Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Grapeshot


Related Topics

In the News (Mon 7 Dec 09)

  
  Grapeshot - Technology - WordRank
The use of probabilistic models in the Grapeshot algorithms is vital to provide an adaptive learning capacity.
Grapeshot can log the word weights for each user, which act as a "concept cloud" around the user, and helps to favour certain new documents that arrive in a publishers content management systems.
Grapeshot draws on the latest BM25 algorithms developed in the last five years and created its own WordRank algorithms for fast robust indexing and search systems.
www.grapeshot.co.uk /technology/wordrank.php   (1310 words)

  
  Grapeshot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grapeshot was a kind of anti-personnel ammunition used in cannons.
Napoleon, when a brigadier general during the later stages of the French Revolution, famously dispersed a Royalist mob on the streets of Paris with a "whiff of grapeshot" on 5 October 1795.
He was rewarded with the command of the Army of Italy in 1796, and his victories at the battles of Lodi, Castiglione, Arcola and Rivoli provided a springboard for his military and political ambitions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grapeshot   (290 words)

  
 Grapeshot Technology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Grapeshot is a small, fast, modern search engine, designed for use both as a stand-alone program for working with data and developing prototype Information Retrieval (IR) systems (command-line use), and as a component for systems needing a retrieval capability (API use).
Grapeshot finds a solution to the problem of term ranking so that once the document ranking has been established, presenting a set of ranked terms can be done for almost no extra cost.
Grapeshot is intended to provide a practical approach to data and record management, and it is expected that most data that comes in a pre-tagged form should be readable by Grapeshot without too much difficulty.
grapeshot.co.uk /html/Technology/whitepaper.html   (1465 words)

  
 USS Clueless - Double Shot
Grapeshot was a bag of musketballs; canister was a tin can the size of the cannon bore which was full of musket balls.
Grapeshot had minimal effect on equipment, but without men to operate it equipment is useless.
You could be disemboweled by grapeshot, cut in half by chain, shredded by flying wood fragments from a hit on the gundeck, crushed by falling rigging, die in melee from an enemy's sword, or die slowly from the wound from an enemy musket.
denbeste.nu /cd_log_entries/2002/05/DoubleShot.shtml   (857 words)

  
 Grapeshot -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Grapeshot was a kind of (Click link for more info and facts about anti-personnel) anti-personnel (Projectiles to be fired from a gun) ammunition used in (A large artillery gun that is usually on wheels) cannons.
Instead of a solid shot, a mass of loosely packed metal slugs roughly the size of golf balls is loaded into a canvas bag.
The (Shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight) Shrapnel round was an invention to deliver the effect of grape shot at a distance.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/grapeshot.htm   (304 words)

  
 Broadside. Armament
In the picture above grapeshot is in canvas bags on the gun carriage, and the bar shot (for destroying the enemies rigging) on the deck.
At such close ranges the power of penetration of roundshot was impressive, at 30 yards an 18 pound shot would penetrate four oak planks 32.5 inches thick (just under 1 meter thick), hurling a shower of splinters up to thirty yards.
At 300 yards range a 32 pounder firing grapeshot could penetrate 5 inches of fir planking and 4 of oak.
www.nelsonsnavy.co.uk /broadside6.html   (705 words)

  
 Grapeshot Technology - Heritage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Grapeshot is the culmination of Dr Porter's experience of writing Information Retrieval software, stretching over a period of almost thirty years.
Omsee was abandoned by Brightstation in 2001, as its financial resources became exhausted, but has continued under the name Xapian as the leading open source search engine.
Porter began Grapeshot in 2002, in what he sees as a fifth generation IR system, since this is now the fifth one he has been involved in writing.
grapeshot.co.uk /html/Technology/Heritage.html   (708 words)

  
 Grapeshot - Home
The Grapeshot SDK provides advanced concept-based bayesian search methods for developers to insert "implicit search" capabilities inside your own application.
Now Dr. Porter has completed Grapeshot, an IR system with advanced probabilistic information retrieval algorithms, which provides a combination of bayesian search methods which can handle multiple-word queries, and the more conventional Boolean logic - all within an XML framework.
Grapeshot works with many international languages including French, Spanish, German, Chinese and Arabic.
www.grapeshot.co.uk   (167 words)

  
 Æ Aeragon - Grapeshot
Grapeshot was a type of antipersonnel ammunition, and it consisted of a multiple of some type of usually round shot.
The main difference between case shot and grapeshot was that grapeshot normally had larger and fewer balls and a different configuration.
Quilted shot, pictured here on the right, consisted of essentially grapeshot with a fabric cover to hold the assembly together until firing.
www.aeragon.com /o/am/a-02.html   (147 words)

