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HVDC Sileru-Barsoor The HVDC Sileru-Barsoor is a high voltage direct current transmission system between Sileru, India and Barsoor, India, which went in service in 1989. The HVDC Sileru-Barsoor is a bipolar HVDC with a voltage of 200 kV and a transmission rate of 400 megawatts.
HVDC Thailand-Malaysia The HVDC Thailand-Malaysia is a 110 kilometer long HVDC powerline between Khlong Ngae in Thailand and Gurun in Malaysia. The HVDC Thailand-Malaysia serves for the coupling of the asynchronously operated power grids of Thailand and Malaysia and went in service in June 2002.
HVDC Three Gorges-Guangdong The HVDC Three Gorges-Guangdong is a 940 kilometre-long bipolar HVDC powerline in China for the transmission of electric power from the Three Gorges power plant to the area of Guangdong. The powerline went into service in 2004.
HVDC Troll The HVDC Troll is a monopolar high-voltage direct current (HVDC) electric power transmission line for the supply of the gas compressor station on the offshore construction work Troll A. It consists of dual set of a 68 kilometer long bipolar submarine cable designed for 60 kV between the gas compressor station Troll A and the static inverter station Kollsnes in Norway.
HVDC Vancouver Island The HVDC Vancouver Island is the name for HVDC interconnection between the Vancouver Island Terminal (VIT) near North Cowichan, British Columbia on Vancouver Island and the Arnott Substation (ART) near Delta, British Columbia on the Canadian mainland, which went into operation in 1968 and was extended in 1977. HVDC Vancouver Island consists of a 42 kilometers overhead line and a 33 kilometers long submarine cable.
HVDC Volgograd-Donbass The HVDC Volgograd-Donbass is a high voltage direct current line between the static inverter plants at Volzhskaya (situated near the hydro-electric power plant Volgograd) and Mikhailovskaya in the Donbass area, which went into service in 1964. It consists of a 475 kilometre long overhead line.
HVQFN A Heatsink Very-thin Quad Flat-pack No-leads (HVQFN) is a surface mount integrated circuit package format with no component leads extending from the IC. Pads are spaced along the sides of the IC with an exposed DIE that can be used as ground.
Hwa Chong Institution Hwa Chong Institution () is a prestigious college offering education from a Secondary (High School) to Pre-University (Senior High) level in Singapore. Previously two separate but affiliated schools, The Chinese High School and Hwa Chong Junior College, the Institution was the result of a merger which was officiated on 1 January, 2005.
Hwacha Hwacha or Hwach'a is an anti-personnel gunpowder weapon used in Korea, inspired by Chinese fire arrows. It was a two-wheeled cart carrying a launching pad board filled holes into which sajunchongtong (사전총통) or singijeons are placed.
Hwair Hwair () is the name of , the Gothic letter expressing the wh-sound, transliterated with a special Latin letter of the same name (lowercase , uppercase , introduced by philologists around 1900 to replace the digraph hv formerly used to express the phoneme, e.g.
Hwandudaedo The hwandudaedo, is an ancient Korean sword from the Three Kingdoms of Korea era (1st century BCE to 668) which is said to have legendary powers (particularly demon slaying powers). Most of these swords aren't necessarily excavated or dug up.
Hwang In-Shik Hwang In Shik (also Whang Ing-Sik, born 1940 in Sonchun, Korea) is one of the foremost Korean hapkido teachers today. A great popularizer of the art in Asia through his work in the Hong Kong based films of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Angela Mao, he is known nevertheless as one the top teachers of the art and was eventually awarded a 10th degree black belt, the highest rank possible in the art, by the World Hapkido Association.
Hwang Jang-yop Hwang Jang-yop (born 1922) is a former major politician in North Korea who defected to South Korea in 1997, making him the highest-ranking defector from the isolated state. In the 1950s he was the president of Kim Il-Sung University and deputy chairman of the propaganda arm of the Worker's Party of Korea and was instrumental in the formation of the governing ideology of juche, which emphasizes the self-reliance of the North Korean people.
