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Heterodontosaurus Heterodontosaurus (meaning "Different Toothed Lizard") was a small herbivorous dinosaur with sharp canines which lived in the Early Jurassic of South Africa. It was similar to a Hypsilophodont in shape, and ate plants, despite its razor-sharp canines.
Heterodoxy Heterodoxy includes "any opinions or doctrines at variance with an official or orthodox position".Definition of orthodoxy from WordNet As an adjective, heterodox is used to describe a subject as "characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards" (status quo).
Heteroduplex A heteroduplex is a double-stranded (duplex) molecule of nucleic acid originated through the genetic recombination of single complementary strands derived from different sources, such as from different homologous chromosomes or even from different organisms.
Heterodyne (poetry) In poetry, a heterodyne is a word in which the syllable receiving stress and/or pitch change is other than the syllable of longer quantity. This misalignment is considered by most people to be phonetically challenging to recite, and when applied sporadically to several words in succession, it usually attracts the listener's attention to a higher degree than the more natural-sounding blend of meter and stress/pitch.
Heterodyne detection Heterodyne detection is a method of detecting radiation by non-linear mixing with radiation of a reference frequency. It is commonly used in telecommunications and astronomy for detecting and analysing signals.
Heterodyne repeater Heterodyne repeater or cross band repeater: In radio reception and retransmission, a repeater that converts the original band of frequencies of the received signal to a different frequency band for retransmission after amplification.
Heterodyning In telecommunications and radio astronomy, heterodyning is the generation of new frequencies by mixing two or more signals in a nonlinear device such as a vacuum tube, transistor, diode mixer, Josephson junction, or bolometer. The mixing of each two frequencies results in the creation of two new frequencies, one at the sum of the two frequencies mixed, and the other at their difference.
Heterogeneous Heterogeneous (, also (American English)) means that something (an object or system) consists of a diverse range of different items. It is the antonym of [which means that an object or system consists of many identical items.
Heterogeneous Element Processor The Heterogeneous Element Processor (HEP) was introduced by Denelcor in 1982 as the world's first commercial MIMD computer. A HEP system, as the name implies, was pieced together from many heterogeneous components -- processors, data memory modules, and I/O modules.
Heterogeneous network A heterogeneous network is a network connecting computers and other devices with different operating systems and protocols. For example, local area networks (LANs) that connect Microsoft Windows and Linux based personal computers with Apple Macintosh computers are heterogeneous.
Heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein particle Heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein particles (hnRNPs) are complexes of RNA and protein present in the cell nucleus during gene transcription and subsequent post-transcriptional modification of the newly synthesized RNA. Key protein components include protein K and polypyrimidine-tract binding protein (PTB), which is regulated by phosphorylation catalyzed by protein kinase A and is responsible for suppressing RNA splicing at a particular exon by blocking access of the spliceosome to the polypyrimidine tract.
Heteroglossia In linguistics, the term heteroglossia describes the coexistence of distinct varieties within a single linguistic code. The term translates the Russian raznorechie (literally "different-speech-ness"), which was introduced by the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin in his 1934 paper Slovo v romane, published in English as "Discourse in the Novel.
Heterochromatin Protein 1 The family of Heterochromatin Protein 1 (HP1) ("Chromobox Homolog", CBX) are highly conserved adapter molecules, which have important functions in the cell nucleus. These functions include gene repression by heterochromatin formation, transcriptional activation, regulation of binding of cohesin complexes to centromere, sequesteration of genes to nuclear periphery, transcriptional arrest, maintenance of heterochromatin integrity, gene repression at single nucleosome level and gene repression by heterochromatization of euchromatin.
Heterochrony In biology, heterochrony is defined as a developmental change in the timing of events, leading to changes in size and shape. There are two main components, namely (i) the onset and offset of a particular process, and (ii) the rate at which the process operates.
Heterojunction A heterojunction is a semiconductor junction which is composed of layers of dissimilar semiconductor material, these materials having non-equal band gaps. In such a structure, the implementable diode characteristics can closely approach those of an idealized diode.
Heterojunction bipolar transistor The heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) is an improvement of the bipolar junction transistor (BJT) that can handle signals of very high frequencies up to several hundred GHz. It is common in modern ultrafast circuits, mostly radio-frequency (RF) systems.
Heterokont The heterokonts or stramenopiles are a major line of eukaryotes containing about 10,500 speciesMost are alga]e, ranging from the giant multicellular [[kelp to the unicellular diatoms, which are a primary component of plankton. However some are colorless, most notably the parasitic water moulds, which superficially resemble fungi.
Heteromyidae The family of rodents that include kangaroo rats, kangaroo mice and rock pocket mice is the Heteromyidae family. Most heteromyids live in complex burrows within the deserts and grasslands of western North America, though species within the Heteromys and Liomys genera are also found in forests and extend down as far as northern South America.
Heteronemertea Heteronemertea is a monophyletic Order of about 500 species, containing genera such as Lineus and Cerebratulus and including the largest and most muscular nemerteans. Almost all heteronemerteans have three primary body-wall muscle strata: an outer longitudinal, a middle circular, and an inner longitudinal.
Heteronomous language A heteronomous language variety is a nonstandard language variety whose speakers normally use another, autonomous language variety in writing (especially formal writing) and education. In such cases, the heteronomous variety is said to be oriented towards the autonomous one.
Heteronormativity In gender theory and queer theory, heteronormativity is the perceived reinforcement of certain beliefs by many social institutions and social policies. These beliefs include the belief that human beings fall into two distinct and complementary categories, male and female; that sexual and marital relations are normal only when between people of different sexes; and that each sex has certain natural roles in life.
Heteronym (literature) The literary concept of heteronym, invented by Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, refers to one or more imaginary character(s) created by a poet to write in different styles. Heteronyms differ from nom de plumes in that the latter are just false names, while the former are characters having their own supposed physiques, biographies and writing styles.
Heteropatry Heteropatry is a concept the refines our notion of sympatry in recognizing that though two variants (genotypes, strains, races) of a population coexist in the same geographical area, these variants are behaviorally separated in terms of exploiting niches that are interwoven to produce a heterogeneous or patchwork landscape. John Maynard Smith in a seminal paper on sympatric speciation J.
