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Industrial design Industrial design is an applied art whereby the aesthetics and usability of products may be improved. Design aspects specified by the industrial designer may include the overall shape of the object, the location of details with respect to one another, colors, texture, sounds, and aspects concerning the use of the product ergonomics.
Industrial design rights Industrial design rights are intellectual property rights that protect the visual design of objects that are not purely utilitarian. An industrial design consists of the creation of a shape, configuration or composition of pattern or color, or combination of pattern and color in three dimensional form containing aesthetic value.
Industrial district Industrial district is a term used to describe an area where workers of a monolithic heavy industry (ship-building, coal mining, steel-working, ceramics, etc) live within walking-distance of their places of work.
Industrial Design Excellence Awards The Industrial Design Excellence Awards is a program sponsored by BusinessWeek and IDSA (Industrial Designers Society of America), and "is dedicated to fostering business and public understanding of the importance of industrial design excellence to the quality of life and economy"http://www.idsa.
Industrial Designers Society of America Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) is an organisation of professional industrial designers in the United States. It was formed in 1965 by merger of three American designer associations: American Designers Institute (IDI), American Society of Industrial Design (ASID) and Industrial Design Education Association (IDEA).
Industrial District, Seattle, Washington The Industrial District is the principal industrial area of Seattle, Washington. It is bounded on the west by the Duwamish Waterway and Elliott Bay, beyond which lies Delridge of West Seattle; on the east by Interstate 5, beyond which lies Beacon Hill; on the north by S King and S Dearborn Streets, beyond which lie Pioneer Square and southwest International District of Downtown; and on the south by the main lines of the BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad, or about S Lucille Street, beyond which is Georgetown.
Industrial Drive (Adrian, Michigan) In 2003, some off-ramp like connector for the grade separation of US 223 (Adrian bypass) and M-34 was somehow abandoned and eventually obliterated. A speculated reason why Industrial Drive was built in the Adrian area was because traffic was intensifying and so that more development in the area can be performed.
Industrial engineering Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering that concerns the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, knowledge, equipment, energy, material and process. Industrial engineering draws upon the principles and methods of engineering analysis and synthesis, as well as mathematical, physical and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design to specify, predict and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems.
Industrial engineering and operations research Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) is an academic discipline concerned with making systems more efficient. Often this goal is achieved through the use of modeling and other computational methods.
Industrial etching In industry, etching (sometimes called chemical milling or wet etching) is the process of using acids, bases or other chemicals to dissolve away unwanted materials such as metals, semiconductor materials or glass. It has applications in the printed circuit board and semiconductor fabrication industries.
Industrial Economics Institute The industrial economics institute (French: Institut D'Economie Industrielle) (IDEI) is a research center in economics located in Toulouse (France) within the University of Toulouse I. It was founded in 1990 by Jean-Jacques Laffont.
Industrial Espionage Act of 1996 The Industrial Espionage Act of 1996 was introduced on August 27, 1996. It was established mainly to promote the development of United States proprietary economic information produced for interstate and foreign commerce by protecting it from theft, wrongful destruction or alteration.
Industrial fashion Industrial fashion is a form of fashion most closely associated with the industrial music scene and is based on styles including punk and military combat uniform aesthetics. Typical items of clothing include combat boots, camo trousers, t-shirts, and sometimes gas masks, goggles, flight jackets, or trenchcoats, the colors black and olive being most predominant.
Industrial fermentation The use of fermentation is an important process in the industry. Though fermentation can have stricter definitions, when speaking of it in Industrial fermentation, it more loosely refers to the breakdown of organic substances into simpler substances.
Industrial folk music Industrial folk music is a subgenre of folk music that focuses on the experiences of industrial workers. The subgenre was established with the 1963 compilation album, The Iron Muse:A Panorama of Industrial Folk Music, a collection of songs about labor strikes, mine workers, and workplace disasters in northern England.
Industrial Finishing Industrial Finishing is a broad term used to describe any kind of secondary process done to any metal, plastic, or wood product used in a common market such as automotove, OEM, telecommunications or point-of-purchase.
Industrial gas Industrial gas is a group of gases that are commercially manufactured and sold for uses in other applications. These gases are mainly used in an industrial processes, such as steelmaking, medical applications, fertilizer, semiconductors, etc,.
Industrial hardcore Industrial hardcore is a term used to describe the crossover of hardcore techno and rhythmic noise. Compared to other hardcore styles like darkcore, which uses the influence of gabba, and speedcore, which concentrates on exceedingly high beats per minute, industrial hardcore is focused more on overly distorted snares along with interchanging sampled bass drum loops.
Industrial laundry Large institutions that require a constant flow of clean linen will often employ the services of an industrial laundry. Hospitals, prisons and hotels, for instance, will usually have their own laundry departments.
Industrial loan company An industrial loan company (ILC) or industrial bank is a financial institution in the United States that lends money, and may be owned by non-financial institutions. Though the bank itself would be heavily examined by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and state regulators, a debate exists to allow parent companies such as Wal-Mart, which would remain unregulated by the financial regulators, to own such a bank.
Industrial Light & Magic Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is a motion picture visual effects company, founded in May 1975 by George Lucas and owned by Lucasfilm Ltd. Lucas created the company when he discovered that the special effects department at Twentieth Century Fox was shut down after he was given the green light for his production of Star Wars.
Industrial manslaughter In Australian Capital Territory law, Industrial manslaughter is a crime where the action or inaction of an employer results in the death of an employee. Industrial manslaughter usually has a much broader scope than standard criminal manslaughter.
Industrial marketing Industrial marketing is the marketing of goods and services to industrial and institutional customers. It refers to the process of segmenting your total market, targeting the most rewarding segment and positioning your offer in this segment, or in short S-T-P.
Industrial metal Industrial metal is a musical genre which draws elements from industrial music and heavy metal music. Industrial metal music is usually centered around metal guitar riffs and industrial synthesizer/sequencer lines, heavily distorted, very low pitched guitars, as well as harsh vocals, but in some instances can have clean vocals.
Industrial music Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of electronic and experimental music. First used in the mid-1970s to describe the then-unique sound of Industrial Records artists, a wide variety of labels and artists have since come to be called "Industrial".
