical shield woven from fine wires |
terminal | Terminal Access Controller Access Control System [TACACS] |
encryption | The process of converting data into a cipher or code in order to prevent unauthorised use |
grid | a tesselation |
method of differences | Learn about the Method of Differences. |
direct current | Magnetic Field |
b star | Stars of spectral type B are blue-white stars with surface temperatures of about 11,00-28,000 K, whose spectra are characterized by absorption lines of neutral helium which reach their maximum intensity at B2 |
ip options attack | A method of gaining unauthorized network access by utilizing IP options. |
location | The property of a mathematical object relative to other objects through the concept of adjacency. |
one pound | 16 ounces |
peer-to-peer | Sometimes abbreviated as P2P, this is a method of distributing files over a network where all computers are treated as equals (in contrast to a client/server architecture) |
local minimum | The minimum point within a certain neighbourhood (and all smaller neighbourhoods). |
hysteresis | (a) The ability to follow two different branches of states, as a parameter built in the system varies first in a monotonic fashion and subsequently comes back to its initial value by varying in the opposite direction |
stars and bars | Learn about the combinatorial counting technique known as stars and bars. |
uv ceti stars | Late-type dwarfs (dKe-dMe) with spectra showing hydrogen emission lines |
manganese stars | Stars with an anomalously high mn-fe ratio, which show deviations from the odd-even effect for phosphorus, gallium, and yttrium |
long | When something is long, it is not short. |
gram | A unt of mass within the SI system of units |
mill rate | a rate at which property tax is calculated |
s/mime | Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. |
andromeda galaxy | (a) Major spiral galaxy, 2.2 million light-years from Earth |
blue giant | A giant star with spectral type O or B |
span | You can see from the zookeeper browser that the Solr configuration files were uploaded under "myconf", and that a new document collection called "collection1" was created |
parity | The state of a positive integers being odd or even |
masking | Master Derivation Key [MDK] |
black-hole thermodynamics | The theory that permits a temperature and an entropy to be defined for black holes |
area | the inside region of a two-dimensional figure measured in square units (e.g., a rectangle with sides of 4 units by 6 units contains 24 square units or has an area of 24 square units). |
eventuality | a contingency concerning a system which is either true or false if it is definite, but which (in view of a fundamental conceptual innovation of quantum mechanics) may he indefinite |
radiative transfer | The process by which radiation travels through a medium |
dynamics | The study of motion, its changes and its cause of changes (i.e |
channel stops | Narrow, heavily doped strips in a silicon CCD which act like walls to prevent sideways movement of charge in a pixel |
atmosphere | The gaseous outer layers of the Sun, including, from the deeper layers outward, the photosphere, the chromosphere, and the corona |
immersion | The disappearance of a celestial body due to eclipse or occultation |
eclipsing binary | (a) A binary star of which, from the viewpoint of Earth, one of the two bodies regularly passes in front of the other |
independent events | Two events A and B are independent if the probability that they happen at the same time is the product of the probabilities that each occurs individually; i.e., if P(A & B) = P(A)P(B) |
trustees | A common term for escrow agents. |
forbidden | Processes can be naively imagined that might occur, but should not occur according to the predictions of the Standard Model |
investment fund | An investment fund is a financial institution that combines all previous forms of investment in one unit |
property tax | money collected by the municipality to pay for services, such as water, road construction and maintenance, and garbage disposal |
coordinates | Quantities that provide references for locations in space and time |
chequing account | a bank account that allows you to access funds within the account by writing cheques |
month | The period of one complete synodic or sidereal revolution of the Moon around the Earth; also a calendrical unit that approximates the period of revolution |
tertiary | The third mirror to be encountered by the light in a telescope system |
file server | A dedicated network computer that stores data files so that other computers can share access to them |
critical density | The cosmic density of matter required to "close" the universe and so, eventually to halt cosmic expansion |
booking date | The booking date is the date on which the Bank processes a transaction. |
key expansion | A process that creates a larger key from the original key. |
mizar | A double star in Ursa Major |
stationary point | (Of a planet): The position at which the rate of change of the apparent right ascension (see Apparent Place) of a planet is momentarily zero |
brackets | Symbols [ and ] commonly used to represent the order of operations, along with parentheses and braces |
fibre optic | Refers to the medium and the technology associated with the transmissions of information as light impulses along a glass or plastic wire or fibre |
contour integral | An integral along a contour on the complex plane/argand diagram which may be parametrized. |
interior of an angle | the convex |
amplitude modulation | (AM) A type of modulation in which the amplitude of a carrier wave is modulated by an imposed signal, usually at audio frequency |
span | Now send a query to any of the servers to query the cluster: |
triangulation | Triangulation is a trigonometric method used to ccccc. |
set | The collection of objects considered as a whole |
data | factual information that is gathered and used for calculations, comparisons, and discussion |
field of view | The patch of sky or of any image scene which can be seen by an optical system or by one picture element (pixel) of a detector system |
megaparsec | A unit of distance equal to a million parsecs, or 3.2616 million light-years |
coordinate singularity | A location at which a particular coordinate system fails, such as the Schwarzschild metric coordinates at the Schwarzschild radius of a black hole |
ray tracing | Computer simulation of light ray paths through an optical system |
traveling salesman problem | A hard problem |
magnetic interactions | Electromagnetic Induction |
client/server | A network computing system in which individual computers (clients) use a central computer (server) for services such as file storage, printing, and communications |
span | Query all shards of a compatible collection, explicitly specified: |
shell | A UNIX term for a command interpreter and its environment |
schmidt camera | Telescopic camera incorporating an internal corrective lens or plate that compensates for optical defects and chromatic faults in the main mirror |
reconcile | to verify the transactions in a personal transaction record book with a bank statement |
vocoder | Voice Coder, or Speech Digitizer Method for converting (analogue) human voice signals into digital data, in such a way that it can be used for digital storage and/or transmission |
matrix | arrangement of pixels |
torus | a 3-D figure |
ansi | American National Standards Institute. |
prime numbers | 29 - 13 = 16 |
meaning | a version of a conditional |
direct measure | obtaining the measure of an object by using measuring devices, either standard devices of the customary or metric systems, or nonstandard devices such as a paper clip or pencil. |
array | A configuration or arrangement of objects which is considered systematic in some ways, including but not limited to a rectangular array, where matrices (and by extension, the matrix representation of vectors) are examples. |
lucky numbers | 1 + 15 = 16 |
denomination | A particular unit within a set of units of the same type |
coherent scattering | A scattering process that leaves atoms in the same energy state after the scattered photon departs in a direction different from that of the incident photon |
astronomical unit | (a) Mean distance between the Earth and the Sun: 149,598,500km |
cookie | A text file passed from the Web server to the Web client (a user's browser) that is used to identify a user and could record personal information such as ID and password, mailing address, credit card number, and more |
quantum properties of light | Wave Properties of Particles |
sigint | Signals Intelligence Intelligence-gathering by interception of signals |
clockwise | in orientation |
copernicanism | Broadly, the hypothesis that the earth and the other planets orbit the sun |
cd-rom | Compact Disk - Read Only Memory A computer data storage technology |
sub-exponential running time | The running time is less than exponential |
science | (a) Systematic study of Nature, based upon the presumption that the Universe is based upon rationally intelligible principles and that its behavior can therefore be predicted by subjecting observational data to logical analysis |
obelisk | An obelisk is a tall, four-sided tower topped with a pyramid. |
one cup | 16 tablespoons |
portfolio of assets | A portfolio comprises financial assets, primarily in the form of various securities held by an individual or company |
earnings per share | Profit after tax / Average number of ordinary shares |
swift | SWIFT is a confirmation of an executed transfer abroad |
litre | A metric (but not SI) unit of capacity that is defined to be one-thousandth (1/1000) of a cubic metre |
lunar | Of the Moon |
iteration | Repeating a set or rules or steps over and over |
password | A secret sequence of characters or a word that a user submits to a system for purposes of authentication, validation, or verification |
spiral galaxy | A galaxy with a prominent nuclear bulge and luminous spiral arms of gas, dust, and young stars that wind out from the nucleus |
span | Now we want to start up our second server - it will automatically be assigned to shard2 because we don't explicitly set the shard id. |
packet | A unit of information formatted according to specific protocols that allow precise transmittal of data from one node in a network to another |
helix nebula | A planetary nebula about 140 pc distant in Aquarius with the largest known angular diameter of any planetary |
span-- | The script element allows authors to include dynamic script and data blocks in their documents |
log | Logical Partition [LPAR] |
duplication of the cube | Ancient, classical mathematical problem belonging to the same category as trisecting an angle and squaring a circle - all of these are supposed to be solved by straight edge and compasses, and all of these have since been proven to be impossible. |
one-way function | A function that is easy to compute in one direction but quite difficult to reverse compute (compute in the opposite direction.) |
standards | Conditions and protocols set forth to allow uniformity within communications and virtually all computer activity. |
s-wave | Secondary Wave: A seismic shear wave that moves transversely through Earth |
model | A system of interlinked mathematical concept meant to represent (accurately or as an approximation) of another system. |
stephan's quintet | A highly disturbed cluster of five peculiar galaxies (NGC 7317, NGC 7318A, NGC 7318B, NGC 7319, NGC 7320) in Pegasus which seem to exhibit gaseous connecting bridges |
spectroscopy | (a) Study of spectra; in astronomy, the investigation of the composition of celestial bodies using information derived from spectral lines |
galaxy | (a) Vast system of celestial objects, typically consisting of between 106 and 1012 stars, plus interstellar gas and dust |
integrated circuit | A small electronic component made of semiconductor silicon on which an entire electronic circuit of numerous microscopic transistor amplifiers, diodes and resistors has been constructed |
span | The button element represents a button |
bohr's model of atom | X-Rays |
smtp | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. |
span | If upgrading an existing Solr instance instance running with SolrCloud from Solr 4.0 to 4.1, be aware that the way the name_node parameter is defined has changed |
credit card | A credit card facilitates the partial settlement of monthly liabilities |
illusion | An illusion is something that tricks your eyes. |
addition | A binary mathematical operation that represents the abstract concept of the formation of a larger collection (sum) from two smaller collections (the addends/operands) |
hidden lines | broken lines used to signify lines that normally wouldn't be seen in a drawing |
dividends | Dividends represent that portion of a public limited company's profits paid to shareholders |
otar | Over-The-Air Rekeying Common expression for the method of updating encryption keys 'over the air' in a two-way radio system |
simple interest | Interest obtained using the formula I = prt, where I is generated, p is principal, r is the interest rate per period of time, and t is the time period. |
tcp | Transmission Control Protocol |
kerberos | An authentication service developed by the Project Athena team at MIT. |
hypatia | Hypatia of Alexandria (AD 370(?)-415) was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, teacher, and head of the Platonist school at Alexandria about AD 400 |
global inertial frame | A coordinate system or frame of reference anchored with respect to the overall distribution of matter in the universe |
exterior of an angle | the nonconvex |
consequent | the 'then' part of a conditional; represented by q; aka conclusion, prove, answer |
counting number | The counting numbers are the positive whole numbers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.. |
span | This feature was released with Solr 4.3 however due to bugs found after 4.3 release, it is recommended that you wait for release 4.3.1 before using this feature. |
h | Hubble's constant in units of 100 km s-1 Mpc-1 |
astration | The processing of matter through stars |
known fact | A number fact, such as 14 + 6 = 20, that the learner knows from memory (see also Deriving from known facts). |
span | Refresh the zookeeper browser page Solr Zookeeper Admin UI and verify that 4 solr nodes are up, and that each shard has two replicas. |
greenhouse effect | Retention and escalation of temperature beneath a mantle of clouds or denser atmosphere |
localisation | the wave-function of an electron is said to be localized if it is confined to a small region of a large system rather than being extended through the system |
interstellar gas | Sparse, cool gas (mainly hydrogen) in interstellar space |
host | A network-connected computer. |
server-based network | A network in which all client computers use a dedicated central server computer for network functions such as storage, security, and other resources |
vpn | Virtual Private Network |
cve-compatible | Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) is a list of standardized names for vulnerabilities and other information security exposures, whose aim is to standardize the names for all publicly known vulnerabilities and security exposures |
esa | European Space Agency [LLM96] |
smart sim card | A smart SIM card is the market name of a new type of SIM card issued by the mobile operator Mobitel d.d |
integration | the process of finding an integral. |
carry | When you carry in addition, the sum of the numbers is ten or more, and the ten's place is "carried" to the next place. |
security key | A security key is a randomly selected string of characters that facilitates secure electronic operations |
carbon dioxide | A molecule consisting of one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms (CO2) |
markovian process | a random process in which the probability of performing a transition to a certain state at a given time depends solely on the state in which the system is found at this time |
coded mask | Coded masks are used for imaging high-enery x-ray and gamma radiation that cannot otherwise be focused by lenses or mirrors |
zone of visibility | a region in which an object can be seen from a specific position |
maze | Getting through the passages of a maze is tricky. |
gravitational mass | That property of matter which makes it create a gravitational field and attract other particles (cf |
elapsed time | The amount of time between a beginning time and an ending time. |
special relativity | (a) Einstein's theory of time and space, formulated in 1905, which shows how measurements of length and time differ for observers in relative motion |
foc | Faint Object Camera (Hubble Space Telescope) |
issuer of securities | An issuer of securities may be a legal entity (primarily public limited companies) or a public institute |
function | A mathematical relationship between two values called the input and the output, such that for each input there is precisely one output |
deductive reasoning | a process of demonstrating that, if certain statements are true, then other statements follow logically from them |
libration | (a) The "turning" of the Moon so that although the same face is presented to Earth at all times, the overall surface of the Moon visible is 59% of the total |
key agreement | A process used by two or more parties to agree upon a secret symmetric key. |
member | the first clause is the trivial branch - it says that member |
span | Represents the completion progress of a task |
gps | Global Positioning System |
span | Query all shards of multiple compatible collections, explicitly specified: |
spatial reasoning | The ability to interpret and make drawings, form mental images, and visualize movement or change in those images. |
dsvt | Digital Subscriber Voice Terminal Unit for encrypted (secure) voice communication (phone), such as the American KY-68 |
superior planets | Planets farther from the Sun than the Earth is (i.e., Mars to Pluto) |
leap second | A second (see Second, Système International) added between 60s and 0s at announced times to keep UTC within 0s.90 of UT1 |
span-- | The table element represents data with more than one dimension, in the form of a table |
gui | Graphical user interface |
weight | measures that represent the force that attracts an object to the center of Earth. |
unorganized data | data that are presented in a random manner. |
burst | Suddenly enhanced nonthermal radio emission from the high solar corona immediately following a solar flare, probably due to energetic electrons trapped in the coronal magnetic field |
right cylinder | a cylinder |
ebitda | EEPROM [EEPROM] |
cardinal numbers | The counting numbers (1, 2, 3...). |
