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Burning Vision Entertainment Burning Vision Entertainment, founded by directors Gratian Dimech and James Heath, is a London based production company. They have produced music videos for several artists that have debuted on MTV, including Destiny's Child, Beyoncé Knowles, Sheila Ferguson and Chicane.
BurningMUD BurningMUD (also referred to as Burning) is an online game which has its roots in the DikuMUD family of MUD:s. It combines elements from Rolemaster and Dungeons & Dragons to create a fantasy environment for the players to have fun in.
Burningtree Mountain, Alabama Burningtree Mountain, AL is a large, unincorporated, subdivision inside the City of Decatur city limits in Morgan County, and is included in the Decatur Metropolitan Area, as well as the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. Burningtree is situated on Burningtree Mountain.
Burniston Burniston is a village and civil parish in the Scarborough borough of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated about four miles north of Scarborough itself, on the A171 road, and according to the 2001 census had a population of 1389.
Burnley & Pendle Burnley & Pendle is a bus operator running within the boroughs of Burnley and Pendle, and into the surrounding areas including Accrington, Keighley and the high profile express service to Manchester, the X43/X44, branded as "The Witch Way", using specially branded double deckers with leather seats. Burnley & Pendle is a subsidiary of the Transdev Group, but has its roots as a former municipal bus company.
Burnley (UK Parliament constituency) Burnley is a constituency based on the town of Burnley represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Burnley Barracks railway station Burnley Barracks railway station is on the East Lancashire Line 800 metres (½ a mile) east of Burnley Central railway station. Of the four railway stations in Burnley (Rose Grove, Barracks, Central and Manchester Road), Burnley Barracks is the least busy.
Burnley, Victoria Burnley is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is 4km south east of the Melbourne GPO in the Local Government Area of the City of Yarra, and has the Yarra River as its southern and eastern boundaries.
Burnous A burnous (also spelled burnoose, or bournous; from the Berber and Maghribi Arab. burnus) is a long cloak of coarse woollen fabric with a hood, usually white in color, worn by Berbers and the Arabs throughout North Africa.
Burnout 3 soundtrack The soundtrack for the Burnout 3: Takedown video game featured 44 songs, which played as part of "Crash FM", the in-game radio station complete with commentary from DJ Stryker (from alternative radio station KROQ-FM in Los Angeles).
Burnpur Burnpur is an important industrial city in Asansol sub-division in the state of West Bengal, India . It is located in Bardhaman District, in the heart of the mining-industrial belt in the western periphery of the state.
Burns Beach, Western Australia Burns Beach (; post code: 6028) is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located 34 km north of Perth's central business district at the northern fringe of the City of Joondalup. Burns Beach has managed to maintain much of its original character as a small coastal village even with its loss of isolation, and the beach is popular among hang gliding enthusiasts.
Burns Bog Burns Bog is the largest domed peat bog in North America and one of the largest in the world. It covers an area of about 40 square kilometers and occupies a quarter of Delta, British Columbia, about 25 km southeast of downtown Vancouver.
Burns Club Atlanta The Burns Club of Atlanta was founded in 1896 and is housed in an exact replica of Robert Burns' home. As early as the 1870s, Burns admirers in Atlanta had been meeting in private homes to celebrate the birthday of the Scottish poet.
Burns Fugitive Slave Case Burns Fugitive Slave Case (1854) was one of three famous fugitive slave cases arising in Boston, Massachusetts, after the enactment of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Part of the Vigilance Committee (1850-61) planned to rescue Anthony Burns, an escaped slave, from an upper room of the courthouse.
Burns Park Burns Park, also known as West End Park, was a baseball park located in Detroit, Michigan that served two seasons as the exclusive Sunday home of the Detroit Tigers in Major League Baseball. In 1901 and 1902, Burns Park was used to observe blue laws, which prevented Sunday games from being played at Bennett Park, the team's primary baseball park.
Burns Philp Burns Philp is an Australian based company involved in the production and distribution of food ingredients and consumer branded food, beverage and related products. The Group operates internationally with leading products and brands enjoying significant market shares in each of its principal markets.
Burns Road Burns Road, is a street in downtown Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, famous for its traditional food offerings such as spicy chicken biryani, haleem and fried finger fish. Other specialities include kheer, rabri and dahi bara.
