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Action of 22 August 1696 This indecisive battle took place on 22 August 1696 southeast of the Greek island of Andros. It was fought between Venice, under Contarini, and the Vatican on one side and Turkey, under Mezzo Morto, and Barbary forces on the other.
Action of 22 July 1638 The Action of 22 July 1638 is the name given to a battle which took place on 22 July 1638 at Guetaria, northern Spain, when a French fleet under de Sourdis attacked a Spanish fleet of 12 galleons, under Lopez des Hoces, which were moored in a line across the harbor entrance, before sending in fireships. 11 were burnt - the Spanish flagship, at least, being scuttled, and the other went aground.
Action of 23 March 1654 The Action of 23 March 1654 is the name given to a naval battle which took place near Colombo, Ceylon, when a force of 5 Portuguese galleons which were escorting 5 merchant galliots to Colombo, fought its way through a Dutch blockading squadron of 3 ships. 2 of the Dutch ships were captured, but in the Portuguese confusion of having their 2 top officers killed, these ships were recaptured.
Action of 24 April 1715 This battle took place on 24 April 1715 during the Great Northern War. It was a victory for a Danish squadron under Gabel, which captured five of the six Swedish ships under Wachtmeister at the cost of 65 dead and 220 wounded.
Action of 24 June 1618 This battle took place on 24 June 1618 at the Strait of Gibraltar, when 12 Dutch ships which had been hired by Venice and were flying Venetian colors, under the command of Melcior van den Kerchove, fought their way through against 10 blockading Spanish ships, commanded by Miguel de Vidazabal. About 10 Dutch ships, commanded by Mooi Lambert (although his full squadron consisted of 13 ships), stood aside during the battle.
Action of 25 September 1806 This battle took place on 25 September 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars between a British force of 6 battleships and a sloop (of which only 3 of the battleships were in action) and a French force of 5 frigates and 2 corvettes. Unusually for French ships of the period, the largest 4 frigates put up a tough fight, damaging the rigging of Mars in particular, before they were caught and captured.
Action of 26 July 1566 The battle that took place on 26 July 1566 during the Northern Seven Years War and was a slight victory for a Swedish fleet over a combined Danish and LĂĽbecker fleet. It began just east of Ă–land and the Allied fleet eventually retreated toward Gotland.
Action of 27 May 1770 Fought during the Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774, this indecisive battle took place on 27 and 28 May 1770 at the entrance to the Gulf of Nauplia, Greece, when a Russian fleet under John Elphinston engaged a larger Turkish fleet. No ships were lost on either side, and casualties were small.
Action of 29 June 1609 This raid took place on 29 June 1609 when a Spanish fleet of 8 galleons and 3 smaller vessels, under Fajardo, and a French squadron of 3 vessels, under Beaulieu, combined to attack Tunisian ships at the Goletta, northern Tunisia.
Action of 29 June 1694 The Action of 29 June 1694 is a sea battle during the War of the Grand Alliance on 29 June 1694 , when a force of 9 French ships, under Jean Bart, recaptured a French convoy, which had earlier that month been taken by the Dutch , and the 8-ship escorting force, under Hidde de Vries.
Action of 3 July 1810 This battle took place on 3 July 1810 during the Napoleonic Wars in the Mozambique Channel, when 3 800-ton British East Indiamen on their way to the East encountered 2 French frigates and a corvette. Henry Meriton, in Ceylon, realised they weren't going to escape and the British ships eventually formed into a line with Windham leading, Ceylon close behind, then a gap to Astell.
Action of 30 May 1563 The Action of 30 May 1563 was the first naval battle of the Northern Seven Years' War (1563-70), taking place on 30 May 1563 near Bornholm. A Danish squadron of 8 ships under Jacob Brockenhuus, at anchor near Bornholm, saw a Swedish squadron of probably 8 ships, under Jakob Bagge, approaching, and sent only the 3 ships Hercules 81 (flag), Hector 38 and Hjort 46 toward it to show that they didn't want to fight.
Action of 30 May 1564 This battle took place on 30 and 31 May 1564 between the islands of Gotland and Ă–land, between a fleet of Allied ships, the Danes under Herluf Trolle and the LĂĽbeckers under Knebel, and a Swedish fleet of 23 or more ships under Jakob Bagge. It was an Allied victory.