Industrial musical An industrial musical is a musical performed for the employees of a business, intended to create a feeling of being part of a team, and/or to educate and motivate the management and salespeople to improve sales and profit. It is a form of public relations and advertising that can be used internally within a business.
Industrial noise Industrial noise is usually considered mainly from the point of view of environmental health and safety, rather than nuisance, as sustained exposure can cause permanent hearing damage. Traditionally, workplace noise has been a hazard linked to heavy industries such as ship-building and associated only with noise induced hearing loss (NIHL).
Industrial organization Industrial organization is the field of economics that studies the strategic behavior of firms, the structure of markets and their interactions. It is also referred to as "Industrial Economics", but perhaps a most appropriate term is the "Economics of Imperfect Competition".
Industrial park An industrial park (or industrial estate in British English) is an area of land set aside for industrial development. Industrial parks are usually located close to transport facilities, especially where more than one transport modalities coincide: highways, railroads, airports, and navigable rivers.
Industrial piercing An industrial piercing is any two pierced holes connected with a single straight piece of jewelry (compare to orbital piercing); however, it typically refers to a double perforation of the upper ear cartilage specifically. Two piercings are made, one fairly close to the head (anti-helix piercing), the second further down the cartilage, on the opposite side of the ear (helix piercing).
Industrial policy An industrial policy is any government regulation or law that encourages the ongoing operation of, or investment in, a particular industry. It is often related to, or wholly determinant of, investment policy for that industry.
Industrial policy of Japan A complicated system of Industrial Policies was devised by the Japanese Government after World War II and especially in the 1950s and 1960s. The goal was to promote industrial development, and it cooperated closely for this purpose with private firms.
Industrial Party Trial The Industrial Party Trial (November 25–December 7, 1930) (, Trial of the Prompartiya) was a show trial in which several Soviet scientists and economists were accused and convicted of plotting a coup against the government of the Soviet Union.
Industrial PC Industrial PC is the x86 PC-based computing platform for industrial application. Compared with the RISC-based and microprocessor-based computing platform, the PC-based industriad computing platform offers the advantages on the cost of systems and development with PC-based hardware and software
Industrial radiography Radiography is the use of ionising electromagnetic radiation to view objects in a way that can't be seen otherwise. Radiography in general should not be confused with the use of ionizing radiation to change or modify objects; radiography's purpose is strictly for viewing.
Industrial railway An industrial railway is a type of private railway used exclusively to serve a particular industry inside a mine or factory compound. Industrial railways were once very common, but with the rise of road transport, their numbers have greatly diminished.
Industrial robot An industrial robot is officially defined by ISOISO Standard 8373:1994, Manipulating Industrial Robots – Vocabulary as an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator programmable in three or more axes. The field of industrial robotics may be more practically defined as the study, design and use of robot systems for manufacturing (a top-level definition relying on the prior definition of robot).
Industrial Real-Time Fortran Industrial Real-Time Fortran (IRTF) was developed in the 1970s to augment the Fortran languge with library bindings useful for process and device control, and I/O. Also included in IRTF was a set of bit-manipulation functions which were eventually incorporated into MIL_STD-1753 for Fortran-77, and later into Fortran-90.
Industrial Records Industrial Records was a record label established in 1976 by art/music group Throbbing Gristle. The group, fronted by Genesis P-Orridge, were to release their experiments in non-entertainment sound and multimedia through the label; in addition to a host of other artists on the periphery of the music business.
Industrial Relations Taskforce The Industrial Relations Taskforce is a taskforce established in December 2005 by the caucus of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party of Australia to examine the adverse effects of the Government’s industrial relations changes (Work Choices) on individuals, families and communities. In particular, the terms of reference
Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution was a major shift of technological, socioeconomic, and cultural conditions in the late 18th and early 19th century that began in Britain and spread throughout the world. During that time, an economy based on manual labour was replaced by one dominated by industry and the manufacture of machinery.
Industrial slave An industrial slave was different from agricultural slavery. Industrial slaves had no rights just as the agricultural slaves and they received the same basic accommodations that the agricultural slaves received, but their work was far more dangerous.
Industrial Sounding System The Industrial Sounding System is a proposed system to propel inert payloads to a height of up to 100 kilometers, or rocket-assisted payloads to 250km, with the use of a cannon. This might be useful when trying to launch science experiments into the thermosphere without the use of a rocket.
Industrial Style Industrial Style refers to an aesthetic trend in design that emphasises sharp lines, abrupt connections and dynamic interactions of motion. It is derivative of the same forces that created the architectural movement of Deconstructivism and the anime genere Mecha, and can be seen in such automobile design examples as the BMW Z4 by Chris Bangle, the Ferrari Enzo, and Cadillac's Art and Science trend.
Industrial techno Industrial techno is a cross between power noise, traditional industrial, and techno . It quite frequently includes trance elements and often resembles rave music while keeping the harsh sounds, noises, and fast pacing of industrial.
Industrial tribunal Industrial Tribunals were judicial bodies introduced under the Industrial Training Act 1964, consisting of a lawyer (the chairman), an individual nominated by an employer association, and another by the TUC or TUC-affiliated union. These independent panels heard and made legally binding rulings in relation to employment law disputes.
Industrial Technology Industrial Technology is a field of study designed to prepare technical and/or management oriented professionals for employment in business, industry, education, and government. Industrial Technology is primarily involved with the management, operation, and maintenance of complex technological systems while Engineering and Engineering Technology are primarily involved with the design and installation of these systems.
Industrial Technology Research Institute The Industrial Technology Research Institute (, abbreviated ĺ·Ąç ”é™˘; ITRI) is a non-profit research institute located in Taiwan under the supervision of the Republic of China Ministry of Economic Affairs. It conducts research and development in applied technologies for private sector growth.
Industrial unionism Industrial unionism is a labor union organizing method through which all workers in the same industry are organized into the same union — regardless of skill or trade — thus giving workers in one industry, or in all industries, more leverage in bargaining and in strike situations. Advocates of industrial unionism value its contributions to building unity and solidarity, suggesting the slogans, "an injury to one is an injury to all" and "the longer the picket line, the shorter the strike.
Industrial University of Santander The Industrial University of Santander (UIS) (Industrial University of Santander) is the most important university in Eastern Colombia, the fourth public Colombian university and one of the main research institutions in the country. It has 12.
