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In computing, i-mode is a mobile Internet access system developed by NTT DoCoMo.
i-mode uses CHTML (Compact HTML) as its standard format, which is a subset of standard HTML with support for static and animated GIF images as well as text.
i-Mode is primarily used on mobile phones.
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The IBM 3270 Workstation Program allows your IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2, or 3270 PC emulate 3278/79 display terminals. On a PC equipped with a corresponding emulation adapter and coaxial cable, connection to the host system can be to a 3174/3274/3276 cluster controller, 3745/3725/3720 communications controller, or directly to the 9370 or 4361 (with an Integrated Communications Adapter). The product also supports Token Ring attachment to a 3745/3725/3720 communications controller, 3174 cluster controller in CUT or DFT mode, 3274 cluster controller in DFT mode, or directly to the 9370 Token Ring subsystem controller. The Workstation Program supports up to four SNA sessions, six PC DOS sessions, and two notepad sessions. It also supports LIM EMS version 3.2 to accommodate terminal emulation software and DOS applications beyond the 640K RAM limit. Expanded memory support provides a migration path from the Workstation Program to OS/2 Extended Edition with its Communications Manager (which provides the functionality of the Workstation
Program.) Because it supports LIM/EMS version 3.2, all DOS sessions access the region above 640K. However, only data, not applications, can occupy this region. EMS support is available with IBM's Expanded Memory Adapter (XMA). These adapters can be configured to support EMS or the extended memory used by OS/2. The Workstation Program supports baseband or broadband PC Network Adapters and full screen 3278 model 3, 4, or 5 support with the 8514/ A display adapter. File transfers are handled via the Send/ Receive protocol and require a host component to be loaded. The Enhanced Connectivity Facilities (ECF) Server-Requester Programmers Interface (SRPI) is supported for the development of programs which take advantage of these protocols. There is additional programming support for 3270 High Level Language Application Program Interface (HLLAPI) and Application Programmers Interface (API).
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IBM Storyboard Plus is a graphics tool for creating, editing, arranging, and presenting slide shows on your computer monitor. This program lets you use special effects, graph manipulation, text, paint, and timing features to produce impressive presentations. Picture Taker, the first of four modules, captures screens from other applications programs and saves them on a file which can be called up within the Picture Maker or Story Editor modules. Picture Maker is an icon-oriented freehand-painting module for creating graphic images and modifying images captured with Picture Taker. You can create images by drawing and colouring text and shapes, or you cut and paste pictures from a library of clip-art. This module makes extensive use of function keys if you are not using a mouse. There are eight text fonts, each with five sizes. A zoom feature allows detailed editing. Story Editor lets you display and sequence screens created in Picture Maker or Picture Taker.
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Icarus is an Apollo asteroid 1.5 km in diameter, discovered 1949. It orbits the Sun every 409 days at a distance of between 28 and 300 million km. It was the first asteroid discovered to approach closer to the Sun than the planet Mercury does. In 1968 it passed 6 million km away from the Earth.
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Ice is water reduced to the solid state by cold. It is a white or transparent colourless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Ice has a lower specific gravity than water - water being unusual in that it expands on freezing - and as such floats. Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, 0 degrees centigrade, and ice melts at the same temperature.
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The term ice age was first applied in 1837 by the botanist Karl Schimper (following the proposition of theories by, among others, the Swiss civil engineer Ignace Venetz in 1821 and the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz in 1837 in contrast to the held belief that the rocks and sediment left behind were caused by the biblical flood) to refer to a period of glaciation occurring in the Earth' s history, but is particularly applied to that in the Pleistocene epoch, immediately preceding historic times when an ice sheet spread over northern Europe, leaving its remains as far south as Switzerland. There were several glacial advances separated by interglacial stages during which the ice melted and temperatures were higher than today. There were once thought to have been only three or four glacial advances, but recently it has been discovered that about twenty major incidences have occurred during earth's history. Other ice ages have occurred throughout geological time: there were four in the Precambrian era, one in the
Ordovician, and one at the end of the Carboniferous and beginning of the Permian. The occurrence of an ice age is governed by a combination of factors known as the Milankovitch hypothesis: firstly, the Earth's change of attitude in relation to the Sun; and secondly the 92,000-year cycle of eccentricity in the earth's orbit around the Sun, changing it from an elliptical to a near circular orbit, the severest period of an ice age coinciding with the approach to circularity.