Heterophenomenology Heterophenomenology ("phenomenology of another not oneself"), is a term coined by Daniel Dennett to describe an explicitly third-person, scientific approach to the study of consciousness. It consists of applying the scientific method with an anthropological bent, combining the subject's self-reports with all other available evidence to determine their mental state.
Heterophobia Heterophobia is a term used to describe prejudice or discrimination against heterosexuals, usually in the context of the heterophobic person being homosexual or bisexual. It does not have much currency outside the field of sexology, and has limited use even within that field.
Heterophony In music, heterophony is the texture where the various voice or parts are differentiated in character. This can refer to a kind of complex monophony in which there is only one basic melody, but realised simultaneously by multiple voices, each of which play the melody differently, either in a different rhythm or tempo, with different embellishments and figures, or idiomatically different.
Heteroplasmy Heteroplasmy is the presence of a mixture of more than one type of an organellar genome (mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) or plastid DNA) within a cell or individual. Since every eukaryotic cell contains many hundreds of mitochondria with hundreds of copies of mtDNA, it is possible and indeed very frequent for mutations to affect only some of the copies, while the remaining ones are unaffected.
Heteropolymer A heteropolymer, also called a copolymer, is a polymer formed when two (or more) different types of monomer are linked in the same polymer chain, as opposed to a homopolymer where only one monomer is used. If exactly three monomers are used, it is called a terpolymer.
Heteroptera Heteroptera is a group of about 40,000 species of insects (also called true bugs) in the order Hemiptera. The word "Heteroptera" is Greek for different wings: most species have forewings with both membranous and hardened portions (called hemelytra); members of the primitive infraorder Enicocephalomorpha have wings that are completely membranous.
Heteropterys Heteropterys is a genus in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Heteropterys comprises over 140 species of woody vines, shrubs, and small trees found in the New World tropics and subtropics from northern Mexico and the West Indies to northern Argentina and southeastern Brazil.
Heterorhabditis Heterorhabditis is a genus of nematodes belonging to the order Rhabditida. Many species of this family are obligate parasites of insects and are commonly used as biological control agents for the control of pest insects.
Heteroscedasticity In statistics, a sequence or a vector of random variables is heteroscedastic if the random variables in the sequence or vector may have different variances. The complementary concept is called homoscedasticity.
Heterosexism Heterosexism is a predisposition towards heterosexual people, which some see as biased against lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgender or intersexed, people among others. A related term is Sexual Prejudice, a negative attitude toward someone because of her or his sexual orientation.
Heterosquare A heterosquare of order n is an arrangement of the integers 1 to n² in a square, such that the rows, columns, and diagonals all sum to different values. There are no heterosquares of order 2, but heterosquares exist for any order n ≥ 3.
Heterosynaptic Heterosynaptic phenomena are events that occur at the junctions (synapses) that form connections between neurons. A heterosynaptic phenomenon is one that involves interactions between separate synapses or groups of synapses.
Heterotic string In physics, a heterotic string is a peculiar mixture (or hybrid) of the bosonic string and the superstring (the adjective heterotic comes from the Greek word heterosis). In string theory, the left-moving and the right-moving excitations almost do not talk to each other, and it is possible to construct a string theory whose left-moving (counter-clockwise) excitations "think" that they live on a bosonic string propagating in D = 26 dimensions, while the right-moving (clock-wise) excitations "think" that they belong to a superstring in D = 10 dimensions.
Heterotopia (medicine) In medicine, "heterotopia" refers to the displacement of an organ or part of an organ from its normal position, often specifically Gray Matter Heterotopia, the displacement of gray matter into the cerebral white matter or ventricles.
Heterotopotaxy Heterotopotaxy is a process similar to heteroepitaxy except for the fact that thin film growth is not limited to two dimensional growth. Here the substrate is similar only in structure to the thin film material.
Heterotroph A heterotroph (Greek heterone = (an)other and trophe = nutrition) is an organism that requires organic substrates to get its carbon for growth and development. A heterotroph is known as a consumer in the food chain.
Heterozygote advantage A heterozygote advantage (heterozygous advantage or overdominance) describes the case in which the heterozygote genotype has a higher relative fitness than either the homozygote dominant or homozygote recessive genotype. This selection favoring the heterozygote is one of the mechanisms that maintain polymorphism and help to explain some kinds of genetic variability.
Heth (letter) or (also spelled Khet, Kheth, Chet, Cheth, Het, or Heth) is the reconstructed name of the eighth letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, continued in descended Semitic alphabets as Phoenician , Syriac , Hebrew (also , heth) , Arabic (in abjadi order), and Berber .
Hethum II of Armenia Hethum (or Hetoum) II of Armenia (1266-August, 1307) was king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling from 1289 to 1293, 1295 to 1296 and 1299 to 1303. He was the son of Leo III of Armenia and Kyranna de Lampron.
Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct The Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct is 167 miles long, it delivers water from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite National Park to the City of San Francisco and other suburban municipalities in the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
Hetch Hetchy Railroad The Hetch Hetchy Railroad (HHRR) was a 68 mile (109 km) standard gauge Class III railroad constructed by the City of San Francisco to support the construction and expansion of the O'Shaughnessy Dam across Hetch Hetchy Valley.
Hetch Hetchy Reservoir Hetch Hetchy Reservoir is a reservoir in Yosemite National Park, about 65 miles east-southeast of the city of Merced. The reservoir has a capacity of 360,000 acre-feet and is formed by O'Shaughnessy Dam in Hetch Hetchy Valley on the Tuolumne River.
Hetch Hetchy to Lake Vernon Trail The Hetch Hetchy to Lake Vernon Trail in Yosemite starts from the parking lot close to the O'Shaughnessy Dam in Hetch_Hetchy, and goes to Lake Vernon through the Yosemite Wilderness. Staying overnight requires a wilderness permit which can be obtained at the Hetch Hetchy ranger station or reserved online.
Hetin Hetin (Serbian: Hetin or Хетин, Hungarian: Tamásfalva or Hetény, German: Hettin or Tomsdorf) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Žitište municipality, in the Central Banat District, Vojvodina province.
Hetman of Ukraine Hetman of Ukraine, the title of the head of the Ukrainian state known as the Cossack Hetmanate. This title was initially ascribed to Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky who assumed the joint powers of Hetman of both Left-bank Ukraine and Right-bank Ukraine.