Burns stanza The Burns stanza is a verse form named after the Scottish poet Robert Burns. It was not, however, invented by Burns, and prior to his use of it was known as the standard Habbie, after the poet Habbie Simpson (1550-1620).
Burns supper A Burns supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns, author of many Scots poems including "Auld Lang Syne," which is generally sung as a folk song at Hogmanay and other New Year celebrations around the world. The suppers are normally held on or near the poet's birthday, January 25, sometimes known as Burns Night, although they may in principle be held at any time of the year.
Burns Singer Burns Singer (1928-1964), born James Hyman Singer in New York and an American citizen all his life, was a poet usually identified as Scottish. He was brought up in Scotland from a young age, and educated in Glasgow.
Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk" (German: Burns to Sell (sic) the Power Plant, 'Burns verkauft das Kraftwerk'- is the correct German form) is the eleventh episode of The Simpsons' third season. The incorrect German grammar (it should be Burns verkauft das Kraftwerk) is thought by many to be meant jokingly.
Burns' Day storm The Burns' Day Storm occurred on January 25–26, 1990, over Northwestern Europe and is one of the strongest storms on record. Starting on the birthday of Scottish poet Robert Burns, it caused widespread damage and hurricane force winds over a wide area.
Burnside Avenue (IRT Jerome Avenue Line) Burnside Avenue is an elevated station on the IRT Jerome Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intsersection of Burnside and Jerome Avenues in the Bronx, it is served by the train at all times.
Burnside Civic Centre The Burnside Civic Centre houses the council chambers, community centre, library and ballroom of the City of Burnside, Adelaide, South Australia. It is located at the corner of Greenhill and Portrush Roads in Tusmore.
Burnside Drive Burnside Drive is a four lane provincial road that runs entirely in Burnside Business Park in the community of Dartmouth within the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia from Akerley Boulevard and Nova Scotia Highway 107 to Exit 3 on Nova Scotia Highway 111 and Highfield Park Drive .
Burnside Rules The Burnside rules were a set of rules that transformed North American football from a rugby-style game to the gridiron-style game played in both Canada (Canadian football) and the United States (American football). Named after Thrift Burnside, captain of the University of Toronto football team, and first adopted by the Ontario Rugby Football Union in 1903, the rules introduced sweeping changes to the way football was played.
Burnside's lemma Burnside's lemma, sometimes also called Burnside's counting theorem, the Cauchy-Frobenius lemma or the orbit-counting theorem, is a result in group theory which is often useful in taking account of symmetry when counting mathematical objects. Its various eponyms include William Burnside, George PĂłlya, Augustin Louis Cauchy, and Ferdinand Georg Frobenius.
Burnside's problem One of the oldest open problems in group theory was first posed by William Burnside in a paper published in 1902. Some variations of the problem which were also stated in this paper have been resolved; but a full solution to the basic problem is still open as of 2004.
Burnsville High School Burnsville High School (BHS) is a three-year public high school located in Burnsville, Minnesota. The school is part of Independent School District 191, which covers all of Burnsville, as well as parts of the surrounding cities Savage and Eagan.
Burnt Church First Nation Burnt Church First Nation (Míkmaq: Eskɨnuopitijk or Esgenoôpetitj) is a Mi'kmaq First Nation in New Brunswick, Canada, east of the community of New Jersey (approximately 5 km.), south of the community of Legacéville (approximately 4.
Burnt Norton (band) Burnt Norton is an electronic pop/rock band from Toronto, Ontario. The staple members are Alex Unger and Steven Thomas, although guest musicians/artists have included Amorina Kingdon, Derek Bell, Samantha Lander and Carolyn Self.
Burnt Oak tube station Burnt Oak tube station is a London Underground station in north London, on Watling Avenue, off the A5 (the Edgware Road, originally a Roman Road known as Watling Street). The station is on the Edgware branch of the Northern Line, between Edgware and Colindale stations, and in Travelcard Zone 4.
Burnt-in timecode Burnt-in timecode (often abbreviated to BITC by analogy to VITC) is a human-readable on-screen version of the timecode information for a piece of material superimposed on a video image. BITC is sometimes used in conjunction with "real" machine-readable timecode, but more often used in copies of original material on to a non-broadcast format such as VHS, so that the VHS copies can be traced back to their master tape and the original time codes easily located.
