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Xavier Beitia Xavier Beitia was a Florida State University football player that continued FSU's legacy of missing game-winning or game-tying kicks against the arch-rival University of Miami Hurricanes. Before attending FSU, Beitia attended Jesuit High School of Tampa in Tampa, Florida and kicked for the legendary Domanic Ciao.
Xavier Cugat Xavier Cugat (January 1, 1900 - October 27, 1990) was a Spanish-Cuban bandleader whom many consider to have had more to do with the infusion of Latin music into United States popular music than any other musician. Perez Prado followed in Cugat's footsteps.
Xavier de Villepin Xavier Galouzeau de Villepin (born March 14, 1926 in Brussels, Belgium), simply known as Xavier de Villepin, is a former high ranking civil servant of France, and a former French senator from the center-right UMP party (and before that from the more centrist UDF party). He is the father of the current Prime Minister of France, Dominique de Villepin.
Xavier Davis Xavier Davis(born 1971 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is a jazz pianist who leads the "Xavier Davis Trio." He had an early start in music studying piano at age 4, trombone at 8, and touring Europe before High School.
Xavier Dirceu Dirceu Francisco Xavier (born on December 18, 1977), nicknamed Xavier Dirceu or just Xavier, and sometimes misspelled Xavier Dirsao, is a Brazilian football (soccer) player. He is currently playing as a midfielder for Maccabi Haifa of Israel.
Xavier Escudé Xavier Escudé Torrente (born May 17, 1966) is a former field hockey player from Spain, who won the silver medal with the Men's National Team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He also participated in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
Xavier Forneret Xavier Forneret (1809-1884) was a French dramaturge, poet and journalist. In the 1830s, he was a member of the Bouzingo, a group of poets which advocated a radical bohemian romanticism in life and art; contemporaries and kindred spirits included Gerard de Nerval and Theophile Gautier.
Xavier Herbert Xavier Herbert (15 May 1901 – 10 November 1984) was an Australian writer best known for his Miles Franklin Award-winning book Poor Fellow My Country (1975), and could be considered one of the elder statesmen of Australian literature. He is also known for novels, short story collections and his autobiography Disturbing Element.
Xavier Hernandez Francis Xavier Hernandez (born August 16, 1965 in Port Arthur, Texas), is a former professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues primarily in relief from 1989-1998. He is currently the pitching coach for the Durham Bulls.
Xavier High School (Appleton, Wisconsin) Xavier High School is a Roman Catholic High School in Appleton, Wisconsin in the Diocese of Green Bay. It was opened in 1959 by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools; the school was named in honor of St.
Xavier High School (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) Xavier High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa is affiliated with twelve area Catholic parishes and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque. It opened in 1998 after two previous Catholic high schools, Regis and Lasalle, merged.
Xavier High School (New York City) Xavier High School is a premiere all-boys Jesuit Independent, university-preparatory high school located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was founded in 1847 as the High School of the College of St.
Xavier Hospital Xavier Hospital was a hospital that operated in Dubuque, Iowa. It was located in the northern part of the city on Windsor Ave, and with Finley Hospital and Mercy Hospital was one of three hospitals in the city of Dubuque.
Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship (XIME) is a prominent Business School in India endeavouring to provide Value Based Management Education. It has a fully residential campus with access to seamless learning facilities, and is situated in the heart of the Silicon Valley of India.
Xavier Lee Xavier Lee (born January 9, 1986) is the substitute quarterback for the Florida State Seminoles football team at Florida State University. Lee started for the injured Drew Weatherford on October 28, 2006 on the road at Maryland.
Xavier Mabille Xavier Mabille is a Belgian historian and political scientist. He is president of the Belgium-based Centre de recherche et d’information socio-politiques (CRISP or Centre for Socio-Political Research) in Brussels.
Xavier Marchand Xavier Marchand (born August 4, 1973 in Deauville) is a former medley swimmer from France, who competed at two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia. He won his first international medal (silver) in 1997, at the European LC Championships in the 200m Individual Medley behind Holland's Marcel Wouda.
Xavier McDaniel Xavier Maurice McDaniel (born June 4, 1963 in Columbia, South Carolina), is a former NBA player who, at 6' 7", played small forward for the Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns, New York Knicks, Boston Celtics, and New Jersey Nets.
Xavier Mertz Xavier Guillaume Mertz (1883-1913) was a Swiss explorer, principally famous for his adventures in the Antarctic. He is also the first person whose cause of death was documented as 'Vitamin A poisoning' (see below).
Xavier Minniecon Xavier Minniecon (4 July 1967, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian television weather presenter who is currently the weekend weather presenter on the Adelaide, South Australia edition of the Nine Network's National Nine News, produced by NWS-9.
Xavier Pick Xavier Pick (born 1972 in York) is a contemporary English artist. He attended Pocklington School and went on to study at Glasgow School of Art under celebrated children's illustrator Mick Manning, and the Royal College of Art under John Norris Wood.
Xavier Protocols The Xavier Protocols are a fictional set of doomsday plans in the created by Charles Xavier, leader of the X-Men. The Protocols detail the best way to kill many powerful mutants, including the X-Men and Xavier himself, should they become too large a danger.
Xavier Roberts Xavier Roberts (born 1955, Cleveland, Georgia), the inventor and maker of Cabbage Patch Kids is an American artist and businessman. After learning the German art of soft sculpture, he created a type of doll he called "Little People".
Xavier School Xavier School (Abbreviation: XS; Filipino: Paaralang Xavier; Simplified Chinese: ĺ…‰ĺŻĺ¦ć ˇ; Traditional Chinese: 光啓ĺ¸ć ˇ; Pinyin: GuÄngqÄ XĂşexìao; Hokkien: KĂ´ng KhÄ“ Hák HĂ o), located in San Juan, Metro Manila, Philippines, is a private, Catholic college preparatory school for boys run by the Society of Jesus' Philippine Province. Its programs are both Chinese and Filipino in character.
Xavier Sigalon Xavier Sigalon (1787 - August 9, 1837), French painter, born at Uzès (Gard) towards the close of 1787, was one of the few leaders of the romantic movement who cared for treatment of form rather than of colour.