Action of 31 July 1712 These battles took place on 31 July and 17 August, 1712 south of Rugen, in the Baltic Sea, during the Great Northern War. The first was inconclusive but the second was a victory for Denmark, under Sehested, over Sweden, under Henck.
Action of 31 May 1677 This battle took place on 31 May 1677 between Femern and Warnemünde, north of modern-day Germany. The Danes had been blockading a Swedish squadron in Göteborg (Gothenburg), and each side had been sending fleets out regularly in the hope of a decisive victory at sea.
Action of 4 July 1805 The Action of 4 July 1805 was a battle that took place on July 4 1805 at the mouth of the Narenta River between the Russian Navy and that of France. The Russians had the two formerly Swedish frigates Venus and Avtroil, while the French had eleven vessels including the xebec Heinrich.
Action of 4 June 1565 This battle took place on 4 June 1565 between an Allied fleet of 33 Danish and Lübecker ships, under Trolle, and a Swedish fleet of perhaps 49 ships, under Klas Horn. Afterward, the Danes retired to Kjöge Bay, south of Copenhagen, where Trolle died of his wounds on 25 June.
Action of 5 November 1813 On 5 November, 1813, late in the Napoleonic Wars, a British squadron engaged in a skirmish with the French Mediterranean Fleet, based near the port city of Toulon. This action was part of an attempted blockade of the port by British forces.
Action of 6 July 1697 This series of battles took place in 1697 when the Venetian fleet, under Contarini, hunted down the Turkish fleet in the Aegean Sea. The actions took place on July 6 near Lemnos, on 1 September between Andros and Euboea and on 20 September south of Euboea.
Action of 6 November 1772 This battle took place on 6, 7 and 8 November 1772, during the Russo-Turkish War (1768-74) in the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth, Greece, when a Russian fleet under Konyaev defeated a Turkish force of frigates and xebecs, destroying all 9 frigates and 10 out of 16 xebecs and losing no ships.
Action of 7 July 1565 This battle in the Northern Seven Years' War took place on 7 July 1565 and was a victory for a Swedish fleet of 49 ships, under Klas Horn, over a combined Danish and LĂĽbecker fleet of 36 ships, under Otto Rud.
Action of March 1677 This battle took place in March 1677 in the West Indies when a Dutch fleet under Jacob Binkes repulsed a French force attempting to recapture the island of Tobago. There was much death and destruction on both sides.
Action of May 1612 This raid took place on the night of 23 or 25 May 1612 when a force of Sicilian and Neapolitan galleys attacked some Tunisian vessels at La Goulette, northern Tunisia. 7, or perhaps 9 or 10, Tunisian sailing ships were destroyed, while several smaller vessels were captured.
Action painting Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied. The resulting work emphasizes the physical act of painting itself.
Action potential An action potential is a wave of electrical discharge that travels along the membrane of a cell. Action potentials are an essential feature of animal life, rapidly carrying information within and between tissues.
Action Park Action Park was a popular waterpark/motor themed park open from 1978 to 1996 in Vernon Township, New Jersey, on the property of the former Vernon Valley / Great Gorge ski area, today Mountain Creek. It featured three separate attraction areas — an alpine slide; Motoworld, where patrons could operate motorized vehicles on land and water and Waterworld, with many water-based attractions such as waterslides.
Action Police CFTC Action Police CFTC is a very small police union in France, affiliated with the Confédération Française des Travailleurs Chrétiens (CFTC) Christian trade union confederation. Its general secretary is Michel Thooris.
Action Programme (1968) The Action Programme is a political plan, devised by Alexander DubÄŤek and his associates in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSÄŚ), that was published on April 5, 1968. The program suggested that the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (ÄŚSSR) find its own path towards mature socialism rather than follow the Soviet Union.
Action Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour An Action Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (APEC) is a national programme aimed at addressing child labour within a given country. It includes, but is not restricted to, the Worst Forms of Child Labour.
Action research Action research is research that each of us can do on our own practice, that “we” (any team or family or informal community of practice) can do to improve its practice, or that larger organizations or institutions can conduct on themselves, assisted or guided by professional researchers, with the aim of improving their strategies, practices, and knowledge of the environments within which they practice.
Action role-playing game An Action-RPG, or action role-playing game is a type of computer and console role-playing game which requires quick action or reflexes from the player. These games are sometimes also categorized as action-adventure games.
