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Extreme points of Canadian provinces This is a table of extreme points (north, south, east and west) of each of the provinces and territories of Canada. Many of these points are uninhabited; see also extreme communities of Canada for inhabited places.
Extreme points of Europe This is a list of the extreme points of Europe, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent. The northernmost point of Europe is often incorrectly given as North Cape - actually the second northernmost point of the inshore islands of Europe.
Extreme points of Chile This is a list of the extreme points of Chile, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location. Its southernmost point is often said to be Cape Horn, the southernmost part of its inshore islands.
Extreme points of Massachusetts This is a list of extreme points of Massachusetts, which are points that extend farther north, south, east or west than any other part of Massachusetts. Also included are the highest point, the lowest point and the geographic center.
Extreme points of New England This is a list of extreme points of New England, which are points that extend farther north, south, east or west than any other part of New England. There is also the highest, lowest point and the geographic center.
Extreme points of New York This is a list of extreme points of New York, which are points that extend farther north, south, east or west than any other part of New York. Also included are the highest point, the lowest point and the geographic center.
Extreme points of Russia This is a list of the extreme points of Russia, the points that are farther north, south, east, or west than any other location in the country. The extreme points of the Soviet Union were identical, except that the southernmost point was Kushka in Turkmenistan.
Extreme points of Serbia and Montenegro This is a list of the extreme points of Serbia and Montenegro, the points that were farther north, south, east or west, higher or lower than any other location on the territory of the state that existed between 2003 and 2006.
Extreme points of South America This is a list of the extreme points of South America, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent. The continent's southernmost point is often said to be Cape Horn, which is the southernmost point of the coastal Chilean islands.
Extreme points of the Americas This is a list of the extreme points of The Americas, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent. The continent's southernmost point is often said to be Cape Horn, which is the southernmost point of the Chilean islands.
Extreme points of the United Kingdom This is a list of the extreme points of the United Kingdom: the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location. Traditionally the extent of the island of Great Britain has stretched "from Land's End to John o' Groats" (that is, from the extreme southwest of England to the far northeast of Scotland).
Extreme pornography Extreme Pornography is a term introduced by the UK Government to refer to pornography depicting acts of serious violence, necrophilia or bestiality. Serious violence is defined as that which "appears to be life threatening or likely to result in serious, disabling injury".
Extreme Pita Extreme Pita is a Canada-based fast-food chain co-founded by brothers Alex and Mark Rechichi in 1997. Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, the company has more than 150 units throughout Canada and the United States.
Extreme Programming Extreme Programming (XP) is a software engineering methodology, the most prominent of several agile software development methodologies. Like other agile methodologies, Extreme Programming differs from traditional methodologies primarily in placing a higher value on adaptability than on predictability.
Extreme snowboarding Extreme snowboarding is a form of Freeride snowboarding that is carried out in extreme terrain, typically containing obstacles such as cliffs, ravines, deep snow, rock gaps and anything else that occurs in a mountain environment.
Extreme Sports Channel The Extreme Sports Channel is a Netherlands-based extreme sports television channel available across Europe and the Middle East. It launched in 1999 as a joint venture between cable company UPC and programme distribution company Extreme Group.
Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope The Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) is an instrument on the SOHO spacecraft used to obtain high-resolution images of the solar corona in the ultraviolet range. The EIT instrument is sensitive to light of four different wavelengths: 17.
Extreme ultraviolet lithography Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (also known as EUV or EUVL) is a next-generation lithography technology using the 13.5 nm wavelength for the purpose of creating nanometer-scale patterns for use in semiconductor manufacturing.
Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) was a space telescope for ultraviolet (UV) astronomy. With instruments for UV radiation between wavelengths of 7 and 76 nm, the EUVE was the first satellite mission especially for the short-wave ultraviolet range.