Industrial warfare Industrial warfare is a period in the history of warfare ranging roughly from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the beginning of the Information Age, which saw the rise of nation-states, capable of creating and equipping large armies and navies through the process of industrialization. It featured mass-conscripted armies, rapid transportation (first on railroads, then by sea and air), telegraph and wireless communications, and the concept of total war.
Industrial wastewater treatment Industrial wastewater treatment covers the mechanisms and processes used to treat waters that have been contaminated in some way by man's industrial or commercial activities prior to its release into the environment or its re-use.
Industrial Worker The Industrial Worker, "the voice of revolutionary industrial unionism," is the newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a radical labor union. It is currently released eleven times a year, printed and edited by union labor, and is frequently distributed at radical bookstores, demonstrations, strikes and labor rallies.
Industrial Workers of the World The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. At its peak in 1923 the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers.
Industriales Industriales is a baseball team in the Cuban National Series. One of the two teams based in the city of Havana, Industriales is historically the most successful team in the National Series, the main domestic competition in post-revolutionary Cuban baseball.
Industrialisation Industrialisation (also spelt Industrialization) or an Industrial Revolution is a process of social and economic change whereby a human society is transformed from a pre-industrial (an economy where the amount of capital accumulated per capita is low) to an industrial state (see Pre-industrial society). This social and economic change is closely intertwined with technological innovation, particularly the development of large-scale energy production and metallurgy.
Industrialization of services business model The industrialization of services business model is a business model used in strategic management and services marketing that treats service provision as an industrial process, subject to industrial optimization procedures. It originated in the early 1970s at a time when various quality control techniques were being successfully implemented on production assembly lines.
Industries of Regina, Saskatchewan Major industries of Regina, Saskatchewan include government, oil and gas exploration, call centres, telecommunications, insurance and data management centres, and agricultural chemicals and services. The largest employers in Regina are the provincial government and its Crown Corporations.
Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau (Industrial Association for Vehicle Construction), usually abbreviated as IFA, was a conglomerate and a union of companies for vehicle construction in East Germany. IFA produced bicycles, motorcycles, light commercial vehicles, automobiles, heavy trucks, vans, and heavy trucks.
Industry analyst An industry analyst performs primary and secondary market research within a particular segment of an industry such as information technology or telecommunications to determine accurate market descriptions, market trends, forecasts and models. Typically, analysts specialize in a single industry, researching the broad development of the market rather than focusing on equities, investments, or financial opportunities as a financial analyst would.
Industry and Idleness Industry and Idleness is a series of 12 comic engravings created by William Hogarth in 1747. His earlier series, such as A Harlot's Progress (1731) and Marriage a-la-mode (1743), were painted first, with engravings being produced from the paintings; Industry and Idleness was his first series created as a set of engravings, with prints were sold for 1 shilling each (12 shillings for a complete set).
Industry and Parliament Trust The Industry and Parliament Trust (IPT), based in Whitehall, London, close to the UK Parliament, fosters better mutual understanding between the worlds of Parliament and business. It operates as an independent, non-partisan, non-lobbying, not-for-profit organisation that facilitates educational exchange Fellowships for MPs, MEPs, Peers and Officers of both Houses of Parliament at Westminster with a range of participating companies from most sectors of business and industry.
Industry Canada Industry Canada is the department of the Government of Canada with responsibility for regional economic development, investment, and innovation/research and development. The department employs 6104 FTEs across Canada.
Industry Foundation Classes The Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) data model is a neutral and open specification that is not controlled by a singular vendor or group of vendors. It is an object oriented file format with a data model developed by the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) to facilitate interoperability in the building industry, and is a commonly used format for Building Information Modeling (BIM).
Industry Loss Warranties Industry Loss Warranties, often referred to as ILW's, are a type of reinsurance or derivative contract through which one party will purchase protection based on the total loss arising from an event to the entire insurance industry rather than their own losses. For example, the buyer of a "$100mm limit US Wind ILW attaching at $20bn" will pay a premium to a protection writer (generally a reinsurer but sometimes a hedge fund and in return will receive $100mm if total losses to the insurance industry from a single US hurricane exceed $20bn.
Industry Nine Industry Nine is an American bicycle wheel manufacturer headquartered Asheville, North Carolina. Primarily a manufacturer of mountain bicycle wheels, Industry Nine recently began manufacturing two models of road bicycle wheels.
Industry superannuation Industry superannuation funds in Australia refer to the group of retirement superannuation funds managed by industry bodies and unions. These funds are almost all public-offer funds, although most had their genesis as closed shop funds only open to members of the union or industry body to which they relate.
Industry Structure Model The Industry Structure Model (ISM, originally 'Industry Standard Model') identifies almost every role in the computer industry and describes each role at various levels, from school-leaver (level 0) to managing director (levels 8/9). It was developed, and is maintained, by the British Computer Society.
Industry trade group An industry trade group, also known as a trade association, is generally a public relations organization founded and funded by corporations that operate in a specific industry. Its purpose is generally to promote the industry through PR activities such as advertising, education, political donations, lobbying and publishing.
Industryeleven IndustryEleven is an online adult movie database, similar to the Internet Movie Database but different in that all of the content on the site is user driven. In that sense, it can be thought of as one of the largest wikis on the planet that deals specifically with adult content.
IndUS Aviation IndUS Aviation is an American company based at Dallas Executive Airport (also known as Redbird Airport) in Dallas, Texas, that manufactures the Thorp T-211 (since 2004). IndUS promotes General Aviation both in the United States and India.
Indy 100 The "Indy 100" is a British share index launched by The Independent newspaper in February 2006. It was formulated in response to the increase in the number of companies in the FTSE 100 that make all or most of their sales and profits overseas, leading to accusations that the index is no longer representative of the British economy.
Indy Lights The Indy Lights was an open-wheeled racing series that acted as a developmental circuit for CART from 1986 to 2001. Founded in 1986 as the American Racing Series (ARS), the series was renamed Indy Lights in 1991.
Indybay Indybay is the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, an all-volunteer organization which operates a community news website, Indybay.org, and in June of 2004, began publishing a free news magazine, Fault Lines.
Indypendent The Indypendent is the newspaper of the New York City] Independent Media Center a local branch of the world wide [[Indymedia] network. Founded in the fall of 2000, it has won numerous awards and has broken several local stories; at the same time, it has come under fire from within [[Indymedia and from segments the left more generally.