Hetman's sign The hetman's sign () was the only native military symbol of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was invented by hetman Jan Tarnowski, who also popularized it on the territory of Poland in the second half of the sixteenth century.
Hetmanate The Hetmanate (, Het’manat) was a short-lived provisional government of Ukraine, installed by Germany after disbanding the Central Rada of the Ukrainian National Republic on 28 April 1918. The Central Rada proved unable to maintain order; in chaotic conditions the administration soon lost the confidence of the landowning and business interests.
Hettie Jones Hettie Jones (born 1934 as Hettie Cohen) is most well-known as the former wife of Amiri Baraka, known as LeRoi Jones at the time of their marriage, but is also a writer herself. They have two children, Kellie and Lisa.
Hetton colliery railway The Hetton colliery railway was a private railway opened in 1822 by the Hetton Coal Company at Hetton Lyons, County Durham, in England. It was the first to be designed from the start to be without animal power, and was George Stephenson's first entirely new line.
Hetty Baynes Hetty Baynes born in 1957, she began her career as a ballet dancer at the Royal Ballet School and made her professional debut at 12 in Rudolf Nureyev’s The Nutcracker at the Opera House, Covent Garden. She began her acting career at just 17 as an acting Assistant Stage Manager in repertory theatre.
Hetty Green Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green (November 21, 1834 – July 3, 1916) was an American businesswoman, remarkable for her frugality during the Gilded Age, as well as for being the first American woman to make a substantial impact on Wall Street.
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Hetty Wainthropp Investigates is a semi-humorous English crime drama television series which aired from 1996 to 1998 on the BBC. The series starred Patricia Routledge as the title character, Derek Benfield as her patient husband Robert, and Dominic Monaghan as their boarder (and her assistant) Geoffrey Shawcross.
Hetzel Union Building The HUB-Robeson Center, commonly referred to as the "HUB" is the student union building centrally located on the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University. It was originally built in 1953 and had major renovations done in 1973 and 1983.
Hetzel Union Building shooting The Hetzel Union Building shooting refers to an incident at the Pennsylvania State University where two students were shot, one fatally. At the time of the incident, it was the first murder on the Penn State campus in over 25 years.
Heublein Tower The 165-foot tall Heublein Tower located in Talcott Mountain State Park in Connecticut (USA) provides panoramic views of the Hartford skyline and the Farmington River Valley that are particularly spectacular in the fall.
Heulandite [is the name of a series of tecto-silicate] [[minerals of the zeolite group. Prior to 1997, heulandite was recognized as a mineral species, but a reclassification in 1997 by the International Mineralogical Association changed it to a series name, with the mineral species being named heulandite-Ca, heulandite-Na, heulandite-K, and heulandite-Sr.
Heung Jin Moon Heung Jin Moon (October 23, 1966 - January 2, 1984), also referred to by members of the Unification Church as Heung Jin Nim or Lord Heung Jin Nim, was the second son of Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han, the leaders of the Unification Church (later renamed Family Federation for World Peace and Unification).
Heunisch Heunisch is a white wine grape variety from the German-speaking parts of Europe and is practically extinct. DNA tests suggest that Heunisch is the forefather of many illustrious varieties, including Chardonnay and Riesling.
Heureka-Klett Heureka-Klett is a German software engineering company which has made several personal computer games of the sort called "edutainment". They are is point-and-click puzzle-adventure games for either the PC or the Mac.
Heuriger Heuriger (pronunciation: English , German ) is the name given to many Austrian wine-drinking locales where patrons can experience GemĂĽtlichkeit. Originally only the most recent year's wine was served at such an establishment.
Heuristic A heuristic is a replicable method or approach for directing one's attention in learning, discovery, or problem-solving. It is originally derived from the Greek "heurisko" (), which means "I find".
Heuristic argument An heuristic argument is an argument that reasons from the value of a method or principle that has been shown by experimental (especially trial-and-error) investigation to be a useful aid in learning, discovery and problem-solving. A widely-used and important example of a heuristic argument is Occam's Razor.
Heuristic evaluation A heuristic evaluation is a usability evaluation method for computer software that helps to identify usability problems in the user interface (UI) design. It specifically involves evaluators examining the interface and judging its compliance with recognized usability principles (the "heuristics").
Heuristic routing Heuristic routing: Routing in which data, such as time delay, extracted from incoming messages, during specified periods and over different routes, are used to determine the optimum routing for transmitting data back to the sources.
Heuston Gate Heuston Gate is a skyscraper development moving into construction phase in the coming months. Heuston Gate contains at its heart a 32 storey tower which will be either Ireland's tallest or second tallest building depending on when the U2 Tower] is completed.
Hevajra The tutelary god Hevajra is described, with all the rites and ceremonies used in his worship, in the sutra of the Hevajra tantra, which figured historically in Drogön Chögyal Phagpa's conversion of the Mongolian emperor Khubilai to Tibetan Buddhism in the thirteenth century A.D.
Hever Castle Hever Castle, in Kent, England (in the village of Hever), was the seat of the Boleyn family. Originally a farmhouse, it was built in the 13th century and converted into a manor in 1462 by Geoffrey Boleyn, who served as Lord Mayor of London.
Hevingham Hevingham is a Norfolk village of around 1150 people spread between 452 households that lies between the A140 Norwich to Cromer Road and the B1149 Norwich to Holt Road, lying ten miles from the city of Norwich and four miles from the market town of Aylsham.
Hevstäf Hevstäf (Czech: Hevstäf) (German: Hevstadt) is a small town near the Bohemian Paradise in Czechia. The community has recently started a hydroelectric project following the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe.
Hew Raymond Griffiths Hew Raymond Griffiths (born 8th November 1962 in the UK) has been accused by the United States of being a ring leader of DrinkOrDie or DOD, an underground software piracy network. He is facing extradition from Australia to the United States.
Hewan Amharic Software Since the inception of computer technology several scholars and computer enthusiastic tried every thing to apply computer technology in their country and in their language. At first the ASCII standard was the bottleneck for most non-Latin based languages and they created the extended ASCII with the eight bit computing capability.
Heward In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Heward is the god of Bards and Musicians. Heward is notable not only for his musical prowess, but also for his technological skills.
