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Ultra Music Festival Ultra Music Festival (UMF) is an outdoor electronic music event held annually in Miami, Florida during the Winter Music Conference which occurs annually during the month of March. It is a 14 hour show that takes place across 12 different stages featuring over 200 artists, DJs and producers.
Ultra Naté Ultra Naté (born November 2 1968 in Havre de Grace, Maryland) is a popular American house music and sometimes Dance-pop musician who has achieved a respectable amount of success on the dance charts with singles such as "Is It Love," "Scandal," "How Long" and many more.
Ultra Network Technologies Ultra Network Technologies (previously called Ultra Corporation) was the first company to offer gigabit per second network products for the commercial and scientific computing market. It was founded in 1986 by James N.
Ultra Payloaded Ultra Payloaded is the debut album of Perry Farrell's latest group Satellite Party released via Columbia Records. The album will be released on 15th May 2007 and will be preceded by a single "Wish Upon a Dog Star".
Ultra Quiz Ultra Quiz was a elimination game show series that was produced by Television South and aired for three series on the ITV network from 1983 until 1985. Each series was hosted by a different person: Michael Aspel hosted series 1, David Frost hosted series 2, and Stu Francis hosted the final series.
Ultra Series The is the collective name for all the shows featuring Ultraman and his many brethren (although few of these shows, like the first Ultra Series, Ultra Q, do not have any Ultramen in them). Regardless, the Ultra Series is one of the prominent tokusatsu superhero genre productions from Japan, along with Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, and Metal Heroes.
Ultra Vortek Ultra Vortek is the title of a video game developed and published by Atari for its Atari Jaguar home console system in 1995. The game is a ultra violent fighting game similar to Mortal Kombat, or Primal Rage and was designed to capitalize on the popularity of such games.
Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray In high-energy physics, an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) is a cosmic ray (subatomic particle) which appears to have extreme kinetic energy, far beyond both its rest mass and energies typical of other cosmic rays. These particles are significant because they have energy comparable to (and sometimes exceeding) the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit.
Ultra-high-temperature processing Ultra-high temperature processing (or UHT) is the partial sterilization of food by heating it for a short time, around 1-2 seconds, at a temperature exceeding 135°C (275°F), which is the temperature required to kill spores in milk. The high temperature also reduces the processing time, thereby reducing the spoiling of nutrients.
Ultra-Humanite The Ultra-Humanite is a fictional supervillain appearing in stories published by DC Comics. The Ultra-Humanite first appeared in Action Comics #13 in 1939 and is generally considered to be the first comic-book supervillain.
Ultra-Lightweight TT The Ultra-Lightweight TT is a motorcycle road race that takes place during the Isle of Man TT festival; an annual event at the end of May and beginning of June. Between 1951 and 1974 this race was part of the Grand Prix motorcycle racing season.
Ultra-Man Gary Concord, the Ultra-Man was the name of two fictional characters, both Golden Age superheroes from All-American Publications, which merged in 1946 with DC Comics-predecessor National Periodical Publications.
Ultra-Mobile PC The Ultra-Mobile PC (abbreviated UMPC), previously known by its codename Project Origami, is a specification for a small form factor tablet PC. It was developed as a joint development exercise by Microsoft, Intel, and Samsung, among others.
Ultra-romantismo Ultra-romanticism (in Portuguese, Ultra-romantismo), was a Portuguese literary movement in the second half of the nineteenth century. It was typified by a tendency to exaggerate, at times to a ridiculous degree, the norms and ideals of Romanticism, namely the value of subjectivity, individualism, amorous idealism, nature and the medieval world.
Ultra-royalist The term Ultra-Royalists or simply Ultras refers to a reactionary faction which sat in the French parliament from 1815 to 1830 under the Bourbon Restoration. Legitimists, one of the main right-wing family identified by René Rémond's classic opus Les Droites en France, designed the Ultras after the 1830 July Revolution, which overthrew the Bourbon dynasty by the more liberal, Orleanist king Louis-Philippe.
Ultra-short baseline USBL (Ultra-short baseline) is a method of underwater acoustic positioning. A complete USBL system consists of a transceiver, which is mounted on a pole under a ship, and a transponder/responder on the seafloor, a towfish, or on a ROV.
Ultra-Violet Magazine Ultra-violet Magazine is a literary and visual arts publication run by students at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The magazine publishes the poetry, prose, art and photography of Queen's students.
