What's in a name?

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Saturn94

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What's in a name?
« on: 24 Dec 2010, 03:48 pm »
I've been wondering how the different Salk models got their names.  I understand the names such as "SoundScape" and "SongTower", but how about the others (HT1, HT2, etc.)?

Anyone know?

rlee8394

Re: What's in a name?
« Reply #1 on: 25 Dec 2010, 12:04 am »
Home Theater-1, Home Theater-2, Home Theater-3. Just my guess.

Ron

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Re: What's in a name?
« Reply #2 on: 25 Dec 2010, 07:31 am »
Happy Thingy 1, Happy Thingy 2, Happy Thingy 3.


Bob

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Re: What's in a name?
« Reply #3 on: 25 Dec 2010, 10:57 am »
This link reports HT stands for, among other things:
    # Haitian Creole language (ISO 639 alpha-2, ht)
    # Handheld transceiver, an alternate term for Walkie-talkie
    # Handie-Talkie, Motorola portable radio transceiver products
    # Hanshin Tigers (Japan), a Nippon Professional Baseball team
    # Harris Teeter, a chain of upscale supermarkets based in Matthews, North Carolina, USA
    # Hattrick, a browser-based computer/video game
    # Hectotesla (hT), an SI unit of magnetic flux density
    # Height (abbreviation ht.)
    # "Heard Through", an abbreviation used in Twitter
    # Heim theory, a term used to describe a non-mainstream theory of gravitation and particle physics
    # High tension, or high voltage electrical installations
    # High-throughput, in computing, bioinformatics, or communication
    # Hilary Term, the name of the Winter/Spring term at Oxford University
    # Hindustan Times, north India's leading English (language) newspaper
    # Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamic political organisation
    # Horizontal Tab, used in the C0 control code set (see Tab key)
    # Hostage-taker
    # Hot Topic, an American chain store aimed at teenagers and young adults
    # How To, subject abbreviation for helpful 'How To' instructions
    # Hrvatski Telekom, a Croatian telecom company
    # HT (band), a Punk-rock band from Slovakia noted for their depressive lyrics and sometimes quite unpunkish instrumentations
    # Hybrid Theory, the debut album of the nu-metal band Linkin Park
    # Hypertension (a.k.a. high blood pressure), a medical condition wherein the blood pressure is chronically elevated
    # Hyper-threading (HT or HTT), Intel's trademark for their implementation of the simultaneous multithreading technology on the Pentium 4 and later microarchitectures
    # HyperTransport, a bidirectional serial/parallel high-bandwidth, low-latency computer bus used by AMD


And of course it mentioned the following: # Home Theater, electronics used to watch films at home

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Re: What's in a name?
« Reply #4 on: 25 Dec 2010, 01:40 pm »
    # Harris Teeter, a chain of upscale supermarkets based in Matthews, North Carolina, USA

    Hey, that's where we shop   :thumb:[/list]

    Saturn94

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    Re: What's in a name?
    « Reply #5 on: 28 Dec 2010, 06:18 pm »
    Anyone officially know the answer to the original question?