Xavier University (Cincinnati) Xavier University is a private, Jesuit, co-educational Catholic university in the United States located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Today, Xavier University is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
Xavier University of Louisiana Xavier University of Louisiana is a private, coed, liberal arts college that is also an historically African-American (HBCU) Roman Catholic University located in uptown New Orleans, Louisiana. Of the 102 historically black colleges and universities and 253 Catholic colleges in the United States, it is the only one noted for bieng both black and Catholic.
Xavier Vallat Xavier Vallat (1891 - 6 January 1972), French politician, was Commissioner-General for Jewish Questions in the wartime Vichy France Vichy collaborationist government, and was sentenced after World War II to ten years in prison for his part in the persecution of French Jews.
Xavier Zubiri Xavier Zubiri (1889–1983) was a Spanish philosopher noted for his intellectual rigor. Zubiri's main accomplishment is the creation of an entire metaphysical system stemming from his view of man as a "sentient intelligence" situated in reality.
Xaviera Gold Xaviera Gold is a female African American dance music singer who is a former DJ and mixer on Chicago's WBMX-FM. With Masters At Work she went to #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1993 with "Gonna Get Back To You.
Xavras WyĹĽryn Xavras WyĹĽryn (eng: Xavras Vyshryn) is a alternate history novel written in 1997 by Jacek Dukaj, famous Polish science fiction writer. It is considered as one of the best Polish alternative history novels, discussing Polish martyrology, circling around philosophical aspects of war and showing thin line between terrorism and fighting for freedom, and last but not least, "packing lots of action", making it also part of a military science-fiction genre.
Xawery Czernicki Counter Admiral Xawery Stanisław Czernicki (1882-1940) was a Polish engineer, military commander and one of the highest ranking officers of the Polish Navy. Considered one of the founders of Polish Navy's logistical services, he was murdered by the Soviet NKVD during the Katyn massacre.
Xawery Dunikowski Xawery Dunikowski (December 24, 1875 - January 26, 1964) was a Polish sculptor and artist, notable for surviving Auschwitz concentration camp, and best known for his Neo-Romantic sculptures and Auschwitz-inspired art.
Xawtv xawtv is a program that allows a person to watch and record television through a PC with either a TV tuner or a Satellite receiver card DVB-S. xawtv works on Unix-like operating systems, and is licensed under the GPL.
Xayar County The Xayar County (Chinese: 沙雅县, Pinyin: ShÄyÇŽ XiĂ n; also known as Shayar)The official spelling is "Xayar" according to ZhĹŤngguĂł dìmĂnglĂą ä¸ĺ›˝ĺś°ĺŤĺ˝• (Beijing, ZhĹŤngguĂł dìtĂş chĹ«bÇŽnshè ä¸ĺ›˝ĺś°ĺ›ľĺ‡şç‰ç¤ľ 1997); ISBN 7-5031-1718-4; p. 313.
XA-38 Grizzly The Beechcraft XA-38 Grizzly was a heavily armed ground attack plane prototype, fitted with a forward-firing 75 mm cannon to attack heavily armored targets. It flew on 7 May, 1944 but after testing it became obvious it would not be ready for the projected invasion of Japan, and furthermore it used engines required by the B-29 Superfortress which had priority.
XACT XACT is an audio programming library released by Microsoft as part of the DirectX SDK. It was originally developed for Xbox development, and was later modified to work for Microsoft Windows development as well.
XADS XADS (Xtreme Alternative Defense Systems) is a privately held firm in Anderson, Indiana (USA). XADS is a pioneering producer of NLDEW (Non-Lethal directed energy weapons) for protecting and defending in military operations, law enforcement, site security, and peacekeeping.
XAMPP XAMPP is a free software package containing the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database and necessary tools to use the PHP and Perl programming languages. The program is released under the GNU General Public License and serves as a free, easy-to-use web server, capable of serving dynamic pages.
XApps Collaborative Cross-Applications, or xApps, is collective term applied to a range of software products from German software giant SAP AG. xApps are commonly targeted at specific industries or are geared towards vertical applications common across a range of industries.
XAP processor A XAP® processor provides the computation element within an Integrated Circuit that has to process digital data. A family of 16- and 32-bit XAP processors have been designed and implemented by Cambridge Consultants since 1993.
XAUI XAUI (a concatenation of the Roman numeral X, meaning ten, and the initials of "Attachment Unit Interface") is a standard for connecting 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) ports to each other and to other electronic devices on a printed circuit board. It is designed to the IEEE 802.
XĂriga XĂriga is an occupation-related argot developed by the tejeros of Llanes and Ribadesella in Asturias. The tejeros were migrant workers in brick or clay, usually poor, who contracted themselves out for work sometimes in distant towns.
Xà bia Xà bia (Spanish Jávea) is a coastal town located in the comarca of La Marina Alta, in the province of Alicante, Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea. Situated behind a wide fine beach and sheltered between two large rocky headlands, the town has become a very popular small seaside resort and market town.
Xà tiva Xà tiva (formerly written Játiva), or San Felipe de Játiva, a town of eastern Spain, in the province of Valencia, on the right bank of the river Albaida and at the junction of the Valencia-Murcia and Valencia-Albacete railways. Pop.
Xösäyen YamaĹźev YamaĹźev Xösäyen Minhacetdin ulı ([]English spelling: her-say-EN yah-MAH-sheff; Cyrillic: ĐŻĐĽĐ°Ńев ĐĄÓ©Ńәен Минһаҗетдин Ńлы; ; transl. Khusain Yamashev, 1882-1912) was a Tatar social democrat revolutionary and publicist.
XÂł: Reunion XÂł: Reunion is a computer game in the X series developed by Egosoft and released late 2005. The game was intended to be Egosoft's first multiplatform release on both Windows and Xbox, but the plans changed and shortly before the PC release, it was revealed the Xbox version had been cancelled.
Xbloc An Xbloc is an interlocking concrete block or armour unit designed to protect shores, harbour walls, seawalls, breakwaters and other coastal structures from the direct impact of incoming waves. The Xbloc model has been designed and developed by Delta Marine Consultants (DMC) since 2001 and has been subjected to extensive research by several universities.
Xbox 360 Wireless Headset The Xbox 360 Wireless Headset is a wireless headset designed for the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live manufactured by Microsoft. It can be used for in game voice chat, private chat, audio for video chat and in game voice recognition.
