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Vuetify
Vuetify is an open-source component framework for Vue.js providing Material Design user-interface components with theming, layout, and responsive utilities, started by John Leider and publicly announced in December 2016.
Vuforia
Vuforia is an augmented reality software development kit that lets applications recognize and track images, objects, and spaces; Qualcomm developed it, and PTC has owned it since November 2015.
Vuk Award
The Vuk Award (Вукова награда) is an annual Serbian cultural award established in 1964 by the Cultural and Educational Community of Serbia, honoring the legacy of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić.
Vuk Branković
Vuk Branković (Вук Бранковић), Serbian regional lord (c. 1345–1397) ruling Kosovo with Priština as center, Lazar's son-in-law; fought at Kosovo 1389, resisted the Ottomans, died their captive, yet tradition names him the traitor.
Vuk Grgurević
Vuk Grgurević (Вук Гргуревић) was a Serbian Branković dynasty member who served as titular despot of Serbia under Matthias Corvinus from 1464 until his death in 1485.
Vuk Karadžić
Vuk Karadžić (Вук Караџић, 1787–1864) was a Serbian philologist who reformed the Serbian alphabet and literary language, collected folk songs, and wrote the first Serbian dictionary in 1818.
Vuk Karadžić's language reform
Vuk Karadžić's language reform, also known as the Kopitar–Karadžić reform, was the nineteenth-century codification of modern Serbian literary language and orthography on the phonemic principle of "write as you speak."
Vukašin Mrnjavčević
Vukašin Mrnjavčević (Serbian: Вукашин Мрњавчевић) was a medieval Serbian magnate crowned king and co-ruler of Emperor Stefan Uroš V in 1365, killed fighting the Ottomans at the Battle of the Marica in 1371.
Vukovar
Vukovar: Croatian city in Eastern Slavonia on the Danube border with Serbia; free royal town since 1231; besieged and destroyed by the JNA in an 87-day siege in 1991, site of the Ovčara massacre, reintegrated in 1998.
Vulcain (rocket engine)
Vulcain is a family of European cryogenic rocket engines, burning liquid hydrogen and oxygen, that powers the main stage of the Ariane 5 and Ariane 6 launchers.
Vulcan (hypothetical planet)
Vulcan, also called Planet Vulcan, was a hypothetical planet proposed by Le Verrier in the 19th century to explain Mercury's orbit, never found; Einstein explained the anomaly in 1915.
Vulcan (Marvel Comics)
Vulcan (Gabriel Summers) is a Marvel Comics mutant, third Summers brother of Cyclops and Havok, introduced in X-Men: Deadly Genesis (2006) and later Emperor of the Shi'ar in War of Kings.
Vulcan (mythology)
Vulcan (Volcanus), Roman god of destructive fire and equivalent of Greek Hephaestus; Volcanalia festival on 23 August with live fish thrown into fire; temples built outside city walls; name possibly Etruscan or Cretan Velchanos.
Vulcan (Star Trek)
Vulcans are Star Trek's logical, emotion-suppressing humanoid species from the desert planet Vulcan orbiting 40 Eridani A, founded on Surak's teachings, known for Spock, the mind meld, katras, and the Vulcan salute, and distinct from the real-world 19th-century planet Vulcan hypothesis.
Vulcan Centaur
Vulcan Centaur is an expendable heavy-lift rocket built by United Launch Alliance, which first launched from Cape Canaveral in January 2024 to replace the Atlas V.
Vulcan Elements
Vulcan Elements is an American manufacturer of sintered NdFeB rare earth permanent magnets, based in Durham, North Carolina, that builds its supply chain from U.S. and allied sources.
Vulcan Energy
Vulcan Energy is an Australian-listed lithium chemicals and renewable energy company founded in 2018, whose Lionheart project in Germany's Upper Rhine Valley targets first lithium production in 2028.
Vulcan Foundry
The Vulcan Foundry, also known as Charles Tayleur and Company, was a British locomotive manufacturer at Newton-le-Willows that built locomotives from the 1830s until 1970.
Vulcan nerve pinch
Vulcan nerve pinch (also Vulcan neck pinch), fictional Star Trek technique rendering humanoids unconscious via pressure between neck and shoulder; invented by Leonard Nimoy for "The Enemy Within"; distinct from the nonexistent "Vulcan death grip" bluff.
Vulcan salute
Vulcan salute: split-fingered hand greeting of Star Trek's Spock, devised by Leonard Nimoy from the Jewish Kohanim blessing, first seen in 1967's "Amok Time" with "Live long and prosper".
Vulcanizadora
Vulcanizadora is a 2024 American indie film by Joel Potrykus, premiering at Tribeca, in which Potrykus and Joshua Burge reprise their Buzzard characters Marty and Derek on a disturbing pact in the Michigan woods; not the Mexican tire-shop term vulcanizadora.
Vulcanization
Vulcanization is the chemical process of heating rubber with sulfur to form crosslinks, converting soft, sticky rubber into strong, elastic material. Charles Goodyear discovered it in 1839.
Vulcanized fiber
Vulcanized fiber is a hard cellulose plastic made by gelatinizing sheets of paper with zinc chloride and pressing them together, first patented by Thomas Taylor in 1859.
Vulcanized rubber
Vulcanized rubber is rubber heated with sulfur so cross-links form between polymer chains, discovered by Charles Goodyear in 1839 and used in almost all rubber products.
Vulfpeck
Vulfpeck is an American funk band formed in 2011 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, by Jack Stratton, Theo Katzman, Woody Goss, and Joe Dart; known for Sleepify, independent Vulf Records releases, and sold-out Madison Square Garden shows.
Vulgar auteurism
Vulgar auteurism (V.A.) is an early-2010s online film-critical tendency, coined skeptically by Andrew Tracy, applying auteur theory to dismissed genre directors like Paul W.S. Anderson, Michael Bay, and Tony Scott.
Vulgar Display of Power
Vulgar Display of Power, Pantera's sixth studio album (Atco, February 25, 1992), defined groove metal with Terry Date producing at Pantego Sound Studio; it peaked at number 44 on the Billboard 200 and is certified 2x Platinum.
Vulgar Latin
Vulgar Latin, also called sermo vulgaris or Popular Latin, is the non-standard spoken variety of Latin contrasted with Classical Latin, from which the Romance languages developed; a contested, register-based concept.
Vulgaria (低俗喜剧)
Vulgaria, also known as 低俗喜劇, is a 2012 Hong Kong black comedy by Pang Ho-cheung that satirizes the film industry through a producer's deal with a triad boss.
Vulgate
The Vulgate, or Biblia Vulgata, is the Latin Bible translated mainly by Jerome of Stridon in the late fourth century, later the Church's authoritative edition.