Action Replay Action Replay is the brand name of a series of devices created by Datel, primarily used for changing the behavior of video games. Currently, Action Replay is available for the Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo DS, and PlayStation Portable (PSP).
Action Replay DS Action Replay DS is a Nintendo DS game hacking device by Datel and a part of their popular Action Replay product line. Released worldwide in August 2006, it enables users to use predefined codes to edit in game behaviour.
Action Request System Action Request System (also known as Remedy, AR System and ARS) is a Client-server software application development environment developed by Remedy Corp. The AR System uses a third party database (Sybase, MS SQL, Oracle, etc...
Action safe Action safe or safe action, in television broadcasting, is a rectangular area in which the viewer can expect to see action. This represents a requirement unique to television, where an image with reasonable quality is expected to exist where (some) customers won't see it.
Action selection Action selection is a way of characterizing the most basic problem of intelligent systems: what to do next. In artificial intelligence and computational cognitive science, "the action selection problem" is typically associated with intelligent agents and animats—artificial systems that exhibit complex behaviour in an agent environment.
Action set Action Set is a rock band, stylistically ranging from pop to alternative rock to folk to post-punk. The band often refer to their music as retro-post-modern, slyly citing the inefficieny of any label in describing music in general.
Action Science Chris Argyris’ Action Science begins with the study of how human beings design their actions in difficult situations. Human actions are designed to achieve intended consequences and governed by a set of environment variables.
Action Supermarkets Action (Formerly Action Food Barns) was one of the largest supermarket chain in Australia. Based in Perth, Western Australia, Action had 80 Supermarkets across Western Australia, Queensland & New South Wales.
Action theory Philosophical action theory is concerned with conjectures about the processes causing intentional (wilful) human bodily movements of more or less complex kind. This area of thought has attracted strong interest of philosophers ever since Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Third Book).
Action-adventure game Action-adventure games (British English: arcade adventure) are video games that combine elements of the adventure game genre with various action game elements. It is perhaps the broadest and most diverse genre in gaming, and can include many games which might better be categorized under narrow genres.
Action-angle coordinates In classical mechanics, action-angle coordinates are a set of canonical coordinates useful in solving many integrable systems. The method of action-angles is useful for obtaining the frequencies of oscillatory or rotational motion without solving the equations of motion.
Actional Actional is a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance and Web services management software vendor. Prior to 1998, Actional was known as Visual Edge Software, a company originally founded in 1985 and best known for its Enterprise integration software as well as the popular UIM/X GUI builder software for OSF/Motif.
ActionAid ActionAid was founded in 1972 as a child sponsorship charity when 88 UK supporters sponsored 88 children in India and Kenya, the focus primarily being to provide children with an education. The organisation is now one of the UK's largest development agencies helping over 13 million of the world's poorest and most disadvantaged people worldwide, working with local partners to make the most of their knowledge and experience.
ActionAid Recycling ActionAid Recycling was formed by ActionAid in 1993 to raise funds for the charity by recycling used inkjet and toner cartridges and unwanted mobile phones. Since then, millions of printer cartridges and mobile phones have been kept out of landfill sites and recycled.
Actions along the Matanikau (September – October 1942) The Actions along the Matanikau in September and October, 1942, were two separate but related engagements among a series of engagements between the United States and Imperial Japanese Navy and Army forces around the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign. These two particular engagements, the first taking place between September 23 and September 27, 1942, and the second between October 6 and 9, 1942 were two of the largest and most significant of the Matanikau actions.
Actions in Inner Mongolia(1933-36) After the invasion of Manchuria secured the creation of the puppet state of Manchukuo and Operation Nekka, in 1933 secured Jehol from the Republic of China. Japan made several attempts by military and political means to secure the Mongolian territories of the provinces of Chahar, and Suiyuan, as part of a program to establish a north China puppet state of Huapeikuo.
Actiplaque Actiplaque is a mottling of dark blotches that tends to appear on the labels of older video game cartridges due to the gradual discoloration of the glue used to affix the cartridge labels. It has been known to appear on the labels of games for various systems and made by various manufacturers, but is notoriously and most commonly found on Atari 2600 game cartridges manufactured by Activision, hence the name.
Actiq Actiq, by Cephalon, is a solid formulation of fentanyl citrate on a plastic stick that dissolves slowly in the mouth for absorption across the buccal mucosa. Generically Actiq is a form of oral transmucosal fentanyl citrate (OTFC).
