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Hardfacing
Hardfacing is a welding or surfacing process that deposits a wear-resistant alloy layer onto metal components to extend their service life against abrasion and erosion.
Hardfloor
Hardfloor are a German acid techno duo from Düsseldorf formed in 1991 by Oliver Bondzio and Ramon Zenker, best known for the 1992 track "Acperience 1".
Hardhome
Hardhome is season 5 episode 8 of Game of Thrones, aired May 31, 2015, directed by Miguel Sapochnik, depicting the Night King's massacre of the Free Folk, Jon Snow's first White Walker kill with Valyrian steel, and one of the show's most acclaimed battle episodes.
Hardik Pandya
Hardik Pandya (born 1993, Surat) is an Indian right-handed, right-arm medium-fast all-rounder and Mumbai Indians IPL captain who led Gujarat Titans to the 2022 IPL title and starred in India's 2024 and 2026 T20 World Cup wins.
Hardik Patel (હાર્દિક પટેલ)
Hardik Patel (હાર્દિક પટેલ) is an Indian politician from Gujarat who rose to prominence leading the 2015 Patidar quota agitation and now serves as a BJP MLA from Viramgam.
Hardikar syndrome
Hardikar syndrome (HDKR, cholestasis-pigmentary retinopathy-cleft palate syndrome) is an ultra-rare X-linked dominant MED12 loss-of-function disorder affecting females, with cleft lip/palate, cat's-paw retinopathy, hepatobiliary disease, and normal cognition.
Hardin Fretum
Hardin Fretum, a 246 km strait (fretum) on Titan at 57.3°N, 317.8°W, connecting Walvis Sinus to Kraken Mare 2; IAU-approved 2015, named for Salvor Hardin of Asimov's Foundation series.
Hardiness zone
Hardiness zone: geographic zones based on average annual extreme minimum winter temperature; USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map zones 1–13 in 10°F bands with 5°F a/b half zones, 2023 edition using 1991–2020 data.
Harding Icefield
Harding Icefield, Alaska icefield in the Kenai Mountains, heart of Kenai Fjords National Park; ~700 sq mi with 38 outflowing glaciers including Exit and Aialik, thinning since the 1950s.
Harding University
Harding University, also known as Harding College, is a private Christian university in Searcy, Arkansas. It was founded in 1924 and now serves nearly 5,000 students.
Hardinge
Hardinge is an American machine tool company founded in Chicago in 1890 by the Hardinge brothers, known for precision lathes and workholding; its assets were sold in a 2024 bankruptcy.
Hardisty
Hardisty is a small town in east-central Alberta, Canada, serving as the country's principal crude oil storage, blending, and pipeline hub, and the pricing point for Western Canadian Select.
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (HSB): free, non-commercial annual three-day October music festival in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, founded in 2001 by Warren Hellman; 80+ acts on six stages, over 500,000 attendees, funded by the Hellman Foundation.
Hardmask
A hardmask is a rigid inorganic layer, typically metal, metal oxide, or nitride, that transfers a lithographic pattern into underlying films after the photoresist is stripped.
Hardness
Hardness is the resistance of a material to localized deformation, measured by indentation tests such as Rockwell, Brinell, and Vickers, or by scratch tests like the Mohs scale.
Hardness test
A hardness test measures a material's resistance to localized deformation, typically by pressing an indenter into the surface under load; methods include Brinell, Vickers, Rockwell, and Knoop.
Hardoi
Hardoi (हरदोई) is a district in the Lucknow division of Uttar Pradesh, India, between the Ganges and Gomti rivers. 5,989 sq km, 4.09 million people (2011), 5 tehsils, agrarian economy, Mallawan handloom cluster, linked to Hiranyakashyap legend and the 1857 revolt of Raja Narpati Singh.
Hardox
Hardox is a family of abrasion-resistant, through-hardened wear steels trademarked by the Swedish steelmaker SSAB, first launched in 1974 and used in dump trucks, buckets, and mining equipment.
Hardpoint
A hardpoint, also called a weapon station, is a reinforced attachment point on a military aircraft where external stores like bombs, missiles, and fuel tanks mount, usually on a pylon.
Hardstone Psycho
Hardstone Psycho is the fourth studio album by American rapper and singer Don Toliver, released on June 14, 2024, through Cactus Jack and Atlantic Records and built around a biker persona.
Hardstyle
Hardstyle is a Dutch electronic dance genre from around 2000, born of hard trance and gabber hardcore, defined by a pitched distorted kick that carries the bassline, an offbeat reverse bass, 150-160 BPM, and festivals like Defqon.1; Q-dance trademarked the name in 2002.
Hardtack
Hardtack, also called ship's biscuit or pilot bread, is a hard flour-water-salt cracker baked dry for multi-year storage, used as naval and army rations from Roman bucellatum through the Civil War; modern Sailor Boy pilot bread ships 98% to Alaska.
Hardtop
A hardtop is an automobile body style with a rigid metal roof and no center pillar between the side windows, pioneered by the 1949 Buick Roadmaster Riviera.
Harduaganj power station
Harduaganj Thermal Power Station (हरदुआगंज तापीय परियोजना) is a coal-fired power station of at least 1,270 MW at Kasimpur in Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Hardware (film)
Hardware is a 1990 British-American science fiction horror film directed by Richard Stanley, in which a disassembled military robot reconstructs itself and hunts a metal sculptress in a post-holocaust future, starring Dylan McDermott and Stacey Travis.
Hardware abstraction layer
A hardware abstraction layer (HAL) is a software layer between hardware and the operating system that hides hardware details, letting the same drivers run across platforms.
Hardware acceleration
Hardware acceleration is the use of dedicated hardware, such as GPUs, FPGAs, or TPUs, rather than general-purpose CPU execution, to perform specific computations faster or more efficiently.
Hardware description language
A hardware description language (HDL) is a specialized computer language for describing digital circuits, used for simulation and synthesis into logic gates, with Verilog and VHDL the dominant examples.
Hardware emulation
Hardware emulation is a pre-silicon chip verification method that maps an RTL design onto programmable hardware, running hundreds of thousands to millions of times faster than simulation.
Hardware random number generator
A hardware random number generator (HWRNG) is a physical device or circuit, typically built into a processor, that produces random bits from unpredictable physical processes like thermal noise.