Hub Minds for example are generally nominated from well-regarded GSV ( the largest class of ships ) Minds, and then upgraded to care for the billions living on the artificial habitats.

In some respects Look to Windward serves as a loose sequel to the first Culture novel, Consider Phlebas: the GSV Lasting Damage fought in the Idiran-Culture War, and Ziller specially composes a work to commemorate the arrival of light from a supernova triggered during the war.

The great saphenous vein ( GSV ), also long saphenous vein, is the large ( subcutaneous ) superficial vein of the leg and thigh.

During the procedure, a catheter bearing a laser fibre is inserted under ultrasound guidance into the great saphenous vein ( GSV ) or small saphenous vein ( SSV ) through a small puncture.

In the Culture novel ( Surface Detail ) Veppers is informed that a single large GSV would be able to combat a fleet of 230, 000, 000 simple warships-representative of the combined force of an entire lesser civilisation-alone.

Horza manages to lift off and takes the Clear Air Turbulence on a wild ride through the massive spaces of the ex-Culture GSV which is carrying out the evacuation, and they escape into space after shaking off their Culture pursuers, although a Culture drone, Unaha-Closp, is also trapped on the escaping ship and becomes a reluctant member of the team.

The GSV Sleeper Service eventually takes control of the situation.

Until a few decades previously, the ship operated under another name as a normal GSV, providing a habitat for a vast number of Culture citizens.

Garnisonen i Sør-Varanger ( GSV ) is based at Høybuktmoen.

Hence, a GSV Mind has 200 billion times more storage than the total storage created by humans in 2002.

The final program, the Florida Gold Seal Vocational ( GSV ) scholars program was designed to facilitate a post-high school vocational degree and also pays $ 76 per semester credit hour.

Most of the engineering work on GSV based Opel / Vauxhall vehicles was done at Opel's International Technical Development Center ( ITDC ) in Rüsselsheim, Germany.

* Girls Sport Victoria ( GSV ), a highschool sporting association for 24 independent girls ' school's in Victoria, Australia.

During the events of Excession, the Grey Area pauses its historical research into a very comprehensive incident of genocide to help deliver Byr Genar-Hofoen to the GSV Sleeper Service.

Most of the lengthy names of ship classifications are shortened to three-letter acronyms ( e. g. GSV ).

In one of the Culture novels ( Excession ), a GSV unloads its organic population and transforms itself into a very fast-moving shipyard / mothership, effectively deciding the outcome of the main plot thread.

Classes of GSV are usually named after the largest planetary geological / geographical features.

Immediately after the Idiran War, ROUs of the period could also be outrun by the small number ( described as a limited edition by the Drone Skaffen-Amtiskaw ) of Continent Class, subtype Prompt GSV.

It is occasionally known as the Gilbert – Shannon – Varshamov bound ( or the GSV bound ), but the name " Gilbert – Varshamov bound " is by far the most popular.

Firbank has lots of very special students when it comes to sports, and Firbank also has a program going every term called GSV Sports for Year 7-12, and lots of girls participate.

The name actinium originates from the Ancient Greek aktis, aktinos ( ακτίς, ακτίνος ), meaning beam or ray.

Owing to its strong radioactivity, actinium glows in the dark with a pale blue light, which originates from the surrounding air ionized by the emitted energetic particles.

The oxidation state + 3 originates from the 6d < sup > 1 </ sup > 7s < sup > 2 </ sup > electronic configuration of actinium, that is it easily donates 3 electrons assuming a stable closed-shell structure of the noble gas radon.

It originates from the Proto-Indo-European * ( syllabic nasal ) and is cognate with English un -.

The Great North Road originates from different routes close to Pueblo Bonito and Chetro Ketl.

Borrowing from the French Physiocrats the idea that all wealth originates with the land, making farming the only truly productive enterprise, agrarianism claims that agriculture is the foundation of all other professions.

Perfumes can still be found with ambergris around the world, it is collected from remains found at sea and on beaches, although its precursor originates from the sperm whale, which is a vulnerable species.

The bulk of the population originates from immigrants who came to the island since the colonial times, mainly of Bengali, Hindustani and Tamil backgrounds.

It originates from 17th century Dutch dialects spoken by the mainly-Dutch settlers of what is now South Africa, where it began to develop independently.

Irenaeus also refers to a succession of presbyters who preserve the tradition " which originates from the apostles ".

