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Abrams Battle Tank Abrams Battle Tank, aka M-1 Abrams Battle Tank for the Sega version, is a computer game developed by Dynamix and published by Electronic Arts in 1988 for the DOS and Sega Genesis platforms. Designed by Damon Slye, the game is a 3D simulation of the M1 Abrams tank, one of the first on the market.
Abrams Creek Abrams Creek is a tributary stream of Opequon Creek in Frederick County and the independent city of Winchester in Virginia. Abrams Creek rises north of Round Hill and flows in a southeasterly direction through Winchester.
Abrams Falls Trail The Abrams Falls Trail is an American hiking trail, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park of Blount County, Tennessee. The trail runs parallel to Abrams Creek and passes Abrams Falls, one of the most voluminous waterfalls in the national park, before terminating at a junction with the Hatcher and Hannah Mountain trails.
Abrams Integrated Management Abrams Integrated Management (AIM) is a program wherein older M1 Abrams tanks are refurbished and restored to 'zero hours' status to ease maintenance requirements. The tanks are shipped to the General Dynamics Land Systems plant and stripped to bare hulls and turrets (even the paint is removed) and rebuilt almost from the ground up, with new armor, electronics, and other upgrades installed to replace aging systems where possible.
Abrams P-1 Explorer The Abrams P-1 Explorer was a purpose-designed aerial photography and survey aircraft that first flew in November 1937. It was designed by aerial survey pioneer Talbert Abrams to best suit his needs for a stable aircraft with excellent visibility for this kind of work.
Abrasion (BDSM) Abrasion as a human sexual practice involves sexual arousal from contact with abrasive substances. This can be person-to-person as in a harsh rubbing of the skin known as a dutch rub or with various substances such as scratchy wool or thistles.
Abrasion (dental) Abrasion is the loss of tooth structure by mechanical forces from a foreign element. If this force begins at the cementoenamel junction, then progression of tooth loss can be rapid since enamel is very thin in this region of the tooth.
Abrasive An abrasive is a material that is used to smooth, machine, or, in some cases, roughen another softer material through extensive rubbing. Abrasives are used to remove surface materials such as metal, ceramics, glass, plastics, and paint.
Abrasive Flow Machining Abrasive Flow Machining (AFM) was developed by Extrude Hone Corporation in 1966, AFM is a very precise and economical method of smoothing and polishing internal surfaces and producing controlled radii. The process is particularly useful for difficult to reach internal passages, bends, cavities, and edges.
Abraum salts Abraum salts is the name given to a mixed deposit of salts, including halite (sodium chloride), carnallite, and kieserite (magnesium sulfate), found in association with rock salt at Aschersleben-StaĂźfurt in Germany. The term comes from the German Abraum-salze, "salts to be removed.
Abravanel The Abravanel family (also Abarbanel or Abrabanel) is one of the oldest and most distinguished Jewish Iberian families; they trace their origin from the biblical King David. Members of this family lived at Seville, where dwelt its oldest representative, Don Judah Abravanel.
Abravanel Hall Abravanel Hall is a concert hall in Salt Lake City, Utah that is home to the Utah Symphony and Opera, and is part of the Salt Lake County Center for the Arts. The hall is an architectural landmark in the city, and is adjacent to Temple Square and the Salt Palace on South Temple Street.
Abraxas The word Abraxas (or Abrasax or Abracax) was engraved on certain antique stones, called on that account Abraxas stones, which were used as amulets or charms. The name is found in the Greek Magical Papyrii, and the word may be related to the word abracadabra, although other explanations exist.
Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe is a 1991 science-fiction/action film written and directed by Damian Lee and starring Jesse "The Body" Ventura and Sven-Ole Thorsen, with a cameo by James Belushi. It has become somewhat of a cult movie due to its outlandish plot and other B-movie characteristics.
Abraxis Abraxis Kits is a company based in Warminster Township, Pennsylvania that designs, develops and manufactures immunochemistry-based testing products for scientific research and industrial manufacturing. For industrial manufacturing, Abraxis does provide Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) documentation.
Abre los ojos Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) is a 1997 film directed by Alejandro Amenábar and written by him and Mateo Gil. It stars Eduardo Noriega as César, a successful and handsome young man in Madrid who becomes severely disfigured in an automobile crash and then undergoes some disorienting experiences.
