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Look up: Ultra

  1. ultra
    Latin, meaning: (+ acc.) beyond, on the far side of.
    Found on http://archives.nd.edu/uuu.htm

  2. ultra
    Latin, meaning: (+ acc.) farther (than), more (than).
    Found on http://archives.nd.edu/uuu.htm

  3. Ultra
    Code name and security caveat given to decoded messages and intelligence originating from German Enigma encrypted sources
    Found on http://www.secondworldwar.co.uk/glossu.h

  4. Ultra
    Abbreviation of Ultra Secret, term used by the British in World War II from spring 1940 to denote intelligence gained by deciphering German signals from the Enigma code-making machine. Ultra...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  5. Ultra
    Series of modified M113 [SG]
    Found on http://www.jedsite.info/index.html

  6. ULTRA
    British codename for high-level intelligence derived from breaking German Enigma encrypted signals
    Found on http://www.psywar.co.uk/glossary.php

  7. ultra
    However, articles in medical books and magazines have used the term and it has occurred in medical records and on death certificates (maybe someone carrying on the joke or not realising it is an artificial term)
    Found on http://www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/Arc

  8. ultra
    rubber vulcanisation accelerator of high potency Category: Chemistry • lamp which radiates especially strongly in the ultra-violet,the visible radiation produced not being of direct interest Category: Electrical engineering and energy • pressure below 75.10-9 mm Hg Category: Mechanical engineering • the -- computers were still being built with discrete component…
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  9. Ultra
    `Ultra` (sometimes capitalized `ULTRA`) was the name used by the British for intelligence resulting from decryption of German communications in World War II. The term eventually became the standard designation in both Britain and the United States for all intelligence from high-level cryptanalytic sources. The name arose because the code-breaking success was considered more important than the highest security classification available at the time ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra

  10. Ultra
    `Ultra` (sometimes capitalized `ULTRA`) was the name used by the British for intelligence resulting from decryption of German communications in World War II. The term eventually became the standard designation in both Britain and the United States for all intelligence from high-level cryptanalytic sources. The name arose because the code-breaking success was considered more important than the highest security classification available at the time ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra

  11. ULTra
    `ULTra` (`Urban Light Transport`) is a personal rapid transit system from Advanced Transport Systems Ltd, a company based in Cardiff, Wales. The system was conceived by Martin Lowson and his design team, and has had £10 million put into the project. There are not yet any commercial installations of ULTra; a pilot project is under construction at London's Heathrow Airport, and is currently scheduled to open to the public in 2008. The ULTra system...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ULTra

  12. Ultra
    • (n.) One who advocates extreme measures; an ultraist; an extremist; a radical. • (a.) Going beyond others, or beyond due limit; extreme; fanatical; uncompromising; as, an ultra reformer; ultra measures.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  13. ultra
    the extreme right wing of the royalist movement in France during the Second Restoration (1815–30). The ultras represented the interests of the large ... [2 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/u/4

  14. Ultra
    Allied intelligence project that, in tapping the very highest level of communications among the German armed forces, as well as (after 1941) those of ... [7 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/u/4

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9 January 2009

This day in history:
In 1972 the Cunard ship the Queen Elizabeth started to burn and burned for 3 days. Queen Elizabeth was launched on September 27, 1938 and due to the war in Europe, her maiden voyage ended on 7 March 1940 with a surprise arrival in New York Harbor. During her war service she carried over 811,000 passengers and sailed over 500,000 miles. At 83,637 gross registered tons, she would be the largest passenger ship afloat for the next 34 years. read more

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