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Berkeley

Definition: Berkeley

Berkeley

Noun

1. Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who opposed the materialism of Thomas Hobbes (1685-1753).

2. A city in California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay; site of the University of California at Berkeley.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Berkeley" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Berkeley

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Berkeley University of California at Berkeley. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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Specialty Definition: Berkeley

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Berkeley is the name of several places:

(There are also some places named Berkley.)

It can also refer to several people:

It can also refer to University of California, Berkeley.

Note that English places and people called Berkeley are pronounced "Barclay" while American ones are pronounced "Burclee", possibly by derivation from an Irish pronunciation.


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Berkeley, California

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Berkeley is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California, United States. Its neighbor to the south is Oakland, California. Its eastern border is formed by the Tilden Regional Park. Berkeley is the site of the University of California, Berkeley, the flagship campus of the University of California, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Hall of Science, which are on the campus grounds. The city is named for philosopher George Berkeley.

Berkeley from the Claremont Canyon reserve
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Berkeley is located in Alameda County. The city's population is culturally diverse, with a significant portion in transient residence to attend the university. As of 2000 its population was 102,743.

The history of the city is inextricably linked to its university. Both city and university have long been famed as a center of activist politics and radical social ideas. The Free Speech Movement began on the Berkeley campus, arguing for free speech on campus, despite its ownership by the Regents. Many student demonstrations against the Vietnam War occurred there in the 1960s, which American news organisations dramatically televised. Another notable series of events that helped to solidify this popular conception of Berkeley is the repeated takeover by populists of an open lot owned by the University of California. The University has long sought to build on the lot, but the populists have demanded that the lot remain undeveloped and open as a public park. Today this lot is called People's Park.

More recently, Berkeley has become known as a gourmet centre. Even by the standards of the Bay area it has an exceptional number of specialist food shops and restaurants, and a Berkeley restaurant, Chez Panisse, is regarded as the birthplace of California cuisine.

Since the 1970s, the Bay Area Rapid Transit, a metro system, has linked Berkeley to San Francisco and the other cities of the Bay Area. Berkeley has nevertheless maintained its own character.

Humorous saying: "Three things have come out of Berkeley: LSD, BSD, and the SCA. This is no coincidence."

Geography

Berkeley is located at 37°52'18" North, 122°16'29" West (37.871775, -122.274603)1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 45.9 km² (17.7 mi²). 27.1 km² (10.5 mi²) of it is land and 18.8 km² (7.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 40.94% water.

Demographics

As of the census2 of 2000, there are 102,743 people, 44,955 households, and 18,656 families residing in the city. The population density is 3,792.5/km² (9,823.3/mi²). There are 46,875 housing units at an average density of 1,730.3/km² (4,481.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 59.17% White, 13.63% Black or African American, 0.45% Native American, 16.39% Asian, 0.14% Pacific Islander, 4.64% from other races, and 5.57% from two or more races. 9.73% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 44,955 households out of which 17.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 28.9% are married couples living together, 9.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 58.5% are non-families. 38.1% of all households are made up of individuals and 7.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.16 and the average family size is 2.84.

In the city the population is spread out with 14.1% under the age of 18, 21.6% from 18 to 24, 31.8% from 25 to 44, 22.3% from 45 to 64, and 10.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 32 years. For every 100 females there are 96.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 95.1 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $44,485, and the median income for a family is $70,434. Males have a median income of $50,789 versus $40,623 for females. The per capita income for the city is $30,477. 20.0% of the population and 8.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 13.4% are under the age of 18 and 7.9% are 65 or older.

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Berkeley, Illinois

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Berkeley is a town located in Cook County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 5,245.

Geography

Berkeley is located at 41°53'12" North, 87°54'38" West (41.886794, -87.910528)1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 3.6 km² (1.4 mi²). 3.6 km² (1.4 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there are 5,245 people, 1,877 households, and 1,387 families residing in the village. The population density is 1,456.9/km² (3,765.4/mi²). There are 1,914 housing units at an average density of 531.7/km² (1,374.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 59.37% White, 27.74% African American, 0.11% Native American, 3.85% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 6.75% from other races, and 2.15% from two or more races. 15.52% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 1,877 households out of which 33.4% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.0% are married couples living together, 12.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 26.1% are non-families. 22.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 11.2% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.79 and the average family size is 3.27.

