Seabird (novel)

Seabird is a 1948 book for children and young people, written and illustrated by Holling Clancy Holling. The ship's boy on an 1830 whaling ship uses his years of off duty time and walrus tusks traded from an Eskimo to carve an ivory gull, which later serves as the family mascot. The book follows the gull until it rides in a jet airplane.

Each odd numbered page has a picture of an aspect of life at sea. The facing even numbered pages carry the text with wide margins filled with labeled drawings of details of history or natural history, such as how oil was taken from a whale that was too big to bring on board, and how the shape of a ship's bow depends on its intended use.

First published in 1948, Seabird was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1949.

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Seabird (disambiguation)

Seabirds are birds adapted to a marine life.

Seabird(s) or Sea bird(s) may also refer to:

In music and literature:

Seabird (band), an American rock band

"The Seabirds" a song by The Triffids from the album Born Sandy Devotional

Seabirds (song), an unreleased Pink Floyd song written for the soundtrack to More

Seabird (novel), a 1948 book by Holling Clancy Holling

Places:

Sea Bird Island (British Columbia)

Seabird, Western Australia

In ships and aircraft:

Sea Bird (ship), an 18th-century merchant ship

USS Sea Bird (1863), a schooner in the American Civil War

CSS Sea Bird, a steamer in the Confederate States Navy

Lakes Sea Bird, a two-seat floatplane built in 1912

Fleetwings Sea Bird, an American amphibious aircraft of the 1930s

Seabird Airlines, a Turkish airline

Other:

Sea-Bird, a Thoroughbred racehorse also known as Sea Bird, Sea-Bird II and Sea Bird II

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Dimension (song)

"Dimension" is a song by Australian hard rock band Wolfmother, featured on their 2005 debut studio album Wolfmother. Written by band members Andrew Stockdale, Chris Ross and Myles Heskett, it was released as the second single from the album in Europe (and the third single overall) on 17 April 2006, charting at number 49 on the UK Singles Chart.

Music video

Directed by The Malloys, the music video for "Dimension" was first aired in the week of 13 February 2006. Prior to this, the video was featured on the 2006 extended play (EP) Dimensions.

Critical reception

In a review of Wolfmother for Blender, writer Jonah Weiner identified "Dimension" as an example of the band "at [their] hardest", describing it as an "acid anthem".NME reviewer James Jam described the song as "a throb of gonzo metal not unlike Black Sabbath playing Motown".

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Andrew Stockdale, Chris Ross, Myles Heskett.

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Dimensional analysis

In engineering and science, dimensional analysis is the analysis of the relationships between different physical quantities by identifying their fundamental dimensions (such as length, mass, time, and electric charge) and units of measure (such as miles vs. kilometers, or pounds vs. kilograms vs. grams) and tracking these dimensions as calculations or comparisons are performed. Converting from one dimensional unit to another is often somewhat complex. Dimensional analysis, or more specifically the factor-label method, also known as the unit-factor method, is a widely used technique for such conversions using the rules of algebra.

The concept of physical dimension was introduced by Joseph Fourier in 1822. Physical quantities that are commensurable have the same dimension; if they have different dimensions, they are incommensurable. For example, it is meaningless to ask whether a kilogram is less, the same, or more than an hour.

Any physically meaningful equation (and likewise any inequality and inequation) will have the same dimensions on the left and right sides, a property known as "dimensional homogeneity". Checking this is a common application of dimensional analysis. Dimensional analysis is also routinely used as a check on the plausibility of derived equations and computations. It is generally used to categorize types of physical quantities and units based on their relationship to or dependence on other units.

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Krull dimension

In commutative algebra, the Krull dimension of a commutative ring R, named after Wolfgang Krull, is the supremum of the lengths of all chains of prime ideals. The Krull dimension need not be finite even for a Noetherian ring. More generally the Krull dimension can be defined for modules over possibly non-commutative rings as the deviation of the poset of submodules.

The Krull dimension has been introduced to provide an algebraic definition of the dimension of an algebraic variety: the dimension of the affine variety defined by an ideal I in a polynomial ring R is the Krull dimension of R/I.

A field k has Krull dimension 0; more generally, k[x₁, ..., x_n] has Krull dimension n. A principal ideal domain that is not a field has Krull dimension 1. A local ring has Krull dimension 0 if and only if every element of its maximal ideal is nilpotent.

Explanation

We say that a chain of prime ideals of the form $\mathfrak{p}_0\subsetneq \mathfrak{p}_1\subsetneq \ldots \subsetneq \mathfrak{p}_n$ has length n. That is, the length is the number of strict inclusions, not the number of primes; these differ by 1. We define the Krull dimension of $R$ to be the supremum of the lengths of all chains of prime ideals in $R$ .