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Auxiliary Units The Auxiliary Units (or Auxunits) were specially trained highly secret units created with the aim of resisting the expected invasion of the British Isles by Nazi Germany during World War II. Britain was the only country during the war to create such a resistance movement in advance of an invasion.
Auxiliary verb In linguistics, an auxiliary (also called helping verb, auxiliary verb, or verbal auxiliary) is a verb functioning to give further semantic or syntactic information about the main or full verb following it. In English, the extra meaning an auxiliary verb imparts alters the basic form of the main verb to have one or more of the following functions: passive, progressive, perfect, modal, or dummy.
Auxiliary view An auxiliary view is an angle at which one can view an object that is not one of the primary views for an Orthographic projection. An auxiliary view is a view at an angle used to give deeper insight into the actual shape of the object.
Auxilium ad filium militem faciendum et filiam maritandam Auxilium ad filium militem faciendum et filiam maritandam was an ancient writ directed to the sheriff of every county, where the king or other lord had any tenants, to levy of them reasonable aid, towards the knighting of his son, and the marriage of his eldest daughter.
Auxology Auxology is a meta-term covering the study of all aspects of human physical growth; though it is also a fundamental of biology, generally. Auxology is a highly multi-disciplinary science involving health sciences / medicine (pediatrics, general practice, endocrinology, neuroendocrinology, physiology, epidemiology), and to a lesser extent: nutrition, genetics, anthropology, anthropometry, ergonomics, history, economic history, economics, socioeconomics, sociology, public health, and psychology, among others.
Auxotrophy Auxotrophy is the inability of an organism to synthesize a particular organic compound required for its growth (as defined by IUPAC). An auxotroph is an organism that displays this characteristic; auxotrophic is the corresponding adjective.
Auzex Auzex Resources Limited (is Australian based Company engaged in the acquisition, exploration and, if warranted, the development of mineral deposits in specific granite terrains in Eastern Australia and New Zealand. Auzex's project portfolios include Kingsgate Molybdenum project located east of Glen Innes; Stanthorpe project Lode Hill Prospect located in Queensland and New South Wales border; Deepwater Greisen prospect located on the northern margin of the Kingsgate Leucogranite; Seven Hills Gold prospect located north-east of Glen Innes; Lyndbrook project located in North Queensland, south-west of Cairns; West Tinaroo Gold project located south-west of Cairns; Khartoum project located south-west of Cairns, and New Zealand project located in the northern extension of the Reefton Goldfield.
Auzout (crater) Auzout is a lunar impact crater that is located to the southeast of the Mare Crisium, near the eastern limb of the Moon. Due to foreshortening this crater appears quite oval, but is actually relatively circular in form.
AURP-Association of University Research Parks Imagine the power unleashed when the science being created inside a university and the know-how inside a high tech business meet up. Imagine a place where knowledge workers and entrepreneurs have access to critical resources such as shared instruments and laboratories, science libraries, educational programs and other entrepreneurs with whom to work.
AUSCAR AUSCAR (Australian Stock Car Auto Racing) was the Australian counterpart of NASCAR, starting in 1986 and continuing until 2001. The cars were designed to race on the paved oval tracks at Calder Park Thunderdome and Adelaide International Raceway, but were also raced on road courses.
AUTO Festival (2002) AUTO festival was a one-day music festival held at the Magna Centre in Rotherham, South Yorkshire on 14th December 2002. It was masterminded chiefly by Pulp's bassist Steve Mackey and singer Jarvis Cocker, and featured what has been up to now the band's last live performance.
AUTOart AUTOart is a model car company dedicated to making model cars in many scales. Their 1:18 scale models are their most distinctive, some of which they assert are the highest quality models available on the market, but are very expensive with some limited editions going above $100.
AUTOCOURSE AUTOCOURSE, or Autocourse, is a series of annuals covering motor racing, and Formula One in particular. The annuals cover a long period of the sport's history, from 1951 to the present day, and, as such, are highly collectible.
AUTODYN AUTODYN is an explicit software package for non-linear dynamics. It incorporates finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, a meshfree (SPH) capability and coupling between these techniques and material physics.
AUTOSAR AUTOSAR is an open standards organization created to provide an open standard for automotive architecture for developing vehicular software, user interfaces and management. Core members include the PSA Peugeot Citroën, Toyota Motor Corporation, Volkswagen, BMW Group, DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and automotive suppliers Bosch, Continental and Siemens VDO.