Extreme Universe Space Observatory The Extreme Universe Space Observatory - EUSO is the first Space mission devoted to the investigation of cosmic rays and neutrinos of extreme energy (E > 5 x 10e19 eV), using the Earth's atmosphere as a giant detector, the detection being performed by looking at the streak of fluorescence light produced when such a particle interacts with the Earth's atmosphere. EUSO is a mission of the European Space Agency ESA, and it is currently under "Phase A" study with a goal for a three year mission starting in 2009.
Extreme value theory Extreme value theory is a branch of statistics dealing with the extreme deviations from the median of probability distributions. The general theory sets out to assess the type of probability distributions generated by processes.
Extreme weather Extreme weather includes weather phenomena that are at the extremes of historical patterns, especially severe or unseasonal weather.dramatic weather catastrophes are due to an increase in the number of severe events and an increase in population] densities which increase the number of people affected and damage caused by an event of given severity.
Extreme-G 2 Extreme-G 2 is the second Extreme-G game to be released on the Nintendo 64, but is the third game in the Extreme-G timeline (XGRA starts in 2080, while this game starts in the mid-22nd century). It is a third party game, with Acclaim's development out to Probe Entertainment department.
Extremely disconnected space In mathematics, in the realm of topology, a topological space is termed extremely disconnected if the closure of every open set in it is open. A space is called Stonean if it is compact and extremely disconnected.
Extremely Dangerous Exteremely Dangerous is a 1999 four part series for ITV starring Sean Bean as an ex-MI5 undercover agent convicted of the brutal murder of his wife and child who goes on the run to try and clear his name. He sets out to follow up a strange clue sent to him in prison.
Extremely high frequency Extremely high frequency is the highest radio frequency band. EHF runs the range of frequencies from 30 to 300 gigahertz, above which electromagnetic radiation is considered to be low (or far) infrared light, also referred to as Terahertz radiation.
Extremes Going to Extremes and Surviving Extremes are television programmes made for Channel 4 by Nick Middleton. In each episode of the two series, Middleton visits an extreme area of the world to find out how people have adapted to life there.
ExtremeTech ExtremeTech is a computing website that reports hardware related news, offers review of the latest computer hardware, and do-it-yourself guides to computing. It is a Ziff Davis website, and often partners with PC Magazine.
Extremism Extremism is a term used to describe the actions or ideologies of individuals or groups outside the perceived political center of a society; or otherwise claimed to violate common standards of ethics and reciprocity. It is usually considered by those to whom it is applied to be a pejorative term.
Extremism in America Extremism in America: A Reader is a book edited by Lyman Tower Sargent (a professor of political science). It is a reader presenting the ideas, platforms and creeds of both left-wing and right-wing American extremists in their own words; it provides their perspective on a range of issues: racial, political, religious, and economic.
Extremist Groups Extremist Groups: An International Compilation of Terrorist Organizations, Violent Political Groups, and Issue-Oriented Militant Movements is a reference book compiling information on over 200 groups classified as extremist.
Extremist Groups: Opposing Viewpoints (2001) Extremist Groups: Opposing Viewpoints is a book, in the Opposing Viewpoints Series, examining the issue of extremist groups: religious, racial, environmental, animal rights, militia, and socialist. It was edited by Tamara L.
Extremities (play) Extremities is a play by William Mastrosimone that was first performed on Broadway in 1982. The play is about a young woman named Marjorie who is attacked in her home by a would-be rapist and manages to turn the tables on him, tying him up in her fireplace.
Extremoduro Extremoduro is a rock band from Plasencia in Extremadura, one of the poorest regions in Spain. The band is lead by Roberto Iniesta, also known as "Robe", or even "El rey de Extremadura" (the king of Extremadura).
Extremophile An extremophile is an organism, usually unicellular, which thrives in or requires 'extreme' conditions that would exceed optimal conditions for growth and reproduction in the majority of mesophilic terrestrial organisms.
Extrinsic protein An extrinsic protein is a protein around the whole cell membrane that has polar and nonpolar areas. Extrinsic proteins only partly span the membrane-they are either attached to the outer phospholipid layer or the inner phospholipid layer.