Inebriating mint Lagochilus inebrians, commonly known as inebriating mint or Turkistan mint, is a member of the mint family Labiatae. This species is reported to produce intoxicating and sedative effects, and is used as such by Tajik, Tatar, Turkoman, and Uzbek tribesman during feasts and holidays.
Inedia Inedia is the alleged ability to live without food. Breatharianism is a related concept, in which believers claim food and possibly water are not necessary, and that humans can be sustained solely by prana (the vital life force in Hinduism), or according to some, by the energy in sunlight.
Ineffabilis Deus Ineffabilis Deus (Latin for "Ineffable God") is the name of an Apostolic constitution written by Pope Pius IX. It defines ex cathedra the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Ineffability To say that something is "ineffable" means that it cannot or should not, for overwhelming reasons, be expressed in spoken words. It is generally used to describe a feeling, concept or aspect of existence that is too great to be adequately described in words, or that inherently (due to its nature) cannot be conveyed in dualistic symbolic human language, but can only be known internally by individuals.
Ineffective assistance of counsel Ineffective assistance of counsel is an issue raised in legal malpractice suits and in appeals in criminal cases where a criminal defendant asserts that their criminal conviction occurred because their attorney failed to properly defend the case. In order to prevail on such a claim, the plaintiff or appellant must show two things:
Inejiro Asanuma Inejiro Asanuma (ćµ…ć˛Ľç¨˛ć¬ˇéŽ Asanuma InejirĹŤ, December 27, 1898 - October 12, 1960) was a Japanese politician, and head of the Japanese Socialist Party. He is chiefly famous for the manner of his death: he was assassinated in 1960 by 17-year old Otoya Yamaguchi, a sword-wielding right-wing extremist, at a televised rally.
Inelastic scattering In particle physics, inelastic scattering is a fundamental scattering process in which the kinetic energy of an incident particle is not conserved. In this scattering process, the energy of the incident particle is lost or gained.
Ineni Ineni was an Ancient Egyptian architect and government official of the 18th Dynasty, responsible for major constructions under the pharaohs Amenhotep I, Thutmose I, Thutmose II, Hatshepsut, and Thutmose III.
Inequality of arithmetic and geometric means In mathematics, the inequality of arithmetic and geometric means, or more briefly the AM-GM inequality, states that the arithmetic mean of a list of non-negative real numbers is greater than or equal to the geometric mean of the same list; and further, that the two means are equal if and only if every number in the list is the same.
Inequitable conduct In United States patent law, patent holders must go to the federal courts to enforce their patent rights. Even if the patent is valid and infringed, these courts may exercise their equitable discretion not to enforce the patent if the patentee has engaged in inequitable conduct.
Inequity aversion Inequity aversion is the preference for 'fair rewards' and 'fairplay' in anthropology (in the sub-disciplines sociology, economics, sociobiology, psychology, evolutionary psychology, and primate behaviourology).
Inert pair effect Inert pair effect refers to the fact that "valence electrons in an s orbital penetrate to the nucleus better than electrons in p orbitals, and as a result they're more tightly bound to the nucleus and less able to participate in bond formation. A pair of such electrons is called an "inert pair".
Inertia coupling Inertia coupling is a potentially lethal phenomenon of high-speed flight in which the inertia of the heavier fuselage overpowers the aerodynamic stabilizing forces of the wing and tail. The first two production aircraft to overtly experience this phenomenon, the F-100 and F-102, were modified to increase wing and tail area and were fitted with augmented control systems.
Inertial compensator Inertial compensators, or inertial dampers (as they are more often called) are fictional devices aboard starships in some science fiction series, including Star Wars, Star Trek and Stargate. Futuristic space travel generally involves accelerating to superluminal velocity in short time.
Inertial confinement fusion Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is a process where nuclear fusion reactions are initiated by heating and compressing a fuel target, typically in the form of a pellet that most often contains deuterium and tritium.
Inertial electrostatic confinement Inertial electrostatic confinement (often abbreviated as IEC) is a concept for retaining a plasma using an electrostatic field. The field accelerates charged particles (either ions or electrons) radially inward, usually in a spherical but sometimes in a cylindrical geometry.
Inertial guidance system An inertial guidance system consists of an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) combined with a set of guidance algorithms and control mechanisms, allowing the path of a vehicle to be controlled according to the position determined by the inertial navigation system. These systems are also referred to as an inertial platform.
Inertial inflation Inertial inflation is a concept coined by structuralist inflation theorists. It refers to a situation where all prices in an economy are continuously adjusted with relation to a price index by force of contracts.
Inertial mass Inertial mass is a measure of the resistance of an entity to a change in its velocity relative to an inertial frame. The inertial frame does not have to be that of the mass in question; either before or after the measurement.
Inertial Reference Unit An Inertial Reference Unit (IRU) is a type of inertial sensor which uses only gyroscopes to determine a moving aircraft’s or spacecraft’s change in angular direction (referred to as "delta-theta" or Δθ) over a period of time. Unlike the Inertial Measurement Unit, IRUs are generally not equipped with accelerometers, which measure acceleration forces.
Inertial waves Inertial waves, also known as inertial oscillations, are a type of mechanical wave possible in rotating fluids. Unlike ocean waves commonly seen at the beach or in the bathtub, inertial waves travel through the bulk of the fluid, not at the surface.
Inerting system An inerting system is a device that attempts to increase the safety of a fuel tank, ball mill, or other sealed or closed-in tank that contains highly flammable material, by pumping nitrogen, steam, carbon dioxide, or some other inert gas or vapor into its air space in order to displace oxygen. The effect of these systems is to either completely smother the oxygen, or reduce it to a negligible level.
Inertron Inertron is a fictional metallic chemical substance found in the DC comics Legion of Super-Heroes universe. It is the hardest, densest substance in the DC universe, and is often used by the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th century.
Ines Müller Ines Müller, née Reichenbach (born January 2, 1959 in Grimma, Muldentalkreis, Saxony), is a German track and field athlete who represented East Germany in the shot put during the 1980s. Her biggest success was the bronze medal in the 1987 World Championship.
