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Look up: Spica

  1. Spica
    [n] - the brightest star in Virgo
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Spica
    Spi'ca noun ; plural Spicæ . [ Latin , an ear, as of corn.] 1. (Medicine) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a ba...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/163

  3. spica
    Origin: L, an ear, as of corn. ... 1. <medicine> A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley. ... 2. <astronomy> A star of the first magnitude situated in the constellation Virgo. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  4. Spica
    noun the brightest star in Virgo
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. spica
    (spi´kә) a figure-of-8 bandage, with turns crossing each other.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001

  6. Spica
    • (n.) A star of the first magnitude situated in the constellation Virgo. • (n.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. Spica
    brightest star in the zodiacal constellation Virgo and one of the 15 brightest in the entire sky, having an apparent visual magnitude of 0.98. It is ... [2 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/140

  8. Spica
    Spica is a Lat In girl name. The meaning of the name is `name of a star ` The name Spica doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Spica seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Spi

  9. spica
    spica 1. A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; so called from its resemblance to a spike on a grain of barley. 2. A star of the first magnitude situated in the constellation Virgo.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  10. Spica
    The Spica was a Swedish patrol boat of 105 tons displacement launched between 1908 and 1910 as a torpedo boat. The Spica had a top speed of 25 knots and was armed with one 57 mm gun and one 18 inch torpedo tube.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  11. Spica
    Spica (spī'ku) , brightest star in the constellation Virgo; Bayer designation Alpha Virginis; 1992 position R.A. 13h24.8m, Dec. -11°07'. A bluish-white star of spectral class B1 V, its apparent magnitude averages about 0.96, making it one of the 20 brightest stars in the sky. Becau...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08462

  12. Spica
    Spica or Alpha Virginis is the principal star of the constellation of the Virgin.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  13. spica
    Type: Term Pronunciation: spī′kă, spī′kē See: bandage
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  14. Spica
    Brightest star in the constellation Virgo and the 16th-brightest star in the night sky. Spica has a true luminosity of over 1,500 times that of the Sun and is 260 light years from the Sun. It is a spectroscopic binary star, the components of which orbit each other every four days
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  15. Spica
    , while the angular size of the semimajor axis of the orbit was found to be only slightly larger at .<ref name=mnras151/> The primary star has a stellar classification of B1 III-IV. The luminosity class matches the spectrum of a star that is midway between a subgiant and a giant star, and it is n...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spica

  16. SPICA
    `SPICA` S.p.A. (Società Pompe Iniezione Cassani & Affini) was an Italian manufacturer of fuel injection systems. History : The company was founded by Francesco Cassani in 1932.<ref name="cefriel.it"> --> SPICA fuel injection systems were used in diesel and petrol engines. ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICA



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10 February 2012

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On 10th February 1996, a computer, Deep Blue, beat Russian Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player on the planet, and mankind’s place in the order of things was reshuffled. The match immediately became an iconic symbol of the advances made in artificial intelligence and supercomputing. Kasparov has since retired, like Deep Blue, which now resides in a museum. He has become a vocal advocate for democracy in today’s Russia. read more

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