Burntime Burntime is a strategy/RPG game for DOS and Amiga produced by Max Design in 1993. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic future, based on the three stages of every civilized society – its ascent, heyday and downfall.
Burntisland The Royal Burgh of Burntisland is a burgh in Fife, Scotland on the Firth of Forth. It is known locally for its sandy blue flag beach, the 15th century Rossend Castle, and its traditional summer fair and Highland games day.
Burntisland Shipyard Amateur F.C. Burntisland Shipyard Amateur Football Club are a Scottish football (soccer) club based at the Recreation Ground in the town of Burntisland, Fife. They were formed out of the Burntisland Shipbuilding Company's recreation fund, which had been established in 1919 by weekly subscription from the workers at the company to establish recreational activities for themselves.
Burntwood Burntwood is a town in Staffordshire, England, lying in the Cannock Chase area approximately four miles west of Lichfield. The town had a population of 26,035 at the time of the 2001 census and forms part of Lichfield district.
Burnum Burnum Burnum Burnum (10 January, 1936 – 18 August, 1997) was an Australian Aboriginal activist, actor, author and dreamer. He was born a Woiworrung and Yorta Yorta man at Wallaga Lake in southern New South Wales (NSW).
Buron Fitts Buron Rogers Fitts (March 22, 1895 Belcherville, Texas - March 1973 Three Rivers, California) was a California politician. He was lieutenant-governor of the state from 1927 to 1928 and Los Angeles County district attorney thereafter until 1940.
Burong mangga Burong mangga is a Filipino food made by mixing sugar, salt, and water to mangoes that have previously been salted. The mixture of water and sugar should be boiled first before pouring it onto the salted mangoes.
Burqa A burqa (also burkha, burka or burqua) (, ) is an all-enveloping outer garment worn by most Muslim women in Afghanistan, and many in India and Pakistan. It is worn over the usual daily clothing (often a long dress or a salwar kameez) and removed when the woman returns to the sanctuary of the household.
Burr (engineering) In engineering, a burr refers to the raised edge on a metal part. It may be present in the form of a fine wire on the edge of a freshly sharpened tool or as a raised portion on a surface, after being struck a blow from an equally hard, or heavy object.
Burr (novel) Burr: A Novel is a 1973 historical novel by Gore Vidal. Burr challenges the traditional iconography of American history through a fictional narrative and memoir by Aaron Burr, who was an officer in the Revolutionary War, a lawyer, and the vice president during Thomas Jefferson's first term as president of the United States.
Burr H. DuVal Burr Harrison DuVal (1809– March 27, 1836) was the commander of the Kentucky Mustangs, First Regiment Volunteers, a group of Kentucky Long-riflemen formed in Bardstown, Kentucky in November of 1835 during the Texas Revolution.
Burr puzzle Burr puzzles are interlocking puzzles known in Europe and Asia since at least the 18th century. Traditionally they are made from wood, but some modern versions use plastic (for cheapness) while collector's quality ones may be made from brass (for durability).
Burr Truss The Burr Arch Truss or simply Burr Truss or Burr Arch is a combination of an arch and a multiple kingpost truss design, invented in 1804 by Theodore Burr, patented on April 3, 1817, and used in bridges, usually covered bridges. The design principle behind the Burr arch truss was that the arch should be capable of holding the entire load on the bridge while the truss was used to keep the bridge rigid.
Burr-Brown Corporation The Burr-Brown Corporation was a United States technology company which designed, manufactured, and marketed a broad line of proprietary, standard, high-performance, analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) used in electronic signal processing. The company's products were used in a wide range of applications: industrial process and control, telecommunications, test and measurement, medical and scientific instrumentation, medical imaging, digital audio and video, personal computing and multimedia.
Burradoo, New South Wales Burradoo is a very small town just south of Bowral, in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. The main identifying feature of Burradoo is being home to two private secondary schools - Oxley College, and Chevalier College.
Burrard (electoral district) Burrard was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1896 to 1904 and from 1917 to 1925. This riding was created in 1892 from parts of New Westminster riding.
