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Cognitive-behavioral therapy
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapy which helps people change unhealthy thoughts and behaviors. Cognitive behavioral therapists teach their patients to use coping skills (healthy ways to deal with problems). They also show their patients how their thoughts are sometimes not accurate. These unh...
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Analog to digital converter
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR; also called Adaptive Information Processing / AIP) is a form of psychotherapy developed in the late 1980s by Dr Francine Shapiro, Ph.D. It involves thinking about traumatic events while engaging one or more of the senses (taste, touch, sight, sound, and/or smell). Th...
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EMDR
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Digital to analog converter
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Analog-to-digital converter
An analog-to-digital converter (abbreviated ADC, A/D or A to D) is an electronic integrated circuit that converts a continuous quantity to a discrete time digital number. An ADC may also provide an isolated measurement. The reverse operation is performed by a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). Typically, an ADC is an e...
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Digital-to-analog converter
In electronics, a digital-to-analog converter (abbreviated DAC or D-to-A) is a device for converting a digital (usually binary) code to an analog signal (current, voltage or electric charge). An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) performs the reverse operation.
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Digital Signal Controller
A Digital Signal Controller (DSC) can be thought of as a hybrid of microcontrollers and DSP processors.
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Naltrexone
Naltrexone is an opioid receptor antagonist. It is often used to help alcohol dependence and opioid dependence. It is different from the drug naloxone. Naloxone is used in emergency cases of overdose. Naltrexone is for longer-term control of dependence. Naltrexone can help with overdose, but naloxone is more helpful in...
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NES
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Proximity fuze
A proximity fuze (also called a VT fuze, for "variable time") is a fuze that is made to create an explosion when the distance to the target becomes smaller than a set value, or when the target passes through a given line. Proximity fuzes are mostly used in anti-aircraft warfare. They usually work as a simple radar.
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PT boat
PT Boats were motor torpedo boats ("PT", for "Patrol Torpedo"). They were small, fast ships used by the United States Navy in World War II to attack larger surface ships. The PT boat squadrons were nicknamed "the mosquito fleet". They were exceedingly nimble, relatively expendable to the larger fleet, and carried torpe...
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Patrol torpedo boat
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University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
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Michigan University
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University of Michigan Ann Arbor
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U of Michigan
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Radar jamming
Radar jamming is the emission of radio frequency signals to interfere with the work of a radar by flooding its receiver with noise or false information. There are two types of radar jamming: Mechanical and electronic jamming.
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Peace Corps
The Peace Corps is an independent United States federal agency. The Peace Corps was started by Executive Order 10924 on March 1, 1961, and allowed by Congress on September 22, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act (Public Law 87-293). The first president of the Peace Corps was Sargent Shriver. The Peace Corps Act...
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Great Society
The Great Society was a set of programs proposed or enacted in the United States by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Two main goals of the Great Society were to end poverty and to end racial discrimination. New major spending programs that dealt with education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation were started ...
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Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (c. 1506 – 22 January, 1552) was an English peer and politician. He was Lord Protector of England during the reign of King Edward VI, because Edward was too young to rule alone. He served as Lord Protector from 1547 to 1552, when he was executed for treason.
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Sit-in
A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more persons non-violently occupying an area for a protest.
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Alden B. Dow
Alden B. Dow (April 10, 1904, Midland, Michigan – August 20, 1983) was an American architect. He was the son of Herbert Henry Dow (founder of the Dow Chemical Company) and Grace A. Dow. Dow is known for his architectural design. His personal house in Midland, the Midland Center for the Arts, the Fleming Administration ...
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Strategic Defense Initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a plan created by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983 to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by nuclear ballistic missiles. The initiative focused on defense instead on the offensive mutual assured destruction (MAD). It was ni...
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Circa
Circa is Latin for "around" or "about". It is often used to show when something approximately happened. It is often shortened to c., ca., ca or cca. Science. Estimated values of different units may also begin with "circa" in research reports and scientific articles, for example, "it involved "c." 450 kg of carved ivory...
