SDR
Encyclopedia
Places
- Santander, CantabriaSantander, CantabriaThe port city of Santander is the capital of the autonomous community and historical region of Cantabria situated on the north coast of Spain. Located east of Gijón and west of Bilbao, the city has a population of 183,446 .-History:...
- Santander AirportSantander AirportSantander Airport is an international airport near Santander, Spain and the only airport in Cantabria. The airport has been extended and refurbished in the last couple of years. In 2009 the airport handled 958,157 passengers and 18,753 flights, far more than in 1995 when it handled only 180,000...
, IATA airport code - SomaliaSomaliaSomalia , officially the Somali Republic and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under Socialist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. Since the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991 there has been no central government control over most of the country's territory...
, previously known as the Somali Democratic Republic - Southern Distributor RoadSouthern Distributor RoadThe Southern Distributor Road is a principal distributor road in Newport that runs from the Coldra roundabout in the east of Newport to Tredegar Park M4 Junction 28) in the west of Newport and includes City Bridge, a bow-string arch bridge spanning the River Usk...
, part of the Newport ring road in the United Kingdom - Snailbeach District RailwaysSnailbeach District RailwaysSnailbeach District Railways was a British narrow gauge railway in Shropshire. It was built to carry lead ore from mines in the Stiperstones to Pontesbury where the ore was transshipped to the Great Western Railway's Minsterley branch line. Coal from the Pontesford coal mines travelled in the...
, a mine railway in Shropshire, England - Somerset and Dorset Joint RailwaySomerset and Dorset Joint RailwayThe Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway – almost always referred to as "the S&D" – was an English railway line connecting Bath in north east Somerset and Bournemouth now in south east Dorset but then in Hampshire...
, defunct British railway system - São Domingos de RanaSão Domingos de RanaSão Domingos de Rana is a civil parish of the Portuguese municipality of Cascais, part of the Greater Lisbon subregion. In 2001, its population was 43991 and in an area of 20.36 km².-References:NotesSources...
, a parish in Cascais, Portugal
Reports and reviews
- Strategic Defence ReviewStrategic Defence ReviewThe Strategic Defence Review was a British policy document produced by the Labour Government that came to power in 1997. Then Secretary of State for Defence, George Robertson, set out the initial defence policy of the new government, with a series of key decisions designed to enhance the United...
, a United Kingdom Ministry of Defence defence review - System Design ReviewSystem Design ReviewA System Design Review is a scheduled review, of many government-contractor relations, which ensures continuous involvement throughout a program...
, a scheduled review which ensures continuous involvement throughout a program - Swiss Derivatives ReviewSwiss Derivatives ReviewSwiss Derivatives Review is a professional magazine for the futures and options industries.The Swiss Derivatives Review was first published in 1997 and today is issued three times a year....
, a magazine for the futures and options industries
Economics, maths and science
- System of distinct representatives, in mathematics
- Special Drawing RightsSpecial Drawing RightsSpecial Drawing Rights are supplementary foreign exchange reserve assets defined and maintained by the International Monetary Fund . Not a currency, SDRs instead represent a claim to currency held by IMF member countries for which they may be exchanged...
, in the International Monetary Fund - Social discount rateSocial discount rateSocial discount rate is a measure used to help guide choices about the value of diverting funds to social projects. It is defined as "the appropriate value of r to use in computing present discount value for social investments"...
, a measure of the value of diverting funds to social projects - Selective dorsal rhizotomyRhizotomyA rhizotomy is a term chiefly referring to a neurosurgical procedure that selectively severs problematic nerve roots in the spinal cord, most often to relieve the symptoms of neuromuscular conditions such as spastic diplegia and other forms of spastic cerebral palsy...
, a neurosurgery
Technology
- ETSI Satellite Digital RadioETSI Satellite Digital RadioETSI Satellite Digital Radio describes a standard of satellite digital radio. It is an activity of the european standardisation organisation ETSI....
- Single data rate synchronous dynamic random access memorySynchronous dynamic random access memorySynchronous dynamic random access memory is dynamic random access memory that is synchronized with the system bus. Classic DRAM has an asynchronous interface, which means that it responds as quickly as possible to changes in control inputs...
(SDRAM), a transfer mode for a data bus, in which there is a single data transfer per full clock cycle - Software-defined radioSoftware-defined radioA software-defined radio system, or SDR, is a radio communication system where components that have been typically implemented in hardware are instead implemented by means of software on a personal computer or embedded computing devices...
, radio communication system which uses software for the modulation and demodulation of radio signals - QRIOQRIOQRIO was to be a bipedal humanoid entertainment robot developed and marketed by Sony to follow up on the success of its AIBO toy. QRIO stood approximately 0.6 m tall and weighed 7.3 kg...
, originally named SDR for "Sony Dream Robot", an entertainment robot - XDR (audio)XDR (audio)XDR is a quality-control and duplication process for the mass-production of pre-recorded audio cassettes. It is a process designed to provide higher quality audio on pre-recorded cassettes by checking the sound quality at all stages of the tape duplication process...
or Super Dynamic Range, a quality-control process for extending the recording quality of cassettes - Standard Dimension Ratio, method of rating pressure piping. The SDR is the ratio of pipe diameter to wall thickness and the SDR can be expressed as
SDR = D / s,
where,
D = pipe outside diameter (mm)
s = pipe wall thickness (mm) engineeringtoolbox.com SDR
Entertainment
- Süddeutscher RundfunkSüddeutscher RundfunkThe Süddeutscher Rundfunk was a German radio and television station operating in the northern part of the state of Baden-Württemberg. It existed from 1949 to 1998, when it was merged with the then Südwestfunk to form the Südwestrundfunk....
, a former German radio station - Sudden Death RecordsSudden Death RecordsSudden Death Records is a Vancouver, British Columbia based record label run by Joe "Shithead" Keithley.Sudden Death Records arrived in Canada's burgeoning punk scene in 1978. It was only a part-time label until 1998, when they began to expand further into punk rock music...