Heward Grafftey William Heward Grafftey, PC , BCL , BA (born August 5, 1928) is a Canadian politician and businessman. Grafftey received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Allison University, majoring in Political Science and History, and a Bachelor of Civil Law degree at McGill University.
Hewes Street (BMT Jamaica Line) Hewes Street is a local station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Hewes Street and Broadway in Brooklyn, it is served by the train at all times except weekdays in the peak direction, and the train weekdays.
Hewhocorrupts Hewhocorrupts is an extreme metal and hardcore punk band. They are best known for their songs mocking Metallica, making reference to the notorious allegations of the group having sold out, parodying the more famous band's song titles with business-related counterparts: Ride the Lightning is retitled Ride the Limo and Master of Puppets becomes Master of Profits.
Hewitt Crane Hewitt D. Crane is an American engineer best known for his pioneering work at SRI International on ERMA (Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting), for Bank of America; magnetic digital logic; neuristor logic; the development of an eye-movement tracking device; and a pen-input device for computers.
Hewitt Quadrangle Hewitt University Quadrangle (until 1917, University Court; informally, Hewitt Quadrangle or Beinecke Plaza) is a plaza at the center of the Yale University campus which is the home of the administrative buildings.
Hewitt-Savage zero-one law The Hewitt-Savage zero-one law is a theorem in probability theory, similar to Kolmogorov's zero-one law, that specifies that a certain type of event will either almost surely happen or almost surely not happen. It is sometimes known as the Hewitt-Savage law for symmetric events.
Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane The Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane was a project undertaken during World War I to develop an aerial torpedo, a pilotless aircraft capable of carrying explosives to its target. It was the forerunner of today's UAVs.
Hewlett (LIRR station) Hewlett is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Far Rockaway Branch in Hewlett, in Nassau County, New York, United States. The station is located at Franklin Avenue between Broadway and West Broadway, and is 19.
Hewlett Johnson The Very Reverend Hewlett Johnson (1874-1966), was an English clergyman, Dean of Manchester and later Dean of Canterbury, where he acquired his nickname The Red Dean of Canterbury for his unyielding support for the Soviet Union and its allies.
Hewlett-Packard 9100A The Hewlett-Packard 9100A was the world's first personal computer, first appearing in 1968. HP called it a desktop calculator because, as Bill Hewlett said, "If we had called it a computer, it would have been rejected by our customers' computer gurus because it didn't look like an IBM.
Hewlett-Woodmere School District The Hewlett-Woodmere Public School District, Union Free School District 14, is located in the southwest section of Nassau County, New York and borders the New York City borough of Queens. Communities in the district include, in full or in part, Hewlett, Woodmere, Woodsburgh, North Woodmere, Valley Stream, Lynbrook, Hewlett Harbor, Hewlett Neck, and Hewlett Bay Park.
Hewraman Hewraman (also Hawraman or Huraman) (Arabic: ŘŮرامان) is a mountaneous region located in western Iran or Eastern Kurdistan, which includes the cities of Pawe and Meriwan, and north-eastern Iraq or Southern Kurdistan, which includes the city Halabja. The inhabitants of Hewraman are Gorani Kurds who speak Hewrami, a sub-dialect of the greater Gorani branch of Kurdish dialects.
Hewson Consultants Hewson Consultants were one of the smaller software companies which produced games for home computers in the early 1980's. They had a reputation for high quality games which continually pushed the boundaries of what the computers were capable of and can be compared favourably with other ground-breaking software houses like Ultimate and Beyond.
Hex (board game) Hex is a board game played on a hexagonal grid, theoretically of any size and several possible shapes, but traditionally as a 11x11 rhombus. Other popular dimensions are 13x13 and 19x19 as a result of the game's relationship to the older game of Go.
Hex (TV series) Hex was a British television series developed by Shine Limited and aired on the Sky One satellite channel, about a remote English country school that becomes the battleground between a demonic entity and the witches who oppose it. It mixed elements of gothic horror, soap opera, and modern teen dramedy.
Hex (VJ group) Hex, or Hex Media, were a London-based multimedia group founded in the early 1990s by artist Robert Pepperell, coder Miles Visman and the DJs Coldcut. The group set out to exploit the creative potential of, what was then, the new media technologies of CD-ROM, multimedia, interactive computing, video sampling and portable video projection.
Hex Combat Hex Combat is a hex-based strategy wargame system by Sabertooth Games (not a typo) and its associated collectible miniatures game (CMG) themed on The Lord of the Rings. Like the popular CMG HeroClix, Hex Combat miniatures are cast in soft plastic and sold pre-painted.
Hex editor A hex editor (or binary file editor or byte editor) is a type of computer program that allows a user to manipulate binary (normally non-plain text) computer files. Hex editors that were designed to edit sector data from floppy or hard disks were sometimes called sector editors or disk editors.
Hex Hector Hex Hector (born in 1965 in the Bronx, United States) is one of the most famous House remixer of the 90's, and also one of the most famous in terms of mainstream crossover popularity. He also won the Grammy in 2001 for Best Remixer.
Hex Rally Hex Rally (sometimes Texas Hex) is a pep rally at The University of Texas at Austin that occurs in the week prior to the annual football game between the Texas Longhorns and their in-state rivals, the Texas Aggies.
Hexacoordinate Hexacoordinate in chemistry generally refers to a molecule with six ligands or atomic attachments arranged around a single metal atom in the centre. Most hexacoordinate species form an octahedral molecular geometry, with four ligands arranged equatorially, and two axially.
Hexadecimal In mathematics and computer science, base-, hexadecimal, or simply hex, is a numeral system with a radix or base of 16, usually written using the symbols 0–9 and A–F or a–f. For example, the decimal numeral 79 whose binary representation is 01001111 can be written as 4F in hexadecimal (4 = 0100, F = 1111).
Hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide Hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide ((C16H33)N(CH3)3Br) is one of the components of the topical antiseptic cetrimide. The hexadecyltrimethylammmonium (or "cetrimonium") cation is an effective antiseptic agent against bacteria and fungi.
Hexafluoro-2-propanol 1,1,1,3,3,3-Hexafluoro-2-propanol or Hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP) is a fluorinated alcohol frequently used as solvent for polymer systems. It appears as a colorless, volatile liquid that is characterized by a strong, pungent odor.