In the village the population is spread out with 25.6% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 31.0% from 25 to 44, 21.2% from 45 to 64, and 14.7% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 37 years. For every 100 females there are 96.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 92.5 males.

The median income for a household in the village is $58,984, and the median income for a family is $67,478. Males have a median income of $40,568 versus $31,370 for females. The per capita income for the village is $24,334. 6.4% of the population and 4.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 8.6% are under the age of 18 and 5.2% are 65 or older.

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Berkeley, Missouri

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Berkeley is a city located in St. Louis County, Missouri. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 10,063.

Geography


Berkeley is located at 38°44'32" North, 90°19'60" West (38.742250, -90.333288)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.8 km² (4.9 mi²). 12.8 km² (4.9 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 10,063 people, 3,600 households, and 2,588 families residing in the city. The population density is 788.1/km² (2,040.6/mi²). There are 3,953 housing units at an average density of 309.6/km² (801.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 20.64% White, 76.69% African American, 0.26% Native American, 0.37% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.43% from other races, and 1.60% from two or more races. 1.08% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 3,600 households out of which 37.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 32.2% are married couples living together, 33.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 28.1% are non-families. 23.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 7.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.76 and the average family size is 3.25. In the city the population is spread out with 32.2% under the age of 18, 9.3% from 18 to 24, 27.8% from 25 to 44, 19.8% from 45 to 64, and 11.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 31 years. For every 100 females there are 81.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 74.9 males. The median income for a household in the city is $32,219, and the median income for a family is $34,148. Males have a median income of $29,511 versus $24,338 for females. The per capita income for the city is $13,788. 19.3% of the population and 17.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 29.0% are under the age of 18 and 10.8% are 65 or older.

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George Berkeley

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George Berkeley (Bark'-lee) (March 12, 1685 - January 14, 1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley, was an influential Irish philosopher whose primary philosophical achievement is the advancement of what has come to be called subjective idealism, summed up in his dictum, "To be is to be perceived." He wrote a number of works, the most widely-read of which are his Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713) (Philonous, the "lover of the mind", representing Berkeley himself). In 1734 he published The Analyst, a critique of the foundations of science, which was very influential in the subsequent development of mathematics.

George Berkeley was born in Dysert Castle, near Thomastown, Ireland. He attended Trinity College, Dublin completing a masters degree in 1707. He remained at Trinity College after completion of his degree as a tutor and Greek lecturer. In the period 1714-1720 he interspersed his academic endeavours with periods of extensive travel in Europe. In 1721 he took holy orders, earning his doctorate in divinity, and once again chose to remain at Trinity College Dublin lecturing this time in Divinity and in Hebrew. In 1728 he sailed for the Americas with the goal of establishing a college and utopian community in Bermuda. He landed near Newport Rhode Island where he bought a farm to live on while he waited for funds for his college to arrive. However the funds were not forthcoming and in 1732 he returned to London. In 1734 he was appointed Bishop of Cloyne where he remained until 1752, when he retired and went to Oxford to live with his son.

The town of Berkeley, California is named after him, and so, indirectly, is the University located there. The pronunciation of his name has however evolved to suit American tastes.

Contributions to Philosophy

Though born in Ireland, Berkeley was very much an American philosopher. While it was in Ireland that Berkeley had his initial insights into the ideality of the objects of perception, his greatest philosophic insights and the most important projects of his life aimed at applying his principles (including his project to found a utopian society in Bermuda and his medical enterprises) began only with his trip to America.

As a young man, Berkeley theorised that the objects we perceive exist precisely as they appear to the senses. Objective knowledge is possible because the perceived object is the only object that exists. There is no "real" object which is the substratum of the perceived object. There is no "real" object (no matter) "behind" the object as we perceive it, which "causes" our perceptions. All that exists is the object as we perceive it, and this is the real object.

Since the object we perceive is the only object that exists, the object is precisely as it appears and, if we need to speak at all of the "real" or "material" object (the latter in particular being a confused term which Berkeley sought to dispose of), it is this perceived object to which all such names should exclusively refer.

This arouses the question whether this perceived object is "objective" in the sense of being "the same" for our fellow humans, in fact if even the concept of other human beings (beyond our perception of them) is valid. Berkeley argues that since we experience other humans in the way they speak to us - something which is not originating from any activity of our own - and since we learn that their view of the world is consistent with ours, we can believe in their existence and in the world being identical (similar) for everyone.