span | A control that must have human input before it will return to its normal state from an alarm state. |
one rupee | 16 Annas |
aliasing | In a discrete Fourier transform, the overlapping of replicas of the basic transform, usually due to undersampling |
padding | Extra bits concatenated with a key, password, or plaintext. |
inverse | An object of the same type as one given that involves a juxtaposition of how it relates to other objects (of any types), e.g. |
i | I equals 1 in Roman numerals. |
short message service | SMS is a service provided by the mobile operator that facilitates the exchange of short text messages via the GSM network. |
cassini's division | A gap about 1800 km wide between the outermost rings of Saturn |
security holes/bugs | Faults, defects or programming errors exploited by unauthorised intruders to enter computer networks or web servers from the Internet |
solar mass | The amount of mass in the Sun, and the unit in which stellar and galactic masses are expressed |
tcp | Transmission Control Protocol. A set of rules (protocol) used along with the Internet Protocol (IP) to send data in the form of message units between computers over the Internet |
hierarchy | a chart that shows varying levels of importance |
cent | Cent is another word for penny. |
braces | Symbols { and } commonly used to represent the order of operations along with parentheses and brackets |
weight | Symbol: Often represented by the symbol W |
solar constant | (a) Mean radiation received from the Sun at the top level of Earth's atmosphere: 1.95 cal cm-2 min-1 |
validation | The act of examining information provided by a person (or a system) to ascertain what rights, privileges, or permissions they may (or may not) have to perform some action |
coincide | To occupy the same position. |
bond | A bond is as debt security by which the issuer undertakes to pay the holder the amount stated on the bond or the amount of the annuity coupon at a precisely defined future date according to an amortisation schedule |
probe | A type of hacking attempt characterized by repetitious, sequential access attempts |
intergalactic medium | Hypothetical matter (in the form of gas) in the regions between galaxies |
theorem | A statement which has been proven true by sentences already established to be true: i.e |
mean | A measure of central tendency of data - a location attached to a number of objects considered as one. |
motherboard | The main printed circuit board in a computer, which contains sockets that accept additional boards (daughterboards). |
a star | A star of spectral type A with a surface temperature of about 10,000 K, in whose spectrum the Balmer lines of hydrogen attain their greatest strength |
stat-coulomb | The unit of charge in the cgs electrostatic system |
counting all objects | A strategy for adding or subtracting groups of objects by counting each object, one at a time (compare this with counting on, a more sophisticated strategy that does not involve going back to 1). |
thermodynamic potential | a function of the state of a system which takes its extreme value on the asymptotically stable state reached by the system in the course of time |
equator | The equator is an imaginary circle around the Earth or any orb, halfway between the North and South Poles. |
congruent figures | Congruent figures are the same up to transformation, and using congruency between figures often gives more insight into the figures. |
dsa | Digital Signature Algorithm |
one-time pad | A secret-key cipher in which the key is a truly random sequence of bits that is as long as the message itself, and encryption is performed by XORing the message with the key |
sonde | A rocket or balloon carrying instruments to probe conditions in the upper atmosphere |
www | World Wide Web. |
iff | if and only if; see biconditional |
gis | Gas Imaging Spectrometer (ASCA X-ray satellite). |
external force | A force on a system originating from an object outside the system under consideration |
metal | (a) To an astronomer, a metal is any element heavier than hydrogen and helium; thus, not only are iron and copper metals, but so are elements like oxygen and neon |
globe | A globe is a small, spherical model of the Earth. |
computer | You are using a computer right now. |
radiocarbon dating | Determination of the age of a substance containing radioactive carbon by means of its radioactive half-life |
blue stragglers | (a) Stars (in a cluster) which fall close to the cluster's extrapolated main sequence but which occur a few magnitudes above its turnoff point |
internal force | A force on a part of the system originating from another part of the system under consideration |
antecedent | the 'if' part of a conditional; represented by p; aka hypothesis, given, problem; see consequent |
reflection nebula | A cloud of interstellar gas and dust whose spectrum contains absorption lines characteristic of the spectrum of nearby illuminating stars |
quantum | A discrete quantity of energy hv associated with a wave of frequency v |
driven harmonic motion | Electric Oscillations |
sidereal day | The length of time (23h56m4s.091) between two successive meridian transits of the vernal equinox (cf |
wave properties of particles | Bohr's Model of Atom |
data | The quantities, characters, or symbols on which operations are performed by a computer, which may be stored and transmitted in the form of electrical signals and recorded on magnetic, optical, or mechanical recording media. |
bf3 counter | A proportional counter, filled with the gas boron trifluoride, designed to count neutrons |
counterexample | an example that disproves a conjecture |
antecedent | In the conventional way of expressing hypothetical propositions, "If A then B", the consequent is the first part of the sentence |
magellanic stream | (a) A strand of gas spanning 300,000 light-years that the Milky Way has ripped out of the Magellanic Clouds |
iso | International Standards Organization, creates international standards, including cryptography standards. |
r-process | The creation of elements heavier than zinc through the rapid bombardment of other elements by neutrons |
cusp | A horn of the Moon, Mercury, or Venus when in the crescent phase |
address space probe | An intrusion technique in which a hacker sequentially scans IP addresses, generally as the information-gathering prelude to an attack |
axis | A line of reference regarding a mathematical object |
axion | A hypothetical spin-0 particle with a very small mass of 10-5-10-3 eV |
x-rays | Particle in Potential Well |
equivalence | Two objects having the same properties (such as truth value) regardless of the properties of other objects. |
decompress | To expand a compressed file or group of files back to their normal size so that the file or files can be opened |
dictionary attack | A brute force attack that tries passwords and or keys from a precompiled list of values |
taxable income | income remaining after all approved deductions are made |
lunar eclipses | Lunar eclipses and estimating the distances between the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun. |
capstone | The U.S |
if-and-only-if | A statement that shows a condition both necessary and sufficient for the assertion. |
stratified random sampling | the population is divided into groups (strata) and the data is collected from the strata by simple random sampling |
evolution | (a) In Biology the theory that coniplex and multifarious living things developed from generally simpler and less various organisms |
superconductivity | (a) A phenomenon occurring in some metals at very low temperatures, in which the resistance drops to zero and the metal shows many other anomalous properties |
ideal gas | (a) A nondegenerate gas in which the individual molecules are assumed to occupy mathematical points and to have zero volume, and in which the mutual attraction of neighboring molecules is zero |
vacuum | (a) A space containing gas below atmospheric pressure |
electronic mail | Messages sent electronically from one person to another via the Internet. |
bubble | The false vacuum decays in a manner similar to the way water boils, forming bubbles of normal matter in the midst of the false vacuum, just as bubbles of steam form in the midst of water heated past its boiling point |
cable modem | Devices that provide high-speed Internet access using cable television networks |
analytic methods | Methods for solving problems which involves breaking down and studying the consequences of the "internal" properties and/or components of objects involved in the problem, as opposed to solution primarily through its "external" relations to other objects. |
number strategies | The counting and partitioning strategies learners use to estimate answers and solve number problems. |
knapsack problem | A problem that involves selecting a number of objects with given weights from a set, such that the sum of the weights is maximal but less than a pre-specified weight. |
weak key | A key giving a poor level in security, or causing regularities in encryption which can be used by cryptanalysts to break codes. |
fluorescence | (a) The absorption of energy by atoms, molecules, etc., followed by immediate emission of electromagnetic radiation as the particles make transitions to lower energy states |
larmor radius | The radius of the circular orbit that a charged particle describes transverse to a magnetic field |
subclass | The class whose elements are also elements of a specified class. |
ethernet | A system for linking computers with a single serial cable |
node | A computer or CPU on a network. |
polarization | Frenel Diffraction |
pixel | A dot on a TV or computer screen or other monitor. |
syn flood attack | A method of denying service to legitimate users of a network resource (such as a Web server) by intentionally overloading a network with illegitimate TCP connection requests |
binomial: | a polynomial containing exactly two unlike terms |
compound statement | two statements linked together with a connective, such as and, or, or not |
converse | a reversed conditional; if a conditional is pq, than its converse is qp |
sunrise/sunset | The times at which the apparent upper limb of the Sun is on the astronomical horizon; i.e., when the true zenith distance, referred to the center of the Earth, of the central point of the disk is 90°50', based on adopted values of 34' for horizontal refraction and 16' for the Sun's semidiameter |
symbolic perspectives | Mathematical ideas expressed using numeric and/or non-numeric representations. |
how medicines are made | Learn about pharmacokinetics through the lens of the anti-malaria drug chloroquine. |
consistent | The property possessed by a scientific theory when it contains and extends an earlier well-supported theory; for example, general relativity is consistent with Newtonian gravity |
span-- | Represent headings and subheadings |
ethernet | A physical and data link layer technology for local area networks (LANs) |
subjective judgement | using intuition or one's own perception to influence a decision |
core | A hardware execution pipeline and associated structures that actually perform the execution of a process or thread |
first law of thermodynamics | Second and Third Laws of Thermodynamics |
wave | A propagating pattern of disturbance |
interest | Given the time-value-of-money, Interest is generated on a sum of capital as time passes. |
span-- | The style element allows authors to embed style information in their documents |
timestamp | See digital timestamp |
concrete | Physical objects used to represent mathematical situations. |
tdrss | Transmission Data and Relay Satellite System |
event | Any network incident that prompts some kind of log entry or other notification. |
meteoroid | A small particle orbiting the Sun in the vicinity of Earth |
circularity | when on a search, circling back to a previous place visited (definition, web site, etc.), usually unhelpful or redundant |
rotational symmetry | A figure with rotational symmetry fits exactly onto itself more than once as it is rotated through a complete turn. |
mhs | Message Handling System. |
coalsack | A prominent dark nebula in Crux, near the Southern Cross, readily visible to the naked eye, about 170 pc distant, located on the galactic plane |
pgp/mime | An IETF standard (detailed in RFCs 2015 and 3156) that provides privacy and authentication using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) security content types described in RFC 1847, currently deployed in PGP 5.0 and later versions. |
ssl | Secure Socket Layer |
span | Query specific shard ids of the (implicit) collection |
multiphoton process | in very intense radiation fields atoms or molecules can absorb several photons simultaneously in a multiphoton process |
synodic month | The period of time (29.53 days) between two successive identical phases of the Moon, e.g., new Moon to new Moon or full Moon to full Moon (see Lunation) |
reference time | The amount of time that a particular benchmark took to run on a specific reference platform. |
interference | Polarization |
molecular hydrogen | (a) A molecule consisting of two hydrogen atoms (H2) and the most common molecule in space |
span | Represent headings and subheadings |
variable | In a mathematical sentence, a variable is a symbol used to represent an unspecified number. |
sunspot | (a) Comparatively dark spot on the Sun's photosphere, commonly one of a (not always obvious) group of two |
dimensional analysis | A procedure for verifying a formula by the fact that physical laws remain the same regardless of the units used for the physical quantities involved |
algebra glossary | The Algebra glossary brought to you by the Brilliant Community. |
intrinsic brightness | The amount of light an object actually emits, as opposed to how bright the object looks from Earth |
alpha particles | Particles first discovered in radioactive decay, and later identified as helium nuclei (two protons and two neutrons bound together) |
relativistic beaming | Theory devised by Francis Smith regarding the generation of polarized radiation in neutron stars (pulsars) |
hubble constant | (a) The present expansion rate of the universe, in units of kilometers per second per megaparsec |
f component | The outer part of the Solar corona (see K Component) which emits a continuous spectrum in which absorption lines can be seen |
synchronous rotation | Rotation whose period is equal to the orbital period |
annuity income | Annuity income is the regular income arising from invested capital or other investments such as real estate |
tell | then output will subsequently go to the file output.dat |
reflexive property | a property of equality that states, "For any a, a = a." |
chemical clock | an asymptotically stable regime of a chemical system in which the concentrations of the reagents are periodic functions of time |
advection | The transfer of matter such as water vapor or heat through the atmosphere as a result of horizontal movement of an air mass |
no correlation | the two data sets are not related |
siderite | An iron (or iron and nickel) meteorite |
algebraic attack | A method of cryptanalytic attack used against block ciphers that exhibit a significant amount of mathematical structure. |
currency code | Every currency designation (such as EUR for the euro) is tied to a currency code comprising three numbers, such as 978 for the euro. |
aurora | (a) Spectacular array of light in the night sky, caused by charged particles from the Sun hitting the Earth's upper atmosphere |
radiometric dating | Determination of the age of objects - e.g., earth and moon rocks - by means of the half-life of the unstable elements they contain |
column | A vertical line of objects in a rectangular array. |
velocity | the rate of change of position. The first derivative of the position function. |
g star | Stars of spectral type G are yellowish stars with surface temperatures of about 5000 to 6000 K, in which the H and K lines of Ca II have become dominant and in which a tremendous profusion of spectral lines of both neutral and ionized metals, particularly iron, begins to show |
evection | The small irregularity in the Moon's orbital motion due to Solar and planetary perturbations |
span-- | The caption element represents the title of the table that is its parent, if it has a parent and that is a table element. |
reflecting telescope | Telescope that uses mirrors to magnify and focus an image onto an eyepiece |
view | a drawing |
dialog box | A box that appears when you choose a command from a menu |
combination | The way of ways that a collection of k objects can be picked from a number of n objects |
rossby waves | Cyclonic convection waves in a rotating fluid |
span | This page is not necessarily kept up to date - for the latest SolrCloud documentation see https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/SolrCloud |
gravitation | (a) The universal ability of all material objects to attract each other; F = Gm1m2 / r2 |
span | The problem with example B is that while there are enough Solr servers to survive any one of them crashing, there is only one zookeeper server that contains the state of the cluster |
absorption | (a) A process in which a gas is taken up by a liquid or solid, or in which a liquid is taken up by a solid |
universal bank | A universal bank is a general-purpose bank that offers commercial banking (the receipt of deposits and the approval of loans) and investment banking (securities transactions). |
streamline | (a) A line following the direction of the fluid in laminar or streamline flow |
conservation of matter | The principle that matter is neither created nor destroyed |
class | A collection of objects, not necessary a set |
infinity | Informally, a quantity without bound represented by the symbol ∞ |
arp table | A table of IP addresses stored on a local computer, used to match IP addresses to their corresponding MAC addresses |
loschmidt number | (a) Number of molecules of an ideal gas per unit volume (2.687 × 1019 molecules per cm3) |
provably secure | A property of a digital signature scheme stating that it is provably secure if its security can be tied closely to that of the cryptosystem involved |
exchange rate | An exchange rate is the rate at which one currency is exchanged for another |
butterfly diagram | Plot of heliographic latitude of sunspots versus time, developed by Maunder in 1904 to illustrate the solar cycle |
forfaiting | The word forfaiting derives from the term forfait, which was initially used in banking to describe the sale of export receivables to a bank, together with collateral |
pictograph | a data display. |
mortgage | A mortgage is the pledging of real estate as loan collateral. |