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An ichnite is a fossil footprint.
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An ichnography is a ground plan showing a horizontal section of a building or other object, showing its true dimensions according to a geometric scale. The name is also applied to maps, and the drawing of plans.
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Ichnology is the scientific study of footprints (especially fossil footprints - ichnites), first popularised in the 19th century following the discover in 1828 of the footprints of a tortoise in sandstone at Annandale by Dr Duncan.
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Ichthin is a nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes.
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The Icom IC-R70 was a Japanese made general coverage communications receiver of the early 1980s, first produced in 1982 providing coverage from 150 kHz to 30 Mhz in AM, SSB and CW modes. At the time it was renowned both for its performance (better than the Kenwood R-2000), and complexity of use, famous for sporting 36 control buttons and switches.
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The Icom IC-R7000 was a Japanese scanning communications receiver introduced in 1987. The Icom IC-R7000 had a frequency coverage of 25 Mhz to 2 Ghz in FM wide and FM narrow, AM and SSB modes and 99 memory channels.
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The Icom IC-R71A is a classic Japanese made general coverage communications receiver by Icom. They were manufactured between 1984 and 1996 and provided coverage from 100 kHz to 30 Mhz in AM, SSB, CW and RTTY modes.
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The Icom IC-R72 was a Japanese made general coverage communications receiver by Icom. Not as good in terms of performance as the Icom IC-R71A, they were manufactured between 1990 and 1998 and provided coverage from 100 kHz to 30 Mhz in AM, SSB and CW modes.
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An iconoscope is a type of television camera in which an image of the scene to be televised is projected on a mosaic consisting of granules of photo-emissive material. Emission of photo- electrons from each granule in proportion to the amount of light falling upon it results in the formation of a charge image on the mosaic.
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IconShop is a librarian program for the Windows operating system that offers the tools to manage ICL icon libraries. The program can read and write ICL icon libraries. The program is easy to use, featuring a drag and drop facility from the Windows Explorer onto the IconShop window to process them.
IconShop can also extract icons from Windows icons, cursors, animated cursors, BMP bitmaps, GIF bitmaps, TIFF bitmaps, XPM bitmaps, resources, executables and libraries.
IconShop can even extract icons from Macintosh iconlibs, resources, executables, IconDropper icon packs and Kaleidoscope schemes, including MacOS 8.5 24-bit icons. IconShop allows the user to export icons to icon, cursor or BMP format.
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An icosahedron is a solid with twenty sides or faces. A regular icosahedron is one of the five regular polyhedrons, bounded by twenty equilateral triangles. Five triangles meet to form each solid angle of the polyhedron.
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An icositetrahedron is a twenty-four-sided solid shape.
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IDCSP (Initial Defence Communications Satellite Program) was an American military world-wide satellite communications network. The first seven satellites of the network were launched by a single Titan IIIC rocket from Cape Kennedy in June 1966.
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IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) is a widely-used standard of communication used to communicate with hard disk drives and CD-ROM drives in low and middle-grade computers.
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An identiscope was an optical apparatus for combining two photographic portraits into one. One was first sold in Britain in 1884.
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In engineering, an idle wheel is the middle wheel of three which simply conveys the motion of one outside wheel to the other outside wheel.
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Ilmenite black is a black pigment derived from ilmenite and used in the preparation of fillers and undercoatings for the painting of machinery and motor cars. Ilmenite black is sometimes added to other paints to improve their resistance to heat.
