Concorde, supersonic

Faster planes could prove a supersonic boon for time-pressed travellers. One of our most popular Gulliver stories over the past year

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Supersonic jets may be about to make a comeback
Reinventing Concorde

在協和式客機完成告別飛行，退役10週年之際，喬納森·葛蘭西向這架最為光彩奪目的飛機致敬，稱其為20世紀的標誌之一。 
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Concorde
PROPER NOUN

• A supersonic airliner able to cruise at twice the speed of sound. Produced through Anglo-French cooperation, it made its maiden flight in 1969 and was taken out of service in 2003.

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你坐過協和式飛機嗎？被譽為20世紀的標誌之一，協和式客機已經退役10年，但仍為人所懷念，是什麼讓它成為設計經典？
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協和式客機：20世紀設計經典 - BBC 英倫網

BBC.COM

supernova, Saturnalian delights

London Review of Books

‘We take the singing angels, the gift-bearing kings, the star, but forget Joseph’s psychological torture and the fear and panic caused by Herod’s massacre of the Bethlehem children. One or both may be fictive, but they belong to the story as much as the happy shepherds and the gift-laden tree. A moment spent on thought about them might even enhance our Saturnalian delights.’

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LRB · Frank Kermode · Was it a supernova?

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For other uses, see Supernova (disambiguation).

SN 1994D (bright spot on the lower left), a Type Ia supernova outshining its home galaxy, NGC 4526

A supernova (/ˌsuːpərnoʊvə/ plural: supernovae /ˌsuːpərnoʊviː/ or supernovas, abbreviations: SN and SNe) is an event that occurs upon the death of certain types of stars.

Supernovae are more energetic than novae. In Latin, nova means "new", referring astronomically to what appears to be a temporary new bright star. Adding the prefix "super-" distinguishes supernovae from ordinary novae, which are far less luminous. The word supernova was coined by Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky in 1931.^[1]

guinea pig

guinea pig

NOUN

• 1A tailless South American rodent of the cavy family. Originally raised for food, it no longer occurs in the wild and is now typically kept as a pet or for laboratory research.

  Cavia porcellus, family Caviidae
• 2A person or thing used as a subject for experiment.

  ‘we were used as guinea pigs to test the effects of radiation on human beings’

  ‘the school is a guinea pig for the national initiative’

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Guinea + pig; the term Guinea was probably a designation for an unknown distant country. Use in guinea pig (sense 2) arose in the 1920s in reference to the animal's use in laboratory research.

techlash

Silicon Valley, we have a problem. Our warning against the techlash was one of our most popular briefings of the past year

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The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can do

What does the 'techlash' mean? - Quora

https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-techlash-mean - 

Fundamentally, a techlash is a modern term coined by The Economist, that describes a hypothetical backlash of omnipotent tech companies, such as Google or Facebook. In this scenario, Silicon Valley giants could potentially have their ...

The Economist

Netflix does not rely on selling your data or your attention to outsiders. Instead, it enters into a clear exchange: a monthly fee in return for high-quality television

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How Netflix skipped the techlash
From Making a Murderer to making a killing

input, output, throughput, throughout time,

你捐書給某大學，他們花半年時間才將書上架，這時我們說該圖書處的此次系統的
throughout time 為6個月。

2016

Taiwan says February refinery throughput up 11 pct
Reuters
SINGAPORE, April 11 (Reuters) - Taiwan's refinery throughout for February climbed 11.2 percent from the previous month to 25.5 million barrels, or about 880000 barrels per day, government data showed on Wednesday, as refineries came back online after ...

原先 :投入（Input）、過程（Throughput），以及產出（Output）



throughput,

NOUN

The amount of material or items passing through a system or process:fast data throughputa weekly throughput of 200,000 shoppersfalling throughput and rising production costs

n.
Output or production, as of a computer program, over a period of time.

【コンピュータ】（コンピュータの）処理能力.throughput crime　【コンピュータ】（プログラム）処理変更犯罪.
Rate of production of a defined process over a stated period of time. Throughput can be measured in either financial or nonfinancial terms (for example, cash flows generated from selling products or services to customers, units of products, batches produced, dollar turnover, or other meaningful measurements. Components of throughput include Manufacturing Cycle Efficiency, process productivity, and process quality yield.

input 

Pronunciation: /ˈɪnpʊt/ 

NOUN

1[MASS NOUN] What is put in, taken in, or operated on by any process or system:there is little input from other members of the teamdata input

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1.1A contribution of work or information:her input on issues was appreciated

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1.2Energy supplied to a device or system; an electrical signal:the input is a low-frequency signal

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1.3The action of putting something in:the input of data to the system

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1.4The information put into a computer.  1946

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2Electronics A place where, or a device through which, energy or information enters a system:the signal being fed through the main input

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VERB (inputs, inputting; past and past participle input or inputted)

[WITH OBJECT]

Put (data) into a computer:test results can be inputted by the technician in the laboratory

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output 

Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtpʊt/ 

NOUN

1[MASS NOUN] The amount of something produced by a person, machine, or industry:output from the mine ceased in May[COUNT NOUN]: efficiency can lead to higher outputs

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1.1The action or process of producing something:the output of certain hormones under stress

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1.2The power, energy, or other results supplied by a device or system:high voltage output: 50-250 amps

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2Electronics A place where power or information leaves a system.

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VERB (outputs, outputting; past and past participle output or outputted)

[WITH OBJECT]

(Of a computer or other device) produce, deliver, or supply (data):you can output the image directly to a video recording system

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outputter

NOUN

throughput 

Pronunciation: /ˈθruːpʊt/ 

NOUN

The amount of material or items passing through a system or process:fast data throughputa weekly throughput of 200,000 shoppersfalling throughput and rising production costs