It follows that:

  1. Our perceptions of objects are all perfectly accurate and objective.
  2. Any knowledge of the empirical world is to be obtained only through direct perception.
  3. Error comes about through thinking about what we perceive.
  4. Knowledge of the empirical world of people and things and actions around us may be purified and perfected merely by stripping away all thought (and with it language) from our pure perceptions.

From this it follows that:

  1. The ideal form of scientific knowledge is to be obtained by pursuing pure de-intellectualized perceptions.
  2. If we would pursue these, we would be able to obtain the deepest insights into the natural world and the world of human thought and action which is available to man.
  3. The goal of all science, therefore, is to de-intellectualize or de-conceptualize, and thereby purify, our perceptions.

The philosophy of David Hume concerning causality and objectivity is an elaboration of one aspect of Berkeley's philosophy. Immanuel Kant mischaracterized Berkeley as a radical idealist and falsely claimed that Berkeley's principles make objective knowledge impossible. As Berkeley's thought progressed, he more or less completely assimilated his theories to those of Plato. The only modern philosophers who adequately appreciated and applied Berkeley's principles were Hume and Arthur Schopenhauer.

The Analyst Controversy

In addition to his contributions to philosophy, Bishop Berkeley was also very influential in the development of mathematics, although in a rather negative sense. In 1734 he published The Analyst, subtitled A DISCOURSE Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician. The infidel mathematician in question is believed to have been either Edmond Halley, or Sir Isaac Newton himself, although the discourse would then have been posthumously addressed as Newton died in 1727. The Analyst represented a direct attack on the foundations and principles of calculus, and in particular the notion of fluxion or infinitesimal change which Newton and Leibnitz had used to develop the calculus. Berkeley's intention seems to have been to defend religion by showing that the foundations of natural philosophy were equally weak. As a consequence of the resulting controversy, the foundations of calculus were rewritten in a much more formal and rigorous form using limits. It was not until 1966, with the publication of Abraham Robinson's book Non-standard Analysis, that the concept of the infinitesimal was made rigorous, thus giving an alternative way of overcoming the difficulties which Berkeley discovered in Newton's original approach.

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University of California, Berkeley

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The University of California, Berkeley (also UCB, Cal, Berkeley, or UC Berkeley) is the flagship and original campus of the University of California, situated in Berkeley, California on the east side of the San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate. There are over 33,000 students enrolled and over 1,800 faculty.


Sather Gate marks the original southern entrance to the campus, just steps from Sproul Plaza. (Larger version)

History

In 1866, the land which is now the Berkeley campus was first purchased by the private College of California (established by Congregational minister Henry Durant in 1855). However, lacking the funds to operate, the College of California merged with state-run Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College, forming the University of California on March 23, 1868, with Durant becoming the first president. The university first opened in Oakland in 1869. In 1873, with the completion of North and South Halls, the university relocated to the Berkeley campus with 167 men and 222 women students enrolled.

Through the middle decades of the twentieth century, the Berkeley campus enjoyed a golden age in the physical, chemical and biological sciences. During that period, with Professor Ernest O. Lawrence's invention of the cyclotron, researchers affiliated with the campus discovered all the chemical elements heavier than Uranium, garnering a number of Nobel Prizes for these efforts along the way. Two of the elements, Berkelium and Californium, were named in honor of the university. Another two, Lawrencium and Seaborgium, were named in honor of faculty members Ernest O. Lawrence and Glenn T. Seaborg.

During the McCarthy era in 1949, the Board of Regents adopted an anti-communist loyalty oath to be signed by all University of California employees. A number of faculty members firmly took a stand against the oath requirement and were eventually dismissed. They were reinstated with full honor a few years later; one of them, Edward C. Tolman the noted comparative psychologist now has a building on the campus named after him (it houses the departments of psychology and education).

The University gained notoriety worldwide nearly a century after its founding for the student body's active protests against United States involvement in the Vietnam War. This period of social unrest on campus could be traced to the Free Speech Movement, which originated on the Berkeley campus in 1964 and inspired the political and moral outlook of a generation. On a lighter cultural note, The Graduate, a seminal novel and movie of the era, was filmed on location at the university and nearby buildings in 1966.