Inessa Armand Inessa Armand (born Inès Stéphane; May 8, 1874–September 24, 1920) was a French-born Communist who spent most of her life in Russia. She was rumored to have had an affair with Vladimir Lenin and to have borne him a son.
Industrial design rights Industrial design rights are intellectual property rights that protect the visual design of objects that are not purely utilitarian. An industrial design consists of the creation of a shape, configuration or composition of pattern or color, or combination of pattern and color in three dimensional form containing aesthetic value.
Industrial district Industrial district is a term used to describe an area where workers of a monolithic heavy industry (ship-building, coal mining, steel-working, ceramics, etc) live within walking-distance of their places of work.
Industrial Design Excellence Awards The Industrial Design Excellence Awards is a program sponsored by BusinessWeek and IDSA (Industrial Designers Society of America), and "is dedicated to fostering business and public understanding of the importance of industrial design excellence to the quality of life and economy"http://www.idsa.
Industrial Designers Society of America Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) is an organisation of professional industrial designers in the United States. It was formed in 1965 by merger of three American designer associations: American Designers Institute (IDI), American Society of Industrial Design (ASID) and Industrial Design Education Association (IDEA).
Industrial District, Seattle, Washington The Industrial District is the principal industrial area of Seattle, Washington. It is bounded on the west by the Duwamish Waterway and Elliott Bay, beyond which lies Delridge of West Seattle; on the east by Interstate 5, beyond which lies Beacon Hill; on the north by S King and S Dearborn Streets, beyond which lie Pioneer Square and southwest International District of Downtown; and on the south by the main lines of the BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad, or about S Lucille Street, beyond which is Georgetown.
Industrial Drive (Adrian, Michigan) In 2003, some off-ramp like connector for the grade separation of US 223 (Adrian bypass) and M-34 was somehow abandoned and eventually obliterated. A speculated reason why Industrial Drive was built in the Adrian area was because traffic was intensifying and so that more development in the area can be performed.
Industrial engineering Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering that concerns the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, knowledge, equipment, energy, material and process. Industrial engineering draws upon the principles and methods of engineering analysis and synthesis, as well as mathematical, physical and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design to specify, predict and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems.
Industrial engineering and operations research Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) is an academic discipline concerned with making systems more efficient. Often this goal is achieved through the use of modeling and other computational methods.
Industrial etching In industry, etching (sometimes called chemical milling or wet etching) is the process of using acids, bases or other chemicals to dissolve away unwanted materials such as metals, semiconductor materials or glass. It has applications in the printed circuit board and semiconductor fabrication industries.
Industrial Economics Institute The industrial economics institute (French: Institut D'Economie Industrielle) (IDEI) is a research center in economics located in Toulouse (France) within the University of Toulouse I. It was founded in 1990 by Jean-Jacques Laffont.
Industrial Espionage Act of 1996 The Industrial Espionage Act of 1996 was introduced on August 27, 1996. It was established mainly to promote the development of United States proprietary economic information produced for interstate and foreign commerce by protecting it from theft, wrongful destruction or alteration.
Industrial fashion Industrial fashion is a form of fashion most closely associated with the industrial music scene and is based on styles including punk and military combat uniform aesthetics. Typical items of clothing include combat boots, camo trousers, t-shirts, and sometimes gas masks, goggles, flight jackets, or trenchcoats, the colors black and olive being most predominant.
Industrial fermentation The use of fermentation is an important process in the industry. Though fermentation can have stricter definitions, when speaking of it in Industrial fermentation, it more loosely refers to the breakdown of organic substances into simpler substances.
Industrial folk music Industrial folk music is a subgenre of folk music that focuses on the experiences of industrial workers. The subgenre was established with the 1963 compilation album, The Iron Muse:A Panorama of Industrial Folk Music, a collection of songs about labor strikes, mine workers, and workplace disasters in northern England.
Industrial Finishing Industrial Finishing is a broad term used to describe any kind of secondary process done to any metal, plastic, or wood product used in a common market such as automotove, OEM, telecommunications or point-of-purchase.
Industrial gas Industrial gas is a group of gases that are commercially manufactured and sold for uses in other applications. These gases are mainly used in an industrial processes, such as steelmaking, medical applications, fertilizer, semiconductors, etc,.
Industrial hardcore Industrial hardcore is a term used to describe the crossover of hardcore techno and rhythmic noise. Compared to other hardcore styles like darkcore, which uses the influence of gabba, and speedcore, which concentrates on exceedingly high beats per minute, industrial hardcore is focused more on overly distorted snares along with interchanging sampled bass drum loops.
Industrial laundry Large institutions that require a constant flow of clean linen will often employ the services of an industrial laundry. Hospitals, prisons and hotels, for instance, will usually have their own laundry departments.
Industrial loan company An industrial loan company (ILC) or industrial bank is a financial institution in the United States that lends money, and may be owned by non-financial institutions. Though the bank itself would be heavily examined by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and state regulators, a debate exists to allow parent companies such as Wal-Mart, which would remain unregulated by the financial regulators, to own such a bank.
Industrial Light & Magic Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is a motion picture visual effects company, founded in May 1975 by George Lucas and owned by Lucasfilm Ltd. Lucas created the company when he discovered that the special effects department at Twentieth Century Fox was shut down after he was given the green light for his production of Star Wars.
Industrial manslaughter In Australian Capital Territory law, Industrial manslaughter is a crime where the action or inaction of an employer results in the death of an employee. Industrial manslaughter usually has a much broader scope than standard criminal manslaughter.
Industrial marketing Industrial marketing is the marketing of goods and services to industrial and institutional customers. It refers to the process of segmenting your total market, targeting the most rewarding segment and positioning your offer in this segment, or in short S-T-P.
Industrial metal Industrial metal is a musical genre which draws elements from industrial music and heavy metal music. Industrial metal music is usually centered around metal guitar riffs and industrial synthesizer/sequencer lines, heavily distorted, very low pitched guitars, as well as harsh vocals, but in some instances can have clean vocals.
Industrial music Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of electronic and experimental music. First used in the mid-1970s to describe the then-unique sound of Industrial Records artists, a wide variety of labels and artists have since come to be called "Industrial".
Industrial musical An industrial musical is a musical performed for the employees of a business, intended to create a feeling of being part of a team, and/or to educate and motivate the management and salespeople to improve sales and profit. It is a form of public relations and advertising that can be used internally within a business.