Hwang Jin-i (TV Series) Hwang Jin-i 황진이 (黃眞伊) is a Korean television historical drama program broadcast on KBS, and is slated to be shown on numerous other networks around Asia. The series, created by Yoon Sun Joo, debuted on October 11, 2006 and ended on December 28, 2006.
Hwang Jong-Hyun Hwang Jong-Hyun (born May 20, 1975) is a field hockey player from South Korea, who was a member of the Men's National Team that won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. In the final the Asians were beaten by title holders The Netherlands after penalty strokes.
Hwang River The Hwang River is a tributary of the Nakdong River, flowing through Gyeongsangnam-do in southeastern South Korea. It originates in Geochang, from the union of various streams flowing from the slopes of Deogyusan, and meets the Nakdong in Hapcheon County.
Hwang Sun-won Hwang Sun-wĹŹn (1915 - 2000), was a Korean novelist and poet. He was born in Taedong, South Pyongan, in modern-day North Korea; however, following the division of Korea he lived in the South, becoming a professor at Kyunghee University.
Hwang Woo-Suk Hwang Woo-suk (황우석) (born 29 January 1953) is a South Korean biomedical scientist. He was a professor of theriogenology and biotechnology at Seoul National University (dismissed on March 20 2006) who rose to fame after claiming a series of remarkable breakthroughs in the field of stem cell research.
Hwanghae Hwanghae (Hwanghae-do) was one of the Eight Provinces of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty, and one of the thirteen provinces of Korea during the Japanese Colonial Period. Hwanghae was located in the northwest of Korea.
Hwanin Hwanin, (also pronounced "Han-in" 한인) or Divine Regent is a figure in Korean mythology. He is the grandson of Hwang-gung 황궁(黃穹), one of the Four Men of Heaven and considered a direct ancestor of the Korean people.
Hwanung Hwanung (환웅; 桓雄) or Supreme Divine Regent is an important figure in the mythological origins of Korea. He plays a central role in the story of Dangun Wanggeom (단군왕검; 檀君王儉), the legendary founder of Gojoseon, the first kingdom of Korea.
Hwarang The Hwarang were an elite group of male youth in Silla, an ancient Korean kingdom that lasted until the 10th century. They were educational institutions as well as social clubs where members gathered for all aspects of study, originally for arts and culture steeped in Buddhism and Taoism.
Hwasango Hwasango (also known as Volcano High) is a 2001 Korean film in the same vein as Tenjho Tenge. It revolves around a troublemaking high school student who finds himself transferred to the last school that will take him, the prestigious Volcano High, an institution whose students display an incredible talent in martial arts, with a few demonstrating even more mysterious psychic powers, notably Jang Ryang (played by Kim Suro) and Kim Kyung-soo (played by Jang Hyuk).
Hwel Hwel is a secondary character from the Discworld novel "Wyrd Sisters" by Terry Pratchett. He is the most talented playwright in the Disc and works for the travelling theatrical company of Olvin Vitoler.
Hwicce The Hwicce () were one of the peoples of Anglo-Saxon Britain. The exact boundaries of their kingdom are uncertain; though it is likely that they coincided with those of the old Diocese of Worcester, the early bishops of which bore the title Episcopus Hwicciorum. The kingdom would therefore have included Worcestershire except the northwestern tip, Gloucestershire except the Forest of Dean, the southwestern half of Warwickshire, and the neighbourhood of Bath north of the Avon.Della Hooke, The Kingdom of the Hwicce (1985), pp.12-13
HXGA The HXGA display standard and its derivatives are a relatively new (as of 2005) standard in display technology. Their high pixel counts and heavy display hardware requirements mean that there is currently no monitor that singly displays at these levels.