Hexagon method In integral calculus, the hexagon method is a method for approximating definite integrals by finding the area of a series of hexagons. The method was devised by Jon Carifio as one of the culminating achievements of a study of hexagons done by Carifio and Charlie Hernandez.
Heterodoxy Heterodoxy includes "any opinions or doctrines at variance with an official or orthodox position".Definition of orthodoxy from WordNet As an adjective, heterodox is used to describe a subject as "characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards" (status quo).
Heteroduplex A heteroduplex is a double-stranded (duplex) molecule of nucleic acid originated through the genetic recombination of single complementary strands derived from different sources, such as from different homologous chromosomes or even from different organisms.
Heterodyne (poetry) In poetry, a heterodyne is a word in which the syllable receiving stress and/or pitch change is other than the syllable of longer quantity. This misalignment is considered by most people to be phonetically challenging to recite, and when applied sporadically to several words in succession, it usually attracts the listener's attention to a higher degree than the more natural-sounding blend of meter and stress/pitch.
Heterodyne detection Heterodyne detection is a method of detecting radiation by non-linear mixing with radiation of a reference frequency. It is commonly used in telecommunications and astronomy for detecting and analysing signals.
Heterodyne repeater Heterodyne repeater or cross band repeater: In radio reception and retransmission, a repeater that converts the original band of frequencies of the received signal to a different frequency band for retransmission after amplification.
Heterodyning In telecommunications and radio astronomy, heterodyning is the generation of new frequencies by mixing two or more signals in a nonlinear device such as a vacuum tube, transistor, diode mixer, Josephson junction, or bolometer. The mixing of each two frequencies results in the creation of two new frequencies, one at the sum of the two frequencies mixed, and the other at their difference.
Heterogeneous Heterogeneous (, also (American English)) means that something (an object or system) consists of a diverse range of different items. It is the antonym of [which means that an object or system consists of many identical items.
Heterogeneous Element Processor The Heterogeneous Element Processor (HEP) was introduced by Denelcor in 1982 as the world's first commercial MIMD computer. A HEP system, as the name implies, was pieced together from many heterogeneous components -- processors, data memory modules, and I/O modules.
Heterogeneous network A heterogeneous network is a network connecting computers and other devices with different operating systems and protocols. For example, local area networks (LANs) that connect Microsoft Windows and Linux based personal computers with Apple Macintosh computers are heterogeneous.
Heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein particle Heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein particles (hnRNPs) are complexes of RNA and protein present in the cell nucleus during gene transcription and subsequent post-transcriptional modification of the newly synthesized RNA. Key protein components include protein K and polypyrimidine-tract binding protein (PTB), which is regulated by phosphorylation catalyzed by protein kinase A and is responsible for suppressing RNA splicing at a particular exon by blocking access of the spliceosome to the polypyrimidine tract.
Heteroglossia In linguistics, the term heteroglossia describes the coexistence of distinct varieties within a single linguistic code. The term translates the Russian raznorechie (literally "different-speech-ness"), which was introduced by the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin in his 1934 paper Slovo v romane, published in English as "Discourse in the Novel.
Heterochromatin Protein 1 The family of Heterochromatin Protein 1 (HP1) ("Chromobox Homolog", CBX) are highly conserved adapter molecules, which have important functions in the cell nucleus. These functions include gene repression by heterochromatin formation, transcriptional activation, regulation of binding of cohesin complexes to centromere, sequesteration of genes to nuclear periphery, transcriptional arrest, maintenance of heterochromatin integrity, gene repression at single nucleosome level and gene repression by heterochromatization of euchromatin.
Heterochrony In biology, heterochrony is defined as a developmental change in the timing of events, leading to changes in size and shape. There are two main components, namely (i) the onset and offset of a particular process, and (ii) the rate at which the process operates.
Heterojunction A heterojunction is a semiconductor junction which is composed of layers of dissimilar semiconductor material, these materials having non-equal band gaps. In such a structure, the implementable diode characteristics can closely approach those of an idealized diode.
Heterojunction bipolar transistor The heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) is an improvement of the bipolar junction transistor (BJT) that can handle signals of very high frequencies up to several hundred GHz. It is common in modern ultrafast circuits, mostly radio-frequency (RF) systems.
Heterokont The heterokonts or stramenopiles are a major line of eukaryotes containing about 10,500 speciesMost are alga]e, ranging from the giant multicellular [[kelp to the unicellular diatoms, which are a primary component of plankton. However some are colorless, most notably the parasitic water moulds, which superficially resemble fungi.
Heteromyidae The family of rodents that include kangaroo rats, kangaroo mice and rock pocket mice is the Heteromyidae family. Most heteromyids live in complex burrows within the deserts and grasslands of western North America, though species within the Heteromys and Liomys genera are also found in forests and extend down as far as northern South America.
Heteronemertea Heteronemertea is a monophyletic Order of about 500 species, containing genera such as Lineus and Cerebratulus and including the largest and most muscular nemerteans. Almost all heteronemerteans have three primary body-wall muscle strata: an outer longitudinal, a middle circular, and an inner longitudinal.
Heteronomous language A heteronomous language variety is a nonstandard language variety whose speakers normally use another, autonomous language variety in writing (especially formal writing) and education. In such cases, the heteronomous variety is said to be oriented towards the autonomous one.
Heteronormativity In gender theory and queer theory, heteronormativity is the perceived reinforcement of certain beliefs by many social institutions and social policies. These beliefs include the belief that human beings fall into two distinct and complementary categories, male and female; that sexual and marital relations are normal only when between people of different sexes; and that each sex has certain natural roles in life.
Heteronym (literature) The literary concept of heteronym, invented by Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, refers to one or more imaginary character(s) created by a poet to write in different styles. Heteronyms differ from nom de plumes in that the latter are just false names, while the former are characters having their own supposed physiques, biographies and writing styles.
Heteropatry Heteropatry is a concept the refines our notion of sympatry in recognizing that though two variants (genotypes, strains, races) of a population coexist in the same geographical area, these variants are behaviorally separated in terms of exploiting niches that are interwoven to produce a heterogeneous or patchwork landscape. John Maynard Smith in a seminal paper on sympatric speciation J.
Heterophenomenology Heterophenomenology ("phenomenology of another not oneself"), is a term coined by Daniel Dennett to describe an explicitly third-person, scientific approach to the study of consciousness. It consists of applying the scientific method with an anthropological bent, combining the subject's self-reports with all other available evidence to determine their mental state.
