The universe of all known private venture capital partnerships in the U S Funds excluded were: those funds making substantial foreign investments; hybrid funds primarily making public market purchases; funds doing solely leveraged buyouts; and funds of funds The Universe also excluded funds with a single corporate partner, funds formed to acquire an existing venture capital firm's portfolio, wholly-owned venture capital subsidiaries of financial or non financial corporations, Small Business Investment Companies (SBICs) and family funds
A universe is the business-intelligent semantic layer that isolates users from the technical issues of the database Universes are made up of classes and objects Objects are elements that map to a set of data from a relational database in terms that pertain to your business situation For example, the objects in a human resources universe might include Names, Addresses and Salaries Classes are logical groupings of objects For example, the objects listed above might belong to a class called Employees Universes are created by a universe designer, using BusinessObjects Designer WebIntelligence and BusinessObjects 5i Reporter users then use these universes to access the data they need from the database through an intuitive, user-friendly interface (back to top)
All created things viewed as constituting one system or whole; the whole body of things, or of phenomena; the &?; &?; of the Greeks, the mundus of the Latins; the world; creation
Worlds with common universe server, citizenship database and universe attributes like starting world and browser version Can be bought from Activeworlds company
All that is In 1920 this term was used also to describe the Milky Way stellar system With the resolution of the Curtis - Shapley debate came the first generally accepted understanding that our Galaxy was not the only galaxy in the cosmos, so that the universe contains more than the Milky Way stellar system
An entity similar to our Universe; one component of a larger entity known as the multiverse
Everything in space; all the planets, stars and galaxies, and everything between Scientists believe the universe is expanding, though it is not known whether this will continue Studies in 1998 made age estimates of 15 billion years, though other estimates vary from this number Recent NASA research puts the figure at 12 billion years, though this has been disputed
everything stated or assumed in a given discussion everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence
It is best to admit that we have no knowledge whatsoever about the origin of the universe We do not know how matter came into existence; neither does it help to claim that the universe has always existed, so that there was no actual moment of creation
The huge space which contains all of the matter and energy in existence V VALLEY A piece of low land lying between hills or mountains
(a) Everything we know exists within it, and we can see out only as far as light has had time to travel since the Big Bang So when we look out further into space, we are looking backwards in time We think of the Universe as being four-dimensional; three spatial dimensions (x, y, z), corresponding to the three orthogonal axes on a graph, and one temporal We are free to move in any direction in space, but are condemned forever to move forwards in time (b) Unless you're Superman Who was a goblin All that stuff about Krypton was just a cover story