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Varg Vikernes
Varg Vikernes (legal name Louis Cachet, born Kristian Vikernes on February 11, 1973 near Bergen, Norway) is a black metal musician, convicted murderer, arsonist and political activist. In 1991, Vikernes created the one-man music project Burzum. Burzum quickly became important within the early Norwegian black metal scen...
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Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 2 is a 2004 movie and the sequel to the 2002 "Spider-Man" movie. All of the main cast came back to make the movie. Plot. Peter Parker struggles to balance his new powers and starts to think that his role as Spider-Man is distracting him from his real life. He once delivers pizzas and is late because he had t...
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Paul Gauguin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a leading French post-Impressionist painter. He was not well appreciated until after his death. Gauguin was later recognized for his experimental use of color and style that were different from Impressionism. His work was influential among the French avant-garde ...
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The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers () is a novel of adventure fiction by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is the story of a young man named d'Artagnan. He leaves home to become a musketeer of the guard of King Louis XIII of France. He and his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis live by the motto, "One for all, and all for one" (). The story...
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Self injury
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Mont St Michel
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A Clockwork Orange (movie)
A Clockwork Orange is a 1972 crime drama thriller movie. It was written, directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick. It is based on Anthony Burgess' 1962 short novel "A Clockwork Orange". It includes disturbing, violent images. Its social commentary touches on psychiatry, youth gangs, and other social, political and econ...
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Pasties
Pasties (sing. 'pastie') are small pieces of cloth, plastic or metal. They are treated specially so they are sticky. They are used to cover a girl's nipples or genital area. They vary in size and are usually not much larger than the person's areola. The concept of 'pasties' is to show as much of the breast as possible ...
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Free and Open Source Software
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea () is a science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne. It was published in 1870. It is the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine "Nautilus". The book depicts the latest technology, and more advanced things that had not yet been invented. Plot. The story starts in 1866. All o...
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Stendhal
Henri-Marie Beyle (23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842) is better known by his pen name Stendhal. He was a 19th century French writer. He is known for his precise analysis of his characters' psychology. His two most famous novels are "Le Rouge et le Noir" ("The Red and the Black", 1830) and "La Chartreuse de Parme" ("The C...
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Travis Barker
Travis Landon Barker (born November 14, 1975) is an American drummer. He is better known for being in the band Blink-182. He is also the drummer for +44 and has several side projects such as Box Car Racer, Transplants and Expensive Taste. Plane crash. Just before midnight on September 19, 2008, Barker and Adam "DJ AM" ...
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Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th century French writer. He is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story. He was an apprentice of Flaubert. Maupassant's stories have a common economy of style and their efficient, effortless dénouement (ending). Many of the stories are set...
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A Clockwork Orange (film)
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Prairie dog
Prairie dogs are a genus of ground squirrels. They are small, burrowing rodents which live in short-grass prairies and the high plains of western North America. The explorers Lewis and Clark sent a prairie dog to President Thomas Jefferson during their expedition; it was quite strange to him. Prairie dogs are found in ...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (, "Our Lady of Paris") is a 1831 French historical novel written by Victor Hugo. It is set in 1482 Paris. The story is about a Gypsy (Esmeralda), a bell-ringer in the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris (Quasimodo) and the archdeacon (Claude Frollo).
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist. He was a leading painter who helped to create the Impressionist style. He painted portraits, and still life, but above all, he painted social scenes of the day. As a painter of women, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representati...
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Antoine Watteau
Jean-Antoine Watteau (10 October 1684 – 18 July 1721) was a French painter. His brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens. It brought back the almost forgotten Baroque idiom, which, in time became known as Rococo. He invented the genre of "fêtes galante...
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Soggy biscuit
Soggy biscuit (also called “limp biscuit”, “landscapers lunch”, “crispy cookie”, “ookie cookie”, “jizzcuit” or “jogo do pão”) is a male masturbation game played mostly by teenage groups in which the participants stand around a biscuit masturbating until ejaculating onto it, and the last person to do so must eat the bis...