Actium Actium (mod. Punta), the ancient name of a promontory in the north of Acarnania (Greece) at the mouth of the Sinus Ambracius (Gulf of Arta) opposite Nicopolis, built by Augustus on the north side of the strait.
Activated alumina Activated alumina is manufactured from aluminium hydroxide by dehydroxylating it in a way that produces a highly porous material; this material can have a surface area significantly over 200 square metres/g. The compound is used as a desiccant (to keep things dry by absorbing water from the air) and as a filter of fluoride, arsenic and selenium in drinking water.
Activated carbon Activated carbon, also called activated charcoal or activated coal, is a general term which covers carbon material mostly derived from charcoal. For all three variations of the name, "activated" is sometimes substituted with "active".
Activated complex In chemistry an activated complex is a transitional structure in a chemical reaction that results from an effective collision between molecules and that persists while old bonds are breaking and new bonds are forming. It is therefore a range of molecular geometries along the reaction coordinate:
Activated Ministries Activated Ministries is a Family International-operated charitable foundation based in Escondido, California (EIN 33-0857142). Their stated goal is to share God's word with others through the distribution of Christian outreach materials and providing support to Christian missionaries.
Activated sludge Activated sludge is a process in sewage treatment in which air or oxygen is forced into sewage liquor to develop a biological floc which reduces the organic content of the sewage. In all activated sludge plants, once the sewage has received sufficient treatment, excess mixed liquor is discharged into settling tanks and the supernatant is run off to undergo further treatment before discharge.
Activating group In organic chemistry, a functional group is called an activating group if a benzene molecule to which it is attached more readily participates in electrophilic substitution reactions. Benzene itself will normally undergo substitutions by electrophiles, but additional substituents can alter the reaction rate or products by electronically or sterically affecting the interaction of the two reactants.
Activation energy The activation energy in chemistry and biology is the threshold energy, or the energy that must be overcome in order for a chemical reaction to occur. Activation energy may otherwise be denoted as the minimum energy necessary for a specific chemical reaction to occur.
Activation synthesis theory Activation Synthesis Theory is a neurobiological theory of dreams, put forward by James Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley in 1977, which states that dreams are a random event caused by firing of neurons in the brain. This random firing sends signals to the body's motor systems, but because of a paralysis that occurs during REM sleep, the brain is faced with a paradox.
Activator (genetics) An activator is a DNA-binding protein that regulates one or more genes by increasing the rate of transcription. The activator may increase transcription by virtue of a connected domain which assists in the formation of the RNA polymerase holoenzyme, or may operate through a coactivator.
Active 24 Active 24 () is a network-independent, pan-European provider of Internet hosting services. The company focuses on providing small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) with Internet solutions that combine scalable and standardized products.
Active acoustics Active Acoustics is a means of measuring the range to an object by producing a sound and measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from the object. The range is calculated as a function of the speed of sound and the time it takes for the echo to return.
Active and passive citizens During the French Revolution, a distinction was made for a time between active and passive citizens. In 1791, the Legislative Assembly was chosen by a process of indirect election; the Electors of the Assembly were themselves elected by "active" citizens, male citizens whose annual taxes equalled the local wages paid for three days of labor.
Active and passive transformation In the physical sciences, an active transformation is one which actually changes the physical state of a system, and makes sense even in the absence of a coordinate system whereas a passive transformation is merely a change in the coordinate system of no physical significance. The distinction between active and passive transformations is one which should always be kept in mind when working with transformations.
Active Ankle Active Ankle is a brand of removable braces worn to protect the ankles from injury or to prevent reinjury after a sprain. The device can be used with most standard athletic shoes by placing the sole of the brace underneath the pad of the shoe and lacing the shoe as normal.
Active Bat Active Bat is a low-power, wireless indoor location system accurate up to 3 cm. It is based on a principle of trilateration, and relies on multiple ultrasonic receivers embedded in the ceiling and measures time-of-flight to them.
Active Body Control Active Body Control, or ABC, is the Mercedes-Benz brand name used to describe fully-active suspension, that allows control of the vehicle body motions and therefore virtually eliminates body roll in many driving situations including cornering, accelerating, and braking.
