Vault (disambiguation)
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[edit] Vault (activity)
- Gymnastics vault - the act of propelling oneself over a vault (gymnastics), either a vaulting horse or a vaulting table.
- Pole vault - an athletics event where competitors use a long, flexible pole (usually made either of fiberglass or carbon fiber) as an aid to leap over a bar, similar to the high jump, but at much greater heights.
- Vault (activity) - to jump across or leap over (an obstacle); the act of jumping over an obstacle, to vigorously jump
- Vault (cheerleading) - A cheerleading stunt in which the hands of the top person are used to assist in clearing a base(s) or prop(s)
- Vault (equestrian) - a sport that combines gymnastics and dance on a moving horse.
- Vault (fencing) - From en garde with right foot forward, the forward knee straightens while the rear foot steps behind, to the right, and forward, thus pulling the forward foot to pivot around on the ball of the foot so that the back is turned forward. This step is used to evade a thrust by removing the torso from the line of attack.
- Voltigeurs - From La Grande Armée. Voltigeurs (literally Vaulters or Leapers) were élite light infantry of the line regiments. In 1805, Napoleon ordered that the smallest, most agile men of the line battalions be chosen to form a Voltigeur company. These troops were to be second only to the Grenadiers in the battalion hierarchy. Their name comes from their original mission. Voltigeurs were to combat enemy cavalry by vaulting up onto the enemy's horses, a fanciful idea which failed to succeed in combat. Despite this, the Voltigeurs did perform a valuable task, skirmishing and providing scouts for each battalion, as well as providing an organic light infantry component for each line regiment. In Voltigeur training, emphasis was placed on marksmanship and quick movement.
[edit] Vault (architecture)
- Vault (architecture) - any architecture arched structure of stone or masonry (as opposed to wood) forming a ceiling or roof over the casemates, galleries or other spaces. A covering system made by consecutive semi-round/circular arches.
- List of architectural vaults - There are many types of vaults in architecture. For specific types of architectural vaults, see List of architectural vaults.
[edit] Vault (fiction)
- The Vault (Marvel Comics), an underground facility in the Marvel Universe.
[edit] Vault (location)
- Vault Beach - a beach on the south coast of Cornwall
- Twin Vaults - a café in Vienna, Austria (translated as Zwillings-G'wölb). See Image:Schani II.JPG.
[edit] Vault (mind concept)
- Vault (math) - a mathematical construct that consist of two equal half-cylinders of radius that intersect at right angles so that the lines of their intersections (the "groins") terminate in the polyhedron vertices of a square. Two vaults placed bottom-to-top form a Steinmetz solid on two cylinders.
- Vault (meteorology) - A bounded weak echo region (abbreviated BWER) of a nearly vertical channel of weak radar echo, surrounded on the sides and top by significantly stronger echo. The BWER, sometimes called a vault, is related to the strong updraft in a severe convective storm that carries newly formed hydrometeors to high levels before they can grow to radar- detectable sizes. BWERs are typically found at midlevels of convective storms, 3–10 km above the ground, and are a few kilometers in horizontal diameter. See also weak echo region.
[edit] Vault (people and companies)
- Vault (drummer), drummer of Dark Lunacy band
- Vault (company), a recruitment company
[edit] Vault (physical articles)
- Double vault - dry toilet; composting latrine
- Vault (gymnastics) - an artistic gymnastics apparatus, the standard of which changed from a vaulting horse to a vaulting table.
- Vault (sculpture), a sculpture by Ron Robertson-Swann
- Vault (soft drink), a soft drink
- Vault cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein, a component of eukaryotic cells
- Vault: Def Leppard's Greatest Hits (1980-1995), a Def Leppard compilation album
- Vault (fallout) on the computer game Fallout. - Fallout is a series of computer role-playing games produced and published by Interplay.
- Yurchenko (vault) - the name of both a specific vault and a vault family in artistic gymnastics. The Yurchenko was named after Soviet gymnast Natalia Yurchenko, who originated the vault in the early 1980s. In a Yurchenko vault, the gymnast does a round-off onto the springboard and a back handspring onto the horse or vaulting table. The gymnast then performs a salto, which may range in difficulty from a simple single tuck to a triple twist layout before landing on the gymnast feet on the mat.
[edit] Vault (storage)
[edit] Physical
- Bank vault - a strong room or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables. It is a secure room or rooms in a financial institution where cash on hand is stored and safe deposit boxes are located.
- Burial vault - a burial chamber (usually underground). Cemetery vaults are underground tombs. The word comes from the Latin uoluere, which suggests a turning, referring in the case of vaults to the curving roof of the structure.
- Cryptex vault - The term cryptex is a neologism coined by author Dan Brown for his 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code, denoting a portable vault used to hide secret messages.
- Document vault - A storage vault to archive office documents in a temperature and humidity-controlled environment with fire suppression that will protect the media stored within.
- Vault (utility) - from maintenance hole. Underground storage area accessed by a maintenance hole and used to house public utility and other services including sewers, telephone, electricity, storm drains and gas.
[edit] Electronic
- EDM vault - The EDM System's computerized data storage area and databases. System rules and processes control information stored in the EDM vault. A term used to designate the secure storage location for documents in an EDM system.
- Vault (revision control system) - a revision control system made by SourceGear. Their main thrust is towards existing users of Visual Source Safe, but they claim better performance as it's stored in SQL Server 2000.