Av (month) Av (Hebrew: אָב, Standard Av Tiberian ; from Akkadian abu) is the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year and the fifth month of the civil year on the Hebrew calendar. The name is Babylonian in origin and appeared in the Talmud around the 3rd century.
Av Beit Din Av Beit Din, or Av Beis Din, or Av Beth Din (אב בית דין) Hebrew, literally "Father of the House of Justice". The Av Beit/Beis Din was the second-highest ranking member of the Sanhedrin during the Second Commonwealth period.
Av drive An Av drive is a hard disk drive which is designed specifically for audio and video purposes. They were used in the late 1990s for sustained media transfers: they delayed thermal recalibration so it would not interfeer with the transfer.
Av HaRachamim Av Harachamim (אב הרחמים "Father [of] mercy" or "Merciful Father") is a Jewish memorial prayer which was written in the late eleventh or early twelfth century, after the destruction of the Ashkenazi communities around the Rhine River by Christian crusaders during the First Crusade. It is printed in every Orthodox siddur and recited as part of the weekly Shabbat services.
Av-Alarm The Av-Alarm was created in the 1960's in order to control birds and other pests in an agricultural environment. It was first used in prototype form for diverting flight paths of hoards of red-winged blackbirds that were forcing closure of a jet training base in Georgia, twice a day.
Ava Gardner Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress and one of the great Hollywood film stars. She is listed as one of the American Film Institute's greatest stars of all time.
Ava Lord Ava Lord is a fictional character in Frank Miller's Sin City universe, the title character in the graphic novel A Dame To Kill For. An ex-lover of Dwight McCarthy, she manipulates men with her good looks and an innocent facade.
Ava Lowery Ava Lowery is a 16-year-old homeschooled student Brady, Jonann, What Does Back to School Mean for Homeschoolers ABC News Special Report, Aug. 30, 2005 and peace activist from Alabama who has created over 70 Flash-based animations critical of the Iraq War, President Bush, policies of the Republican Party and several individual Republican politicians.
Ava Lyn Koh Ava Lyn Koh is one of the first movie stars of the young Singapore film industry. A child selected for gifted education, she graduated as a rare, prestigious scholar from Brandeis University, a Jewish college near Boston.
Ava Shamban Ava Shamban is an American dermatologist who is Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology at UCLA. She is the featured dermatologist on ABC's Extreme Makeover (Seasons 1-4) and has developed AVA MD, her own line of specialty skin care products.
AvaĂ­ Futebol Clube AvaĂ­ Futebol Clube, or AvaĂ­ as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from FlorianĂłpolis in Santa Catarina, founded on September 1, 1923. It became nationally known after the tennis player Gustavo Kuerten declared to be a supporter of AvaĂ­.
Avabit An avabit is a term used by Charles Stross to denote Avogadro's number of bits.Charles Stross "Backups in the Future"Polymath07 "Polymath at Large" (blog)Charles Stross "Accelerando, Chapter 7"
Avacast Avacast Corporation is a company that provides online meeting, webconferencing, webcasting, and all manner of online learning/distance education software and services. These services are provided by the company's sole product, the Avacaster System, which is available for licensing either in a hosted or deployed capacity.
Avadana Avadana is the name given to a type of Buddhist romance literature represented by a large number of Sanskrit (Nepalese) collections, of which the chief are the Avadanasataka (Century of Legends), and the Divyavadana (The Heavenly Legend). Though of later date than most of the canonical Buddhist books, they are held in veneration by the orthodox, and occupy much the same position with regard to Buddhism that the Puranas do towards Brahminism.
Avadanasataka The Avadānaśataka or "Century of Noble Deeds (Avadāna)" is an anthology in Sanskrit of legends, primarily concerning the Buddha and the Maurya emperor Aśoka, written by members of the Sarvāstivāda school of Buddhism.
Avadhara Avadhara (sometimes referred to as Auadhara) is a climatological resort in Abkhazia, the breakaway republic of Georgia. The resort lies on the southwestern slopes of the Avadhara Range at an elevation of 1,600 meters (5,248ft.
Avadhuta Avadhuta (अवधूत is a term from the Dharmic Religions of India referring to a somewhat eccentric type of mystic or saint who has risen above bodily-consciousness, duality, and worldly concerns and acts without consideration for standard social etiquette. Such personalities are considered to be free from the consciousness of the ego, and to 'roam free like a child' over the face of the earth.