" The Christian ministry is not derived from the people but from the pastors ; a scriptural ordinance provides for this ministry being renewed by the ordination of a presbyter by presbyters ; this ordinance originates with the apostles, who were themselves presbyters, and through them it goes back to Christ as its source .".

The Agra canal originates from Okhla barrage, downstream of Nizamuddin bridge.

The term ' ballroom dancing ' is derived from the word ball, which in turn originates from the Latin word ballare which means ' to dance ' ( a ballroom being a large room specially designed for such dances ).

Meanwhile others have concluded that the name of the island originates from the Indo-European root * bhel meaning white, fair.

The name boron originates from the Arabic word buraq or the Persian word burah ; which are names for the mineral borax.

Barium's name originates from the alchemical derivative " baryta ", which itself comes from Greek βαρύς ( barys ), meaning " heavy.

In the case of Jamaica, recent analysis of the soils showed elevated levels of cadmium suggesting that the bauxite originates from recent Miocene ash deposits from episodes of significant volcanism in Central America.

The term Big Brother originates from George Orwell's novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works, is amongst the largest and most comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.

In this article we will concentrate on the advances in the application of electronics in bio-medical research laboratories because this is where tomorrow's commonplace equipment originates.

The infrared emission could then be assumed to originate at the surface of the moon, while the radio emission originates at some depth beneath the surface, where the temperature variation due to solar radiation is reduced in amplitude and shifted in phase.

At some point in almost every show, usually when giving the address for the Puzzler answers, Ray will mention Cambridge, Massachusetts ( where the show originates ), at which point Tom reverently interjects with a tone of civic pride, " Our fair city.

Hence, although the origins of doublespeak remain unclear and unknown, doublespeak contains certain concepts borrowed from Herman and Orwell that might give some indication of where doublespeak originates from.

The term originates from English common law where felonies were originally crimes which involved the confiscation of a convicted person's land and goods ; other crimes were called misdemeanors.

The name originates from the ancient practice of military mining, where tunnels were dug under enemy fortifications or troop formations by sappers.

At the point where it makes its great bend the river meets the Chinchipe, which originates in southern Ecuador.

Nri and Aguleri, where the Igbo creation myth originates, are in the territory of the Umueri clan, who trace their lineages back to the patriarchal king-figure, Eri.

Western political philosophy originates in the philosophy of ancient Greece, where political philosophy begins with Plato's Republic in the 4th century BC.

The term conflict of laws itself originates from situations where the ultimate outcome of a legal dispute depended upon which law applied, and the common law courts manner of resolving the conflict between those laws.

The term " social geography " ( or rather " géographie sociale ") originates from France, where it was used both by geographer Élisée Reclus and by sociologists of the Le Play School, perhaps independently from each other.

This originates from Chinese, where the pronunciation of the word for " four " ( 四, sì in Mandarin ) is very similar to that of the word for " death " ( 死, sǐ in Mandarin ), and remains such in the other countries ' Sino-Xenic vocabulary.

The term originates from the line at the end of Saint Paul's Letter to the Galatians where he says, " I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

This use of the Greek term synagogue originates in the Septuagint where it sometimes translates the Hebrew word for assembly, kahal.

This is where the name originates.

This practice is widely used in the United States and Canada, but is never used in other English-speaking countries including the United Kingdom itself, from where the use of " John Doe " in a legal context originates.

The Source, where the Feed's stream of matter originates, is controlled by the Victorian phyle ( though smaller, independent Feeds are possible ).

( 2006 ) suggest that the geyser activity in the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus originates from clathrate hydrates, where carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen are released when exposed to the vacuum of space by the " Tiger Stripe " fractures found in that area.

The word Astana in Kazakh literally means Capital but the word itself originates from Persian Astane ( means " sublime threshold ," " royal porte " implying a royal capital city or a holy shrine town, ( from the Persian verb Istadan ( آستان ) ' to stand ' ( in respect )), and literally means " threshold " ( royal or sacred, where people stand in respect or awe ), implying where the court is seated ( the capital city ) or the body of a sacred person is interred ( a shrine town ).

It has been introduced as an ornamental shrub in Mexico, where it has naturalized and is often seen primarily in suburban and semi-arid areas where summer rainfall climate contrary to the Mediterranean, where the species originates, doesn't hurt it.

The name " ayatollah " originates from the Quran where the Shi ' a, unlike the Sunni, interpret that human beings can also be regarded as signs of God, the literal translation of the title.