Extrinsic value Extrinsic value is value which arises because of an agreement: Although the intrinsic value of a €100 note is not much more than the value of any similar piece of paper with a pretty picture on it, it has a practical value (an extrinsic value) of €100. If its issuing authority were to fail to honor the note's value, it would soon become nearly worthless.
Extropianism Extropianism, also referred to as extropy, is an evolving framework of values and standards for continuously improving the human condition. Extropianism describes a pragmatic consilience of transhuman thought guided by a conscious, pro-active, self-directed approach to human evolution and progress.
Extrudex Aluminum Inc. Extrudex Aluminum is a Canadian based aluminum extrusion company. Specializing in extruded aluminum shapes used mainly in transportation, architectural, industrial, residentual, electrical, and marine applications.
Extrusion Extrusion is a manufacturing process used to create long objects of a fixed cross-sectional profile. A material, often in the form of a billet, is pushed and/or drawn through a die of the desired profile shape.
Extrusion detection Extrusion detection or outbound intrusion detection is a branch of intrusion detection aimed at developing mechanisms to identify successful and unsuccessful attempts to use the resources of a computer system to compromise other systems. Extrusion detection techniques focus primarily on the analysis of system activity and outbound traffic in order to detect malicious users, malware or network traffic that may pose a threat to the security of neighboring systems.
Extrusive (geology) Extrusive refers to the mode of igneous volcanic rock formation in which hot magma from inside the Earth flows out (extrudes) onto the surface as lava or explodes violently into the atmosphere to fall back as pyroclastics or tuff. This is opposed to intrusive rock formation, in which magma does not reach the surface.
Extrusome Extrusomes are membrane-bound structures in some eukaryotes which, under certain conditions, discharge their contents outside the cell. There are a variety of different types, probably not homologous, and serving various functions.
ExTyrannomon ExTyrannomon is an Ultimate Level Puppet Digimon, wearing a Tyrannomon style outfit. As his true nature is unknown, if there isn't any theories that relate to a hidden being inside the costume, then he can be classified as a freely-living Puppet type.
Exudate An exudate is any fluid that filters from the circulatory system into lesions or areas of inflammation. Its composition varies but generally includes water and the dissolved solutes of the blood, some or all plasma proteins, white blood cells, platelets and (in the case of local vascular damage) red blood cells.
Exul Hibernicus Exul Hibernicus is the Latin name given to an Irish stranger (meaning just that) on the Continent of Europe in the time of Charles the Great, who wrote poems in Latin, several of which are addressed to the emperor.
Exult Exult is a Free Software reimplementation of the Ultima VII game engine. It enables play of Ultima VII: The Black Gate and Ultima VII Part 2: Serpent Isle, and their corresponding expansion disks Forge of Virtue and Silver Seed, on modern machines.
Exum Mountain Guides The Exum Mountain Guides is a mountain guide service founded in the 1926 by Paul Petzoldt and Glenn Exum, for whom the Exum Ridge is named. It is based in the Teton Range within Grand Teton National Park, in the U.
Exum Ridge The Exum Ridge is the name of the most popular climbing route up the Teton Range in Wyoming, named after Glenn Exum who first pioneered the ridge. The Grand Teton towers 13,770 feet above ground, with an ascent of 8,700 and a combination of hiking, climbing and repelling.
Exurb The expression "exurb" (for "extra-urban") was coined in the 1950s, by Auguste Comte Spectorsky in his book "The Exurbanites", to describe the ring of prosperous rural communities beyond the suburbs that, due to availability via the new high-speed limited-access highways, were becoming dormitory communities for an urban area.
Exuvia Exuvia (plural: exuviae) is a term used in biology to describe the remains of an exoskeleton that is left after an arthropod (insect, crustacean or arachnid) has moulted. The exuvia of an animal can be important to biologists as it can often be used identify the species of the animal and even its sex.
Exxon Building (Houston) The Exxon Building (formerly the Humble Building) was built in 1963 in Houston, Texas (USA). At that time it was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River at , beating the Smith Tower in Seattle, Washington (the previous record holder) by .
