English Dictionary: Rhineland | by the DICT Development Group |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ramline \Ram"line\, n. A line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar, or from stem to stern in building a vessel. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Remollient \Re*mol"lient\ (r?-m?l"yent [or] -l?-ent), a. [L. remolliens, p. pr. of remollire to mollify: cf. F. r[82]mollient. See {Mollient}.] Mollifying; softening. [R.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lubber \Lub"ber\, n. [Cf. dial. Sw. lubber. See {Looby}, {Lob}.] A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown. Lingering lubbers lose many a penny. --Tusser. {Land lubber}, a name given in contempt by sailors to a person who lives on land. {Lubber grasshopper} (Zo[94]l.), a large, stout, clumsy grasshopper; esp., {Brachystola magna}, from the Rocky Mountain plains, and {Romalea microptera}, which is injurious to orange trees in Florida. {Lubber's hole} (Naut.), a hole in the floor of the [bd]top,[b8] next the mast, through which sailors may go aloft without going over the rim by the futtock shrouds. It is considered by seamen as only fit to be used by lubbers. --Totten. {Lubber's line}, {point}, [or] {mark}, a line or point in the compass case indicating the head of the ship, and consequently the course which the ship is steering. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Rhineland, MO (town, FIPS 61328) Location: 38.71860 N, 91.51729 W Population (1990): 157 (76 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 65069 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Rhinelander, WI (city, FIPS 67200) Location: 45.63956 N, 89.41196 W Population (1990): 7427 (3293 housing units) Area: 13.3 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Romoland, CA (CDP, FIPS 62756) Location: 33.74463 N, 117.17173 W Population (1990): 2319 (818 housing units) Area: 8.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 92585 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Run Length Limited {magnetic disks}. RLL packs up to 50% more data on a disk than {MFM}. {IBM} invented RLL encoding and used it in {mainframe} disk drives. During the late 1980s, {PC} hard disks began using RLL. Today, virtually every drive on the market uses some form of RLL. Groups of bits are mapped to specific patterns of flux. The density of flux transitions is limited by the spatial resolution of the disk and frequency response of the head and electronics. However, transitions must be close enough to allow reliable {clock recovery}. RLL implementations vary according to the minimum and maximum allowed numbers of {transition cells} between transitions. For example, the most common variant today, RLL 1,7, can have a transition in every other cell and must have at least one transition every seven cells. The exact mapping from bits to transitions is essentially arbitrary. Other schemes include {GCR}, {FM}, {Modified Frequency Modulation} (MFM). See also: {PRML}. {(http://cma.zdnet.com/book/upgraderepair/ch14/ch14.htm)}. (2003-08-12) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
run-length encoding A kind of {compression} {algorithm} which replaces sequences ("runs") of consecutive repeated characters (or other units of data) with a single character and the length of the run. This can either be applied to all input characters, including runs of length one, or a special character can be used to introduce a run-length encoded group. The longer and more frequent the runs are, the greater the compression that will be achieved. This technique is particularly useful for encoding black and white {image}s where the data units would be single bit {pixel}s. (1994-10-27) |