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Firmware, 'software kept in semi-permanent memory. Firmware is used in conjunction with hardware and software. It also shares the characteristics of both. Firmware is usually stored on PROMs (Programmable Read-Only Memory) or EPROMs (Electrical PROMs). Firmware contains software which is so constantly called upon by a computer or phone system that it is 'burned' into a chip, thereby becoming firmware. The computer program is written into the PROM electrically at higher-than-usual voltage, causing the bits to 'retain' the pattern as it is 'burned in'. Firmware is non-volatile. It will not be 'forgotten' when the power is shut off. Handheld calculators contain firmware with the instructions for doing their various mathematical operations. Firmware programs can be altered. An EPROM is typically erased using intense ultraviolet light', Newton's Telecom dictionary. C.C.E. v. Acer India Ltd., (2004) 8 SCC 173 (182)....
Frankincense
A fragrant aromatic resin or gum resin burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation The best kinds now come from East Indian trees of the genus Boswellia a commoner sort from the Norway spruce Abies excelsa and other coniferous trees The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified...
Branlin
A young salmon or parr in the stage in which it has transverse black bands as if burned by a gridiron...
Rogus
Rogus, a funeral pile; a great fire wherein dead bodies were burned; a pile of wood, Claus. 5 Hen. 3...
M
M, the brand or stigma of a person convicted of manslaughter and admitted to the benefit of clergy. It was burned on the brawn of the left thumb. Abolished....
Gordon Riots
Gordon Riots, a series of violent 'No Poperty' disturbances which occurred in London in June, 1780, so called after Lord George Gordon, the President of the 'Protestant Association.' The authorities behaved with the utmost imbecility and for four or five nights abandoned the town to the fury of the mob, who amongst other outrages sacked and burned Lord Mansfield's house in Bloomsbury Square and destroyed his library and a priceless collection of manuscripts, many from the pen of Mansfield himself. At length the military were called in and the riots suppressed, but not until an immense amount of damage had been done. Lord George Gordon was indicted for high treason on the charge of levying war against the King. He was defended by Erskine and acquitted for want of evidence; see 21 St. Tr. 485; Lecky's Hist. of England in the Eighteenth Century, ch. xii. For an account of the riots, see Dickens's Barnaby Rudge; and Memoirs of Sir Samuel Romilly....
Denshiring of land
Denshiring of land (otherwise called burn-beating), a method of improving land by casting parings of earth, turf, and stubble into heaps, which when dried are burned into ashes for a compost, Jac. Law Dict....
Rochelime
Lime in the lump after it is burned quicklime...
Pyre
A funeral pile a combustible heap on which the dead are burned hence any pile to be burnt...
Limekiln
A kiln or furnace in which limestone or shells are burned and reduced to lime...
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