Ultra-wideband Ultra-wideband (also UWB, and ultra-wide-band, ultra-wide band, etc.) may be used to refer to any radio technology having bandwidth larger than 500 MHz or 25% of the center frequency, according to Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Ultracentrifuge The ultracentrifuge is a centrifuge optimized for spinning a rotor at very high speeds, capable of generating acceleration as high as 1,000,000 G (9,800 km/s²). There are two kinds of ultracentrifuges, the preparative and the analytical ultracentrifuge.
Ultracity 6060 UltraCity 6060 was an animated short that was shown occasionally on MTV's teen/adult-themed cartoon variety show Cartoon Sushi. It consisted of anime scenes that were dubbed with humorously incorrect dialogue.
Ultracker Technology Ultracker Technology Company Limited (Traditional Chinese]: 艾創科技股份有限公司; [[Japanese language|Japanese: ウルトラカーテクノロジー) is a stand-alone MPEG-2 and H.264 DVR as well as RAID manufacturer in the arena of CCTV.
Ultracold atom Ultracold atoms is a term used to describe atoms that are maintained at such low temperatures, that they can be effectively thought of to be at 0 K (Absolute Zero). Usually, one finds this term used in research related to the production of Bose-Einstein Condensates.
Ultraconnected space In mathematics, a topological space X is said to be ultraconnected if no pair of nonempty closed sets of X is disjoint. All ultraconnected spaces are path-connected, normal, limit point compact, and pseudocompact.
Ultracorps Ultracorps is an online, multi-player, turn-based space strategy game originally developed by VR-1 Entertainment for Microsoft's MSN Gaming Zone in 1998. The game couples distinctive 3-D rendered artwork and the ability to play with hundreds of people in a single game with just a web browser.
Ultracote Ultracote is a commercially available light weight plastic shrink wrap film available in various color schemes with an adhesive on one side, used to cover and form the surfaces of a model aircraft. The material is cut to size and applied to the aircraft surfaces using a hobby iron or heat gun.
Ultraelectromagneticjam (Volume 1) UltraElectrMagneticJam: The Music Of The Eraserheads (Volume 1) is a tribute album to the most influential Pinoy rock band of the 90's era The Eraserheads. Performed by various current Philippine music artists during the year 2005, the album was released under Sony-BMG Entertainment.
UltraEdit UltraEdit is a text editor for Microsoft Windows created in 1994 by IDM Computer Solutions. The editor contains tools for programmers, including macros, syntax highlighting, code folding, file type conversions, project management, regular expressions for search-and-replace, remote editing of files via FTP, interfaces for APIs or command lines of choice and more.
Ultrafast In physics, the adjective ultrafast describes events that occur on femtosecond (10-15 s) to picosecond (10-12 s) timescales. Once impossible to observe, ultrafast phenomena are now extensively studied thanks to advances in the design of pulsed dye lasers and more recently with the invention of the pulsed Ti:sapphire laser, which can create pulses as short as 5 femtoseconds (roughly two optical cycles) when mode-locked.
Ultrafast molecular process An ultrafast molecular process is any technology that relies on properties of molecules that are only extant for a very short period of time (less than 1e-9 seconds). Such processes are very important in areas such as combustion chemistry and in the study of proteins.
Ultrafilter In the mathematical field of set theory, an ultrafilter on a set X is a collection of subsets of X that is a filter, that can not be enlarged (as a filter). An ultrafilter may be considered as a finitely additive measure.
Ultrafiltration Ultrafiltration (UF) is a variety of membrane filtration in which hydrostatic pressure forces a liquid against a semipermeable membrane. Suspended solids and solutes of high molecular weight are retained, while water and low molecular weight solutes pass through the membrane.
Ultrafiltration (industrial) Industries such as chemical and pharmaceutical processing, food and beverage processing, and waste water treatment, employ ultrafiltration in order to recycle flow or add value to later products. UF's main attraction is its ability to purify, separate, and concentrate target macromolecules in continuous systems.
Ultrafiltration (renal) In biological terms, Ultrafiltration occurs at the barrier between the blood and the filtrate in the renal corpuscle or Bowman's capsule in the kidneys. The Bowman's capsule contains a dense capillary network called the glomerulus.
Ultraforce/Avengers (Ultraverse comics) Ultraforce/Avengers was part two an intercompany crossover between Marvel Comics and Malibu Comics, written by Warren Ellis with art by George Perez, who also drew the wraparound cover which connects to Avengers/Ultraforce.