Burrard Inlet Burrard Inlet is a relatively shallow-sided coastal fjord in southwestern British Columbia. Formed during the last Ice Age, it separates the City of Vancouver and the rest of the low-lying Burrard Peninsula (to the south) from the slopes of the North Shore Mountains, home to the communities of West Vancouver and the City and District of North Vancouver.
Burrard Peninsula The Burrard Peninsula in extreme southwestern British Columbia sits between the fjord of Burrard Inlet and the Coast Mountains in the north and the Fraser River and its alluvial plain in the south. Its isthmus is the lowland around Coquitlam Centre, between the head of Burrard Inlet at Port Moody and the Coquitlam River, a tributary of the Fraser.
Burrard Station Burrard Station is a SkyTrain station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, served by the Expo and Millennium Lines. The station is located in the Dunsmuir Tunnel located beneath Downtown Vancouver, and opened in 1985.
Burrard Street Bridge The Burrard Street Bridge is an Art Deco, six lane bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia that spans False Creek connecting downtown to Kitsilano. The bridge is embellished with imposing concrete towers, torch-like entrance-pylons, and sculptural details.
Burrell School District The Burrell School District is one of many school districts under the Westmoreland Intermediate Unit in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The Burrell School District is located 18 miles (slightly under 30 kilometers) north-east of Pittsburgh, PA.
Burrell Smith Burrell Carver Smith is an engineer who, while working at Apple Computer, designed the digital board for the original Macintosh. He was Apple employee #282, and was hired February, 1979, initially as an Apple ][ service technician.
Burren Energy Burren Energy plc () is a British oil exploration and production company founded in 1994 by chairman Finian O’Sullivan. The company originally began as an oil transportation company in the Caspian Sea region, but later diversified into oil production in Turkmenistan, and in 2002 aquired Tacoma Resources, a company developing oil reserves in the Republic of Congo.
Burriana Burriana (or Borriana in Catalan/Valencian) is a town in eastern Spain, in the province of CastellĂłn, part of the autonomous community of Valencia. Its population exceeds 34,000, many of them recent immigrants from North Africa and Eastern Europe (especially Romania).
Burrill Phillips Burrill Phillips (November 9, 1907 – June 22, 1988) is an American composer born in Omaha, Nebraska. Perhaps his best known work is Selections from McGuffey's Reader , settings of three 19th century American poems.
Burrillville, Rhode Island Burrillville is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. It was incorporated as an independent municipality on November 17, 1806 when the Rhode Island General Assembly authorized the residents of then North Glocester to elect its own officers.
Burrito A burrito is a Mexican dish consisting of a flour tortilla usually filled with meat such as beef, chicken, or pork. In northern Mexico—the only region of Mexico in which burritos are generally found—the meat is usually the only filling, and the burrito is rolled fairly thin.
Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards In The Spokes, Automatic Biographies, Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We've Slipped On and Egg Shells We've Tippy Toed Over Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards In The Spokes, Automatic Biographies, Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We've Slipped On and Egg Shells We've Tippy Toed Over is Cap'n Jazz's first and only full-length album, released in 1995 on Man With Gun Records. It is also referred to as the Schmap'n Schmazz LP.
Burritts Rapids Bridge The Burritts Rapids Bridge connects Donnelly Drive in Burritts Rapids to County Road 22 in North Grenville Township. It was built in 1897, and although it has been updated since then, it still has the original design.
Burrough Green Burrough Green is a village and parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Described in Kelly’s Directory (1929) as a "village and parish 2½ miles south-east from Dullingham station on the Cambridge and Bury branch of the London and North Eastern Railway and 6 south from Newmarket, in the hundred of Radfield, Newmarket union, petty sessional division and county court district, rural deanery of Cheveley, archdeaconry and diocese of Ely.
Burrough valley Burrough Valley, California (once also called Burr Valley) is located in the Sierra Nevada foothills of eastern Fresno County, approximately thirty miles northeast of Fresno, California, at an elevation of about 1600 feet above sea level. The small valley covers approximately 4,000 acres.
Burroughs B2000 The Burroughs B2000 series of machines was manufactured by Burroughs Corporation in Pasadena, California and was aimed straight at the business world. The architecture was built to support COBOL programming in the most efficient way possible.
