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Rosetta

[ roh-zet-uh ]

noun

  1. a town in N Egypt, at a mouth of the Nile.
  2. a female given name.


Rosetta

/ rəʊˈzɛtə /

noun

  1. See Rashid
    the former name of Rashid


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Dave Chase, a Washington businessman, created Rosetta to transform how employers buy benefits.

Those words are like a Rosetta stone to me, unlocking the Egyptology of the inner life that informs her perception.

It said performance for these apps is generally similar, and some graphically demanding apps perform better under Rosetta.

Apps that aren’t universal will use a new version of Apple’s Rosetta software, which helps translate your software to work on the new hardware.

Observations taken by the Rosetta spacecraft reveal the comet’s aurora, which — unlike Earth’s eye-catching light shows — shimmers in invisible ultraviolet light, researchers report online September 21 in Nature Astronomy.

Rosetta researchers used ROSINA data to determine how much HDO is mixed in with the normal H2O.

However, the probe stayed in contact with the Rosetta orbiter and has already sent back some photos.

The basic approach went as planned: after separating from the Rosetta orbiter, Philae coasted slowly to the comet surface.

This mission, which was named before the movie, finished operations in 2005, shortly after the launch of Rosetta.

Rosetta may be able to answer that question, and many others besides.

Today only Rosetta and Damietta remain to give their names to the two branches by which alone the Nile now seeks the sea.

Alexandria does not stand on the Nile, but near thirty miles west of the Rosetta branch of that river.

The whole coast from east of Damietta to the west of Rosetta, bends like a bow, the convex part being next the Mediterranean.

During the discussion of these practical 28 matters, Rosetta Muriel had maintained a disdainful silence.

Rosetta Muriel looked wearily out of the window, as if she found herself bored by the choice of topics.

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