Xbox Community Developer Program The Xbox Community Developer Program (XCDP) is a program that allows experienced web developers to create a community with Xbox Live integration. This integration is achieved through the use of XML feeds which provide data about games played and Xbox Live status (Rich Presence).
Xbox Development Kit The XDK, short for "Xbox Development Kit", is a software development kit created by Microsoft used to write software for the Xbox gaming system. The XDK includes libraries, a compiler, and various tools used to create software for the Xbox.
Xbox Linux Xbox Linux is a project that ported the GNU/Linux project to the Microsoft Xbox gaming console. Due to the fact that the Xbox uses a digital signature system to prevent the public from running unsigned code, one must either use a modchip, or find an alternative system for running unsigned code.
Xbox Live Arcade Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA) is an online service operated by Microsoft that is used to distribute video games to Xbox and Xbox 360 owners. The service was first launched in late 2004 and offers games from about $5 to $15 USD.
Xbox Live Marketplace The Xbox Live Marketplace is a virtual market designed for Microsoft 's Xbox 360 console that allows Xbox Live subscribers to download purchased or promotional content. The service offers movie and game trailers, game demos, Xbox Live Arcade games, gamer tag images, and Xbox 360 Dashboard themes.
Xbox Media Player Xbox Media Player, (or XBMP for short), was the predecessor to Xbox Media Center (XBMC), a feature-rich open source media player for the Xbox. With an audio/video-player-core based on MPlayer, it allowed owners of a modified Xbox to display pictures and movie files, as well as play music files from the Xbox DVD-ROM drive, built-in harddisk drive, LAN (SMB) or the internet.
XB-39 Superfortress The Boeing XB-39 Superfortress was a prototype bomber aircraft, a single example of the B-29 Superfortress converted to fly with alternative powerplants. It was intended to demonstrate that the B-29 could still be put into service even if the first choice of engine, the Wright R-3350, ran into development or production difficulties.
XBasic XBasic is a variant of the BASIC programming language that was developed in the late 1980s for the Motorola 88000 CPU and Unix by Max Reason. In the early 1990s it was ported to Windows and Linux, and since 1999 it has been available as open source software with its runtime library under the LGPL license.
XBAND XBAND was an early online console gaming network for SNES and Sega Genesis systems. It was produced by a Cupertino, California software company called 'Catapult', and made its debut in late 1994 and 1995 in various areas of the United States.
XBC The XBC, or the Xport Botball Controller, is a robot based off of Charmed Lab's Xport hardware. It was built specifically for the Botball competition and uses a Game Boy Advance for its display and has a processor with a separate rechargeable battery pack for power.
XBConnect XBConnect is a tunneling application as a means of playing Xbox LAN games over the internet, that is, play Xbox games over the internet whilst giving the Xbox the impression of playing a local multiplayer game. Any Xbox title that is system link compatible can be played on Xboxconnect.
XBEL XBEL, or the XML Bookmark Exchange Language, is an open XML standard for representing Internet URIs, also known as bookmarks (or favorites in Internet Explorer). XBEL was created by the Python XML Special Interest Group "to create an interesting, fun project which was both useful and would demonstrate the Python XML processing software which was being developed at the time," [http://pyxml.
XBill The classic Open Source computer game XBill is an arcade style game , very pupular at the end of the '90s featuring a bespectacled character known as "Bill]". Your goal is to prevent Bill's legions of clones from installing [[Microsoft Windows|Wingdows, a virus "cleverly designed to resemble a popular operating system", on a variety of computers running other operating systems.
XBL XBL or XML Binding Language is used to declare the behavior and look of XUL widgets and XML elements. In XUL one defines the user interface layout of an application, and then (applying styles) can customize the look of elements.
XBM In computer graphics, the X Window System uses XBM (X BitMap), an ASCII monochrome image format, for storing cursor and icon bitmaps used in the X GUI. XBM files differ markedly from most image files in that they take the form of C language source files.
XBML XBML stands for eXtended Business Modeling Language and is used to define the business processes of an organization. It is based upon a 5 dimensional business framework (What, Who, Where, When and Which) and is uniquely supported by approximately 55 rules that govern the usage, "output" and "syntax" of the language.
XBNBT XBNBT is a modified, open source, BitTorrent tracker based on BNBT, The Trinity EasyTracker and CBTT that offers many additional features such as support for flat-file or MySQL database operation, a Web interface, RSS feeds, user integration with IPB, IPB2, vBulletin 3, phpBB, and Phpnuke, control over TCP parameters, additional administrative, statistics, and control options, additional filter and search facilities, and more.
XBoard XBoard, also known as WinBoard on Microsoft operating systems, is a free graphical user interface client developed by Tim Mann that is compatible with various chess engines that support the Xboard Communication Protocol such as GNU Chess. It also supports Internet Chess Servers , e-mail chess and the playing of saved games.
XBRL XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is an emerging XML-based standard to define and exchange business and financial performance information. The standard is governed by a not-for-profit international consortium (XBRL International Incorporated) WWW.
XBX The Ten Basic Exercises (XBX) Plan is an exercise program developed for the Royal Canadian Air Force for women. The program consists of charts that get progressively more difficult, and takes 12 minutes per day after users get past the beginning levels.
XBXRX XBXRX is an American noise rock-influenced hardcore band formed in 1998 in Mobile, Alabama USA. They are a collective with a revolving cast of eight musicians including Steve Touchston, Weasel Walter, and Vice Cooler.
Xcade XCade was one of the very first arcade emulators developed around 1995 (pre-dating MAME by a short time, but following Neil Bradley's Atari vector emulator for instance), and one of the first multi-game emulators. It was probably the first released arcade emulator for Unix/X11 systems though there were a couple of unreleased emulators in works at the time.
Xceive XC3028 The Xceive XC3028 is a single chip silicon tuner capable of receiving analogue cable, analogue terrestrial, digital cable and digital terrestrial TV (PAL, NTSC, SECAM, DVB-t, ATSC, DVB-c). It is commonly used in USB digital TV receivers for PC and Mac due to its small size and power consumption, but the manufacturer also markets it as suitable for portable TVs and notebook computers.
Xcircuit XCircuit is a Unix/X11 (and Windows, too, with an X-Server running) program for drawing publishable-quality electrical circuit schematic diagrams and related figures, and produce circuit netlists through schematic capture. XCircuit regards circuits as inherently hierarchical, and writes both hierarchical PostScript output and hierarchical SPICE netlists.
