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Vernier scale A vernier scale lets one read more precisely from an evenly divided straight or circular measurement scale. It is fitted with a sliding secondary scale that is used to indicate where the measurement lies when it is in-between two of the marks on the main scale.
Vernier thruster The Vernier Thruster is a special case of the general type of spacecraft attitude control thruster, which is a smaller thrust motor than main attitude control motors and is used for fine adjustments to the attitude or velocity of a spacecraft.
Vernichtungsgedanke Vernichtungsgedanke, literally meaning "concept of annihilation" in German and generally taken to mean "the concept of fast annihilation of enemy forces" is a Prussian / German tactical doctrine, dating to Frederick the Great. It emphasizes rapid, fluid movement to unbalance an enemy, allowing the attacker to impose his will upon the defender and avoid stalemate.
Vernis Martin In interior design, vernis Martin is a type of lacquer named for the French brothers Guillaume and Etienne-Simon Martin. It is an imitation Chinese lacquer and was applied to a wide variety of items, from furniture to coaches.
Vernissage A vernissage (varnishing, from French), also known as a preview, private view or simply opening, is the ceremonial start of an art exhibition. It is usually a social event that people attend to be seen, strolling around with glasses of free sparkling wine and canapés, talking to artists about the works in the exhibition.
Vernix caseosa Vernix, also known as Vernix caseosa, is the "waxy" or "cheesy" white substance found coating the skin of newborn humans. It is secreted by the fetus's sebaceous glands in utero, and is hypothesized to have antibacterial properties.
Vernon Vernon is a masculine name that is derived from the Gaul word vern for Alder tree (also springlike, flourishing, or full of life) and a Gaulish-latin suffix indicating a location. Thus Vernon is a "place of alders".
Vernon Ayres Vernon Ayres - (born - March 27, 1909, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was a Canadian professional hockey defenceman who played six seasons in the National Hockey League for the New York Americans, Montreal Maroons, St. Louis Eagles and New York Rangers.
Vernon C. Miller Vernon C. Miller (August 26, 1896-November 29, 1933) was a freelance Prohibition gunman, bootlegger, bank robber and former sheriff in South Dakota who, as the only identified member of the Kansas City Massacre, was found shot to death shortly after the incident.
Vernon Coleman Vernon Coleman (born in Walsall, West Midlands, England) is a British doctor, author, and campaigner for human and animal rights. He has written well over 90 books, concerning politics, cricket, animal issues and health.
Vernon Corea Vernon Corea was a pioneer radio broadcaster with 45 years of public service broadcasting both in Sri Lanka and the UK. He joined Radio Ceylon, South Asia's oldest radio station, in 1957 and later the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation.
Vernon Cracknell Vernon Cracknell was a New Zealand politician. Initially working as an accountant, he became involved in politics through the Social Credit Party, a group dedicated to the social credit theory of monetary reform.
Vernon Dahmer Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer (born March 10, 1908, in Forrest County, Mississippi - died January 11, 1966, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, burns suffered from an arson fire) was a civil rights leader and president of the Forrest County, Mississippi, chapter of the NAACP.
Vernon Dent Vernon Bruce Dent (born February 16th, 1895, in San Jose, CA; died November 5th, 1963, in Hollywood, CA) was a comic actor who co-starred in many short films for Columbia Pictures. He was frequently cast as the irascible foil to the Three Stooges' comic antics.
Vernon Green Vernon Green was leader of the rhythm and blues band The Medallions. He wrote the 1954 song "The Letter" which contained the nonsense lyric, "the puppetutes of love," which was later picked up by Steve Miller as "the Pompatus of love.
Vernon Hill Vernon Hill II (born circa 1946) is the chairman and founder of Commerce Bancorp and Commerce Bank of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Hill also owns several Burger King franchises and is a partner in Interstate Commercial, formerly Site Development Inc.
Vernon Chatman Vernon Chatman is a television producer, writer, voice actor, stand-up comedian and musician. Together with long time friend John Lee he is the creator, executive producer, writer and star of the MTV2 series Wonder Showzen (he voices the main puppet Chauncey and various other characters on the show).