Hy Eisman Hy Eisman (born March 27 1927) is an American cartoonist. He is the current (as of 2006) writer and artist of the Sunday strips The Katzenjammer Kids and Popeye - though it seems that many of today's Katzenjammer Kids strips are re-used strips from a decade or so back.
Hy Gardner Hy Gardner (December 2, 1908 – June 17, 1989) was a columnist for the New York Herald Tribune, host of The Hy Gardner Show, and a regular panelist on the first incarnation of To Tell The Truth. Gardner also played himself in the 1963 movie, The Girl Hunters with writer/friend Mickey Spillane.
Hy Heath Songwriter, composer and author Hy Heath (1890 - 1965) was educated in public schools and then became a comedian in musical comedy, vaudeville, minstrel and burlesque shows. His chief musical collaborators included Johnny Lange and Fred Rose.
Hy Peskin Hy Peskin (November 5, 1915 – June 2, 2005) was an American photographer notable for several famous photographs of American sports people and celebrities published by Sports Illustrated and Life. In particular, he was a pioneer of sports photography with his work being ranked amongst the best sports photojournalism of the Twentieth Century.
Hy Pyke Hy Pyke is an United States character actor born in Los Angeles, California on the 2 December, 1935, the son of vaudevillian David Pyke and his wife Pauline. Pyke majored in theatre at the UCLA in the 60's, appearing in numerous student films, including one for Ray Manzarek, keyboard player of The Doors, called Induction (1965), which also featured The Doors vocalist Jim Morrison in a brief role.
Hy Zaret Best known as the co-author of the perennial "Unchained Melody," lyricist Hy Zaret was born in New York in 1907, and scored his first major success in 1935, when he teamed up with Saul Chaplin and Sammy Cahn to co-write the pop standard "Dedicated to You." The early '40s brought some collaborations with Alex C.
Hy-Gain Hy-Gain (often written "hy-gain") is a manufacturer of antenna and antenna related products for the Amateur radio industry. Their best known products are a line of Yagi antennas and antenna rotators.
Hy-Many Hy-Many, or UĂ­ Maine, was one of the oldest and largest kingdoms located in Connacht, Ireland. Its territory encompassed all of what is now north, east and south County Galway, south and central County Roscommon, and at one stage apparently subjugated land on the east bank of the Shannon.
Hyacinth (flower) A Hyacinth is any plant of genus Hyacinthus, which are bulbous herbs formerly placed in the lily family Liliaceae but now regarded as the type genus of the separate family Hyacinthaceae. Hyacinths are native to the eastern Mediterranean region east to Iran and Turkmenistan.
Hyacinth bean The Hyacinth Bean (Dolichos lablab, syn. Lablab purpureus), also called Indian Bean and Egyptian Bean, is a plant of the family Fabaceae is a species of bean widespread as a food crop throughout the tropics, especially in Africa.
Hyacinth Gabriel Connon Brother Hyacinth Gabriel Connon FSC (July 11, 1911 - August 24, 1978) was a Lasallian Brother and president of De La Salle University-Manila from 1950 to 1959 and 1966 to 1978, the second president to have served two terms in the history of the university, the first being Br. Acisclus Michael FSC.
Hyacinth Macaw The Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) is the largest macaw and the largest flying parrot species in the world (however, the flightless Kakapo of New Zealand can weigh up to 3.5kg making it the heaviest).
Hyacinthaceae Hyacinthaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. The plants are herbaceous perennials that grow from bulbs, and include several popular spring-blooming garden plants, including Hyacinth (Hyacinthus), grape hyacinth (Muscari), bluebell (Hyacinthoides) and squill (Scilla).
Hyacinthe Klosé Hyacinthe Elanore Klosé (1808-1880) was a French clarinet player and professor at the Conservatoire de Paris who decided to use Theobald Boehm’s flute keywork innovations as a basis for improving the clarinet. As a specialist in clarinet performance, from 1839 to 1843 he enlisted the help of Louis-August Buffet, an instrument-making technician, to construct the Boehm system clarinet.
