Sitter
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- Sitter (BEAM)Sitter (BEAM)In BEAM robotics, a sitter is a type of robot that does not move. Such robots have no self-contained means of transportation and are non-mobile. Instead of moving, sitters are usually designed to power lights in some sort of pattern...
, beam robotics term - Sitter River, SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 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....
- Babysitter
- Trip sitterTrip sitterTrip sitter is a term used by recreational or spiritual drug users to describe a person who remains sober to ensure the safety of the drug user while he or she is under the influence of a drug; they are especially common with first-time experiences or when using psychedelics, dissociatives and...
- In health care, a companionCompanion (caregiving)In health care and caregiving, a companion, sitter, or private duty may be a nursing assistant or similar professional who is hired to work with one patient...
- a person who poses as a modelModel (art)Art models are models who pose for photographers, painters, sculptors, and other artists as part of their work of art. Art models who pose in the nude for life drawing are usually called life models...
for a painter or sculptor.
The Sitter
- The Sitter (2011 film)The Sitter (2011 film)The Sitter is an upcoming American comedy film directed by David Gordon Green and produced by Michael De Luca. The film tells the story about a male student who, after being suspended from college, is lured into a babysitting gig for which he is woefully unprepared.This film studio is Michael De...
- The Sitter (1991 film)The SitterThe Sitter is a 1991 made-for-television movie starring Kim Myers as Nell, an unstable baby-sitter, who lives in the reality of romance novels...
- The Sitter (2007 film)While the Children SleepWhile the Children Sleep is a 2007 made-for-television film released on the Lifetime Movie Network. The film is about a couple who hires a live-in nanny who inserts herself increasingly into the family routine...
, aka While the Children Sleep
de Sitter
- Willem de SitterWillem de SitterWillem de Sitter was a Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer.-Life and work:Born in Sneek, De Sitter studied mathematics at the University of Groningen and then joined the Groningen astronomical laboratory. He worked at the Cape Observatory in South Africa...
, Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer. - De Sitter (crater)De Sitter (crater)De Sitter is a lunar crater that is located near the northern limb of the Moon, to the north of the Baillaud–Euctemon crater pair. Due to its location, this crater appears very foreshortened when viewed from the Earth, limiting the detail that can be viewed...
, a crater on the Moon named after Willem de Sitter - De Sitter (asteroid), see 1686 De Sitter1686 De Sitter1686 De Sitter is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 28, 1935 by Van Gent, H. at Johannesburg .- External links :*...
, an asteroid named after Willem de Sitter - de Sitter spaceDe Sitter spaceIn mathematics and physics, a de Sitter space is the analog in Minkowski space, or spacetime, of a sphere in ordinary, Euclidean space. The n-dimensional de Sitter space , denoted dS_n, is the Lorentzian manifold analog of an n-sphere ; it is maximally symmetric, has constant positive curvature,...
, a theoretical type of spacetime named after Willem de Sitter - de Sitter universeDe Sitter universeA de Sitter universe is a cosmological solution to Einstein's field equations of General Relativity which is named after Willem de Sitter. It models the universe as spatially flat and neglects ordinary matter, so the dynamics of the universe are dominated by the cosmological constant, thought to...
, a solution to general relativity named after Willem de Sitter