Abreaction Abreaction is a psychoanalytical term for reliving an experience in order to purge it of its emotional excesses; a type of catharsis. Sometimes it is a method of becoming conscious of repressed traumatic events.
Abrene district The Abrene district (Latvian: Abrenes apriņķis) was an administrative district in the Republic of Latvia with an area of 4292 square kilometers, formed in 1925 from the northern part of the Ludza district and the western part of the Ostrov region as the Jaunlatgale (New Latgale) district, but this was renamed Abrene in 1938. The district included the towns of Balvi and Abrene and 14 villages, and the civil parishes (Latvian: pagasti) comprising the district were reorganized thrice (there were 12 in 1929, 13 in 1935, and 15 in 1940).
Abreu Camp Abreu Camp is one of the major staffed camps in the South Country of Philmont Scout Ranch, New Mexico. Its program consists of a New Mexican homestead, set in 1912, and as such is an interpretive camp, well known for its Cantina.
Abrial A-12 Bagoas The A-12 was a highly unusual experimental glider designed by Georges Abrial in the early 1930s. Not only was the design tailless, but it featured wings of extremely small aspect ratio (1:6) - short and stubby, unlike the usually long and slender wings of a sailplane.
Abrictosaurus Abrictosaurus (IPA ; "wakeful lizard") is a genus of heterodontosaurid dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Period of what is now southern Africa. It was a small bipedal herbivore or omnivore, approximately 1.
Abridgement Abridgement or abridgment is a term defined as "shortening" or "condensing" and is most commonly used in reference to the act of reducing a written work, typically a book, into a shorter form.
Abrizio Abrizio was a fabless semiconductor company which made switching fabric chip sets. Their chip set, the TT1, was used by several large system development companies as the core switch fabric in their high value communication systems.
Abrocoma Abrocoma is a genus of abrocomid rodents found in the Andes of South America, from southern Peru to central Chile. The genus contains eight species, most of which are found in isolated mountain ranges in northwestern Argentina.
Abromeitiella The plant genus Abromeitiella has been deleted and its members have all been combined in the previously existing genus Deuterocohnia. The rationale for this combination was the analysis of the two genera and the conclusion that they were identical in all respects save the length of the floral scape (flower stalk or stem).
Abronhill Abronhill is a suburb in the northeastern half of Cumbernauld, a new town in North Lanarkshire, about 15 miles from Glasgow, Scotland. The suburb was possibly the last built using the same basic design guidelines employed by the rest of Cumbernauld (e.
Abronia (plant) Abronia, the sand-verbena, is a genus of about 35-40 species of annual or perennial herbaceous plants in the family Nyctaginaceae. Despite the common name, they are not related to the vervains (Verbena, family Verbenaceae).
Abronia latifolia The perennial flower Abronia latifolia is a species of sand-verbena known commonly as the coastal, or yellow sand-verbena. It is native to the west coast of North America, from southern California to the Canadian border.
Abrosaurus Abrosaurus (IPA ; 'delicate lizard' from the Greek αβρος meaning 'delicate' or 'dainty' and σαυρος meaning 'lizard') is a genus of macronarian sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Period of what is now Asia, one of many dinosaurs found at the Dashanpu Quarry in the Sichuan Province of China. Like most sauropods, Abrosaurus was a quadrupedal herbivore but it was rather small for a sauropod, not much more than 30 feet (9 meters) long.
Abrupt climate change Abrupt climate change refers to an event where large and widespread climate change occurs within about five years. A regional drought such as the Dust Bowl of 1932-1938 is the most familiar climate change on this time scale, but the phrase was coined because of worldwide, centuries-long events seen in ice cores of past climate.
Abruzzi Glacier Abruzzi Glacier is a glacier in the north of the Baltoro Kangri peak in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. The glacier joins the huge Baltoro Glacier (one of the largest glaciers outside polar region) that flows northwest in the beginning and then turns westward.
Abruzzo Abruzzo is a region of Italy bordering Marche to the north, Lazio to the west and south-west, Molise to the south-east and the Adriatic Sea to the east. Until 1963 it was part of the Abruzzi e Molise region (with Molise).