Active calendar Active Calendar is a PHP class that generates calendars as HTML tables (XHTML-Valid). It can produce static calendars without any links or calendars with navigation controls, a date picker control, event days and content with event URLs, and linkable days (optionally URL or JavaScript).
Active camouflage Active camouflage or adaptive camouflage, is a group of camouflage technologies which allow an object to blend into its surroundings by use of panels or coatings capable of altering their appearance, color, luminance and reflective properties. Active camouflage has the potential to achieve perfect concealment from visual detection.
Active cancellation Active cancellation is a theoretical military jamming system that involves the sampling of an incoming radar signal, analyzing it, then returning this signal slightly out of phase, thus "canceling" it out. While there are no official systems using this in service, it is rumored to be in use on United States Air Force stealth aircraft like the B-2, F-117, F-22A, and possibly the F-35.
Active citizenship Active citizenship generally refers to a philosophy espoused by some organizations and educational institutions. It often states that members of companies or nation-states have certain roles and responsibilities to society and the environment, although those members may not have specific governing roles.
Active Citizens Transform Active Citizens Transform was founded in 2004 by Charles Secrett, former Executive Director of the environmental organization Friends of the Earth and Ron Bailey as a new non-party political movement in the United Kingdom. It aims to mobilise citizens to transform the United Kingdom into a vibrant, participatory and sustainable society.
Active device Active devices are energy controllers, sometimes converting one form of energy to another: chemical, hydraulic, thermal energy, mechanical , nuclear, solar, etc, into electrical energy, driving electrical current around the circuit and hence delivering continuous energy to it.
Active duty In the United States military active duty refers to military members who are currently serving full time in their military capacity. Members of a reserve component are not generally considered active duty, although some will work full time occasionally, e.
Active Directory Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. Active Directory allows administrators to assign enterprise-wide policies, deploy programs to many computers, and apply critical updates to an entire organization.
Active Electronically Scanned Array An Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA), also known as active phased array radar is a revolutionary type of radar whose transmitter and receiver functions are composed of numerous small transmit/receive (T/R) modules. AESA radars feature short to instantaneous (millisecond) scanning rates and have a desirable low probability of intercept.
Active Enterprises Active Enterprises was a Bahamas-based video game company founded by Vince Perri and Raul Gomila. Active was responsible for the Action 52 video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Sega Genesis (also known as the Sega Mega Drive), as well as the unreleased Cheetahmen 2 for the NES.
Active fault An active fault is a fault which has had displacement or seismic activity during the geologically recent period. In the United States, an active fault is generally defined as a fault which displaced earth materials during the Holocene Epoch (during the last 11,000 or so years before present).
Active Format Descriptor In television technology, Active Format Descriptor or Active Format Description (AFD) is a signal that broadcasters can transmit with the picture to enable both 4:3 and 16:9 television sets to optimally present pictures transmitted in either format. Essentially, AFD is a standard set of codes sent in the MPEG video stream that provides aspect ratio and safe area information to television or set-top-box decoders.
Active Fuel Management Active Fuel Management (formerly known as Displacement on Demand) is a trademarked name for the automobile variable displacement technology from General Motors. It allows a V6 or V8 engine to "turn off" half of the cylinders under light-load conditions to improve fuel economy.
Active galactic nucleus An active galactic nucleus (AGN) is a compact region at the centre of a galaxy which has a much higher than normal luminosity over some or all of the electromagnetic spectrum (in the radio, infrared, optical, ultra-violet, X-ray and/or gamma ray wavebands). A galaxy hosting an AGN is called an active galaxy.
Active high Active-high signals are used in electronic logic circuits to represent binary values by means of two different voltages. The higher voltage represents a binary 1 or "mark", and the lower voltage represents a binary 0 or "space".
Active hyperemia Active Hyperemia is a term used to describe a dilation of arteriolar smooth muscle to increase blood flow in response to an increase in metabolism. As tissue or organs increase their metabolic activity they will consume more oxygen and produce more metabolites (products of metabolism ).
Active Hexose Correlated Compound Active Hexose Correlated Compound (AHCC) is a nutritional supplement produced from the mycelia of specific species of mushrooms, and should not be confused or used as a drug or medicine. AHCC was originally designed to lower high-blood pressure, however Tokyo University found AHCC's reactions to the innate immune system highly beneficial and published the results in 1992.