Exxon Building (New York) The Exxon Building, more widely known by its address, 1251 Avenue of the Americas, was part of the later Rockefeller Center expansion (1960s-1970s) dubbed the "XYZ Buildings" on Sixth Avenue, (also known as Avenue of the Americas). Their plans were first drawn up in 1963 by The Rockefeller family's architect, Wallace Harrison of the architectural firm, Harrison and Abramovitz.
Exxon Valdez Exxon Valdez was the original name of an oil tanker owned by the former Exxon Corporation. It gained widespread infamy after the March 24 1989 oil spill in which the tanker hit Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled an estimated 11 to 30 millionU.
Exxon Valdez oil spill The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill was one of the largest manmade environmental disasters ever to occur at sea, seriously affecting plants and wildlife. Its remote location (accessible only by helicopter and boat) made government and industry response efforts difficult, and severely taxed existing plans for response.
Exy The Exis (pronounced "Exies") took their name from the existentialist movement, and were influenced by its chief proponents, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. There are similar German nicknames for other movements, such as "Sozis" and the (less fondly remembered) "Nazis".
Exyrias Exyrias is a genus of marine gobies with four described species found throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans. These are relatively large gobies, typically found in turbid estuarine waters (although the recently described Exyrias akihito is a species of clearer water associated with coral reefs).
Exyrias akihito Exyrias akihito is a species of marine goby. Since the recent description of this species it has been found to have a wide distribution in the western Pacific including the Great Barrier Reef, New Guinea, Indonesia, the Philippines and the Yaeyama Islands, Japan.
EX Dragon Frontiers EX Dragon Frontiers is the fifteenth Pokémon Trading Card Game set released by Pokémon USA. It is based on an unknown set of islands far away, inhabited primarily by Dragon Pokémon (thus making it likely that these islands are the Dragon Frontiers).
EX Holon Phantoms EX Holon Phantoms is the thirteenth set of the Pokémon Trading Card Game released by Pokémon USA. It is set in an undeveloped area of Holon and marks the return of Delta Species Pokémon, after they debuted in EX Delta Species.
EX Power Keepers EX Power Keepers is the sixteenth Pokémon Trading Card Game set released by Pokémon USA. It also the first set since Legendary Collection to be released only outside of Japan, and the first since EX Unseen Forces not to include Delta Species Pokémon.
EX Unseen Forces EX Unseen Forces is the tenth set in the Pokémon Trading Card Game released by Pokémon USA. It is set in Johto, and is the first set by Pokémon USA to mainly consist of Pokémon from the Pokémon Gold and Silver games, released in 2001.
EXA In computing, in the X Window System, in the X.Org Server, EXA is a graphics acceleration architecture to make the XRender extension more usable, with only minor changes needed to adapt XFree86 video drivers written to use XAA (the XFree86 Acceleration Architecture).
EXCITING EXCITING is a state-of-the-art full-potential linearized augmented plane wave (FP-LAPW) code which uses quantum mechanics, specifically density functional theory (DFT), to determine the physical properties of solids and molecules. Augmented plane waves provide an almost ideal basis set for computing the Hamiltonian matrix for a periodic solid, and allow for tightly bound core and semi-core electrons to be treated on the same footing as valence electrons.
EXCL Communications EXCL Communications was a Spanish-language broadcasting company founded in 1989 by Athena and Christopher Marks It acquired its first radio stations, San Jose, California's KBRG] and [[KLOK-AM, in 1992. After its purchase of Embarcadero Media in 1997 it owned and operated 18 radio stations (many of which used the Radio Romántica] format), making it the third largest Spanish radio group in the United States.
EXCLAIM The EXtensible Cross-Linguistic Automatic Information Machine (EXCLAIM) is an integrated tool for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR), created at the University of California, Santa Cruz in early 2006. It is currently in a beta stage of development, with some support for more than a dozen languages.
EXeem eXeem was a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing client using the BitTorrent protocol. eXeem was designed to replace the need for centralised trackers (servers which co-ordinate the transfer of metadata across a BitTorrent network).
