Definitions by irishREPUBLICANarmy

Cossacks

Slavic people living in southern European Russia and Ukraine and adjacent parts of Asia and noted for their horsemanship and militarykill; they formed an elite cavalry corps in czarist Russia

I was bored while doing AP History packets.

Cossacks by IRISHrepublicanARMY December 29, 2003

calibrate 

To find calibre the (caliber) of; correlate readings of (instrument etc) with a standard or commonly accepted value.

I calibrated my HF reciever with the 10.0000 MHz WWV/WWVB frequency standard.

calibrate by IrishRepublicanArmy December 26, 2003

blah 

1) pompous or pretentious talk or writing

2) when you having nothing else to say, you say "blah"

example too short? WTF?

blah by IrishRepublicanArmy December 26, 2003

yellow journalism 

The use of cheaply sensational or unscrupulous methods in newspapers to attract and influence the readers.

99.3% of what is in tabloid newspapers is yellow journalism.

yellow journalism by IRISHREPUBLICANARMY December 26, 2003

speaker 

1) Electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance.

2) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks

the leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of Representatives

speaker by IrishRepublicanArmy December 26, 2003

callsign

1) The identifying code letters or numbers of a radio or television transmitting station, assigned by a regulatory body. Also called call sign or call letters.

2) (military) code word for aircraft, ship, etc, used in radio communications.

Dark 87 this is Havoc 12, switch to 11175 and vector out to DZ.

callsign by IRISHREPUBLICANARMY December 26, 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.

calibration by IrishRepublicanArmy December 26, 2003