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Grad (other)
Grad or grads may refer to: Places * Grad (toponymy) (Cyrillic: Град) is a Slavic word meaning "town", "city", "castle" or "fortified settlement" that appears in numerous Slavic toponyms ;Specific places named Grad: * Grad (Dubrovnik) - colloquial name for Grad (Ragusa) and present-day Dubrovnik by its inhabitants, neighboring and hinterlands population. * Grad, Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Grad, Delčevo, North Macedonia * Grąd, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland * Grąd, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland * Grad, Cerklje na Gorenjskem, Slovenia * Municipality of Grad, Slovenia ** Grad, Grad, a village, the seat of the municipality * Grad, Split, an administrative division of Split, Croatia People * Grad (surname) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Grad'' (EP), a Cactus Jack EP * Grad, the dragon in ''Ral Grad'' Education *Grad, short for a graduate, one who has successfully completed an education program Geometry and measurement * Gradian, a unit of ang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grad (toponymy)
Grad () is an Proto-Slavic, Old Slavic word meaning "town", "city", "castle" or "fortified settlement". Initially present in all related languages as ''Gord (archaeology), gord'', it can still be found as ''grad'', ''gradić'', ''horod'' or Gorod (toponymy), ''gorod'' in many placenames today. These places have ''grad'' as part of their name: * Asenovgrad ("Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria, Asen's town") * Beograd ("white town"), capital of Serbia, known in English as Belgrade. The largest city with ''grad'' in its name (in the 21st century). * Biograd ("white town") * Blagoevgrad ("Dimitar Blagoev, Blagoev's town") * Csongrád ( sr-Latn, Čongrad), Hungary ("black castle/town") * Bosilegrad * Danilovgrad ("Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, Danilo's town") * Dimitrovgrad (other), Dimitrovgrad ("Georgi Dimitrov, Dimitrov's town") * Donji Grad (other), Donji Grad ("lower town") * Dravograd ("Drava town") * Filmski Grad ("film town") * Golem Grad * Gornji Grad (disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grad (EP)
''Grad'' (trans. ''The City'') is an EP released by Serbian rock band Cactus Jack in 2002. ''Grad'' is the band's second release, following their 2002 debut release, the live/cover album '' DisCover'', and is the band's first release to feature their own material. Besides three tracks, the EP features the video for the track "Nekada" ("Some Time Ago") as a bonus. The EP cover was designed by Dragoljub "Paja" Bogdanović, who appeared on the band's previous release as guest vocalist and would in 2015 become Cactus Jack's frontman. Track listing All songs written by Stevan Birak and Miodrag Krudulj. Bonus video Personnel *Vladimir Jezdimirović - vocals *Stevan Birak - guitar *Miodrag Krudulj - bass guitar *Dušan Gnjidić - drums *Zoran Samuilov - keyboard Additional personnel *Zoran Maletić - producer, arrangements, recorded by *Aleksandra Stojanović - recorded by *Dragoljub "Paja" Bogdanović - cover design References {{Reflist''Grad''at Discogs External links''Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GrADS
The Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) is an interactive desktop tool that is used for easy access, manipulation, and visualization of earth science data. The format of the data may be either binary, GRIB, NetCDF, or HDF-SDS (Scientific Data Sets). GrADS has been implemented worldwide on a variety of commonly used operating systems and is freely distributed over the Internet. GrADS uses a 4-Dimensional data environment: longitude, latitude, vertical level, and time. Data sets are placed within the 4-D space by use of a data descriptor file. GrADS interprets station data as well as gridded data, and the grids may be regular, non-linearly spaced, Gaussian, or of variable resolution. Data from different data sets may be graphically overlaid, with correct spatial and time registration. It uses the ''ctl'' mechanism to join differing time group data sets. Operations are executed interactively by entering FORTRAN-like expressions at the command line. A rich set of built-in f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grad Associates
Grad Associates, formerly Grad Partnership and Frank Grad & Sons, was an architectural firm based in Newark, New Jersey. Founded in 1906 by Frank Grad (1882–1968), the company was later run by his sons, Bernard (d. August 4, 2000) and Howard (d. 1992). The company closed its doors on February 19, 2010. Born in Austria, Frank Grad was educated at the Newark Arts School (the forerunner of Arts High School). He began his Newark architectural practice in 1906. Grad was capable of working in many styles, from the Beaux-Arts, YMHA on MLK Boulevard, to the Spanish colonial Stanley Theater and Beth Israel Hospital, to the Neo-Classical Newark Symphony Hall, to the Art Deco 1180 Raymond Boulevard (aka, the Lefcourt Building). Several of Grad's greatest commissions, the YMHA, the Stanley Theater, Beth Israel, and the Lefcourt Building, were for Jewish patrons. In the mid-1930s the name of the firm became Frank Grad & Sons. Grad died in 1968. His firm, Grad Associates was continued ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BM-21 Grad
The BM-21 "Grad" () is a self-propelled 122 mm multiple rocket launcher designed in the Soviet Union. The system and the M-21OF rocket were first developed in the early 1960s, and saw their first combat use in March 1969 during the Sino-Soviet border conflict. ''BM'' stands for ''boyevaya mashina'' ( – combat vehicle), and the nickname means "hail". The complete system with the BM-21 launch vehicle and the M-21OF rocket is designated as the M-21 field-rocket system and is more commonly known as a Grad multiple rocket launcher system. In NATO countries the system, either the complete system or the launch vehicle only, was initially known as the M1964. Several other countries have copied the Grad or developed similar systems. In Russian service its intended replacement is the 9A52-4 Tornado. Many similar 122 mm MLRS systems are made by different countries based on the BM-21 Grad. Description The M-21 field rocket system with a BM-21 launch vehicle (122 mm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gigarad
