Home > Industry/Domain > Sports > Basketball

Basketball

Terms of or pertaining to the game of basketball which involves two teams of five players trying to work together to accumulate points by shooting or dunking a ball through a basket. The team with the most points by the end of the game wins.

Contributors in Basketball

Basketball

Infrared

Sports; Basketball

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 750 nanometers, just longer than red in the visible spectrum, to 1 millimeter, on the border of the microwave region.

Localization

Sports; Basketball

Converting an application to run in a particular localeor country (converting text into the native language,converting, sorting and formatting into nativeconventions)

Microwave

Sports; Basketball

Very short electromagnetic wave used esp in radio and radar, and also in cooking

Time-out

Sports; Basketball

A brief cessation of play at the request of a sports team or an official for rest, consultation, or making substitutions.

Play-off

Sports; Basketball

A series of games between the winners of different leagues, to decide which teams will play for a championship.

Foul shot

Sports; Basketball

An unobstructed shot from the foul line awarded to a fouled player and scored as one point if successful.

Dunk shot

Sports; Basketball

A shot made by jumping and slamming the ball down through the basket, which is also called stuff shot.

Featured blossaries

China Rich List 2014

Category: Business   1 10 Terms

Dictionary of Geodesy

Category: Arts   2 1 Terms