hydrodynamics | The study of how gases and fluids flow under applied forces |
deposit | A deposit is the one-time placement of funds, based on which the depositor is entitled to the repayment of its funds, together with interest, by a specific date. |
public key | The publicly available component of an asymmetric key pair, often referred to as the encryption key |
km | The abbreviation km is short for kilometer or kilometers. |
local supercluster | (a) The supercluster to which the Local Group belongs |
secan | Military Committee Communications Security & Evaluation Agency (Washington) |
family tree | hierarchy |
hypothesis | a proposition or supposition developed to provide a basis for further investigation or research. |
op | infix, prefix, postfix, precedence in Prolog | or, disjunction, ; |
specific heat | Ratio of the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of a unit mass of a substance by a unit amount to that required to raise the temperature of an equal mass of water by the same amount |
emission spectrum | A spectrum consisting of emission lines produced in the laboratory by a glowing gas under low pressure |
massively parallel | A large number of simultaneous processes; in biology, a living cell has multiple, concurrently active processes that are reflected in the proteome and its underlying transcriptome. |
covariance | According to the general theory of relativity, theories of nature must have the same mathematical form in all coordinate systems |
iso | Infrared Space Observatory |
odd node | a node |
food | so for Prolog the rule is simply abstract symbol manipulation |
boundary layer | A thin layer of fluid, such as the one next to a solid surface past which the fluid is moving |
estimation | The process of finding a number close to an exact amount. |
goppa code | A class of error correcting codes, used in the McEliece public-key cryptosystem. |
geometric probability | Geometric probability |
longitudinal wave | A wave vibrating along the direction of propagation - e.g., a sound wave |
span | The table element represents data with more than one dimension, in the form of a table |
hertzsprung-russell diagram | (a) A plot of stellar color, temperature, or spectral type versus stellar luminosity |
biased galaxy formation | The theory that bright galaxies form preferentially from anomalously overdense perturbations in the early universe |
span-- | Represents the completion progress of a task |
certificate of deposit | A certificate of deposit is a short-term security or certificate regarding deposited funds by which the Bank undertakes to fulfil all of its obligations to a client. |
workload | The workload is the definition of the units of work that are to be performed during a benchmark run. |
euribor | EURIBOR is the abbreviation for the Euro Interbank Offered Rate |
span | If at any point you wish to start over fresh or experiment with different configurations, you can delete all of the cloud state contained within zookeeper by simply deleting the solr/zoo_data directory after shutting down the servers. |
capacity | Direct Current |
span | pH: |
span-- | The object element can represent an external resource, which, depending on the type of the resource, will either be treated as an image, as a nested browsing context, or as an external resource to be processed by a plugin. |
rough | A surface modelled to produce a resistance to the relative motion between the surface and another rought object. |
span | shard can be configured in solr.xml for each core element as an attribute. |
botnet | Collection of computers that are infected with small bits of code (bots) that allow a remote computer to control some or all of the functions of the infected machines |
payoff matrix | A matrix which represents the payoffs in the study of game theory. |
alternate interior angles | ditto as above, only with interior angles |
bankruptcy | Base (master) derivation key [BDK] |
conditional statement | an if…then statement |
murchison meteorite | A type II carbonaceous chondrite which fell in 1969 near Murchison, Australia, and which was found to contain at least 17 amino acids |
key splitting | The process of dividing a private key into multiple pieces and sharing those pieces among several users |
account name | An account name is the name determined by a user for an individual account, and is displayed on a mobile phone screen instead of the account number. |
b galaxy | In Morgan's Classification, a barred spiral. |
parity | Parity indicates whether a term is even (divisible by 2) or odd (not divisible by 2). |
enceladus | Third satellite of Saturn, about 500 km in diameter |
share | A share is an equity security representing co-ownership of a public limited company and providing its holder certain rights |
inclusive or | one or the other, or both; and/or |
capacity | see volume |
metallic hydrogen | A hypothetical form of hydrogen in which the molecules have been forced by extremely high pressures to assume the lattice structure typical of metals |
calculus | Calculus is a branch of mathematics that was developed separately by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton in the 1600s |
preimage | the original object that is reflected |
atomic number | (a) The number of protons in an atom's nucleus |
macho | Massive Compact Halo Object -- These are black holes, neutron stars and brown dwarfs, none of which are luminous and all of which are postulated to exist in the halos of galaxies |
driver | A software program that manipulates a device (such as a printer, keyboard, mouse, or hard drive) |
algebraic equation | a mathematical sentence in which two expressions are connected by an equality symbol. |
algorithm | A procedure, formula or list of instructions that can be used to accomplish a task or to solve a problem |
light | Electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths of or close to those detectable by the eye |
ccd | Charge-Coupled Device (a) A small photoelectronic imaging device (typically 1.5 cm square) made from a crystal of semiconductor silicon in which numerous (at least 250,000) individual light-sensitive picture elements (pixels) have been constructed |
emission nebula | An HII region whose spectrum consists of emission lines |
rayleigh | (a) Unit of flux |
response time | The amount of time from when an action is requested until the time that the request completes and is returned to the requestor. |
real gas | Liquids |
unit | Unit means one. |
adhesion | A force of attraction between atoms or molecules of different substances |
inverse property of addition | The inverse property of addition states that for every number a, a + (-a) = 0 (zero). |
radar | Radio Detection and Ranging |
currency designation | A currency designation is a three-letter code such as EUR for the euro |
simple interest | Interest payments calculated only by the initial nominal amount |
solar wind | (a) Stream of charged particles flowing from the Sun at a speed of about 600 km sec-1 |
contrapositive | a conditional statement formed by negating both the if and then clauses of a converse |
fraction | any part of a whole is called a fraction (e.g., one-half written in fractional form is 1/2). |
e galaxy | In both Hubble's and Morgan's classifications, an elliptical galaxy |
aristotelian physics | Physics as promulgated by Aristotle; includes the hypothesis that our world is comprised of four elements, and that the Universe beyond the moon is made of a fifth element and so is fundamentally different from the mundane realm |
browser | A software application that interfaces with the Internet and provides a way to locate, display and interact with web pages |
span-- | The link element allows authors to link their document to other resources. |
resolution | the density of pixels in a picture |
cookies | A small file containing a unique identification number that a website sends to your computer's web browser |
control panel | The set of Microsoft Windows programs used to change system hardware, software, and settings. |
card reader | A card reader is a device used to read a NLB Klik card. |
carbon black | A form of amorphous carbon (soot) produced by incomplete combustion of gas (or other organic matter) |
refracting telescope | Telescope that uses lenses to magnify and focus an image onto an eyepiece |
special relativity | Fluid Mechanics |
token | Also called a security token or an authentication token |
dss | Digital Signature Standard |
interstellar medium | The medium of gas and dust that fills the space between the stars |
converging lens | A lens that can refract a parallel beam into a convergent beam |
gold card | Gross Domestic Product [GDP] |
biometrics | The science of using biological properties to identify individuals; for example, finger prints, a retina scan, and voice recognition. |
ram | Random access memory |
hash code | A unique, mathematical summary of a document that serves to identify the document and its contents |
node | a description of a point |
end-to-end security | Occurs when information flows from the web server (where the website is physically hosted) to the web browser without passing through any other servers |
inspection | visual study |
lucky numbers | 25 - 9 = 16 |
power of | The product obtained when a number is multiplied by itself a given number of times (the ‘power’ gives the number of times). |
cpu | Central Processing Unit The part of a digital computer responsible for interpreting and executing instructions |
hypothesis | A scientific proposition that purports to explain a given set of phenomena; less comprehensive and less well established than a theory |
virtual machine | Virtual Machine Monitor [VMM] |
hydrocarbon | Molecule which contains only hydrogen and carbon |
plug and play | An ease-of-use ideal in the personal computer market that assures the user that a hardware device (for example, a mouse, a modem, or a scanner) can be installed without resorting to manual hardware configuration of either the device or the PC into which the device is being installed. |
repeater | A network device that regenerates signals so that they can travel farther along a cable without losing or distorting data |
annular eclipse | An eclipse of the Sun in which the Moon is too far from Earth to block out the Sun completely, so that a ring of sunlight appears around the Moon |
pentagonal numbers | 51 - 35 = 16 |
all | In mathematics, the word all means ... |
portability | Portability flags or changes are those which are necessary for the correct execution of a benchmark |
dollar | A dollar is worth 100 cents. |
biconditional statement | a statement formed by combining a conditional and its converse, using if and only if |
inner bremsstrahlung | The continuous electromagnetic radiation that accompanies the -decay of nuclei |
atmospheric extinction | Decrease in the intensity of light from a celestial body due to absorption and scattering by the Earth's atmosphere |
electric potential | Capacity |
absolute unit | A unit defined in terms of fundamental quantities (such as length, mass, time, and electric charge) |
etalon | Essentially an optical filter that operates by multiple-beam interference of light reflected and transmitted by a pair of parallel flat reflecting plates |
maxwell distribution | (a) An expression for the statistical distribution of velocities among the molecules of a gas at a given temperature |
induction | System of reasoning in which the conclusion, though implied by the premises and consistent with them, does not necessarily follow from them |
halation | The formation of a halo around bright star images by light reflected from the back of the photographic plate or emulsion |
span-- | The p element represents a paragraph. |
equality | A statement where two or more values are deemed to have an equal or identical value is a statement of Equality. |
counterexample | a situation in a conditional for which the antecedent is true, but the conditional is false; aka contradiction |
principal | Principal is the amount a borrower owes to a lender |
ietf | Internet Engineering Task Force. |
logistic equation | models the growth of a population as a competition between self-reproduction on the one side and inhibition arising from density-dependent effects on the other side |
treasury bill | A treasury bill is short-term government security. |
span | Note that when running on multiple hosts, you will need to set -DzkRun=hostname:port on each host to the exact name and port used in -DzkHost -- the default localhost will not work. |
y-axis | The y-axis is usually the vertical axis. |
volume | The extent to which an object fills units of three-dimensional space is its Volume. |
symmetry | (a) A property of a physical system that does not change when the system is transformed in some manner |
infrared | (a) That part of the electromagnetic spectrum that lies beyond the red, having wavelengths from about 7500 Å to a few millimeters (about 1011-1014 Hz) |
distributed key | A key that is split up into many parts and shared (distributed) among different participants |
bp | Bletchley Park An estate in the town of Bletchley (UK) that was the UK's main code breaking site during WWII |
proof that 0=1 | Is this a proof that 0=1? |
interstellar dust | (a) Dust particles in the space between the stars |
iteration | A procedure that repeats, typically by adding some value to a variable in the process with each new calculation is called an iterative process, and each cycle of the calculation is an Iteration |
password caching | The temporary storage of a user's username and password by some application. |
epoch | (a) A point of time selected as a fixed reference |
inverse property of multiplication | The inverse property of multiplication states that for every non-zero number a, a times (1/a) = 1. |
octadecagon | An octadecagon is an eighteen-sided figure. |
rate of return | The rate of return is the monetary yield (e.g |
golay cell | A gas bulb used to detect infrared radiation |
bulge | The stellar population that lies within several thousand light-years of the Galactic center |
explosive nucleosynthesis | (a) The nucleosynthetic processes which are thought to occur in supernovae |
whirlpool galaxy | A spiral galaxy (M51, NGC 5194) of type Sc in Canes Venatici |
fees and commissions | Fees and commissions are the amounts the Bank charges for the rendering of services. |
variable | A variable is a symbol, often a letter, which is used to represent a value which may change within the context of the given problem. |
protocol | A series of steps that two or more parties agree upon to complete a task. |
pid | A PID is a privatisation fund, the precursor to investment funds |
fresnel lens | A type of lens with one surface cut in steps so that transmitted light is refracted just as if by a much thicker (and heavier and more expensive) conventional lens |
servicewatch | A graphical monitor providing a real-time display that graphs how many connections exist, by service |
c | C equals 100 in Roman numerals. |
ring nebula | A famous planetary nebula (M57, NGC 6720) in the constellation Lyra |
if-then statement | see conditional |
matt enlow | Contributor Matt Enlow |
radioactivity | (a) Emission of particles by unstable elements as they decay |
hydrogen burning | The fusion of hydrogen into helium and the process by which all main-sequence stars generate energy |
converse | a conditional statement formed by interchanging the if and then clauses of another conditional statement |
cation | A positively charged ion, formed by removal of electrons from atoms or molecules |
complex conjugate | The Complex Conjugate of (a + bi) is (a - bi) |
span | The object element can represent an external resource, which, depending on the type of the resource, will either be treated as an image, as a nested browsing context, or as an external resource to be processed by a plugin. |
wave | disturbance that propagates through space and time, usually with transference of energy |
checksum | Used in error detection, a checksum is a computation done on the message and transmitted with the message; similar to using parity bits. |
liquid crystal | substances intermediate in their properties between liquids and crystals |
penny | A penny is a coin worth one cent. |
accumulation theory | The theory by which planetesimals are assumed to collide with one another and coalesce, eventually sweeping up enough material to form the planets |
common-user | A shared facility or common resource, such as a CCD spectrograph, a computer data reduction program or even a telescope, which has been carefully designed to meet the needs of many research programs |
chaotic inflation | (a) A model in which many distinct universes form from different regions of a "mother" universe, with some inflating and others perhaps not |
return on average assets | Profit / Average assets |
load | An external force (usually weight) on a system from an object which is in equilibrium given the equilibruim of the system. |
torus | A torus is a doughnut-shaped solid object. |
dime | A dime is a coin worth ten cents. |
span | The style element allows authors to embed style information in their documents |
alternating current | Wave Motion |
span | If you want to use the Near Realtime search support, you will probably want to enable auto soft commits in your solrconfig.xml file before putting it into zookeeper |
hyperlink | An object on a Web page such as a graphic or underlined text that represents a link to another location, either on the same Web site or on a different Web site |
chart | a data display. |
maffei 1 and 2 | Two galaxies discovered on infrared plates in 1968 and identified in 1970 as members (probably temporary) of the local group |
foreign exchange | the value of one country's currency in terms of another country's currency |
backdoor | A design fault, planned or accidental, that allows the apparent strength of the design to be easily avoided by those who know the trick. |
turing machine | A theoretical model of a computing device, devised by Alan Turing. |
e layer | The part of Earth's ionosphere (about 150 km) where the temperature gradient reverses and starts to rise |
encryption | The process of protecting information by making it impossible for anyone who is not authorized to read that information in a useable form |
trisect | To trisect is to divide into three equal parts |
thermal background | The radiation emitted by the telescope and the atmosphere at infrared wavelengths due to the heat (temperature) of the source |
r | radius |
edi | Electronic (business) Data Interchange. |
anthropic principle | (a) The doctrine that the value of certain fundamental constants of nature can be explained by demonstrating that, were they otherwise, the Universe could not support life and therefore would contain nobody capable of worrying about why they are as they are |