The campus


View of campus looking north, with Sather Tower and Evans Hall visible, and the Berkeley Hills in the distance. (Larger version)

Overall area of the campus is 1,232 acres, though the main campus, where the academic buidings are located, is on the lower 178 acres. The main campus is shaped like a rectangle, with the two long sides running east to west. Except for designated open areas, the entire rectangle has been developed. Overlooking the main campus on the east side are several research units, most notably the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Much of the rugged upper hill area is still undeveloped. Residence halls and administrative buildings spill out into the city of Berkeley, particularly to the south of the campus.

The campus layout was designed by Emile Benard, the winner of a world-wide competition sponsored by Phoebe Apperson Hearst in the early 1900s.

Notable buildings

The campus and surrounding community host a number of notable buildings by turn-of-the-20th century architects Bernard Maybeck and Julia Morgan. Historic buildings on campus include Sproul Hall, Hearst Mining Building, the Faculty Club, Doe Library, California Hall, Gilman Hall, Hilgard Hall, Wheeler Hall, and the Hearst Women's Gymnasium.

University House on the north side of campus is home to chancellor, and the bank in front is landscaped with flowers forming a working clock. Before administrative reorganization and the creation of individual campus chancellors, the UC President resided in University House.

The oldest building on campus is South Hall, built in 1873. Together with North Hall (which was destroyed in a fire), it was one of the first two buildings on campus. The university's tallest building is 307 Sather Tower, a bell and clock tower also known as the Campanile (resembling the one in Venice). Sather Gate is the main southern entrance to campus, close to busy Sproul Plaza and Telegraph Avenue.

Evans Hall is the mathematics, statistics, and economics building. It is a gray-green structure rising ten floors. It once held the office of Ted Kaczynski when he was an assistant professor of math. As one of the tallest buildings on campus, the building became notorious as a "suicide building." Following a suicide by jumping in 2002, glass panels were installed on previously-open balconies on the tenth floor. The building's height and color cause many students to label it the ugliest building on campus.

Cory Hall is the electrical engineering building. It was the site of two attacks by the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, in 1982 and 1985.

Soda Hall is the computer science building. It is the only classroom building on campus with showers. Completed in August 1994, Soda Hall was a $35.5 million project, funded entirely by private gifts to the College of Engineering.

Academics

Berkeley has graduated more students who go on to earn doctorates than any university in the country. UC Berkeley ranks third in the nation among all institutions with students who are National Merit Scholars.


The Doe Library with Memorial Glade in the foreground. (Larger version)

The University currently boasts 127 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 101 members of the National Academy of Engineering, 8 Nobel Prize winners, 2 Fields Medal holders, 138 Guggenheim Fellows, 81 Fulbright Scholars, 3 Pulitzer Prize winners, 19 MacArthur Fellows, 62 Sloan Fellows among a bevy of distinguished faculty.

According to the National Research Council, Berkeley ranks first nationally in the number of graduate programs in the top 10 in their fields and first nationally in the number of "distinguished" programs for the scholarship of the faculty.

With about nine million volumes, Berkeley's library holdings rank 4th in North America, after the Library of Congress, Harvard University, and Yale University.

Organization

Chancellors

Here is a full list of Chancellors since the position was created in 1952:

  1. Clark Kerr (1952-1958)
  2. Glenn T. Seaborg (1958-1961)
  3. Edward W. Strong (1961-1965)
  4. Martin E. Meyerson (1965, acting)
  5. Roger W. Heyns (1965-1971)
  6. Albert H. Bowker (1971-1980)
  7. Ira Michael Heyman (1980-1990)
  8. Chang-Lin Tien (1990-1997)
  9. Robert M. Berdahl (1997-present)

See also: List of UC Presidents

Colleges and schools

Berkeley's more than 130 academic departments and programs are organized into 14 colleges and schools:

Computer-related developments

Cal has nurtured a number of key technologies associated with the early development of the Internet and the Open Source Software movement. The original Berkeley Software Distribution, commonly known as BSD Unix, was assembled in 1977 by Bill Joy as a graduate student in the computer science department. PostgreSQL emerged from faculty research begun in the late 1970s. SendMail was developed at Berkeley in 1981. BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain package) was written by a team of graduate students around the same time period. The Tcl programming language and the Tk GUI toolkit were developed by faculty member John Ousterhout in 1988. SPICE, a popular tool for IC Designers, was also invented at Berkeley under the direction of Professor Donald Pederson.