Industrial noise Industrial noise is usually considered mainly from the point of view of environmental health and safety, rather than nuisance, as sustained exposure can cause permanent hearing damage. Traditionally, workplace noise has been a hazard linked to heavy industries such as ship-building and associated only with noise induced hearing loss (NIHL).
Industrial organization Industrial organization is the field of economics that studies the strategic behavior of firms, the structure of markets and their interactions. It is also referred to as "Industrial Economics", but perhaps a most appropriate term is the "Economics of Imperfect Competition".
Industrial park An industrial park (or industrial estate in British English) is an area of land set aside for industrial development. Industrial parks are usually located close to transport facilities, especially where more than one transport modalities coincide: highways, railroads, airports, and navigable rivers.
Industrial piercing An industrial piercing is any two pierced holes connected with a single straight piece of jewelry (compare to orbital piercing); however, it typically refers to a double perforation of the upper ear cartilage specifically. Two piercings are made, one fairly close to the head (anti-helix piercing), the second further down the cartilage, on the opposite side of the ear (helix piercing).
Industrial policy An industrial policy is any government regulation or law that encourages the ongoing operation of, or investment in, a particular industry. It is often related to, or wholly determinant of, investment policy for that industry.
Industrial policy of Japan A complicated system of Industrial Policies was devised by the Japanese Government after World War II and especially in the 1950s and 1960s. The goal was to promote industrial development, and it cooperated closely for this purpose with private firms.
Industrial Party Trial The Industrial Party Trial (November 25–December 7, 1930) (, Trial of the Prompartiya) was a show trial in which several Soviet scientists and economists were accused and convicted of plotting a coup against the government of the Soviet Union.
Industrial PC Industrial PC is the x86 PC-based computing platform for industrial application. Compared with the RISC-based and microprocessor-based computing platform, the PC-based industriad computing platform offers the advantages on the cost of systems and development with PC-based hardware and software
Industrial radiography Radiography is the use of ionising electromagnetic radiation to view objects in a way that can't be seen otherwise. Radiography in general should not be confused with the use of ionizing radiation to change or modify objects; radiography's purpose is strictly for viewing.
Industrial railway An industrial railway is a type of private railway used exclusively to serve a particular industry inside a mine or factory compound. Industrial railways were once very common, but with the rise of road transport, their numbers have greatly diminished.
Industrial robot An industrial robot is officially defined by ISOISO Standard 8373:1994, Manipulating Industrial Robots – Vocabulary as an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator programmable in three or more axes. The field of industrial robotics may be more practically defined as the study, design and use of robot systems for manufacturing (a top-level definition relying on the prior definition of robot).
Industrial Real-Time Fortran Industrial Real-Time Fortran (IRTF) was developed in the 1970s to augment the Fortran languge with library bindings useful for process and device control, and I/O. Also included in IRTF was a set of bit-manipulation functions which were eventually incorporated into MIL_STD-1753 for Fortran-77, and later into Fortran-90.
Industrial Records Industrial Records was a record label established in 1976 by art/music group Throbbing Gristle. The group, fronted by Genesis P-Orridge, were to release their experiments in non-entertainment sound and multimedia through the label; in addition to a host of other artists on the periphery of the music business.
Industrial Relations Taskforce The Industrial Relations Taskforce is a taskforce established in December 2005 by the caucus of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party of Australia to examine the adverse effects of the Government’s industrial relations changes (Work Choices) on individuals, families and communities. In particular, the terms of reference
Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution was a major shift of technological, socioeconomic, and cultural conditions in the late 18th and early 19th century that began in Britain and spread throughout the world. During that time, an economy based on manual labour was replaced by one dominated by industry and the manufacture of machinery.
Industrial slave An industrial slave was different from agricultural slavery. Industrial slaves had no rights just as the agricultural slaves and they received the same basic accommodations that the agricultural slaves received, but their work was far more dangerous.
Industrial Sounding System The Industrial Sounding System is a proposed system to propel inert payloads to a height of up to 100 kilometers, or rocket-assisted payloads to 250km, with the use of a cannon. This might be useful when trying to launch science experiments into the thermosphere without the use of a rocket.
Industrial Style Industrial Style refers to an aesthetic trend in design that emphasises sharp lines, abrupt connections and dynamic interactions of motion. It is derivative of the same forces that created the architectural movement of Deconstructivism and the anime genere Mecha, and can be seen in such automobile design examples as the BMW Z4 by Chris Bangle, the Ferrari Enzo, and Cadillac's Art and Science trend.
Industrial techno Industrial techno is a cross between power noise, traditional industrial, and techno . It quite frequently includes trance elements and often resembles rave music while keeping the harsh sounds, noises, and fast pacing of industrial.
Industrial tribunal Industrial Tribunals were judicial bodies introduced under the Industrial Training Act 1964, consisting of a lawyer (the chairman), an individual nominated by an employer association, and another by the TUC or TUC-affiliated union. These independent panels heard and made legally binding rulings in relation to employment law disputes.
Industrial Technology Industrial Technology is a field of study designed to prepare technical and/or management oriented professionals for employment in business, industry, education, and government. Industrial Technology is primarily involved with the management, operation, and maintenance of complex technological systems while Engineering and Engineering Technology are primarily involved with the design and installation of these systems.
Industrial Technology Research Institute The Industrial Technology Research Institute (, abbreviated ĺ·Ąç ”é™˘; ITRI) is a non-profit research institute located in Taiwan under the supervision of the Republic of China Ministry of Economic Affairs. It conducts research and development in applied technologies for private sector growth.
Industrial unionism Industrial unionism is a labor union organizing method through which all workers in the same industry are organized into the same union — regardless of skill or trade — thus giving workers in one industry, or in all industries, more leverage in bargaining and in strike situations. Advocates of industrial unionism value its contributions to building unity and solidarity, suggesting the slogans, "an injury to one is an injury to all" and "the longer the picket line, the shorter the strike.
Industrial University of Santander The Industrial University of Santander (UIS) (Industrial University of Santander) is the most important university in Eastern Colombia, the fourth public Colombian university and one of the main research institutions in the country. It has 12.
