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2D geometric model

2D geometric models are also convenient for describing certain types of artificial images, such as technical diagrams, logos, the glyphs of a font, etc.

AD700

The above image is a flow diagram of the CTF which is installed in the coal-fired power plant Scholven F located in Gelsenkirchen (Germany.

Adele Goldstine

Adele wrote the Operators Manual for the ENIAC after the 6 women (Kay McNulty, Betty Jean Jennings(Jean Bartik), Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Fran Bilas and Ruth Lichterman) trained themselves to program the ENIAC using its logical and electrical block diagram.

Association of MBAs

When a school applies for accreditation for its MBA programs, AMBA requires that the entire portfolio of MBA programs be put up for consideration (See diagram on the right) and will award accreditation only if all programs meet the organisation's criteria (though the school pays the same fee regardless of the number of programs being reviewed).

Atmospheric thermodynamics

In 1884 Heinrich Hertz devised first atmospheric thermodynamic diagram (emagram).

Beware the Fish

Elmer Drimsdale comes up with a new machine that mimics a broadcasting system, with a lens and microphone pointed at a labeled diagram of a Pacific king salmon, but he informs the hopeful two that it won't broadcast further than the room.

Bolivar railway station, South Australia

ARTC has a file dated 2004 with a diagram of Bolivar loop.

Chematica

One can specify a molecule in several ways, including searching by Beilstein Registry Number, CAS registry number, chemical name, SMILES structure, or by drawing the molecule diagram itself.

Clavicytherium

Kottick observes that the RCM instrument closely resembles another (unpreserved) clavicytherium found as a diagram in the work of Henri Arnaut de Zwolle.

Crease

Crease pattern, origami diagram type that consists of all or most of the creases in the final model

Drypool

John Venn (1834–1923), logician and inventor of the Venn Diagram, was born in Drypool, son of Rev. Henry Venn, Rector of Drypool

Dynkin diagram

In the mathematical field of Lie theory, a Dynkin diagram, named for Eugene Dynkin, is a type of graph with some edges doubled or tripled (drawn as a double or triple line) and, within certain constraints, directed multiple edges.

Ferae

According to recent studies (reflected in the diagram below), the closest relatives of Ferae are Perissodactyla (horses, tapirs and rhinos) and Cetartiodactyla (which combines Artiodactyla--camels, pigs, ruminants and hippos—with Cetacea--whales and dolphins).

Icosahedron

The company logo of the TDK Corporation contains a geometric figure which is based on the stellation diagram of the icosahedron.

Isotopy

Regular isotopy of a link diagram, an equivalence relation in knot theory

Istar

i*, a type of diagram used in requirements engineering

James Napier

James Robert Napier (1821–1879), Scottish engineer, inventor of Napier's diagram

Kalhora

The Abbasid Caliphs from Abu Al-Abbas Al Saffah till the Last Caliph of Egypt, is mentioned in diagram, furthermore, diagram mention their lieange line from Caliph Al-Muntasir II to Saint Main Adam Shah Abbassi, and Their Cousin(s), Amir Sadiq Mohammed Khan Abbasi I.

Liubo

In 1993, a wooden board with turtle divination diagrams and prognostications on one side and a Liubo diagram and forty-five prognostications on five topics on the other side was excavated from a late Western Han tomb at Yinwan in Donghai County, Jiangsu.

LLD

Ladder logic Diagram, a graphical representation of a program written in the programming language Ladder logic

Mahoroba

"The Man-yō Mahoroba Line" became in use for the common name of the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) Sakurai Line on March 13, 2010, the day of the diagram revision of JR Group.

Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey

Just four years later in 1902 Robert Henry Thurston among others acknowledged, that the heat distribution of the then modern steam engine was best shown by the use of the so-called "Sankey Diagram".

Medial pontine syndrome

(Medial pontine syndrome affects structures at the bottom of the diagram: the corticospinal tract, abducens nerve, and occasionally the facial nerve. Medial lemniscus

Phase space

In this case, a sketch of the phase portrait may give qualitative information about the dynamics of the system, such as the limit cycle of the Van der Pol oscillator shown in the diagram.

Programmable Safety Control System PSS

Programming followed the same formula, except that the instruction set was drastically reduced from the start to just a few languages, such as IL (Instruction List) or LD (Ladder Logic/Ladder diagram).

Prosa UML Modeller

Prosa automates diagram creation and checking, and produces C++, C#, Java code headers and SQL DDL for implementation.

QFL diagram

A QFL diagram or QFL triangle is a type of ternary diagram that shows compositional data from sandstones and modern sands, point counted using the Gazzi-Dickinson method.

RIPE

It seems that the name is the result of a translation of the English title of a diagram to French by John Quarterman.

Sankey diagram

Sankey diagrams are named after Irish Captain Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey, who used this type of diagram in 1898 in a classic figure (see panel on right) showing the energy efficiency of a steam engine.

Simon Stevin

In Bruges there is a Simon Stevin Square which contains his statue by Eugène Simonis, which includes his inclined plane diagram.

Solar cycle

This pattern is best visualized in the form of the so-called butterfly diagram, first constructed by the husband-wife team of E. Walter and Annie Maunder in the early twentieth century (see graph below).

Swan diagram

In economics, a Swan Diagram, also known as the Australian model (because it was originally published by Australian economist Trevor Swan in 1956 to model the Australian economy during the Great Depression), represents the situation of a country with a currency peg.

Swimming to Cambodia

One is a map of Southeast Asia and the other is a diagram of the bombing of Cambodia, which Gray tells the viewers/audience was called Operation Menu.

The System of Dante's Hell

The book correlates the man's experience with Dante's Inferno, and includes a diagram of the fictional hell described by Dante.

Thermoscope

Giuseppe Biancani published the first clear diagram of a thermoscope in 1617.

Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein

The farm was originally granted to A.P. de Nysschen in 1866 by the government of the South African Republic; is referred to in the survey diagram as "Twee Buffels Geschiet" (Two buffaloes shot) and shown as having an area of 5119 morgen and 429 square roods (4385.2 ha).

Unit testing

It is true that unit testing lacks some of the accessibility of a diagram, but UML diagrams are now easily generated for most modern languages by free tools (usually available as extensions to IDEs).

Vissim

VisSim, a visual block diagram language for model based simulation and embedded development.

Worlds of the Federation

Each entry features a Robinson projection map of the planet, diagram of its stellar system, a few paragraphs relating to the planet and its inhabitants, and a line drawing of the native in costume, with front/back/side views.

Wound Man

In the 1980 novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris, it is mentioned that Will Graham was tipped off to the fact that Hannibal Lecter was a murderer from this diagram, and a further reference to the diagram is made by the character Clarice Starling in the sequel novel Hannibal.

Yetzirah

On the Tree of Life diagram Yetzirah is associated with the Sephiroth Chesed, Geburah, Tiphareth, Netzach, Hod and Yesod.


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