digital timestamp | A record mathematically linking a document to a time and date. |
cvd | Chemical Vapor Deposition [McL97] |
m45 | The Pleiades, a beautiful open star cluster in the constellation Taurus |
positional system | A system representing numbers where symbols can take on different (but usually related) meanings depending on its (relative) position within the collection of symbols. |
current density | Amount of charge passing through a unit area per unit time |
brightness | (a) Refers to the amount of light coming from an object |
sculptor group | The nearest group of galaxies to the Local Group, 4 to 10 million light-years away |
sight deposits | Sight deposits are funds that may be withdrawn from an account at any time. |
larmor frequency | The frequency of precession of a charged particle orbiting in a uniform magnetic field |
equilibrium | A condition of balance between the forces operating on or within a physical system, so that no accelerated motions exist among the parts of a system |
fbi | Federal Bureau of Investigation, a U.S |
winning positions | Introduction to combinatorial games |
electronic commerce | Business transactions conducted over the Internet. |
science | Scientists study science to learn about the physical world. |
q.e.d. | "quod erat demonstrandum" (Latin) This stems from medieval translators' habitual tendency of translating the Greek for "this was to be demonstrated" to the Latin phrase above |
consequent | the 'then' part of a conditional |
true vacuum | This phrase has the same meaning as vacuum, with the word "true" being used only to emphasize the distinction with the false vacuum |
integrating detector | Any imaging device, like a photographic emulsion or CCD, which can build up more signal and contrast by a longer exposure to light or other electromagnetic energy |
free parameter | A number which is needed to define a theory well enough so that predictions can be made, but which must be determined by experiment or observation |
carbon burning | The stage when a star fuses carbon into heavier elements, making neon and magnesium |
stress | When a system of opposing forces acts on a body the material is subject to some form of stress |
meridional flow | Flow between the poles, or between the equator and the poles |
necessary condition | A sentence which is always true if the specified statement is true, but not necessarily vice versa |
expanding arm | A spiral arm of neutral hydrogen lying between 2.5 and 4 kpc beyond the Galactic center and receding from it at about 135 km s-1 |
experiment | A controlled process for making observations and gathering data. |
hieroglyphics | The ancient Egyptians wrote using hieroglyphics. |
dimensional analysis | A method of converting units within a measurement system. |
digest | Commonly used to refer to the output of a hash function, e.g |
span | This example simply creates a cluster consisting of two solr servers representing two different shards of a collection. |
mutual fund | A mutual fund represents assets in the form of publicly collected funds that are invested in various ways |
regulatory capital | Capital used in calculation of capital adequacy of the bank; next to equity it includes certain debt instruments with increased level of safety for investors |
bit | a single unit of data storage in a computer |
translational dynamics | Rotational Dynamics |
commercial paper | Commercial paper is a short-term security used as a form of short-term borrowing by larger companies. |
span-- | The code element represents a fragment of computer code |
beta decay | (a) The process in which a neutron disintegrates into a proton, an electron, and an antineutrino |
financial market | In the broadest sense, a financial market encompasses the entire flow of financial savings, irrespective of whether it trades securities or executes transactions between lenders and borrowers |
table | a data display. |
carbon-nitrogen cycle | Use of carbon and nitrogen as intermediates in the nuclear fusion process of the Sun |
traveller's cheque | A traveller's cheque serves as a substitute for foreign cash, and is used for business travellers and tourists abroad. |
marching subpulse | The weaker component of a pulsar pulse when its period is more than half that of the main pulse, so that the subpulse occurs at progressively later intervals between successive main pulses |
monopole | A hypothetical quantum object being a single, isolated magnetic pole |
image dissector scanner | A specialized television camera used as a light detector (instead of a photographic plate) in the 19705 |
getter | A chemical absorption method of removing (pumping) gas from a chamber by tying up molecules on a surface |
shooting star | The streak of light in the sky produced by the firey entry of a meteoroid into the Earth's atmosphere; also the glowing meteoroid itself |
antennae | A famous pair of interacting galaxies in the constellation Corvus |
calculus | A branch of mathematics, the study of (infinitely many) infinitesimal quantities (which may be changing) |
block cipher | A symmetric cipher which encrypts a message by breaking it down into blocks and encrypting each block. |
mime | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. |
polarization | Diffraction |
thermometer | A thermometer is used for measuring temperature. |
cosmological principle | (a) The hypothesis that the Universe is isotropic and homogeneous on very large distance scales |
riemannian | The adjective “Riemannian” is used in these notes to distinguish the physics that applies in the universe of Orthogonal from that which applies in our own universe. |
electric oscillations | Alternating Current |
chromatic aberration | (a) Introduction of spurious colors by a lens |
rayleigh scattering | Selective scattering (i.e., preferential scattering of shorter wavelengths) of light by very small particles suspended in the Earth's atmosphere, or by molecules of the air itself |
flat key space | See linear key space. |
anthropocentrism | The belief that humans are central to the Universe |
host | Host/Hardware Security Sodule [HSM] |
factoring methods | See elliptic curve method, multiple polynomial quadratic sieve, number field sieve, Pollard p-1 and Pollard p+1 method, Pollard rho method, quadratic sieve. |
b-lines | A triplet of spectral lines of neutral magnesium 5167-5184. |
plan | drawing to scale of a 3-D object as seen from above |
deriving from known facts | Using memorised number facts to find the answer. |
optical illusion | A drawing or object that appears to have an effect that it does not really have, such as when a flat painting seems to have three-dimensional dept |
creditworthiness | Creditworthiness is a borrower's ability to repay a loan, together with all accompanying interest |
red giant | (a) Large, highly luminous but relatively cool star that has reached a late stage in its "life" |
dnvt | Digital Non-secure Voice Terminal Unit for unencrypted digital voice communication (phone). |
convection | (a) Process in the Sun (and possibly other stars) perhaps caused by Solar rotation, which produces the immensely powerful electrical and magnetic fields associated with sunspots |
luminosity | (a) Brightness of a celestial body, measured in terms of (apparent) magnitude, absolute magnitude, or using the Sun's brightness as 1.0 on a Solar scale |
pictograph | A graphical representation that shows numerical information by using picture symbols. |
-particle | The nucleus of a 4He atom, consisting of two protons and two neutrons |
explain in words | directions requesting a written description of the procedures for finding the solution to the problem presented. |
lyman forest | The appearance of many differentially redshifted Lyman- absorption lines in a quasar's spectrum, caused by intervening hydrogen clouds along our line of sight to the quasar |
paradox | The situation where valid inferences made on valid premises seemed to imply a contradiction |
laser | The word laser stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
electromagnetic unit | EMU A system of electrical units based on the electromagnetic properties of an electric current |
aerolite | A stony meteorite, composed primarily of silicates |
investment-grade issuer | An issuer of securities is typically assigned a credit rating |
big bang | (a) According to standard cosmology, the explosion that started the universe expanding 10 to 15 billion years ago |
abundant numbers | 36 - 20 = 16 |
magnetic stars | Stars (usually of spectral type a) with strong integrated magnetic fields ranging up to 30,000 gauss |
cataclysmic variable | A type of variable including flare stars and novae (common, recurrent, and dwarf), all of which are believed to be very close binary systems in which hydrogen-rich matter flows from a late-type star onto a hot white-dwarf primary |
mole | The SI unit of the amount of substance, defined as the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012 kilograms of carbon 12 [14th CGPM 1971, Resolution 3] |
host computer | The main or master computer in an instrumentation system |
aspect | The apparent position of any of the planets or the Moon relative to the Sun, as seen from Earth |
compounded quarterly | interest calculated every three months and added to the principal for the next interest period |
reaction rate | The rate at which a chemical or nuclear reaction proceeds |
hendecagon | A hendecagon is an eleven-sided figure (undecagon is another word for this figure) |
supergranulation cells | Convective cells (about 15,000-30,000 km in diameter) in the solar photosphere, distributed fairly uniformly over the solar disk, that last as long as a day |
solution | Too often in math class, "the answer." More directly, a Solution is a value (or set of values) that makes a mathematical statement true. |
counterparty account | A counterparty account is the account of the second party to a transaction |
central bank | The central bank in Slovenia is the Bank of Slovenia, which is also a bank of issue |
date of execution | Also know as the value date, the date of execution is the date on which the Bank executes a payment |
homogeneous | A universe is called homogeneous if it would look the same to all observers, no matter where they were located |
summation | The process of finding the sum of a sequence of quantities. |
kelvin scale | the `natural' or `absolute' scale of temperature, on which the value of temperature corresponds roughly to the typical thermal energy |
airglow | Light in the nighttime sky caused by the collision of atoms and molecules (primarily oxygen, OH, and Ne) in Earth's geocorona with charged particles and X-rays from the Sun or outer space |
span-- | The th element represents a header cell in a table. |
coronal green line | An emission line of Fe XIV at 5303 Å - the strongest line in the Solar corona |
lan | Local Area Network -- A means of interlinking computers |
orb | An orb is a ball-shaped object. |
hypothesis | the part in the if clause of a conditional statement |
optical chaos | in many nonlinear optical systems the output response varies in an unpredictable and uncontrollable fashion despite being governed by deterministic laws |
deci | Deci is a prefix that means one-tenth |
rods | The more sensitive cells of the retina of the eye |
account manager | An account manager is a highly qualified bank employee who monitors the operations of a company or sole trader, tracks the client's needs, briefs the client on banking products, advises the client and represents the main link for all transaction with the Bank |
alice | The name traditionally used for the first user of cryptography in a system; Bob's friend. |
certificate register | A certificate register is established in accordance with International Telecommunication Union (ITU) recommendation no |
whca | White House Communications Agency Official communications agency of the White House |
compound interest | interest calculated at regular intervals and added to the principal for the next interest period |
parallelizable | The property of a computer program, or program segment, that allows for the parallel execution of parts of the same program |
horsehead nebula | An absorption nebula in the middle of Orion |
compound interest | When the Time Value of Money generates interest and that interest is added to the principal to increase the amount of money to which subsequent interest is added, this is Compound Interest. |
factoring | Factoring is a financial tool used to mitigate risks in a financial transaction, manage risk more effectively and improve liquidity |
particle in potential well | Pauli Exclusion Principle |
dvl | Direct Voice Link Voice communication link, running on the same network, but not part of, the Washington-Moscow Hotline. |
s/wan | Secure Wide Area Network. |
api | Application Programming Interface. |
life tables | A table listing the probabilities of an individual of a certain age (possibly with additional assumptions such as geography) surviving until the next "age" for actuarial purposes. |
span | collections: A comma-separated list of one or more collections to alias to. |
silicon burning | The end of the line for a high-mass star, silicon burning creates iron and other elements of similar mass and presages a supernova |
discovery of irrational numbers | Learn about Hippassus of Metapontum and the Discovery of Irrational Numbers. |
parentheses | Pairs of symbols ( ) used to indicate the priority in calculations that may break away from conventions (e.g |
sawtooth wave | A waveform generated electronically (such as the variation of voltage with time), having a uniform increase that regularly and rapidly drops to the initial value |
computational complexity | Refers to the amount of space (memory) and time required to solve a problem |
astrophysics | (a) The science that studies the physics and chemistry of extraterrestrial objects |
plug-in | A software module that adds a specific functionality to a web browser |
adept solution writer | Connect with your readers |
tower | A countable category of objects, indexed by the natural numbers, such that morphisms go (and only go) from higher-indexed objects to lower-indexed objects. |
deposit guarantee | A deposit guarantee is intended to protect investors who do not have the necessary knowledge and information to judge whom they can entrust with their savings |
bastion host | A computer placed outside a firewall to provide public services (such as World Wide Web access and FTP) to other Internet sites, hardened to withstand whatever attacks the Internet can throw at it. |
key space | The collection of all possible keys for a given cryptosystem |
spheres | Concept probably older than the ancient Greeks, in which the Sun, Moon, planets and the stars were thought to orbit the Earth travelling on their own crystalline but - except for that of the stars - transparent spheres |
security protocols | Self-Assessment Questionnaire [SAQ] |
tier 1 capital | Highest-quality tier of regulatory capital consisting at most from equity |
isomer | (a) A molecule having the same number of atoms of each element as another molecule |
mössbauer effect | (a) After an atomic nucleus has emitted a gamma-ray photon (during radioactive decay), the absorption of the momentum of the atom by the whole of its crystal lattice because it is so firmly bound that it cannot recoil |
planetary model of atom | X-Rays |
atoms | The fundamental units of a chemical element |
representations | Different ways to show the same mathematical concepts (i.e., ¼, .25, 25%) |
cosmological principle | The hypothesis that the Universe is approximately homogeneous and isotropic on the largest scales |
maturity | Maturity is the loan or deposit repayment period. |
coin | A coin is a piece of metal money. |
even node | a node |
list of primes | This is a list of primes |
lift | The component of a force on an object from a fluid, perpendicular to the flow of the fluid (relative to the object), in a direction relative to the object that is usually (or designed to be) the opposite direction to gravity. |
mortality tables | Another name for life tables. |
total debits | Total debits represent the total amount of outflows for a given period. |
statics | The mathematical study of systems in equilibrium. |
inverse of a conditional | The sentence formed by replacing both the antecedent and the consequent with their respective negation from a given sentence involving logical implication. |
existential quantifier | Represented by the symbol ∃, and read as "there is/exists", it qualifies the the mathematical sentence by asserting that the statement is not false for all elements of the domain |
be stars | Irregular variables of spectral type B (or occasionally O or A) with hydrogen emission lines in their spectra |
gamma ray | (a) Electromagnetic radiation similar to X-radiation, although of shorter wavelength, emitted spontaneously by some radioactive substances from atomic nuclei during radioactive decay |
inscribe | to draw inside |
big-bang nucleosynthesis | The process, which took place between one second and 3-4 minutes after the beginning, in which the protons and neutrons of the primordial soup condensed to form the lightest atomic nuclei: Deuterium, Helium-3, Helium-4, and Lithium-7 |
compound interest | interest earned or charged on an amount of money and added to the principal to earn or charge more interest in the following year |
chemical elements | Ninety-two different stable or long-lived nuclei can be formed from neutrons and protons bound together |
rutherfordium | A radioactive metal not found naturally on earth |
geometric optics | Interference |
why f=ma? | Discussion of why we have F=ma and nothing else |
blind signature scheme | Allows one party to have a second party sign a message without revealing any (or very little) information about the message to the second party. |
bar | A unit of pressure roughly based on atmospheric pressure at sea level. |
horizontal | Originally the direction perpendicular to the direction of Earth's gravitation |
groombridge 1830 | A famous halo star that lies 28 light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major |
arrow of time | The direction, apparently inviolable, of the "flow" of time that distinguishes the past from the future.The direction, apparently inviolable, of the "flow" of time that distinguishes the past from the future |
lot | A lot is the unit used in securities trading |
syndication | Syndication ensures the sale of newly issued securities by a syndicate of banks under standard conditions that are more favourable for the client than those achieved in a bilateral transaction. |