Xcon The R1 (later called XCON, for eXpert CONfigurer) program was a production-rule-based system written in OPS5 by John P. McDermott of CMU in 1978 to assist in the ordering of DEC's VAX computer systems by automatically selecting the computer system components based on the customer's requirements.
Xcopilot Xcopilot is a Palm Pilot emulator that runs under Unix/X11. It offers emulation of the timer, serial ports, touch pad and LCD along with Motorola 68000 emulation (m68k), specifically the Motorola DragonBall derivative upon which early Pilots were based.
XC-120 Packplane The Fairchild XC-120 Packplane was a related development to the C-119 Flying Boxcar in the late 1940's. A C-119 fuselage was cut down to just below the flight deck and a removable pod designed to fit in its place.
XCAS * XCAS or on-call close air support (CAS) is a technique of air warfare which first achieved recognition in Operation Enduring Freedom, the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. It is associated with new developments in US Air Force doctrine emphasizing the centrality of effects-based targeting.
XCCDF The Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF) is an XML format specifying security checklists, benchmarks and configuration documentation. XCCDF development is being pursued by NIST, the NSA, The Mitre Corporation, and the US Department of Homeland Security.
XCiTĂ©s XCiTĂ©s is the Flamingo book of new French writing, edited by Georgia de Chamberet, published in 2000. Conceived of following France's World Cup win and during the height of the French music boom typified by Daft Punk and Air, the anthology showcased an array of young French writers.
XCOFF XCOFF, for "eXtended COFF", is an improved and expanded version of the COFF object file format defined by IBM and used in AIX. Early versions of the PowerPC Macintosh also supported XCOFF, as did BeOS.
XCOPY XCOPY is a command dating from DOS operating systems, but is also available on Microsoft Windows. XCOPY, which stands for "external copy", is used for copying multiple files from one directory to another and for copying files across a network.
XCOR Aerospace XCOR Aerospace is a private rocket engine and spaceflight development company based in Mojave, California at the Mojave Spaceport. It was formed by former members of the Rotary Rocket rocket engine development team in September, 1999.
XCOR EZ-Rocket The XCOR EZ-Rocket is a test platform for the XCOR rocket propulsion system. The plane is a modified Rutan Long-EZ, with the propeller replaced by first one, then a pair of pressure-fed regeneratively cooled liquid-fuelled rocket engines and an underslung rocket-fuel tank.
Xdelta xdelta is a Unix program which provides the ability to generate differences between a pair of files. It operates similar to the diff and patch commands, but works on binary files and does not produce a human readable output.
XDB Enterprise Server XDB Enterprise Server is a relational database management system, or DBMS, which was available for DOS, Windows NT and OS/2, and was fully compatible with IBM's DB2 database. The system was developed by XDB Systems, Inc.
XDCAM XDCAM is an optical disk based professional video system introduced by Sony in 2003. It features include tapeless optical disk recording of DVCAM, MPEG IMX and, in the XDCAM HD variant, HDV video data, as well as MXF metadata and a low resolution AV proxy stream, on a disc similar to a Blu-Ray disc called the Professional Disc, which holds 23.
XDELTA XDELTA is the name of a debugger used in the VMS operating system originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard, Massachusetts. Unlike a user-mode debugger, XDELTA is intended for debugging the operating system (the executive) itself and its related components (such as system services and device drivers) and so is capable of operating at elevated interrupt priority level.
XDH Assumption The External Diffie-Hellman (XDH) assumption is a mathematic assumption used in elliptic curve cryptography. The XDH assumption holds that there exist certain subgroups of elliptic curves which have useful properties for cryptography.
XDI XDI (XRI Data Interchange) is a generalized, extensible service for sharing, linking, and synchronizing data over the Internet and other data networks using XML documents and XRIs (Extensible Resource Identifiers). The XDI protocol is under development by the OASIS XDI Technical Committee.
XDNA xDNA is a modified form of DNA with 8 nucleobases: the four natural bases A, C, G, and T, and four artificial modifications of these made longer by the addition of an extra benzene ring: xA, xC, xG, and xT. A pairs with xT, C pairs with xG, G pairs with xC, and T pairs with xA, so the distance between the two halves of the double helix is consistently greater.
XDoclet XDoclet is an open-source code generation library which enables Attribute-Oriented Programming for Java via insertion of special Javadoc tags. It comes with a library of predefined tags, which simplify coding for various technologies: Java EE, Web services, Portlet etc.
XDocs XDocs was a proposal announced by Microsoft on October 2002 for a forms software, based on XML. Only announcing vague details, it was supposed to help users design, modify and work with XML-based forms, with little or no coding.
XDR (audio) XDR (eXtended Dynamic Range) is a quality-control and duplication process for the mass-production of pre-recorded audio cassettes. It is a process designed to provide higher quality audio on pre-recorded cassettes by checking the sound quality at all stages of the tape duplication process.
XDXF XDXF (XML Dictionary Exchange Format) is a project to unite all existing open dictionaries and provide both users and developers with universal XML-based format, convertible from and to other popular formats like Mova, PtkDic, StarDict. Currently the format is in an early draft stage.
Xe arrondissement The 10th arrondissement (Xe arrondissement), located on the Right Bank, is one of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, France. The arrondissement contains two of the six main rail stations in Paris: Gare du Nord and Gare de l'Est.
Xebec The term xebec (also variously spelled chebec, chebeck, jabeque, sciabecco, shebec, xebeque, and zebec) refers to a small, fast vessel of the 16th to 19th centuries, used almost exclusively in the Mediterranean Sea. Early xebecs had two masts; later ones three.
Xedos 6 The Xedos 6 was a European-market luxury car based on the Mazda CA platform also used by the Mazda Capella. Identical to the Japan-market Eunos 500, it was produced for model years 1993 through 1999 and was available in two versions, the 1.
Xeelee Sequence The Xeelee Sequence is a series of novels and short stories by British science fiction author Stephen Baxter. The novels span several billons of years , describing the future expansion of Mankind, its war with its arch-nemesis (an alien race called the Xeelee), and the Xeelee's own war with dark matter entities called photino birds.
Xegar Xegar is a town at the base of Mount Everest in the province of Xizang Zizhiqu in Tibet, which is currently administrated as part of China. It is notable for being the starting point for many climbing expeditions to the highest mountain in the world.
