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Hezion

Hezion is a king or royal ancestor of Aram-Damascus in the late 10th century BC, known only from 1 Kings 15:18 as father of Tabrimmon.

Hezly Rivera

Hezly Rivera (born 2008) is an American artistic gymnast, 2024 Olympic team gold medalist at Paris and the youngest athlete on Team USA there, and 2025 and 2026 U.S. all-around champion training at WOGA under Valeri Liukin.

HF Sinclair

HF Sinclair Corporation is an American petroleum refining and renewable fuels company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, formed in 2022 as parent of HollyFrontier after acquiring Sinclair Oil.

HF Sinclair Tulsa refinery

The HF Sinclair Tulsa refinery is a petroleum refinery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, owned by HF Sinclair, with two plants along the Arkansas River processing 125,000 barrels of crude daily.

HFB1011 (anti-CCR8 antibody)

HFB1011 (HFB101110) is HiFiBiO Therapeutics' humanized anti-CCR8 monoclonal antibody that depletes tumor-infiltrating regulatory T cells via ADCC and blocks CCL1 binding; licensed to FibroGen in 2021, returned to HiFiBiO in 2025.

HfC-SiC ultra-high-temperature ceramic

HfC-SiC is an ultra-high-temperature ceramic composite of hafnium carbide and silicon carbide, designed for structural use above 2000 °C in hypersonic leading edges, thermal protection systems, and rocket propulsion.

Hfcp

HFCP is the naming convention used in SEC filings for the numbered private equity fund vehicles of Hellman & Friedman, a San Francisco buyout firm founded in 1984.

HFLS3

HFLS3 is a starbursting galaxy group at redshift 6.34, seen about 880 million years after the Big Bang and found in 2013 with the Herschel space observatory.

HfO2 ferroelectric synaptic device

HfO2 ferroelectric synaptic device is a nanoscale device using ferroelectric hafnium oxide or HZO to store artificial synapse weights in neuromorphic and in-memory computing hardware.

HfO2 superlattice ferroelectrics

HfO2 superlattice ferroelectrics are artificial layered structures in which nanometer-scale HfO2 films alternate with ZrO2 layers, stabilizing hafnia's metastable polar phase for ferroelectric memory and logic devices.

Hfq protein

Hfq, or host factor for phage Qβ, is a conserved bacterial RNA-binding protein that helps small regulatory RNAs base-pair with target messenger RNAs, shaping gene expression.

HFS Plus

HFS Plus, also called Mac OS Extended, is Apple's journaling file system, introduced with Mac OS 8.1 in 1998 and replaced by APFS in macOS High Sierra.

Hg Genesis

Hg Genesis is the longest-standing mid-market buyout fund family of Hg, the London software investor, run by HgCapital LLP from Guernsey; Genesis 11 targeted €7.5 billion in 2025–26.

Hg Saturn

Hg Saturn is the series of large-cap buyout funds managed by London software investor Hg and domiciled in Guernsey, holding Access Group, IFS, and Visma.

Hg(II)-responsive transcriptional regulator

Hg(II)-responsive transcriptional regulator, archetype MerR of the MerR family: bacterial homodimeric DNA-binding protein that activates mercury resistance (merTPAD) operons on Hg(II) binding by distorting suboptimally spaced promoters; used in heavy metal biosensors.

HGC-27

HGC-27 (CVCL_1279, ECACC 94042256) is a human gastric cancer cell line established in 1976 from a metastatic lymph node of a Japanese patient with undifferentiated carcinoma; mucin-producing, adherent, TP53/PIK3CA-mutant, highly invasive.

HgCdTe infrared detector

HgCdTe, also called mercury cadmium telluride or MCT, is a semiconductor alloy whose tunable bandgap makes it the dominant material for mid- and long-wave infrared detectors.

HGH Fragment 176–191

HGH Fragment 176-191 (hGH 176-191, Frag 176-191) is the synthetic 16-amino-acid C-terminal fragment of human growth hormone, sequence FLRIVQCRSVEGSCGF, studied for lipolytic activity; distinct from AOD-9604, with no human trials and no regulatory approval.

HGS

HGS (Hrs, Vps27, ZFYVE8), hepatocyte growth factor-regulated tyrosine kinase substrate at 17q25.3, encodes the 777-aa ESCRT-0 core protein that sorts ubiquitinated receptors into multivesicular bodies for lysosomal degradation.

HGST

HGST, or Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, was a hard disk drive manufacturer formed from Hitachi and IBM's HDD operations in 2003 and acquired by Western Digital in 2012.

HgTe colloidal quantum dots

HgTe colloidal quantum dots are solution-processed mercury telluride nanocrystals whose size tunes their optical response across the entire infrared range, the only colloidal material covering 0.7 to 100 µm.

HGTV

HGTV (Home & Garden Television) is an American cable network for home, renovation and design programming, launched in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1994 by Ken Lowe at Scripps, now under Warner Bros. Discovery and streaming on Max and discovery+.

HH 211

HH 211, also written HH211, is a Herbig-Haro object and protostellar outflow in the Perseus Molecular Cloud about 1,000 light-years away, driven by a very young protostar.

HH 212

HH 212 is a Herbig-Haro object in Orion, a bright symmetric bipolar jet from a very young protostar near the Horsehead nebula, first imaged in 1998.

HH 34

HH 34 (Herbig-Haro 34) is a Herbig-Haro object in Orion about 1,350 light-years away, a glowing knot of shock-heated gas ejected in a jet from a young star.

HH 46/47

HH 46/47 (HH-47) is a complex of Herbig-Haro objects in the constellation Vela, driven by a protostar inside a Bok globule and imaged by Spitzer, Hubble, and Webb.

Hh blood group

Hh blood group (ISBT H, 018): system based on the H antigen made by FUT1 and FUT2. Homozygous hh gives the rare Bombay (Oh) phenotype, anti-H, transfusable only with Bombay blood; para-Bombay is the weak-H variant.

HH2853 (EZH1/2 inhibitor)

HH2853 (HH 2853, HH-2853) is an oral dual EZH1/EZH2 inhibitor from Haihe Biopharma that blocks H3K27 methylation; phase I/II trials show responses in PTCL and epithelioid sarcoma.

HHEX

HHEX (hematopoietically expressed homeobox; also HEX, PRH) is a human chromosome 10 gene encoding a homeobox transcription factor required for foregut organ, vascular, and blood development and implicated in AML, T-ALL, and type 2 diabetes.

HHhH

HHhH is Laurent Binet's 2010 French debut novel (Grasset), titled after the SS acronym 'Himmlers Hirn heißt Heydrich'. It reconstructs Operation Anthropoid, the 1942 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague by parachutists Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, interwoven with the narrator's account of writing it; Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman winner, translated by Sam Taylor in 2012.