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An image intensifier is a device similar to a television camera which registers faint differences in reflected light from a target area. These differences are then fed through an electronic amplification circuit, giving a gain of 50 times. The resulting image is then referred through the circuit twice more (three times being the limit before distortion sets in) to give an image intensification of some 125,000X. The resulting image is sufficient to identify a man-sized target at 300 metres or a vehicle at 500 metres. The early image intensifiers were developed for military purposes and had two drawbacks. Firstly they were bulky and secondly they emitted a supersonic whistle which while inaudible to humans, disturbed wildlife and thus alerted the targets that they were being observed. During the 1980s a second generation of smaller
image intensifiers were developed using a new type of circuitry which didn't whistle, but at the expense of a little gain.
Image intensifiers are now used by the medical industry and television camera crews (notably during the Iraq-Kuwait War) as well as the military and police.
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In computing, particularly HTML, an Image Map is an image that has sections designated to act as hyperlinks to different URLs. The separate areas serving as hyperlinks being called 'Hot Zones'.
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ImageStudio by Letraset, is a grey-scale image editor that gives complete creative control over images that have been scanned into the Macintosh or created with other graphics programs. The program provides many of the tools to modify images that are used by retouching studios. A photograph is scanned into your computer and you can alter the contrast and brightness of an image. Use the artist's tools to soften or sharpen an edge, and scale, crop, or rotate the images. While most scanners offer some editing control, ImageStudio provides a broader range of editing tools. It imports a finished image into most desktop-publishing programs or prints out on PostScript- compatible printers for professional results. While many scanners record grey-scale information to approximately the range of greys in a continuous-tone photograph, ImageStudio lets you work with 64 shades of grey. A complete set of artist's tools, including a paintbrush, charcoal, water drop, and fingertip, are used for a variety of special effects. ImageStudio includes four
palettes that can be moved: tool, pen, grey map editor, and shade. The tool palette is similar to tools in other painting programs, although some work slightly differently. The pen palette offers a selection of pen tips that you can customise or add to the palette. With the shade palette, you choose the shades you want to work with. Brightness, contrast, and distribution of shades in an object are controlled in the grey map editor.
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In chemistry, immiscible means incapable of being mixed, as with oil and water.
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Impedance is the total opposition offered by a circuit to the flow of alternating current.
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Import Profile is a computer program for the Windows operating system that can be used to introduce ASCII text data into Lotus Notes databases. This program supports long record lengths and response documents.
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Incandescence is the emission of light due to heat.
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An incandescent lamp is a form of electric lamp in which a current is passed through a filament causing it to glow white hot. Incandescent lights were introduced by Edison, Lane-Fox, Swan, and others since 1878. Swan's incandescent lamp, comprised a glass vessel of globular form exhausted completely of air, and containing a fine elastic filament of carbon, prepared from parchment paper, and becoming incandescent when the current is sent through it. Its two ends were attached to two platinum wires which, where they passed out of the globe, were hermetically sealed into its wall by fusion of the glass around the wires. These two wires were in connection with two binding screws when the lamp was upon its stand, where it was held in place by a spiral wire. Owing to the absence of oxygen, there is no combustion in an incandescent lamp, and hence the filament does not waste away. Difficulty in obtaining a good vacuum was the chief cause which prevented the earlier introduction of such lamps. Sprengel's mercurial pump, as improved, supplied the answer, before it was replaced by chemical pumping.
The light of an incandescent lamp is extremely steady, affording a great contrast to the flickering which is never altogether absent from the earlier arc lights. Its temperature is lower than an arc light, and hence its colour is not blue or violet, like that of most arc lights, but slightly yellow, though whiter than gas light. Incandescent lamps were popular when invented as unlike gas and the arc light, the incandescent lamp gave off no poisonous or noxious fumes.