age of the universe | The time elapsed since the singularity predicted by the Big Bang theory, estimated to be around 13 billion years |
expression | A finite combination of symbols that are well-formed according to the rules applicable in the context at hand |
irradiation | (a) An optical effect of contrast that makes bright objects viewed against a dark background appear to be larger than they really are |
ip options | Extensions to the Internet Protocol used mainly for debugging and for special applications on local networks |
l | L equals 50 in Roman numerals. |
v | V equals 5 in Roman numerals. |
mental strategy | An in-the-head process the learner chooses to use to solve a problem. |
io | Jupiter I The innermost Galilean satellite of Jupiter, similar in size and density to the Moon (R 1850 km from Pioneer 10, period 1.77 days; e = 0.01, i = 0.03) |
critical speed | In fluid flow, the speed at which the behavior of the fluid switches from that of laminar flow to that of turbulent flow or vice versa |
supercooling | (a) The process by which a substance is cooled below the temperature at which a phase transition should occur, such as water that has been cooled to below zero degrees Centigrade but that has not yet formed ice |
ecb | Electronic Codebook A block cipher mode in which a plaintext block is used directly as input to the encryption algorithm and the resultant output block is used directly as cipher text. |
calculation of ordinary interest | The calculation of ordinary interest is a calculation in which interest is only calculated on the initial principal. |
invariance and monovariance principle | Exploring what does not change, or what changes in only one direction, helps us to characterize what can happen. |
thermal diffusion | A method of separating gas molecules of different masses by maintaining one part of the gas at a lower temperature than the other (i.e |
discount rate | A discount rate is the interest rate a central bank charges commercial banks for loans approved on the basis of securities collateral. |
remainder | The remainder is the part part of the answer in long division that does not go evenly into the divisor |
emersion | The reappearance of a celestial body after eclipse or occultation |
chromosphere | (a) The part of the Sun's atmosphere immediately above the surface (the photosphere) and beneath the corona |
cm | An abbreviation for the centre of mass of an object. |
aberration | (a) Defect in the image formed by a lens, mirror or optical system |
carboxyl group | Also called the COOH group; functional group consisting of a carbon atom double bonded to an oxygen atom and single bonded to another oxygen with a hydrogen on the other side |
adjacent | A concept of objects being located "next to each other" or "without anything else in between" |
astrology | (a) The belief that human affairs and people's personalities and characters are influenced by (or encoded in) the positions of the planets |
leo ii | The second most distant galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, lying 720,000 light-years from the Galactic center |
granulation | The mottled appearance of the solar photosphere, caused by gases rising from the interior of the Sun (see granules) |
span-- | The form element represents a collection of form-associated elements, some of which can represent editable values that can be submitted to a server for processing. |
dps | A DPS is an account used for domestic payment transactions. |
internet | A global spider-web-like network of computers and computer systems with no central hub or single point of control |
constituents | Any objects that are bound together to make larger objects |
thermal convection | The energy transfer in a fluid by a mechanism of bulk hydrodynamic movement |
strict implication | The antecedent cannot be true with the consequent false at the same time. |
ca | See certifying authority |
bromine | A deep red, moderately reactive element belonging to the halogens |
simulation | A representation of a situation or problem with a similar but simpler model or a more easily manipulated model in order to determine experimental results. |
effective rate of interest | the simple interest rate that produces the same amount of interest as the compound interest rate |
compass | A compass is a device that always points north |
earthlight | Light reflected from the Earth's atmosphere onto the dark part of the Moon |
converging mirror | (Converging Reflector) A mirror that can reflect a parallel beam into a convergent beam |
kelvin | The SI unit of temperature usually denoted by K |
click fraud | An online crime that involves automating the act of clicking on a web link to perpetrate a fraud |
callisto | (a) Fifth (known) moon out from jupiter, and its second largest |
export encryption | Encryption, in any form, which leaves its country of origin |
proactive security | A property of a cryptographic protocol or structure which minimizes potential security compromises by refreshing a shared key or secret. |
dod | Department of Defense. |
span-- | The wbr element represents a line break opportunity |
seeing | Describes the blurring of a stellar (point-like) image due to turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere, both at high altitudes and within the telescope dome |
prime numbers | 3 + 13 = 16 Sum of the 2nd & 5th lucky numbers = 3 + 13 = 16 Sum of the 4th & 7th Fibonacci numbers = 3 + 13 = 16 |
advance of the perihelion | The slow rotation of the major axis of a planet's orbit in the same direction as the revolution of the planet itself, due to gravitational interactions with other planets and/or other effects (such as those due to general relativity) |
spyware | Software programs that are installed on a user's computer without their knowledge to secretly gather information about the user |
archimedes | Archimedes (287 B.C |
pss | See probabilistic signature scheme. |
baryonic | Consisting of baryons - protons and neutrons - baryonic matter is "normal" matter |
mean solar time | A measure of time based conceptually on the diurnal motion of the fictitious mean sun, under the assumption that the Earth's rate of rotation is constant |
web page | A single HTML-formatted file posted where it can be accessed via the World Wide Web. |
secular stability | The condition in which the equilibrium configuration of a system is stable over long periods of time |
encryption | The process of disguising data to hide its content |
ambiguous | not stable; changing |
polarity of a variable | the positivity or negativity of a variable; its direction |
strong induction | Apply the second principle of finite induction. |
big crunch | (a) The state of extremely high density and temperature into which a closed universe will recollapse in the distant future |
partner cards | Partner cards are cards issued by NLB together with certain major retailers |
variance | Learn how to calculate the variance of a random distribution. |
urgent orders | Urgent orders in the domestic payment system are transferred to a real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system |
compound interest | The calculation of interest payments taking into account of previous interest payments as part of the principal. |
second superstring revolution | Period in the development of string theory beginning around 1995 in which some nonperturbative aspects of the theory began to be understood |
allotropy | The existence of a solid substance in different physical forms |
equilibrium position | The position of an oscillating body at which no net force acts on it |
secure channel | A communication medium safe from the threat of eavesdroppers. |
interactive proof | A protocol between two parties in which one party, called the prover, tries to prove a certain fact to the other party, called the verifier |
equilibrium | The state of a system where the influences collectively negate the effects of each other. |
np | Nondeterministic polynomial running time |
span-- | The input element represents a typed data field, usually with a form control to allow the user to edit the data. |
bound-bound transitions | Transitions between energy levels of an electron bound to a nucleus (the electron is bound both before and after the transition) |
pki | Public-key Infrastructure |
span | Query all shards of a collection (the collection is implicit in the URL): |
span | The label represents a caption in a user interface |
net income | the amount an employee receives after all deductions are subtracted from the employee's gross income |
share price | A share price is the market price of a security traded on the stock exchange or another market |
milli | Milli is a prefix that means one-thousandth |
bisector of an angle | see angle bisector |
key management | The process and procedure for safely storing and distributing accurate cryptographic keys; the overall process of generating and distributing cryptographic keys to authorized recipients in a secure manner. |
compass | Also known as a pair of compasses, to avoid confusion with the instrument for telling directions |
persistent cookies | Persistent cookies are stored on your computer's hard drive where they remain resident until they are either deleted or they reach a predetermined expiration date |
history | then the cut goal is executed, and then studies |
plaintext | The data to be encrypted. |
bisect | To cut or divide into two parts, especially two equal parts. |
number field sieve | A method of factoring, currently the fastest general purpose factoring algorithm published |
sagittarius a | A radio source (the galactic center) about 12 pc in diameter |
regression of the nodes | The slow (19°.35 per year, 360° in 18.6 years), westward motion of the nodes of the Moon's orbit due to perturbations of the Earth and Sun |
red spot | An elliptical spot about 40,000 × 15,000 km on the southern hemisphere of Jupiter |
ansae | (a) The "handles", or extremities, of Saturn's rings as viewed from Earth (b) The extremities of a lenticular galaxy |
sidereal period | The time it takes for a planet or satellite to make one complete circuit of its orbit (360°) relative to the stars |
south atlantic anomaly | A disturbance in the geomagnetic field (a region of intense charged-particle fluxes) over the south part of the Atlantic Ocean |
modelling | method of producing a mathematical description to help solve practical problems |
nuclear physics | Solid State Physics |
mass | (a) The quantitative property of an object due to the matter it contains |
virtual phase | A type of CCD in which only one electrode is physically outside the silicon and is such as to obscure only half of the pixel |
intercloud medium | The sparsely populated (about 0.5 atoms per cm3) regions of space between the interstellar concentrations of gas and dust |
in-house payment | Independent ATM Deployer [IAD] |
subcritical | Describing an arrangement of fissile material that does not permit a sustained chain reaction because too many neutrons are absorbed without causing fission or otherwise lost |
s-process | The process by which elements heavier than copper are formed through a slow flux of neutrons |
element | Different elements are distinguished by the number of protons in their nuclei |
capacity | The maximum amount that can be contained by an object |
cavitation | The formation of small cavities in a liquid, caused by a reduction in fluid pressure |
data in motion | Data in motion (also known as data in transit) is literally information that is moving through a telecommunications network. For example, if you're sending an e-mail, that e-mail is classified as data in motion between the time it leaves the computers’ Local Area network (LAN) and the time the recipient receives it at a remote location in the Wide Area Network (WAN). |
deductive reasoning | The process of reasoning that starts from statements accepted as true and applied to a new situation to reach a conclusion (e.g., if 5+4 = 9, and 6+3 = 9, then 5+4 = 6+3). |
tamper-evident | Tamper-Evident Security Module [TESM] |
toxic debts | Trans-European Automated Real-Time Gross Settlement Express Transfer System [TARGET] |
span | (Recommended Standard 232) is a standard for serial binary data signals connecting between a DTE (Data Terminal Equipment) and a DCE (Data Circuit-terminating Equipment). |
soliton | A finite-amplitude hydrodynamic disturbance which is propagated through a fluid without any change of shape |
condensed matter physics | primarily the physics of solids and liquids |
statistical mechanics | The area of physics that analyzes the behavior of a system with very many members, such as a gas with many individual molecules |
custodian bank | A custodian bank is a bank that provides custodian services relating to securities |
span-- | The body element represents the main content of the document. |
decreasing | Decreasing means to lessen in extent or scope, to be reduced |
rule | a mathematical expression that describes a pattern or relationship, or a written description of the pattern or relationship. |
wave motion | Elastic Waves |
one pound | 16 ounces (weight) (Units of measure) |
alcyone | ( Tau) -- The brightest star in the Pleiades (spectral type B5) |
zodiacal light | A faint glow that extends away from the Sun in the ecliptic plane of the sky, visible to the naked eye in the western sky shortly after sunset or in the eastern sky shortly before sunrise |
data | Information that is gathered. |
massive black hole | Utilized in a theoretical model for quasars and active galactic nuclei, according to which the energy source is due to infall (and resultant heating) of gas and stars onto a supermassive central black hole |
atomic weight | The mean atomic mass of a particular element in atomic mass units |
dispersion | The variability of a quantity |
one pint | 16 ounces (volume) |
bowen fluorescence mechanism | A mechanism first discovered by Bowen which explains the anomalously strong lines of O III in the spectra of some planetary nebulae as fluorescence involving the radiative excitation of the 2p3d 3Po2 level of O2+ (54.71 eV) from the 2p2 3P2 state in the ground term by He II Lyman- photons (54.17 eV) |
fraunhofer diffraction | Dispersion, Absorption, Diffusion |
partitioning strategies | Strategies that are based on splitting numbers into two or more parts and then combining them in a different way, for example, 26 + 9 can be partitioned into 26 + 4 + 5 and then combined as 30 + 5. |
volume | the amount of space occupied in three dimensions and expressed in cubic units |
statement | a sentence that is either true or false |
master equation | an equation describing the evolution of the probability of a state at a given time as the balance between transitions leading to this state, and transitions removing the system from this state |
dichotomous data | Data where all entries fall into exactly one of two categories. |
converse | a reversed conditional |
non-performing loans | Loans to D and E rated clients and amounts of loans to A, B and C clients that are more than 90 days |
reasonableness | A judgment about an answer based on the learner asking: “Bearing in mind the known details and the context, is the answer reasonable/plausible?” |
altitude of a triangle | the perpendicular |
span | Creates or updates a given alias |
galilean satellites | The four largest satellites of Jupiter - Io (J I), Europa (J II), Ganymede (J III), and Callisto (J IV) - discovered by Galileo in 1610 |
active galactic nucleus | AGN -- An unusually bright galactic nucleus whose light is not due to starlight |
tcp handshake | A three-step process computers go through when negotiating a connection with one another |
mesosphere | The part of Earth's atmosphere immediately above the stratosphere, where the temperature drops from about 270 K to 180 K |
nonlinear key space | A key space comprised of strong and weak keys. |
counterclockwise | in orientation |
bohrium | A synthetic radioactive element first detected by bombarding a bismuth target with chromium nuclei |
cognition | The process of acquiring knowledge |
span | To demonstrate fail-over for high availability, press CTRL-C in the window running any one of the Solr servers except the instance running ZooKeeper |
location | one of the four main description of a point |
biconditional | a conditional and its converse where the converse is also true; uses the words if and only if; written pq |
account debit | An account debit represents the date on which a user wishes its account to be debited and an international transfer executed by the Bank on the user's behalf (a debit date may be selected up to one month in advance). |
censored observations | In statistics, observations which are made incomplete systematically due to the nature of the procedure (possible) for observation or the objects under study. |
hyperion | Eighth satellite of Saturn about 160 km in diameter |
volume | the amount of space |
dictionary attack | An attempt to guess a password by systematically trying every word in a dictionary as the password |
span | Details on using the ZkCLI command line tool and the options it supports can be found in the Solr Ref Guide. |
hmac | see MAC. |
accretion disk | A disk of gas that accumulates around a center of gravitational attraction, such as a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole |
unit price | Price per unit of measure. |
local maximum | The maximum point within a certain neighbourhood (and all smaller neighbourhoods). |
semi-major axis | Half the length of the major axis of an ellipse; a standard element used to describe an elliptical orbit |
rate | A ratio that compares different kinds of units. |
book value | Total equity / The number of issued shares (the Bank's own shares are not included) |
diffraction | Fraunhofer Diffraction |
palindrome | Words, numbers and phrases that can be read the same backwards as forwards |
mac | See message authentication code. |
regolith | The layer of fragmentary debris produced by meteoritic impact on the surface of the Moon or a planet |
span | Because we have been telling Solr that we want two logical shards, starting instances 3 and 4 are assigned to be additional replicas of those shards automatically. |
equal sharing | Working out how many times one number goes into another by repeated one-to-one matching |
blue supergiant | A supergiant star with spectral type O or B |
standard units of measure | accepted measuring devices and units of the customary or metric system. |
europa | One of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter 3600 km in diameter |
guarantees | Guarantees are the most reliable collateral instrument, as the level of security is conditional on the security of the bank that issues the guarantee |
