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umbrel
: an inflorescence in which the pedicels of the flowers arise at the
same point.
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UN
: United Nations : an international
organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in
international law, international security, economic development,
social progress and human rights issues. It was founded in 1945 at
the signing of the United Nations Charter by 50 countries, replacing
the League of Nations, founded in 1919. As of 2007, there are 192
United Nations member states, encompassing almost every recognized
independent state.
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uncial
: designating, written in, or pertaining to a form of majuscule
writing, having a curved or rounded shape and used chiefly in Greek
and Latin manuscripts from about the 3rd to the 9th century AD.
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Unicode
: the universal character encoding,
maintained by the Unicode Consortium (http://www.unicode.org/).
This encoding standard provides the basis for processing, storage
and interchange of text data in any language in all modern software
and information technology protocols.
The
number of characters
in the Unicode Character Standard version 3.2 is 95,221; this number
is derived from 95,156 graphic characters + 65 control codes.
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URL
: Universal Resource Locator : the
address for locating documents on the World Wide Web (WWW).
Hyperlinks in HTML documents include URLs. For example, this text on
URL is located at http://www.grabovrat.com/glossary/grGlossaryU1.htm
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USGS
: United States Geological Survey : a research agency of
the US Department of the Interior, established in 1879. It is
responsible for interpreting and mapping the geology, hydrology, and
topography of the United States and its territories and for
investigating and appraising mineral, energy, and water resources.
The agency investigates such natural hazards as volcanoes,
earthquakes, and landslides.
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UTC :
Coordinated Universal Time : a practical international time scale
which
is identical with International Atomic Time (TAI) except that from time to time a leap second is
added to ensure that, when averaged over a year, the Sun crosses the
Greenwich meridian at noon UTC to within 0.9 s. The
dates of application of the leap second are decided by the
International Earth Rotation Service (IERS); this way UTC is kept
within 0.9 seconds of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
In 1970
the Coordinated Universal Time system was devised by an
international advisory group of technical experts within the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The ITU felt it was
best to designate a single abbreviation for use in all languages in
order to minimize confusion. Since unanimous agreement could not be
achieved on using either the English word order, CUT, or the French
word order, TUC, the acronym UTC was chosen as a compromise.
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history
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Utes
: an ethnically related group of American Indians.
Prior to the arrival of white settlers, the Utes occupied
significant portions of what are today eastern Utah, western
Colorado and parts of New Mexico and Wyoming; ancestors of the Ute
appear to have occupied these areas for at least a thousand years.
The Utes were never a unified group; instead, the Utes consisted of
numerous nomadic bands that maintained close associations with other
neighboring groups. Some of the larger groups included the Moache,
Capote, Uncompahgre, White River, Uintah, Pahvant, Timanogots, San
Pitch, Moanumts, Sheberetch and Weeminuche. The native Ute language
belongs to the Uto-Aztecan (Shoshone) family of languages and is a
dialect of Southern Numic. Nowadays Utes are living primarily in
three Ute tribal reservations: Uintah-Ouray in northeastern Utah;
Southern Ute and Ute Mountain in southwestern Colorado.
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Uto-Aztecan
(also Uto-Aztekan, Shoshone) : a Native
American language family; it is one of the largest (both in
geographical extension and number of languages) and most
well-established linguistic families of the Americas. The
Uto-Aztecan languages are found from the Great Basin of the western
United States (Oregon, Idaho, Utah, California, Nevada, Arizona),
through Mexico. Utah is named after the indigenous Uto-Aztecan Ute
people. Classical Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, and its
modern relatives are part of the Uto-Aztecan family. Other American
Indian groups with native Shoshonean dialects include the Bannocks,
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