Xehanort is a fictional character in the video game Kingdom Hearts series and is the main villain of the series. Out of ignorance born of deception, he is referred to as in Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories.
Xavier Cugat Xavier Cugat (January 1, 1900 - October 27, 1990) was a Spanish-Cuban bandleader whom many consider to have had more to do with the infusion of Latin music into United States popular music than any other musician. Perez Prado followed in Cugat's footsteps.
Xavier de Villepin Xavier Galouzeau de Villepin (born March 14, 1926 in Brussels, Belgium), simply known as Xavier de Villepin, is a former high ranking civil servant of France, and a former French senator from the center-right UMP party (and before that from the more centrist UDF party). He is the father of the current Prime Minister of France, Dominique de Villepin.
Xavier Davis Xavier Davis(born 1971 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is a jazz pianist who leads the "Xavier Davis Trio." He had an early start in music studying piano at age 4, trombone at 8, and touring Europe before High School.
Xavier Dirceu Dirceu Francisco Xavier (born on December 18, 1977), nicknamed Xavier Dirceu or just Xavier, and sometimes misspelled Xavier Dirsao, is a Brazilian football (soccer) player. He is currently playing as a midfielder for Maccabi Haifa of Israel.
Xavier Escudé Xavier Escudé Torrente (born May 17, 1966) is a former field hockey player from Spain, who won the silver medal with the Men's National Team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He also participated in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
Xavier Forneret Xavier Forneret (1809-1884) was a French dramaturge, poet and journalist. In the 1830s, he was a member of the Bouzingo, a group of poets which advocated a radical bohemian romanticism in life and art; contemporaries and kindred spirits included Gerard de Nerval and Theophile Gautier.
Xavier Herbert Xavier Herbert (15 May 1901 – 10 November 1984) was an Australian writer best known for his Miles Franklin Award-winning book Poor Fellow My Country (1975), and could be considered one of the elder statesmen of Australian literature. He is also known for novels, short story collections and his autobiography Disturbing Element.
Xavier Hernandez Francis Xavier Hernandez (born August 16, 1965 in Port Arthur, Texas), is a former professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues primarily in relief from 1989-1998. He is currently the pitching coach for the Durham Bulls.
Xavier High School (Appleton, Wisconsin) Xavier High School is a Roman Catholic High School in Appleton, Wisconsin in the Diocese of Green Bay. It was opened in 1959 by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools; the school was named in honor of St.
Xavier High School (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) Xavier High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa is affiliated with twelve area Catholic parishes and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque. It opened in 1998 after two previous Catholic high schools, Regis and Lasalle, merged.
Xavier High School (New York City) Xavier High School is a premiere all-boys Jesuit Independent, university-preparatory high school located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was founded in 1847 as the High School of the College of St.
Xavier Hospital Xavier Hospital was a hospital that operated in Dubuque, Iowa. It was located in the northern part of the city on Windsor Ave, and with Finley Hospital and Mercy Hospital was one of three hospitals in the city of Dubuque.
Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship (XIME) is a prominent Business School in India endeavouring to provide Value Based Management Education. It has a fully residential campus with access to seamless learning facilities, and is situated in the heart of the Silicon Valley of India.
Xavier Lee Xavier Lee (born January 9, 1986) is the substitute quarterback for the Florida State Seminoles football team at Florida State University. Lee started for the injured Drew Weatherford on October 28, 2006 on the road at Maryland.
Xavier Mabille Xavier Mabille is a Belgian historian and political scientist. He is president of the Belgium-based Centre de recherche et d’information socio-politiques (CRISP or Centre for Socio-Political Research) in Brussels.
Xavier Marchand Xavier Marchand (born August 4, 1973 in Deauville) is a former medley swimmer from France, who competed at two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia. He won his first international medal (silver) in 1997, at the European LC Championships in the 200m Individual Medley behind Holland's Marcel Wouda.
Xavier McDaniel Xavier Maurice McDaniel (born June 4, 1963 in Columbia, South Carolina), is a former NBA player who, at 6' 7", played small forward for the Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns, New York Knicks, Boston Celtics, and New Jersey Nets.
Xavier Mertz Xavier Guillaume Mertz (1883-1913) was a Swiss explorer, principally famous for his adventures in the Antarctic. He is also the first person whose cause of death was documented as 'Vitamin A poisoning' (see below).
Xavier Minniecon Xavier Minniecon (4 July 1967, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian television weather presenter who is currently the weekend weather presenter on the Adelaide, South Australia edition of the Nine Network's National Nine News, produced by NWS-9.
Xavier Pick Xavier Pick (born 1972 in York) is a contemporary English artist. He attended Pocklington School and went on to study at Glasgow School of Art under celebrated children's illustrator Mick Manning, and the Royal College of Art under John Norris Wood.
Xavier Protocols The Xavier Protocols are a fictional set of doomsday plans in the created by Charles Xavier, leader of the X-Men. The Protocols detail the best way to kill many powerful mutants, including the X-Men and Xavier himself, should they become too large a danger.
Xavier Roberts Xavier Roberts (born 1955, Cleveland, Georgia), the inventor and maker of Cabbage Patch Kids is an American artist and businessman. After learning the German art of soft sculpture, he created a type of doll he called "Little People".
Xavier School Xavier School (Abbreviation: XS; Filipino: Paaralang Xavier; Simplified Chinese: ĺ…‰ĺŻĺ¦ć ˇ; Traditional Chinese: 光啓ĺ¸ć ˇ; Pinyin: GuÄngqÄ XĂşexìao; Hokkien: KĂ´ng KhÄ“ Hák HĂ o), located in San Juan, Metro Manila, Philippines, is a private, Catholic college preparatory school for boys run by the Society of Jesus' Philippine Province. Its programs are both Chinese and Filipino in character.
Xavier Sigalon Xavier Sigalon (1787 - August 9, 1837), French painter, born at Uzès (Gard) towards the close of 1787, was one of the few leaders of the romantic movement who cared for treatment of form rather than of colour.
Xavier University (Cincinnati) Xavier University is a private, Jesuit, co-educational Catholic university in the United States located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Today, Xavier University is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
Xavier University of Louisiana Xavier University of Louisiana is a private, coed, liberal arts college that is also an historically African-American (HBCU) Roman Catholic University located in uptown New Orleans, Louisiana. Of the 102 historically black colleges and universities and 253 Catholic colleges in the United States, it is the only one noted for bieng both black and Catholic.
