{"id":37841,"date":"2022-12-03T12:23:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T18:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=37841"},"modified":"2022-12-03T12:23:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T18:23:12","slug":"word-of-the-day-843","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/03\/word-of-the-day-843\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jansky<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Jansky (Jy) is defined as:<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>1\u00a0<sup>.<\/sup>\u00a010<sup>-26<\/sup>\u00a0Watts \/ Hz\u00a0<sup>.<\/sup>\u00a0m<sup>2<\/sup><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.setileague.org\/askdr\/jansky.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SETI League<\/strong>]<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Incidentally, my first guess was that it is a synonym for <em>jargon<\/em>. Not. Even. Close. Noted in &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2347426-ronnametres-and-quettagrams-have-joined-the-ranks-of-si-units\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ronnametres and quettagrams have joined the ranks of SI units<\/a><\/em>,&#8221; Alex Wilkins, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (26 November 2022):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npl.co.uk\/people\/richard-brown#:~:text=Dr%20Richard%20Brown%20is%20an,he%20has%20worked%20for%20NPL.\">Richard Brown<\/a>\u00a0at the National Physical Laboratory] suggests that ronto and quecto could have uses in radio astronomy, such as for measuring the very weak strength of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/definition\/cosmic-microwave-background\/\">cosmic microwave background<\/a>, radiation left over from the big bang, but astronomers already frequently use the non-SI jansky for this, says [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/physics\/people\/michael.merrifield\">Mike Merrifield<\/a> at the University of Nottingham].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jansky: The Jansky (Jy) is defined as: 1\u00a0.\u00a010-26\u00a0Watts \/ Hz\u00a0.\u00a0m2 [SETI League] Incidentally, my first guess was that it is a synonym for jargon. Not. Even. Close. Noted in &#8220;Ronnametres and quettagrams have joined the ranks of SI units,&#8221; Alex Wilkins, NewScientist (26 November 2022): [Richard Brown\u00a0at the National Physical \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/03\/word-of-the-day-843\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37842,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37841\/revisions\/37842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}