Hyades (star cluster) The Hyades (ÆΥάδες also known as Melotte 25 or Collinder 50 or Caldwell 41) is an open star cluster located in the constellation Taurus. Its brightest stars form a "V" shape along with the red giant Aldebaran, the brightest star in the field of view, which is not part of the cluster.
Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger , translated into English as 100-Beast Squadron GaorangerGao is Japanese onomatopoeia equivalent to a roaring sound, yet the Gaoranger roll call uses the kanji 牙吠, which mean "fang" and "howl", respectively, was TOEI Company Limited's 25th production of the Super Sentai television series. Its footage was used in Power Rangers: Wild Force.
Hyakunin Isshu Hyakunin isshu (百人一首) is a traditional style of compiling Japanese waka poetry where each contributor writes one poem for the anthology. Literally, it translates to "one hundred people, one poem [each]".
Hyakuzo Kurata Hyakuzo Kurata (倉田百三, February 23, 1891-February 12, 1943) was a Japanese author known for The Priest and His Apprentice, (出家とその弟子) The Beginning of Love and Awareness (愛と認識との出発), and other works. He was born in 1891 during the Meiji period as the eldest son of a dry goods store owner.
Hyalin Hyalin is a protein released from the cortical granules of a fertilized animal egg. The released hyalin modifies the extracellular matrix of the fertilized egg to block other sperm from binding to the egg, and is known as the slow-block to polyspermy.
Hyaline In scientific usage, hyaline (sometimes spelled, hyalin) describes something that is both colorless and transparent, like clear untinted glass. The term hyaline is often used when a color description is called for, to describe the "color" of a clear, transparent object.
Hyaloclastite Hyaloclastite is a hydrated tuff-like breccia rich on black volcanic glass, formed during volcanic eruptions under water or under ice. It has the appearance of angular flat fragments sized between a millimeter to few centimeters.
Hyalopilitic Hyalopilitic is a textural term used in petrographic classification of volcanic rocks. Specifically, hyalopilitic refers to a volcanic rock groundmass, which is visible only under magnification with a petrographic microscope, that contains a mixture of very fine-grained mineral cystals either mixed with natural volcanic glass, or surrounded by thin bands of volcanic glass.
Hyaluronan Hyaluronan (also called hyaluronic acid or hyaluronate) is a non-sulfated glycosaminoglycan distributed widely throughout connective, epithelial, and neural tissues. It is one of the chief components of the extracellular matrix, contributes significantly to cell proliferation and migration, and may also be involved in the progression of some malignant tumors.
Hyam Maccoby Hyam Maccoby (1924-2004) was a British scholar, dramatist, and Orthodox Jew specializing in the study of the Jewish and Christian religious tradition. He held an academic position at the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds.
Hyams Beach, New South Wales Hyams Beach is a small seaside village (population estimated at about 70 in 2006) in Shoalhaven Shire, New South Wales, Australia, on the shores of Jervis Bay. The village, roughly 3 hours drive south of Sydney, is bordered by 3 beaches, Chinaman's Beach to the north, Hyams Beach and Seaman's Beach to the south.
Hyangak Hyangak, literally "village music," is a traditional form of Korean court music with origins in the Three Kingdoms period. It is often accompanied by traditional folk dances of Korea, known as hyangak jeongjae.
Hyanggyo The Hyanggyo were government-run provincial schools in medieval Korea. They were established separately in the Goryeo (10th-14th centuries) and Joseon periods, but did not meet with widespread success in either dynasty.
Hyangchal Hyangchal (literally vernacular letters or local letters) is an archaic writing system of Korea and was used to transcribe the Korean language in hanja. Under the Hyangchal system, Chinese characters were given a Korean reading based on the syllable associated with the character.
Hyanide The Hyanide is an innovative hybrid motorbike vehicle designed and created by German designers Tilmann Schlootz and Oliver Keller. The motorbike is a radical conception of a dirt bike-snowmobile-four-wheel hybrid, which was first showcased at the 2006 Michelin Challenge Design competition.