Xavier Vallat Xavier Vallat (1891 - 6 January 1972), French politician, was Commissioner-General for Jewish Questions in the wartime Vichy France Vichy collaborationist government, and was sentenced after World War II to ten years in prison for his part in the persecution of French Jews.
Xavier Zubiri Xavier Zubiri (1889–1983) was a Spanish philosopher noted for his intellectual rigor. Zubiri's main accomplishment is the creation of an entire metaphysical system stemming from his view of man as a "sentient intelligence" situated in reality.
Xaviera Gold Xaviera Gold is a female African American dance music singer who is a former DJ and mixer on Chicago's WBMX-FM. With Masters At Work she went to #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1993 with "Gonna Get Back To You.
Xavras WyĹĽryn Xavras WyĹĽryn (eng: Xavras Vyshryn) is a alternate history novel written in 1997 by Jacek Dukaj, famous Polish science fiction writer. It is considered as one of the best Polish alternative history novels, discussing Polish martyrology, circling around philosophical aspects of war and showing thin line between terrorism and fighting for freedom, and last but not least, "packing lots of action", making it also part of a military science-fiction genre.
Xawery Czernicki Counter Admiral Xawery Stanisław Czernicki (1882-1940) was a Polish engineer, military commander and one of the highest ranking officers of the Polish Navy. Considered one of the founders of Polish Navy's logistical services, he was murdered by the Soviet NKVD during the Katyn massacre.
Xawery Dunikowski Xawery Dunikowski (December 24, 1875 - January 26, 1964) was a Polish sculptor and artist, notable for surviving Auschwitz concentration camp, and best known for his Neo-Romantic sculptures and Auschwitz-inspired art.
Xawtv xawtv is a program that allows a person to watch and record television through a PC with either a TV tuner or a Satellite receiver card DVB-S. xawtv works on Unix-like operating systems, and is licensed under the GPL.
Xayar County The Xayar County (Chinese: 沙雅县, Pinyin: ShÄyÇŽ XiĂ n; also known as Shayar)The official spelling is "Xayar" according to ZhĹŤngguĂł dìmĂnglĂą ä¸ĺ›˝ĺś°ĺŤĺ˝• (Beijing, ZhĹŤngguĂł dìtĂş chĹ«bÇŽnshè ä¸ĺ›˝ĺś°ĺ›ľĺ‡şç‰ç¤ľ 1997); ISBN 7-5031-1718-4; p. 313.
XA-38 Grizzly The Beechcraft XA-38 Grizzly was a heavily armed ground attack plane prototype, fitted with a forward-firing 75 mm cannon to attack heavily armored targets. It flew on 7 May, 1944 but after testing it became obvious it would not be ready for the projected invasion of Japan, and furthermore it used engines required by the B-29 Superfortress which had priority.
XACT XACT is an audio programming library released by Microsoft as part of the DirectX SDK. It was originally developed for Xbox development, and was later modified to work for Microsoft Windows development as well.
XADS XADS (Xtreme Alternative Defense Systems) is a privately held firm in Anderson, Indiana (USA). XADS is a pioneering producer of NLDEW (Non-Lethal directed energy weapons) for protecting and defending in military operations, law enforcement, site security, and peacekeeping.
XAMPP XAMPP is a free software package containing the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database and necessary tools to use the PHP and Perl programming languages. The program is released under the GNU General Public License and serves as a free, easy-to-use web server, capable of serving dynamic pages.
XApps Collaborative Cross-Applications, or xApps, is collective term applied to a range of software products from German software giant SAP AG. xApps are commonly targeted at specific industries or are geared towards vertical applications common across a range of industries.
XAP processor A XAP® processor provides the computation element within an Integrated Circuit that has to process digital data. A family of 16- and 32-bit XAP processors have been designed and implemented by Cambridge Consultants since 1993.
XAUI XAUI (a concatenation of the Roman numeral X, meaning ten, and the initials of "Attachment Unit Interface") is a standard for connecting 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) ports to each other and to other electronic devices on a printed circuit board. It is designed to the IEEE 802.
XĂriga XĂriga is an occupation-related argot developed by the tejeros of Llanes and Ribadesella in Asturias. The tejeros were migrant workers in brick or clay, usually poor, who contracted themselves out for work sometimes in distant towns.
Xà bia Xà bia (Spanish Jávea) is a coastal town located in the comarca of La Marina Alta, in the province of Alicante, Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea. Situated behind a wide fine beach and sheltered between two large rocky headlands, the town has become a very popular small seaside resort and market town.
Xà tiva Xà tiva (formerly written Játiva), or San Felipe de Játiva, a town of eastern Spain, in the province of Valencia, on the right bank of the river Albaida and at the junction of the Valencia-Murcia and Valencia-Albacete railways. Pop.
Xösäyen YamaĹźev YamaĹźev Xösäyen Minhacetdin ulı ([]English spelling: her-say-EN yah-MAH-sheff; Cyrillic: ĐŻĐĽĐ°Ńев ĐĄÓ©Ńәен Минһаҗетдин Ńлы; ; transl. Khusain Yamashev, 1882-1912) was a Tatar social democrat revolutionary and publicist.
XÂł: Reunion XÂł: Reunion is a computer game in the X series developed by Egosoft and released late 2005. The game was intended to be Egosoft's first multiplatform release on both Windows and Xbox, but the plans changed and shortly before the PC release, it was revealed the Xbox version had been cancelled.
Xbloc An Xbloc is an interlocking concrete block or armour unit designed to protect shores, harbour walls, seawalls, breakwaters and other coastal structures from the direct impact of incoming waves. The Xbloc model has been designed and developed by Delta Marine Consultants (DMC) since 2001 and has been subjected to extensive research by several universities.
Xbox 360 Wireless Headset The Xbox 360 Wireless Headset is a wireless headset designed for the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live manufactured by Microsoft. It can be used for in game voice chat, private chat, audio for video chat and in game voice recognition.
Xbox Community Developer Program The Xbox Community Developer Program (XCDP) is a program that allows experienced web developers to create a community with Xbox Live integration. This integration is achieved through the use of XML feeds which provide data about games played and Xbox Live status (Rich Presence).