Burroughs large systems instruction set The B5000 instruction set is the set of valid operations for the Burroughs large systems including the current (as of 2006) Unisys Clearpath/MCP systems. These unique machines have a distinctive design and instruction set.
Burrow A burrow is a hole or tunnel dug into the ground by an animal to create a space suitable for habitation, temporary refuge, or as a byproduct of locomotion. Burrows provide a form of shelter against predation and exposure to the elements, so the burrowing way of life is quite popular among the animals.
Burrowbridge Burrowbridge is a village and parish in Somerset, England, situated on the River Parrett and A361 road five miles south east of Bridgwater in the Taunton Deane district on the edge of the Somerset Levels. The village has a population of 526 .
Burrowing Owl The Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) is a small, long-legged owl found throughout open landscapes of North and South America. Burrowing owls can be found in grasslands, rangelands, agricultural areas, deserts, or any other dry, open area with low vegetation (Lewis 2005).
Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic (also known as the BAN logic) is a set of rules for defining and analyzing information exchange protocols. Specifically, BAN logic helps its users determine whether exchanged information is trustworthy, secured against eavesdropping, or both.
Burrumbuttock, New South Wales Burrumbuttock is a town in the central southern part of the Riverina and situated about 16 kilometres north west from Walbundrie and 34 kilometres south east from Albury. It has a population within a 7 kilometre radius of approximately 423 people.
Burry Holms Burry Holms () is a small tidal island located at the northern end of the Gower Peninsula, south Wales. 9,000 years ago it was up to 12 miles (19 km) away from the sea and inhabited by nomadic Mesolithic hunters.
Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway The Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway (properly the Burry Port and Gwendreath Railway owing to a spelling mistake in the Act of Parliament creating the railway) was a 21-mile long railway progressively opened between 1859 and 1891 as a coal carrier largely on the route of an earlier canal built by Thomas Kymer to bring coal down the valley. It also operated dock facilities at Burry Port, Wales.
Burs (Dacia) The Burs were a Dacian tribe living in Dacia in the first and second centuries of the Common Era, with their capital city at Buridava. They allied with other tribes in the region to support the efforts by Decebal, the Dacian king, to turn back the Romans.
Bursa Bursa (formerly known as Brusa, Greek: Προύσσα, Prusa) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of Bursa Province. With a population of 1,194,687 (2000 census), it is Turkey's fourth largest city.
Bursa (anatomy) A bursa (plural bursae or bursas; Latin: Bursa synovialis) is a small fluid-filled sac located at the point where a muscle or tendon slides across bone. Bursae serve to reduce friction between the two moving surfaces.
Bursa Anadolu Lisesi Bursa Anadolu Lisesi (BAL) (Bursa Anadolu High School) is a public boarding secondary school in Bursa, Turkey. It was established in 1970 as Maarif Koleji (Education College) and later was renamed as Bursa Anadolu Lisesi becoming the first Anadolu High School in Bursa Province.
Bursa Malaysia The Bursa Malaysia or Malaysia Exchange, MYX previously known as Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE, Bursa Saham Kuala Lumpur in Malay) dates back to 1930 when the Singapore Stockbrokers' Association was set up as a formal organisation dealing in securities in Malaya. In 1937, it was re-registered as the Malayan Stockbrokers' Association, but it still did not trade public shares.
Bursa of Fabricius In birds, the bursa of Fabricius (Latin: Bursa cloacalis or Bursa fabricii)is the site of hematopoiesis, a specialized organ that, as first demonstrated by Bruce Glick and later by Max Cooper and Robert Good, is necessary for B cell development. Mammals generally do not have an equivalent organ; the bone marrow is often both the site of hematopoesis and B cell development.
Bursa Province Bursa is a province in western Turkey, along the Sea of Marmara. Its adjacent provinces are Balıkesir to the west, Kütahya to the south, Bilecik and Sakarya to the east, Kocaeli to the northeast and Yalova to the north.
Bursectomy A bursa is a small sacs filled with synovial fluid that cushions adjacent structures and reduces friction. Bursectomy refers to the removal of one of these structures, usually due to chronic inflamation (bursitis) of infection.