milky way | (a) Our own galaxy, the second largest in the local group |
gravitational potential energy | (a) Energy that a body can acquire by falling through a gravitational field and that decreases as the kinetic energy increases |
coronal hole | An area where the extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray coronal emission is abnormally low or absent; a coronal region apparently associated with diverging magnetic fields |
vanishing line | the horizon; in a drawing it is at the height of viewer's eye |
consecutive vertices | endpoints of a single side |
account balance | An account balance is the current balance on a transaction account, not taking into account expected inflows and outflows. |
default | A predefined setting built into a program, used when an alternative setting is not specified. |
precomputation attack | An attack where the adversary precomputes a look-up table of values used to crack encryption or passwords |
digital cash | See electronic money |
statistics of molecules | Transport Phenomena: Diffusion, Thermal Conductivity, and Internal Friction |
lepton | (a) A fermion which is not made of quarks |
real interest rate | The real interest rate is the annual rate of growth in the real value of capital, calculated by reducing the increase in the nominal value of capital achieved in the form of interest by the effect of inflation. |
steady state theory | (a) Theory that the expanding Universe was never in a state of appreciably higher density - i.e., that there was no "big bang" - and that matter is constantly being created out of empty space in order to maintain the cosmic matter density |
attenuation | (a) The reduction of intensity of a radiation as it passes through a medium |
span | Long-Term Span Drift |
perspective drawing | A drawing of a figure made to look as it would in the real world |
anomalistic month | The interval (27.555 days) between two successive perigee passages of the Moon.[H76] |
gauss' law | Electric Potential |
logic | the study of the rules of reasoning |
counting principle | If a first event has n outcomes and a second event has m outcomes, then the first event followed by the second event has n times m outcomes. |
installation wizard | A software tool specifically designed to guide a user through the process of installing a new application. |
superposition principle | A quantum mechanical principle according to which any two states can be combined (actually in infinitely many ways) to form states which have characteristics intermediate between those of the two which are combined |
source function | The amount of radiant energy per unit mass per unit solid angle emitted in a specified direction |
microwave background radiation | thermal radiation with a temperature of about 3 K that is apparently uniformly distributed in the Universe; the radiation, discovered by A.A |
quaternion representation | Quaternions, discovered by William Hamilton, have the form a+bi+cj+dk, where i, j and k are "special" quantities. |
view | a drawing of a side of an object |
principal | An amount, typically money, upon which the time value of money (accumulation of an added percentage over a defined time) generates interest is termed Principal. |
span | Represents a run of text in one document marked or highlighted because of its relevance in another context. |
numerical data | Data that are expressed in number form (rather than by categories). |
key generation | The act of creating a key. |
inversion layer | a very thin layer of electrons trapped on an interface between a semiconductor and an insulator, or between two different semiconductors |
nominal interest rate | A nominal interest rate is a number that expresses a holder of capital's expectations with regard to compensation for the use of the holder's funds, excluding additional revaluations on account of inflation and other effects of the real value of money |
cassegrain telescope | Telescope devised by Cassegrain in which an auxiliary convex mirror reflects the magnified image, upside down, through a hole in the center of the main objective mirror - i.e., through the end of the telescope itself |
key management | The various processes that deal with the creation, distribution, authentication, and storage of keys. |
stratosphere | The region of Earth's atmosphere immediately above the troposphere |
axis | A reference line |
ptolemy | Claudius Ptolemaeus or Ptolemy (about 87-150) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician who wrote about his belief that all celestial bodies revolved around the Earth |
trojan horse | A malicious program disguised as a useful or fun program |
interest | A fee paid for use of an asset (often money) without taking ownership (the asset must be returned "as is" at the time of borrowing/lending). |
seed nuclei | Nuclei from which other nuclei are synthesized |
server | A computer that provides shared resources to network users |
elliptic curve cryptosystem | See ECC. |
light curve | A plot of magnitude or intensity versus time for a variable star |
volume | The amount of space enclosed in a three-dimensional figure, measured in cubic units. |
wan | Stands for Wide Area Network |
q.e.d. | Q.E.D |
kelvin | The kelvin is the fundamental unit of temperature in the SI system |
lucky numbers | 3 + 13 = 16 |
nanometer | A nanometer is unit of measure equal to 10 angstroms, which is one billionth (1 x 10-9) of a meter. |
correlation | The amount of interdependence in statistical relationship amongst two or more quantities. |
multiplex | Combining many signals into one or a small number of signals |
if-then statement | The classic biconditional statement is often phrased as an If-Then proposition. |
validate | To give evidence that a solution or process is correct. |
hard problem | A computationally-intensive problem; a problem that is computationally difficult to solve. |
lan | Stands for ‘Local Area Network’, a group of computers and associated devices that share a common communications line or wireless link. |
atom | (a) The smallest component of matter that retains its chemical properties |
savings book | A savings book is a form of savings in arbitrary amounts bearing an interest rate that is higher than on a personal account. |
after-image | An image seen after the eye's retina has been exposed for a time to an intense or stationary light source |
self-shrinking generator | A stream cipher where the output of an LFSR is allowed to feed back into itself. |
per annum | A phrase meaning "per year" in Latin |
shared key | The secret key two (or more) users share in a symmetric-key cryptosystem. |
decursive method | The decursive method is a method used to calculate interest by which interest is calculated from the initial principal (the amount of debt at the beginning of the accounting period) and paid most frequently (but not necessarily) at the end of the same period. |
bernoulli's theorem | Along a streamline the total energy per unit mass (including the internal energy and the pressure head p/) of an element of fluid remains constant as it moves |
abundance | (a) The relative amount of a given element among others; for example, the abundance of oxygen in the Earth's crust is approximately 50% by weight |
si units | see International System of Units |
m81 | A giant spiral galaxy 11 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major |
secular change | A continuous, nonperiodic change in one of the attributes of the states of a system |
me stars | Stars of spectral type M with emission lines in their spectra |
sculptor dwarf | A dwarf elliptical galaxy (Mv = - 11.28 mag, mass about 3 × 106 M), about 85 kpc distant, in the Local Group |
quarter | A quarter is a coin that is worth 25 cents |
and | A logical connective that captures the meaning of our understanding of the everyday word "and" |
angstrom | (a) A unit that measures the wavelength of light and equals 0.00000001 of a centimeter |
isomer shift | Displacement of an absorption line due to the fact that the absorbing nuclei have a different s-electron density from that of the emitting nuclei |
span-- | The span element doesn't mean anything on its own, but can be useful when used together with the global attributes, e.g |
homogeneity | (a) In cosmology, the property that any large volume of the universe looks the same as any other large volume |
ablation | Erosion of an object (generally a meteorite) by the friction generated when it passes through the Earth's atmosphere |
gateway | A system that provides access between two or more networks |
insolation | Amount of radiation received from the Sun per unit area on the Earth's surface per unit time |
key escrow | The process of having a third party hold onto encryption keys. |
ordinal number | Ordinal Numbers are ordinary numbers, or the sequential references of order as first, second, third, and so on. |
measure | A noun or verb, Measure implies comparison to an established standard. |
rotational symmetry | the ability of a figure to map onto itself after a partial turn about its centre |
schottky barrier | A metal to semiconductor interface without any insulation layer produces an energy barrier in the semiconductor which can be used like a diode |
strong-weak duality | Situation in which a strongly coupled theory is dual-physically identical-to a different, weakly coupled theory |
secure socket layer | This protocol was developed by Netscape Communications Corporation to provide a high level of security for Internet communications |
tooltip | A name or phrase that appears when the mouse pointer pauses over a button or icon. |
globule | A dense, spherical cloud of dust that absorbs radiation (see Bok globule) |
encryption | The process of scrambling or encrypting information into a form that cannot be read or understood unless you have the corresponding key |
kilogram | A kilogram (kg) is a unit of mass defined as the mass of one liter of water |
non inertial mechanics | Special Relativity |
stationary nonequilibrium state | time-independent state of a system subjected to fixed constraints |
dual game | A game where the optimal strategy for each player is to cooperate, as opposed to a zero-sum game. |
uv | Ultraviolet: wavelengths shorter than about 350 nm |
net interest margin | Net interest income / Average interest-bearing assets |
span | The SPLITSHARD command will create two new shards by splitting the given shard's index into two pieces |
equation | A mathematical sentence asserting the sameness of two quantities through the use of an equals sign. |
lunation | (a) The period of time between two successive new Moons (cf |
tcsec | Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria. |
barred spiral galaxy | (in Hubble's classification, SB: in Morgan's classification, B) A spiral galaxy whose nucleus is in the shape of a bar, at the ends of which the spiral arms start |
terminator | The boundary between the illuminated and dark areas of the apparent disk of the Moon, a planet or a planetary satellite |
shot noise | Noise, or fluctuations in the current of a detector, due to the fact that the current is carried not by a smooth fluid, but by a large number of individual electrons (cf |
string | (a) Fundamental one-dimensional object that is the essential ingredient in string theory |
java applet | A small program written in the Java programming language that can be included on an HTML page, much in the same way an image is included |
web site | A collection of affiliated Web pages. |
rank | Have a specified 'rank' or place/position within a grading system. |
nano | Nano is a prefix meaning one billionth (1 x 10-9) |
celestial sphere | An imaginary sphere of arbitrary radius upon which celestial bodies may be considered to be located |
property | a special quality of something |
21-cm radiation | The emission line (in the radio range at a frequency of 1420 MHz) of neutral (atomic) hydrogen, caused when an electron "flips" from spinning in a direction parallel to the proton's spin to the opposite direction of lower energy |
counterclockwise | The direction around a circle opposite from that in which the hands of a clock move. |
tell | we tell Prolog that the new current output stream is to be the file "mytable.data" |
year | A year consists of 12 months, roughly 52 weeks, or about 365 days. |
ground state | (a) The lowest energy state of an atom, molecule, or other system |
ounce | An ounce is a unit of measure |
auto-catalysis | the ability of certain chemicals to enhance by their presence the rate of their own production in a sequence of chemical reactions |
lpc | Linear Predictive Coding A method for digitizing human speech by analyzing and storing specific characteristics of it, in such a way that an intelligible signal can be reconstructed later |
simulation | Cases in which probabilities are difficult to get experimentally; it is common to resource to models of the involved events. |
worm | A self-replicating program that seeks access into other computers by exploiting security flaws |
empirical probability | the likelihood of an event happening that is based on experience and observation rather than on theory. |
return on equity | Profit / Average shareholders' equity |
toy theory | A theory which is known to be too simple to describe reality, but which is nonetheless useful for theorists to study because it incorporates some important features of reality |
theoretical/expected probability | the likelihood of an event happening based on theory rather than on experience and observation. |
capi | Cryptographic Application Programming Interface. |
lfsr | linear feedback shift register |
astronomical twilight | The period from sunset to the time that the Sun is 18° below the horizon; or the corresponding period before sunrise |
lyman alpha clouds | Gas lying between us and quasars that absorbs some of the radiation from those quasars |
pixel | small dot of color that makes up computer and TV screens |
contrapositive | a type of conditional |
stem and leaf plot | A technique for organizing data for comparison. |
carbon monoxide | A molecule consisting of one carbon atom and one oxygen atom (CO) |
one cup | 16 tablespoons (volume) |
zero | The only real value that is neither negative nor positive |
webblocker | An optional WatchGuard software module that prevents users behind the Firebox from accessing undesirable Web sites |
opposites | Opposites are things that are very, very different from each other |
crescent | A crescent is the shape of the moon shortly before and after the time of the new moon. |
swift | Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications. |
geocentric | (a) Having the Earth at the centre |
baryogenesis | (a) The process by which the Universe's net baryon number was generated |
algorithm | A sequence of steps to accomplish a familiar task; a recipe. |
span | Aliasing allows you to create a single 'virtual' collection name that can point to one more real collections |
synchrotron radiation | (a) The radiation emitted by charged relativistic particles spiraling in magnetic fields |
crl | Certificate Revocation List. |
rounds | The number of times a function, called a round function, is applied to a block in a Feistel cipher. |
span-- | The button element represents a button |
epact | The age of the Moon; the number of days since New Moon, diminished by one day, on January 1 in the Gregorian ecclesiastical lunar cycle |
star | A celestial object that generates energy by means of nuclear fusion at its core |
initial condition | (a) In physics, the state of a system at the time at which a given interaction begins - e.g., the approach of two electrons that are about to undergo an electromagnetic interaction |
oaep | Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding; a provably secure way of encrypting a message. |
copernicus | An Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO-3), launched 1972 August 21 (a = 7123 km, e = 0.00083, i = 35°.0) equipped with an ultraviolet telescope, a steerable X-ray telescope, and gamma-ray detectors |
effective interest rate | An effective interest rate is the percentage rate that reflects the total annual costs of a loan |
solar prominence | Mass of hot, hydrogen rising from the Sun's chromosphere, best observed indirectly during a total eclipse |
device | A generic term for computer equipment such as a hub, switch, router, or printer. |
electric circuits | Magnetic Field |
biconvex | Describing a lens with two convex faces |
gss-api | generic security service application program interface. |
volume | the amount of space a 3-D object can hold |
managing branch | A managing branch is the unit of the Bank that manages a user's account. |
pension fund | A pension fund is an investment fund in which funds are typically saved for several years to serve as or supplement a pension |
star | A star is a shape that has many points. |
existential statement | a conditional that uses the word 'same' |
azimuth | (a) Directional bearing around the horizon, measured in degrees from north (0°) |
spoofing | Altering data packets to falsely identify the originating computer |
kinematics | The branch of mechanics that studies bodies undergoing continuous change of position |
rate | A ratio comparing two different units (e.g., miles per hour). |
molecular statistics | Transport Phenomena |
aperture | (a) The effective diameter of the primary mirror or lens of a telescope |
imperfect gas | Liquids |
vertex of a polygon | an endpoint of a segment |
span | Static Pressure |
countable | In common language, countable just means reasonably enumerated or countable, as in there are not too many objects to physically count |
anticenter | The direction of the sky (in Auriga) opposite to that toward the center of the Milky Way |
worm | A malicious program that replicates itself over a computer network |
surrogate | A measure that substitutes for (and correlates with) a real endpoint but has no assured relationship; for example, tumour shrinkage in response to chemotherapy (surrogate) does not assure that the patient will live longer (endpoint). |
electronic money | Electronic mathematical representation of money. |
libor | LIBOR is the abbreviation for the London Interbank Offered Rate, which is used in various agreements |
span-- | The label represents a caption in a user interface |
harmonic motion | A system with a (negative feedback) force proportional to but in the opposite direction of displacement. |
scintillator | A detector for high-energy photons such as gamma-rays |
bright blue variables | Early-type high-luminosity stars with peculiar spectra and large-amplitude light variations over a long time scale (e.g |
resolution | the density of pixels |
high school math | Solve hard problems using elementary techniques. |