Active chromatin sequence An active chromatin sequence (ACS) is a region of DNA in a eukaryotic chromosome in which histone modifications such as acetylation lead to exposure of the DNA sequence thus allowing binding of transcription factors and transcription to take place. ACSs may occur in non-expressed gene regions which are assumed to be "poised" for transcription.
Active labour market policies Active labour market policies (ALMPs) are government programmes that intervene in the labour market to help the unemployed find work. Many of these programmes grew out of earlier public works projects designed to combat widespread unemployment in the developed world during the interwar period.
Active laser medium Within a laser, the active laser medium or gain medium is the material that exhibits optical gain. This gain is generally generated by stimulated emission on electronic or molecular transitions to a lower energy state, starting from a higher energy state to which it had been previously stimulated by means of a pump source.
Active learning Active learning, as the name suggests, is a type of instruction which some teachers employ to involve pupils during the learning process. Associated with the term "learning by doing", "active learning" is often contrasted with less active forms of instruction (e.
Active listening Active listening is an intent "listening for meaning" in which the listener checks with the speaker to see that a statement has been correctly heard and understood. The goal of active listening is to improve mutual understanding.
Active low Active-low signals are used in electronic logic circuits to represent binary values by means of two different voltages. The higher voltage represents a binary 0 or "space", and the lower voltage represents a binary 1 or "mark".
Active Liberty Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution (ISBN 0-307-26313-4) is a 2005 book by United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. The general theme of the book is that Supreme Court justices should, when dealing with Constitutional issues, keep "active liberty" in mind, which Justice Breyer defines as the right of the citizenry of the country to participate in government.
Active Living Active Living is a way of life that integrates physical activity into daily routines, like walking to the store or biking to work. Active Living is a growing field that emerged from the early work of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with the release of the Surgeon's General Report on Physical Activity and Health in 1996.
Active measures Active Measures (Russian: "Активные мероприятия") are a form of political warfare conducted by the Soviet secret police services (Cheka, OGPU, NKVD, KGB, GRU, FSB, and SVR) to influence a course of world events Mitrokhin, Vasili, Christopher Andrew (2000). The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West.
Active monitor An active monitor is the device in a token ring that performs network-management duties, such as keeping track of tokens and weeding out frames that would otherwise circulate indefinitely. The device that has the highest MAC address in the token ring is automatically selected as the active monitor.
Active Mailorder Active Mailorder, or better known as Active Rideshop/Active Skateshop is a skateshop chain based Southern California and has 14 locations all over Southern California. It started in Chino, California and has stores in Temecula, San Dimas, Rancho Cucamonga, Escondido, Norco, Riverside, Valencia, Brea, Irvine, Mission Viejo, Orange, Burbank, Costa Mesa, and currently has a shop being built in Santa Monica.
Active Meditation Active Meditation refers to some meditation techniques created by Osho. All of Osho's active meditations involve a beginning stage of activity -- sometimes intense and physical -- followed by a period of silence.
Active MLB playoff appearance streaks The following is a list of Major League Baseball teams with the most consecutive (active) seasons appearing in the playoffs. This refers to teams which have made the playoffs after the 162 game regular season either by winning one of the six divisions, or winning the wild card; that it to say being the best second-place team in each of the two leagues.
Active Networking Active networking is a communication paradigm that allows packets flowing through a communication telecommunications network to dynamically modify the operation of the network. The active network architecture is comprised of execution environments (similar to a unix shell that can execute active packets), a node operating system capable of supporting one or more execution environments, and active hardware, capable of routing or switching as well as executing code within active packets.
Active NFL playoff appearance streaks The following is a list of National Football League teams with the most consecutive (active) seasons appearing in the playoffs. This refers to teams which have qualified and made the playoffs at the conclusion of the 16 game regular season either by winning one of the eight divisions or by winning a wildcard spot (entering 2007 regular season).
Active optics Active optics is a relatively new technology for reflecting telescopes developed in the 1980s, which has more recently enabled the construction of a generation of telescopes with 8 metre primary mirrors. Active optics works by "actively" adjusting the telescope's mirrors.
Active pixel sensor An active pixel sensor (APS) is an image sensor consisting of an integrated circuit containing an array of pixels, each containing a photodetector as well as three or more transistors. Since it can be produced by an ordinary CMOS process (and is hence also known as the CMOS sensor), APS is emerging as an inexpensive alternative to CCDs.

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