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An index is an arranged, or sorted, list of key data together with the location within a second file or document where the key data occurs. A simple example is the index of a book which comprises an alphabetically arranged list of key words together with the page numbers where the key word is referenced. A reader may then locate key word references within the book quickly by conducting a search of the index, and then turning to the specified pages, rather than reading each page sequentially until a matching key word is found.
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Indexing is the process of producing an index. An index is a sorted structure of keys - perhaps titles - and the position of the related record. In a printed book, an index is usually an alphabetically sorted list of key words with the page numbers where the key word occurs. In computing, the principle is the same. A database may contain thousands of records. Searching the database sequentially for a specific record is very slow, so an index is often used. The index file contains key data, perhaps a stock code number or name, together with the position of the associated record. A computer system may then search the sorted index very much more quickly for the required key and having found it, jump to the specified record or position within the main datafile - assuming a random access file. A very popular indexing method used in computer files is the 'B-Tree' or 'balanced multiway tree' in which a search follows a binary pattern, starting with a single root and branching until the desired key is located. This
saves the developed from having to code their own binary search on a sequentially arranged, sorted index file.
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Indian ink is a waterproof ink consisting of a dispersion of carbon black in water with an organic binder.
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Indian red is a deep red, purplish-brown pigment prepared by the calcination of crystalline ferrous sulphate. Indian red possesses good staining and spreading abilities and opacity. It is permanent and will mix with other pigments.
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In chemistry, indicator is a compound which changes colour with changes in the hydrogen ion concentration (pH) of a solution.
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Indigo is a rich blue dye or pigment originally obtained from the woad plant, Isatis tinctoria. It was used by the Egyptians and other ancient nations. It is now produced artificially.
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Indium is a soft, rare metal element with the symbol In.
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In electronics, inductance is the property of a circuit whereby an electro-motive force is generated by reason of a change in the magnetic flux through the circuit.
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Inertia is the property of a body that causes it to oppose any change in its velocity, even if the velocity is zero. An object at rest requires a force to make it move, and a moving object requires a force to make it slow down, accelerate, or change direction. Newton called this resistance to a change of velocity inertia. It has been found that the greater the mass of a body, the higher is its inertia.
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In mathematics, an inflection point (flex point, point of inflection) is the point on a curve at which the curvature changes from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
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Infrared radiation (heat waves) consists of electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths shorter than those of the super-high-frequency radio waves and longer than 7600 angstroms - that is between about 0.75 and 1000 micro metres forming the radiation between the visible and microwave regions of the radiation spectrum.
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The injector is an apparatus invented by Giffard in 1858 for forcing water into a boiler against the pressure of steam. It is operated by a jet of steam which returns to the boiler along with the injected water.
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Inorganic Chemistry is the science dealing with the preparation and properties of the elements and their compounds, except those carbon compounds considered in Organic Chemistry. Many groups of analogous compounds exist, the oldest known being acids, bases and salts. Acids usually have a sour taste, change blue vegetable colours red and react with alkalis to form salts. Alkalis restore the colours of indicators changed by acids.
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The materials used for electrical insulation are numerous and of the most diverse nature, including the majority of non-metallic substances. There is no definite dividing-line between conducting and
insulating materials, as the majority of insulating materials allow some electric current to flow, though usually only a very small amount. Rather, the British Standards Institute defines an insulating material as one which offers a relatively high resistance to the passage of an electric current. The best insulating materials - those offering the highest resistance to the flow of electric current - are respectively: air, fused quartz, clear mica, paraffin wax, yellow beeswax and quartz.