Abs Breen Richard Abidin "Abz" Breen (born June 29, 1979 in Enfield, London) is an English DJ and musician, formerly a singer and rapper in the boy band Five. He attended the Italia Conti Stage School in London before starting his musical career.
Absamat Masaliyev Absamat Masaliyevich Masaliyev (Абсамат Масалиевич Масалиев) (April 10, 1933, Alysh, Osh oblast, Kyrgyz SSR — July 31, 2004, Bishkek) was the leader of the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic before it gained independence, and led the Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Absaroka Range The Absaroka Range is a mountain range, which is a sub-range on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains stretching for about 150 mi (240 km) across the Montana-Wyoming border, and forming the eastern boundary of Yellowstone National Park.
Absaroka sequence The Absaroka sequence was a cratonic sequence that extended from the end of the Mississippian through the Permian periods. It is the unconformity between this sequence and the preceding Kaskaskia that divides the Carboniferous into the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian periods in North America.
Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness was created from existing National Forest lands in 1975 and is located in Montana and Wyoming, United States. The wilderness is partly in Gallatin, Custer and Shoshone National Forests and is composed of 944,000 acres (3,800 km²).
Abscam Abscam (sometimes ABSCAM) was an FBI sting operation run out of the FBI's Hauppauge, Long Island, office. The operation initially targeted trafficking in stolen property but was converted to a public corruption investigation.
Abscission Abscission (from ab- away from, and scission cutting or severing) is the shedding of a body part. It most commonly refers to the process by which a plant intentionally drops one or more of its parts, such as a leaf, fruit, flower or seed, though the term is also used to describe the shedding of a claw by an animal.
Absecon Island Absecon Island is a barrier island located on the Jersey Shore of the Atlantic Ocean in Atlantic County, New Jersey, USA. On the island (from north to south) are the resort communities of Atlantic City, Ventnor, Margate, and Longport.
Absence of gluteal muscle The congenital absence of the gluteal muscle was described in 1976, as occurring in a brother and sister with absence of gluteal muscles and with spina bifida occulta. It was thought to be caused by an autosomal recessive gene.
Absence of Malice Absence of Malice is a 1981 film which tells the story of the son of a dead Mafia boss who discovers that he has become a front-page story on the local newspaper indicating that he is being investigated for a murder he didn't commit. Paul Newman plays this man, Michael Gallagher.
Absent mindead Absent mindead were originaly formed in 2002 in Athens , Greece but didn't stop changing their line-up until March of 2005. Musically their sound ranges from post-punk to alternative rock with a distinct grunge influence.
Absent referent Absent Referent (sometimes Missing Referent, or Missing Antecedent) is a concept from linguistics, and is the condition of a sign which has an empty, absent, non-existent, paradoxical, hypothetical, supernatural, or undefined referent.
Absent-mindedness Absent-mindedness is one of The Seven Sins of Memory created by Daniel Schacter, and is specifically under the subcategory, sin of omission. Absent-mindedness is simply a failure in attention; involving an overlap between both attention and memory in both the encoding and retrieval stage of memory.
Absentee (band) Absentee are a band from London in the UK. They are Dan Michaelson (vocals/guitar), Melinda Bronstein (vocals, keyboards, melodica, glochenspiel), Babak Ganjei (guitar/lap steel), Laurie Earle (bass) and Jon Chandler (drums).
Absinthe Absinthe (also absinth) (IPA English: IPA French: ) is a distilled, highly alcoholic, anise-flavored spirit derived from herbs including the flowers and leaves of the medicinal plant Artemisia absinthium, also called grand wormwood. Although it is sometimes incorrectly called a liqueur, absinthe is not bottled with added sugar and is therefore classified as a liquor or spirit.
Absinthiana Absinthiana are the accoutrements surrounding the famous drink absinthe and its preparation ritual. Originally, absinthe was served in standard glasses and water was added from a simple carafe, but as its popularity grew so did the implements used, such as specialty glasses and complex brouilleurs.
Abslom Daak Abslom Daak (sometimes misspelled Absalom Daak) is a fictional character who appeared in the Doctor Who Weekly comic strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. He is a Dalek Killer, or DK, a convicted criminal given a reprieve from the death penalty in exchange for fighting the alien creatures known as the Daleks.
