Net Deals Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Glossary of astronomy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_astronomy

    The word "parsec" is a portmanteau of the words parallax and second. partial solar eclipse peak magnitude For a variable star, this is the highest amplitude achieved during a rise in luminosity, followed by a decline. This data point can provide useful distance information for a cataclysmic variable.

  3. Glossary of probability and statistics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_probability...

    Also confidence coefficient. A number indicating the probability that the confidence interval (range) captures the true population mean. For example, a confidence interval with a 95% confidence level has a 95% chance of capturing the population mean. Technically, this means that, if the experiment were repeated many times, 95% of the CIs computed at this level would contain the true population ...

  4. List of Star Wars characters - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_characters

    Wullf Yularen is an Imperial officer on the first Death Star. During the Clone Wars, Yularen served as an admiral in the Republic Navy, and a leader of Anakin Skywalker's fleet. He is later transferred to colonel and also the leader of the Imperial Security Bureau. He was killed in the destruction of the Death Star.

  5. Order of the Eastern Star - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Eastern_Star

    The Order of the Eastern Star is a Masonic appendant body open to both men and women. It was established in 1850 by lawyer and educator Rob Morris, a noted Freemason, and adopted and approved as an appendant body of the Masonic Fraternity in 1873. The order is based on some teachings from the Bible, [1] and is open to people of all religious ...

  6. List of Star Wars planets and moons - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_planets...

    Core Worlds – powerful and wealthy planets with millennia-long histories, many of them founding members of the Galactic Republic. On-screen examples include Coruscant, Corellia, Alderaan, and Hosnian Prime. The Colonies – the first colonies founded by the nascent Galactic Republic in ancient times.

  7. List of diseases (S) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diseases_(S)

    10.1 Sta–Ste. 10.2 Sti–Sto. 10.3 Str–Stu. 11 Su. Toggle Su subsection ... This is a list of diseases starting with the letter "S". Sa. Saa–Sal; Sam–Say; Saa ...

  8. List of the longest English words with one syllable - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_longest...

    This is a list of candidates for the longest English word of one syllable, i.e. monosyllables with the most letters. A list of 9,123 English monosyllables published in 1957 includes three ten-letter words: scraunched, scroonched, and squirreled. [1] Guinness World Records lists scraunched and strengthed. [2]

  9. Letter frequency - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency

    Letter frequency is the number of times letters of the alphabet appear on average in written language. Letter frequency analysis dates back to the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi ( c. 801 –873 AD), who formally developed the method to break ciphers. Letter frequency analysis gained importance in Europe with the development of movable type in 1450 ...