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Look up: sun

  1. sun
    Type: Term Definitions: 1. heliophobia.
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  2. Sun
    abbreviation: Sunday
    Found on http://www.apscharts.com/abbrev.html

  3. sun
    [n] - a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc 2. [n] - any star around which a planetary system evolves 3. [n] - a typical star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system 4. [v] - expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exp...
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. SUN
    Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  5. Sun
    The star at the centre of the Solar System
    Found on http://www.solarspace.co.uk/Glossary4.ph

  6. Sun
    The Sun is our nearest star. It is a dim yellow dwarf star, not particularly big or bright by astronomical standards. It has a mass of 2x1030kg and diameter 110 times that of the Earth. As an example for comparison, Betelgeuse in Orion has around 20 times the mass of the Sun, and a diamet...
    Found on http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/computing/

  7. Sun
    The star at the centre of our solar system. In the sun, the basic fusion process converts hydrogen to helium liberating large amounts of energy. The sun converts about 2 million kg of mass to energy every second.Equatorial radius6.96x108mMass1.9891x1030kgPolar moment of inertia...
    Found on http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/sour

  8. sun
    Sun Day, an occasion conceived to draw attention to the potential of solar energy. Category: Management in the public and private sector • central gearwheel in planetary reduction gear Category: Transport • a light-sensitive diode that sends a signal to the attitude-control s...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  9. Sun
    Sun noun (Botany) See Sunn .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/238

  10. Sun
    Sun noun [ Middle English sunne , sonne , Anglo-Saxon sunne ; akin to OFries. sunne , Dutch zon , Old Saxon & Old High German sunna , German sonne , Icelandic sunna , Goth. sunna ; perha...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/238

  11. Sun
    Sun transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sunned ; present participle & verbal noun Sunning .] To expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the sun; as, to sun cloth; to
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/238

  12. sun
    <botany> See Sunn. ... 1. The luminous orb, the light of which constitutes day, and its absence night; the central body round which the earth and planets revolve, by which they are held in their orbits, and from which they receive light and heat. Its mean distance from the earth is about 92,50...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  13. sun
    noun a typical star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system; `the sun contains 99.85% of the mass in the solar system`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  14. sun
    noun a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  15. Sun
    • (n.) The luminous orb, the light of which constitutes day, and its absence night; the central body round which the earth and planets revolve, by which they are held in their orbits, and from which they receive light and heat. Its mean distance from the earth is about 92,500,000 miles, and its...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  16. Sun
    star around which the Earth and the other components of the solar system revolve. It is the dominant body of the system, constituting more than 99 ... [70 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/185

  17. Sun
    Sun is a Korean girl name. The meaning of the name is `Goodness, Obedient` Sun,Sundeep,Sun-Hi The name Sun doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Sun seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Sun

  18. Sun
    Sun Greek: Helios (god; later identified with Apollo) Latin: Sol (god; later identified with Phoebus Apollo)
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  19. Sun
    Sun Microsystems
    Found on http://foldoc.org/Sun

  20. Sun
    Luminous star around which the Earth and other planets revolve around. The Sun emits 63,000,000 Watts per square meter of electromagnetic radiation. The Sun has an average distance from the Earth of about 150,000,000 kilometers. The Earth's orbit is not circular but elliptical.
    Found on http://www.physicalgeography.net/physgeo

  21. sun
    sun, intensely hot, self-luminous body of gases at the center of the solar system. Its gravitational attraction maintains the planets, comets, and other bodies of the solar system in their orbits.Sections in this article:IntroductionGeneral Characteristics of the SunProduction of Solar EnergyThe Stu...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08472

  22. Sun
    Sun, river, c.130 mi (210 km) long, rising in the Rocky Mts., NW Mont., and flowing generally E to the Missouri River at Great Falls. The Sun River project of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation utilizes the Sun and its tributaries to irrigate c.92,000 acres (37,230 hectares) of land. Of the system of da...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/us/A084721

  23. Sun
    The sun is the star at the centre of the solar system.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  24. Sun
    Click images to enlargeStar at the centre of our Solar System. It is about 5 billion years old, with a predicted lifetime of 10 billion years; its diameter is 1.4 million km/865,000 mi; its temperature at the surface (the photosphere) is about 5,800 K/5,530°C/9,986°F, and at the centre 15 mil...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  25. Sun
    Celestial body whose appearance magically transforms wet rock into dry rock but which rarely stays around long enough to do a proper job.
    Found on http://www.perratt.me.uk/fun/fellrun.htm



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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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