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Smoot — The smoot is a nonstandard unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity prank. It is named after Oliver R. Smoot (class of 1962), a fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha, who in October 1958 was used by his fraternity brothers to measure… … Wikipedia
Talbot (photometry) — In photometry, the talbot (T) is a nonstandard unit of luminous energy, named in honor of the early photographer William Fox Talbot. It is exactly equal to the SI standard unit, the lumen · second::1 T = 1 lm middot; sNote that the use of the… … Wikipedia
Gillette — may refer to: * Gillette (brand) (formerly The Gillette Company), safety razor manufacturer * Gillette Stadium * Gillette, New Jersey * Gillette, Wyoming * Gilette, Alpes Maritimes, France * Gillette Children s Specialty Healthcare, Minnesota… … Wikipedia
Talbot (disambiguation) — Talbot is an automobile brand.Talbot may also refer to : *Talbot (surname) *Talbot (dog), a snow white hunting dog breed *Talbot (photometry), a nonstandard unit of luminous energy *Talbot (crater), a lunar crater *Talbot, Indiana, a town in… … Wikipedia
analysis — /euh nal euh sis/, n., pl. analyses / seez /. 1. the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis). 2. this process as a method of studying the nature of something or of determining its… … Universalium
SHX fonts — AutoCAD font and shape files (SHX) are compiled from shape definition files (SHP). You can create or modify shape definition files with a text editor or word processor that saves files in ASCII format. The syntax of the shape description for each … Wikipedia
Dirac delta function — Schematic representation of the Dirac delta function by a line surmounted by an arrow. The height of the arrow is usually used to specify the value of any multiplicative constant, which will give the area under the function. The other convention… … Wikipedia
Digital single-lens reflex camera — Nikon D700 full frame (FX) digital SLR camera … Wikipedia
0.999... — In mathematics, the repeating decimal 0.999... (which may also be written as 0.9, , 0.(9), or as 0. followed by any number of 9s in the repeating decimal) denotes a real number that can be shown to be the number one. In other words, the symbols 0 … Wikipedia
Real number — For the real numbers used in descriptive set theory, see Baire space (set theory). For the computing datatype, see Floating point number. A symbol of the set of real numbers … Wikipedia