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The Intel Above Board was the first product to incorporate the Lotus/Intel/Microsoft Expanded Memory Specification (EMS), which allows PC-DOS programs to access up to eight megabytes beyond the 640K memory limit. Above Board/286 is particularly useful to users of programs that require all data to be memory-resident, such as 1-2-3, Symphony, and Framework III. With an Above Board you can access up to 4Mb additional memory on a PC and 8Mb additional memory on an AT. This allowed users to create enormous spreadsheets - up to 15 times that available under normal DOS constraints. If a machine has less than 640K, Above Board memory could be used to back-fill or assign a portion of its memory to fill up system memory. Above Boards had software for a RAM disk, print buffer and menu- driven configuration program. Intel Above Board PS/286 was functionally equivalent to the Above Board 286 and added a serial port and a parallel port. Above Board provided expanded memory for products which work better with memory beyond the 640K DOS limit such as
Lotus 1-2-3 or require additional memory such as IBM OS/2.
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EasyFlow by Haventree Software is a powerful flowcharting package for the IBM PC, that provides tools to create and edit flowcharts and organisation charts. It is not a freehand drawing program, but rather a package that provides you with a large set of objects to choose from and the ability to place these objects on-screen in any position. Either the keyboard or a mouse can be used to choose shapes and position them in the desired location. Automatic text centring within shapes is available horizontally and vertically. EasyFlow understands the concept of a 'from' shape and a ' destination' shape and creates a straight connector line between the shapes in your flowchart. If you move the shapes within the chart, the lines automatically maintain the connection between the from shape and the destination shape. This way, the chart evolves as you create it; you do not need to plan ahead of time.
Editing charts is simple with this program. Text edited within an object is automatically re-cantered. Individual shapes or groups of shapes can be cut, copied, moved, and deleted from a chart. You can also save sections of a chart to be merged with another chart. Charts can be compressed horizontally or vertically so charts that are too large to fit on a single page can be compressed and printed on one page. EasyFlow offers a useful way to manage the creation of charts. The screen displays two small windows and one large window. The large Chart Window shows a condensed representation of the chart. You cannot see the words inside the objects, but you can see the individual objects and lines and the relationship between them. The Chart Window shows the current position of the cursor in the chart using an invisible grid as reference. Each object takes up one space. The smaller Shape Window shows the content of the shape under the cursor in full detail. As you cursor around the chart, the current shape is always shown in the Shape Window.
There is also a small Text/Message Window for text entry and for messages from the program. Charts can be more than 16 shapes in width and height. The size is limited only by
memory available. If your chart is too large for the printer paper size, EasyFlow breaks the chart and prints it in page- size pieces.
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INTERCAL (said by the authors to stand for `Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym') is a computer language designed by Don Woods and James Lyon in 1972. INTERCAL is purposely different from all other computer languages in all ways but one; it is purely a written language, being totally unspeakable.
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An interface is a shared boundary between two devices. These may be a human and a machine for example. Computer operating systems use an interface to receive and transmit data to and from a human operator.
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Interlisp is a dialect of the Lisp programming language. It is a computer programming language designed for procedure orientated representation. It has all the standard features of Lisp, plus extensive debugging facilities, and a DWIM self-correcting facility.
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Invar is an alloy of iron and nickel.
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The inverted-L aerial is a simple and formerly popular receiving aerial consisting of a horizontal length of wire between 10 and 30 metres long, suspended as high as possible, insulated at both ends, and continued downwards at the end near the receiver, and taken as near vertically as possible to the aerial socket on the receiver. At low and medium frequencies, the effective (signal responsive) part of the aerial is the vertical down lead, the horizontal section providing capacitive reactance to increase the electrical length of the vertical section and raising the typically very low impedance at the end of the aerial. Although the horizontal section is unresponsive to ground wave signals, it is responsive to signals reflected from the ionosphere, and inverted-L aerials suffer from signal fading during the hours of darkness with the horizontal and vertical sections receiving the same signal from different paths, and therefore at different times.