UltraFly Model Corporation UltraFly Model Corporation is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of intermediate and advanced almost ready-to-fly electric radio controlled aircraft whose airframe parts are injection molded from EPS foam. They produce a line of brushless motors and brushless-compatible electronic speed controls as well.
Ultragrrrl Ultragrrrl (born on February 3, 1980 in New York City), also known by her real name Sarah Lewitinn, is the founder of Stolen Transmission, a record label. She is also the author of The Pocket DJ (ISBN 1-4169-0723-8).
Ultrahazardous activity An ultrahazardous activity in the common law of torts is one that is so inherently dangerous that a person engaged in such an activity can be held strictly liable for injuries caused to another person, even if the person engaged in the activity took every reasonable precaution to prevent others from being injured. In the Restatement of the Law 2d, Torts 2d, the term has been abandoned in favor of the phrase "inherently dangerous activity.
Ultrachrist! Ultrachrist is a comedy from 2003 produced by LeisureSuit Media in which Jesus returns to modern day New York City to fulfill biblical prophecies and usher in 2000 years of godly peace. When he discovers that he is unable to relate to modern youth, he dons a superhero costume and appears to the world as Ultrachrist!
Ultraist movement The Ultraist movement (in Spanish, ultraĂ­smo) was a literary movement, born in Spain in 1918, with the declared intention of opposing modernism, which had dominated Spanish poetry since the end of the 19th century.
Ultrajectine Ultrajectine defines the tradition of the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands headquartered at the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands. It is used to describe the anti-Papal-Primacy and Jansenist tendency of that independent church and its sister churches, which were founded in later centuries (see Old Catholic Churches).
Ultraliberalism Ultra-liberalism is the most extreme and ideological form of liberalism. This utopian theory of political-economy advocates laissez-faire capitalism in an absolute sense, and is the equivalent of the predominantly American use of the term libertarian.
Ultralight backpacking Ultralight backpacking is a style of backpacking that emphasizes the use of the lightest-weight equipment available. Ultralight backpackers strive to reduce their base pack weight (the weight of the pack and the gear that it holds, but not of any consumables, which are food, water, and fuel) as much as possible, ideally below ten pounds (4-5 kilograms).
Ultralight Trikes This unique form of aircraft utilizes weight shift control rather than moveable control surfaces. Pitch and Roll are controlled via a two axis control bar that hangs down in front of the pilot, very much like that found in a hang glider.
Ultraluminous X-ray source An "ultra-luminous X-ray source" (ULX) is an astronomical source of X-rays that is not in the nucleus of a galaxy, and is more luminous than 10^{39} erg/s, assuming that it radiates isotropically. Typically there is about one ULX per galaxy in galaxies which host ULXs, but some galaxies contain many ULXs.
Ultramafic rock Ultramafic (or ultrabasic) rocks are igneous and meta-igneous rocks with very low silica content (less than 45%), generally >18% MgO, high FeO, low potassium, and are composed of usually greater than 90% mafic minerals (dark colored, high magnesium and iron content). The Earth's mantle is considered to be composed of ultramafic rocks.
Ultramafic to mafic layered intrusions Ultramafic to mafic layered intrusions are found in typically ancient cratons and are rare but worldwide in distribution. The intrusive complexes exhibit evidence of fractional crystallization and crystal segregation by settling or floating of minerals from a melt.
Ultramagnetic MCs The Ultramagnetic MC's are a rap group whose members included Kool Keith, Ced Gee, TR Love, Moe Love and later Tim Dog. Their work was associated with unorthodox sampling, polysyllabic rhymes, and bizarre lyrical imagery.
Ultraman Ace is the title superhero of a tokusatsu SF/kaiju/superhero TV show, and is the 5th show in the Ultra Series. Produced by Tsuburaya Productions, the series aired on Tokyo Broadcasting System from April 7, 1972 to March 30, 1973, with a total of 52 episodes.
Ultraman Cosmos is a Japanese tokusatsu TV show being the 16th show in the Ultra Series. Produced by Tsuburaya Productions, Ultraman Cosmos was aired between July 7, 2001 to July 20, 2002, with a total of 65 episodes, which currently makes it the longest running Ultra Show to date.
Ultraman Gaia is a Japanese/Hong Kong tokusatsu TV show and is the 14th show in the Ultra Series. Produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS TV), Ultraman Gaia was aired on JNN TV stations (TBS, CBC, MBS, etc.