leasing | Leasing is a form of financing that allows a lessee to lease a vehicle, equipment or real estate (typically the subject of a lease) for business purposes |
cds | Correlated Double Sampling A technique used with CCDs to remove an unwanted electrical signal, associated with resetting of the tiny "on-chip" CCD output amplifier, which would otherwise compromise the performance of the detector |
decibel | A logarithmic unit for the ratio of two quantities, or a quantity against a reference quantity |
linux | An open source version of the UNIX operating system. |
c galaxies | In the Yerkes 1974 system, small, high surface-brightness galaxies which are slightly resolved on medium- and large-scale photographs |
zeolite | An absorbent material (in the form of small pellets) used in low-temperature cryostats to trap gases released gradually after active pumping has ceased |
eclipse | (a) Occultation of one celestial body by another which passes between it and the observer |
converse | Given a statement of the form "If A then B", the converse of this statement is the one which states "If B then A" |
synodic period | (a) Time between one opposition and the next, of any superior planet or asteroid |
materialism | Belief that material objects and their interactions constitute the complete reality of all phenomena, including such seemingly insubstantial phenomena as thoughts and dreams |
significance level | The probability below which an observation as extreme (or more) would have to be, by first assuming the null hypothesis, before the assumed null hypothesis is rejected, within the context of hypothesis testing. |
light year | An unit of distance travelled by light in a vacuum over a year. |
b | but not a |
blocked port | A security measure in which a specific port is disabled, stopping users outside the firewall from gaining access to the network through that port |
actinic radiation | Radiation that can cause a chemical reaction; for example, ultraviolet radiation is actinic |
coronagraph | (a) Device for studying the Solar corona at any time of the day |
frequency diagram | a diagram used to record the number of times an event occurs |
algorithm | a plan for the manipulation of data within a computer. |
pauli exclusion principle | Nuclear Physics |
chondrite | A stony meteorite usually characterized by the presence of chondrules (q.v.) |
span | As a convenience, we'll have the first server upload the solr config to the cluster |
pkcs | Public-key cryptography Standards |
guess and check | trial and error problems solving strategy |
coma | The spherical region of diffuse gas, about 150,000 km in diameter, which surrounds the nucleus (q.v.) of a comet |
helium burning | The stage when a star fuses helium into carbon and oxygen |
conclusion | the part in the then clause of a conditional statement |
debit card | A debit card is a payment card for which the user's personal account is charged immediately for expenditures, similar to payment by check or a cash withdrawal from an ATM |
finite | Not infinite |
symmetry | A figure exhibits symmetry when part of the figure is the mirror image of another part of the figure |
symbiotic stars | (a) Objects exhibiting a spectrum corresponding to a low-temperature star (generally a giant) plus emission lines corresponding to a hot plasma.[JJ95] (b) A term originally used by P |
span | The time it takes an element to respond to a change in the value of the measured variable or to produce a change in the output signal. |
refractor | A telescope in which the light is focused by a lens at the viewing side of the telescope |
doubling time | The time for a quantity to double where the quantity is in exponential growth |
solar energy | Is produced by nuclear fusion and comprises almost entirely electromagnetic radiation (particularly in the form of light and heat); particles are also radiated forming the solar wind |
approved limit | An approved limit or overdraft facility, credit line or account limit is the amount that may be withdrawn from an account, even when the balance on the account in question in the chosen currency is zero |
symbiotic stars | (a) Objects exhibiting a spectrum corresponding to a low-temperature star (generally a giant) plus emission lines corresponding to a hot plasma.[JJ95] |
game theory | In The mathematical study of mathematical objects called games which consists of a set of players, a set of actions available to players during specified stages of the game and specified method for determining the payoffs for the players. |
covert channel | A hidden communication medium. |
symbolic expression | a symbol or set of symbols expressing a mathematical quantity or operation (e.g., 2x is equal to two times x). |
confounding | A certain property of an extraneous variable - the property of the so-called lurking variable. |
grazing-incidence telescope | A telescope used in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy |
recursion | Given some starting information and a rule for how to use it to get new information, the rule is then repeated using the new information. |
annual variation | The direction and strength of the Earth's magnetic field at any point changes with time |
capital adequacy ratio | Capital / risk adjusted items or Capital / (capital requirements / 8%) |
span-- | The base element allows authors to specify the document base URL for the purposes of resolving relative URLs, and the name of the default browsing context for the purposes of following hyperlinks |
internet | The connection of computer networks from all over the world forming a worldwide network. |
magnetohydrodynamics | MHD The study of how magnetic fields interact with conducting fluids (e.g |
interstellar cloud | A collection of gas and dust that lies between the stars |
interpulse | The weaker component of a pulsar pulse when its period is roughly half that of the main pulse |
measurement | The ratio of the observation of an aspect of an object to that of standard reference objects sharing in property of that same aspect. |
span | The command element represents a command that the user can invoke |
span-- | The command element represents a command that the user can invoke |
geocentric cosmology | (a) School of ancient theories that depicted the earth as standing, immobile, at the center of the universe |
compromise | The unintended disclosure or discovery of a cryptographic key or secret. |
stream cipher | A secret-key encryption algorithm that operates on a bit at a time. |
span-- | The menu element represents a list of commands. |
identity certificate | A signed statement that binds a public encryption key to the name of an individual and therefore delegates authority from that individual to the public key |
magic number | (a) In nuclear physics, one of several numbers of neutrons or protons that characterize especially stable atomic nuclei |
colinear | in the same line |
itu-t | International Telecommunications Union - Telecommunications standardization sector. |
baade's window | A clearing in the dust clouds of the constellation Sagittarius where astronomers can view stars in the Galactic bulge |
compass rose | A compass rose is a design on a map that shows direction |
rosette nebula | An HII region (M16, NGC 2237-2244) in Monoceros, more than 1 kpc distant |
individual rating | Rating representing the bank as an independent institution without the possibility to receive external support |
odd | In common language: strange or unusual |
baudot | Method for sending text-based messages over wire or radio links, using a 5-bit digital code |
span | Send this query multiple times and observe the logs from the solr servers |
kilogram | The SI unit for mass, usually denoted kg |
light waves | Geometrical Optics |
inertia | Property of a moving body to continue moving at the same speed in the same direction - or of a static body to remain static - unless and until acted upon by some force for change |
span | When Solr runs an embedded zookeeper server, it defaults to using the solr port plus 1000 for the zookeeper client port |
cd galaxy | In Morgan's classification, a supergiant elliptical galaxy with a large, faint halo; an outstandingly large, luminous D galaxy |
cryptanalysis | Codebreaking The study of methods for obtaining the meaning of encrypted information, without access to the secret information that is normally required to do so |
alfvén-klein cosmology | A cosmological model in which the early Universe is depicted as a giant collapsing spherical cloud of matter and antimatter |
solid geometry | the study of figures in three-dimensional space |
epsilon eridani | A young orange dwarf star in the constellation Eridanus that is visible to the naked eye and lies just 10.7 light-years away from the Sun |
scale model | a model or drawing based on a ratio of the dimensions for the model and the actual object it represents (e.g., a map). |
span | You must have a replication handler called /replication defined: |
s-http | Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol, a secure way of transferring information over the World Wide Web. |
credit card | A credit card is a payment card for which the user's liabilities are settled once a month, on the 8th, 18th or 28th of the month at the holder's discretion |
field lens | A lens placed in or near the focal plane of a telescope to create an image of the primary mirror inside the instrument |
squiggle | see Break. |
span | This command starts up a Solr server and bootstraps a new solr cluster. |
rho | Lower-case Rho, the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet, is often used for density (mass per unit volume) in physics. |
agent | A computer program that reports information to another computer or allows another computer access to the local system |
database | Database Administrator [DBA] |
celestial mechanics | The study of motions of celestial bodies such as stars, planets and comets etc. |
maxwell's equations | (a) Equations governing the varying electric and magnetic fields in a medium |
lemaître universe | A big-bang cosmology proposed by the Belgian Abbey Lemaître in 1929 in which the Universe is assumed to have exploded from a primeval "atom" |
malware | A blend of the words "malicious" and "software," malware includes computer viruses, worms, Trojan Horses, spyware and a multitude of other damaging and unwanted software |
bob | The name traditionally used for the second user of cryptography in a system; Alice's friend. |
reduced proper motion | The observed proper motion of a star (in seconds of arc per year) reduced to absolute proper motion (in kilometers per second) |
curvilinear kinematics | Rotational Kinematics |
gsm network | A GSM network is a digital telecommunications network that facilitates radio communication links between mobile phone users within the GSM network and other telecommunication networks. |
electric oscillation | Alternating Current |
book-entry securities | Book-entry securities represent a form of securities transaction in which the securities are not printed as a written document |
model | To represent or show mathematical ideas and relationships and real-world situations using objects, pictures, graphs, tables, functions, and other methods. |
rayleigh-taylor instability | A type of hydrodynamic instability for static fluids (see Taylor instability) in which the density increases outward [H76] |
datagram | A packet of data that contains information, plus origin and destination addresses |
nominal data | A type of categorical data with no obvious ordering that is relevant to the mathematical aspects concerned. |
big data | Large amounts of structured and unstructured data that require machine-based systems and technologies in order to be fully analysed. |
-particle | (a) An electron or a positron emitted from an excited nucleus when it returns to its ground state via -decay |
bank financial strenght rating | Rating reflecting the internal financial strength, security, soundness and the banks credit portfolio without taking into consideration the external elements of support and risks |
curie | (a) Unit of radioactivity |
analytic geometry | see coordinate geometry |
instance of a sentence | a situation where the statement is true |
45-45-90 triangle | an isoscoles |
encke's comet | The comet with the shortest known period (3.30 years) (a = 2.21 AU, e = 0.847, i = 12°.4) |
cube number | 216 |
ikp | Internet Keyed Payments Protocol. |
message | Message Authentication Code [MAC] |
radio telescope | Non-optical telescope (of various types) which, instead of focusing light received from a distant object, focuses radio signals onto a receiver-amplifier |
unit cube | unit of measuring volume |
credit rating | A credit rating is a written assessment issued by international credit rating agencies indicating the level of risk associated with failure to pay liabilities arising from securities (e.g |
cloud chamber | A glass-walled enclosure containing a vapor in which particles can be detected by photographing the tracks of water droplets they leave behind when they pass through the chamber |
shock wave | A sharp change in the pressure, temperature, and density of a fluid which develops when the velocity of the fluid begins to exceed the velocity of sound |
alias | A shortcut that enables a user to identify a group of hosts, networks, or users under one name |
centi | Centi is a prefix that means one-hundredth |
h | Chemical symbol for hydrogen |
construction | a precise way of drawing which allows only 2 tools: the straightedge and the compass |
chu-wee lim | Contributor Chu Wee Lim. |
indices | Plural of the word index |
signature | A digital code created with a private key |
specific gravity | Ratio of the mass of a given volume of a substance to that of an equal volume of water |
si | International System of Units. |
basic deductions | deductions set by the federal government that include Canada Pension Plan (CPP), Employment Insurance (EI), and income tax |
span | Any element that controls current without moving parts, vacuum gaps or heated filaments. |
isothermal change | A process that takes place at constant temperature |
clock | A clock tells you what time it is. |
i | Common symbol used to represent the "positive" square root of -1. |
rw aurigae | A dG5e T Tauri star with a strong ultraviolet excess |
script | A file that contains a sequence of instructions for an interpreter, the "script" for that interpreter to follow. |
cubed | a number multiplied by itself three times |
resolution | The ability of an optical system, including detector, to separate two adjacent objects - this is called "spatial resolution" - or two adjacent wavelengths in a spectrometer - this is called "spectral resolution" |
gaseous fragmentation | The systematic breakup of a gas cloud into smaller and smaller subunits as the gas cools and continues to collapse |
composite numbers | 6 + 10 = 16 |
span | Since we'll need two solr servers for this example, simply make a copy of the example directory for the second server -- making sure you don't have any data already indexed. |
bridge | A piece of hardware used to connect two local area networks, or segments of a LAN, so that devices on the network can communicate without requiring a router |
central tendency | A common measure in summary statistics bsed around the loose idea that we can assign one location to represent the locations of a number of objects considered as one |
sufficient condition | a version of a conditional |
becquerel | An SI derived unit of radioacitivity denoted by the symbol Bq. |
radiative capture | Capture of a free electron by an ion with the subsequent emission of an X-ray (or gamma-ray) photon (also called Radiative Recombination ) |
accretion | (a) Collection of material together, generally to form a single body |
tier 1 ratio | Tier 1 capital / risk adjusted items or Tier 1 capital / (capital requirements / 8%) |
billion | (a) For the purposes of cosmology, one billion is defined as an American billion, i.e |
helium abundance | (a) Presence - and dominance - of helium atoms in the Universe |
nist | National Institute of Standards and Technology, a United States agency that produces security and cryptography related standards (as well as others); these standards are published as FIPS documents. |
lombard rate | A Lombard rate is the interest rate a central bank charges commercial banks for loans approved on the basis of securities collateral. |
redshift | The shift of spectral lines toward longer wavelengths in the spectrum of a receding source of radiation |
password | A character string used as a key to control access to files or encrypt them. |
whitelist | Wide Area Network [WAN] |
reflection-symmetric figure | a figure that shows reflection symmetry |
single sign-on | A log-in routine in which one logon provides access to all resources on the network. |
absolute temperature | (a) Temperature measured on the Kelvin scale: 0 Kelvin = -273.15° Celsius |
forward bias | A term applied to an electronic device known as a diode - usually formed by a junction of p-type and n-type semiconductor material - in which current flows easily if the externally applied voltage has the correct polarity or direction |
background noise | All the interference effects in a system which is producing, measuring, or recording a signal |
cu | The chemical symbol for copper |
personal password | A personal password is a string of characters defined by an NLB Klik user, which serves as an additional form of security when logging in to and using NLB Klik. |
spectroscopic binaries | Stars whose binary nature can be detected from the periodic Doppler shifts of their spectra, owing to their varying velocities in the line of sight |
span | Ability of a measuring instrument to provide an indication having a linear relationship with a defined quantity other than an influence quantity |
reflection line | another name for a mirror line |
interest | Interest is the compensation (fee) for the use of foreign funds that a borrower is obliged to pay a lender for capital lent in the form of money. |
reticle | A system of cross-hairs in the eyepiece of a telescope |
anomalous zeeman effect | Splitting of spectral lines into several components, in contrast to the normal Zeeman effect which results in only two distinct components |
galactic centers | Are now thought to comprise black holes - which would explain why the centre of our Galaxy appears strangely obscure, and emits only infrared radiation |
ep galaxy | In Morgan's classification, an elliptical galaxy with dust absorption |
home page | The first page of a multi-page Web site, used as an entrance into the site. |
ionosphere | (a) The region of Earth's atmosphere (80-500 km), immediately above the stratosphere |
span | This example will simply build off of the previous example by creating another copy of shard1 and shard2 |
