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Worldbuilding. Worldbuilding is the process of constructing an imaginary world or setting, sometimes associated with a fictional universe. [1] Developing the world with coherent qualities such as a history, geography, culture and ecology is a key task for many science fiction or fantasy writers. [2]
RSS ( RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) [2] is a web feed [3] that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. Subscribing to RSS feeds can allow a user to keep track of many different websites in a single news aggregator, which constantly monitor sites for new content ...
Data logger. A data logger (also datalogger or data recorder) is an electronic device that records data over time or about location either with a built-in instrument or sensor or via external instruments and sensors. Increasingly, but not entirely, they are based on a digital processor (or computer), and called digital data loggers (DDL).
Science fiction is "a literary genre whose necessary and sufficient conditions are the presence and interaction of estrangement and cognition, and whose main formal device is an imaginative framework alternative to the author's empirical environment." [6] [26] Thomas M. Disch. 1973.
Geology (from Ancient Greek γῆ (gê) 'earth', and λoγία ( -logía) 'study of, discourse') [1] [2] is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time. [3]
Signal-to-noise ratio ( SNR or S/N) is a measure used in science and engineering that compares the level of a desired signal to the level of background noise. SNR is defined as the ratio of signal power to noise power, often expressed in decibels. A ratio higher than 1:1 (greater than 0 dB) indicates more signal than noise.
Telecommunication is a compound noun of the Greek prefix tele- (τῆλε), meaning distant, far off, or afar, [6] and the Latin verb communicare, meaning to share. Its modern use is adapted from the French, [7] because its written use was recorded in 1904 by the French engineer and novelist Édouard Estaunié.