In 1992, Pei-Yuan Wei, an undergraduate, created ViolaWWW, one of the first graphically-based web browsers. ViolaWWW was the first browser to have embedded scriptable objects, stylesheets, and tables. In the spirit of Open Source, he merely donated the code to Sun Microsystems, thus inspiring Java applets. ViolaWWW would also inspire researchers at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications to create the Mosaic web browser.

SETI@home was one of the first widely disseminated distributed computing projects, allowing hobbyists and enthusiasts to participate in scientific research by donating unused computer processor cycles in the form of a screen saver.

In an interesting example of the confluence of intellectual ideas, many of the arguments for the efficacy of Open Source software development, and of the Wikipedia project itself, find parallels in writings on urban planning and architecture published in the late 1970s by Christopher Alexander, a Berkeley professor of architecture. Across campus around that same time period, John Searle, a Berkeley professor of philosophy, introduced a celebrated critique of artificial intelligence using the metaphor of a Chinese Room.

List of research projects conducted at Berkeley:

Sports and traditions

Cal's sports teams compete as the California Golden Bears (often referred to as "Cal"). They participate in the NCAA's Division I-A, and in the Pacific Ten Conference. The annual football "Big Game" between the Bears and the rival Stanford Cardinal is the most important game on Cal's schedule. The winner of this game gains custody of the Axe.

Cal's independent student-run newspaper is the Daily Californian.

The official school colors, Yale Blue and California Gold, were established in 1874. Yale Blue was chosen because most of the original faculty were Yale University graduates. Gold was selected to represent the Golden Gate, which the campus overlooks.

The official mascot is Oski T. Bear, who first debuted in 1941. Previously, live bear cubs were used as mascots at Memorial Stadium. It was decided in 1940 that a costumed mascot would be a better alternative to a live bear. Named after the Oski-wow-wow yell, he is cared for by the Oski Committee. The wearer of the costume is kept a secret. It is the tradition to have the basketball player with the largest feet donate his shoes for Oski to wear.

The Associated Students of the University of California, or ASUC, is the student government organization that controls funding for student groups and organizes on-campus student events.

Noted Cal alumni

(Alumni who also served as faculty deferred to next list)

Noted Cal faculty

(Alumni indicated with degree and year in parenthesis)

External links

University of California:
Berkeley  |  Davis  |  Irvine  |  Los Angeles  |  Merced  |  Riverside  |  San Diego  |  San Francisco  |  Santa Barbara  |  ''Santa Cruz'\'

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "University of California, Berkeley."

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Synonyms: Berkeley

Synonyms: Bishop Berkeley (n), George Berkeley (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Berkeley

English words defined with "Berkeley": Berkeleian ♦ find, find oneself. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Berkeley": 4.2BSD ♦ Active Language I, A-language ♦ Berkeley 4.2, Berkeley EDIF200, Berkeley FP, Berkeley Internet Name Domain, Berkeley Logo, Berkeley Network, Berkeley Quality Software, Berkeley Software Design, Inc, Berkeley Softworks, Berkeley System Distribution, Berkeley Unix, Berkeley Yacc, berklix, Berzerkeley, Bourne shell, BQS, BSD, BSD Unix, BSDI, byacc ♦ C shell, Common Lisp, CPU Info Center ♦ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, dot notation, Dylperl ♦ EDIF ♦ FASBOL, FP, Franz Lisp, FreeBSD, Frobozz Magic Programming Language ♦ Gay Girl ♦ hash collision, HPUX, HP-UX ♦ ICSI, Idealists, inetd, installable file system ♦ Knowbot Information Service ♦ LBL ♦ network operating system, Newspeak ♦ POSTGRES, pseudo-tty ♦ Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks, ruptime, rwho ♦ sendmail ♦ The Cuckoo's Egg ♦ UCB, Ultrix, University of California at Berkeley ♦ William Joy ♦ Xerox Data Systems Model 940, Xfun. (references)

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Modern Usage: Berkeley

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I shot an arrow in the air; she fell to earth in Berkeley Square (Kind Hearts and Coronets; writing credit: Roy Horniman; Robert Hamer)

Lyrics

In Ireland, in Lebanon, in Palestine and Berkeley (Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: Warren Zevon & David Lindell c. 1976 Zevon Music, BMI)

Movie/TV Titles

Busby Berkeley (1974)

Jimi Plays Berkeley (1971)

Berkeley Square (1959)