Industrial warfare Industrial warfare is a period in the history of warfare ranging roughly from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the beginning of the Information Age, which saw the rise of nation-states, capable of creating and equipping large armies and navies through the process of industrialization. It featured mass-conscripted armies, rapid transportation (first on railroads, then by sea and air), telegraph and wireless communications, and the concept of total war.
Industrial wastewater treatment Industrial wastewater treatment covers the mechanisms and processes used to treat waters that have been contaminated in some way by man's industrial or commercial activities prior to its release into the environment or its re-use.
Industrial Worker The Industrial Worker, "the voice of revolutionary industrial unionism," is the newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a radical labor union. It is currently released eleven times a year, printed and edited by union labor, and is frequently distributed at radical bookstores, demonstrations, strikes and labor rallies.
Industrial Workers of the World The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. At its peak in 1923 the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers.
Industriales Industriales is a baseball team in the Cuban National Series. One of the two teams based in the city of Havana, Industriales is historically the most successful team in the National Series, the main domestic competition in post-revolutionary Cuban baseball.
Industrialisation Industrialisation (also spelt Industrialization) or an Industrial Revolution is a process of social and economic change whereby a human society is transformed from a pre-industrial (an economy where the amount of capital accumulated per capita is low) to an industrial state (see Pre-industrial society). This social and economic change is closely intertwined with technological innovation, particularly the development of large-scale energy production and metallurgy.
Industrialization of services business model The industrialization of services business model is a business model used in strategic management and services marketing that treats service provision as an industrial process, subject to industrial optimization procedures. It originated in the early 1970s at a time when various quality control techniques were being successfully implemented on production assembly lines.
Industries of Regina, Saskatchewan Major industries of Regina, Saskatchewan include government, oil and gas exploration, call centres, telecommunications, insurance and data management centres, and agricultural chemicals and services. The largest employers in Regina are the provincial government and its Crown Corporations.
Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau (Industrial Association for Vehicle Construction), usually abbreviated as IFA, was a conglomerate and a union of companies for vehicle construction in East Germany. IFA produced bicycles, motorcycles, light commercial vehicles, automobiles, heavy trucks, vans, and heavy trucks.
Industry analyst An industry analyst performs primary and secondary market research within a particular segment of an industry such as information technology or telecommunications to determine accurate market descriptions, market trends, forecasts and models. Typically, analysts specialize in a single industry, researching the broad development of the market rather than focusing on equities, investments, or financial opportunities as a financial analyst would.
Industry and Idleness Industry and Idleness is a series of 12 comic engravings created by William Hogarth in 1747. His earlier series, such as A Harlot's Progress (1731) and Marriage a-la-mode (1743), were painted first, with engravings being produced from the paintings; Industry and Idleness was his first series created as a set of engravings, with prints were sold for 1 shilling each (12 shillings for a complete set).
Industry and Parliament Trust The Industry and Parliament Trust (IPT), based in Whitehall, London, close to the UK Parliament, fosters better mutual understanding between the worlds of Parliament and business. It operates as an independent, non-partisan, non-lobbying, not-for-profit organisation that facilitates educational exchange Fellowships for MPs, MEPs, Peers and Officers of both Houses of Parliament at Westminster with a range of participating companies from most sectors of business and industry.
Industry Canada Industry Canada is the department of the Government of Canada with responsibility for regional economic development, investment, and innovation/research and development. The department employs 6104 FTEs across Canada.
Industry Foundation Classes The Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) data model is a neutral and open specification that is not controlled by a singular vendor or group of vendors. It is an object oriented file format with a data model developed by the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) to facilitate interoperability in the building industry, and is a commonly used format for Building Information Modeling (BIM).
Industry Loss Warranties Industry Loss Warranties, often referred to as ILW's, are a type of reinsurance or derivative contract through which one party will purchase protection based on the total loss arising from an event to the entire insurance industry rather than their own losses. For example, the buyer of a "$100mm limit US Wind ILW attaching at $20bn" will pay a premium to a protection writer (generally a reinsurer but sometimes a hedge fund and in return will receive $100mm if total losses to the insurance industry from a single US hurricane exceed $20bn.
Industry Nine Industry Nine is an American bicycle wheel manufacturer headquartered Asheville, North Carolina. Primarily a manufacturer of mountain bicycle wheels, Industry Nine recently began manufacturing two models of road bicycle wheels.
Industry superannuation Industry superannuation funds in Australia refer to the group of retirement superannuation funds managed by industry bodies and unions. These funds are almost all public-offer funds, although most had their genesis as closed shop funds only open to members of the union or industry body to which they relate.
Industry Structure Model The Industry Structure Model (ISM, originally 'Industry Standard Model') identifies almost every role in the computer industry and describes each role at various levels, from school-leaver (level 0) to managing director (levels 8/9). It was developed, and is maintained, by the British Computer Society.
Industry trade group An industry trade group, also known as a trade association, is generally a public relations organization founded and funded by corporations that operate in a specific industry. Its purpose is generally to promote the industry through PR activities such as advertising, education, political donations, lobbying and publishing.
Industryeleven IndustryEleven is an online adult movie database, similar to the Internet Movie Database but different in that all of the content on the site is user driven. In that sense, it can be thought of as one of the largest wikis on the planet that deals specifically with adult content.
IndUS Aviation IndUS Aviation is an American company based at Dallas Executive Airport (also known as Redbird Airport) in Dallas, Texas, that manufactures the Thorp T-211 (since 2004). IndUS promotes General Aviation both in the United States and India.
Indy 100 The "Indy 100" is a British share index launched by The Independent newspaper in February 2006. It was formulated in response to the increase in the number of companies in the FTSE 100 that make all or most of their sales and profits overseas, leading to accusations that the index is no longer representative of the British economy.
Indy Lights The Indy Lights was an open-wheeled racing series that acted as a developmental circuit for CART from 1986 to 2001. Founded in 1986 as the American Racing Series (ARS), the series was renamed Indy Lights in 1991.
Indybay Indybay is the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, an all-volunteer organization which operates a community news website, Indybay.org, and in June of 2004, began publishing a free news magazine, Fault Lines.
Indypendent The Indypendent is the newspaper of the New York City] Independent Media Center a local branch of the world wide [[Indymedia] network. Founded in the fall of 2000, it has won numerous awards and has broken several local stories; at the same time, it has come under fire from within [[Indymedia and from segments the left more generally.