The rad is a unit of absorbed radiation dose, defined as 1 rad = 0.01 Gy = 0.01 J/kg. It was originally defined in CGS units in 1953 as the dose causing 100 ergs of energy to be absorbed by one gram of matter. The material absorbing the radiation can be human tissue, air, water, or any other substance. It has been replaced by the gray (symbol Gy) in SI derived units. The rad is still used in the United States, although this is "strongly discouraged" in Chapter 5.2 of the ''Guide to the SI'', which was written and published by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. However, the numerically equivalent SI unit submultiple, the centigray (symbol cGy), is widely used to report absorbed doses within radiotherapy. The roentgen, used to quantify the radiation exposure, may be related to the corresponding absorbed dose by use of the F-factor. Health effects A dose of under 100 rad will typically produce no immediate symptoms other than blood changes. A dose of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gigaradian
The radian, denoted by the symbol rad, is the unit of angle in the International System of Units (SI) and is the standard unit of angular measure used in many areas of mathematics. It is defined such that one radian is the angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc that is equal in length to the radius. The unit was formerly an SI supplementary unit and is currently a dimensionless SI derived unit,: "The CGPM decided to interpret the supplementary units in the SI, namely the radian and the steradian, as dimensionless derived units." defined in the SI as 1 rad = 1 and expressed in terms of the SI base unit metre (m) as . Angles without explicitly specified units are generally assumed to be measured in radians, especially in mathematical writing. Definition One radian is defined as the angle at the center of a circle in a plane that subtends an arc whose length equals the radius of the circle. More generally, the magnitude in radians of a subtended angle is equal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schisma
In music, the schisma (also spelled ''skhisma'') is the interval between the syntonic comma (81:80) and the Pythagorean comma which is slightly larger. It equals or ≈ 1.00113, which corresponds to 1.9537 cents (). It may also be defined as: * the difference (in cents) between 8 justly tuned perfect fifths plus a justly tuned major third and 5 octaves; * the ratio of major limma to the Pythagorean limma; * the ratio of the syntonic comma and the diaschisma. ''Schisma'' is a Greek word meaning a split or crack (see schism) whose musical sense was introduced by Boethius at the beginning of the 6th century in the 3rd book of his ''De institutione musica''. Boethius was also the first to define the diaschisma. Andreas Werckmeister defined the ''grad'' as the twelfth root of the Pythagorean comma, or equivalently the difference between the justly tuned fifth (3:2) and the equally tempered fifth of 700 cents (2). This value, 1.955 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gradient
In vector calculus, the gradient of a scalar-valued differentiable function f of several variables is the vector field (or vector-valued function) \nabla f whose value at a point p gives the direction and the rate of fastest increase. The gradient transforms like a vector under change of basis of the space of variables of f. If the gradient of a function is non-zero at a point p, the direction of the gradient is the direction in which the function increases most quickly from p, and the magnitude of the gradient is the rate of increase in that direction, the greatest absolute directional derivative. Further, a point where the gradient is the zero vector is known as a stationary point. The gradient thus plays a fundamental role in optimization theory, where it is used to minimize a function by gradient descent. In coordinate-free terms, the gradient of a function f(\mathbf) may be defined by: df=\nabla f \cdot d\mathbf where df is the total infinitesimal change in f for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gradian
In trigonometry, the gradianalso known as the gon (), grad, or gradeis a unit of measurement of an angle, defined as one-hundredth of the right angle; in other words, 100 gradians is equal to 90 degrees. It is equivalent to of a turn, of a degree, or of a radian. Measuring angles in gradians (gons) is said to employ the ''centesimal'' system of angular measurement, initiated as part of metrication and decimalisation efforts. In continental Europe, the French word ''centigrade'', also known as ''centesimal minute of arc'', was in use for one hundredth of a grade; similarly, the ''centesimal second of arc'' was defined as one hundredth of a centesimal arc-minute, analogous to decimal time and the sexagesimal minutes and seconds of arc. The chance of confusion was one reason for the adoption of the term ''Celsius'' to replace ''centigrade'' as the name of the temperature scale. Gradians (gons) are principally used in surveying (especially in Europe), and to a lesser exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graduation
A graduation is the awarding of a diploma by an educational institution. It may also refer to the ceremony that is associated with it, which can also be called Commencement speech, commencement, Congregation (university), congregation, Convocation#University use, convocation or invocation. The date of the graduation ceremony is often called ''graduation day''. Graduates can be referred to by their year of graduation. History Ceremonies for graduating students date from the first universities in Europe in the twelfth century. At that time, Latin was the language of scholars. A ''Medieval university, universitas'' was a guild of masters (such as MAs) with license to teach. The etymology of "degree" and "graduate" originates from , meaning "step". The first step was admission to a bachelor's degree. The second step was the masters step, giving the graduate admission to the and license to teach. Typical dress for graduation is a Academic dress, gown and hood, or hats adapted from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ral Grad
is a Japanese manga series written by Tsuneo Takano and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. It is loosely based on the '' Blue Dragon'' video game. The story revolves around the journey of a young man named Ral from the kingdom of Sphaelite. Ral has a symbiotic relationship with Grad, a legendary shadow with the form of a giant blue dragon. The series ran in Shueisha's manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from December 2006 to July 2007, with its chapters collected in four volumes. The series was licensed for English release in North America by Viz Media. Story In a world where demonic creatures named shadows enter our realm through their very namesakes, little is safe. However, when a young boy by the name of Ral becomes friends with the shadow inside him, he may be the last hope in saving the world. Ral lives on the island of Sphaein, in the kingdom of . There, he has been enlisted to protect the kingdom from evil shadows that wish to destroy it. With the aid of his shadow, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
