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Humbug (album)
Humbug, Arctic Monkeys' third studio album (August 2009, Domino), co-produced by Josh Homme and James Ford, recorded at Rancho de la Luna in the Joshua Tree desert, a darker, slower desert-rock turn that reached UK number one.
Hume
Hume (Hume City) is a Victorian local government area in Melbourne's north; created 1994, population 243,901 (2021), 504 km², named after explorer Hamilton Hume, distinct from the NSW electorate and Greater Hume shire.
Hume (Australia)
Hume (Australia) names several places after explorer Hamilton Hume (1797-1873): the Victorian Hume Region, Hume City Council in Melbourne, the NSW federal electorate of Hume, Greater Hume Shire, a Canberra suburb, the Hume Highway, and Lake Hume.
Hume Cronyn
Hume Cronyn (1911–2003), Canadian-born stage, film, and television actor, screenwriter, and director; husband and stage partner of Jessica Tandy; Oscar-nominated for The Seventh Cross, three-time Emmy winner, Tony winner for Hamlet's Polonius.
Hume EVI
Hume EVI, or Empathic Voice Interface, is a family of speech-native conversational models by Hume AI that measures a user's emotional tone and responds with matching expressiveness in real time.
Hume Highway
The Hume Highway is the main inland road link between Sydney and Melbourne through New South Wales and Victoria, named in 1928 after explorer Hamilton Hume, and fully duplicated by 2013.
Hume-Rothery rules
The Hume-Rothery rules are empirical criteria, formulated by British metallurgist William Hume-Rothery, that predict solid-solution formation in alloys based on atomic size, crystal structure, electronegativity, and valence.
Hume's principle
Hume's principle is an abstraction principle in the philosophy of arithmetic stating that numbers of things are equal exactly when the things can be paired one to one.
Humectant
A humectant is a hygroscopic substance that attracts and holds water, used in foods, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals; common examples include glycerin, sorbitol, urea, and hyaluronic acid.
Humedal Caribe Noreste
Humedal Caribe Noreste, Ramsar site 811, is a 75,310-hectare wetland on Costa Rica's northeast Caribbean coast, designated 20 March 1996, spanning Tortuguero National Park, Barra del Colorado, and the Corredor Fronterizo Norte refuges.
Humedal La Sierra de Guadalupe
Humedal La Sierra de Guadalupe, a Ramsar wetland site (no. 1815) in Mulegé municipality, Baja California Sur, Mexico; designated 2 February 2008, covering 348,087 hectares.
Humedal Laguna Melincué
Humedal Laguna Melincué (Ramsar site 1785) is a 92,000-hectare endorheic wetland around shallow, brackish Laguna Melincué in southern Santa Fe, Argentina, designated 24 July 2008 and a key wintering site for the rare Andean flamingo.
Humedal Los Comondú
Humedal Los Comondú, Ramsar site no. 1761 in Baja California Sur, Mexico, designated 2 February 2008; a 460,959 ha Sierra La Giganta wetland of three large oases, migratory birds, and endemic species.
Humedales del Delta del Río Colorado
Humedales del Delta del Río Colorado: two Ramsar wetland sites (814, 1996, 250,000 ha; 1822, 2008, 127,614 ha) in Baja California and Sonora, Mexico, desert wetlands on the Pacific Flyway fed by canal seepage and irrigation return flows.
Humeima
Humeima, also known as Khirbet al-Humeima, is a multi-period archaeological site in the Hisma desert of southern Jordan, occupied from the 1st century BC to the mid-8th century AD.
Humen
Humen (虎门镇) is a town in southwestern Dongguan, Guangdong, China, on the Pearl River estuary, known for Lin Zexu's 1839 opium destruction and as a manufacturing hub.
Humen Bridge
Humen Bridge (虎门大桥) is a six-lane suspension bridge crossing the Pearl River estuary in Guangdong, China, linking Guangzhou with Dongguan. Opened in 1997, it carries the G9411 expressway.
Humeros, Los
Los Humeros is a large Pleistocene-Holocene silicic caldera complex in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, Puebla, Mexico, hosting one of the country's operating geothermal fields since 1990.
Humerus
Humerus: the single long bone of the upper arm, largest bone of the upper limb, articulating with the scapula at the shoulder and radius and ulna at the elbow; fracture-prone at the surgical neck, radial groove, and supracondylar region.
Humic acid
Humic acid is the fraction of soil organic matter that dissolves in alkali and precipitates when acidified, first extracted by Achard in 1786 and used to improve soil and crops.
Humic substances
Humic substances are complex organic compounds of biological origin, classified by solubility into humic acid, fulvic acid, and humin, and making up 50–75% of dissolved organic carbon in natural waters.
Humid continental climate
The humid continental climate, also called temperate continental, is a mid-latitude Köppen D climate with warm to hot summers, severe winters, and no dry season, typical of northeastern North America and eastern Europe and Asia.
Humid subtropical climate
A humid subtropical climate, designated Cfa or Cwa in the Köppen classification, has hot, humid summers and cool winters, occurring on east coasts of continents between 20° and 40° latitude.
Humidex
The Humidex is a Canadian index combining air temperature and humidity into a single number for how hot humid weather feels, used officially by Environment Canada.
Humidification
Humidification is the addition of water to a gas, usually air, as vapor or droplets; indoor levels of 30 to 60% relative humidity best serve health and comfort.
Humidifier
A humidifier is a device that adds moisture to indoor air to raise relative humidity, easing dryness, and comes as portable units or whole-house models installed in heating ductwork.
Humidity
Humidity, also called atmospheric humidity, is the water vapor content of the air, popularly expressed as relative humidity and also measured as specific humidity and dew point.
Humidity sensor
A humidity sensor, or hygrometer, is a device that measures water vapor in air, most commonly as relative humidity; about 75% on the market are capacitive.
Humiliation
Humiliation: a self-conscious emotion of undeserved social degradation before an audience, distinct from shame by perceived unfairness, combining anger-like outrage with shame-like powerlessness.
Humility
Humility: a virtue of accurate self-assessment opposed to arrogance; its studied branch, intellectual humility, is metacognitive recognition of one's epistemic limits, distinct from modesty, with roots in Christian virtue ethics and Confucian thought.