Hyannis, Massachusetts Hyannis is a village in the town of Barnstable, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. It is a residential area, and it also contains the town’s central business/commercial district, which includes town offices and several shopping districts, including Cape Cod Mall and the historic downtown Main Street.
Hyapatia Lee Hyapatia Lee (born Victoria (Vickie) Lynch on November 11 1960 in Indianapolis, Indiana) was an American exotic dancer and porn star during the adult film industry's "Golden Age of Porn" in the 1980s.
Hyatt (Excel Saga) Hyatt is a fictional character in the Excel Saga anime, and the manga upon which it is based. Her most notable trait is her tendency of dying and then reviving over short periods of time, much to the shock of medical professionals.
Hyatt Regency Belgrade Hyatt Regency Belgrade (Serbian Cyrillic: Χајат Риџенси Београд / Hajat Ridžensi Beograd) is a modern 5-star hotel located in New Belgrade, Serbia, close to both the city centre and Sava Center, and fifteen minutes from Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport.
Hyatt Regency Hotel The Hyatt Regency Hotel is a 72 metre tall hotel in Birmingham. Completed in 1990, the 24 storey tower has a blue reflective glass facade and is connected by a similarly coloured bridge to the ICC which is located above Broad Street.
Hyattstown, Maryland Established in 1798 and named after its founder, John Hyatt, this crossroad's town is located on RT 355 (formally know as "The Pike" or "The Great Road") in upper Montgomery County. In this full-service town, you could have found a place to stay at the local Hyattstown Inn, a one room school-house, a butcher, blacksmith and other commercial venues.
Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche und Camminetz Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von GroĂź-Zauche und Camminetz (July 30, 1893 -April 25, 1968) was a Silesian officer and panzer ace. Strachwitz saw action in World War I, but rose to fame for his command of Panzer forces in World War II.
Hyæna Hyæna is the sixth studio album by Siouxsie & the Banshees. Released by Polydor Records in the UK in 1984, this was the first Banshees album to receive a proper release in the United States, by Geffen Records (Geffen would eventually release the Banshees' entire back catalog).
Hyborian Age The Hyborian Age is a phrase used by author Robert E. Howard to refer to a specific epoch in a fictional timeline used for many of the low fantasy tales of his artificial legendry; in particular, the stories of Conan the Cimmerian.
Hybras Hybras is a fictional island in the Artemis Fowl Series by Eoin Colfer, featured in Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony. It is really a large piece of lunar rock, which fell from the moon when a large meteorite hit it.
Hybrid (Marvel Comics) The Hybrid (real name James "Jimmy" Marks) is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. He first appeared in Rom # 17 (April 1981) by writer Bill Mantlo and artist Sal Buscema.
Hybrid (producers) Hybrid are a British electronic music group based in Swansea, formed around the duo of Mike Truman and Chris Healings. They are primarily known as a progressive breaks act, although they overlap considerably with progressive house and trance.
Hybrid (role-playing game) HYBRID is a generic role-playing game system created by an anonymous author named "Matthew/C++" and hosted on the website of Philippe Tromeur, where it is freely available. The game as written appears to be incredibly complex and nonsensical to the point of being virtually unplayable, and the game has achieved a status very similar to that of the Time Cube website among roleplayers.
Hybrid algorithm (constraint satisfaction) In constraint satisfaction, a hybrid algorithm solves a constraint satisfaction problem by the combination of two different methods, for example variable conditioning (backtracking, backjumping, etc.) and constraint inference (arc consistency, variable elimination, etc.
Hybrid bicycle A hybrid bicycle is a bicycle designed for use on roads and bike paths, with influence from both the road bicycle and the mountain bicycle. Each manufacturer is free to bias their hybrid closer to one type or the other, making it difficult to define precisely what a hybrid is.
