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Polyethylene terephthalate (or poly(ethylene terephthalate), PET, PETE, or the obsolete PETP or PET-P), is the most common thermoplastic polymer resin...

An aqueous solution is a solution in which the solvent is water. It is mostly shown in chemical equations by appending (aq) to the relevant chemical formula...

A dildo is a sex toy, often explicitly phallic in appearance, intended for sexual penetration or other sexual activity during masturbation or with sex...

Version control (also known as revision control, source control, and source code management) is the software engineering practice of controlling computer...

Municipal solid waste (MSW), commonly known as trash or garbage in the United States and rubbish in Britain, is a waste type consisting of everyday items...

In computer programming, a software framework is an abstraction in which software, providing generic functionality, can be selectively changed by additional...

Grief is the response to the loss of something deemed important, particularly to the loss of someone or some living thing that has died, to which a bond...

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is a now obsolete technical standard for accessing information over a mobile wireless network. Introduced in 1999,...

A gear train or gear set is a machine element of a mechanical system formed by mounting two or more gears on a frame such that the teeth of the gears engage...

Royal Jordanian Airlines (Arabic: الملكيَّة الأردنيَّة‎; transliterated: Al-Malakiyyah al-'Urduniyyah), formerly known as Alia Royal Jordanian Airlines...

In anatomy, the thigh is the area between the hip (pelvis) and the knee. Anatomically, it is part of the lower limb. The single bone in the thigh is called...

In chemistry and physics, metastability is an intermediate energetic state within a dynamical system other than the system's state of least energy. A ball...

Electrocution is death or severe injury caused by electric shock from electric current passing through the body. The word is derived from "electro" and...

Latency, from a general point of view, is a time delay between the cause and the effect of some physical change in the system being observed. Lag, as it...

Taphonomy is the study of how organisms decay and become fossilized or preserved in the paleontological record. The term taphonomy (from Greek táphos,...

The Javan rusa or Sunda sambar (Rusa timorensis) is a large deer species native to Indonesia and East Timor. Introduced populations exist in a wide variety...

Depth perception is the ability to perceive distance to objects in the world using the visual system and visual perception. It is a major factor in perceiving...

Celestia is a real-time 3D astronomy software program that was created in 2001 by Chris Laurel. The program allows users to virtually travel through the...

Sawzall is a procedural domain-specific programming language, used by Google to process large numbers of individual log records. Sawzall was first described...

A playlist is a list of video or audio files that can be played back on a media player, either sequentially or in a shuffled order. In its most general...