inception
the beginning of something
TRANSLATION
inception = der Anfang, die Gründung --- GOOGLE INDEX inception: approximately 200,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
The financial brutality of 2008 is confirmed, as the FTSE 100 share index has its worst year since its INCEPTION in 1984.
(BBC News)
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The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its INCEPTION to the desire to evade the price of victory.
(Douglas Haig, British field marshal during World War I)
(BBC News)
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The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its INCEPTION to the desire to evade the price of victory.
(Douglas Haig, British field marshal during World War I)
Did you
know?
inception
noun
- the beginning of an organization or official activity
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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The Inception of the Internet
How often have people read this statement only to wonder exactly when was the inception of the Internet? The problem is, the Internet is not like a company or a club that someone founded. No one went to the local authorities and registered it as an entity. The Internet has been an evolution...
Two major events led to the development of the Internet as we know it today however. In February 1958, the United States government created ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency), which built the first packet network between two research centres in California in 1968. ARPANET was born. By 1971, 15 research facilities were connected and it was this network that formed the basis of the communications infrastructure that we use today for Internet access.
The second major event grew from a 1989 proposal by Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at the European High-Energy Particle Physics lab in Geneva. He advocated a tool to enable collaboration between researchers and scientists that was based on the hyper text markup language and transfer protocol (HTML, HTTP). It is this technology, incorporated in today's graphical interface web browsers, that we use to connect to and communicate with web servers around the globe.
NOTE:
Christopher Nolan's latest film with Leonardo DiCaprio is has is making "inception" one of the most looked-up words of the year!
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SYNONYMS
beginning, birth, dawn, launch, origin, outset, start
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Since its inception our company has been active in supporting the local community"
noun
- the beginning of an organization or official activity
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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The Inception of the Internet
How often have people read this statement only to wonder exactly when was the inception of the Internet? The problem is, the Internet is not like a company or a club that someone founded. No one went to the local authorities and registered it as an entity. The Internet has been an evolution...
Two major events led to the development of the Internet as we know it today however. In February 1958, the United States government created ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency), which built the first packet network between two research centres in California in 1968. ARPANET was born. By 1971, 15 research facilities were connected and it was this network that formed the basis of the communications infrastructure that we use today for Internet access.
The second major event grew from a 1989 proposal by Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at the European High-Energy Particle Physics lab in Geneva. He advocated a tool to enable collaboration between researchers and scientists that was based on the hyper text markup language and transfer protocol (HTML, HTTP). It is this technology, incorporated in today's graphical interface web browsers, that we use to connect to and communicate with web servers around the globe.
NOTE:
Christopher Nolan's latest film with Leonardo DiCaprio is has is making "inception" one of the most looked-up words of the year!
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SYNONYMS
beginning, birth, dawn, launch, origin, outset, start
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Since its inception our company has been active in supporting the local community"