Vernon Isley Vernon Isley (1942-1955) was a singer and one of the original members of the family band The Isley Brothers during the time the group began their career as a gospel quartet where Vernon shared co-lead singing duties with older brother Ronald. Vernon was killed at the age of 13 when his bicycle collided with an ongoing car in his hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Vernon Kay Vernon Charles Kay (born 28 April 1974, in Bolton, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom) is an English television presenter, and DJ. His first TV presenting job was on the BBC children's show FBI, a spin-off of Fully Booked.
Vernon L. Smith Vernon Lomax Smith (born January 1, 1927 in Wichita, Kansas) is professor of economics at University of Alaska-Anchorage, a research scholar in the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, and a Fellow of the Mercatus Center all in Arlington, Virginia. He is an Adjunct Scholar of the Cato Institute in Washington, D.
Vernon Macklin Vernon Macklin (born September 25, 1986) signed a letter of intent with the Georgetown University men's basketball team, the Hoyas. At 6'9" and 225 pounds, Macklin is widely considered a five-star recruit at the power forward position.
Vernon Maxwell Vernon Maxwell (born September 12 1965 in Gainesville, Florida) is a former professional basketball player who played in the NBA from 1989-2001, with his longest tenure being with the Houston Rockets. Aside from his basketball achievements, was notorious for his erratic public behavior and run-ins with the law, and was arrested eight times in ten years.
Vernon McGarity Vernon McGarity (born December 1, 1921) was a recipient of the Medal of Honor during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II while a member of the 99th Infantry Division. He became a prisoner of war after the attack.
Vernon Philander Vernon Darryl Philander (born June 24, 1985, in Bellville is a South African cricketer who plays domestic cricket for Western Province. A right handed allrounder, he has previously represented his country at under 19 level.
Vernon Ransford Vernon Ransford (born March 20, 1885 in Melbourne, died March 19, 1958 in Melbourne) was an Australian cricketer who played in 20 Tests between 1907 and 1912. His best series was the 1909 tour of England when he topped the Australian batting averages, helped by a career best score of 143 not out.
Vernon Reid Vernon Reid (born August 22, 1958) is a guitar player, perhaps best known as the founder and primary songwriter of hard rock group Living Colour. He was named #66 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time
Vernon Royle The Reverend Vernon Peter Fanshawe Archer Royle (born 29 January 1854 in Cheshire, England; died 21 May 1929 in Middlesex, England) was a member of Lord Harris's cricket team to tour Australia in 1878/9. His fielding won considerable praise.
Vernon Shaw Vernon Lorden Shaw (born May 13, 1930) is a former President of the Commonwealth of Dominica. He was elected to a five-year term by the House of Assembly on October 2, 1998, as the candidate of the United Workers' Party (UWP).
Vernon Schmid Vernon Schmid (born on July 31 1934 in Parsons, Kansas) is a poet, journalist, educator, clergyman, and syndicated columnist. Is the author of Westering, Otium Sanctum, Houlihans and Horse Sense, and Showdown at Chalk Creek.
Vernon Smith (football) Vernon "Catfish" Smith (January 14, 1908 – September 29, 1988) played football at the University of Georgia from 1929 to 1931 and was named an All-American in 1931. In 1929, he scored all 15 points for Georgia in an upset of Yale University – scoring one touchdown by falling on a blocked punt in the end zone and another by receiving a pass, kicking an extra point and tacking a Yale player for a safety.
Vernon Tomlin Vernon Tomlin is a character on Coronation Street played by actor Ian Reddington. A musician in a pub and club band, he dated Liz McDonald until she dumped him after finding out he made a pass at singer and barmaid Michelle Connor.
Vernon Township High School Vernon Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Vernon Township, in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. The school opened in 1975 and is part of the Vernon Township School District.
Vernon Township School District The Vernon Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district, that serves students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Vernon Township, in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States.
Vernon Washington Vernon Washington (August 10, 1927 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA – June 7, 1988 in California) is an African-American actor who has starred in film and on television. He is best known for his roles in the 1984 science fiction movie The Last Starfighter as Otis and in the 1985 horror movie Friday the 13th: A New Beginning as George.
Vernon Wilcox Vernon Francis Wilcox CBE QC (10 April 1919–13 March 2004) was an Australian politician. In a political career spanning twenty years, he represented the electorate of Camberwell in the Victorian Legislative Assembly and held many positions in the Victorian Cabinet.
