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n. (context physics English) A hypothetical object extending across a number of (often specified) spatial dimensions, with strings in string theory seen as one-dimensional examples.
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A brane is a spatially extended mathematical concept that appears in M-theory. It may also refer to:
- Brane cosmology, several theories in particle physics and cosmology related to superstring theory and M-theory
- BRANE (acronym for Bombing Radar Navigation Equipment) - the airborne computer built by IBM in the 1950s for the B-52 strategic bomber
- Brane, Cornwall, a hamlet in Cornwall, England, with a chambered tomb known as Brane Barrow
- Brane, archaic name of Bordeaux wine producer Château Brane-Cantenac
- Brane-Mouton, archaic name of Bordeaux wine producer Château Mouton Rothschild
- Branko Oblak (born 1947), Yugoslav/Slovenian football player and manager
- ane Mozetič (born 1958), Slovenian poet and editor
BRANE (Bombing Radar Navigation Equipment) was an airborne computer designed and built by IBM in the 1950s during the Cold War. BRANE was developed under contract to the United States Air Force for the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress nuclear bomber. At a time when computers were the size of large rooms, in order to build a computer that could function on an aircraft, engineers at IBM solved the problems of size, weight, reliability and maintenance by using a modular design; with parts that could be located where space was available and components replaced in-flight when they failed. IBM built a facility in Owego, New York to boost production capacity.
Usage examples of "brane".
They rode out of the city to cheers only a short time ago and just passed the Brane Hole.
Mahnmut guided the hornet down toward Mars, Olympos, and the Brane Hole.
Cavalry fighting Argive hoplites on the Mars side of the Brane, Argives against Trojans on the Earth side.
Leader Mep Ahoo was tightbeaming the smaller moravec about the imminent collapse of the Brane Hole.
A circle ten meters across appears in midair and seems to sink into the sand until a Brane Hole cuts a slice out of space and time.
Olympus Mons may or may not blow that part of Mars to bits, but you have minutes, at most, before the Brane Hole disappears.
Centurion Leader Mep Ahoo where the rockvec stood using his loudspeaker to urge the Achaeans to return through the Brane Hole at once.
Olympos back at the quivering Brane Hole, gave the little moravec a distracted look but nodded and walked with him toward the cluster of Achaean captains.
The clouds of sulfur and ash were swirling around the Brane Hole, which seemed to be growing smaller.
Achaeans, the dead Amazons, the dead horses, and the distant walls of Ilium and warring armies just visible through the now vibrating Brane Hole.
And then there was that lab-built hundred-headed clone monster named Typhon that came through the Brane Hole in the four hundred and twenty-fourth year of the war.
The brain creature with the hands came through Brane Holes from another universe just a few days ago.
What Prospero and Caliban, two characters from an ancient Shakespearean play, are doing waiting for us on this real Earth, and why the quantum basis for the entire solar system is being screwed up by these Brane Holes that keep popping up.
Coulomb field transforms to these mind-consciousness-reality wave functions, you quickly see how the post-humans opened Brane Holes to new universes and then teleported there themselves.
The Titanesses stagger backward, wading through lava, evidently unharmed by the red beam but shielding their faces and eyes from the painful white light flowing out of the Brane Hole.