Ruhr
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Ruhr
- The Germans have solar panels on lots of buildings, connected to smart grids with large wind farms in the North Sea giving power to the Ruhr and Bavarian cities like Munich.
- Ruhr University
Examples
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And meanwhile, he's recently bought an abandoned nuclear power plant in on the Ruhr at Muhlheim, but he hasn't yet announced what he'll do with it.
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He received a Doctor of Engineering degree at Ruhr University Bochum in 1999 for his work on the assessment and prediction of speech quality in telecommunications.
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To complicate matters, the French have been saying that they could not set up an administration in the zone assigned to them until they knew what disposition was going to be made of the Rhine and the Ruhr.
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"Effectively, a successful attack on a cloud control interface grants the attacker complete power over the victim's account, with all the stored data included," researchers at Germany's Ruhr University wrote in a paper.
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He gained the qualification needed to be a professor (venia legendi) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Ruhr-University Bochum in 2004, with a book on the quality of telephone-based spoken dialogue systems.
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The Ruhr is known for its industrial landscape and rich history in coal mining.
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Many cities along the Ruhr River have become major centers of industry in Germany.
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The picturesque towns situated near the Ruhr boast beautiful riverside views.
Synonyms
A river in western Germany that flows into the Rhine and runs through the industrial Ruhr area
Compounds
A river in western Germany that flows into the Rhine and runs through the industrial Ruhr area
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ruhr is the name of the river and likely comes from an old local word meaning 'rushing' or 'fast' water. So the river's name reminds us of its strong flow that shaped the valley.