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Highclere Castle
Highclere Castle is a Grade I listed country house in Hampshire, England, seat of the Earl of Carnarvon, remodeled by Sir Charles Barry from 1839 to 1842.
Higher-order topological mechanical metamaterials
Higher-order topological mechanical metamaterials are architected structures whose elastic waves or deformations localize at corners rather than edges, reproducing higher-order topological insulator physics in mechanical platforms.
Highgrove House
Highgrove House is a Grade II listed country house near Tetbury, Gloucestershire, bought by the Duchy of Cornwall in 1980 as the country home of King Charles III, whose organic gardens are open to the public.
Highland Park Ford Plant
The Highland Park Ford Plant was Ford's factory in Highland Park, Michigan, where the moving assembly line was first used and the Model T was mass-produced from 1910 to 1927.
Highlighter
A highlighter, or highlighter pen, is a felt-tip marker filled with translucent fluorescent ink that marks printed text so it stands out yet stays legible; the first, the Hi-Liter, dates to 1963.
Highline Canal
The Highline Canal, often styled High Line Canal, is a 71-mile irrigation canal in the Denver, Colorado area, built 1879–1883 and now becoming a regional trail.
Highly accelerated stress test
The highly accelerated stress test (HAST) is a reliability test for plastic-packaged semiconductor devices using high temperature, humidity, and pressure, proposed by IBM engineers in 1981.
Highly elliptical orbit
A highly elliptical orbit (HEO) is an Earth orbit with eccentricity above 0.25, used by Molniya and Tundra satellites to serve high northern latitudes where geostationary coverage fails.
Highly nonlinear fiber
Highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF) is a silica optical fiber with a nonlinear coefficient over 16 times that of standard fiber, used in parametric amplifiers and wavelength converters.
HighPoint Technologies
HighPoint Technologies is an American storage hardware company founded in 1995 and based in Fremont, California, that makes RAID controllers, host bus adapters, and PCIe switch adapters for servers and AI infrastructure.
Highvale Coal Mine
Highvale Coal Mine was a large surface strip coal mine at Wabamun Lake, west of Edmonton, Alberta, owned by TransAlta. Opened in 1970, it closed on December 31, 2021.
Highview Power
Highview Power is a UK-based developer of Liquid Air Energy Storage plants under its CRYOBattery brand, founded in 2005 and behind the first grid-scale plant at Bury in 2018.
Highway
A highway, also called a super-highway, is a major public road; in US federal law the term covers any road, street, or parkway with its bridges and tunnels.
Highway Beautification Act
The Highway Beautification Act is a 1965 United States federal law requiring states to control billboards and junkyards along the Interstate System, on pain of losing federal highway funds.
Highway Capacity Manual
The Highway Capacity Manual is the US transportation engineering reference for estimating the capacity and level of service of highways, streets, and intersections, first published in 1950.
Highway Development and Management Model
The Highway Development and Management Model (HDM) is World Bank-developed software used by road administrations in 100 countries to appraise road maintenance and investment decisions.
Highway hypnosis
Highway hypnosis, also called driving without awareness or DWAM, is a trance-like automatic driving state with amnesia after predictable, monotonous motorway driving; Wertheim's 1978 eye-movement theory and EEG studies explain it.
Highway network (machine learning)
A highway network is a deep neural network in which each layer has learned gates letting information pass unchanged, enabling training of networks hundreds of layers deep.
Highway Patrol Group (Philippines)
The Highway Patrol Group (HPG) is the Philippine National Police unit enforcing traffic laws on national highways and leading anti-carnapping operations; it began in 1955 and took its present name in 2008.
Highway Safety Manual
The Highway Safety Manual is an AASHTO guidance document, first published in 2010, offering quantitative methods for estimating and managing the safety performance of highways and streets.
Highway Traffic Act (Ontario)
The Highway Traffic Act (HTA) is the principal Ontario statute governing motor vehicles and roadways, covering licensing, equipment, rules of the road, and penalties like demerit points and suspensions.
Highway Trust Fund
The Highway Trust Fund is a US Treasury account, created in 1956, funded by federal motor fuel taxes and spent on federal-aid highways and public transportation.
Highways Act 1980
The Highways Act 1980 is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament that consolidated the Highways Acts 1959 to 1971 and remains the principal statute governing highways in England and Wales.
Hijack (TV series)
Hijack is a 2023 British real-time thriller series created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith for Apple TV+, starring Idris Elba as a business negotiator aboard a hijacked Dubai-to-London flight.
Hikari (train)
Hikari (ひかり, "light") is a limited-stop Shinkansen service on the Tokaido and Sanyo lines, slower than Nozomi and fully covered by the Japan Rail Pass.
Hikari Denwa
Hikari Denwa (ひかり電話) is the fiber-optic IP telephone service provided by NTT East and NTT West over FLET'S optical lines, launched in 2005 and now Japan's standard landline.
Hike Messenger
Hike Messenger, also known as Hike Sticker Chat, was an Indian messaging app launched in December 2012 by Kavin Bharti Mittal, reaching 100 million users before its 2021 shutdown.
Hikrobot
Hikrobot (海康机器人), formally Hangzhou Hikrobot Co., Ltd., is a Chinese manufacturer of machine vision products and mobile robots, and a subsidiary of Hikvision headquartered in Hangzhou, serving factory automation and warehouse logistics in over 70 countries.
Hikvision
Hikvision (海康威视), Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese AIoT and video-surveillance manufacturer founded in 2001, Shenzhen-listed (002415), CETC-linked, world's largest security camera maker with growing robotics, smart home, and auto electronics businesses.
Hilaire de Chardonnet
Hilaire de Chardonnet (Louis-Marie Hilaire Bernigaud, comte de Chardonnet) was a French engineer who invented artificial silk and built the world's first man-made fiber factory at Besançon.