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1Variable gauge axles — (VGA) are axles that allow railway vehicles to pass from tracks of one rail gauge to a different gauge. Variable gauge axles are used to allow the running of trains between Spain and France, Europe and Russia, Kazakhstan and China, and Mongolia… …
2Variable bitrate — (VBR) is a term used in telecommunications and computing that relates to the bitrate used in sound or video encoding. As opposed to constant bitrate (CBR), VBR files vary the amount of output data per time segment. VBR allows a higher bitrate… …
3Variable Star — For the astronomical object, see Variable star. infobox Book | name = Variable Star title orig = translator = image caption = author = Robert A. Heinlein Spider Robinson cover artist = Stephan Martiniere country = United States language = English …
4Variable-frequency oscillator — A variable frequency oscillator (VFO) in electronics is a oscillator with an oscillation frequency that can be electronically changed (hence, variable).cite book |title=The ARRL Handbook for Radio Amateurs, Sixty Eighth Edition |editor=Larry D.… …
5Variable star — Star Star (st[aum]r), n. [OE. sterre, AS. steorra; akin to OFries. stera, OS. sterro, D. ster, OHG. sterno, sterro, G. stern, Icel. stjarna, Sw. stjerna, Dan. stierne, Goth. sta[ i]rn[=o], Armor. & Corn. steren, L. stella, Gr. asth r, a stron,… …
6Continuously variable transmission — Transmission types Manual Sequential manual Non synchronous Preselector Automatic Manumatic Semi automatic Electrohydraulic Dual …
7Hidden variable theory — Historically, in physics, hidden variable theories were espoused by a minority of physicists who argued that the statistical nature of quantum mechanics indicated that quantum mechanics is incomplete . Albert Einstein, the most famous proponent… …
8Cataclysmic variable star — Cataclysmic variable stars (CV) are stars which irregularly increase in brightness by a large factor, then drop back down to a quiescent state. They were initially called novae, from the Latin new , since ones with an outburst brightness visible… …
9Multiprogramming with a Variable number of Tasks (MVT) — was the most sophisticated of three available configurations of the OS/360 s control program.cite book author = IBM title = OS/360 Introduction series = IBM Systems Reference Library date = 1972 url = http://bitsavers.vt100.net/pdf/ibm/360/GC28… …
10Multiprogramming with a Variable number of Tasks — History of IBM mainframe operating systems On early mainframe computers: GM OS GM NAA I/O 1955 BESYS 1957 UMES 1958 SOS 1959 IBSYS 1960 CTSS 1961 On S/360 and successors: BOS/360 1965 TOS/360 1965 TSS/360 1967 MTS 1967 …