  
 Grapeshot Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Looking For grapeshot - Find grapeshot and more at Lycos Search.
The assembly of balls resemble a cluster of grapes (hence the term "grapeshot").
On firing, the balls spread out from the muzzle at high velocity, giving an effect similar to a shotgun but scaled up to cannon size.
www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Grapeshot   (473 words)

  
 grapeshot
Grep of noun grapeshot grapeshot Overview of noun grapeshot The noun grapeshot has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts) 1.
grapeshot -- (a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot) Overview of noun grapeshot The noun grapeshot has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts) 1.
grapeshot -- (a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot)
www.beetfoundation.com /words/g/alt.grapeshot.html   (136 words)

  
 Le Mat Revolver
The grapeshot barrel was.60 to.63 caliber, or approximately 18 gauge, and received a charge of 11 buckshot.
Very few of these grapeshot pistols were manufactured prior to the outbreak of hostilities between North and South, and those produced were little more than experimental prototypes.
Their first crop of grapeshot revolvers, however, were so abysmally made that Girard and Le Mat were forced to relocate their operations to a more suitable manufacturer: the Birmingham Small Arms Company in England.
home.hiwaay.net /~stargate/lemat.htm   (1494 words)

  
 purevolume™ | Grapeshot Inferno
Grapeshot Inferno is a 4 piece band from upstate new york which automatically means that we have a horrible punk scene.
And we're thinking of touring this winter, so if anyone out there has some cool spots to play let us know so we can set it up.
If you listen and like our stuff or even dislike it you can drop any one of us a line and give us your comments on what you think.
www.purevolume.com /GrapeshotInferno   (108 words)

  
 Relic Hunting - Silver Thimbles - Grapeshot - Old Cast Iron Toy Train
Metal detecting for buried relics is easy to do, but most of you have probably noticed we spend most of our metal detecting time at the beaches.
This cannonball turns out to be what they call Grapeshot It's not quite as big as a cannonball and it's not made of iron.
We were told they would load several of these in a cannon and when they fired, they scattered like a shotgun.
gometaldetecting.com /relic_finds1.htm   (687 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/grapeshot
Mastodon bred with Classic Rock that grew up in the house of Thrash who had an adopted brother named Grindcore, who was descended of Progressive who had another family called Grunge.
Grapeshot was a kind of anti-personnel ammunition used in cannons.
Instead of a solid shot, a mass of loosely packed metal slugs is loaded into a canvas bag.
www.myspace.com /grapeshot   (336 words)

  
 Business Wire: Navarre Distributes 2 New Music Companies -- Sc... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Grapeshot Media is comprised of two record labels; Grapeshot Records, a studio recording label, and Live Archive, a growing collection of diverse concert recordings.
Grapeshot's roster of talent is equally regarded throughout the industry and Navarre will greatly expand its catalog at retail."
Grapeshot's Director of Sales and marketing, Jeff Raymond, and Publicity Manager, Baird Duschatko, were also previously employed at Rykodisc.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:63943213&refid=holomed_1   (765 words)

  
 Seadogs Forums -> Four Tips for the morning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
I'm not sure if this is a typo or not, but from what I gather, Grapeshot will do more damage to the crew than chainshot.
KJ II, I would tend to agree about the grapeshot, but maybe Steve prefers the image of man and chain meeting on the deck.
Grapeshot hurts mainly the crew, though Ive seen it rip some sails on occasion.
seadogs.bethsoft.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=7921   (572 words)

  
 Grapeshot definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
"Grapeshot" definintion in "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
"grapeshot" definintion in "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
23 Moby Thesaurus words for "grapeshot": ball, bar shot, bird shot, buckshot, bullet, cannon shot, cannonball, case shot, crossbar shot, duck shot, dumdum bullet, expanding bullet, grape, langrel shot, manstopping bullet, pellet, rifle ball, round shot, shell, shot, shrapnel, slug, split shot
www.thedict.com /definition/Grapeshot   (175 words)

  
 Essential Magic - Combo Comments
And lastly, use the final Reiterate to copy the origial card in this case Grapeshot, to perform a massive strike.
I'm not quite sure what you mean here, but I can probably tell you why it doesn't work.
The comments and opinions expressed here are those of Essential Magic users and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Essential Magic itself.
www.essentialmagic.com /Combos/CommentsAndRatings.asp?ID=58129   (239 words)

  
 Grapeshot and Shamrocks a Historical Fiction of the Civil War - PriceGrabber.com
Grapeshot and Shamrocks a Historical Fiction of the Civil War - PriceGrabber.com
Grapeshot and Shamrocks a Historical Fiction of the Civil War (English)
Report a pricing error on the Grapeshot and Shamrocks a Historical Fiction of the Civil War
www.pricegrabber.com /search_getprod.php?isbn=1931768919&nrd=1   (68 words)

