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Jikes
Jikes is an open-source Java source-to-bytecode compiler written in C++ at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center, first released in 1997 as IBM's first open-source project.
Jikes RVM
Jikes RVM (Research Virtual Machine) is an open-source Java virtual machine, begun as IBM Research's Jalapeño project and released in 2001 as a research testbed for compilation and garbage collection.
Jikininki (食人鬼)
Jikininki (食人鬼), the human-eating ghost, a corpse-devouring yōkai of Japanese Buddhist folklore; canonical tale in Hearn's Kwaidan (1904), set in Mino Province, caused by greed and classified among the pretas.
Jikir
Jikir, also spelled Zikir, is a genre of Islamic devotional song in colloquial Assamese, composed in the 17th century by the Sufi saint Ajan Fakir and still sung today.
Jikji
Jikji (직지) is a Korean Buddhist anthology printed in 1377 at Heungdeoksa Temple in Cheongju, the oldest extant book printed with movable metal type, predating the Gutenberg Bible by 78 years.
Jikkinshō
Jikkinshō (十訓抄, also read Jikkunshō) is a mid-Kamakura Japanese didactic tale collection compiled in 1252, organizing about 280 tales under ten headings of moral instruction for young people.
Jikui Song
Jikui Song is a structural biologist whose laboratory determines the structures of DNA methyltransferases, explaining how DNA methylation patterns are established and maintained in mammals.
Jil (జిల్) (film)
Jil (జిల్) is a 2015 Telugu action film, also called Jill, directed by Radha Krishna Kumar, starring Gopichand as fire officer Jai opposite Raashi Khanna, with music by Ghibran; released 27 March 2015 by UV Creations.
Jil Jung Juk (ஜில் ஜுங் ஜுக்)
Jil Jung Juk (ஜில் ஜங் ஜக்), a 2016 Tamil black comedy directed by Deeraj Vaidy and produced by Siddharth, follows three smugglers moving cocaine in a pink vintage car in a 2020 fuel-crisis Tamil Nadu; it flopped theatrically but later streamed on Prime Video.
Jil Teichmann
Jil Belen Teichmann, Swiss left-handed tennis player born 1997 in Barcelona; two WTA titles (2019 Prague, Palermo), former No. 21, 2022 Billie Jean King Cup winner, 2026 Roland Garros R16 comeback.
Jil Tracy
Jil Tracy is an American Republican politician and attorney, an Illinois state senator for the 50th district since 2023 who earlier served in the Illinois House from 2006 to 2014.
Jilbāb (جلباب)
Jilbāb (جلباب, plural jalābīb): loose outer garment named in Quran 33:59; classical jurists define it as wider than the khimar; regional forms include the Egyptian galabiya, Moroccan jellaba, and Indonesian headscarf.
Jilebi (2023 film)
Jilebi (జిలేబి) is a 2023 Telugu horror comedy set in a boys' hostel, written and directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar, starring his debutant son Sree Kamal and Shivani Rajashekar; released 18 August 2023, music by Mani Sharma, streamed on Aha from 13 July 2024.
Jilin (吉林)
Jilin (吉林省) is a province in central Northeast China, capital Changchun, area 187,400 km², population 23.17 million (2024). Borders Russia and North Korea; GDP 1,436.12 billion yuan in 2024, up 4.3%; known for Changbai Mountain, black-earth farmland, and winter tourism.
Jilin City (吉林市)
Jilin City (吉林市), second-largest city of Jilin province and China's only city sharing its province's name, on the Songhua River; known for rime ice, ski resorts, petrochemicals, and carbon fiber industry.
Jilin cogen power station
The Jilin cogen power station (吉林热电厂), also called the Jilin Thermal Power Plant, is a coal-fired cogeneration plant in Jilin City, China, founded in 1955 with 690 MW.
Jilin Electric Power
Jilin Electric Power is a Chinese power generation company in Changchun controlled by SPIC, renamed SPIC Green Energy in 2026 as it shifted to renewables.
Jilin Momoge National Nature Reserve
Jilin Momoge National Nature Reserve (吉林莫莫格国家级自然保护区), a 144,000 ha Ramsar wetland in Zhenlai County, Jilin, China, designated 2013; key Siberian crane stopover with up to 95% of the world population.
Jilin-1
Jilin-1 (吉林一号) is a Chinese commercial Earth-observation satellite constellation developed and operated by Chang Guang Satellite Technology of Changchun, with its first launch in 2015.
Jill A. Otake
Jill A. Otake, born Jill Aiko Otake, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge in Hawaii since 2018, after 13 years as a federal prosecutor.
Jill A. Pryor
Jill A. Pryor, also known as Jill Anne Pryor, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Eleventh Circuit since 2014.
Jill Ann Fahrner
Jill Ann Fahrner is an American physician-scientist and medical geneticist at Johns Hopkins University who delineated Beck–Fahrner syndrome, a rare neurodevelopmental disorder caused by TET3 deficiency.
Jill Arrington
Jill Arrington, born Tiffany Arrington (1972, Conyers, Georgia), American sportscaster and sideline reporter for Fox Sports, CBS Sports, ESPN, and KCBS/KCAL Los Angeles; daughter of Eagles quarterback Rick Arrington, aunt of Dakota Fanning.
Jill Bakken
Jill Bakken (born 1977, Portland, Oregon) is an American bobsledder who won the first women's Olympic bobsleigh gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics with brakewoman Vonetta Flowers.
Jill Banner
Jill Banner, born Mary Kathryn Molumby, was an American film and television actress best known for playing Virginia, the "spider baby", in the cult horror-comedy Spider Baby.
Jill Bennett (British actress)
Jill Bennett (Nora Noel Jill Bennett), British actress born in Penang; trained at RADA, starred at Stratford and in the West End, won Evening Standard and Variety Club awards for Time Present (1968), and died in London in 1990.
Jill Biden
Jill Biden, born Jill Tracy Jacobs, is an American educator and First Lady of the United States from 2021 to 2025 as the wife of President Joe Biden.
Jill Bolte Taylor
Jill Bolte Taylor, American neuroanatomist and author of My Stroke of Insight and Whole Brain Living; Harvard-trained, suffered a 1996 left-hemisphere stroke at 37 and recovered over eight years; her 2008 TED talk has over 30 million views.
Jill Carter (Missouri politician)
Jill Carter is an American politician and Republican member of the Missouri Senate representing the 32nd district in southwest Missouri, elected in 2022 after unseating incumbent Bill White.
Jill Clayburgh
Jill Clayburgh (1944–2010), American actress of film, stage, and television; star of An Unmarried Woman and Starting Over; Cannes best actress winner 1978, twice Oscar-nominated, wife of playwright David Rabe.