Heterophobia Heterophobia is a term used to describe prejudice or discrimination against heterosexuals, usually in the context of the heterophobic person being homosexual or bisexual. It does not have much currency outside the field of sexology, and has limited use even within that field.
Heterophony In music, heterophony is the texture where the various voice or parts are differentiated in character. This can refer to a kind of complex monophony in which there is only one basic melody, but realised simultaneously by multiple voices, each of which play the melody differently, either in a different rhythm or tempo, with different embellishments and figures, or idiomatically different.
Heteroplasmy Heteroplasmy is the presence of a mixture of more than one type of an organellar genome (mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) or plastid DNA) within a cell or individual. Since every eukaryotic cell contains many hundreds of mitochondria with hundreds of copies of mtDNA, it is possible and indeed very frequent for mutations to affect only some of the copies, while the remaining ones are unaffected.
Heteropolymer A heteropolymer, also called a copolymer, is a polymer formed when two (or more) different types of monomer are linked in the same polymer chain, as opposed to a homopolymer where only one monomer is used. If exactly three monomers are used, it is called a terpolymer.
Heteroptera Heteroptera is a group of about 40,000 species of insects (also called true bugs) in the order Hemiptera. The word "Heteroptera" is Greek for different wings: most species have forewings with both membranous and hardened portions (called hemelytra); members of the primitive infraorder Enicocephalomorpha have wings that are completely membranous.
Heteropterys Heteropterys is a genus in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Heteropterys comprises over 140 species of woody vines, shrubs, and small trees found in the New World tropics and subtropics from northern Mexico and the West Indies to northern Argentina and southeastern Brazil.
Heterorhabditis Heterorhabditis is a genus of nematodes belonging to the order Rhabditida. Many species of this family are obligate parasites of insects and are commonly used as biological control agents for the control of pest insects.
Heteroscedasticity In statistics, a sequence or a vector of random variables is heteroscedastic if the random variables in the sequence or vector may have different variances. The complementary concept is called homoscedasticity.
Heterosexism Heterosexism is a predisposition towards heterosexual people, which some see as biased against lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgender or intersexed, people among others. A related term is Sexual Prejudice, a negative attitude toward someone because of her or his sexual orientation.
Heterosquare A heterosquare of order n is an arrangement of the integers 1 to n² in a square, such that the rows, columns, and diagonals all sum to different values. There are no heterosquares of order 2, but heterosquares exist for any order n ≥ 3.
Heterosynaptic Heterosynaptic phenomena are events that occur at the junctions (synapses) that form connections between neurons. A heterosynaptic phenomenon is one that involves interactions between separate synapses or groups of synapses.
Heterotic string In physics, a heterotic string is a peculiar mixture (or hybrid) of the bosonic string and the superstring (the adjective heterotic comes from the Greek word heterosis). In string theory, the left-moving and the right-moving excitations almost do not talk to each other, and it is possible to construct a string theory whose left-moving (counter-clockwise) excitations "think" that they live on a bosonic string propagating in D = 26 dimensions, while the right-moving (clock-wise) excitations "think" that they belong to a superstring in D = 10 dimensions.
Heterotopia (medicine) In medicine, "heterotopia" refers to the displacement of an organ or part of an organ from its normal position, often specifically Gray Matter Heterotopia, the displacement of gray matter into the cerebral white matter or ventricles.
Heterotopotaxy Heterotopotaxy is a process similar to heteroepitaxy except for the fact that thin film growth is not limited to two dimensional growth. Here the substrate is similar only in structure to the thin film material.
Heterotroph A heterotroph (Greek heterone = (an)other and trophe = nutrition) is an organism that requires organic substrates to get its carbon for growth and development. A heterotroph is known as a consumer in the food chain.
Heterozygote advantage A heterozygote advantage (heterozygous advantage or overdominance) describes the case in which the heterozygote genotype has a higher relative fitness than either the homozygote dominant or homozygote recessive genotype. This selection favoring the heterozygote is one of the mechanisms that maintain polymorphism and help to explain some kinds of genetic variability.
Heth (letter) or (also spelled Khet, Kheth, Chet, Cheth, Het, or Heth) is the reconstructed name of the eighth letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, continued in descended Semitic alphabets as Phoenician , Syriac , Hebrew (also , heth) , Arabic (in abjadi order), and Berber .
Hethum II of Armenia Hethum (or Hetoum) II of Armenia (1266-August, 1307) was king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling from 1289 to 1293, 1295 to 1296 and 1299 to 1303. He was the son of Leo III of Armenia and Kyranna de Lampron.
Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct The Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct is 167 miles long, it delivers water from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite National Park to the City of San Francisco and other suburban municipalities in the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
Hetch Hetchy Railroad The Hetch Hetchy Railroad (HHRR) was a 68 mile (109 km) standard gauge Class III railroad constructed by the City of San Francisco to support the construction and expansion of the O'Shaughnessy Dam across Hetch Hetchy Valley.
Hetch Hetchy Reservoir Hetch Hetchy Reservoir is a reservoir in Yosemite National Park, about 65 miles east-southeast of the city of Merced. The reservoir has a capacity of 360,000 acre-feet and is formed by O'Shaughnessy Dam in Hetch Hetchy Valley on the Tuolumne River.
Hetch Hetchy to Lake Vernon Trail The Hetch Hetchy to Lake Vernon Trail in Yosemite starts from the parking lot close to the O'Shaughnessy Dam in Hetch_Hetchy, and goes to Lake Vernon through the Yosemite Wilderness. Staying overnight requires a wilderness permit which can be obtained at the Hetch Hetchy ranger station or reserved online.
Hetin Hetin (Serbian: Hetin or Хетин, Hungarian: Tamásfalva or Hetény, German: Hettin or Tomsdorf) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Žitište municipality, in the Central Banat District, Vojvodina province.
Hetman of Ukraine Hetman of Ukraine, the title of the head of the Ukrainian state known as the Cossack Hetmanate. This title was initially ascribed to Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky who assumed the joint powers of Hetman of both Left-bank Ukraine and Right-bank Ukraine.
Hetman's sign The hetman's sign () was the only native military symbol of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was invented by hetman Jan Tarnowski, who also popularized it on the territory of Poland in the second half of the sixteenth century.