Avagddu In the Welsh myth of Taliesin, Avagddu (also called Morfran) was the extremely ugly son of Ceridwen and Tegid Veol. Avagddu's mother, Ceridwen, tried to help her son make his way in the world by creating a potion whose first three drops would give him knowledge of the future.
Availability factor The availability factor of a power plant is the amount of time that it is able to produce electricity over a certain period, divided by the amount of the time in the period. Occasions where only partial capacity is available may or may not be deducted.
Availability, salience and vividness Availability, salience and vividness are three terms, which refer to very similar things in social psychology, but have slightly different meanings. They may actually all refer to the same underlying concept, and they positively influence one another, but they are each used consistently in different theoretical contexts.
Available energy (particle collision) In particle physics, the available energy is the energy in a particle collision available to produce new matter from the kinetic energy of the colliding particles. Since the conservation of momentum must be held, a system of two particles with a net momentum may not convert all their kinetic energy into mass - and thus the available energy is always less than or equal to the kinetic energy of the colliding particles.
Available for sale Available for sale (AFS) is one of the three general classifications for financial assets (the other two being held for trading and held to maturity) under US GAAP (specifically, FAS 133) and four (the fourth being loans and receivables) under IFRS.
Available line In voice, video, or data communications, the term available line (or useful line) is a circuit between two points that is ready for service, but is in the idle state. In facsimile transmission, the portion of the scanning line that can be specifically used for image signals.
Avajan Avajan is a commune (municipality) in the Louron Valley in the departement of Hautes Pyrenees in France. The center of the commune is the old village, centered around the church and mairie (administrative center).
Avalancha de Éxitos Avalancha de Éxitos (Avalanche of Hits) was Café Tacuba's third album. In 1996, two years after their acclaimed Re, the band had amassed enough new music to fill four CDs, but couldn't winnow it down to a single album.
Avalanche An avalanche is a very large slide of snow (or rock) down a mountainside, caused when a buildup of snow is released down a slope, and is one of the major dangers faced in the mountains. An avalanche consists of rapidly moving granular material that has exceeded the critical static friction threshold and thereby causes additional material to exceed its threshold as well, in a cascading effect.
Avalanche (comics) Avalanche (Dominic Szilard Janos Petros) is a Marvel Comics supervillain, an enemy of the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne, he first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #141 (January 1981).
Avalanche breakdown Avalanche breakdown is a phenomenon that can occur in both insulating and semiconducting materials. It is a form of electric current multiplication that can allow very large currents to flow within materials which are otherwise good insulators.
Avalanche Corporate Technology Avalanche Corporate Technology is a technology cooperative that provides a private exchange that enables corporations to share intellectual property (IP), particularly that represented by computer software. Avalanche is a for-profit initiative, chartered by a group of companies, to reduce the cost and increase control over mission-critical software.
Avalanche effect In cryptography, the avalanche effect refers to a desirable property of cryptographic algorithms, typically block ciphers and cryptographic hash functions. The avalanche effect is evident if, when an input is changed slightly (for example, flipping a single bit) the output changes significantly (eg, half the output bits flip).
Avalanche photodiode Avalanche photodiodes (APDs) are photodetectors that can be regarded as the semiconductor analog to photomultipliers. By applying a high reverse bias voltage (typically 100-200 V in silicon), APDs show an internal current gain effect (around 100) due to impact ionization (avalanche effect).
Avalanche Press Avalanche Press is an American company that publishes board wargames and has published some role-playing game supplements. An extremely prolific company, they have produced many respected contributions to the wargame community, most notably the The Great War at Sea and Panzer Grenadier series, as well as Red Parachutes, one of their earliest games and a detailed study of the Soviet crossing of the Dnepr River in 1943.
Avalanche Software Avalanche Software is a video game developer studio, founded in October 1995 by four lead programmers from Sculptured Software. The company has developed for every console platform since the Sega Genesis and SNES days and has grown to a staff of over 100 since its inception.
Avalanche transistor An Avalanche Transistor is a bipolar junction transistor designed for operation in the region of its collector-current/collector-to-emitter voltage characteristics beyond the collector to emitter breakdown voltage, called avalanche breakdown region . This region is characterized by avalanche breakdown, a phenomena similar to Townsend discharge for gases, and negative differential resistance.
Avalancher In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the Avalancher is an Outsider from the Elemental Plane of Earth. It has a large, round central body made entirely out of rock, with 6, insect-like stony apendages for legs and a single eye stalk with a large, orange, glowing eye protruding from the top of the front.