Ultraman Mebius is the 16th series in the Ultraman franchise, it also celebrates the 40th anniversary of the franchise. Starting out with a new rookie Ultra who is sent to Earth by Father of Ultra, this series pays homage to the past while trying to set up its own original stories as well.
Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers is Ultraman Mebius theatrical film adaptation, was released in Japan on September 16th, 2006. It is the 10th original film series in the Ultraman franchise, it also celebrates the 40th anniversary of the franchise.
Ultraman Taro is the title superhero of a tokusatsu SF/kaiju/superhero TV show, and is the 6th show in the Ultra Series. Produced by Tsuburaya Productions, this series aired on Tokyo Broadcasting System from April 6, 1973 to April 5, 1974, with a total of 53 episodes.
Ultraman Tiga is a Japanese tokusatsu TV show and is the 12th show in the Ultra Series. Produced by Tsuburaya Productions, Ultraman Tiga was aired between September 7, 1996 to August 30, 1997, with a total of 52 episodes with 3 movies (1 a cameo, and the other 'Legend of the Spark Lens' was made specially for the Chinese Hong Kong market to honour the Ultraman tradition of Japan/HK) After a franchise hiatus of over 15 years, set in a universe different from all previous series and updated with a new look and feel.
Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero is a tokusatsu SF/kaiju/superhero series produced in the US in 1993 by Major Havoc Entertainment (later renamed Steppin Stone Entertainment) and Tsuburaya Productions (the creators of the Ultraman character), with a total of 13 episodes. Following the footsteps of the Australian-produced Ultraman: Towards the Future, this was the second live-action Ultra Series produced outside Japan.
Ultraman: Towards the Future Ultraman: Towards the Future is a tokusatsu SF/kaiju/superhero TV series produced in 1990 in Australia by the South Australian Film Corporation and Japan's Tsuburaya Productions (the creators of the Ultraman character). There were 13 episodes filmed (the first 6 episodes were the "Goudes Threat" story arc).
Ultraman: Towards the Future (video game) Ultraman: Towards the Future is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System game that is based on the shĹŤnen anime, Ultraman. The object is to weaken an opponent, and once the opponent is weakened, use Burning Plasma against him to wipe him of the face of the Earth.
Ultramarines In the Warhammer 40,000 game, the Ultramarines are considered to be one of the greatest of all the Space Marine Chapters in the Imperium of Man, almost single handedly holding the Imperium together after the Horus Heresy. Highly disciplined and courageous warriors, the Ultramarines have remained true to the teachings of their Primarch for ten thousand years.
Ultramicroscope The ultramicroscope is a system of illumination for extremely small objects such as colloidal particles, fog droplets, or smoke particles. The objects are held in liquid or gaseous suspension in an enclosure with an intensely black background (usually a black body) and illuminated with a convergent pencil of very bright light entering from one side and coming to focus in the field of view — the "Tyndall cone" familiar in experiements on scattering.
Ultramicrotomy Ultramicrotomy is a method for preparing a sample, often tissue embedded in resin, for examination in a transmission electron microscope. The sample sample block is first trimmed to create a block face 1mm by 1 mm in size.
Ultramon Ultramon is a commercial application for Microsoft Windows] users who use multiple displays. Ultramon is developed by Realtime Soft, a small [[software development company based in Bern, Switzerland and founded in 1998.
Ultramontanism Ultramontanism is a religious philosophy within the Roman Catholic community that places strong emphasis on the prerogatives and powers of the pope. In particular, ultramontanism may consist in alleging the superiority of Papal authority over the authority of local temporal or spiritual hierarchies (including the local bishop).
Ultranationalism in Israeli Right Wing Politics Ultranationalism in the Israeli right wing has been a growing political force that has strong support among the settler movement and the ultra religious extremists like the supporters of Rabbi Kahan .These ultranationalist Israelis have been the advocates of using miitary force instead of negotiation to settle the Palestinian issue [http://.
Ultraphobic Ultraphobic is the fourth music album by American glam metal band Warrant. Released on March 10 1995 on CMC International, after the apparent break-up of the band, the record was regarded as the band's "comeback" album.
Ultraproduct An ultraproduct is a mathematical construction, a generalization of the ultrapower, which is used in abstract algebra to construct new fields from given ones, and in model theory, a branch of mathematical logic. In particular, it can be used in a "purely semantic" proof of the compactness theorem of first-order logic.
UltraPin UltraPin is the pinball version of UltraCade using a updated Visual Pinball engine with hardware DX 9 and Visual PinMAME. It is set up look like a real pinball game it even has a lock down bar and the power switch is in the same place as a real game.