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Hurricane Isabel
Hurricane Isabel was the costliest and deadliest hurricane in the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the ninth named storm, fifth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the season. Isabel formed from a tropical wave in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. It moved northwestward, and it steadily strengthened to reach peak...
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Zoroastrians
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Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, ...
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Eugène Durieu
Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu (1800; Nîmes, France – 1874; Paris, France) was an early French photographer of nudes, known for making studies for Eugène Delacroix. Some of Durieu's nudes were used by Delacroix to creating his own paintings and drawings.
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Anabolism
Anabolism is the set of metabolic pathways that build molecules from smaller units. Enzymes take little molecules and stick them together to make bigger molecules. Some of these enzymes are anabolic steroids.
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Period (punctuation)
A period (US) or full stop (UK) is a punctuation mark (.) at the end of a sentence. It shows that the sentence has finished. To be a sentence it must have at least one complete clause, with a verb and a subject. When it is used in numbers, it is called a decimal point. It shows that the numbers to the right of it are l...
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Hyphen
The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. A hyphen looks like this: -. Hyphens have many uses in writing. "Son-in-law" is an example of a hyphenated word. The hyphen is sometimes confused with dashes which are longer and hav...
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Hyphen-minus
The hyphen-minus, codice_1, is a symbol used as a hyphen codice_2, a minus sign codice_3, or a dash codice_4.
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S.H.E
S.H.E is a Taiwanese girl group with three people: Selina Ren, Hebe Tien, and Ella Chen. The group's name comes from the first letter of each person's name. A record label called HIM International Music created S.H.E after they organized a singing competition in 2000. At first, there was supposed to be only one winner...
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Barry Dickens
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Multiplexer
In electronics, a multiplexer or mux ("occasionally the term mul-dex is also found, for a combination multiplexer-demultiplexer") is a device that selects one of many analog or digital input signals and outputs it into a single output line. This process is termed: multiplexing. An electronic multiplexer makes it possib...
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Tramway
Tramway means more than one thing:
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Input/output
In computing, input/output/(*.*)., or Clear Text, refers to the communication between a digital processing system (such as a computer or an embedded system), and the outside world – possibly a human, another processing system or a device. Inputs are the signals or data received by the system, and outputs are the signal...
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Instruction set
An instruction set, or instruction set architecture (ISA),  is a list of all the commands (instructions), with all their variations, that a processor can execute. Instructions include: Instruction set architecture is distinguished from microarchitecture. Microarchitecture is the detailed description of the system that ...
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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), (राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ, lit. "National Volunteer Union" or "National Volunteer Corps") is an Indian right-wing Hindu nationalist volunteer organization. It leads a group of affiliated organizations called the Sangh Parivar ("Sangh family"), which have a presence across Indian so...
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Power consumption
In electrical engineering, power consumption refers to the electrical energy per unit time, supplied to operate something, such as a home appliance. Power consumption is usually measured in units of watts (W) or kilowatts (kW). The energy used by equipment is always more than the energy really needed. This is because n...
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Hindutva
Hindutva, which means "Hinduness", is a kind of nationalism in India. Origin. "Hindutva" was made popular by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in 1923. Groups that believe in Hindutva include but not limited to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), and the Sangh Pariv...
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Phetchabun
Phetchabun is a town in the northeastern and the central part of Thailand. It is about in size. The distance from the east to the west is . The distance from the north to the south is . The height above sea level is . Phetchabun is from Bangkok. Administrative division. The administrative distributes to are 11 distric...
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Very long instruction word
Very Long Instruction Word or VLIW which refers to a CPU architecture designed to take advantage of instruction level parallelism (ILP) but at minimum level of hardware complexities. ( Alternatively, Variable Length Instruction Word or VLIW a refers to a CPU instruction ( instruction set ) designed to load ( or copy ) ...
