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Rosetta (rōzĕt`ə), former name of Rashid (räshēd`), city (1986 pop. 51,789), N Egypt, in the Nile River delta. The city once dominated the region's rice market; rice milling and fish processing are the main industries of modern Rashid. Founded in the 9th cent., the city was formerly an important port but declined after the building (1819) of the Mahmudiyah Canal, which diverted its trade to Alexandria Alexandria, Arabic Al Iskandariyah, city (1996 pop. 3,328,196), N Egypt, on the Mediterranean Sea. It is at the western extremity of the Nile River delta, situated on a narrow isthmus between the sea and Lake Mareotis (Maryut).
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Rosetta Stone is a granitoid slab inscribed in hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek with identical texts of a decree by a council of priests during the reign of Ptolemy V Ptolemy V (Ptolemy Epiphanes) (tŏl`əmē ĭpĭf`ənēz), d. 180 B.C., king of ancient Egypt (205–180 B.C.
..... Click the link for more information. . Part of a stele dating from 196 B.C., it was found (1799) by Napoleon's troops near the city, was taken (1801) by the British, and since 1802 has been displayed at the British Museum. It gave Jean-François Champollion Jean Jacques Champollion-Figeac (–fēzhäk`)
..... Click the link for more information. , Thomas Young Young, Thomas, 1773–1829, English physicist, physician, and Egyptologist. He established (1799) a medical practice in London and was elected (1811) to the staff of St. George's Hospital there.
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See study by R. B. Parkinson (1999).

Rosetta

(1) See RosettaNet and HD-ROSETTA.

(2) An emulator from Apple that runs PowerPC-based applications on Intel-based Macs under OS X. Included with Apple's first Core Duo-based laptops, Rosetta can run most OS X applications except for those that use specific instructions in the G5 processor. See Mactel.

Now, with the help of Fairfield Language Technologies, creator of the computer-based language immersion program Rosetta Stone, the Army anticipates it will be able to significantly increase basic foreign language skill-level across the force.

Army news service (Sept. 30, 2005): U.S. Army to provide Rosetta ... by Defense AT & L

SEATTLE & BEER-SHEVA, Israel -- Rosetta Biosoftware announced today that the Rosetta Elucidator[R] system for LC/MS protein expression analysis and the Rosetta Resolver[R] system for gene expression data analysis will be used for the study of Bioinformatics at the National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN) at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Deploys Rosetta Biosoftware ... by Business Wire

SEATTLE & TOKYO -- Rosetta Biosoftware announced today that Oji Paper Co.

Oji Paper Co., Ltd. Licenses the Rosetta Resolver(R) Gene Expression ... by Business Wire

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