The Ghosts of Berkeley Square (1947)

Berkeley Square (1933)

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Commercial Usage: Berkeley

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References

  • The Berkeley Group P.L.C.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

  • All Our Families: New Policies for a New Century: A Report of the Berkeley Family Forum (reference)

  • Berkeley at War: The 1960s (reference)

  • Berkeley DB (reference)

  • Berkeley in 90 Minutes (reference)

  • Berkeley Problems in Mathematics (reference)

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Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  • Lullaby Of Broadway: The Best Of Busby Berkeley At Warner Bros.: Motion Picture Soundtrack Anthology [CAST RECORDING] [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  • The Busby Berkeley Album [CAST RECORDING] (reference)

  • Precise Modern Lovers Order: The Modern Lovers Live In Berkeley And Boston [LIVE] (reference)

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Image Slideshow: Berkeley

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Berkeley

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Figure 23. Kofoid net devised by Charles A. Kofoid of the University of Califor nia at Berkeley in 1909. Above: in the functioning position. Lower left: in descent. Lower right: upon ascent. This net sampling system was meant to guarantee the verticality of the cable and sampling at the exact depth desired. It was tested off San Diego in 1909 at 1000 meters depth. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 33. Kofoid plankton sampling bucket devised by Charles A. Kofoid of the University of California at Berkeley in 1905. It was used on board the vessel LOMA out of San Diego. This bottle was used to acquire a volume of water in which the plankton would be counted for quantitative studies of life in the sea. This instrument closely resembled a Pettersson bottle. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Black power speaks at Berkeley. Credit: Library of Congress.

Five women working in the diet kitchen of Cowell Hospital, student infirmary on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Credit: Library of Congress.

Residents of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Student audience listening to Peace Day address of General Smedley Butler. Berkeley, California, University of California. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sarah Bernhardt as Phaedre in the Greek Theatre of Berkeley. Credit: Library of Congress.

University of California at Berkeley views. Credit: Library of Congress.

Berkeley Cal., looking east, from 1000 ft. elevation, from Lawrence Captive Airship, Nov. 24, 1908. Credit: Library of Congress.

University of California buildings, Berkeley, Cal. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Berkeley
 

"Berkeley Castle" by Paul Sloane
Commentary: "Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, England. It was here that King Edward II was murdered in 1327."

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Familiar Quotations: Berkeley

AuthorQuotation

George Berkeley

Westward the course of empire takes its way.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.

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Historic Usage: Berkeley

AuthorDateQuotation

The Emancipation Proclamation

1862

Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-In-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for supressing said rebellion, do, on this 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the first day above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard, Palquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terrebone, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northhampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. (Abraham Lincoln)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Berkeley

TitleAuthorQuote

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Tressel and Berkeley, go along with me.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Berkeley

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Companies from the U.S. have 100 percent controlling interest in two (Liberty and Berkeley)of the top ten companies that appear on the table, and a stake in two others (Provincia, and Omega). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Berkeley

"Berkeley" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Berkeley" is used about 561 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%56111,166

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Berkeley

The following table summarizes the usage of "Berkeley" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons		Rank in USA
BerkeleyLast name1,00014,986
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Berkeley

CountryName
United Kingdom

The Berkeley Group P.L.C.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Cities: Berkeley


1. Berkeley, CA (city, FIPS 6000)
Location: 37.86725 N, 122.29729 W
Population (1990): 102724 (45735 housing units)
Area: 27.1 sq km (land), 18.8 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 94702, 94703, 94704, 94705, 94709, 94710
Country: USA

2. Berkeley, IL (village, FIPS 5404)
Location: 41.88845 N, 87.91230 W
Population (1990): 5137 (1918 housing units)
Area: 3.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

3. Berkeley, MO (city, FIPS 4906)
Location: 38.74330 N, 90.33561 W
Population (1990): 12450 (4706 housing units)
Area: 12.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 63134, 63140
Country: USA

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Expressions: Berkeley

Expressions using "Berkeley": Berkeley 4.2 ♦ Berkeley County ♦ Berkeley EDIF200 ♦ Berkeley FP ♦ Berkeley Heights ♦ Berkeley Internet Name Domain ♦ Berkeley Lake ♦ Berkeley Logo ♦ Berkeley Network ♦ Berkeley Quality Software ♦ Berkeley Softworks ♦ Berkeley System Distribution ♦ Berkeley Unix ♦ Berkeley Yacc ♦ bishop Berkeley ♦ George Berkeley ♦ university of California at Berkeley. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Berkeley": berkeley-based, berkeley-derived, berkeley-trained, Berkeley-walbrook.