Vernon, Florida (film) Vernon, Florida is a 1981 documentary film produced and directed by Errol Morris profiling various eccentric residents living within the town of Vernon, Florida. Originally titled Nub City, this follow-up to Gates of Heaven was initially focused on residents of the Southern town who cut off their own limbs as a way to collect insurance money.
Vernor Vinge Vernor Steffen Vinge (IPA: ) (born February 10, 1944 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA) is a mathematician (retired Professor of Mathematics at San Diego State University), computer scientist, and science fiction author. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, as well as for his 1993 essay "The Coming Technological Singularity", in which he argues that exponential growth in technology will reach a point beyond which we cannot even speculate about the consequences.
Verona List The Verona List (Nomina Provinciarum Omnium) is in a document of AD 312-314 that was recorded by the 5th-century historian Polemius Silvius in his annotated Christian calendar describing the Roman Empire as it existed during the early fourth century. The document is sometimes called Laterculus Veronensis.
Verona Park Verona Park is a park located in Verona, as part of the Essex County park system. The park area dates back to 1814 when a dam for a gristmill was built on the Peckman River, forming what is now the 13-acre Verona Park Lake.
Verona Pooth Verona Pooth (formerly known as Verona Feldbusch) (* 30 April 1968 in La Paz, Bolivia) is a German TV celebrity, entertainer, commercial icon and businesswoman. She was also Miss Germany and Miss Intercontinental.
Verona Public Schools The Verona Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Verona, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The Verona Public Schools (VPS) consist of six campuses: four neighborhood elementary schools, one middle school and one high school.
Verona, New Jersey Verona is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 13,533, making it the 181st most populous municipality in New Jersey (out of 566 statewide).
Verona, Pennsylvania Verona is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 13 miles (21 km) east by north of central Pittsburgh, on the Allegheny River. Formerly, railroad shops, tool works, lumber yards, steel-casting works, structural iron works, and a chemical plant operated in the borough.
Veronese Riddle The Veronese Riddle is a riddle, apparently half-Italian, half-Latin, written on the margin of a parchment, probably in the early 9th century, by a Catholic monk from Verona, a city in the Veneto region, in Northern Italy. Actually it was a very popular riddle in the Middle Ages and has survived into dialects to date.
Veronica (plant) Veronica is the largest genus in the flowering plant family Plantaginaceae, with about 500 species; it was formerly classified in the family Scrophulariaceae. Taxonomy for this genus is currently being reanalysed, with the genus Hebe and the related Australasian genera Derwentia, Detzneria, Chionohebe, Heliohebe, Leonohebe and Parahebe included by many botanists.
Veronica (song) A single from Elvis Costello's 1989 album Spike, co-written by Costello with former Beatle Paul McCartney. "Veronica" was also Costello's highest-charting Top 40 hit in the United States, peaking at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, #1 on its modern rock chart, and #10 on its mainstream rock chart.
Veronica Belmont Veronica Belmont (born July 21, 1982) is a producer and associate editor for CNET Networks, Inc. Most notably, she produces, engineers, and co-hosts the increasingly-popular CNET podcast Buzz Out Loud, in which Veronica, Tom Merritt, and Molly Wood discuss the day's technology news.
Veronica Carlson Veronica Carlson (born September 18 1944 in Yorkshire, England) is an English model and actress. She was best-known in the late 1960s for a series of roles in Hammer Horror films, including Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) and The Horror of Frankenstein (1970) .
Veronica Deneuve Veronica Deneuve is the Scotland-based striptease artist best known for her outspoken opposition to the Scottish Executive's legislative procedures in place from March 2005 to April 2006 that saw the formation of the AEWG (Adult Entertainment Working Group) headed by Linda Costelloe Baker and set up by Tom McCabe MSP.
Veronica Donovan Veronica Donovan, played by Robin Tunney, is a fictional character from Fox television series Prison Break. The younger Veronica is portrayed by Annie Yokom, who has only appeared once in the series - in episode "Brother's Keeper".
Veronica Ferres Veronica Ferres is a German actress who gained fame as Pierre Richard's co-star in the French TV-movie Sans famille and as the horrible Mrs. Thénardier beside Gérard Depardieu in the TV-movie Les Misérables.
