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61star — starless, adj. /stahr/, n., adj., v., starred, starring. n. 1. any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night. 2. Astron. any of the large, self luminous, heavenly bodies, as the sun, Polaris,… …
62Main sequence — A Hertzsprung Russell diagram plots the actual brightness (or absolute magnitude) of a star against its color index (represented as B V). The main sequence is visible as a prominent diagonal band that runs from the upper left to the lower right.… …
63Transparency (graphic) — Transparency is possible in a number of graphics file formats. The term transparency is used in various ways by different people, but at its simplest there is full transparency i.e. something that is completely invisible. Of course, only part of… …
64Portable Network Graphics — PNG A PNG image with an 8 bit transparency channel (top). The same image is overlaid onto a checkered background (botto …
65Environmental Technology Verification Program — The Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Program of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the United States develops testing protocols and verifies the performance of innovative environmental technologies that can address problems… …
66Joel Kurtzman — is a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute, a non profit, non partisan think tank. His research focuses on globalization and its risks and has been published widely. He is also Executive Director of the Milken Institute’s SAVE Project which… …
67surface coating — ▪ chemistry Introduction any mixture of film forming materials plus pigments, solvents, and other additives, which, when applied to a surface and cured or dried, yields a thin film that is functional and often decorative. Surface coatings… …
68opaqueness — noun 1. incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning • Syn: ↑opacity • Derivationally related forms: ↑opaque, ↑opaque (for: ↑opacity) • Hypernyms: ↑ …
69Scalable Vector Graphics — Infobox file format name = Scalable Vector Graphics icon = caption = extension = .svg, .svgz mime = image/svg+xml [ [http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/mimereg.html M Media Type registration for image/svg+xml] ] type code = uniform type = magic =… …
70Optimality theory — (frequently abbreviated OT) is a linguistic model proposing that the observed forms of language arise from the interaction between conflicting constraints. OT models grammars as systems that provide mappings from inputs to outputs; typically, the …