Hetmanate The Hetmanate (, Het’manat) was a short-lived provisional government of Ukraine, installed by Germany after disbanding the Central Rada of the Ukrainian National Republic on 28 April 1918. The Central Rada proved unable to maintain order; in chaotic conditions the administration soon lost the confidence of the landowning and business interests.
Hettie Jones Hettie Jones (born 1934 as Hettie Cohen) is most well-known as the former wife of Amiri Baraka, known as LeRoi Jones at the time of their marriage, but is also a writer herself. They have two children, Kellie and Lisa.
Hetton colliery railway The Hetton colliery railway was a private railway opened in 1822 by the Hetton Coal Company at Hetton Lyons, County Durham, in England. It was the first to be designed from the start to be without animal power, and was George Stephenson's first entirely new line.
Hetty Baynes Hetty Baynes born in 1957, she began her career as a ballet dancer at the Royal Ballet School and made her professional debut at 12 in Rudolf Nureyev’s The Nutcracker at the Opera House, Covent Garden. She began her acting career at just 17 as an acting Assistant Stage Manager in repertory theatre.
Hetty Green Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green (November 21, 1834 – July 3, 1916) was an American businesswoman, remarkable for her frugality during the Gilded Age, as well as for being the first American woman to make a substantial impact on Wall Street.
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Hetty Wainthropp Investigates is a semi-humorous English crime drama television series which aired from 1996 to 1998 on the BBC. The series starred Patricia Routledge as the title character, Derek Benfield as her patient husband Robert, and Dominic Monaghan as their boarder (and her assistant) Geoffrey Shawcross.
Hetzel Union Building The HUB-Robeson Center, commonly referred to as the "HUB" is the student union building centrally located on the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University. It was originally built in 1953 and had major renovations done in 1973 and 1983.
Hetzel Union Building shooting The Hetzel Union Building shooting refers to an incident at the Pennsylvania State University where two students were shot, one fatally. At the time of the incident, it was the first murder on the Penn State campus in over 25 years.
Heublein Tower The 165-foot tall Heublein Tower located in Talcott Mountain State Park in Connecticut (USA) provides panoramic views of the Hartford skyline and the Farmington River Valley that are particularly spectacular in the fall.
Heulandite [is the name of a series of tecto-silicate] [[minerals of the zeolite group. Prior to 1997, heulandite was recognized as a mineral species, but a reclassification in 1997 by the International Mineralogical Association changed it to a series name, with the mineral species being named heulandite-Ca, heulandite-Na, heulandite-K, and heulandite-Sr.
Heung Jin Moon Heung Jin Moon (October 23, 1966 - January 2, 1984), also referred to by members of the Unification Church as Heung Jin Nim or Lord Heung Jin Nim, was the second son of Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han, the leaders of the Unification Church (later renamed Family Federation for World Peace and Unification).
Heunisch Heunisch is a white wine grape variety from the German-speaking parts of Europe and is practically extinct. DNA tests suggest that Heunisch is the forefather of many illustrious varieties, including Chardonnay and Riesling.
Heureka-Klett Heureka-Klett is a German software engineering company which has made several personal computer games of the sort called "edutainment". They are is point-and-click puzzle-adventure games for either the PC or the Mac.
Heuriger Heuriger (pronunciation: English , German ) is the name given to many Austrian wine-drinking locales where patrons can experience GemĂĽtlichkeit. Originally only the most recent year's wine was served at such an establishment.
Heuristic A heuristic is a replicable method or approach for directing one's attention in learning, discovery, or problem-solving. It is originally derived from the Greek "heurisko" (), which means "I find".
Heuristic argument An heuristic argument is an argument that reasons from the value of a method or principle that has been shown by experimental (especially trial-and-error) investigation to be a useful aid in learning, discovery and problem-solving. A widely-used and important example of a heuristic argument is Occam's Razor.
Heuristic evaluation A heuristic evaluation is a usability evaluation method for computer software that helps to identify usability problems in the user interface (UI) design. It specifically involves evaluators examining the interface and judging its compliance with recognized usability principles (the "heuristics").
Heuristic routing Heuristic routing: Routing in which data, such as time delay, extracted from incoming messages, during specified periods and over different routes, are used to determine the optimum routing for transmitting data back to the sources.
Heuston Gate Heuston Gate is a skyscraper development moving into construction phase in the coming months. Heuston Gate contains at its heart a 32 storey tower which will be either Ireland's tallest or second tallest building depending on when the U2 Tower] is completed.
Hevajra The tutelary god Hevajra is described, with all the rites and ceremonies used in his worship, in the sutra of the Hevajra tantra, which figured historically in Drogön Chögyal Phagpa's conversion of the Mongolian emperor Khubilai to Tibetan Buddhism in the thirteenth century A.D.
Hever Castle Hever Castle, in Kent, England (in the village of Hever), was the seat of the Boleyn family. Originally a farmhouse, it was built in the 13th century and converted into a manor in 1462 by Geoffrey Boleyn, who served as Lord Mayor of London.
Hevingham Hevingham is a Norfolk village of around 1150 people spread between 452 households that lies between the A140 Norwich to Cromer Road and the B1149 Norwich to Holt Road, lying ten miles from the city of Norwich and four miles from the market town of Aylsham.
Hevstäf Hevstäf (Czech: Hevstäf) (German: Hevstadt) is a small town near the Bohemian Paradise in Czechia. The community has recently started a hydroelectric project following the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe.
Hew Raymond Griffiths Hew Raymond Griffiths (born 8th November 1962 in the UK) has been accused by the United States of being a ring leader of DrinkOrDie or DOD, an underground software piracy network. He is facing extradition from Australia to the United States.
Hewan Amharic Software Since the inception of computer technology several scholars and computer enthusiastic tried every thing to apply computer technology in their country and in their language. At first the ASCII standard was the bottleneck for most non-Latin based languages and they created the extended ASCII with the eight bit computing capability.
Heward In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Heward is the god of Bards and Musicians. Heward is notable not only for his musical prowess, but also for his technological skills.
Heward Grafftey William Heward Grafftey, PC , BCL , BA (born August 5, 1928) is a Canadian politician and businessman. Grafftey received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Allison University, majoring in Political Science and History, and a Bachelor of Civil Law degree at McGill University.