Xbox Development Kit The XDK, short for "Xbox Development Kit", is a software development kit created by Microsoft used to write software for the Xbox gaming system. The XDK includes libraries, a compiler, and various tools used to create software for the Xbox.
Xbox Linux Xbox Linux is a project that ported the GNU/Linux project to the Microsoft Xbox gaming console. Due to the fact that the Xbox uses a digital signature system to prevent the public from running unsigned code, one must either use a modchip, or find an alternative system for running unsigned code.
Xbox Live Arcade Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA) is an online service operated by Microsoft that is used to distribute video games to Xbox and Xbox 360 owners. The service was first launched in late 2004 and offers games from about $5 to $15 USD.
Xbox Live Marketplace The Xbox Live Marketplace is a virtual market designed for Microsoft 's Xbox 360 console that allows Xbox Live subscribers to download purchased or promotional content. The service offers movie and game trailers, game demos, Xbox Live Arcade games, gamer tag images, and Xbox 360 Dashboard themes.
Xbox Media Player Xbox Media Player, (or XBMP for short), was the predecessor to Xbox Media Center (XBMC), a feature-rich open source media player for the Xbox. With an audio/video-player-core based on MPlayer, it allowed owners of a modified Xbox to display pictures and movie files, as well as play music files from the Xbox DVD-ROM drive, built-in harddisk drive, LAN (SMB) or the internet.
XB-39 Superfortress The Boeing XB-39 Superfortress was a prototype bomber aircraft, a single example of the B-29 Superfortress converted to fly with alternative powerplants. It was intended to demonstrate that the B-29 could still be put into service even if the first choice of engine, the Wright R-3350, ran into development or production difficulties.
XBasic XBasic is a variant of the BASIC programming language that was developed in the late 1980s for the Motorola 88000 CPU and Unix by Max Reason. In the early 1990s it was ported to Windows and Linux, and since 1999 it has been available as open source software with its runtime library under the LGPL license.
XBAND XBAND was an early online console gaming network for SNES and Sega Genesis systems. It was produced by a Cupertino, California software company called 'Catapult', and made its debut in late 1994 and 1995 in various areas of the United States.
XBC The XBC, or the Xport Botball Controller, is a robot based off of Charmed Lab's Xport hardware. It was built specifically for the Botball competition and uses a Game Boy Advance for its display and has a processor with a separate rechargeable battery pack for power.
XBConnect XBConnect is a tunneling application as a means of playing Xbox LAN games over the internet, that is, play Xbox games over the internet whilst giving the Xbox the impression of playing a local multiplayer game. Any Xbox title that is system link compatible can be played on Xboxconnect.
XBEL XBEL, or the XML Bookmark Exchange Language, is an open XML standard for representing Internet URIs, also known as bookmarks (or favorites in Internet Explorer). XBEL was created by the Python XML Special Interest Group "to create an interesting, fun project which was both useful and would demonstrate the Python XML processing software which was being developed at the time," [http://pyxml.
XBill The classic Open Source computer game XBill is an arcade style game , very pupular at the end of the '90s featuring a bespectacled character known as "Bill]". Your goal is to prevent Bill's legions of clones from installing [[Microsoft Windows|Wingdows, a virus "cleverly designed to resemble a popular operating system", on a variety of computers running other operating systems.
XBL XBL or XML Binding Language is used to declare the behavior and look of XUL widgets and XML elements. In XUL one defines the user interface layout of an application, and then (applying styles) can customize the look of elements.
XBM In computer graphics, the X Window System uses XBM (X BitMap), an ASCII monochrome image format, for storing cursor and icon bitmaps used in the X GUI. XBM files differ markedly from most image files in that they take the form of C language source files.
XBML XBML stands for eXtended Business Modeling Language and is used to define the business processes of an organization. It is based upon a 5 dimensional business framework (What, Who, Where, When and Which) and is uniquely supported by approximately 55 rules that govern the usage, "output" and "syntax" of the language.
XBNBT XBNBT is a modified, open source, BitTorrent tracker based on BNBT, The Trinity EasyTracker and CBTT that offers many additional features such as support for flat-file or MySQL database operation, a Web interface, RSS feeds, user integration with IPB, IPB2, vBulletin 3, phpBB, and Phpnuke, control over TCP parameters, additional administrative, statistics, and control options, additional filter and search facilities, and more.
XBoard XBoard, also known as WinBoard on Microsoft operating systems, is a free graphical user interface client developed by Tim Mann that is compatible with various chess engines that support the Xboard Communication Protocol such as GNU Chess. It also supports Internet Chess Servers , e-mail chess and the playing of saved games.
XBRL XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is an emerging XML-based standard to define and exchange business and financial performance information. The standard is governed by a not-for-profit international consortium (XBRL International Incorporated) WWW.
XBX The Ten Basic Exercises (XBX) Plan is an exercise program developed for the Royal Canadian Air Force for women. The program consists of charts that get progressively more difficult, and takes 12 minutes per day after users get past the beginning levels.
XBXRX XBXRX is an American noise rock-influenced hardcore band formed in 1998 in Mobile, Alabama USA. They are a collective with a revolving cast of eight musicians including Steve Touchston, Weasel Walter, and Vice Cooler.
Xcade XCade was one of the very first arcade emulators developed around 1995 (pre-dating MAME by a short time, but following Neil Bradley's Atari vector emulator for instance), and one of the first multi-game emulators. It was probably the first released arcade emulator for Unix/X11 systems though there were a couple of unreleased emulators in works at the time.
Xceive XC3028 The Xceive XC3028 is a single chip silicon tuner capable of receiving analogue cable, analogue terrestrial, digital cable and digital terrestrial TV (PAL, NTSC, SECAM, DVB-t, ATSC, DVB-c). It is commonly used in USB digital TV receivers for PC and Mac due to its small size and power consumption, but the manufacturer also markets it as suitable for portable TVs and notebook computers.
Xcircuit XCircuit is a Unix/X11 (and Windows, too, with an X-Server running) program for drawing publishable-quality electrical circuit schematic diagrams and related figures, and produce circuit netlists through schematic capture. XCircuit regards circuits as inherently hierarchical, and writes both hierarchical PostScript output and hierarchical SPICE netlists.
Xcon The R1 (later called XCON, for eXpert CONfigurer) program was a production-rule-based system written in OPS5 by John P. McDermott of CMU in 1978 to assist in the ordering of DEC's VAX computer systems by automatically selecting the computer system components based on the customer's requirements.
