The DVB Multimedia Home Platform ( DVB-MHP ) defines a Java-based platform for the development of consumer video system applications.

Java API for XML Registries ( JAXR ) defines a standard API for Java platform applications to access and programmatically interact with various kinds of metadata registries.

Another technique taught by Johnstone is to establish a ' platform ' early in the scene that defines the characters and background.

In its platform, it defines itself as a catch-all liberal, progressive, but conservative-leaning organization.

The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface ( UEFI ) is a specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware.

' It defines a sun4v platform which is a super-set of the sun4u platform, but is still compliant to the SPARC v9 Level-1 specification.

The standard also defines an alerting mechanism for the system to send a simple network management protocol ( SNMP ) platform event trap ( PET ).

Resting on concrete foundations, the 4 foot ( 1. 2 m ) high marble base defines a platform, 43 feet 5 inches ( 13. 2 m ) in diameter, intended for use as a bandstand.

* Aardklop establishes a unique platform for up-and-coming artists to perform alongside established performers.

More traditional Nazarene churches may have a song leader who directs congregational hymns from the pulpit or platform.

# ICQ Game Center — A games platform that enables the user to play with and / or against other users.

Gandhi expanded his non-violence platform to include the swadeshi policy — the boycott of foreign-made goods, especially British goods.

Today there are several languages in the ML family ; the two major dialects are Standard ML ( SML ) and Caml, but others exist, including F # — a language that Microsoft supports for their. NET platform.

Perhaps the most well-known non-standard match is the cage match, in which the ring is surrounded by a fence or similar metal structure, with the express intention of preventing escape or outside interference — and with the added bonus of the cage being a potentially brutal weapon or platform for launching attacks.

* NCLab — free cloud computing platform that provides solid modeling based on PLaSM and WebGL.

According to political scientist Richard F. Bensel in his study of the 1896 Democratic convention, " Although the silver men knew they would win this fight, they nonetheless needed someone to tell them — and the gold men — why they must enshrine silver at the heart of the platform.

Usually polygonal in plan to give an overall rounded effect ( though the Red Bull and the first Fortune were square ), the three levels of inward-facing galleries overlooked the open center, into which jutted the stage — essentially a platform surrounded on three sides by the audience, only the rear being restricted for the entrances and exits of the actors and seating for the musicians.

* Internet forums ( also known as message boards or discussion boards ) — a virtual discussion platform to facilitate and manage online text messages

* Online chat — a virtual discussion platform to facilitate and manage real-time text messages

One of the projects between Ames, Google, and Carnegie Mellon University is the Gigapan Project — a robotic platform for creating, sharing, and annotating terrestrial gigapixel images.

This would be the excuse for all sorts of happenings, such as the two-man inter-rabbi bobsleigh championships ( to be held on the down escalator at Leicester Square underground station — weather and platform tickets permitting ), Formation Goat Nadgering, Paso Doble Jockey Wagging, Floodlit Horse Massage, and Nark Fettering on Ice, and reports of the latest activities of the Over-Eighties Nudist Leapfrog ( or Basketball, or Judo ) Team.

The Journey Behind the Falls — accessible by elevators from the street level entrance – consists of an observation platform and series of tunnels near the bottom of the Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side.

There is also a smaller domed building on the upper platform, slightly to the east of the Dome of the Rock, known as the Dome of the Chain — traditionally the location where a chain once rose to heaven.

* Cistern 5 ( located under the south eastern corner of the upper platform ) — a long and narrow chamber, with a strange anti-clockwise curved section at its north western corner, and containing within it a doorway currently blocked by earth.

They have expected vocalists to emit a pure, steady stream of clear sound — irrespective of whether they were singing in church, on the concert platform, or on the operatic stage.

In a 1989 legislative by-election in Dreux, FN candidate Marie-France Stirbois — campaigning on an anti-Islamism platform — returned a symbolic FN presence to the National Assembly.