EXE EXE is the common filename extension for denoting an executable file (a program) in the MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, and OS/2 operating systems. Generally, "exe" may be used as a noun to refer to such a file.
EXE Technologies EXE Technologies was a supply chain software company formed by the merger of Neptune Software and Dallas Systems in 1997. Based in Dallas, EXE also had offices in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, Bracknell, UK, Tokyo and Singapore.
EXEC 8 EXEC 8 (sometimes referred to as EXEC VIII) was UNIVAC's operating system developed for the UNIVAC 1108 in 1964. It combined the best features of the earlier operating systems: EXEC I and EXEC II (used on the UNIVAC 1107).
EXEC II EXEC II was an operating system developed for the UNIVAC 1107 by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) while under contract to UNIVAC to develop the machine's COBOL compiler. They developed EXEC II because Univac's EXEC I operating system development was late.
EXist eXist is an open source database management system entirely built on XML technology, also called a native XML database. Unlike most relational database management systems, eXist uses XQuery, which currently is a Proposed Recommendation of the W3C, to manipulate it's data.
EXIT (performance art group) EXIT were a performance art group during the mid 1970s. EXIT members Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher later founded anarchist punk rock band Crass, adopting many of EXIT's experimental/multi media techniques into Crass' presentation.
EXIT chart An Extrinsic information transfer chart, commonly called an EXIT chart, is a technique to aid the construction of good iteratively-decoded error-correcting codes (in particular low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and Turbo codes).
EXIT procedure The EXIT procedure, or ex utero intrapartum treatment procedure, is a specialized surgical delivery procedure used to deliver babies who have airway compression due to bronchopulmonary sequestration, congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation, teratoma, or other congenital disorder. The approach is similar to a C-section, where an opening is made in the anesthesticized mother's uterus.
EXOSAT The Exosat satellite was operational from May 1983 until April 1986 and in that time made 1780 observations in the X-ray band of most classes of astronomical object including active galactic nuclei, stellar coronae, cataclysmic variables, white dwarfs, X-ray binaries, clusters of galaxies, and supernova remnants. The payload consisted of three instruments that produced spectra, images and light curves in various energy bands.
EXpanded MultiPlayer eXpanded MultiPlayer (XMP) is a multiplayer expansion to Unreal II developed by Legend Entertainment. XMP contains just one game mode that is similar to Capture the flag but requires more sophisticated tactics.
EXperimental Computing Facility Founded in 1986, the eXperimental Computing Facility (XCF) is an undergraduate computing-interest organization (in contrast to the Open Computing Facility and the Computer Science Undergraduate Association, which support most of the general-interest computing desires of the UC Berkeley campus). As such, the XCF stands as a focus for a small group of computer-scientists uniquely interested in computer science.
EXPCITE EXPCITE is used in the United States Code to mean expanded citation. This refers to the larger portions of the Code such as (1) title, (2) chapter, (3) part and (4) division as opposed to (1) section, (2) paragraph, and (3) clause.
EXPSPACE In complexity theory, EXPSPACE is the set of all decision problems solvable by a deterministic Turing machine in O(2p(n)) space, where p(n) is a polynomial function of n. (Some authors restrict p(n) to be a linear function, but most authors instead call the resulting class ESPACE.
EXPTIME In computational complexity theory, the complexity class EXPTIME (sometimes called EXP) is the set of all decision problems solvable by a deterministic Turing machine in O(2p(n)) time, where p(n) is a polynomial function of n.
EXtreme croquet eXtreme Croquet is a variation on croquet mainly distinguished by its lack of any requirement pertaining to out-of-bounds or field specifications. A close relative of the croquet played in most backyards and gardens, but expanded by more adventurous enthusiasts and played throughout the world in conditions that would make players of the original, more gentile, game cringe.
EXUP EXUP (EXhaust Ultimate Power valve) is a device fitted to selected Yamaha motorcycles (FZR,YZF,R series) that constantly adjusts the internal diameter of the exhaust system to suit engine revs. This ensures good low to mid-range performance for a linear power output all the way to the rev limiter.