Hybrid bill A hybrid bill is a public bill which affects the private interests of a particular person or organization. It is generally initiated by the Government on behalf of non-Parliamentary bodies such as local authorities and is treated like a private bill for part of its passage through Parliament.
Hybrid bypass Hybrid coronary bypass is a relatively new procedure and alternative to traditional bypass surgery that is defined by the performance of coronary bypass surgery and coronary stenting during the same operation. It is not to be confused with a MIDCAB procedure, which uses the smaller thoracotomy incision but does not involve coronary stenting.
Hybrid client Hybrid client is a client/server network computing architecture where clients (end users computers), process locally but do not persist data. Responsibility for the computing tasks is a combination (or a hybrid) of both client and server.
Hybrid CD A Hybrid CD is a CD-ROM with multiple file systems installed on it, typically ISO 9660 and HFS+ (or HFS on older discs). The reason for the format is primarily that ISO 9660 has severe restrictions placed on filenames (initially only 8 characters per file, and a depths of 3 directories) and lacks key structures present in Apple Computer's HFS and HFS+ file systems.
Hybrid drive A hybrid drive is a new type of large-buffer computer hard disk drive. It is different from standard hard drives in that it employs a large buffer (up to 1 GB) of non-volatile flash memory to cache data during normal use.
Hybrid fibre-coaxial Hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) is a telecommunications industry term for a network which incorporates both optical fiber along with coaxial cable to create a broadband network. It has been commonly employed by cable TV operators since the 1990s.
Hybrid grapes Hybrid grapes refer commonly to those grape varieties which are the product of a crossing between two different vitis species. This is in contrast to crossings between grape varieties of the same species, typically vitis vinifera.
Hybrid grill A Hybrid grill is a grill used for outdoor cooking with charcoal and gas. Hybrid grills are a relatively new phenomenon, combining the convenience of an outdoor gas grill with the flavor and cooking techniques of a charcoal and wood grill.
Hybrid growth disorders Hybrid growth disorders refer to reduced growth or overgrowth in an organism that is a "hybrid" of two different species. In some sense, it is a type of hybrid dysgenesis when the growth disorder proves deleterious, thus making it the opposite of heterosis or hybrid vigour.
Hybrid Heaven Hybrid Heaven is a video game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka and released for the Nintendo 64 in 1999. This game is most notable for its peculiar mix of genres: it has aspects of both computer role-playing games (RPGs) and action-adventure games.
Hybrid Interactive Fan Entertainment HIFE (acronym for Hybrid Interactive Fan (or Family) Entertainment) is a concept adding play/voting elements to any TV-program, except those built for and with interactive elements (play/voting) built in, such as in a Game Show.
Hybrid kernel Hybrid kernel is a kernel architecture based on combining aspects of microkernel and monolithic kernel architectures used in computer operating systems. The category is controversial due to the similarity to monolithic kernel; the term has been dismissed by some as just marketing.
Hybrid martial arts Hybrid martial arts (also known as hybrid fighting systems) refer to martial arts or fighting systems that incorporate techniques and theories from several particular martial arts. While numerous martial arts borrow or adapt from other arts and to some extent could be considered hybrids, a hybrid martial art emphasizes its stylistic origins.
Hybrid offence A hybrid offence, dual offence, or wobbler are the special class offences in the English and Welsh, Australian, and Canadian criminal law where the prosecution may choose whether to proceed with the case as either a summary offence or an indictable offence.
Hybrid picking Hybrid picking is a guitar-playing technique that involves picking with a pick and fingers at the same time. It therefore allows guitar players who use a pick (plectrum) to perform music which would normally require fingerstyle playing.
Hybrid rocket A hybrid rocket propulsion system comprises propellants of two different states of matter, the most common configuration being a rocket engine composed of a solid propellant lining a combustion chamber into which a liquid or gaseous propellant is injected so as to undergo a strong exothermic reaction to produce hot gas that is emitted through a De Laval nozzle for propulsive purposes.