Absol are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise—a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards, and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Absol in the games, anime, and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon—untamed creatures that characters encounter while embarking on various adventures— and tamed Pokémon creatures owned by Pokémon trainers.
Absolute (philosophy) The Absolute is the totality of things; all that is, whether it has been discovered or not. It is usually conceived of as a unitary of the external cosmos and internal spiritual conscious — at least insofar as it can be acknowledged by the human mind — and as intelligible.
Absolute (production team) Absolute were formed in 1988 by Paul Wilson and Andy Watkins after they met at university and decided to pursue a career in music. Initially, Absolute was a band project with the release of two singles: "Don't You Wanna be Mine" (1991) and "Introduce Me to Love" (1992) on Rhythm King Records.
Absolute (record compilation) Absolute is the brand of a long-running series of compilation albums owned by the Swedish record company EVA Records. Initially, the only albums in the series were called Absolute Music, but starting in 1990 there have been other themed albums such as Absolute Dance and Absolute Rock.
Absolute advantage A country has an absolute advantage economically over another, in a particular good, when it can produce that good more cheaply. A country also has an absolute advantage if it can produce more of the good than another country can, with the same amount of resources.
Absolute and relative coding Absolute coding, in the context of programming, is the practice of referring to absolute addresses within code. In turn, relative coding is the practice of applying an offset to a base address to obtain a relative address.
Absolute Boy is a 26-episode Japanese anime series produced by Bandai Visual, which premiered from May 21, 2005 to November 19, 2005, and which was broadcast by the anime television network, Animax, across its respective networks worldwide, including Japan, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and other regions.
Absolute convergence In mathematics, a series (or integral) is said to converge absolutely if the sum or integral of the absolute value of the summand or integrand is finite. The property of absolute convergence is important because it is generally required in order for rearrangements and products of sums to work in an intuitive fashion.
Absolute dating Absolute dating is the process of determining a specific date for an archaeological site or artifact. Some archaeologists prefer the terms chronometric or calendar dating, as use of the word "absolute" implies a certainty and precision that is rarely possible in archaeology.
Absolute deviation In statistics, the absolute deviation of an element of a data set is the absolute difference between that element and a given point. Typically the point from which the deviation is measured is the value of either the median or the mean of the data set.
Absolute Entertainment Absolute Entertainment was a video game developer and publisher that produced titles for the Amiga, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Sega Game Gear, Sega Genesis, Sega CD, Game Boy, Nintendo Entertainment System, and Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game consoles, as well as for the PC. It also released games for the Sega Master System in Europe.
Absolute gain (International Relations) As a part of liberal international relations theory, absolute gain is a term used to describe how (primarily) states will act in the international community. The theory says that international actors will look at the total effect of a decision on the state or organization and act accordingly.
Absolute gain (Physics) The absolute gain of an antenna, for a given direction and polarization, is the ratio of (a) the power that would be required at the input of an ideal isotropic radiator to (b) the power actually supplied to the given antenna, to produce the same radiant intensity in the far-field region.
Absolute geometry Absolute geometry is a geometry that does not assume the parallel postulate or any of its alternatives. Its theorems are therefore true in non-Euclidean geometries, such as hyperbolic geometry, as well as in Euclidean geometry.
Absolute Galois group In mathematics, the absolute Galois group of a field K is the Galois group of Ksep over K, where Ksep is a separable closure of K. When K is a perfect field, Ksep is the same as an algebraic closure of K, and therefore this definition may be used for K of characteristic zero, or a finite field.
Absolute Guitar Absolute Guitar was a 1995 short Finnish music television documentary directed and written by Markus Viljanen. The 26 minute documentary was about the making of Raoul Björkenheim's Apocalypso, a composition for 38 electric guitars.
Absolute horizon In general relativity, an absolute horizon is a boundary in spacetime, defined with respect to the external universe, inside of which events cannot affect an external observer. Light emitted inside the horizon can never reach the observer, and anything that passes through the horizon from the observer's side is never seen again.
Absolute magnitude In astronomy, absolute magnitude is the apparent magnitude, m, an object would have if it were at a standard luminosity distance away from us, in the absence of interstellar extinction. It allows the overall brightnesses of objects to be compared without regard to distance.
