Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Resolution...

Resolution(s) may refer to:

Common meanings

  • Resolution (debate), the statement which is debated in policy debate
  • Resolution (law), a written motion adopted by a deliberative body
  • New Year's resolution, a commitment that an individual makes at New Year's Day
  • Dispute resolution, the settlement of a disagreement

Science, technology, and mathematics

Mathematics and logic

  • Resolution (algebra), an exact sequence in homological algebra
  • Resolution (logic), a rule of inference used for automated theorem proving
  • Standard resolution, the bar construction of resolutions in homological algebra
  • Resolution of singularities in algebraic geometry

Measurements

  • Resolution (audio), a measure of digital audio quality
  • Resolution (electron density), the quality of an X-ray crystallography or cryo-electron microscopy data set
  • Angular resolution or spatial resolution, the capability of an optical or other sensor to discern small objects
  • Depositional resolution, the age difference of fossils contained in one stratum
  • Display resolution, the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed on a display device
    • Graphic display resolutions, a list of particular display resolutions
  • Image resolution, a measure of the amount of detail in an image
  • Optical resolution, the capability of an optical system to distinguish, find, or record details
  • Printing resolution, the number of individual dots a printer can produce within a unit of distance (e.g., dots per inch)
  • Sensor resolution, the smallest change a sensor can detect in the quantity that it is measuring
  • Spectral resolution, the capability of an optical system to distinguish different frequencies
  • Resolution of a spectrometer, the ability to distinguish two close-lying energies (or wavelengths, or frequencies, or masses)
  • Resolution (chromatography), the separation of peaks in a chromatogram
  • Resolution (mass spectrometry), the ability to distinguish peaks in a mass spectrum
  • Temporal resolution, the sampling frequency of a digital audio device
  • In number storage, the resolution is the reciprocal of the unit in the last place

Other uses in science and technology

  • Resolution (beam engine), an early steam engine at Coalbrookdale
  • Chiral resolution, a process in stereochemistry for the separation of racemic compounds into their enantiomers

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

  • "Resolutions" (Star Trek: Voyager), a 1996 second season episode of Star Trek: Voyager
  • Resolution (film), a 2012 horror movie
  • "Resolution" (Doctor Who), a special episode of Doctor Who

Literature and poetry

  • Resolution (meter), the replacement of one longum with two brevia
  • "Resolution", a poem by Bertolt Brecht
  • Resolutions (short story), a 1911 short story by Franz Kafka
  • Resolution (novel), a 2008 novel by Robert B. Parker, a Western, sequel to Appaloosa
  • Resolution Island (disambiguation), setting for Brown on Resolution, a 1929 novel by C. S. Forester, and the 1935 film adaptation

Music

  • Resolution (music), the move of a note or chord from dissonance to consonance

Albums

  • Resolution (38 Special album), 1997
  • Resolution (BoDeans album), 2004
  • Resolution (Hamiet Bluiett album), 1977
  • Resolution (Hidden in Plain View album), 2007
  • Resolution (Lamb of God album), 2012
  • Resolution (Andy Timmons album), 2006
  • Resolution (Andy Pratt album), 1976
  • Resolutions (album), a 2011 album by Dave Hause

Songs

  • "Resolution" (Matt Corby song), 2013
  • "Resolution" (Nick Lachey song), a 2006 song by Nick Lachey from What's Left of Me
  • "Resolution", a John Coltrane (1926–1967) song from A Love Supreme
  • "The Resolution", a 2008 Jack's Mannequin song from The Glass Passenger
  • "Resolution", a Mahavishnu Orchestra song from the album Birds of Fire
  • "Resolution", by Romantic Mode, the second opening theme for the anime After War Gundam X
  • "Resolution", by Haruka Tomatsu, the first opening theme for the anime Sword Art Online: Alicization War of Underworld

Business and organizations

  • Corporate resolution, a legal document defining which individuals are authorized to act on behalf of a corporation
  • Resolution (talent agency), a talent agency in Los Angeles, New York, and Nashville
  • Resolution Copper, a copper mining project near Superior, Arizona
  • Resolution Limited, a Guernsey-based investor in insurance companies
  • Resolution plc, a defunct manager of in-force UK life funds acquired by Pearl Group in 2008