Hybrid routing Hybrid routing: Routing of telephone calls in which numbering plans and routing tables are used to permit the collocation, in the same area code, of switches using a deterministic routing scheme with switches using a non-deterministic routing scheme, such as flood search routing.
Hybrid search engine A hybrid search engine (HSE) is a computer program] designed to help one find and sort information stored on a network by using three or more separate bodies of metadata in terms of an algorithimic process. The term, HSE, itself is still being defined, and some would argue that many of the leading search engines are technically HSEs due to the fact they include ranking algorithms based upon a combination of factors such as (1) hyperlink references to a given web page (i.
Hybrid seed In agriculture and gardening, hybrid seed is seed produced by artificially cross-pollinated plants. Hybrids are bred to improve the characteristics of the resulting plants, such as better yield, greater uniformity, improved color, disease resistance, and so forth.
Hybrid silicon laser A hybrid silicon laser is a semiconductor laser fabricated from both silicon and group III-V semiconductor materials. The hybrid silicon laser was developed to address the lack of a silicon laser to enable fabrication of low-cost, mass-producible silicon optical devices.
Hybrid solar cell Hybrid photovoltaic cells are a mix of two solar cell technologies. They comprise dye-sensitized titanium dioxide coated and sintered on a transparent semi-conducting oxide, and a p-type, polymeric conductor, which carries electrons from the counter electrode to the oxidized dye.
Hybrid system A hybrid system is a dynamic system which exhibits both continuous and discrete dynamic behavior — a system that can both flow (described by a differential equation) and jump (described by a difference equation). Often, the term "hybrid dynamic system" is used, to distinguish over hybrid systems such as those that combine neural nets and fuzzy logic, or electrical and mechanical drivelines.
Hybrid Synergy Drive Hybrid Synergy Drive (HSD) is a set of hybrid car technologies developed by Toyota and used in that company's Prius, Highlander Hybrid, Camry Hybrid, Lexus RX 400h, and Lexus GS 450h automobiles. In 2008, the Corolla will also have a HSD hybrid version.
Hybrid word A word that has one part derived from one language and another part derived from a different language is etymologically a hybrid word. The most common form of hybrid word in English is one which etymologically has both Latin and Greek parts.
Hybrid zone Hybrid zones are locations where the hybrid offspring of two divergent populations (sometimes defined as subspecies or races) are prevalent and form a cline (Barton & Hewitt, 1985). Precise definitions of hybrid zones vary, some insist on increased variability of fitness within the zone, others that hybrids be identifiably different from parental forms and others that they represent secondary contact alone (Murray, 1985).
Hybrid-origin The Hybrid-origin hypothesis of human origins argues that all of the genetic variation between the contemporary human races is attributable to genetic inheritance from at least two widely divergent hominid species, or subspecies, that were geographically dispersed throughout Africa, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent, prior to the evolution of modern Homo sapiens sapiens (according to hybrid-origin theory, approximately 35,000 years ago).
Hybridisation in shorebirds Hybridisation in shorebirds has been proven on only a small number of occasions; however, many individual shorebirds have been recorded by birdwatchers worldwide which do not fit the characters of known species. Many of these have been suspected of being hybrids.
Hybridism Hybridism. The Latin word hybrida, hibrida or ibrida has been assumed to be derived from the Greek u(3pis, an insult or outrage, and a hybrid or mongrel has been supposed to be an outrage on nature, an unnatural product.
Hybridization probe A hybridization probe is a short piece of DNA (on the order of 100-500 bases) that is denatured (by heating) into single strands and then radioactively labeled, usually with phosphorus (32P or 33P). The radioactive phosphorus is incorporated into the phosphate group of the individual nucleotides of DNA, which are incorporated into the backbone of the DNA strands by incubation with a polymerase enzyme.
Hybridoma Hybridoma cells are cells that have been engineered to produce a desired antibody in large amounts. To produce monoclonal antibodies, B-cells are removed from the spleen of an animal that has been challenged with the relevant antigen.

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