Veronica Forqué Veronica Forqué (born Verónica Forqué Vázquez-Vigo on 1 December 1955 in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish actress of stage, film and television who comes from an artistic and theatrical family. Her mother is Carmen Vázquez Vigo and her father is the director José María Forqué.
Veronica Hendrix Veronica Hendrix is a journalist and feature columnist whose work has covered the span of the human continuum - from clinical trials of male contraceptives, to the gang violence. Her column "Veronica's View" appears weekly in the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper, the online newsletter BlackNLA.
Veronica Landers Veronica Martin Landers was a fictional character in the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. The role was originally played in 1997 by Tracy Lindsey Melchior, who was replaced after a handful of episodes by the late Candice Daly, who played the part until August 1998.
Veronica Lodge Veronica "Ronnie" Lodge ("born" April 1942) is an adolescent fictional character in the Archie Comics books series. Since the Archie characters are ageless, Lodge remains a high-school teenager after 64 years.
Veronica Mars Veronica Mars is a critically acclaimed American teen drama/mystery-neo-noir series which premiered on UPN on September 22, 2004, airing its first two seasons on the network before changing to The CW Television Network on October 3, 2006. The show stars Kristen Bell as the title character: a student, progressing from high school to college during the series, who moonlights as a private investigator under the wing of her detective father.
Veronica Planella Veronica Planella (born November 24, 1963 in Santiago, Chile) is a former field hockey player from Canada, who earned 33 caps for the Women's Senior National Team. Planella, a resident of Victoria, British Columbia, represented both Canada and Chile internationally.
Veronica Prego Veronica Prego is an Argentine-American medical doctor who became infected with HIV in 1983 when she pricked her finger with an infected needle at Brooklyn's Kings County Hospital Center. This was the first time such an incident involving a doctor had been documented, at least in the United States.
Veronica Yip Veronica Yip Yuk Hing (葉玉卿) (born February 12, 1967) is a Chinese actress in Hong Kong, who is probably most well known for her roles in "adult" Category III films (while, not pornographic, these films do contain nudity and sexual situations that are more commonly found in softcore American films such as "Basic Instinct").
Veronika Decides to Die Veronika Decides to Die (Portuguese Veronika decide morrer) is a novel by Paulo Coelho; it tells the story of 24 year old Veronika, who appears to have everything in life going for her, but who decides to kill herself.
Veronika Cherkasova Veronika Cherkasova (Belarusian: Чаркасава Вэраніка Анатольеўна, Veranika Charkasava; Russian: Черкасова Вероника Анатольевна) (January 12 1959 - October 20, 2004), a Belarusian journalist, born in Minsk, Belarus. She was stabbed to death in her Minsk apartment on October 20, 2004.
Veronika Zuzulová Veronika Zuzulová (born July 15, 1984 in Bratislava) is the most succesful Slovak alpine skier in recent years. She has two World Cup podiums to her credit, both in slalom: 3rd place in Zweisel, Germany on February 8, 2004 and 3rd place in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia on January 7, 2007.
Veronique de Lange Veronique de Lange, also known as Nicky (to avoid confusion with Veronique Lalouette), is a singer who rose to popularity after placing 3rd in season 3 of Idols, the South African version of Pop Idol, shown by M-Net. She currently lives in Bloemfontein, but has plans to relocate to Johannesburg.
Verotik Verotik is an mature-themed comic book company founded in the early 90's by famous hard rock/ punk musician Glenn Danzig (singer and songwriter for legendary bands The Misfits, Samhain and Danzig). The comics he produces are aimed for adult readers and they often contain imagery of a sexual and/or violent nature.
Verplanck Colvin Verplanck Colvin (1847–1920) was a lawyer and topographical engineer whose understanding and appreciation for the environment of the Adirondack Mountains lead to the creation of New York's Forest Preserve and the Adirondack State Park.
Verraco The verracos (Spanish: verraco; Portuguese: berrão) are granite megalithic monuments, sculptures of animals that are to be found in the west of the Spanish meseta — the high central plain of the Iberian peninsula — in the provinces of Ávila, Salamanca, and Zamora, but also in the north of Portugal and Galicia. Over 400 have been identified.