Avalon Avalon (probably from the Celtic word abal: apple; see Etymology below) is a legendary island somewhere in the British Isles, famous for its beautiful apples. The concept of such an "Isle of the Blessed" has parallels in other Indo-European mythology, in particular Tír na nÓg and the Greek Hesperides, the latter also noted for its apples.
Avalon (1990 film) Avalon (1990) is a feature film directed by Barry Levinson. It is a mostly autobiographical story of a family of Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the United States who settle in Baltimore, Maryland, at the beginning of the 20th century.
Avalon (comics) Avalon is the name of at least two places in the Marvel Comics Universe and one place in an alternate timeline of the Marvel Universe known as the Age of Apocalypse. All are named after (and one is based directly on) Avalon in Arthurian myth.
Avalon (webcomic) Avalon is a webcomic] by [[Josh Phillips set in the fictional city of Avalon, Ontario, Canada. It focuses on a group of high school students, and while it was originally gag-a-day, it evolved into a coherent, long-term story with realistic characters.
Avalon class cruiser The Avalon-class light cruisers are a type of starship used in the Honorverse by the Royal Manticoran Navy. The Avalon is the newest class of light cruiser used by the Royal Manticoran Navy, and is equipped with with the new Mark-16c missile launchers (who's off-bore capacity elleviate the need for for- and aft missile launchers) and the new bow- and stern wall shields.
Avalon Clan The Avalon Clan is a fictional group of gargoyle characters in the Disney animated television series Gargoyles. As the name suggests, it is a gargoyle clan that resides on the mythical Isle of Avalon, where an hour spent on the island equates to a day in the "real" world.
Avalon Guitars Avalon Guitars is the name of an acoustic guitar manufacturer based in Newtownards, County Down in Northern Ireland. The company, Avalon Guitars Limited, was originally formed in 1989 as The Lowden Guitar Company Limited and operated from Bangor, County Down until 1990.
Avalon High Avalon High is a Young Adult novel by Meg Cabot, published in 2005. The book follows teenager Ellie Harrison, who has just moved from Minnesota to Annapolis, Maryland while her parents take a year long sabbatical to continue their medieval studies in nearby DC.
Avalon Hill Avalon Hill was a game company that specialized in wargames and strategic board games. It also published the occasional miniature wargaming rules, role-playing game, and had a popular line of sports simulations.
Avalon Sutra / As Long as I Can Hold My Breath Avalon Sutra / As Long as I Can Hold My Breath is a double album by Harold Budd which is said to be his final musical work, although both Music for 'Fragments from the Inside' and Mysterious Skin - Music from the Film were released a few months after this album. The first disc is titled Avalon Sutra, and the second is titled As Long as I Can Hold My Breath.
Avalon The 3D Adventure Movie Avalon The 3D Adventure Movie is a computer game released for the ZX Spectrum by Hewson Consultants in 1984. An arcade adventure, the game involved controlling Maroc the mage in his quest to destroy Avelach, Lord of Chaos.
Avalon, Mississippi Avalon, Mississippi, is a town in the United States known as the home of the great bluesman Mississippi John Hurt. However in 2006 Avalon is nothing but a spot in the road on Highway 7 about 12 miles North of Greenwood with a small green highway sign depicting Avalon, and a commemorative Highway marker placed by Carrol County recognizing John as a great bluesman.
Avalon, New Zealand Avalon, a suburb in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, formed as a private residential development in the 1970s on land formerly occupied by market gardens on the left (eastern) bank of the Hutt River. It features mostly California-inspired designed houses, often split-level, with 3 and 4 bedrooms.
Avalon, Victoria Avalon (; post code: 3212) is an outer northeastern suburb of Geelong, Victoria. Its Local Government Area is the City of Greater Geelong and it is located on the western shore of Port Phillip Bay to the southwest of the state's capital city of Melbourne.
Avannaa Avannaa/Nordgrønland (North Greenland, also called Avannaarsua or Avanersuaq) is one of the three counties (amt) of Greenland. The county seat is at the main settlement, Qaanaaq, the town of the only municipality.
Avans Hogeschool Avans Hogeschool was founded on January 1, 2004 as a union of Hogeschool 's-Hertogenbosch in 's-Hertogenbosch, and Hogeschool Brabant in Tilburg, Breda and Etten-Leur. Hogeschool Brabant itself was a union from 1988 of Hogeschool West-Brabant (Etten-Leur and Breda) and Hogeschool Midden-Brabant (Tilburg).
