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Jet(Joint Engine Technology) The database engine used in Microsoft Access and that accompanies Visual Basic and C++. Jet is typically used for storing data in the client machine. Developers using Access and Visual Basic access Jet via the DAO/Jet interface, which is a COM object. See DAO. jet1 1. a jet-propelled aircraft 2. Astronomy a long thin feature extending from an active galaxy and usually observed at radio wavelengths jet2 a. a hard black variety of coal that takes a brilliant polish and is used for jewellery, ornaments, etc. b. (as modifier): jet earrings jet [jet] (astronomy) A narrow, elongated feature in the radio or optical map of an active galaxy, quasar, or object in the Milky Way Galaxy, believed to represent an energetic outflow of gas from a compact astronomical object. (fluid mechanics) A strong, well-defined stream of compressible fluid, either gas or liquid, issuing from an orifice or nozzle or moving in a contracted duct. (particle physics) A group of particles issuing in approximately the same direction from a high-energy collision of elementary particles, believed to consist of decay products of a member of a quark-antiquark pair created in the collision. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| For this purpose, ``he stained his hair and his whole body entirely as black as jet, so that nothing was white but his teeth,'' and succeeded in imposing himself on the king, as an Ethiopian minstrel. Far off, the lofty jet of the whale might be seen, and nearer at hand the prowling shark, that villainous footpad of the seas, would come skulking along, and, at a wary distance, regard us with his evil eye. The gas jet threw its full light on the bloodless, sunken face under the black hat and on the white cravat, brilliant against the beaver of the coat. |
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