What is "xenon"

Noble \No"ble\, a. [Compar. Nobler; superl. Noblest.] [F. noble, fr. L. nobilis that can be or is known, well known, famous, highborn, noble, fr. noscere to know. See know.]

1. Possessing eminence, elevation, dignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a noble heart.

   Statues, with winding ivy crowned, belong To nobler poets for a nobler song.
   --Dryden.

2. Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid; as, a noble edifice.

3. Of exalted rank; of or pertaining to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn; as, noble blood; a noble personage.

   Note: Noble is used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, noble-born, noble-hearted, noble-minded.

   Noble gas (Chem.), a gaseous element belonging to group VIII of the periodic table of elements, not combining with other elements under normal reaction conditions; specifically, helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, or radon; also called inert gas.

   Noble metals (Chem.), silver, gold, and platinum; -- so called from their resistance to oxidation by air and to dissolution by acids. Copper, mercury, aluminium, palladium, rhodium, iridium, and osmium are sometimes included.

   Syn: Honorable; worthy; dignified; elevated; exalted; superior; sublime; great; eminent; illustrious; renowned; stately; splendid; magnificent; grand; magnanimous; generous; liberal; free.

gaseous element, 1898, from Greek xenon, neuter of xenos "foreign, strange" (see xeno-); coined by its co-discoverer, Scottish chemist Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916); compare krypton.

n. A heavy, gaseous chemical element (''symbol'' Xe) of the noble gases group with an atomic number of 54.

n. a colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts [syn: Xe, atomic number 54]

The XENON dark matter research project operated at the Italian Gran Sasso laboratory is a deep underground research facility featuring increasingly ambitious experiments aiming to finally detect long sought after dark matter particles. These particles in the form of Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are believed to be found by looking for rare interactions via nuclear recoils in a liquid xenon target chamber. The current detector consists of a dual phase Time projection chamber (TPC).

The experiment detects scintillation and ionization produced when particles interact in the liquid xenon volume, to search for an excess of nuclear recoil events over known backgrounds. The detection of such a signal will provide the first direct experimental evidence for dark matter candidate particles. The collaboration is currently led by Italian professor of physics Elena Aprile from Columbia University.

Xenon is a chemical element.

Xenon may also refer to:

• Celier Xenon 2, a Polish autogyro
• Xenon (video game)
• Xenon (pinball)
• Xenon (processor), the Xbox 360 CPU
• Xenon (X Universe), an alien robotic race in the X computer game series
• Xenon (program), a Dutch web spider intended to discover tax evasion
• Xenon (cipher), a Korean encryption algorithm
• Xenon (nightclub), a former New York City nightclub
• Xenon arc lamp
• XENON Dark Matter Search Experiment
• Xenon Entertainment Group
• LG Xenon, a mobile phone manufactured by LG Electronics
• Xenon, a Campagnolo groupset
• Xenon, a robot from the Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad television show
• Ultraman Xenon, a character from Ultraman Max, in episode 13
• Xenon (manga), a Japanese manga by Masaomi Kanzaki
• Xenon, a codename for the Xbox 360
• The Xenon Codex, a 1988 album by Hawkwind
• Tata Xenon, a pick-up truck

Xenon (in Greek Ξενων) was an officer in the service of Antiochus III the Great (223–187 BC), who was sent, together with Theodotus Hemiolius, against Molon in 221 BC. They retired before Molon under the shelter of the towns.

Xenon is a 1988 vertical scrolling shooter computer game, developed by The Bitmap Brothers and published by Melbourne House which was then owned by Mastertronic. It featured as a play-by-phone game on Saturday-morning kids' show Get Fresh.

Xenon was followed in 1989 by Xenon 2: Megablast.

Xenon was a popular New York City nightclub. Xenon was a popular disco in Manhattan in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was located at 124 West 43rd St in the former Henry Miller Theater which prior to Xenon had been renamed Avon-at-the-Hudson and was operating as a porn house. Xenon was the only nightclub popular enough to compete with Studio 54. The site is now the Stephen Sondheim Theater.

Microsoft XCPU, codenamed Xenon, is a CPU used in the Xbox 360 game console, to be used with ATI's Xenos graphics chip.

The processor was developed by Microsoft and IBM under the IBM chip program codenamed "Waternoose", which was named after Henry J. Waternoose III in Monsters, Inc.. The development program was originally announced on 2003-11-03.

The processor is based on IBM PowerPC instruction set architecture. It consists of three independent processor cores on a single die. These cores are slightly modified versions of the PPE in the Cell processor used on the PlayStation 3. Each core has two symmetric hardware threads ( SMT), for a total of six hardware threads available to games. Each individual core also includes 32 KiB of L1 instruction cache and 32 KiB of L1 data cache.

The XCPU processors are manufactured at IBM's East Fishkill, New York fabrication plant and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (now part of GlobalFoundries) in Singapore. Chartered reduced the fabrication process in 2007 to 65 nm from 90 nm, thus reducing manufacturing costs for Microsoft.

In cryptography, Xenon is a block cipher designed in the year 2000 by Chang-Hyi Lee for the Korean firm SoftForum.

The algorithm uses a key size of 128, 192, or 256 bits. It operates on blocks of 128 bits using a 16-round Feistel network structure with key whitening. Designed for speed, Xenon's round function doesn't use any S-boxes. The only operations it uses are XOR, addition, multiplication, and bit shifts.

Xenon is software to perform covert Internet searches, presently in use by taxing authorities to investigate the possibilities of tax evasion by various revenue producing web sites ( online shops, gambling sites, or pornography sites) and clients selling goods on on-line auction sites. The software uses time–controlled web spiders to avoid likely countermeasures by the webmasters of the targeted site.

(aka. Bio Diver Xenon) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Masaomi Kanzaki. The manga was published in 1986 by Shogakukan and 2000 by Kodansha. It was serialised in seinen magazine Monthly Comic Ryū. The manga was licensed by Eclipse Comics in 1987 and by Viz Communications in 1992. The manga is licensed for a French-language release in France by Génération Comics and Semic, licensed for a German-language release in Germany by Planet Manga, and licensed in Taiwan by Taiwan Tohan.

Xenon is a 1980 pinball machine designed by Greg Kmiec and released by Bally. The game was not only the first talking pinball table by Bally, but also the first with a female voice.