At around the same time, Avid — now with Windows versions of its editing software — was considering abandoning the Macintosh platform.

Assyria, imitating Babylonian architecture, also built its palaces and temples of brick, even when stone was the natural building material of the country — faithfully preserving the brick platform, necessary in the marshy soil of Babylonia, but little needed in the north.

Application software can be written to depend on the features of a particular platform — either the hardware, operating system, or virtual machine it runs on.

Another approach that is used is to depend on pre-existing software that hides the differences between the platforms — called abstraction of the platform — such that the program itself is unaware of the platform it is running on.

It is intended to let application developers " write once, run anywhere " ( WORA ), meaning that code that runs on one platform does not need to be recompiled to run on another.

Reading development involves a range of complex language underpinnings including awareness of speech sounds ( phonology ), spelling patterns ( orthography ), word meaning ( semantics ), grammar ( syntax ) and patterns of word formation ( morphology ), all of which provide a necessary platform for reading fluency and comprehension.

The current position was constantly updated from the host aircraft though accurate fixes, meaning that the accuracy of the platform inside the missile was not as critical.

Giving it a particularly ‘ local ’ meaning, these particular distinctions transform distant German hip hop into a platform for Turks to assert their nationalistic pride.

The programming language is referred to here, meaning the programmer need not be concerned about the hardware or operating system platform, nor will the language change with a different platform.

Due to Apple's smaller market share the number of third-party providers was more limited than for the competing IBM PC platform ( though larger than for the Amiga, which had similarly unusual components ), and third-party providers sometimes had to license elements of the interface technology, meaning that Apple made money on every peripheral sold, even if they did not manufacture it.

The word mezzanine, meaning a platform inserted between two floors of a building, describes the way in which a PMC card fits between two adjacent host cards in a standard card rack, attached to one of the cards by connectors and mounting pillars.

The word platform comes from Middle French plate-forme, literally meaning " flat form ".

The political meaning of the word to reflect " statement of party politics " is from 1803, probably originally an image of a literal platform on which politicians gather, stand, and make their appeals.

* Za ( guilds ), which were Japanese feudal trade guilds ; also a Japanese term ( 座 ), usually meaning " seat " or " platform "

The mounds are divided into several different types: platform, conical, ridge-top, etc .. Each appeared to have had its own meaning and function.

The problem is that most software packages for agents do not allow them to cross share data between other company agencies ( separate brokerages ), so MLS in the UK is in its infancy and a cross data platform now exists via INEA ( The Independent Network of Estate Agents ) who are working with 2 / 3 of the main software providers meaning that at last one agent can select other agents to send and receive MLS shared listings.

The Mazda 323's replacement, the Mazda3, is also based on the same platform as the new model Focus, meaning that both companies ' products in this market segment will use the same platform around the world.

Giving it a particularly ‘ local ’ meaning, these particular distinctions transform distant German hip hop into a platform for Turks to assert their nationalistic pride.

The advantage of this system is that it is platform neutral, meaning that the same telephone-based return path can be used for both cable and satellite installations.

It is a dialect of ECMAScript ( meaning it is a superset of the syntax and semantics of the language more widely known as JavaScript ), and is used primarily for the development of websites and software targeting the Adobe Flash Player platform, used on Web pages in the form of embedded SWF files.

Until duplication to Gowrie in 1998, the railway line north of the station had only a single track ( except for the island platform at Gowrie, which had two platforms but one platform was a dead-end platform, meaning trains couldn't cross at Gowrie, so trains had to cross by Merlynston ).

( Although this represents the usual platform use, both platforms are in fact bi-directional, meaning any service in either direction on either the Epping or Hurstbridge lines can use either platform.

( Note: Platform 2 is bi-directional, meaning that Flinders Street bound trains can use it if platform 1 is unavailable.

The station building that stood on the platform at Somerville was a portable, meaning that it was delivered in sections and bolted together.