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The Investigative Support Information System (ISIS) is an American FBI computer system used to provide support for major investigations that require the handling of a large volume of complex information. It is limited to handling a maximum of 20 cases at a time. The ISIS system was used during the investigation of the murder of Federal Judge John Wood in San Antonio, Texas. In this case, the FBI entered 300,000 pieces of information, including 6,000 interviews, hotel registration information from every hotel in the area, etc. The accused, while on trial, claimed he was several hundred miles away. The FBI cross referenced his name and known alias with the hotel registration database and got a match. Contact with the hotel employees resulted in a positive identification and the subsequent conviction of the subject.
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Iodine is a non-metallic halogen element usually obtained as a heavy, shining, blackish-grey crystalline form and is used especially in medicine, photography and analysis. It has the symbol I.
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In chemistry, iodine number is the number of grams of iodine required to saturate 100 grams of fat.
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An ion is a charged atom or group of atoms. The charge occurs from a surplus or deficiency of electrons.
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In chemistry, ionization is the separation of an electrolyte into charged ions in solution.
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Ionization Voltage is the potential which an electron must traverse before it attains sufficient kinetic energy to ionize by collision an atom of a specified gas.
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The ionosphere is the ionised layer of the earth's atmosphere. It extends over altitudes from about 50 km to about 600 km.
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iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, a Sun-Netscape Alliance, was established in March 1999 by America Online, Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. to provide easy-to-deploy, comprehensive e-commerce solutions for the Net Economy.
iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions provides the industry's broadest portfolio of Internet infrastructure and e-commerce applications software and services.
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iPlanet Market Maker is a platform that helps enable customers, including market leaders, service providers, and dot-com start-ups to establish and run a complete open digital marketplace.
iPlanet Market Maker provides a range of components that market makers can use to aggregate supplier catalogues; run forward and reverse auctions; participate in online negotiations; implement multiple pricing models; customize and deliver content to participants; offer business directories; and provide sophisticated memberships.
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iPlanet Portal Server provides all of the membership management, personalization, aggregation, security and integration services needed to quickly deploy demanding e-commerce portals. By building on the iPlanet Portal Server platform, companies can roll out highly scalable business-to- business (B2B), business-to-customer (B2C) and business-to-employee (B2E) portals quickly, even plugging in products from other portal software vendors in the process, including Actuate, E. piphany, grapeVINE, Hyperion, Interwoven, iSyndicate, Lucent Technologies Enterprise Networks Group, Macromedia, NetGenesis, and Net Perceptions. The iPlanet Portal Server, for example, is tightly integrated with GrapeVINE's Compass Server, offering additional web indexing, collaborative filtering and other knowledge management functionality for enterprise information portals.
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iPlanet TradingXpert is a component of the iPlanet family of e-commerce solutions. It is an Internet commerce exchange application that allows enterprises and service providers to create dynamic global trading communities that can extend across all partners and customers. TradingXpert is an Internet commerce application for enabling browser-based document and content exchange. It automates the exchange of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and non-EDI business documents, including Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents, without requiring special systems training or heavy investment by smaller trading partners. iPlanet TradingXpert accelerates the addition of partners to a trading community by simplifying the participation process and lowering the cost of entry. Online member self-registration allows new trading partners to easily integrate into the extended trading community. Partners gain access to TradingXpert via a standard User ID and password authentication process.
A higher level of security can be enabled by utilizing web server- based authentication mechanisms using digital certificates. End-users can utilize the TradingXpert graphical user interface-along with a collection of pre-built EDI forms including purchase order, purchase order acknowledgement, and invoice transaction-to conduct business transactions immediately, without prior knowledge of EDI.
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iPlanet Web Server 4.1 is an HTTP server that maximizes uptime through intelligent load balancing, process monitors, dynamic log rotation, and support for multiple processes on UNIX(r) It delivers a personalized user experience through its high-performance Java application platform supporting Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages, and in-process, plugable Java Virtual Machines It performs optimally at high load because of its multi-process, multi-threaded architecture, HTTP 1.1 compliance, and support for SSL hardware accelerators It eases management of complex websites with millions of users through delegated administration, cluster management, SNMP monitoring and tight integration with iPlanet Directory Server
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The IRAS (Infrared Astronomy Satellite) was a joint US-UK-Dutch satellite launched 1983 to survey the sky at infrared wavelengths, studying areas of star formation, distant galaxies, possible embryo planetary systems around other stars, and discovering five new comets in our own solar system. It operated for 10 months.