Places

  • Resolution, United States Virgin Islands
  • Resolution Island (Nunavut), in the Arctic region of Canada
  • Resolution Island, New Zealand, the largest (uninhabited) island in Fiordland, in the southwest of New Zealand
  • Fort Resolution, a hamlet in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada

Vessels

  • Resolution, a Douglas DC-6 aircraft, BCPA Flight 304, which crashed near San Francisco in 1953
  • Resolution (1793 ship), an American trading vessel whose crew were massacred in 1794
  • HMNZS Resolution (A14), Royal New Zealand Navy surveillance ship
  • HMS Resolution, any of several British Royal Navy ships
  • TIV Resolution, the world's first turbine installation vessel
  • Resolution-class submarine, British Royal Navy
  • Resolution (1802 ship), a brig built in Spain and launched in 1802

See also

  • Resolve (disambiguation)
  • Resolved (disambiguation)

    See Resolution: http://bit.ly/Resolution_wiki

Saturday, December 8, 2018

Surf...

Surf is the wave activity in the area between the shoreline and outer limit of breakers. It may refer to a breaking wave in shallow water, upon the shore, or in the area in which waves break. Surf may also refer to:



Commercial products

  • Surf (detergent), a brand of laundry detergent made by Unilever

Computers and software

  • "Surfing the Web", slang for exploring the World Wide Web
  • surf (web browser), a lightweight web browser for Unix-like systems
  • SURF, an acronym for "Speeded Up Robust Features", a computer vision algorithm
  • surf, a visualization program for two- and three-dimensional real algebraic geometry

Education

  • Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), a common summer immersion experience in higher education which supplement research activities that occur during the academic year

Music

  • Surf (Roddy Frame album), a 2002 album released by Roddy Frame
  • Surf (Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment album), a 2015 album by Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment
  • Surf music, a genre of popular music associated with surf culture
  • Jersey Surf Drum and Bugle Corps, a drum and bugle corps based in Mount Holly, New Jersey, in the United States

Places

  • Surf, California, unincorporated community in Santa Barbara County near Lompoc
  • Surf station, passenger rail station served by Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner

Popular culture

  • Surf culture, the culture surrounding the sport of surfing

Ships

  • USS Surf, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

Sports

  • Surfing, a surfboard-based water-sport
  • The Atlantic City Surf, a defunct professional baseball team that played in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the United States from 1998 to 2008

Sustainability

  • The SURF Framework, a practical framework for transforming the economy, businesses, organizations, etc. for sustainability

See also

  • Surfing (disambiguation)
  • Serfdom


See Serf : http://bit.ly/Surf_wiki

Torrent...

A torrent is a fast flowing stream.

Torrent or Torrents may also refer to:



Places

  • Torrent, Valencia, a city in Spain
  • Torrent, Girona, a Spanish village
  • Torrent Bay, New Zealand
  • Torrent Falls, an outdoor area in Kentucky, USA
  • Torrent River, which feeds into the bay
  • River Torrent, Northern Ireland

People

  • Ana Torrent (born 1966), Spanish actress
  • Marion Torrent (born 1992), French footballer
  • Ramon Torrents (born 1937), Spanish comic book artist
  • Stanislas Torrents (1839-1916), French painter

Animals

  • Torrent duck, a species of the family Anatidae
  • Torrent fish
  • Torrent frog, various unrelated frogs
  • Torrent robin, a bird species
  • Torrent salamander, a family of salamanders

Arts and entertainment

  • Torrent (1926 film), starring Greta Garbo
  • The Torrents, a 1955 Australian play
  • Torrent (play) (狂流, Kuángliú), a Chinese play about the life of Tian Han
  • Torrent (TV series), a Canadian show
  • Torrent (comics), Marvel Comics character, the daughter of Wolverine and Storm

Businesses

  • Torrent Group, an Indian business house, and its subsidiary companies:
    • Torrent Cables
    • Torrent Pharmaceuticals
    • Torrent Power

Computing

  • BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol
  • Torrent file, stores metadata used for BitTorrent

Other uses

  • Torrent (stream), a stream with a high seasonal flow variation
  • Pontiac Torrent, a crossover SUV sold by Pontiac from 2005 to 2009
  • Torrent (ship), an American sailing ship wrecked in 1868
  • Les Torrents, the sports teams of the Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada

See also

  • Torrente (disambiguation)
  • Torrentz, a meta-search engine for BitTorrent 

See Torrent : http://bit.ly/Torrent_wiki