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Jet pipe servo valve
A jet pipe servo valve is a two-stage electrohydraulic flow control valve in which a torque motor deflects a fluid jet to position the main spool, with high contamination tolerance.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or JPL, is a federally funded research center in Pasadena, California, managed by Caltech for NASA since 1958 and known for robotic space missions, including all five successful Mars rovers.
Jet quenching
Jet quenching is the loss of energy by high-momentum quarks and gluons as they traverse the quark–gluon plasma in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, first observed at RHIC.
Jet set
The jet set is a fashionable set of wealthy people who travel by jetliner to parties and resorts worldwide, named in the 1950s after jet aircraft.
Jet Set nightclub roof collapse
Jet Set nightclub roof collapse: 8 April 2025 structural failure in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, during a Rubby Pérez merengue concert; 236 dead, over 180 injured; owners Antonio and Maribel Espaillat sent to trial.
Jet Set Radio (ジェットセットラジオ)
Jet Set Radio (ジェットセットラジオ), aka Jet Grind Radio in North America, is Sega and Smilebit's 2000 Dreamcast cel-shaded skating and graffiti action game set in Tokyo-to, with a Hideki Naganuma soundtrack, a 2002 Xbox sequel, a 2012 HD remaster, and a new entry announced in 2023.
Jet Set Radio Future
Jet Set Radio Future (ジェットセットラジオフューチャー) is Smilebit's 2002 Xbox-exclusive sequel to Jet Set Radio, a cel-shaded graffiti-skating action game set in futuristic Tokyo, released on the Xbox's Japanese launch day and never re-released on modern consoles.
Jet Ski
Jet Ski is Kawasaki's registered trademark brand of personal watercraft (PWC), first mass-produced in 1973 as the JS400 from Clayton Jacobson II's design; the name is now used generically for PWC, with 2027 models up to 310 PS.
Jet streak
A jet streak is a localized core of relative maximum wind speed within a jet stream, whose entrance and exit regions govern cyclone development and precipitation.
Jet stream
The jet stream is a narrow band of strong wind in the upper atmosphere, blowing west to east, that steers weather systems and causes clear-air turbulence.
Jet substructure
Jet substructure refers to analysis techniques in particle physics that study the internal structure of jets to identify boosted heavy particles like top quarks and W, Z, or Higgs bosons.
Jet Tila
Jet Tila (Jet Tilakamonkul), born 1975 in Los Angeles, is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, Food Network star, and inaugural Culinary Ambassador of Thai Cuisine from the family behind Bangkok Market.
Jet vapor deposition
Jet vapor deposition (JVD) is a thin-film deposition method in which a high-velocity inert-gas jet transports vaporized material onto a substrate, working at low vacuum rather than in a high-vacuum chamber.
Jet ventilation
Jet ventilation, or high-frequency jet ventilation, delivers small gas pulses through a narrow cannula to oxygenate the lungs without a tracheal tube, mainly during airway surgery and bronchoscopy.
Jet.com
Jet.com was an American e-commerce startup founded by Marc Lore, launched in 2015 as a low-priced challenger to Amazon, acquired by Walmart in 2016 for $3.3 billion, and shut down in 2020.
Jet2.com
Jet2.com is a British leisure airline headquartered in Leeds, England. It is the UK's third largest airline and has been a Which? Recommended Provider for ten consecutive years.
JetBlue
JetBlue Airways Corporation is an American low-cost airline headquartered in New York City. Founded by David Neeleman, it began flying in 2000 and serves more than 100 destinations.
JetBlue Flight 292
JetBlue Flight 292 was a 2005 domestic flight that landed safely at Los Angeles with its nose gear turned 90 degrees; none of the 146 aboard was hurt.
JetBlue flight attendant incident
The JetBlue flight attendant incident, best known as the Steven Slater air rage incident, refers to the 2010 quit-by-emergency-slide episode and later JetBlue crew incidents.
JetBot
JetBot is an open-source educational robot platform created by NVIDIA and announced in 2019, built around the Jetson Nano and programmed from a web browser through Jupyter notebooks.
JetBrains
JetBrains is a private software company, founded in Prague in 2000 and headquartered in Amsterdam, known for its IntelliJ IDEA development tools and for creating Kotlin.
Jetfire
Jetfire, aka Skyfire (スカイファイアー), is a Transformers Autobot jet character originating from a Macross Valkyrie toy Hasbro licensed in 1985; renamed Skyfire in the G1 cartoon for legal reasons, later an SR-71 Blackbird in Revenge of the Fallen.
Jethabhai Ahir
Jethabhai Ahir, also known as Jethabhai Bharwad, is an Indian BJP politician who was Deputy Speaker of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly and a six-time MLA from Shehra.
Jethalal Gada (જેઠાલાલ ચંપકલાલ ગડા)
Jethalal Champaklal Gada (જેઠાલાલ ચંપકલાલ ગડા), also called Jetha or Jethiya, is the Gada Electronics owner in the sitcom Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah, played by Dilip Joshi since 2008.
Jethro (comedian)
Jethro, the stage name of Geoffrey J Rowe, was an English stand-up comedian from Cornwall whose storytelling act in a strong Cornish accent made him one of the county's best-known performers.
Jethro (יִתְרוֹ) (biblical figure)
Jethro (Hebrew יִתְרוֹ, Yitro) is a priest of Midian in the Hebrew Bible and the father-in-law of Moses, known for advising the judicial hierarchy of Exodus 18.
Jethro Teall
Jethro Teall (1849–1924) was a British geologist who wrote the landmark British Petrography (1888) and directed the Geological Survey of Great Britain from 1901 to 1914.
Jethro Tull (agriculturist)
Jethro Tull (1674–1741) was an English agriculturist from Berkshire who developed a horse-drawn seed drill around 1701 and wrote Horse-Hoing Husbandry (1733), an emblematic work of the British Agricultural Revolution.
Jethro Tull (band)
Jethro Tull, English rock band formed 1967, led by flautist Ian Anderson; moved from blues rock to progressive and folk rock, 24 studio albums from This Was (1968) to Curious Ruminant (2025), over 60 million records sold, 1988 Grammy for Crest of a Knave.
Jetix
Jetix was a Disney-owned international children's TV brand (2004–2009/2010), the rebranding of Fox Kids channels and blocks for action-adventure programming, airing on ABC Family and Toon Disney in the US and replaced by Disney XD from 2009.