Absolute majority Absolute majority in American parlance is a supermajoritarian voting requirement which is stricter than a simple majority. It means that more than half of all the members of a group, including those absent and those present but not voting, must vote in favour of a proposition in order for that proposition to be passed.
Absolute monarchy Absolute monarchy is a monarchical form of government where the monarch has the power to rule his or her land or country and its citizens freely, with no laws or legally-organised direct opposition in force. Although some religious authority may be able to discourage the monarch from some acts and the sovereign is expected to act according to custom, in an absolute monarchy there is no constitution or body of law above what is decreed by the sovereign (king or queen).
Absolute music Absolute music, less often abstract music, is a term used to describe music that is not explicitly "about" anything, non-representational or non-objective. Absolute music has no words and no references to stories or images or any other kind of extramusical idea.
Absolute Midnight Absolute Midnight is the not-yet-published third book in Clive Barker's Abarat series. According to Barker it is to be the darkest and longest so far, though whether or not it will be longer or darker than The Eternal (Book 4) is yet to be seen.
Absolute neutralisation In phonology, absolute neutralisation is a phenomenon in which a segment of the underlying representation of a morpheme is not realized in any of its phonetic representation. For example, Chomsky & Halle (1968) assume that the underlying representation of the word ellipse contains a final segment /e/ even though this segment is never pronounced.
Absolute neutrophil count Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) is a measure of the number of neutrophil granulocytes (also known as polymorphonuclear cells, PMN's, polys, granulocytes, segmented neutrophils or segs) present in the blood. Neutrophils are a type of white blood cell that fights against infection.
Absolute Null Punkt Absolut Null Punkt (often abbreviated to ANP) is a Japanese rock band formed by KK Null and Seijiro Murayama in 1984. ANP's music incorporates elements of free jazz, heavy rock, industrial music, and glitch music.
Absolute phase Absolute phase refers to the phase of a waveform relative to some standard (strictly speaking, phase is always relative). To the extent that this standard is accepted by all parties, one can speak of an absolute phase in a particular field of application.
Absolute Power (series) Absolute Power is a British comedy series, set in the offices of Prentiss McCabe, a fictional public relations company (or 'government-media relations consultancy') in London, run by Charles Prentiss (Stephen Fry), and Martin McCabe (John Bird).
Absolute return Absolute Return refers to investment performance regardless of market performance. Absolute Return strategies aim to produce returns independent of traditional performance benchmarks such as the S&P 500 index.
Absolute theory In physics and philosophy, absolute theory usually refers to a theory based on concepts (such as the concept of space) that exist independently of other concepts and objects. An absolute theory is the opposite of a relational theory.
Absolute threshold A difference threshold is the amount of change necessary for an observer to report 50% of the time that a stimulus has changed. Absolute threshold is "the statistically determined minimum level of stimulation necessary to excite a perceptual system.
Absolute time and space In physics, the concept of absolute time and absolute space are hypothetical models in which time either runs at the same rate for all the observers in the universe or the rate of time of each observer can be scaled to the "absolute time" by multiplying the rate by a constant.
Absolute Time in Pregroove Absolute Time in Pregroove (ATIP) is a method of storing information on an optical medium, used on CD-R and other writable discs. ATIP information is only readable on CD-R and CD-RW drives, as normal drives don't need the information stored on it.
Absolute value (algebra) In mathematics, an absolute value is a function which measures the size of elements in a field or integral domain. If D is an integral domain, an absolute value is a mapping | | from D to the real numbers R satisfying
Absolute war The concept of absolute war was a philosophical construct developed by the military theorist General Carl von Clausewitz and features in the first half of the first chapter of his book On War. After this, Clausewitz explains that absolute war is practically impossible because it is directed by politics and society, and thus he names war with these additional moderating influences as real war.
Absolute Whores Absolute Whores were a Canadian indie rock/Cowpunk band in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The band consisted of Greg McConnell as Ugly Dick Adonis, Vaughan Passmore as Blind Pig Neuton, Albert Saxby as Clint Rude.
