The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first appearance; as, the opening of a speech.

The beginning phase of a game. This usually encompasses the first dozen moves but it can easily go much further. It is often written that the main opening objectives are: 1) develop your pieces in a quick and efficient manner; 2) occupy as much of the center as possible; 3) castle early (King safety). While I can say that these objectives are basically correct, the real purpose of the opening is to create an imbalance and develop your pieces in such a way that they all work together in making the imbalance a favorable attribute.

The first round of betting in Texas Hold'em, Omaha and Omaha Hi-Lo.

A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole.

means a void or gap 30 inches (76 centimeters) or more high and 18 inches(46 centimeters) or more wide, in a wall or partition, through which employees can fall to a lower level.

an open or empty space in or between things; "there was a small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a gap in the wall"

A vacant place; a job which does not have a current occupant; as, they are now interviewing candidates for the two openings in the department.

A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; a clearing; as, oak openings.

a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made; "they left a small opening for the cat at the bottom of the door"

Binary or gray-scale morphological operation that is accomplished by performing an erosion operation followed by a dilation operation.. This cleans up the image by removing small bright spikes or noise and then returning the remaining objects to their original size.

In computer vision and , opening is, together with closing, a basic workhorse of morphological noise removal. Opening removes small objects, while closing removes small holes. These techniques can also be used to find specific shapes in an image.

The action of separating closely packed fibres at an early stage in the processing of raw material. Note.. The separation may involve the removal of non- fibrous material (cleaning).

The Action Of Separating Closely Packed Fibres From Each Other At An Early Stage In The Processing Of Raw Material Into Yam.

The preliminary separation of fibres.

Of a shoe or boot: entrance for the foot (in contrast to closure or fastening opening). [Goubitz, 2001

The clear passageway into an elevator

an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship

An opportunity; as, an opening for business.

opportunity especially for employment or promotion; "there is an opening in the sales department"

an opportunity whereby the person, either of his own accord, or with some help (as with Carl) will begin what looks like a neural sequence

Auction after which the order book is put in the (permanent) trading state.

start-up steps taken to restore the pool to operational status.

The period of time at the start of the trading day during which all transactions are considered made or initial transactions were completed. (See Close, The).

becoming open or being made open; "the opening of his arms was the sign I was waiting for"

the act of opening something; "the ray of light revealed his cautious opening of the door"

a kind of product launch but if all you have is a bunch of people eating and drinking, there is no 'story'

A short heading driven between two or more parallel headings or levels for ventilation.

Dimension between parallel adjacent wires.

The introductory segment of an investment presentation See Creating Your Pitch: Opening.

Undertaking a transaction which creates a position.

the initial part of the introduction; "the opening established the basic theme"

a possible alternative; "bankruptcy is always a possibility"

Rotation of a base about the Z axis.

a good time to explain the importance of art to families

See To Proceed as Way Opens.

A pair of facing pages.

Opening Bank Opening price

see open.