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91Coordinated Universal Time — n. UNIVERSAL TIME as periodically adjusted to coordinate with atomic clocks: it serves as the official international basis for STANDARD TIME: abbrev. UTC * * * international basis of civil and scientific time, implemented in 1963. The unit… …
92Hooke, Robert — born July 18, 1635, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, Eng. died March 3, 1703, London English physicist. From 1665 he taught at Oxford University. His achievements and theories were bewilderingly diverse. His important law of elasticity, known as Hooke… …
93Fizeau , Armand Hippolyte Louis — (1819–1896) French physicist Fizeau, a Parisian by birth, started by studying medicine but his interest turned to optics before he finished the course. In collaboration with Léon Foucault he first tried to improve the newly developed process of… …
94constant angular velocity — Abbreviated CAV. An unchanging speed of rotation. Hard disks use a CAV encoding scheme. The constant rate of rotation means that sectors on the disk are at the maximum density along the inside track of the disk. As the read/write heads move… …
95geochronology — geochronologic /jee oh kron l oj ik/, geochronological, adj. geochronologist, n. /jee oh kreuh nol euh jee/, n. the chronology of the earth, as based on both absolute and relative methods of age determination. [1890 95; GEO + CHRONOLOGY] * * *… …
96Orbital (The Culture) — Orbital illustration, with no apparent Hub In Iain M. Banks fictional Culture universe, an Orbital (sometimes also simply called an O or a small ring) is a purpose built space habitat forming a massive ring (though much smaller than a ringworld)… …
97Bertil Lindblad — Infobox Scientist name = PAGENAME box width = image size =150px caption = PAGENAME birth date = November 26 1895 birth place = Örebro death date = June 25 1965 death place = Saltsjöbaden residence = |citizenship = nationality = Sweden ethnicity …
98Rotisserie — Chicken cooking on a horizontal rotisserie For the fantasy sports game, see Rotisserie sports. Rotisserie is a style of roasting where meat is skewered on a spit a long solid rod used to hold food while it is being cooked over a fire in a… …
99Morane-Saulnier — Rallye Minerva MS.894A, built in 1970 …
100Non-rocket spacelaunch — Non rocket space launch (NRS) is a launch into space where some or all needed speed and altitude is provided by non rocket means, rather than simply using conventional chemical rockets from the ground. A number of alternatives to rockets have… …