Ultrarelativistic limit In physics, a particle is called ultrarelativistic when its speed is very close to the speed of light c, such that its total energy E^2 = m^2 c^4 + p^2 c^2 is almost completely due to its momentum (p c gg m c^2), and thus can be approximated by E = p c.
Ultras The Ultras movement, or simply Ultras, is the name given to organized supporters' groups for sports teams, mostly European and South American supporters of football (soccer) teams. This fan sub-group appeared in Italy during the late 1960s when football teams reduced ticket prices on certain areas of the stadiums.
Ultrasauros Ultrasauros (formerly Ultrasaurus) is a currently invalid sauropod dinosaur genus, with a complicated history. When a collection of bones from an apparently hitherto undiscovered dinosaur was found in 1979 at the Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry in Colorado by James A.
Ultrashort pulse In optics, an ultrashort pulse of light is an electromagnetic pulse whose time duration is on the order of the femtosecond (10^{-15} second). Such pulses have a broadband optical spectrum, and can be created by mode-locked oscillators.
Ultrasone Headphone Technologies The S-Logic driver, the ULE Reduced-Emissions Earcup Structure, and the LE Reduced-Emissions Earcup Structure are technoligies owned by Ultrasone as the company's efforts to create natural-sounding, fatigue-free wearing headphones.
Ultrasonic Force Microscopy Ultrasonic Force Microscopy (UFM) has been developed in order to improve the details and image contrast on "flat" areas of interest where the AFM images are limited in contrast. The combination of AFM-UFM allows a near field acoustic microscopic image to be generated.
Ultrasonic hearing Ultrasonic hearing is a recognised auditory effect which allows humans to perceive sounds of a much higher frequency than would ordinarily be audible using the physical inner ear, usually by stimulation of the base of the cochlea through bone induction. Human hearing is recognised as having an upper bound around 17-20 kHz, depending on the person, but ultrasonic sinusoids as high as 120 kHz have been reported as successfully perceived.
Ultrasonic transducer An ultrasonic transducer is a device that converts energy into ultrasound, or sound waves above the normal range of hearing for humans. While technically a dog whistle is an ultrasonic transducer that converts mechanical energy in the form of air pressure into ultrasonic sound waves, the term is more apt to be used to refer to piezoelectric transducers that convert electrical energy into sound.
Ultrasonic welding Ultrasonic welding is an industrial technique whereby high-frequency ultrasonic acoustic vibrations are used to weld objects together, usually plastics, and especially for joining dissimilar materials. This type of welding is used to build assemblies that are too small, too complex, or too delicate for more common welding techniques.
Ultrasonics Ultrasonics is a trade term coined by the Ultrasonic Manufacturers Association and used by its successor, the Ultrasonic Industry Association, to refer to the use of high-intensity acoustic energy to change materials. This usage is contrasted to ultrasound, which is generally reserved for imaging, as in sonar, materials examination (NDI), and diagnostics (mammography, doppler bloodflow, etc.
Ultrasound (band) Ultrasound were a British indie band who were active in the late 1990s. Although fronted by tall, obese singer/guitarist Andrew "Tiny" Wood, the main songwriter was guitarist Richard Green, who took Wood and drummer Andy Peace with him on leaving Sleepy People.
Ultrasound phantom Ultrasound phantoms are structures that contain one or more materials that simulate a body of tissue in its interaction with ultrasound and is used to mimic ultrasonic interactions in the human body. Materials commonly used include agar, Zerdine, urethanes and epoxies.
Ultrastrong topology In functional analysis, the ultrastrong topology, or σ-strong topology, or strongest topology on the set B(H) of bounded operators on a Hilbert space is the topology defined by the family of seminorms pw(x) for positive elements w of the predual L(H)* of trace class operators. (The seminorm pw(x) for w positive in the predual is defined to be
Ultrastructure Ultrastructure is the detailed structure of a biological specimen, such as a cell, tissue, or organ, that can be observed by electron microscopy. It refers in general to the study of cellular structures that are too small to be seen with an optical microscope.
UltraSPARC T1 Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC T1 microprocessor, known until its 14 November 2005 announcement by its development codename "Niagara" , is a multithreading, multicore CPU. Designed to lower the energy consumption of server computers, the CPU uses typically 72 W of power at 1.