Inebriating mint Lagochilus inebrians, commonly known as inebriating mint or Turkistan mint, is a member of the mint family Labiatae. This species is reported to produce intoxicating and sedative effects, and is used as such by Tajik, Tatar, Turkoman, and Uzbek tribesman during feasts and holidays.
Inedia Inedia is the alleged ability to live without food. Breatharianism is a related concept, in which believers claim food and possibly water are not necessary, and that humans can be sustained solely by prana (the vital life force in Hinduism), or according to some, by the energy in sunlight.
Ineffabilis Deus Ineffabilis Deus (Latin for "Ineffable God") is the name of an Apostolic constitution written by Pope Pius IX. It defines ex cathedra the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Ineffability To say that something is "ineffable" means that it cannot or should not, for overwhelming reasons, be expressed in spoken words. It is generally used to describe a feeling, concept or aspect of existence that is too great to be adequately described in words, or that inherently (due to its nature) cannot be conveyed in dualistic symbolic human language, but can only be known internally by individuals.
Ineffective assistance of counsel Ineffective assistance of counsel is an issue raised in legal malpractice suits and in appeals in criminal cases where a criminal defendant asserts that their criminal conviction occurred because their attorney failed to properly defend the case. In order to prevail on such a claim, the plaintiff or appellant must show two things:
Inejiro Asanuma Inejiro Asanuma (ćµ…ć˛Ľç¨˛ć¬ˇéŽ Asanuma InejirĹŤ, December 27, 1898 - October 12, 1960) was a Japanese politician, and head of the Japanese Socialist Party. He is chiefly famous for the manner of his death: he was assassinated in 1960 by 17-year old Otoya Yamaguchi, a sword-wielding right-wing extremist, at a televised rally.
Inelastic scattering In particle physics, inelastic scattering is a fundamental scattering process in which the kinetic energy of an incident particle is not conserved. In this scattering process, the energy of the incident particle is lost or gained.
Ineni Ineni was an Ancient Egyptian architect and government official of the 18th Dynasty, responsible for major constructions under the pharaohs Amenhotep I, Thutmose I, Thutmose II, Hatshepsut, and Thutmose III.
Inequality of arithmetic and geometric means In mathematics, the inequality of arithmetic and geometric means, or more briefly the AM-GM inequality, states that the arithmetic mean of a list of non-negative real numbers is greater than or equal to the geometric mean of the same list; and further, that the two means are equal if and only if every number in the list is the same.
Inequitable conduct In United States patent law, patent holders must go to the federal courts to enforce their patent rights. Even if the patent is valid and infringed, these courts may exercise their equitable discretion not to enforce the patent if the patentee has engaged in inequitable conduct.
Inequity aversion Inequity aversion is the preference for 'fair rewards' and 'fairplay' in anthropology (in the sub-disciplines sociology, economics, sociobiology, psychology, evolutionary psychology, and primate behaviourology).
Inert pair effect Inert pair effect refers to the fact that "valence electrons in an s orbital penetrate to the nucleus better than electrons in p orbitals, and as a result they're more tightly bound to the nucleus and less able to participate in bond formation. A pair of such electrons is called an "inert pair".
Inertia coupling Inertia coupling is a potentially lethal phenomenon of high-speed flight in which the inertia of the heavier fuselage overpowers the aerodynamic stabilizing forces of the wing and tail. The first two production aircraft to overtly experience this phenomenon, the F-100 and F-102, were modified to increase wing and tail area and were fitted with augmented control systems.
Inertial compensator Inertial compensators, or inertial dampers (as they are more often called) are fictional devices aboard starships in some science fiction series, including Star Wars, Star Trek and Stargate. Futuristic space travel generally involves accelerating to superluminal velocity in short time.
Inertial confinement fusion Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is a process where nuclear fusion reactions are initiated by heating and compressing a fuel target, typically in the form of a pellet that most often contains deuterium and tritium.
Inertial electrostatic confinement Inertial electrostatic confinement (often abbreviated as IEC) is a concept for retaining a plasma using an electrostatic field. The field accelerates charged particles (either ions or electrons) radially inward, usually in a spherical but sometimes in a cylindrical geometry.
Inertial guidance system An inertial guidance system consists of an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) combined with a set of guidance algorithms and control mechanisms, allowing the path of a vehicle to be controlled according to the position determined by the inertial navigation system. These systems are also referred to as an inertial platform.
Inertial inflation Inertial inflation is a concept coined by structuralist inflation theorists. It refers to a situation where all prices in an economy are continuously adjusted with relation to a price index by force of contracts.
Inertial mass Inertial mass is a measure of the resistance of an entity to a change in its velocity relative to an inertial frame. The inertial frame does not have to be that of the mass in question; either before or after the measurement.
Inertial Reference Unit An Inertial Reference Unit (IRU) is a type of inertial sensor which uses only gyroscopes to determine a moving aircraft’s or spacecraft’s change in angular direction (referred to as "delta-theta" or Δθ) over a period of time. Unlike the Inertial Measurement Unit, IRUs are generally not equipped with accelerometers, which measure acceleration forces.
Inertial waves Inertial waves, also known as inertial oscillations, are a type of mechanical wave possible in rotating fluids. Unlike ocean waves commonly seen at the beach or in the bathtub, inertial waves travel through the bulk of the fluid, not at the surface.
Inerting system An inerting system is a device that attempts to increase the safety of a fuel tank, ball mill, or other sealed or closed-in tank that contains highly flammable material, by pumping nitrogen, steam, carbon dioxide, or some other inert gas or vapor into its air space in order to displace oxygen. The effect of these systems is to either completely smother the oxygen, or reduce it to a negligible level.
Inertron Inertron is a fictional metallic chemical substance found in the DC comics Legion of Super-Heroes universe. It is the hardest, densest substance in the DC universe, and is often used by the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th century.
Ines Müller Ines Müller, née Reichenbach (born January 2, 1959 in Grimma, Muldentalkreis, Saxony), is a German track and field athlete who represented East Germany in the shot put during the 1980s. Her biggest success was the bronze medal in the 1987 World Championship.
Inessa Armand Inessa Armand (born Inès Stéphane; May 8, 1874–September 24, 1920) was a French-born Communist who spent most of her life in Russia. She was rumored to have had an affair with Vladimir Lenin and to have borne him a son.
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