Delingha

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Delingha

1. A county-level city in Haixi, Qinghai, China
   • [2008 July 28, “Floods leave two miners missing, two others trapped in northwest China”, in ReliefWeb‎^[1], archived from the original on July 11, 2021‎^[2]:

     Another two counties, Wulan and Tianjun, as well as the two cities of Golmud and Delhi also suffered the floods. More than 1,000 heads of sheep were washed away.]

   • 2017 June 15, Sarah Kaplan, “Quantum entanglement, science’s ‘spookiest’ phenomenon, achieved in space”, in The Washington Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on June 17, 2017‎^[4]:

     On board the Chinese satellite Micius, which launched last year, a high energy laser was fired through a special kind of crystal, generating entangled photon pairs. This in itself was a feat: the process is sensitive to turbulence, and before the experiment launched scientists weren't completely sure it would work. These photons were transmitted to ground stations in Delingha, a city on the Tibetan Plateau, and Lijiang, in China's far southwest.

   • 2019 June 19, R. Jeffrey Smith, “Hypersonic Missiles Are Unstoppable. And They’re Starting a New Global Arms Race.”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 June 2019‎^[6]:

     One of the two main hypersonic prototypes now under development in the United States is meant to fly at speeds between Mach 15 and Mach 20, or more than 11,400 miles per hour. This means that when fired by the U.S. submarines or bombers stationed at Guam, they could in theory hit China’s important inland missile bases, like Delingha, in less than 15 minutes.

   • 2020 June 15, William J. Broad, “China Reports Progress in Ultra-Secure Satellite Transmission”, in The New York Times‎^[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 June 2020, Science‎^[8]:

     In August 2016, from the Gobi Desert, China launched the world’s first satellite for testing the transmission of quantum information on light particles. The satellite was nicknamed Micius after a Chinese philosopher of the fifth century B.C. It fired concentrated beams of laser light to relay the quantum signals between two telescopes built at ground stations in Delingha and Nanshan, in China, 700 miles apart.

Synonyms

• Delhi

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 德令哈 (zh) (Délìnghā)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Delingha”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 991, column 3