IRISHREPUBLICANARMY's definitions

darkstar

also a USAF callsign for Area 51

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 13, 2003

Confederate Air Force

The confederate air force is an organization that preserves warbirds (i.e. aircraft from past wars).

That i just saw CAF aluminum overcast with the Civil Air Patrol

by IrishRepublicanArmy November 22, 2003

battleship

A fun game that teaches little children to play nice, as well as naval warfare tactics.

B-8!

You sunk my battleship!

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 12, 2003

ATC

Air Traffic Control

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by iRiShREPUblicANarmY January 24, 2004

CHP

California Highway Patrol

the largest highway patrol organization in the world. with a VHF radio network that kicks LAPDs ass.

The CHP practicly owns the 42 MHz band, i can hear them in Virginia with high-skip days.

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 28, 2003

calibration

1) The process of comparing an instrument's output signal with reality. Instruments that measure solar energy tend to "drift", that is, their output signals do not mean the same thing from one time period to another. Because of this, they are periodically (annually or semi-annually) re-calibrated against more reliable instruments.

2) Adjusting a measuring instrument to make it accurate. The set of operations which establish, under specified conditions, the relationship between values indicated by a measuring instrument or measuring system and the corresponding values of a quantity realized by a reference standard.

3) The act of adjusting the color of one device relative to another, such as a monitor to a printer, or a scanner to a film recorder. Or, it may be the process of adjusting the color of one device to some established standard.

This radio needs some calibration.

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 26, 2003

sine wave

a periodic oscillation, as simple harmonic motion, having the same geometric representation as a sine function.

example is too short, so very true.

by irishrepublicanarmy January 2, 2004