Avant Avant (born Myron Avant on April 26,1978 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a multi-platinum American R&B singer. A graduate of the Cleveland School of the Arts in 1995 where he majored in theater, he is best known for hits such as "Separated" (the remix to which features Kelly Rowland), "My First Love," and "Read Your Mind" (the remix to which features Snoop Dogg on the extended promo vinyl).
Avant Browser Avant Browser is a popular freeware web browser which unites the Trident layout engine built into Windows (see Internet Explorer shell) with an interface intended to be more feature-rich, flexible and ergonomic than Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE). It runs on Windows 98 and above, including Windows Vista RC1.
Avant Garde (band) Avant Garde (1987-1989) (later Zoom) was a progressive metal band consisting of Kevin Ridel (later of Ridel High, Peel & AM Radio) on vocals, Rivers Cuomo (of Weezer) on lead/rhythm guitar (then known as Peter Kitts), Justin Fisher (later of Shufflepuck and Psoma) on bass, Bryn Mutch on percussion, and Eric Ridel/Michael Stanton (Zoom) on lead/rhythm guitar. They were based in Storrs, Connecticut until moving to Los Angeles, California in 1989.
Avant Guide Avant Guide, derived from the French term avant-garde, is a term used to refer to people or actions that lead other people to experiences that are novel or experimental, particularly with respect to the arts and culture. The word "avant" by itself comes from the French "advanced" or "forward.
Avant-garde Avant-garde in French means front guard, advance guard, or vanguard. People often use the term in French and English to refer to people or works that are experimental or novel, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.
Avant-garde jazz Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines elements of avant-garde art music and composition with elements of traditional jazz. Avant-jazz overlaps with free jazz, but differs in that free jazz is generally performed with fewer, or no predetermined structure or composition.
Avant-garde metal Avant-garde metal, sometimes called experimental, is a cross-genre reference to metal bands characterized by large amounts of experimentation and by non-standard sounds, instruments, and song structures. Some of the earliest instances of a band being classified as avant-garde lie with Celtic Frost, Fleurety and Ved Buens Ende.
Avant-Garde and Kitsch Avant-Garde and Kitsch is the title of a 1939 essay by Clement Greenberg in which he claimed that avant-garde and modernist art was a means to resist the 'dumbing down' of culture caused by consumerism. Greenberg termed this 'kitsch', a word that his essay popularised.
Avant-progressive rock Avant-progressive rock is a style of rock music that explores unconventional territory, often incorporating non-standard chord progressions, tempo changes within a piece, odd time signatures, avant garde passages and complex horn and orchestral arrangements. It generally relates to experimental bands and musicians influenced by 20th century avant garde, classical, jazz, folk and other music, and who stretch the boundaries of the rock form in both the compositional and improvisational arenas.
Avant-punk Avant-punk is a corruption of "avant-garde," a term generally used in popular reference to mean "in the forefront of innovation," though with more specific meanings in the arts. "Avant-punk" is used preferentially to "garage-punk" or "punk-rock" (broader genre definitions avant-punk falls under) to connote a forward-looking and experimental approach to fast stripped-down guitar music, as opposed to the more retrospective ethic of those styles.
Avantasia Avantasia (The Metal Opera) is a symphonic metal project created by Tobias Sammet, vocalist and frontman of the power metal group Edguy. The project's title is a mixture of the words "avalon" and "fantasia" ("fantasy") and describes "a world beyond human imagination" (a quotation from the booklet).
Avantgarde Music Avantgarde Music is an Italian record label focusing on black and doom metal artists. The label has two sub-labels; Obscure Plasma Records and Wounded Love Records, which has released albums by Dolorian and Taake.
AvantGo AvantGo is Web page / file synchronization service for personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smartphones. The system consists of browser client software running on the PDA, a synchronization server, and (optionally) an Internet-connected PC to transfer Web pages into the PDA.
Avanti Kart Avanti is a brand of kart chassis marketed in the US and Central America by JM Racing (of Carson, California) but built in Italy by Parolin. Avanti has a full line of karts including; TAG, Shifter, 100cc, Cadet, 4-Cycle and Baby.
Avanti La Vie Avanti La Vie (English translation: "Go Forward In Life") was the Belgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984, performed in French (with some words, including "Avanti" in the title, in Italian) by Jacques Zegers.
Avar (animation variable) An avar or animation variable is a variable controlling the position of part of an animated object, such as a character. The character "Woody" in Pixar's movie Toy Story uses 700 avars (with 100 in the face alone Successive sets of Avars control all movement of the character from frame to frame.