  
 Suck It Up: June 2005
I took a four day weekend which became a frenzy of cooking, trips to the city, gardening, shopping, visiting new calf, workouts--you name it, I squeezed it into those four days.
I have a nice query done for Promiscuous Mode, aka the "Wisconsin Book." I'm breaking (or at least bending) a few rules, one of which is the "keep it to one page" rule and the second is using a little different than the standard form.
I work on a busy exurban commercial street, which means there are businesses strung out along it at odd intervals, some cheek-by-jowl and others standing apart.
lynx-sis.blogspot.com /2005_06_01_lynx-sis_archive.html   (2480 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The rules also stat that artillery unit can either fire grapeshot or bombard and, later, that those which fire grapeshot in response to an enemy unit attacking them "...
With respect to grapeshot, you're right: the rules are a little muddled...
Artillery units that fire grapeshot during the Artillery Fire Phase cannot bombard also.
grognard.com /errata1/pavia.txt   (352 words)

  
 Warhammer-Empire: The best site on the net for Warhammer Empire, Tactics, Articles, Painting, Modelling and Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Since they are not skirmishers, it is also possible to push your gun into a position out of their charge arc.
These follow the same rules for coming on the board, but are much faster, and need to be dealt with as quickly as possible.
According to the new rules, Grapeshot, has a range of 8” and does an artillery dice (2-10, misfire) worth of strength 4 armour piercing attacks.
www.warhammer-empire.com /war_tunnel3.htm   (380 words)

  
 Zarthani.net: H. Beam Piper Fan Fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ramming a grapeshot makes very little noise, unlike spiking a gun, which is one reason she didn't try spiking.
There's even the chance the gun crew will place a live charge on top of her grapeshot and waste time trying to figure out why the gun didn't fire.
With considerable effort such a bombard could be dragged up the hillside, but once there it was subject to devastating grapeshot from bombards on the tarr walls.
www.zarthani.net /sights30.htm   (7933 words)

  
 VGMix 2.5 / Grapeshot (1996-2006)
I edited my last one with all that stuff, so I didn't want Quinn Fox to think my short post was the last and no feedback.
Grapeshot is an awesome album, so a bump is warranted anyway.
Thanks for pointing to your album, although i havent listened yet (downloading now) im sure its going to be a nice experience listening to it, i also bookmarked your site and that means im going to check out your site regularly for updates on remixes and original music.
www.vgmix.com /vg25/viewtopic.php?id=169   (812 words)

  
 Writing Romance Fiction by Carolyn Jewel
Afraid she would be shot dead, she stopped, dropping her armload of grapeshot to the wet ground.
Her armload of grapeshot hit the ground like a sack of dead rats.
I said it fell like a sack of dead rats, which is a stand-in for fear as well.
www.carolynjewel.com /craft/proveit.shtml   (504 words)

  
 Crop Circles 2000
There were three grapeshot placed at the triangle corners, one with a standing tuft of wheat twisted into a swirl.
Two large grapeshot were also at the bottom of the field, though it was unclear which formation they were connected with.
A number of small grapeshot circles were also present around part of the formation.
www.kingston.ac.uk /~ku01456/Cc00.htm   (2512 words)

  
 UMBRELLA CLIPART .... london fog umbrella, reclining umbrella stroller, umbrella tree, japanese umbrella pine, offset ...
UMBRELLA CLIPART: riding breeches, who were swarming near the bridge, and then at what was umbrella clipart in the distance from the opposite side- the blue uniforms and groups with horses, easily recognizable as artillery.
UMBRELLA CLIPART: enough," answered Nesvitski; "two smart fellows could have done the job just as well." "Ah, your excellency," umbrella clipart in Zherkov, his eyes fixed on the hussars, but still with that naive air that made it impossible to know whether he was speaking in jest or in earnest.
Two were misdirected and the shot went too high, but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and knocked three of umbrella clipart over.
www.enviromet.org /umbrella_clipart.html   (593 words)

  
 Jim Sampas......Producer......Experiments In Truth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This Grapeshot Records release is produced by Jim Sampas, award winning producer of the spoken-word album, Kerouac -kicks joy darkness (Rykodisc).
In the spirit of beat generation poets improvising around smoky jazz grooves, Grapeshot Records presents the same style with roles reversed, musicians accompanying spoken word.
Journey into the assortment of notes that occupies each distinct euphonious mind as Paul Auster's words reverberate in their headphones.
www.gallerysix.com /sampas/austerinfo.html   (255 words)

  
 Amazon.com: grapeshot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Grapeshot and Shamrocks a Historical Fiction of the Civil War by Doc J. McNiff and Sean P. McNiff (Hardcover - Dec 2002)
were content to man the grapeshot catapults that flanked the camp...
letting the musketfire and the grapeshot mow there down until nine...
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=grapeshot&tag=icongroupinterna&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1   (625 words)

  
 Grapeshot for the USS Gravy Train - PittsburghLIVE.com
The executives who are responsible to countless millions of investors and who manage trillions of investors' dollars can tell snoops to lump it.
What is happening on Executive Row is guaranteed to produce a backlash of labor militancy as dissident unions open a drive for new members -- with a whiff of class warfare grapeshot.
Arnaud de Borchgrave is editor at large of United Press International and of The Washington Times.
pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/opinion/columnists/guests/s_360843.html   (910 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.