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VLIW
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Phetchabun province
Phetchabun () is one of the northern provinces ("changwat") of Thailand. As of 2000, 965,784 people live there, and has an area of 12,668.4km². The Governor is Direk Thuengfang. Administrative divisions. The province has 11 districts ("amphoe"); 117 subdistricts ("tambon") and 1261 villages ("muban").
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Instruction set architecture
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Trang Province
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Human-goat sexual intercourse
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Goatse.cx
Goatse.cx (pronounced either ; sometimes the top level domain is left out and it is just called "Goatse") was an Internet shock site. The page featured a picture, hello.jpg, showing an undressed man stretching his butt to a large size with both hands, with the inside of his rectum clearly visible. Below his gaping anus...
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Modesty
Modesty is what people do to avoid attracting attention to themselves. Often modesty is about avoiding sexual attraction. Modesty is related to moderation, not bragging or showing off. Modesty and humility may seem similar, but are not the same. Because modesty is on the surface, it may be false. Humility is behavior t...
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Minimal instruction set computer
Minimal Instruction Set Computer (MISC) is a processor architecture with a very small number of basic instruction operations and corresponding opcodes. As a result of this is a smaller instruction set, a smaller and faster instruction set decode unit, and faster operation of individual instructions. The disadvantage is...
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Zoophilia
Zoophilia is a type of paraphilia. People who have it feel sexually or romantically attracted to animals. These people are called zoophiles. Richard von Krafft-Ebing first used the term 1886. In his work "Psychopathia sexualis", Krafft-Ebing talks about the "abuse of animals",which he also calls bestiality. He also tal...
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Sukhoi Su-30
Sukhoi Su-30 is a Russian fighter aircraft. It is developed by Sukhoi Aviation Corporation. It is a 4.5-generation jet fighter aircraft. The aircraft is used by these air forces: Versions. Su-30K Export version of the basic Su-30 Su-30MKI Version for India Su-30SM Version of the Su-30MKI for Russia
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One instruction set computer
A One Instruction Set Computer (OISC) is an abstract computer that uses only one instruction (with no need for a machine language opcode). Such computers are the extreme case or the logical conclusion of Reduced instruction set computers, although the concept has been used only in academic circles, as a teaching aid li...
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OISC
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Districts
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Zero instruction set computer
In computer science, ZISC stands for Zero Instruction Set Computer, which refers to a chip technology based on pure pattern matching and absence of micro-instructions. The name ZISC was derived from RISC.
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Greco-Roman world
The Greco-Roman or Graeco-Roman world, refers to geographical regions and countries who had the language, culture, government or religion of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
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Peoples Temple
Peoples Temple was an organization founded in 1955 by Jim Jones that, by the mid-1970s, possessed over a dozen locations in California including its headquarters in San Francisco. It is best known for the death of over 900 of its members on November 18, 1978 in Guyana, at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project (inform...
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People's Temple
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Lotus (genus)
Lotus is a genus of the Pea family. This genus includes 125-180 species.
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Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor (born February 18, 1980) is a Russian-American singer-songwriter and pianist. She was born in Moscow, Russia, but moved to The Bronx in New York City as a child. She has released eight studio albums. She released her first album "11:11" in 2001. In 2002 she released her second album "Songs". Spektor's th...
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Micro-operation
In microarchitecture micro-operations (sometimes termed: micro-instructions, also known as micro-ops or μops), are detailed low-level instructions used in some designs to implement complex machine instructions in which each instruction is composed of a set of low-level micro-ops.
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Bulldog
The bulldog, known as the British Bulldog or English Bulldog, is a medium-size breed of dog from England. People originally bred bulldogs to fight bulls during the 1600s. The dog's mouth was designed to bite a bull's nose and not let go. The bulldog is recognized by the American Kennel Club (AKC). Description. Size. B...
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Defecation
Defecation is when poop comes out of the anus. It is the act of taking away solid, semisolid or liquid waste from the body, known as "Faeces (American spelling, "Feces")".