Avarayr Avarayr field is located in Vaspurakan. It was the site of the Battle of Avarayr, a battle considered one of the most important in Armenian history Vahan Kurkjian - Period of the Marzbans — Battle of Avarair.
Avaré, São Paulo Avaré is a city of the State of São Paulo, Brazil, locates 270 km from the capital. Established in September 15, 1861 for Major Vitoriano de Souza Rocha and Domiciano Santana, the city developed around of the chapel of Ours Mrs.
Avard Moncur Avard Moncur (born November 2, 1978 in Nassau, Bahamas) is a Bahamian athlete competing in the 400 metres. At the 2005 World Championships in Athletics he won (together with Nathaniel McKinney, Andrae Williams and Christopher Brown) a silver medal.
Avari Hotels Avari Hotels is one of major chains of hotels in Pakistan. It was founded by Dinshaw Avari ("The creator and founder") and is now run by his son Byram Dinshawji Avari, the CEO of Avari Hotels Ltd, and his two sons Dinshaw and Xerxes.
Avaricum Avaricum was an oppidum in ancient Gaul, near what is now the city of Bourges. Avaricum, situated in the lands of the Biturges, was the largest and best-fortified town within their territory, situated on very fertile lands.
Avaris Avaris, thought to be located at Tell el-Dab'a (some still argue for different locations), was the ancient capital of the Hyksos dynasties in Egypt. Located in the northeastern region of the Nile Delta, Avaris was the base of the Hyksos kings of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period.
Avarus (band) Avarus are a band from Tampere, Finland. They were formed in 2001 by members of The Anaksimandros and Pylon and soon absorbed members of other Finnish bands such as Kiila, Munuaissymposium 1960, Kemialliset Ystävät.
Avas The Avas is a hill of volcanic origin in Miskolc, Hungary. Its top (234 m above sea level, 104 m above the city) is the highest point of Miskolc proper (although other parts, annexed to the city later, lie higher up in the BĂĽkk mountains).
Avatar In Hindu philosophy, an avatar, avatara or avataram (, ), most commonly refers to the incarnation (bodily manifestation) of a higher being (deva), or the Supreme Being (God) onto planet Earth. The Sanskrit word literally means "descent" (avatarati) and usually implies a deliberate descent into lower realms of existence for special purposes.
Avatar (comics) Avatar is the name of a two fictional comic book characters: A DC Comics superhero who originated as a Charlton Comics sidekick in Judomaster #93 (Feb. 1967), by writer Joe Gill and artist Frank McLaughlin; and the hero of a Marvel Comics science fiction one-shot.
Avatar (computer game) Avatar is a text-based & graphics-based multi-user highly interactive role-playing computer game, created on the University of Illinois's Control Data Corporation PLATO computer system in the late 1970s. It has graphics for navigating through a dungeon, and text for player status and communication with others.
Avatar (icon) An avatar (abbreviations include AV, ava, avy and avvie) is an Internet user's representation of himself or herself, whether in the form of a three-dimensional model used in computer games,Lessig, Lawrence. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace.
Avatar (Ultima) The Avatar is the main (player) character in the Ultima series of games. He (or she) is not an embodiment of a god (as in the traditional meaning of the term "avatar"), but of a set of ethic guidelines called the Virtues.
Avatar Records Avatar Records is a Los Angeles, California based independent record label known mainly for hip hop releases and soundtracks. Avatar is also a leading digital distributor, providing music to online retailers like Apple's iTunes Music Store.
Avatar Roku (Winter Solstice, Part 2) "Avatar Roku (Winter Solstice, Part 2)" is an episode from the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, which airs on Nickelodeon. It is the eighth episode of the first season of the series.
Avatar State The Avatar State is a defense mechanism that only the Avatar of the american animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender can utilize. In the Avatar State, all the knowledge and experience of the former Avatars are combined into the current one.
Avatar's Abode Avatar's Abode is a 99 acre spiritual retreat near Brisbane, Australia dedicated to Meher Baba. It was established by Australian poet and disciple of Meher Baba, Francis Brabazon, in the 1950's on the summit of Kiel Mountain near Woombye on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
Avatar: The Last Airbender Trading Card Game The Avatar: The Last Airbender Trading Card Game is a collectible card game based on the Nickelodeon animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Upper Deck Entertainment launched this title in the first quarter of 2006.

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