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Iridium is a metal element with the symbol Ir.
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IRMA is the standard product for a direct link between the IBM PC, XT, AT, or PS/2 model 25 or 30 and an IBM SNA (Systems Network Architecture) network. It offered the first coax connection between a PC and IBM mainframe. IRMA connects to an IBM 3174, 3274, or 3276 cluster controller that can be directly or remotely attached to the mainframe, or be attached to an integral terminal controller with a type A adapter. The package includes a hardware adapter card that fits into a full-length slot in a PC, emulation software and file-transfer software. IRMA fits into existing 3270 networks by attaching directly to 3278/79 controller ports configured for Control Unit Terminal (CUT) single session support. Nothing additional is needed. IRMAlink file transfer software for TSO and CMS environments is included.
IRMA provides emulation of IBM 3278 terminal models 2, 3, and 4 and 3279 colour terminal models 2A, 3A, 2B and 38. Support for 12 IBM keyboards, light pen, four and seven colour modes, and APL/TEXT keyboards is also included. In addition, it supports hotkey switching between DOS and terminal sessions and Application Programming Interface (API) support for development of programs which interact directly with a host session through the hardware adapter. Sample programs for the API are included. IRMA 2 is an enhanced version of the original that adds support for the IBM 3278 model 5 terminal through horizontal and vertical scrolling. If you use specific 132 column supported display adapters, you can get full-screen monochrome and colour model 5 support.
IRMA 2 also includes keyboard utilities which allow re-mapping and let you create macros for frequently repeated commands and new keyboard profiles. Its Extended Attribute Buffer (EAB) supports character attributes such as normal, blinking, reverse video, highlighted, and underlined (mono only), APL character set support and the ability to capture terminal screens to disk or local/system printer. Because IRMA 2 uses software-loaded instead of PROM-loaded microcode, it can be upgraded by changing diskettes rather than by replacing PROM chips. The IRMA 2 MCA offers the same functionality as the IRMA 2 for the IBM PS/2 models 50, 50z, 60, 70, and 80.
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In computing, an IRQ (Interrupt Request) is a request from a hardware component or program to the operating system requesting processor capacity.
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Irradiation is the process of exposing something to radiation. It is used to preserve food and destroy cancer growths.
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Irrigation is the process of supplying water to land through a series of artificial waterways.
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ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) is a digital phone service capable of speeds from 57.6 K to 128 K. Provides two data channels, each with its own phone number, making simultaneous voice and data possible.
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Isinglass is a very pure form of gelatine prepared from the swimming bladders of certain fish, chiefly the Sturgeon, cod and hake. Isinglass is used as a mordant in glass gilding.
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ISO 8859 is a series of computer character sets all of which have American ASCII in their low (7-bit) half, invisible control characters in positions 128 to 159 and 96 fixed width graphics in positions 160-255.
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ISO 8859-5 is a computer character set of Cyrillic letters purporting to support Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian and Ukrainian. However, it lacks the Ukrainian ghe with a down stroke, and so KOI8-R is generally more popular.
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In chemistry, the isoelectric point is the pH at which a substance is electrically neutral or at it' s minimum ionization.
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In chemistry, isomers are compounds which have the same molecular formula but different structural formulas.
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In chemistry, an isotonic solution is a solution having the same osmotic pressure as another with which it is compared.
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An isotope is a form of an element which has a different atomic weight and nuclear properties than other isotopes of the same element.
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Ivory black is a high quality artist's colour formerly produced by calcining ivory chippings in air-tight retorts, and from the mid-20th century the term was also applied to quality bone black.
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