Verrazano Bridge (Maryland) The Verrazano Bridge in Maryland is a bridge on Maryland Route 611 over Sinepuxent Bay that connects Assateague Island to the mainland. Like the larger and more famous Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, it is named after Giovanni da Verrazzano.
Verre églomisé Verre églomisé, from the French term meaning glass gilded, is a process where the backside of the glass is gilded with gold or metal leaf using a gelatin adhesive. The result is a mirror-like, reflective finish in which designs are then engraved.
Verreaux's Eagle Verreaux's Eagle (Aquila verreauxii), also known as the African Black Eagle or Black Eagle, is a large bird of prey. This eagle is a resident breeder throughout Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, and can usually be found in mountainous regions.
Verron Haynes Verron Haynes (born February 17, 1979 in Woodstock, Georgia) is a National Football League halfback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, who plays mostly on passing downs. He is occasionally moved to the fullback position to comply with Pittsburgh's running game.
Verrophone A verrophone is a musical instrument, invented in 1983, by Reckert, in which open-ended glass tubes are arranged in various sizes (usually in a chromatic scale, arranged from large to small, like the pipes of a pipe organ). The sound is made by rubbing one end of one or more of the glass tubes.
Verrucous carcinoma Verrucous carcinoma is a variant of squamous cell carcinoma. This form of cancer is often seen in those who chew tobacco or use snuff, so much so that it is sometimes referred to as "Snuff dipper's cancer.
Vers de société Vers de société, a term for social or familiar poetry, which was originally borrowed from the French, and has now come to rank as an English expression (see Fennell, The Stamford Dictionary of Anglicised Words).
Versailles wedding hall Located in Talpiot, Jerusalem, the Versailles wedding hall () was the site of the worst civil disaster in Israel's history. Around 23:00 on the night of May 24,2001 during the wedding of Keren and Asaf Dror, a large portion of the third floor of the four-story building collapsed.
Versare Company Versare Car Company was a bus and trolley bus maker which was founded in 1925 and was originally based in Watervliet, New York. Among their early work were experimental buses that utilized diesel and electric engines which could be run alone or together, a technique that could be seen as a very early ancestor to dual-mode vehicles of the modern day.
Versatile Versatile is a Canadian brand of agricultural equipment that has produced augers, swathers, combine harvesters and most notably tractors. The company, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, currently belongs to Buhler Industries (BĂĽhler).
Versatile Multilayer Disc Versatile Multilayer Disc (VMD) is a high-capacity red laser optical disc technology designed by New Medium Enterprises, Inc.. VMD is intended to compete with the blue laser HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats and has an initial capacity of 20 GB to 40 GB per disc.
Versatile Real-Time Executive Versatile Real-Time Executive (VRTX) is a real-time operating system nowadays developed and marketed by the company Mentor Graphics. VRTX is suitable for both traditional board-based embedded systems and SoC architectures.
Versatile Toroidal Facility The Versatile Toroidal Facility (VTF) is a research group within the Physics Research Division of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The VTF is a laboratory focused on studying the phenomenon of magnetic reconnection.
Verse drama and dramatic verse Verse drama is any drama written as verse to be spoken; another possible general term is poetic drama. For a very long period verse drama was the dominant form of drama in Europe (and was also important in non-European cultures).
Verse Chorus Verse "Verse Chorus Verse" (often mislabeled in bootlegs as "In His Hands" or "In His Room") is a song by American rock band Nirvana. The song was performed live or during soundchecks in the '90-'91 era and the title was written down during the Nevermind sessions, indicating that a studio version was likely recorded or attempted.
Verse protocol Verse is a networking protocol allowing real-time communication between computer graphics software. For example: Ten or more architects can build a house in the same environment from their own computers, even if they are using different software.
Verse-chorus form Verse-chorus form is a musical form common in popular music and predominant in rock since the 1960s. In contrast to AABA form, which is focused on the verse (contrasted and prepared by the bridge), in verse-chorus form the chorus is highlighted (prepared and contrasted with the verse).