Absolute World Absolute World in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada is part of a development that includes 5 highrise condominum towersThe local authorities and principal builders (Fernbrook Homes] and [[Cityzen Development Group) had introduced the Absolute Design Ideas Competition to design a 50-62 story building for the Absolute World South Tower (called 'Absolute Tower' during the selection period) which is the 4th tower in the complex. The international design competition received over 90 submissions from 70 countries around the world.
Absolute zero Absolute zero is the lowest possible temperature where nothing could be colder and no heat energy (or kinetic energy) remains in a substance. Absolute zero is the point at which molecules stop and they have no movement, retaining only quantum mechanical, zero-point energy-induced particle motion.
Absolutely Curtains "Absolutely Curtains" is a mostly instrumental track (the only vocalisation is a chorus of 'ah-ahhhh!' by all 4 members of the group towards the end of the main part of the track) which closes Pink Floyd's 1972 album Obscured by Clouds.
Absolutely irreducible In mathematics, absolutely irreducible is a term applied to mean irreducible, even after any finite extension of the field of coefficients. It applies in various situations, for example to irreducibility of a linear representation, or of an algebraic variety; where it means just the same as irreducible over an algebraic closure.
Absolutely simple group In mathematics, in the field of group theory, a group is said to be absolutely simple if it has no proper nontrivial serial subgroups. That is, G is an absolutely simple group if the only serial subgroups of G are { e } (the trivial subgroup), and G itself (the whole group).
Absolutely Sweet Marie "Absolutely Sweet Marie" is a song written by Bob Dylan, released on his 1966 double album Blonde on Blonde. An exuberantly up-tempo number, "Sweet Marie" is full of diverse, often hardly disguised sexual imagery.
Absolutely Zippo Absolutely Zippo is a punk rock fanzine created by Robert Eggplant to document the happenings of the East Bay Berkeley punk scene during its heyday in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Contributors included Aaron Cometbus of Cometbus fame (writing under the pen name "Skrub"), Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day (who wrote a brief article about how to be a couch potato) and Larry Livermore of Lookout!
Absolutes Similar to essential oils, absolutes are concentrated, highly-aromatic, oily mixtures extracted from plants. Whereas essential oils can typically be produced through steam distillation, absolutes require the use of solvent extraction techniques.
Absolution for Idiots and Addicts (EP) Absolution for Idiots and Addicts is a promotional EP by ska-punk band Less Than Jake before the release of their upcoming full length In With the Out Crowd. This EP contains two songs which were released on the full-length (Overrated; Rest of My Life) and two songs rejected from the album (We, the Uninspired; Negative Sides of Optomistic Eyes).
Absolution Tour Absolution Tour is a DVD released by the English rock band Muse. The DVD contains footage of most of the band's headline performance at the Glastonbury Festival 2004 (it does not contain the footage of "Citizen Erased" or "Stockholm Syndrome"); it also features some previously unseen footage from the Earls Court Exhibition Centre and Wembley Arena in London, and the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles.
Absolutist Games Absolutist Games is an online gaming development and publishing company founded in 2000. A corporate website is a casual gaming portal for multiplatform downloadable and online casual games of different genres with monthly traffic exceeding 1 million visitors.
Absolutive case In ergative-absolutive languages, the absolutive (abbreviated ABS) is the grammatical case used to mark both the subject of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb. It contrasts with the ergative case, which marks the subject of transitive verbs.
Absoluuttinen Nollapiste Absoluuttinen Nollapiste (Finnish for absolute zero) is a pop/rock band originating from Rovaniemi, Finland. It is somewhat famous for combining catchy melodies and solid, slightly progressive songwriting with Tommi Liimatta's eccentric lyrics.
Absorbed dose Absorbed dose is a measure of the energy deposited in a medium by ionizing radiation. It is equal to the energy deposited per unit mass of medium, and so has the unit J/kg, which is given the special name Gray (Gy).
Absorber In high energy physics experiments, an absorber is a block of material used to absorb some of the energy of an incident particle. Absorbers can be made of a variety of materials, depending on the purpose; lead and liquid hydrogen are common choices.
Absorbing Man The Absorbing Man (Carl "Crusher" Creel), a fictional character that appears in the . The Absorbing Man was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and first appeared in the comic book Journey into Mystery vol.

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