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Computing | Death Star n. [from the movie "Star Wars"] 1. The AT&T corporate logo, which appears on computers sold by AT&T and bears an uncanny resemblance to the Death Star in the movie. This usage is particularly common among partisans of BSD Unix, who tend to regard the AT&T versions as inferior and AT&T as a bad guy. Copies still circulate of a poster printed by Mt. Xinu showing a starscape with a space fighter labeled 4.2 BSD streaking away from a broken AT&T logo wreathed in flames. 2. AT&T's internal magazine, "Focus", uses `death star' to describe an incorrectly done AT&T logo in which the inner circle in the top left is dark instead of light -- a frequent result of dark-on-light logo images. Source: Jargon File. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Galactic Empire's ultimate terror weapon, the Death Stars were battle stations several hundred kilometers in diameter and mounting a directed energy weapon capable of completely destroying an Earth-sized planet with a single shot.
Two such Death Stars were featured in the original movie trilogy, the first in A New Hope, and the second in Return Of The Jedi. In the first movie, Luke Skywalker pilots an X-Wing starfighter through a trench-like indentation on the surface of the Death Star, evading a pursuing Darth Vader long enough to launch a proton torpedo down a ventilation tube that reaches right down into the "reactor core", causing a chain reaction to destroy the battle station. In Return of the Jedi, a group of fighters and the Millennium Falcon piloted by Lando Calrissian fly into the centre of the ship through a narrow maze of pipes and destroy the reactor directly, rushing out in just enough time to escape the ensuing explosion.
Outside of the movie trilogy, there was also a prototype in the Maw installation near Kessel that was destroyed by the New Republic. Durga the Hutt also built a small version with only the central laser core and a small living quarters, which was destroyed in the asteroid field around Hoth.
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Crosswords: DEATH STAR |
| Specialty definitions using "DEATH STAR": Death Square. (references) |
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Screenplays | All right, so even if independent contractors are working on the Death Star, why are you uneasy with its destruction? (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith) I shall call it The Death Star (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; writing credit: Mike Myers) No! He hopped on the millenium falcon, and he paid a little visit to the death star! (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
death star | 121 |
battle death star | 20 |
death star on star war | 13 |
death star toronto | 6 |
death star tv | 3 |
death star wallpaper | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "DEATH STAR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Dutch | werpster (throwing star), shurikane (throwing star). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | shurikane, étoile à lancer. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eathday arstay xiriquete (throwing star). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-h-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: dearths, hardest, hardset, hastate, hatreds, hatters, shatter, started, tetrads, threads, threats, trashed. | |
-3 letters: arhats, attars, dasher, daters, dearth, deaths, derats, earths, hasted, haters, hatred, hatted, hatter, hearts, ratted, reatas, shader, shared, sradha, stared, stated, stater, strata, strath, tarted, tasted, taster, tatars, taters, tetrad, tetras, thetas, thread, threat, trades, treads, treats. | |
-4 letters: aahed, ahead. | |
-5 letters: aahs. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-h-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: deathtraps. | |
+3 letters: tetradrachms. | |
+4 letters: northeastward, southeastward, straightlaced, trisoctahedra. | |
+5 letters: antiapartheids, northeastwards, radiotherapist, southeastwards, stadtholderate. | |
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