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Encyclopedia
Business
- Bemidji AirlinesBemidji AirlinesBemidji Airlines is an American airline based in Bemidji, Minnesota USA. It operates domestic cargo flights, as well as extensive charter and air taxi services. Its main base is Bemidji Regional Airport, with a hub at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport.-History:The airline was...
IATA code - Carolina HerreraCarolina Herrera (fashion designer)Carolina Herrera Carolina Herrera Carolina Herrera (born María Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Niño (born January 8, 1939) is a Venezuelan and naturalized American fashion designer and entrepreneur who founded her eponymous company in 1980.-Early life:...
, a fashion designer based in New York.
Entertainment and sports
- ChannelTelevision channelA television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video and...
(sometimes abbreviated as "ch." for television and cable stations) - College Humor.comCollegeHumorCollegeHumor is a comedy website owned by InterActiveCorp and based in New York City. The site features daily original comedy videos and articles created by its in-house writing and production team, in addition to user-submitted videos, pictures, articles and links. In early 2009, CollegeHumor's...
, a comedy website - Cutie HoneyCutie Honeyis a Japanese media franchise created by Go Nagai. Cutie Honey first appears on volume 41 of the 1973 edition of Shōnen Champion. According to Nagai, she is the first female to be the protagonist of a shōnen manga series....
, an anime series in Japan - Cypress HillCypress HillCypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California. Cypress Hill was the first Latino hip-hop group to have platinum and multi-platinum albums, selling over 18 million albums worldwide...
, musical band - E!, a defunct Canadian television systemTelevision systemA television system is a Canadian term for a group of television stations which share common ownership, branding, and programming, but are not considered a full television network....
that went by the CH name from 2001 to 2007 - The logo for the Montreal CanadiensMontreal CanadiensThe Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The club is officially known as ...
ice hockey team, derived from its French name, Les Canadiens de Montréal - Children's HospitalChildren's Hospital (web series)Childrens Hospital is a satirical comedy television series and web series that lampoons the medical drama genre, created by and starring actor/comedian Rob Corddry. The series began on the web on TheWB.com with ten episodes, roughly five minutes in length, all of which premiered on December 8, 2008...
, a WB.com web series turned Adult SwimAdult SwimAdult Swim is an adult-oriented Cable network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network from 9:00 pm until 6:00 am ET/PT in the United States, and broadcasts in countries such as Australia and New Zealand...
television show
Languages
- Chamorro languageChamorro languageChamorro is a Malayo-Polynesian language, spoken on the Mariana Islands by about 47,000 people Chamorro (Chamorro: Fino' Chamoru or simply Chamoru) is a Malayo-Polynesian (Austronesian) language, spoken on the Mariana Islands (Guam, Rota, Tinian, and Saipan) by about 47,000 people Chamorro...
: ISO 639 alpha-2 language code (ch) - Ch (digraph)Ch (digraph)Ch is a digraph in the Roman alphabet and Uyghur. It is treated as a letter of its own in Chamorro, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Igbo, Quechua, Guarani, Welsh, Cornish, Breton and Belarusian Łacinka alphabets. In Vietnamese, it also used to be considered a letter for collation purposes but this is no...
, considered a single letter in several Latin-alphabet languages
Mathematics and programming
- Chomsky hierarchyChomsky hierarchyWithin the field of computer science, specifically in the area of formal languages, the Chomsky hierarchy is a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars....
, in computer science, a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars - Continuum hypothesisContinuum hypothesisIn mathematics, the continuum hypothesis is a hypothesis, advanced by Georg Cantor in 1874, about the possible sizes of infinite sets. It states:Establishing the truth or falsehood of the continuum hypothesis is the first of Hilbert's 23 problems presented in the year 1900...
, in set theory - Hyperbolic cosine, in mathematics, a hyperbolic function, ch(x) = cosh(x)
- Curry–Howard correspondence, the relationship between computer programs and mathematical proofs
- CH register, the high byte of an X86 16-bit CX register
- ChCh (computer programming)In computing, Ch is a proprietary cross-platform C and C++ interpreter originally designed by Dr. Harry H. Cheng as a scripting language for beginners to learn math, computing, numerics, and programming in C/C++...
, a cross-platform C/C++ interpreter
Military
- Cargo helicopter (U.S. military helicopter alpha-numeric prefix)
- Columbia HelicoptersColumbia HelicoptersColumbia Helicopters, Incorporated, or CHI, is an aircraft manufacturing and operator company based in Aurora, Oregon, United States. They are known for operating tandem rotor helicopters; in present times, exclusively the Boeing Vertol 107 and Boeing 234. These helicopters are used in...
- Chain HomeChain HomeChain Home was the codename for the ring of coastal Early Warning radar stations built by the British before and during the Second World War. The system otherwise known as AMES Type 1 consisted of radar fixed on top of a radio tower mast, called a 'station' to provide long-range detection of...
: A WW2 Radar array - Heavy cruiserHeavy cruiserThe heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range, high speed and an armament of naval guns roughly 203mm calibre . The heavy cruiser can be seen as a lineage of ship design from 1915 until 1945, although the term 'heavy cruiser' only came into formal use in 1930...
(U.S. Navy ship code CH, standing for "Cruiser, Heavy")
Places
- Confoederatio HelveticaSwitzerlandSwitzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
, the formal name for Switzerland, Latin in origin. - Chihuahua (state), the State of Chihuahua, Mexico
- Conservation HaltonConservation HaltonConservation Halton , legally known as the Halton Region Conservation Authority , is a conservation authority established under the Conservation Authorities Act of Ontario...
, in Ontario, Canada - People's Republic of ChinaPeople's Republic of ChinaChina , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
(FIPS and NATO country code CH)- ISO country codeISO 3166-1 alpha-2ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest...
for Switzerland - .ch.ch.ch is the Internet country code top-level domain for Switzerland. It is administered by SWITCH Information Technology Services.The ".ch" domain does not come from the name for Switzerland in any of its national languages; "die Schweiz", "Suisse", "Svizzera" or "Svizra"...
, the Internet country code top-level domain for Switzerland
- ISO country code
Others
- Chain (length): a unit of linear measure in the Imperial system.
- Ch.Championship (dog)Championships are awarded to dogs who have passed through a process of selection at dog shows. Traditionally, a championship was received at a conformation show, but championships are now offered for dogs who have attained a high degree of perfection in other dog sports as well.-The conformation...
, a prefix for the registered name of a dog qualifying for a championship at a conformation show - ClayClayClay is a general term including many combinations of one or more clay minerals with traces of metal oxides and organic matter. Geologic clay deposits are mostly composed of phyllosilicate minerals containing variable amounts of water trapped in the mineral structure.- Formation :Clay minerals...
of high plasticity (USCS soil type CH) - Companion of Honour, a British and Commonwealth honour
- ChaudharyChaudharyChoudhury is a term in Indo-Aryan languages, literally meaning "holder of four". Traditionally, the term is used as a title indicating the ownership of ancestral land, but in contemporary usage it is often taken as a surname or title....
, an honorific used in the Indian and Pakistani Punjab regions