Ending with "Berkeley": Arpa-berkeley, California-berkeley, Holiday City-Berkeley.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Berkeley

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

berkeley california

2,703

berkeley county

50

uc berkeley

1,613

berkeley marina

49

berkeley

1,345

berkeley restaurant

48

university of california berkeley

879

berkeley ymca

44

berkeley heights nj

694

berkeley county district school

43

berkeley college

266

adult berkeley school

39

berkeley university

234

berkeley system

39

city of berkeley

152

berkeley university of california

39

uc berkeley extension

145

berkeley hotel london

38

berkeley springs wv

142

berkeley school of music

38

berkeley hotel

132

george berkeley

38

berkeley library public

123

sc berkeley county

38

berkeley greek theater

108

berkeley springs west virginia

37

berkeley elizabeth

101

berkeley unified school district

37

berkeley springs

101

claremont hotel berkeley

36

cal berkeley

96

berkeley real estate

35

berkeley pump

85

berkeley high school

33

berkeley extension

64

berkeley rep

31

elizabeth berkeley nude

57

berkeley illinois

30

berkeley county school

52

berkeley county south carolina

30
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Berkeley

Language Translations for "Berkeley"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

柏克来. (various references)

   

Danish

  

BSD-Unix (Berkeley systems design). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

BSD (Bahamian dollar, Berkeley systems design), Berkeley systems design (Berkeley systems design). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

BSD (Bahamian dollar, Berkeley systems design). (various references)

   

French

  

système UNIX de Berkeley (Berkeley systems design). (various references)

   

German

  

BSD Unix (Berkeley systems design). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

BSD (Bahamian dollar, Berkeley systems design), σχεδιασμός συστημάτων Μπέρκλεϊ (Berkeley systems design). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ハ長調 (bar, bar code, barbarism, barbecue, barbell, barber, barell, bargain, bargain sale, bargaining power, bartender, barter, base, Bayer, BBQ, berkelium, Berkley, Bermuda shorts, Bermuda Triangle, berth, bias, biathlon, bio, bio music, biochip, biocomputer, bioconversion, bioelectronics, bioethics, biofeedback, biogas, biography, biohazard, bioholonics, bioindustry, bioinfomatics, biomass, bionics, biopsy, bioreactor, biorhythm, bioscience, biosensor, biotechnology, biotelemetry, biotron, bird carving, bird sanctuary, bird watching, birdcall, birdie, Birmingham, birth, birth control, birthday, bourbon, Burberry, burger, burlesque, burner, burn-out syndrome, burst, buying power, by, bye, C major, crowbar, Farbenfabriken Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, hair combed in stripes across a bald pate, old man who takes Viagra, scale, updating a software version, Vermont, vernier, verse, version, vertical marketing, violin, violinist, virgin, Virginia, virginity, virtual, virtual circuit, virtual reality). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

バークレー . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

버클리. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

erkeleybay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

BSD UNIX (Berkeley systems design), BSD (Bahamian dollar, Berkeley systems design), Berkeley UNIX (Berkeley systems design). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

беркли. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Berkeley Systems Design (Berkeley systems design). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Berkeley

Misspellings

"Berkeley" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Barnesley, Beersele, Bekele, Benkulen, bercelet, Bercula, Berkely, Berketex, berklee, Berlkeley, Bernelle, Bertele, Birchley, Breeley. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Berkeley

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-e-k-l-r-y"

-3 letters: beery, beryl, leery, rebel, reeky, rekey.

-4 letters: beer, bree, byre, byrl, eely, eery, eyer, eyre, keel, kerb, leek, leer, leke, lyre, reek, reel, rely, ryke, yelk, yerk.

-5 letters: bee, bel, bey, bye, eel, eke, elk, ere, eye, key, lee, lek, ley, lye, reb, ree, rye.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern 		5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art 		9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Historic
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction 		13. Usage Frequency
14. Names: Frequency
15. Names: Company Usage
16. Cities 		17. Expressions
18. Expressions: Internet
19. Translations: Modern
20. Derivations 		21. Anagrams
22. Bibliography


  

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