Hewes Street (BMT Jamaica Line) Hewes Street is a local station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Hewes Street and Broadway in Brooklyn, it is served by the train at all times except weekdays in the peak direction, and the train weekdays.
Hewhocorrupts Hewhocorrupts is an extreme metal and hardcore punk band. They are best known for their songs mocking Metallica, making reference to the notorious allegations of the group having sold out, parodying the more famous band's song titles with business-related counterparts: Ride the Lightning is retitled Ride the Limo and Master of Puppets becomes Master of Profits.
Hewitt Crane Hewitt D. Crane is an American engineer best known for his pioneering work at SRI International on ERMA (Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting), for Bank of America; magnetic digital logic; neuristor logic; the development of an eye-movement tracking device; and a pen-input device for computers.
Hewitt Quadrangle Hewitt University Quadrangle (until 1917, University Court; informally, Hewitt Quadrangle or Beinecke Plaza) is a plaza at the center of the Yale University campus which is the home of the administrative buildings.
Hewitt-Savage zero-one law The Hewitt-Savage zero-one law is a theorem in probability theory, similar to Kolmogorov's zero-one law, that specifies that a certain type of event will either almost surely happen or almost surely not happen. It is sometimes known as the Hewitt-Savage law for symmetric events.
Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane The Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane was a project undertaken during World War I to develop an aerial torpedo, a pilotless aircraft capable of carrying explosives to its target. It was the forerunner of today's UAVs.
Hewlett (LIRR station) Hewlett is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Far Rockaway Branch in Hewlett, in Nassau County, New York, United States. The station is located at Franklin Avenue between Broadway and West Broadway, and is 19.
Hewlett Johnson The Very Reverend Hewlett Johnson (1874-1966), was an English clergyman, Dean of Manchester and later Dean of Canterbury, where he acquired his nickname The Red Dean of Canterbury for his unyielding support for the Soviet Union and its allies.
Hewlett-Packard 9100A The Hewlett-Packard 9100A was the world's first personal computer, first appearing in 1968. HP called it a desktop calculator because, as Bill Hewlett said, "If we had called it a computer, it would have been rejected by our customers' computer gurus because it didn't look like an IBM.
Hewlett-Woodmere School District The Hewlett-Woodmere Public School District, Union Free School District 14, is located in the southwest section of Nassau County, New York and borders the New York City borough of Queens. Communities in the district include, in full or in part, Hewlett, Woodmere, Woodsburgh, North Woodmere, Valley Stream, Lynbrook, Hewlett Harbor, Hewlett Neck, and Hewlett Bay Park.
Hewraman Hewraman (also Hawraman or Huraman) (Arabic: ŘŮرامان) is a mountaneous region located in western Iran or Eastern Kurdistan, which includes the cities of Pawe and Meriwan, and north-eastern Iraq or Southern Kurdistan, which includes the city Halabja. The inhabitants of Hewraman are Gorani Kurds who speak Hewrami, a sub-dialect of the greater Gorani branch of Kurdish dialects.
Hewson Consultants Hewson Consultants were one of the smaller software companies which produced games for home computers in the early 1980's. They had a reputation for high quality games which continually pushed the boundaries of what the computers were capable of and can be compared favourably with other ground-breaking software houses like Ultimate and Beyond.
Hex (board game) Hex is a board game played on a hexagonal grid, theoretically of any size and several possible shapes, but traditionally as a 11x11 rhombus. Other popular dimensions are 13x13 and 19x19 as a result of the game's relationship to the older game of Go.
Hex (TV series) Hex was a British television series developed by Shine Limited and aired on the Sky One satellite channel, about a remote English country school that becomes the battleground between a demonic entity and the witches who oppose it. It mixed elements of gothic horror, soap opera, and modern teen dramedy.
Hex (VJ group) Hex, or Hex Media, were a London-based multimedia group founded in the early 1990s by artist Robert Pepperell, coder Miles Visman and the DJs Coldcut. The group set out to exploit the creative potential of, what was then, the new media technologies of CD-ROM, multimedia, interactive computing, video sampling and portable video projection.
Hex Combat Hex Combat is a hex-based strategy wargame system by Sabertooth Games (not a typo) and its associated collectible miniatures game (CMG) themed on The Lord of the Rings. Like the popular CMG HeroClix, Hex Combat miniatures are cast in soft plastic and sold pre-painted.
Hex editor A hex editor (or binary file editor or byte editor) is a type of computer program that allows a user to manipulate binary (normally non-plain text) computer files. Hex editors that were designed to edit sector data from floppy or hard disks were sometimes called sector editors or disk editors.
Hex Hector Hex Hector (born in 1965 in the Bronx, United States) is one of the most famous House remixer of the 90's, and also one of the most famous in terms of mainstream crossover popularity. He also won the Grammy in 2001 for Best Remixer.
Hex Rally Hex Rally (sometimes Texas Hex) is a pep rally at The University of Texas at Austin that occurs in the week prior to the annual football game between the Texas Longhorns and their in-state rivals, the Texas Aggies.
Hexacoordinate Hexacoordinate in chemistry generally refers to a molecule with six ligands or atomic attachments arranged around a single metal atom in the centre. Most hexacoordinate species form an octahedral molecular geometry, with four ligands arranged equatorially, and two axially.
Hexadecimal In mathematics and computer science, base-, hexadecimal, or simply hex, is a numeral system with a radix or base of 16, usually written using the symbols 0–9 and A–F or a–f. For example, the decimal numeral 79 whose binary representation is 01001111 can be written as 4F in hexadecimal (4 = 0100, F = 1111).
Hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide Hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide ((C16H33)N(CH3)3Br) is one of the components of the topical antiseptic cetrimide. The hexadecyltrimethylammmonium (or "cetrimonium") cation is an effective antiseptic agent against bacteria and fungi.
Hexafluoro-2-propanol 1,1,1,3,3,3-Hexafluoro-2-propanol or Hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP) is a fluorinated alcohol frequently used as solvent for polymer systems. It appears as a colorless, volatile liquid that is characterized by a strong, pungent odor.
Hexagon method In integral calculus, the hexagon method is a method for approximating definite integrals by finding the area of a series of hexagons. The method was devised by Jon Carifio as one of the culminating achievements of a study of hexagons done by Carifio and Charlie Hernandez.
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