concrete representations of numbers | having a definite form or relating to an actual object. |
fg sagittae | A supergiant whose spectral type has changed from B4 Ia in 1955 to A5 Ia in 1967 to F6 Ia in 1972 |
documentary credit | A documentary credit may be used as a payment or collateral instrument. |
concordance | A measure of agreement of pairwise bijective set of orderings on a finite number of objects. |
biweekly | every two weeks |
model | mathematical description used to solve a problem |
thermal equilibrium | (a) A state in which there is no net flow of heat |
hst | Hubble Space Telescope |
alfvén number | A dimensionless number characterizing steady fluid flow past an obstacle in a uniform magnetic field parallel to the direction of flow |
ethernet | One of the least expensive, most widely deployed networking standards, enabling the transmission of data at 10 million bits per second (Mbps), using a specified protocol |
half-life | (a) The time it takes for half of a given quantity of radioactive material to decay |
fifo | First-In-First-Out buffer |
one rupee | 16 Annas (India coinage: 1835-1957) |
key | A key is a piece of information (parameter) that determines the functional output of a cryptographic algorithm (cipher) |
ephemeris | (a) A list or tabulation of astronomical phenomena that change with time |
dyne | A non-SI unit of force. |
magnetosphere | (a) The extent of a planet's magnetic field |
blazed grating | Diffraction grating so ruled that the reflected light is concentrated into only a few orders, or even a single order, of the spectrum |
galactic halo | (a) A spherical aggregation of stars, globular star clusters, and thin gas clouds, centered on the nucleus of the galaxy and extending beyond the known extremities of the galactic disk |
run | the change in x going from one point of y to another (the horizontal change on the graph. |
stronger induction | Suppose we have a problem we would like to approach by Induction, but are not given the Induction hypothesis |
els | Eggen, Lynden-Bell and Sandage An influential paper published in 1962 by Olin Eggen, Donald Lynden-Bell, and Allan Sandage, who argued that the Galaxy formed from a single huge cloud of gas that rapidly collapsed |
patent | The sole right, granted by the government, to sell, use, and manufacture an invention or creation. |
milne cosmological model | A Friedmann model of the Universe in which matter does not exist |
potential energy | Energy stored in an object (or a system) due to the position of the object (or the physical configuration of the system). |
span | replicationFactor: The number of copies of each document (or, the number of physical replicas to be created for each logical shard of the collection.) A replicationFactor of 3 means that there will be 3 replicas (one of which is normally designated to be the leader) for each logical shard |
lorentzian | The adjective “Lorentzian” is used in these notes to distinguish the physics that applies in our own universe from that which applies in the universe of Orthogonal. |
fraction | part of a whole |
open system | a system communicating with the environment by the exchange of energy and matter.[D89] |
monotonic | The property of an ordered set of values where changes are all in the same direction, and may allow for no change depending on the definition used. |
consequent | In the conventional way of expressing hypothetical propositions, "If A then B", the consequent is the second part of the sentence |
savings account | a bank account that earns interest on the balance of the account |
web browser | Software used to view the World Wide Web, a graphically rich presentation of information on the Internet |
connective | An operator that conbines 2 sentences into a new sentence such that the truth value of the new sentence is a function of the truth values of the 2 sentences. |
biconditional | A biconditional statement has literally two conditions |
r | rotation |
firewall | Software or hardware components that restrict access between a protected network and the Internet, or between other sets of networks, to block unwanted use or abuse. |
span-- | The source element allows authors to specify multiple alternative media resources for media elements |
secret sharing | Splitting a secret (e.g |
algebra | The branch of mathematics that allows manipulation of symbols and values to determine quantities that are not always fixed |
non-repudiation | A property of a cryptosystem |
color temperature | A stellar temperature determined by comparison of the spectral distribution of the star's radiation with that of a blackbody |
span | First, stop all 4 servers and then clean up the zookeeper data directories for a fresh start. |
confinement | The property of quarks which implies that they cannot exist as free particles, but are forever bound into protons, neutrons, etc |
x-rays | (a) Photons of wavelengths between about 0.1 Å and 100 Å - more energetic than ultraviolet, but less energetic than -rays |
intercalar interest | Intercalar interest is interest that is calculated separately for each portion of a drawn loan (tranche), from the time the loan is drawn (used) until loan repayment begins |
fps | An FPS is an account for international payment transactions. |
hmgcc | Her Majesty's Government Communications Centre British development centre for secure communications, hardware and software |
missing mass problem | Poses the question: why does the Universe seem to have much more mass in it than can be seen with a telescope? Dynamical and theoretical constraints place the proportion of missing mass to be somewhere between 90-99 per cent of the total mass of the Universe |
value date | The value date is the day determined by the client on which a transaction is processed |
exclusive or | one or the other, but not both |
wz sagittae | A recurrent DAe old nova (1913 and 1946) with the shortest known orbital period (about 80 minutes) |
options | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD] |
epsilon indi | An old orange dwarf star in the southern constellation Indus that lies 11.2 light-years away from the Sun |
digital certificate certifying authority | A digital certificate certifying authority is an individual or legal entity that issues certificates or renders other authentication or electronic signature services. |
key recovery | A special feature of a key management scheme that allows messages to be decrypted even if the original key is lost. |
biology | The scientific study of life and living matter |
rotational kinematics | Translational Dynamics |
equals sign | The symbol = placed between two mathematical sentences to assert their sameness. |
cost/income ratio | Operating expenses / Total income |
one pint | 16 ounces |
web beacon | Web beacons are very small transparent images (usually 1 x 1 pixel) and are sometimes called clear gifs or actions tags |
retrograde | (a) In a backwards direction; in astronomy this means in a direction corresponding to east-to-west |
compounding period | length of time over which interest on an investment is calculated |
descartes | René Descartes ( March 31, 1596 - February 11, 1650) was a French mathematician and philosopher |
partition of an interval | The act of dividing an interval into a set of non-overlapping intervals that together complete cover the original. |
biasing | A hypothesized feature of the condensation of galaxies out of a background medium of gas |
mean free time | For gas atoms or molecules in a container, or electrons and impurity atoms in a semiconductor, the average time between particle collisions |
coulomb barrier | (a) Electromagnetic zone of resistance surrounding protons (or other electrically charged particles) that tends to repel other protons (or other particles of like charge) |
span | collection.configName: The name of the config (must be already stored in zookeeper) to use for this new collection |
reproducing universes | The process in some inflationary universe models whereby the universe is constantly spawning new universes, causally disconnected from each other and from the parent universe |
rsa algorithm | A public-key cryptosystem based on the factoring problem |
leo systems | Two dwarf elliptical galaxies (about 220-250 kpc distant) belonging to the Local Group |
sim card | A SIM card is a code-encrypted card that enables the user of a GSM device to connect to the mobile operator's network and identifies the user of the GSM network |
magus solution writer | Engage with and guide your audience. |
trinomial: | a polynomial containing exactly three unlike terms |
isotope | (a) An atomic nucleus having the same number of protons as a more commonly found atomic nucleus but a different number of neutrons |
scalable architecture | Software and/or hardware constructed so that it can grow efficiently. |
adiabatic fluctuations | Fluctuations in both the matter and radiation density, as though a volume of the Universe were slightly squeezed but allowing no radiation to escape |
rating outlook | Rating representing the expected future movements of the credit rating |
dns spoofing | An attack technique where a hacker intercepts your system's requests to a DNS server in order to issue false responses as though they came from the real DNS server |
finite | The common meaning of Finite and its meaning to mathematicians are not quite the same |
intermediate vector boson | (a) IVB Generic name for W and Z bosons - the carriers of the weak force |
salt | A string of random (or pseudo-random) bits concatenated with a key or password to foil precomputation attacks. |
strategies | Knowledge, skills and/or awareness combined and used for a particular purpose. |
hard made easy | Simplifying a problem |
color | (a) An attribute which distinguishes otherwise identical quarks of the same flavor |
azeotropic mixture | Aseotrope: A mixture of two liquids that boils without any change in composition |
hulse-taylor pulsar | A binary pulsar discovered in 1974, probably consisting of a neutron star and an even more compact object in an eccentric orbit, with an orbital period of 0.3230 days and a pulsation period of 59 milliseconds |
span | And now, a request to either server results in a distributed search that covers the entire collection: |
origin | The central reference point of a coordinate system. |
gegenschein | (a) Faint oval patch of light visible from Earth only at certain times of the year, opposite the Sun |
geocorona | The outermost part of Earth's atmosphere, a hydrogen halo extending out to perhaps 15 Earth radii, which emits Lyman- radiation when it is bombarded by sunlight |
transport phenomena | First Law of Thermodynamics |
universal statement | a conditional that uses the words 'all' or 'everything' |
limit | A limit is an approved overdraft facility in the domestic currency on a given account |
currency risk | Currency risk is the risk arising from currency fluctuations when an investor purchases securities or transacts with a financial instrument that is not denominated in the currency of the investor's home country |
megan blewett | Contributor Megan Blewett |
index calculus | A method used to solve the discrete logarithm problem. |
prisoner's dilemma | A family of related symmetric decision making problems with 2 players in game theory where the Nash equilibrium is not the optimal state for either player. |
reset noise | The unwanted and uncertain electrical signal transmitted to the output pin of a CCD during the process of recharging, via the reset transistor, the output storage capacitor to its preset value in readiness for the next pixel charge |
see | we tell Prolog that the new current input stream is to be the file mydata.text |
microwave radiation | (a) Radiation in the electromagnetic spectrum between infrared and radio waves |
span | The figure element represents some flow content, optionally with a caption, that is self-contained and is typically referenced as a single unit from the main flow of the document. |
antecedent | the 'if' part of a conditional |
prism | A solid figure whose cross section (perpendicular to an axis) is the same along the whole axis. |
handshake | A protocol two computers use to initiate a communication session. |
stochastic | Having the property of being random/non-deterministic. |
direct current | Electric circuits |
rate | a ratio where the quantities are of different kinds; example: 60 miles per hour |
span | Then start the two new servers on different ports, each in its own window: |
contrapositive | Given a statement of the form "If A then B", the contrapositive of such a statement is the one which states "If not B then not A" |
alchemy | Art of bringing parts of the Universe to the perfect state toward which they were thought to aspire - e.g., gold for metals, immortality for human beings |
chemical enrichment | The process in which a star manufactures chemical elements, such as carbon and oxygen, in the nuclear reactions in its interior and then ejects these elements into space |
birefringent crystal | A crystal that splits incident transmitted light into two beams, each polarized perpendicularly to the other |
modem | A shortened version of "modulator/demodulator," this is the word for a communications device that sends computer transmissions over a standard telephone line. |
prime numbers | 3 + 13 = 16 |
schwarzschild black hole | A nonrotating, spherically symmetric black hole derived from Karl Schwarzchild's 1916 exact solution to Einstein's vacuum field equations |
compton scattering | (a) The scattering of photons by free electrons in an ionized medium |
eccentrics | In Ptolemaic cosmology, displacement of the center of a rotating celestial sphere from the center of the Universe |
oxygen-rich giants | A collective designation for giants showing metal oxide molecules - thus M, MS and S stars |
deterministic model | A mathematical model where the states of a model is determined completely by parameters of the model as well as prior states of the model only. |
general meeting of shareholders | The general meeting of shareholders is the highest body of a public limited company and comprises shareholders |
metastable state | (a) A condition of a system or body in which it appears to be in stable equilibrium but, if disturbed, can settle into a lower energy state |
penetration test | Personal Data Assistant / Personal Digital Assistant [PDA] |
span-- | The tbody element represents a block of rows that consist of a body of data for the parent table element, if the tbody element has a parent and it is a table. |
geometrical optics | Interference |
unification | Scientists have sought for centuries to unify the descript ions of apparently different phenomena by showing that they were due to the same underlying natural laws and that complex levels of matter were made of simpler levels |
terminal velocity | The steady final velocity reached by a body in a fluid when the resultant force on it is zero.[DC99] |
trial | An experiment within a series of experiments. |
span | The National Electrical Manufacturers Association, a trade association in the US of electrical equipment manufacturers that develops many industry technical standards in particular is the standard for electrical equipment enclosures. |
strong force | (a) Strongest of the four fundamental forces, responsible for keeping quarks locked inside protons and neutrons and for keeping protons and neutrons crammed inside of atomic nuclei |
organized data | data arranged in a display that is meaningful and that assists in the interpretation of the data |
infinite | In common language, not countable in any practical manner |
l component | The part of the Solar corona whose spectrum consists of emission lines |
trading account | A trading account is an account opened by the Bank or a stock brokerage firm for the purpose of transacting on the securities market. |
cascade | A command that arranges windows so that they are overlapped, with the active window in front. |
bus | The general term for hardware for dealing with the input-output pathway and backplane of a computer |
satellite | Body orbiting a planet |
compensating | Taking actions to offset the effects of other actions |
geology | Scientific study of the dynamics and history of the earth, as evidenced in its rocks, chemicals, and fossils |
thermal radiation | Quantum Properties of Light |
atomic mass unit | (a) A unit of mass used for atoms and molecules, equal to 1/12 of the mass of an atom of carbon-12 |
treasury bill | A treasury bill is a short-term security or certificate of deposit by which the Bank undertakes to fulfil all of its obligations to a client. |
currency clause | A currency clause ties interest to the movement of a specific currency. |
compound lens | Two or more lenses used together as a unit |
ieee | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a body that creates some cryptography standards. |
span | java -DzkHost=localhost:9983/foo/bar -jar start.jar |
eccentricity | (a) In astronomy, the extent to which an elliptical orbit departs from a circular one |
time zone | The Earth is divided into 24 time zones so that everyone in the world can be on roughly similar schedules (like having noon occur when the sun is highest in the sky). |
hydrostatics | A sub-branch of fluid mechanics, the mathematical study of liquid in equilibrium. |
function | juxtaposition of inputs and outputs of a given function |
privacy | The state or quality of being secluded from the view and or presence of others. |
fibre channel | A highly-reliable, gigabit interconnect technology that allows concurrent communications among workstations, mainframes, servers, data storage systems, and other peripherals using SCSI and IP protocols |
span | java -DzkHost=zoo1:9983,zoo2:9983,zoo3:9983/foo/bar -jar start.jar |
manipulatives | Tools, models, blocks, tiles, and other objects which are used to explore mathematical ideas and solve mathematical problems. |
hectogon | A hectogon is a hundred-sided figure. |
soho | An abbreviation for businesses categorized as Small Office/Home Office |
element | Element has a lot of meanings |
calendar | A calendar divides the year into periods and lets you know what day it is. |
span-- | The td element represents a data cell in a table. |
vpls | Virtual Private Local Area Network Service |
compress | To compact a file or group of files so that they occupy less disk space |
target account | A target account is the account of the second party to a transaction |
superfluid | A liquid which undergoes the phenomenon of superfluidity, below the temperature at which this phenomenon sets in |
universality class | This is a way of classifying the behavior of systems near the critical points of continuous phase transitions |