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Pyro-

ˈpaɪroʊ-
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Pyro-
    Combining forms designating fire or heat; specifically Chem, used to imply an actual or theoretical derivative by the action of heat; as in pyrophosphoric, pyrosulphuric, pyrotartaric, pyrotungstic, etc.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Gr. , , fire

Usage in the news

Most bands set designs are done by the band, but the pyro is set up by technicians. kfmx.com

Hairball brought the 80s hair metal, costumes and pyro and kicked off the 2012 Nitefall on the River season at Simon Estes Amphitheater. star1025.com

Or dropping off pyro-happy misfits in a desert park during a dry season drought with a box of matches and firecrackers. apparelnews.net

We employ the SNePS knowledge representation, reasoning, and acting system and the Pyro robotics toolkit. aaai.org

Fizzles on Uptempo New Single ' Pyro '. spin.com

Meet the "head pyro " responsible for Tempe Town Lake's fireworks show. azcentral.com

INTERVIEWS Rammstein Bring Pyro for Wild TV Performance. spin.com

Pyro Colt Born at Runnymede. bloodhorse.com

Pyro Draws Outside for Indiana Derby. bloodhorse.com

Pyro is the 3-1 morning line favorite for the Risen Star (gr III). bloodhorse.com

Are you a workplace pyro . money.cnn.com

Firelinx Aegis pyrotechnic control system from Birket Engineering is designed to be the safest and most full-featured pyro controller. livedesignonline.com

Raytheon personnel affix the 13-pound Pyros bomb to a Cobra drone. latimes.com

We sure didn't know what we were getting into when we promised you pyro. k945.com

Clorox Wants to Flush Out Porta Potty Pyro. nbcsandiego.com

Usage in scientific papers

We extended our Volcano-style cost based optimizer, which we call PYRO, to consider partial sort orders and choose good interesting sort orders for merge joins and aggregation.
Reducing Order Enforcement Cost in Complex Query Plans

We compare the plans produced by the extended implementation, which we call PYRO-O, with those of Postgres, SYS1 and SYS2.
Reducing Order Enforcement Cost in Complex Query Plans

All plans except the hash-join plan of SYS1 and the plan produced by PYRO-O use an expensive full sort of 6 million lineitem index entries on (partkey, suppkey).
Reducing Order Enforcement Cost in Complex Query Plans

We compared the actual running time of PYRO-O’s plan with those of Postgres and SYS1 by forcing our plan on the respective systems.
Reducing Order Enforcement Cost in Complex Query Plans

In all cases, the forced PYRO-O plan performed signi ficantly better than the other plans.
Reducing Order Enforcement Cost in Complex Query Plans

Usage in literature

The same may be said for his pyro-electric motor. "Heroes of the Telegraph" by J. Munro

If a solution of yellow prussiate of potash be used in place of the pyro solution, a blue print is obtained. "Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885" by Various

At the same time he finds that no pyro-paraffine is formed under this temperature. "Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889" by Various

Taking the tourmaline as an example of the pyro-electric minerals, we find that when this is heated to between 50 deg. "The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones" by John Mastin

Almost any of the modern developers (pyro excepted) will give good results with bromide paper. "Bromide Printing and Enlarging" by John A. Tennant

See Dr. Wilkinson's account of the preserving power of PYRO-LIGNEOUS ACID, &c. in the Philosophical Magazine for 1821, No. "The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual" by William Kitchiner

Pyro-lignous Pyro-lignous acid Empyreumatic acid of wood. "Elements of Chemistry," by Antoine Lavoisier

A pyro developer is good. "The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1" by Various

For a time the effect had been dazzlingly pyro-technical when seen from below. "The Secret of the League" by Ernest Bramah

Brard (1788-1838) discovered that pyro-electricity was a property of axinite; and it was afterwards detected in other minerals. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2" by Various