Eyad El-Sarraj Eyad El-Sarraj is a Palestinian Gazan psychiatrist who was a consultant to the Palestinian delegation at the Camp David 2000 Summit. He is featured in a book by journalist Barbara Victor about Palestinian female suicide bombers, Army of Roses.
Eyal Podell Eyall Podell (born November 11, 1975) is an actor born in Tel Aviv, Israel and raised in Hong Kong before moving to New York City at the age of 8. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Eyam Eyam (pronounced "Eem") is a small village in Derbyshire, England. The village is best known for being the "plague village" that chose to isolate itself when the Black Death was found in the village in August 1665, rather than see the infection travel further north.
Eyüp Eyüp is a district of the city of İstanbul, Turkey, up where the Kağıthane and Alibey streams meet at the head of the Golden Horn, Eyüp is of great historical importance, especially for Muslims, and is an attractive area to visit.
EyĂĽp Sultan Mosque The EyĂĽp Sultan Mosque is situated outside the walls near the Golden Horn, Abu Ayyub al-Ansari standard - bearer of the Prophet Muhammad, died an assault on Constantinople in 670. His tomb is greatly venerated and attracts many pilgrims
Eydie Gormé Eydie Gormé (August 16, 1931) is a bilingual (English and Spanish) American singer who, with her husband Steve Lawrence, is credited heavily with helping to keep the classic American pop repertoire alive and well.
Eye (song) "Eye" is a song by the band The Smashing Pumpkins which featured on the soundtrack of the David Lynch film Lost Highway. Along with the song "The End is the Beginning is the End" from Batman and Robin, "Eye" represented a period of work on soundtracks done by the Pumpkins done in between the release of the two albums Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and Adore.
Eye bolt An Eye Bolt is a small screw with a loop on one end and threads on the other end. Eye bolts are commonly used to attach lines to objects, for instance attaching a cable to the back of a painting to allow the painting to hang from a nail on a wall.
Eye development The eye develops from the neural tube, the epidermis, and the periocular mesenchyme, which receives contributions from both the neural crest and mesoderm lineages. This development is an example of sequential inductions where the organ is formed from three different tissues.
Eye Drops Eye Drops was a television program on TechTV that showcased short computer animation movies and clips made using off the shelf 3D animation software. The show claimed to showcase all different types of animation, but only a very small number of shorts featured non-CG animation.
Eye examination An eye examination is a battery of tests performed by an ophthalmologist or optometrist assessing vision and ability to focus on and discern objects, as well as other tests and examinations pertaining to the eyes.
Eye for an Eye (Danny Phantom) "Eye for an Eye" is the forty-first episode in the TV-series Danny Phantom. A series of pranks between Danny and Vlad turns the older half ghost into running for mayor which he wins in a landslide by overshadowing voters.
Eye For An Eye Eye For An Eye is a Polish hardcore punk rock band founded in 1997 in Bielsko-Biała. EFAE, as it is also known, plays an old school style of punk, more along the veins of The Exploited or even, some say, Agnostic Front.
Eye in the sky The eye in the sky is a term given to casino and other commercial security closed circuit cameras. In casinos, they are positioned to monitor seats, tables, hallways, restaurants, and even elevators closely, often accurate enough to read the time on the watch of a player at a table.
Eye injury Physical or chemical injuries of the eye can be a serious threat to vision if not treated appropriately and in a timely fashion. The most obvious presentation of ocular (eye) injuries is redness and pain of the affected eyes.
Eye movement in language reading The study of eye movement in language reading stretches back almost a thousand years. Until the late 19th century, it was characterised by a reliance on naked-eye observation of eye movement, in the absence of technology.
Eye movement in music reading Eye movement in music reading is the scanning of a musical score by a musician's eyes. This usually occurs as the music is read during performance, although musicians sometimes scan music silently to study it, and sometimes perform from memory without score.

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