Ultratech Ultratech (pronounced "ultra-tek") is a fictional device comprising technology which is grossly incompatible with the known laws of Nature. While all fiction involving ultratech is science fiction, not all science fictional technology, even if it seems to contradict actual scientific understanding, is ultratech.
Ultratiny Ultratiny is a contraction of the words "Ultra" and "Tiny" and is associated with Nanotechnology (molecular enginnering). It is identified as one of the possible technological breakthroughs that will bring about the "Singularity" (an event where new models (of machines?
Ultraverse The Ultraverse was the name given to a comic book imprint published by Malibu Comics. The Ultraverse was a shared universe much like the real world, but in which a variety of characters - known within the comics as "Ultras" - acquired super-human abilities.
Ultraverse Future Shock Written by Marc Paniccia with artwork by Fabio Laguna, Kevin West and Manny Clark, Ultraverse: Future Shock was a comic book one-shot. It was the swansong of Malibu Comics' Ultraverse, attempting to tie-up any and all loose ends.
Ultraviolence (band) Ultraviolence is a British gabber act headed by Johnny Violent (born Jonathan Casey, 1970). The Ultraviolence sound incorporates elements from various styles including hardcore techno/gabber, breakbeat hardcore, industrial techno, power noise, metal and rap, lyrics often telling a story in a concept album format.
Ultraviolet (TV serial) Ultraviolet is a 1998 British television serial written and directed by Joe Ahearne and starring Jack Davenport, Susannah Harker, Idris Elba and Philip Quast. It was produced by World Productions for Channel 4.
Ultraviolet catastrophe The ultraviolet catastrophe, also called the Rayleigh-Jeans catastrophe, was a prediction of early 20th century classical physics that an ideal black body at thermal equilibrium will emit radiation with infinite power. As experimental observation showed this to be clearly false, it was one of the first clear indications of problems with classical physics.
Ultraviolet divergence In physics, an ultraviolet divergence is a situation in which an integral, for example a Feynman diagram, diverges because of contributions of objects with very high energy approaching infinity, or, equivalently, because of physical phenomena at very short distances. An infinite answer to a question that should have a finite answer is a potential problem.
Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI) is a sterilization method that uses ultraviolet (UV) light at sufficiently short wavelength to break down micro-organisms. It is used in a variety of applications, such as food, air and water purification.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy or ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometry (UV/ VIS) involves the spectroscopy of photons and spectrophotometry. It uses light in the visible and adjacent near ultraviolet (UV) and near infrared (NIR) ranges.
Ultravoice UltraVoice is a recently invented (1990) speaking device for laryngectomees, persons who have had their larynx removed because it was cancerous. A miniature battery powered radio is placed in the mouth of the patient who holds a radio transmitter in their hand.
Ultravox (software) Ultravox or Ultravox Media On Demand Server (UltraMODS), is a streaming video project by AOL. The goal is to create something like SHOUTcast but for routers, so that the data is handled much better, and can handle more users.
UltraVNC UltraVNC is an open source application for the Microsoft Windows operating system that uses the VNC protocol to control another computer's screen remotely. It supports an encryption plugin to secure the client/server connection.
Ultrawave Ultrawaves are a concept used in science fiction to represent transmissions or signals that may propagate faster than light through either normal space, or alternate space, such as hyperspace or subspace. Those that exist in hyperspace, may also be referred to as hyperwaves.
Ultraweak topology In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, the ultraweak topology, also called the weak-* topology, or weak-* operator topology or σ-weak topology, on the set B(H) of bounded operators on a Hilbert space is the weak-* topology obtained from the predual B*(H) of B(H), the trace class operators on H. In other words it is the weakest topology such that all elements of the predual are continuous (when considered as functions on B(H)).
Ultraz Ultraz is a Fluoroelastomeric compound developed by Aquasyn specifically for the Biopharmaceutical industry. A base resistant compound with excellent steam resistance, Ultraz performance far exceeds the baselines of EPDM or PTFE.
Ultrid Ultrid is a light, flexible and powerful technology that simplifies the software development process of rich client desktop application software by effectively separating the user interface code from the logic of the program.
Ulu An ulu (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐅᓗ, plural: uluit) is an Inuit woman's all-purpose knife. It is utilized in applications as diverse as skinning and cleaning animals, cutting a child's hair, cutting food and, if necessary, trimming blocks of snow and ice used to build igloos.
Ulubatlı Hasan Ulubatlı Hasan (1428 - May 29, 1453) was a janissary in the service of Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire who achieved legendary status as a heroic Turkish martyr at the successful Siege of Constantinople.

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