Xcopilot Xcopilot is a Palm Pilot emulator that runs under Unix/X11. It offers emulation of the timer, serial ports, touch pad and LCD along with Motorola 68000 emulation (m68k), specifically the Motorola DragonBall derivative upon which early Pilots were based.
XC-120 Packplane The Fairchild XC-120 Packplane was a related development to the C-119 Flying Boxcar in the late 1940's. A C-119 fuselage was cut down to just below the flight deck and a removable pod designed to fit in its place.
XCAS * XCAS or on-call close air support (CAS) is a technique of air warfare which first achieved recognition in Operation Enduring Freedom, the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. It is associated with new developments in US Air Force doctrine emphasizing the centrality of effects-based targeting.
XCCDF The Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF) is an XML format specifying security checklists, benchmarks and configuration documentation. XCCDF development is being pursued by NIST, the NSA, The Mitre Corporation, and the US Department of Homeland Security.
XCiTĂ©s XCiTĂ©s is the Flamingo book of new French writing, edited by Georgia de Chamberet, published in 2000. Conceived of following France's World Cup win and during the height of the French music boom typified by Daft Punk and Air, the anthology showcased an array of young French writers.
XCOFF XCOFF, for "eXtended COFF", is an improved and expanded version of the COFF object file format defined by IBM and used in AIX. Early versions of the PowerPC Macintosh also supported XCOFF, as did BeOS.
XCOPY XCOPY is a command dating from DOS operating systems, but is also available on Microsoft Windows. XCOPY, which stands for "external copy", is used for copying multiple files from one directory to another and for copying files across a network.
XCOR Aerospace XCOR Aerospace is a private rocket engine and spaceflight development company based in Mojave, California at the Mojave Spaceport. It was formed by former members of the Rotary Rocket rocket engine development team in September, 1999.
XCOR EZ-Rocket The XCOR EZ-Rocket is a test platform for the XCOR rocket propulsion system. The plane is a modified Rutan Long-EZ, with the propeller replaced by first one, then a pair of pressure-fed regeneratively cooled liquid-fuelled rocket engines and an underslung rocket-fuel tank.
Xdelta xdelta is a Unix program which provides the ability to generate differences between a pair of files. It operates similar to the diff and patch commands, but works on binary files and does not produce a human readable output.
XDB Enterprise Server XDB Enterprise Server is a relational database management system, or DBMS, which was available for DOS, Windows NT and OS/2, and was fully compatible with IBM's DB2 database. The system was developed by XDB Systems, Inc.
XDCAM XDCAM is an optical disk based professional video system introduced by Sony in 2003. It features include tapeless optical disk recording of DVCAM, MPEG IMX and, in the XDCAM HD variant, HDV video data, as well as MXF metadata and a low resolution AV proxy stream, on a disc similar to a Blu-Ray disc called the Professional Disc, which holds 23.
XDELTA XDELTA is the name of a debugger used in the VMS operating system originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard, Massachusetts. Unlike a user-mode debugger, XDELTA is intended for debugging the operating system (the executive) itself and its related components (such as system services and device drivers) and so is capable of operating at elevated interrupt priority level.
XDH Assumption The External Diffie-Hellman (XDH) assumption is a mathematic assumption used in elliptic curve cryptography. The XDH assumption holds that there exist certain subgroups of elliptic curves which have useful properties for cryptography.
XDI XDI (XRI Data Interchange) is a generalized, extensible service for sharing, linking, and synchronizing data over the Internet and other data networks using XML documents and XRIs (Extensible Resource Identifiers). The XDI protocol is under development by the OASIS XDI Technical Committee.
XDNA xDNA is a modified form of DNA with 8 nucleobases: the four natural bases A, C, G, and T, and four artificial modifications of these made longer by the addition of an extra benzene ring: xA, xC, xG, and xT. A pairs with xT, C pairs with xG, G pairs with xC, and T pairs with xA, so the distance between the two halves of the double helix is consistently greater.
XDoclet XDoclet is an open-source code generation library which enables Attribute-Oriented Programming for Java via insertion of special Javadoc tags. It comes with a library of predefined tags, which simplify coding for various technologies: Java EE, Web services, Portlet etc.
XDocs XDocs was a proposal announced by Microsoft on October 2002 for a forms software, based on XML. Only announcing vague details, it was supposed to help users design, modify and work with XML-based forms, with little or no coding.
XDR (audio) XDR (eXtended Dynamic Range) is a quality-control and duplication process for the mass-production of pre-recorded audio cassettes. It is a process designed to provide higher quality audio on pre-recorded cassettes by checking the sound quality at all stages of the tape duplication process.
XDXF XDXF (XML Dictionary Exchange Format) is a project to unite all existing open dictionaries and provide both users and developers with universal XML-based format, convertible from and to other popular formats like Mova, PtkDic, StarDict. Currently the format is in an early draft stage.
Xe arrondissement The 10th arrondissement (Xe arrondissement), located on the Right Bank, is one of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, France. The arrondissement contains two of the six main rail stations in Paris: Gare du Nord and Gare de l'Est.
Xebec The term xebec (also variously spelled chebec, chebeck, jabeque, sciabecco, shebec, xebeque, and zebec) refers to a small, fast vessel of the 16th to 19th centuries, used almost exclusively in the Mediterranean Sea. Early xebecs had two masts; later ones three.
Xedos 6 The Xedos 6 was a European-market luxury car based on the Mazda CA platform also used by the Mazda Capella. Identical to the Japan-market Eunos 500, it was produced for model years 1993 through 1999 and was available in two versions, the 1.
Xeelee Sequence The Xeelee Sequence is a series of novels and short stories by British science fiction author Stephen Baxter. The novels span several billons of years , describing the future expansion of Mankind, its war with its arch-nemesis (an alien race called the Xeelee), and the Xeelee's own war with dark matter entities called photino birds.
Xegar Xegar is a town at the base of Mount Everest in the province of Xizang Zizhiqu in Tibet, which is currently administrated as part of China. It is notable for being the starting point for many climbing expeditions to the highest mountain in the world.
Xehanort is a fictional character in the video game Kingdom Hearts series and is the main villain of the series. Out of ignorance born of deception, he is referred to as in Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories.
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