Bursera Bursera is a genus of about 40 species of flowering plants in the family Burseraceae, native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Americas, from the southern United States south to northern Argentina. A number of species from tropical Asia sometimes included in the genus are now treated in the separate genus Protium.
Bursera graveolens Bursera graveolens, known in Spanish as palo santo ("holy wood") is a tree that inhabits the South American Gran Chaco region (northern Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and the Brazilian Mato Grosso). It is related to the frankincense tree (genus Boswellia).
Burseraceae Burseraceae is a family of 17-18 genera and about 540 species of flowering plants, also known as the Torchwood family or incense tree family. The family includes both trees and shrubs, and is native to tropical regions of Africa, Asia and the Americas.
Bursfelde Congregation The Bursfelde Congregation or Bursfelde Union was a union of predominantly west and central German Benedictine monasteries and nunneries working for the reform of Benedictine practice. It was named after Bursfelde Abbey.
Burslem (UK Parliament constituency) Burslem was a constituency in Stoke-on-Trent which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Elections were held using the first past the post voting system.
Burson Augustin Burson Augustin is one of the seven men arrested on charges of conspiring to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and an FBI building in Miami. The seven men reportedly belonged to a cult related to Moorish Science Temple Of America.
Burst Angel Burst Angel (爆裂天使 <バクレツテンシ> Bakuretsu Tenshi) is an anime series produced by GONZO animation studio. The Japanese name Bakuretsu Tenshi is loosely translated to "Exploding/Explosive Angel", shortened to Bakuten and is also known as Burst Angel and Crazy Burst Angel.
Burst fracture A burst fracture is a type of spinal injury in which a vertebra breaks under strong compression, with pieces shattering in all directions. Burst fractures are very severe, and require immediate hospitalization and surgery; patients are often unable and often cause spinal cord injury.
Burst charge In fireworks, a burst charge is an amount of energetic pyrotechnic mixture placed in a shell which is ignited when the shell reaches the desired height in order to pass fire to and spread the stars. Burst charge compositions are frequently coated onto rice hulls or other low-density fillers, which increases the rate of combustion.
Burst mode (computing) Burst mode (alternatively burst-mode, with an hyphen) is a generic computing term referring to any situation in which a device is transmitting data repeatedly without waiting for input from another device or waiting for an internal process to terminate before continuing the transfer of data.
Burst mode (firearm) In automatic firearms, burst mode or burst fire is a firing mode enabling the shooter to fire a predetermined number of rounds (usually 2, 3 or 4) at a time with a single pull of the trigger—this firing mode is commonly used in submachine guns, assault rifles and carbines. Other types of firearms, such as machine pistols (e.
Burst of Joy Burst of Joy is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Associated Press photographer Slava "Sal" Veder, taken on March 17, 1973 at Travis Air Force Base in California. The photograph came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and the prevailing sentiment that military personnel and their families could begin a process of healing after enduring the horrors of war.
Burst switching In a packet switched network, burst switching is a capability in which each network switch extracts routing instructions from an incoming packet header to establish and maintain the appropriate switch connection for the duration of the packet, following which the connection is automatically released.
Burstable billing Burstable billing is a method of measuring your bandwidth based on peak utilization. It also allows a user to use more than the agreed bandwidth without the financial penalty of purchasing a higher Committed Information Rate (CIR, "commitment") from an Internet service provider (ISP).
Bursting Bursting is a rapid signaling mode in neurons whereby clusters of two or more action potentials are emitted as a single signaling event. Burst mode is thought to be useful for signaling important events and routing information in the brain.
Bursting Through "Bursting Through" was the first music single by New Zealand artist Bic Runga, and was released in September 1996. Unlike "Bursting Through", the B-side, "Making a Scene", was not available on her first studio album, Drive (1997).
Burstwick Burstwick is a village and civil parish in the Holderness region of the East Riding of Yorkshire, situated about ten miles east of Kingston upon Hull. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,813.
Burswood Entertainment Complex The Burswood Entertainment Complex () is located on the Swan River some five minutes from the city of Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by the gaming and media conglomerate PBL. Open 24 hours a day, the complex includes a casino, nine restaurants, six bars, a luxury 413-room InterContinental Burswood Hotel, a multifunctional Convention Centre, the Burswood Theatre and the Burswood Dome.

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