Verschoyle Patent Mandrel The Verschoyle Patent Mandrel was a modest lathe aimed at the amateur market and intended to become 'all things to all men'. It was available with a wide range of accessories to permit sawing and hand-turning of wood and soft metals, and eccentric turning.
Versican Versican is a large chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan with an apparent molecular mass of more than 1000kDa. In 1989, Zimmermann and Ruoslahti cloned and sequenced the core protein of fibroblast chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan.
Versicle A versicle is the first half of one of a set of preces, said or sung by an officiant or cantor and answered with a said or sung response by the congregation or choir. For example, in the following opening of the Anglican service of Evening Prayer according to the Book of Common Prayer, the first line is the versicle and the second is the response.
Versine The versed sine, also called the versine and, in Latin, the sinus versus ("flipped sine") or the sagitta ("arrow"), is a trigonometric function versin(θ) (sometimes further abbreviated "vers") defined by the equation:
Versio Rac 1 Versió Rac 1 is a radio program broadcasted by catalan radio station Rac1. Main host is Toni Clapés, who is well known in Catalonia for doing impersionations of Llongueras, José Maria García and even Chelsea F.
Version 10 Unix Tenth Edition Unix, also known as Version 10 Unix or V10, was the last version of the Research Unix operating system developed and used internally at Bell Labs. "Released" in 1989, it was the successor of V9.
Version 6 Unix Sixth Edition Unix, also called Version 6 Unix or just V6, was the first version of the Unix operating system to see wide release outside Bell Labs. It was released in May 1975 Since source code was available and the license was not explicit enough to forbid it, V6 was taken up as a teaching tool, notably by the University of California, Berkeley and the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
Version 7 Unix Seventh Edition Unix, also called Version 7 Unix, Version 7 or just V7, was an important early release of the Unix operating system. V7, released in 1979, was the last Bell Laboratories release to see widespread distribution before the commercialization of Unix by AT&T in the early 1980s.
Version 8 Unix Eight Edition Unix, also known as Version 8 Unix or V8, was a version of the Research Unix operating system developed and used internally at Bell Labs. It was "released" in February 1985, ran on VAX hardware, and was a variant of 4.
Version 9 Unix Ninth Edition Unix, also known as Version 9 Unix or V9, was a version of the Research Unix operating system developed and used internally at the Bell Labs Information Sciences Research Division, "released" in September 1986. V9 was the successor to V8, and the predecessor to the last Research Unix version, V10.
Version City Rockers Version City Rockers is a loose collective of reggae musicians, based in New York and New Jersey, who perform on recordings for singer/producer Jeff "King Django" Baker's Version City and Stubborn Records labels. Although there is no fixed line-up, several musicians from bands on these labels (The Slackers, Skinnerbox, Stubborn All-Stars) appear under this name: "Agent" Jay Nugent, Victor Ruggiero, Victor Rice.
Version space A version space in concept learning or induction is the subset of all hypotheses that are consistent with the observed training examples (Mitchell 1997). This set contains the hypotheses that have not yet been eliminated as a result of being in conflict with observed data.
Versionfest Versionfest is a festival focused on emerging art, technology, and social activism. Version examines local systems and external networks that use visual and conceptual art strategies, innovative social practices, creative uses of new technologies, effective organizing structures, emerging activist/artist initiatives, campaigns, public interventions and DIY projects.
Versioning file system A versioning file system is a file system which provides for the concurrent existence of several versions of a file. In their most common form, they keep a configurable number of older copies of a file around, periodically creating a new copy of the file with a new version number.
Versions and ports of Doom Doom is one of the most widely ported computer games in the first-person shooter genre: starting with the original MS-DOS version (released as shareware on December 10, 1993), it has been released officially for 7 computer operating systems and 9 different video game consoles. Unofficial Doom source ports — based on the GPL-released source code for the Doom engine and made by fans — have been created for many others still.
Versit Consortium The Versit Consortium was a multivendor initiative founded by Apple Computer, AT&T, IBM and Siemens in the early 1990s in order to create Personal Data Interchange (PDI) technology and open specifications for exchanging personal data over the Internet.
Verso Generally, the verso of a book, broadsheet, or pamphlet, the left-hand page of a folded sheet, or bound item. It is a term of art in printing and publishing and can be applied more broadly to any field where physical documents are exchanged.

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